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• Colourised film shows London during WW2

  05-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Film footage of London during WW2 is rare, thanks to the efforts of the film censor, but here’s a colour film from bombed-out London. It’s a compilation of smaller film snippets that have also been colourised by a Netherlands based film restorer who also specialises in colourisation.It’s not perfect, as that takes far more time and money than is available, but it’s pretty good and really gives a flavour of what London was like during the blitz.
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• Foxconn gets into the chip-making game

  05-05-2021 15:43
  
  The world’s biggest electronic device manufacturer is forming a new venture designed to cater to the lower end of the chip market.
  XSemi will be a joint venture between Foxconn’s parent company, Hon Hai, and electronic component maker Yageo, both of which are Taiwanese . It will focus on the development of semiconductors with average selling prices lower than $2.00, which they refer to as ‘Small IC’ (integrated circuit). It looks like there will be further partnerships wi
  
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• New telecoms infrastructure investor spends £300m in Czech Republic and Norway

  05-05-2021 15:15
  
  Cordiant Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched investment trust, has picked up its first two investments, a mobile towers business in the Czech Republic and a fibre network in Norway.
  The company this week announced that it has acquired telecoms and TV towers firm České Radiokomunikace and an unnamed Norwegian fibre network plus land for a combined total of £451 million, comprising £318 million in equity and the assumption of £133 million in debt. Macquarie Asset
  
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• Instagram seems to block ads designed to expose personal information details

  05-05-2021 13:42
  
  Messaging app Signal created an Instagram ad campaign that would have specified the personal information used to target it.
  The details of the initiative are published in a Signal blog. It looks like the independent messaging company, which positions itself as more secure and private than Facebook-owned WhatsApp, wanted to run an ad campaign on social media site Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook. The ads themselves would have displayed the information used to target each individual reci
  
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• Indian telcos choose non-Chinese vendors for 5G trials

  05-05-2021 13:12
  
  India has finally given the go-ahead for operators to carry out 5G trials, but the eyes of the world are on the vendors that will participate and, even more so, on those excluded.
  The absence of Huawei and ZTE from the list of equipment makers taking part in the trial dominated the headlines on Wednesday. It’s worth pointing out there are only four players on the list and there is no specific exclusion of the Chinese companies. Nonetheless, their absence is clearly more than just a coincid
  
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• Tickets Alert: Fish and Chips on a steam train

  05-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Epping Fryer is resuming service from July, serving up fish and chips while you travel on a steam train. It’s a service from the Epping Ongar Railway, the heritage railway that runs from near to Epping to Ongar and back again.
  There are either evening suppers, or daytime lunches available, both costing £25 which either includes an all-day pass on the railway with lunch served at 1pm, or two return trips in the evening with supper at 7:30pm.
  Booking and more details are here.
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• London’s Pocket Parks: King Square Gardens, EC1

  05-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This is a large municipal park surrounded by tower blocks that was once a middle-class Georgian housing development and later gained fame for some marching hammers.
  The area was still outside London and mainly fields owned by St Bartholomew’s Hospital when in 1822 it was bought by the Church Building Commission to build a large church. As a large church in the middle of fields would be odd, they also planned to develop the fields into middle-class housing to provide the necessary parishone
  
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• Myanmar's military coup sees Telenor write off $782m business

  05-05-2021 02:00
  On February 1st, 2021, a military coup overthrew the civilian government, plunging the country into political unrest that continues to this day. To date, more than 700 people have been killed by security forces, with the police violently cracking down on protestors. For Telenor, who’s Myanmar business is one of the country’s largest mobile operators, this disruptive period has been catastrophic…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei and ZTE miss out on Indian 5G trials

  05-05-2021 02:00
  The Indian government has announced that it will allow Reliance Industries' Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and state-run MTNL to conduct 5G trials over the next six months. Equipment makers cited as taking place in these trials include Nokia, Ericsson and Samsung, but Huawei and ZTE are notably absent.The trials will take place in urban, semi-urban, and rural settings, with the government keen to ensure that “the benefit of 5G technology proliferates across the country and is
  
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• Foxconn spots opportunity in global semiconductor crisis

  05-05-2021 02:00
  Today, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn, has announced it will be forming a joint venture with Yageo Group to develop small Integrated Circuits (ICs), targeting the lower end of the semiconductor market. The joint venture, set to be called XSemi, will focus on creating ‘small ICs’ with average sale prices below $2, seeking to not only create a steady semiconductor supply to the company&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CDPQ takes €1.6 billion stake in American Tower’s European business

  05-05-2021 02:00
  Today, American Tower Corporations (ATC) has announced that they have struck a deal with Canadian pension fund Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) for the sale of a 30% stake in their European business, ATC Europe. The transaction will be for €1.6 billion, giving ATC Europe a total valuation of €8.8 billion.ATC will retain managerial and operational control of ATC Europe…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• At the tipping point of network creation with STL

  05-05-2021 02:00
  With the coronavirus pandemic still raging all around the world, the value of connectivity has never been higher. Digitalisation is accelerating and data demand is booming, and this trend is expected to increase even more rapidly in the coming years with the emergence of new technologies, especially those surrounding 5G.As a result, the lines between fixed and wireless networks are beginning to blur, as both sets of technologies become increasingly reliant on each other to deliver the highest q
  
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