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• London Underground plans green roof for Old Street tube station

  04-09-2019 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  A dramatic and controversial plan for a steeped roof for the new Old Street tube station has been scrapped following feedback from Islington Council.Although it looked visually impressive, and even though the seats faced a busy road, the proposed entrance was also considered to be likely to encourage anti-social behaviour in the evenings. A new plan will go before Islington Council next Monday for consideration and will be a conventional glass-walled box, but with a sloping green roof on top.The
  
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• Samsung unveils its first 5G integrated chipset for smartphones

  04-09-2019 13:14
  Samsung Electronics introduced Exynos 980, its first 5G integrated mobile chipset for the mainstream market. Mass production will start by the end of the year.
  Samsung’s 5G devices have so far been using separate modem and APE solutions, including its own Exynos 9820 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipsets teamed up with the Exynos 5100 and Snapdragon X50 modems. The new 5G integrated chipset announced today is Samsung’s first. With an 8nm footprint, the chipset combines the 5G
  
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• Rowland Emett’s fantastical railway saved for the nation

  04-09-2019 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  An eccentric railway sculpture by Rowland Emett has been saved for the nation and will be heading to the National Railway Museum in York.It was put up for sale by its owner, and bought for an undisclosed six-figure sum, supported by a grant from the Art Fund and a number of donations to the National Railway Museum.
  The whimsical train ride was initially a commission for a shopping centre, but by the time the sculpture was completed in 1984, it was no longer required. It was then bought by the cu
  
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• Emtelle Joins Alliance with Deutsche Glasfaser for Strategic Supply Worth €63 Million

  04-09-2019 12:37
  Hawick, Scotland, 4 September, 2019 – Emtelle, the leading global manufacturer of blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Deutsche Glasfaser, a leading Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) provider in Germany – a contract totalling €63 million for the supply of a range of tube bundles and fibre cables - cementing Emtelle solutions as a key element of Germany’s nationwide FTTH expansion project.Combining two market leader
  
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• YouTube flexes its editorial muscles

  04-09-2019 12:08
  As video sharing service YouTube strives to censor ever more rigorously, can it still be considered a neutral platform?
  Social media platforms are exempt from many of the rules and regulations that govern the media because they don’t exercise editorial control over what is published on them. Every time they move to censor some types of content and favour others, however, that status comes into question.
  Last week YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki published a blog titled Preserving openness throug
  
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• Orange hints it might be ready to take Romanian fixed assets off DT

  04-09-2019 11:22
  Last week, reports emerged Deutsche Telekom had been given the green-light to sell its fixed network stake to Orange in Romania, and the French telco isn’t quashing the rumour.
  With a 54% stake in Telekom Romania Communications, DT has a healthy position in the market, though it appears the country is no-longer part of the grand plan. Orange is reportedly in-line to purchase the fixed network stake, the remaining 46% is owned by the Romanian Government, and as you can see from the statemen
  
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• 30 Attorney Generals on verge of announcing Google probe – sources

  04-09-2019 10:46
  Sources familiar with the matter have suggested an antitrust probe involving more than 30 State Attorney Generals could be launched as soon as next Monday.
  Although the specifics of the investigation are yet to make it into the public domain, the threat is looming large for Google. Three separate sources have suggested Google is in the crosshairs, according to the Washington Post, another incremental step in the US as lawmakers look to dilute the power and influence of one of Silicon Valley&rsqu
  
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• Huawei hits back, claiming US is threatening its employees

  04-09-2019 09:59
  Perhaps this is the first hint of a new media strategy from the under-fire vendor as Huawei suggests the US Government is encouraging threats and menace to turns its employees against it.
  Although this is only a single act, it is a very different approach to how Huawei has been managing the drama through the last 12 months. This is maybe the position it has been forced into by White House aggression; it might have to start fighting fire with fire.
  In a statement, Huawei has suggested the US Gove
  
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• Admire the “Wedgwood chapel” in Greenwich

  04-09-2019 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Behind a gray stone facade and up some plain steps can be found a riot of blue and gold — the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College.As was expected for a large residential site at the time, the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich required a religious heart, and so, opposite the Painted Hall, a chapel was built.
  It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, although not completed until 20 years after he died, but what we see today is not a Wren chapel. Had it been, it would look like any othe
  
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• Nepal’s only billionaire enlists Huawei to transform country’s telecoms

  04-09-2019 02:46
  Binod Chaudhary risks being mired in US-China technological cold war in strategic Asian region
  
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• Nepal’s only billionaire enlists Huawei to build country’s telecoms

  04-09-2019 02:46
  Binod Chaudhary risks being mired in US-China technological cold war in strategic Asian region
  
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• Mainone cable to boost connectivity in West Africa

  04-09-2019 02:00
  Subsea specialist, Mainone, has confirmed that its new offshore cable will land in Senegal and the Ivory Coast in the coming weeks.
  The cable will land in Senegal in September and the Ivory Coast in October 2019…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei hits back over “unscrupulous and malign” IP allegations

  04-09-2019 02:00
  Chinese tech giant, Huawei, has strenuously denied allegations made by the US’ Department of Justice over possible patent infringement relating to its smartphone camera technology. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week, revealed that the DoJ was launching a fresh investigation into Huawei over possible intellectual property theft…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BSNL set to cut 80,000 jobs in India

  04-09-2019 02:00
  Cash strapped Indian operator BSNL has confirmed that it will look to slash up to 80,000 jobs, as part of its Voluntary Redundancy Scheme.
  BSNL's chairman, Pravin Kumar Purwar…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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