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• Interdigital sues Motorola-owner Lenovo over 4G patents

  29-08-2019 18:32
  Mobile and video tech developer Interdigital has filed patent infringement action against Lenovo in the UK because they can’t agree a price for use of its 4G patents.
  Perhaps wary of being labelled a patent troll, Interdigital is keen to stress that this is the first patent infringement litigation it has initiated for six years. It claims its hand has been forced after the failure of almost a decade of negotiation with Lenovo, which makes Motorola phones as well as its own-branded devices.
  
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• Apple given golden opportunity to crack India with relaxed rules

  29-08-2019 17:54
  Apple has struggled to gain any sort of traction in the Indian markets to date, but new Government rules could perhaps open the door a crack.
  India is a market which represents a significant opportunity for the major players in the digital economy. It has the second-largest population globally and a smartphone penetration rate of roughly 24%, but one of the few markets worldwide where smartphone shipments are increasing quickly. Thanks to certain market disruptions, India is currently under-goin
  
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• Bouygues/French telecoms: tone deaf

  29-08-2019 17:40
  A target of €300m of free cash flow from telecoms this year will prove difficult
  
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• Pop-up garden appears in London Bridge station tunnels

  29-08-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Plants left over from the recent RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival have been used to create a series of gardens in a tunnel under London Bridge station.
  (c) Network Rail
  The four temporary gardens have been installed in the recently opened Stainer Street walkway.
  The gardens were commissioned by Team London Bridge, the local business improvement district (BID), with support from Network Rail and delivered by Cityscapes, following on from their 2013 Remix Garden project.
  At the end of the project
  
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• Korea Telecom and Tessares claim 5G Low Latency Multi-Radio Access Technology first

  29-08-2019 13:51
  The first commercial test of a 3GPP Release 16 technology designed to improve dynamic switching between 5G and wifi has been claimed by KT and Tessares.
  The proper name for the tech is Access Traffic Steering, Switch and Splitting and the reason we care about it is that is could significantly improve the way devices choose and switch between cellular and wifi, depending on the circumstances. ATSSS was defined in collaboration with KT, Apple, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, and Cisco and is based on Mu
  
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• Google writes opening line of Huawei smartphone obituary

  29-08-2019 13:25
  Huawei’s next flagship smartphone will not feature official Google applications as the weight of the US ban finally hits home.
  Speaking to reporters in the US, and first reported by Reuters, a Google spokesperson said the Huawei Mate 30 rumoured to be launched in October, cannot be sold with licensed Google apps and services. This is a significant setback to Huawei’s consumer division and begs the question as to whether anyone would now consider the devices without the Android OS and
  
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• Tickets Alert: Vampyr in an old operating theatre

  29-08-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Climb the narrow stairs up a church to a hidden medical operating theatre from Victorian times, to watch a horror movie from the 1930s.
  One of the first psychological horror features, Vampyr bridges the era of silent and sound films, a young wanderer arrives at a village which is under the curse of a vampire and is taken on an illusory voyage through light and darkness (roiling fogs, forbidding scythes and grim echoes) to a point where he can imagine his own burial.
  Director Carl Theodor Dreyer&
  
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• Smart Home Threat Landscape

  29-08-2019 12:40
  The explosion of IoT devices in people’s homes and offices is attracting attention from cyber criminals. And thanks to the security problems commonly found in these devices, they present attackers with low hanging fruit to pick. According to F-Secure Labs, threats targeting weak/default credentials, unpatched vulnerabilities, or both, made up 87% of observed threats.
  In late 2018, F-Secure’s network of reconnaissance honeypots servers observed a huge spike in threats targeting expose
  
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• Managing Security with an Easy-to-Use App is Key to Success

  29-08-2019 12:38
  Today’s homes are beginning to look and operate like homes of the future. Internet connectivity is continuing its expansion, spreading to more household appliances and devices. For service providers who are staying on top of the trends, the IoT is a wave that promises new avenues of opportunity.
  Managing security, however, can be complex for consumers, who switch between devices, networks, and associated security applications. For example, one app manages security on-the-go, another offers
  
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• Qualcomm makes its Wi-Fi 6 move

  29-08-2019 12:36
  Mobile chip giant Qualcomm wants a bigger piece of the wifi action and reckons the advent of the next generation of technology is a good opportunity to grab it.
  At a recent event in San Francisco devoted entirely to Wi-Fi 6, Qualcomm launched a family of Wi-Fi 6 platforms branded the Networking Pro Series. There are four platforms, to be precise, named 1200, 800, 600, and 400, that are distinguished as follows:Qualcomm has been banging on about Wi-Fi 6 (or 802.11ax as it was known before the Wi-
  
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• Silicon Valley’s ‘ask for forgiveness, not permission’ attitude is wearing thin

  29-08-2019 11:55
  Silicon Valley has often pushed the boundaries in pursuit of progress, but the it deserves everything it gets if it continues to try the patience of consumers and regulators with privacy.
  ‘It is easier to ask for forgiveness, than beg for permission’ is a common, if largely unattributable, phrase which seems to apply very well to the on-going position of Silicon Valley. It is certainly easier to act and face the consequences later, but it should not be right or allowed. This is the a
  
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• Admire the magnificent Dawson Heights

  29-08-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the architectural landmarks of South London is a wide ziggurat block of flats — Dawson Heights.
  Famously described as the “Italian hill town in Dulwich”, it was slightly influenced by the appearance of Italian hilltop towns, but not just for the residents within, but also the people looking at it from outside. In an area that’s fairly low-rise Victorian streets, the dramatic skyline adds a focal point for the whole area.
  We forget sometimes how important a landmark
  
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• Washington blocks Google's planned subsea link between the US and China

  29-08-2019 02:00
  Washington is to block plans for a subsea telecommunications cable between China and the US, citing national security concerns.
  Google, Facebook, Pacific Light Data Communication and SubCom had committed to investing in the subsea cable…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Vodafone: Ofcom must regulate on fact, rather than hope, or risk jeopardising the UK's digital transformation

  29-08-2019 02:00
  Vodafone has launched an appeal against Ofcom's decision to relax restrictions on the amount BT charges for access to its wholesale fibre leased lines.
  Vodafone formally lodged an appeal with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on Wednesday, according to Vodafone's senior legal counsel, Helen Lamprell.
  "Ofcom has made some fundamental errors and has ignored its own evidence on this…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Google confirms Huawei's Mate 30 will not have access to Android – as things stand

  29-08-2019 02:00
  Senior representatives from US web giant Google have said that the company will not be able to offer Android services on Huawei's soon-to-be-released flagship smartphone, the Mate 30.
  The US has added Huawei to its Entity List, effectively banning it from being able to do business with US firms…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• 3GPP names ZTE exec as vice chairman of its RAN2 committee

  29-08-2019 02:00
  ZTE has announced that Sergio Parolari has been elected to the position of vice chairman of the 3GPP's RAN2 committee.
  Parolari has been involved with the RAN2 committee since 2010 and has been involved in numerous LTE and New Radio initiatives…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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