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• Tickets Alert: Tours of two Twickenham Grottos

  26-05-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month two subterranean grottos in Twickenham will be having synchronised open days on the same day.
  Grottos were the height of fashion in the early eighteenth century and Twickenham is home to two of the most spectacular examples.
  The Pope’s Grotto Preservation Trust and English Heritage, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, are offering a rare chance to visit both Alexander Pope’s grotto in Cross Deep and Henrietta Howard’s grotto at Marble Hill in one day.
  So
  
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• Plans to improve rail freight on London’s railways

  26-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Most of us have stood at a station waiting for a train, when a huge freight train rumbles through the station carrying anything from new cars to cargo containers.
  They’re a fun distraction for the waiting passengers, but also a very serious commercial service for the railway and the companies that depend on those deliveries.
  Trains delivering cars.https://t.co/ZwHbmOIIHc pic.twitter.com/5a36En1Eqw
  — ianVisits (@ianvisits) February 12, 2019Around 40% of all aggregates used in London&r
  
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• Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion

  26-05-2021 15:25
  
  As rumoured a week ago, etail and cloud giant Amazon is buying movie studio MGM to augment its Amazon Prime SVoD offering.
  The word on the street was that MGM would cost around $9 billion when we covered the rumour, but in the end Amazon managed to shave over half a bil off that. For some reason Amazon is calling this a merger, despite $8.45 billion being a sum it routinely finds down the back of the corporate sofa.
  “MGM has a vast catalogue with more than 4,000 films… as well as 17
  
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• Vodafone Germany launches a network offensive

  26-05-2021 15:24
  
  Vodafone Germany is expanding what it terms its “network offensive,” building out new base stations and 5G masts at a time of increasing network traffic.
  The mobile operator this week declared that it will undertake more than 7,000 mobile infrastructure build projects in the current financial year, which began in April, including 3,000 5G projects that it will see it activate 9,000 antennas for 5G.
  It claims to have exceeded its targets on 5G coverage, having extended the network to
  
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• WhatsApp resists Indian mass surveillance demands

  26-05-2021 13:29
  
  The Indian government is increasingly unhappy about its inability to intercept private communications.
  Yesterday we reported that India has taken to raiding the offices of social media companies reluctant to enforce its censorship requests. Now we learn WhatsApp has been forced to take the Indian government to court over new rules requiring it to break its privacy protections.
  Reuters has anonymous sources that told it the lawsuit had been filed in Delhi. It is contesting part of a new set of ru
  
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• No trains at King’s Cross over the first weekend of June

  26-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Be warned, that King’s Cross station will close next Friday afternoon and for the rest of the weekend as part of the ongoing railway upgrade works.
  Work is currently underway on the final stage of a major project to transform the track layout at London King’s Cross to make it more practical for trains and bring more reliable journeys for passengers. While the second half of the station has its transformation, the slightly reduced service which has been in place since the beginning of
  
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• Vodafone has minimal involvement in Ethiopian consortium

  26-05-2021 12:43
  
  Vodafone was part of the consortium that won a new Ethiopian telecoms operating licence, but its direct involvement is minimal and will come solely through its existing African shareholdings.
  We know that as a result of the publication by another consortium member – Safaricom – of the shareholder structure of the winning bidder.
  The operating company that will launch services in Ethiopia next year will be controlled by Safaricom with a 55.7% stake. The next biggest shareholder is Jap
  
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• Mythbusting Nero at the British Museum

  26-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Almost everything you think you know about Nero is probably wrong. He didn’t fiddle while Rome burned, probably didn’t kill his wife, might not have killed his mother, and even his suicide is in doubt.
  Possibly the most maligned man in history wasn’t the monster that myth has made him out to be, and while hardly a saint either, Nero is starting to look like a much more interesting person as a result.
  This is the man who is the topic of the British Museum’s summer blockbus
  
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• Virgin Media chalks up sustainability milestones

  26-05-2021 02:00
  Virgin Media has this week released its latest sustainability report, dubbed ‘Dialling into 2020’, exploring the ways in which the company had supported its staff and customers during the pandemic, as well as how it continues to tackle the ongoing climate crisis.When it came to environmental impact, Virgin Media could report some significant milestones. Since 2014 and the launch of their ‘5 in 5’ sustainability strategy…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei’s Harmony OS has big shoes to fill

  26-05-2021 02:00
  Huawei are preparing to launch their Harmony operating system (OS) at the start of next month, with reports suggesting that the company is aiming for 300 million devices to adopt the platform by the end of 2021.Harmony’s developmental journey is a troubled one. Originally unveiled back in 2019, Harmony was initially designed as an embedded OS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, with suggestions that it would later be developed into a mobile OS…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Huawei’s Harmony OS has

  26-05-2021 02:00
  Huawei are preparing to launch their Harmony operating system (OS) at the start of next month, with reports suggesting that the company is aiming for 300 million devices to adopt the platform by the end of 2021.Harmony’s developmental journey is a troubled one. Originally unveiled back in 2019, Harmony was initially designed as an embedded OS for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, with suggestions that it would later be developed into a mobile OS…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ethio Telecom’s TeleBirr snags 1m subscribers in first week

  26-05-2021 02:00
  Reports suggest that Ethio Telecom’s newly launched mobile money service, TeleBirr, has accrued over one million mobile subscribers just one week after launch. The service, launched on the 11th of May, will allow customers to make cashless transactions using their mobile device, including sending and receiving money, depositing and withdrawing cash from selected locations, paying bills, and receiving cash sent from abroad…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CSG buys Tango Telecom with 5G in its sights

  26-05-2021 02:00
  CSG today announced it has formally acquired Tango Telecom, a leading supplier of convergent policy control and messaging solutions.The acquisition of Tango Telecom arms CSG with real-time, dynamic policy and call control management. This, coupled with CSG’s industry-leading charging and digital monetization capabilities, forms a complete end…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Amazon roars with $8.5bn purchase of MGM

  26-05-2021 02:00
  Amazon and MGM today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for a purchase price of $8.45 billion. MGM has nearly a century of filmmaking history and complements the work of Amazon Studios, which has primarily focused on producing TV show programming…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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