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• Huawei shuts down solar energy business in the US

  25-06-2019 21:23
  Chinese company’s move comes as it faces intense scrutiny from Washington
  
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• Google’s Sidewalk’s bet is a nightmare for the privacy conscious

  25-06-2019 18:38
  If you’re concerned about whether Google is listening to you through your phone or smart speaker, soon enough you’ll have to worry about lampposts having ears, or at least if your live in Toronto.
  For those who have not been keeping up-to-date with the Canadian tech scene, Google’s Sidewalk Labs is currently working in partnership with Toronto to demonstrate the vision of tomorrow; the smart city. Plans are still being drawn up, though it looks like two neighbourhoods will be c
  
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• Head of Dutch telecoms group quits after big blackout

  25-06-2019 18:36
  KPN said Maximo Ibarra’s exit unrelated to problems that affected emergency number
  
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• FedEx sues US Department of Commerce over entity list

  25-06-2019 17:38
  US courier company FedEx is suing its own government over its ‘entity list’, which it claims puts undue burden of enforcement on companies.
  The action follows the recent story of FedEx refusing to ship a Huawei smartphone from one private individual to another because it thought it might get into trouble with the government. The reason it thought this is that Huawei is on a list compiled by the US Department of Commerce that identifies certain organisations US companies aren’t
  
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• A book of cinema architecture – Odeon Relics

  25-06-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Of all the striking examples of modern architecture that sprung up across the British Isles during the 1930s, the cinema must surely be considered to have had the greatest impact.A new hardback photobook charting the history and fate of some of these stunning buildings is now crowdfunding to go into print.
  Though recognised as architecturally important now, countless cinemas have long since met with the wrecking ball whilst others continue to fight for survival.
  Travelling the country, photograp
  
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• 5G RAN market analysis has Huawei in the lead

  25-06-2019 14:29
  Analyst outfit GlobalData has claimed the first competitive landscape assessment  of the 5G RAN vendor market, naming Huawei as the clear leader.
  The methodology isn’t detailed, but it seems to consist of giving each of Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE marks out of five on the following criteria:Baseband capacity
  Radio unit portfolio
  Installation ease
  Technology evolutionNobody scores less than three in any category but, as you can see from the table below, Huawei gets top mar
  
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• SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom buddy up for 5G

  25-06-2019 14:15
  Collaboration is one of the key works currently floating around the 5G world and it seems SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom haven’t missed the memo.
  At a meeting attended by roughly 100 executives, the two operators announced a partnership with the ambition of seeking the promised revenues in the 5G epoch. As it stands, 5G is nothing new. It’s bigger, badder and faster than 4G, but that is not going to satisfy the financial demands of the telcos who need to invest so heavily
  
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• Researchers identify global telecoms hacking operation likely involving China

  25-06-2019 13:04
  US cyber security vendor Cybereason says it has uncovered ‘a worldwide campaign against telecommunications providers’ that it reckons involves the Chinese state.
  The findings were published in a blog today, but the malicious activity was first discovered last year and seems to have been going since 2017. It talks of ‘an advanced, persistent attack targeting global telecommunications providers carried out by a threat actor using tools and techniques commonly associated with the
  
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• Moquette socks are back in stock

  25-06-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Following the “sold out in one day” success of the District line moquette socks, the Transport Museum has more socks in stock. The District line socks are back in stock — in both sizes again, along with the Routemaster bus socks.But new to the range at the S Stock socks with the deep background and the coloured bars for each of the sub-surface lines the trains run on.
  Also new to the range are the Jubilee line socks — officially the 2011 Barman design, named after Christi
  
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• Niantic’s Harry Potter launches but remains in Pokémon Go’s shadow

  25-06-2019 12:16
  Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is up-and-running, but its dash from the starting line is no-where near as fast as Niantic’s gold standard, Pokémon Go.
  Few would have predicted the roaring success of Pokémon Go. Most would have assumed it would have done well, but the sustained acceleration of downloads and revenues came as a surprise to most. Even now, almost three years after the launch of the game, Niantic is still hoovering up the cash; the first quarter of 2019 brought in an
  
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• VeeaSystems to Display the Full Range of Devices for VeeaHub Platform at MWC Shanghai Bringing Advanced Wireless Edge Computing to Smart Verticals

  25-06-2019 10:00
  Company actively engaged and taking orders from Smart City, Buildings, Factories Government, Parking, Hospitals, Retail, Construction and Transportation VerticalsShanghai, China and New York, USA. 25th June 2019 – VeeaSystems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Veea Inc., the company powering an intelligently connected world with a universal platform for IoT and smart edge solutions, today announced that it will be publicly demonstrating the full range of its VeeaHub intelligent wireless edge se
  
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• 50 years ago – planes start flying between Heathrow and Gatwick

  25-06-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two large important airports, but passengers landing at one might want to catch a flight at the other — so how about a plane flight between the two?That was the odd to our minds, but at the time quite sensible solution to how to persuade more airlines to use Gatwick when their passengers preferred Heathrow.
  This was to solve two core problems. At the time, the 1960s, airlines were more often tools of government’s soft power projecting their country overseas and giving often first tim
  
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• US risks handing Africa’s e-commerce sector to China

  25-06-2019 05:00
  Washington’s efforts to isolate Huawei could shut out US tech giants from the continent
  
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• ZTE signs key 5G deal in Indonesia

  25-06-2019 02:00
  Chinese network equipment provider, ZTE, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indonesia’s largest telco, PT Telkom Indonesia, to expedite the development of 5G in the Southeast Asian nation…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• TIM and Open Fiber formally open merger talks

  25-06-2019 02:00
  Italy’s incumbent telecoms provider, Telecom Italia has begun official talks with the board of the country’s broadband network owner, Open Fiber, about a possible merger between the two companies…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Digital skills need to become as essential as reading

  25-06-2019 02:00
  The key to fostering digital skills in the UK is to treat them as being as vital as reading, according to Kate Wood, Director of Culture at Chess.Speaking on the final day of Connected Britain 2019, Wood said that digital skills should be viewed as skills for life and that everyone should have some level of understanding if the UK is to close the current digital skills gap…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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