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• As Nielsen reports shift away from cable TV Netflix announces biggest price hike

  16-01-2019 19:04
  A recent Nielsen report on the evolution of US TV viewing habits reveals a 48% increase in the number of households switching entirely to over the air access.
  16 million US homes – 14% of households – are now OTA-only, up from just 9% of households 8 years ago. This constituency is split into older viewers (6.6m) looking to save a few bucks by settling for the good, old broadcast antenna option, and younger SVOD (subscription video on demand) subscribers (9.4m), who get everything th
  
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• Apple draws level with Qualcomm after Germany win

  16-01-2019 13:24
  A German court has dismissed Qualcomm’s efforts to block iPhone sales in the country as ‘groundless’ as Apple hit back in the on-going global patent dispute.
  According to Reuters, the regional court in the city of Mannheim threw out the case stating the patent in question was not violated by Apple’s installation of Qualcomm chips in its smartphones. Qualcomm has already said it will appeal the decision, as the pair trade blows in various courts throughout across the world
  
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• London Transport Museum secures funding for war gallery

  16-01-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  London Transport Museum has secured funding to develop a new gallery that will explore the role of London’s transport during the First and Second World Wars.
  A new grant of £82,500 from the DCMS/Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund is helping to make the gallery possible. The money will support the transformation of an existing display into the new display.During WW1 around 900 of London’s red civilian buses served as military vehicles, with many serving on the Wester
  
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• Nordic winter hits hard as Ericsson loses exec and Nokia cuts more jobs

  16-01-2019 12:40
  Swedish Ericsson and Finnish Nokia both announced they’re losing people as the endless winter nights take their toll.
  Ericsson’s SVP, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and Head of Marketing and Corporate Relations, Helena Norrman, is calling it a day after 21 years at the company, with ten of those on the executive team. She’ll be hanging around for a quarter or two, to keep the transition smooth and presumably have a hand in finding her replacement.
  “Helena has
  
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• Orange steps further into the convergence game

  16-01-2019 12:37
  Orange has announced a new partnership with Groupama, adding another branch to the convergence strategy with a home telesurveillance service.
  Everyone in the industry is talking about convergence as a means to improve revenues, but few have created quite a splash in the deep-end as the cannon-balling French telco. This latest partnership with Groupama will see the creation of Protectline, a joint platform for the operation and management of home telesurveillance services.
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• Huawei founder opened up to the press, or did he?

  16-01-2019 10:50
  Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, once again dismissed the allegations that Huawei has been spying for the Chinese government in a rare meeting with the media.
  Huawei’s normally reclusive founder told the Financial Times on Tuesday that he missed his daughter, who was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the US. Ren also reiterated that Huawei has not spied for the Chinese government and has not been asked to do so. “No law in China requires any company to install mandatory
  
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• Neural Technologies celebrate second consecutive award win in Outstanding Innovation at TM Forum Asia

  16-01-2019 10:00
  Following its success at TM Forum Asia, Neural Technologies will be attending and speaking at TM Forum Middle East next weekDubai, UAE, 16 January 2019 – Neural Technologies, a leading provider of Digital Transformation solutions, recently received its second consecutive award win for outstanding innovation in 2018 for its participation in the 5G Pâtisserie – the search of a secret recipe for seamless 5G network slicing catalyst project. As showcased at TM Forum Digital Transfo
  
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• Have you seen the tall Victorian drinking fountain at Old Street junction

  16-01-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Plenty of people pass it by, thinking little of this tall column that stands near the junction with Old Street, but it’s an impressive Victorian drinking fountain.The fountain was originally erected to ornament Great Eastern Street, an important new thoroughfare connecting Commercial Street and the docks with the principal east-west route to the north of the City.
  It stood in a traffic island at the junction of the two great roads, but was moved in 2002 to its current location just to the
  
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• Orange targets home telesurveillance market, with launch of new JV in France

  16-01-2019 01:00
  Orange has joined forces with French insurance giant, Groupama, to launch Protectline – a Joint Venture that will target business opportunities in the home telesurveillance sector. The launch of Protectline will allow Groupama to increase its presence in the home telesurveillance market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei founder: We admire Apple's stance on data privacy

  16-01-2019 01:00
  Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, has said that his company remains committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection, in a rare interview with the press. Zhengfei also confirmed that he is a big admirer of US tech firm Apple and said that his company could learn much from their US counterpart's experiences with securing their customer's data…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei founder: We admire Apple's example on data privacy

  16-01-2019 01:00
  Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, has said that his company remains committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection, in a rare interview with the press. Zhengfei also confirmed that he is a big admirer of US tech firm Apple and said that his company could learn much from their US counterpart's experiences with securing their customer's data…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Former US Senator to work with ZTE on network security

  16-01-2019 01:00
  The former US Senator says that he is ideally laced to assist ZTE, precisely because he is a former critic of the Chinese tech giantFormer US senator and democratic vice-presidential candidate…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deloitte: 20 vendors to launch 5G phones in 2019

  16-01-2019 01:00
  As many as 20 smartphone vendors are preparing to launch their flagship 5G handsets in 2019, according to industry analysts Deloitte. In its annual TMT Predictions 2019 report, the company tempered this prediction with the revelation that 2019 will see only around 1 million 5G compatible smartphone handsets being brought to market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel brings 4G connectivity to remote Indian communities

  16-01-2019 01:00
  Indian telco Bharti Airtel has launched 4G mobile services in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands, bringing twenty first century connectivity to one of India's most remote destinations. The move was welcomed by India's Telecoms Secretary, Aruna Sundararajan…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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