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• Facebook reportedly facing criminal charges over data sharing

  14-03-2019 18:25
  Facebook’s day started off with a major outage and, should reports turn out to be true, it is ending with the social media giant facing a criminal investigation from Federal prosecutors.
  According to the New York Times, a grand jury in New York has obtained records from two smartphone manufacturers, via subpoena, which will detail the data sharing partnerships in or previously in place with Facebook. Sources has retained anonymity and it is not exactly clear who the subpoenaed parties were
  
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• UK and Germany are a bit rubbish at mobile – Opensignal

  14-03-2019 17:21
  A new study from mobile analytics company Opensignal notes the UK and Germany are falling behind in terms of mobile performance.
  It took a look at the two operator groups that have networks in both countries and found they all deliver relatively low mobile broadband speeds in those two countries. As you can see in the charts below, Telefónica does a fair bit worse in the UK and Germany than in Spain, but maybe that’s to be expected since it’s a Spanish company. However the tre
  
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• Tickets Alert: Tours of modernist London Underground

  14-03-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Modernism in Metro-Land tours are back with a couple of walks in May and June of modernist tube stations.
  Piccadilly Line Tour- Turnpike Lane to Cockfosters
  Saturday 18th May
  Starting at Turnpike Lane and working our way up to the terminus at Cockfosters, looking at some of Charles Holden’s most iconic London Transport work. Taking in the tube stations, they will also note other modernist buildings along the way, such as Curtis and Burchett’s work for Middlesex County Council.
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• SK Telecom looks to the edge to monetize 5G

  14-03-2019 15:59
  SK Telecom has announced the launch of its ‘5G Mobile Edge Computing Open Platform’ in an effort to marry two of the industry’s hottest topics.
  While 5G has dominated industry discussions for years, this years Mobile World Congress saw edge computing steal at least some of the limelight. This may well be evidence of a more pragmatic approach to connectivity ROI, with telcos removing some of the buzz surrounding 5G and creating a more realistic story about how to commercialise t
  
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• Qottab, Quindim or Quesito? Google releases Android Q beta

  14-03-2019 13:34
  Every year Google releases a new version of Android, and while it is marginally entertaining to guess what sweetie it will be named after, it also provides a very useful roadmap for the future of mobility.
  In controlling roughly 74% of the global mobile Operating System (OS) market share, Android is in a unique position to dictate how the ecosystem develops over the short- and medium-term. This year’s update appears larger and more wide-ranging than previous iterations, perhaps representin
  
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• Huawei CEO tries to deflect cybersecurity spotlight onto Ericsson and Cisco

  14-03-2019 13:32
  It was just a matter of time before Huawei played the whataboutism card and Founder/CEO Ren Zhengfei couldn’t resist in a recent interview.
  Chatting to CNN in Shenzhen Ren said the following when referring to the US ban on Huawei gear: “They have to have evidence. Everybody in the world is talking about cyber security and they are singling out Huawei. What about Ericsson, what about Cisco, don’t they have cybersecurity issues? Why has Huawei been singled out? There’s no H
  
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• Disused riverside pier to be restored at London Bridge

  14-03-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The site of a riverside pier that was removed in 2012 is set to be rebuilt, restoring a riverside access that had been in use for 400 years.The location next to London Bridge was of considerable importance, and Samuel Pepys once described disembarking at Old Swan Stairs to avoid the dangers of passing through the old London Bridge arches.
  It’s thought that this painting of the frozen Thames in 1677 shows the Old Swan Stairs.The first floating pontoon at Swan Lane was built around 1830 to i
  
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• INCA welcomes UK's first ever appearance into European fibre broadband rankings, crediting altnets for their "significant contribution"

  14-03-2019 12:29
  2019 FTTH/B Panorama recognition elevates UK broadband infrastructure to international statusLondon, UK, and Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 14, 2019 – The Independent Networks Cooperative Association (INCA) today praised alternative network operators (altnets) for their significant contribution to the UK’s broadband infrastructure following the country’s inclusion in FTTH Council Europe’s annual FTTH/B Panorama for the first time. The annual FTTH/B Panorama is a pan-Europe
  
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• The WWW inventor wants to reinvent the web

  14-03-2019 11:10
  Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has launched the “Contract for the Web” initiative to rally the global community to revamp the web for the public good.
  30 years after he proposed an “information management system” (pictured) while being a scientist at CERN, Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes that he could stand no longer what the web has become of lately. In 2018 Berners-Lee told the Vanity Fair magazine that he was “devastated” by the state of distortion of h
  
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• STORDIS Launches First Optimised Barefoot Tofino Switches with Time Synchronisation and 8-Core Processing Power

  14-03-2019 10:12
  New Advanced Programmable Switches First to Unlock the Full Potential of P4 OCP Global Summit, San José, CA – March 14 2019 - Open Networking experts STORDIS today announced the launch of two bare-metal switches powered by the fully programmable Barefoot Tofino ASIC. An industry first, the STORDIS Advanced Programmable Switches (APS) offer comprehensive 1588v2 time synchronisation support, as well as providing more powerful processing, higher memory and greater in-built storage capa
  
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• A chance to go on board a tall sailing ship

  14-03-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Polish tall sailing ship will be arriving in London at the weekend, and they are letting the public on board for a look around.
  The sailing ship “Dar Młodzieży” (The Gift of the Youth) is currently sailing around the world to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence, and will be in London for three days.
  (c) The Embassy of the Republic of Poland
  She is due to arrive and moor in the Thames near to the Greenwich Pier, just after midnight on Sunday, 1
  
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• The UK grabs a seat at the FTTH top table

  14-03-2019 01:00
  The UK has been included in the FTTH Council's Global FTTH Index, for the first time, as penetration levels officially passed the 1 per cent threshold in 2018. As of September 2018, the UK's penetration levels for combined fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the building (FTTB) services stood at 1…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• The Philippines backs Huawei on 5G security

  14-03-2019 01:00
  The Philippines has backed Chinese tech giant Huawei to be involved in the country's 5G rollout, saying that there is "no evidence" that the company's network infrastructure is any less secure than that of its European rivals…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S10 hits 2.7Gbps in final phase of South Korea's 5G testing

  14-03-2019 01:00
  Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have taken the final steps in their 5G testing before commercial networks are launched in Korea next month, achieving download speeds of 2…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange boosts its full fibre reach in rural France

  14-03-2019 01:00
  Orange has announced plans to offer full broadband services on all Public Initiative Networks (PIN) deployed in France. The decision means that all consumers who live in areas covered by France's Public Initiative Networks will be able to avail themselves of Orange's full fibre broadband services…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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