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• Crossrail appearing on a postage stamp

  02-05-2019 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve ever fancied licking* one of Crossrail’s tunnel boring machines, then the Royal Mail has a treat for you – with a Crossrail postage stamp.The Royal Mail is celebrating some of the marvels of British engineering from the last 50 years with a new set of ten stamps available from today.
  The Crossrail — not Elizabeth line — tunnel boring machine features on the £1.55 postage stamp, although some wags might observe that with the delays, maybe it should ha
  
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• Apple drives global smartwatch market up 48% in Q1

  02-05-2019 19:36
  The latest global smartwatch shipment numbers from Counterpoint Research reveal strong segment growth driven largely by Apple.
  The fruity gadget giant accounts for over a third of the market, so when its shipments increase by 49% year-on-year it’s not surprising to see the whole market grow in line with that. Intriguingly Apple’s biggest smartphone competitors seem to be getting their act together in this smartwatch renaissance. Both Samsung and Huawei gained overall market share as
  
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• Broadband speeds are up but UK’s fibre is still lagging

  02-05-2019 18:14
  Ofcom has proudly proclaimed the majority of UK can now access ultrafast broadband at home and at work, but its fibre diet still leaves much to be desired.
  According to the watchdog’s latest Connected Nations report, 53% of UK properties, residential and commercial, can access broadband speeds of 300 Mbps, often referred to as ultrafast. While this might sound impressive, Ofcom also slipped in that fibre connectivity is now up to 7%, a 1% increase from the last report in September.
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• Huawei set to launch 5G telly – report

  02-05-2019 13:22
  A report is claiming Huawei wants to become a major TV and PC player and will use its 5G expertise as a differentiator.
  The scoop comes courtesy of Nikkei Asian Review which was contacted by people who think they know what they’re talking about. Those people reckon Huawei is going big on TVs and will not only stick a 5G modem in its first device, which could even be launched this year, but will go with 8k resolution.
  It looks like part of the point of this telly will be to show how great 5
  
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• Cold war bunker open days announced

  02-05-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you fancy a nice summer’s day trip to the picturesque town of Cuckfield to see a relic of nuclear war, then some open days have been announced.The Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps post is a small underground bunker, one of over 1,500 that were built to monitor the fallout from a nuclear war.
  Closed down in the 1990s as no longer needed, most are derelict or flooded, but some have been restored, such as the one in Cuckfield.It’s been restored to the state it was when it closed down,
  
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• South Korea adds 260k 5G subscribers in one month

  02-05-2019 12:44
  Sceptics will suggest consumer 5G launches will fall flat, an answer to a non-existent problem, but 260,000 subscriptions after one month suggests there is an appetite for 5G in South Korea.
  Having jointly launched 5G services on April 3, the three South Korean operators are boasting total subscriptions of 260,000 according to Yonhap. This is not to say the service has been perfect, there have been plenty of problems for the telcos to deal with, but this was always going to be the case. The prob
  
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• Qualcomm banks almost $5 billion from Apple and that’s just the start

  02-05-2019 12:43
  In its latest quarterly earnings announcement Qualcomm revealed just some of the cash it’s trousering from Apple after winning their legal fight.
  “On April 16, 2019, we entered into settlement agreements with Apple and its contract manufacturers to dismiss all outstanding litigation between the parties,” said the relevant bit of the report. “We also entered into a six-year global patent license agreement with Apple, effective as of April 1, 2019, which includes an option
  
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• Google introduces auto-delete

  02-05-2019 12:40
  Privacy is proving to be one of the long-standing themes of 2019 and Google latest move perhaps should be considered an industry standard.
  Starting with its Search and Maps products, Google will introduce an auto-delete option for users in the privacy settings. While users will be able to continue to manually delete location and search data held by the internet giant, a new option will soon be available which will automatically delete data after three or 18 months.
  “You should always be ab
  
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• Telenor Satellite selects Newtec technology to meet growing bandwidth demand

  02-05-2019 10:00
  Telenor Satellite to triple vessel VSAT throughput with Newtec Dialog® platform enabling more scalable services for cruise liners, ferries and offshore support vessels (OSVs)OSLO, Norway, 02 May 2019 – Telenor Satellite aims to satisfy rising demand from its customers for higher throughput maritime services on its THOR 7 Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) with a new collaboration with Newtec on its Newtec Dialog® platform. Newtec is a leader in the design, development and manu
  
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• Pay a visit to Berkhamsted Castle

  02-05-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The small commuter town of Berkhamsted sits on one of the most important sites in English history – the location of the formal surrender of the English to William the Conqueror.
  And yet, most people haven’t heard of it.
  After the Conqueror did his conquering against the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings he marched around the heavily fortified London and took the formal surrender at an encampment in the Saxon village.
  As the village was on an ancient Saxon road, it was a strategi
  
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