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• Johnson feels increasing heat over 5G role for Huawei

  27-01-2020 21:22
  Senior Tories add to pressure over bringing Chinese tech group into UK phone network
  
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• Former TalkTalk manager in gender discrimination case

  27-01-2020 20:39
  Woman goes to tribunal after discovering she earned 40% less than male colleagues
  
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• Appeal logged to build the Tulip skyscraper

  27-01-2020 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The controversial plans for a tulip shaped viewing tower are back, with an appeal logged against the decision to block its construction. The tall tower was to be just a viewing platform, with a concrete spine taking people to the bud at the top, with viewing floors and a series of outside glass lifts.Such a dramatic shaped building was always going to polarise opinion, but it also pushed the limits of planning consent, which were admittedly aimed at buildings with more conventional use – s
  
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• Huawei/5G: still plenty to play for

  27-01-2020 15:19
  The problem for those keen to ban Chinese group outright is the lack of alternative providers
  
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• A decade of London in Google Street View

  27-01-2020 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2008, Google started driving their camera-cars around the streets of London, capturing images that have been semi-regularly updated ever since.
  It’s proving to be a surprisingly useful resource when trying to see how things looked in the recent past, and could well build up over the decades into a most impressive collection of timeline photos.
  Looking back, it’s also a way of seeing just how fast London’s skyline has been changing over the past decade.
  To use the archive, go
  
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• AttoCore Data Offload Solutions

  27-01-2020 11:00
  
  Enabling Data Offload In CBRS Enterprise And Residential 4G Installations Cambridge, UK, 27th January 2020 – AttoCore, the developer of ultra-mobile core network software technology, today announced the availability of its data offload solution. Called AttoEdge, it is developed from the same software suite used to create its flagship AttoEPC Enhanced Packet Core (EPC). Data offload is a technique which allows residential 4G femtocells, CBRS enabled 4G enterprise networks and rural Fixed Wi
  
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• London’s Alleys: Wilks Place, N1

  27-01-2020 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a tiny stump of a lane that was once much longer, and vastly busier, for on it was the entrance to a Victorian music hall.Wilks Place first seems to appear on a John Rocque map of 1746, when the area was just starting to develop, with the existing line of houses fronting the main Hoxton Road starting to spread backwards into the fields behind. Wilks Place was created to give access to the side streets that were developing.
  By the early 1800s, Wilks Place was first named on maps, but stil
  
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• UK govt’s upcoming ‘Regulatory Horizons Council’ to be headed by BT exec

  27-01-2020 01:00
  Tech is advancing at a blistering pace, so much so that government regulators are at risk of being left in the dust.  In an effort to stay on top of booming tech innovation, last June the UK government announced the creation of the &lsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Openreach targeting 227 ‘harder to reach’ locations for FTTP

  27-01-2020 01:00
  The race to deploy full fibre broadband throughout the UK rages on, with Openreach today announcing an expansion of its rural coverage.A total of 227 new locations will receive access to the full fibre network, including Aberdare and Camarthen (South Wales), Beaminster (Dorset), Buckfastleigh and Budleigh Salterton (Devon), Clitheroe (Lancashire)…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• “Bad news for hackers”: UK govt announces new IoT cybersecurity law

  27-01-2020 01:00
  The commercial market for connected devices is booming, with new variations of IoT technology arriving on the market every day. The scale of this market is truly enormous, with research suggesting there will be 75 billion connected devices in homes by 2025. But, beside the smart thermostat creating the perfect temperature and the smart TV adjusting the programme’s audio, there is an elephant in the room…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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