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• Amazon’s vigilante division Ring moves into crime reporting

  30-04-2019 19:13
  Internet retail giant Amazon is making a big push into the neighbourhood watch world and now it even wants to report on local crime itself.
  This is what is indicated by a recent Amazon job listing, which is looking for a News Managing Editor, who ‘will work on an exciting new opportunity within Ring to manage a team of news editors who deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors.’ Ring, which makes connected doorbells with mounted video cameras, was acquired by Amazon for aro
  
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• A 490-foot high “cucumber” is coming to Paddington

  30-04-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Westminster council has approved planning application for a 42-storey residential tower that has already been nicknamed the “cucumber”.What is officially called “1 Merchant Square” comprises a 42 storey building with 271 residential flats. A publicly accessible Skybar is also planned for the top two floors of the tower.
  Along with a wholly redesigned’ 21-storey sister building, the tower and its neighbour will contain 426 flats.
  It was originally given consent eight
  
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• Samsung’s profit crashes on weak semiconductor sales

  30-04-2019 15:27
  Samsung Electronics reported a net profit decline of 57% in Q1, with total revenue going down by 14%. The semiconductor unit suffered the worst.
  Samsung’s quarterly revenue went down from KRW60.56 trillion ($52 billion) a year ago to KRW52.39 ($45 billion) in Q1. The gross margin level came down from 47.3% to 37.5%. The operating profit dropped to KRW6.23 trillion ($5.3 billion) from KRW15.64 trillion ($13 billion), a decline of 60.2%. The net profit came down by 57% to KRW5.04 trillion ($
  
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• Apple starts to count the casualties of its poor 5G campaign

  30-04-2019 14:53
  It looks like one of Apple’s most senior wireless engineers has cleared off, just days after the company lost its fight with Qualcomm.
  The Information has reported that Rubén Caballero, a VP of Engineering in charge of wireless stuff at Apple, has left the building. One of its mystery sources said Caballero was ‘leading Apple’s charge into 5G’, which is especially appropriate considering his surname. Since that charge was resoundingly defeated by Qualcomm’s b
  
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• A weak France overshadowed Orange’s Q1

  30-04-2019 13:48
  The telecom operator Orange reported a flat Q1, with a weak performance in its home market partially compensated by the strength in Africa and the Middle East.
  Orange reported a set of stable top line numbers in its first quarter results. On Group level, the total revenue of €10.185 billion was largely flat from a year ago (-0.1%), and the EBITDAaL (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation after lease) improved by 0.7% to reach €2.583. Due to the 8% increase in eCAP
  
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• Vodafone found vulnerabilities in Huawei kit but stuck with it because it was cheap – report

  30-04-2019 13:47
  The latest mini-leak in the ongoing Huawei propaganda war saw Vodafone admit to finding security flaws in some Huawei kit in the past.
  The scoop comes courtesy of Bloomberg in a story headlined Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment. The kit in question was mainly domestic routers and some optical service nodes supplied to its Italian business back in 2011, which the report claims had security backdoors that could have given Huawei access to the whole fixed line network (which Vodaf
  
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• Did England’s “White Queen” die of the plague?

  30-04-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A document has been uncovered in the National Archives which may have solved one of history’s mysteries – how did the ‘White Queen’ Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV die.Her marriage, to Edward IV, was a cause célèbre of the day, thanks to Elizabeth’s great beauty and lack of great estates. Edward was the first king of England since the Norman Conquest to marry one of his subjects, and Elizabeth was the first such consort to be crowned queen.
  When
  
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• T-Mobile/Sprint merger approval is still hanging in the balance

  30-04-2019 10:49
  The US DoJ’s anti-trust chief has not made up his mind on the T-Mobile/Sprint merger case, saying the deal must meet key criteria.
  Speaking on CNBC (see below) Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General for the US Departments of Justice’s Antitrust Division, said he has not made up his mind yet. Although he refused to comment on if his staff resisted the deal, as was reported by the media, Delrahim did allude to more data being requested from the two parties.
  Delrahim also dismissed
  
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• It’s the 40th anniversary of the Jubilee line opening

  30-04-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  It opened two years late and they changed its name half-way through building it, not the Elizabeth line — this is the 40th birthday of the Jubilee line.
  Today marks the 40th anniversary of the official opening of the Jubilee line, with dignitaries and Royalty, but tomorrow marks the anniversary of the first day that the ordinary commuter could use the line.
  Maybe one day they’ll do the dignitaries in the morning and let the public on in the afternoon to avoid these conundrums. In the
  
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• Revenues dip at Orange as competition in France and Spain intensifies

  30-04-2019 02:00
  French telecoms giant, Orange, saw revenues dip slightly in the first quarter of 2019 to €10.185 billion, as competition in the French and Spanish telecoms sectors continues to intensify. Revenues were down by 0.1 per cent on a year on year basis, but Orange Group's CEO, Stéphane Richard…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ofcom names and shames Britain's worst performing telcos and ISPs

  30-04-2019 02:00
  The UK's telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has revealed the country's most complained about telcos and internet service providers, in its annual report. The report tracks customer satisfaction levels across the UK's mobile network operators and internet service providers (ISPs)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Latin America will see a sharp rise in mobile network subs to 2023

  30-04-2019 02:00
  Mobile subscriptions in Latin America will experience rapid growth over the next four years, according to new industry research.
  A new report by data research firm…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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