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• First ever exhibition opens at Emery Walker House

  04-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Emery Walker’s House, a museum/house in Hammersmith devoted to the printer/typographer is opening its first exhibition next week, displaying examples of the most beautiful private press books ever published.
  The exhibition will show off Walker’s revolutionary book printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith, charting Walker’s career as a typographer and printer at a time when huge advances were being introduced in the production of books to keep up with dem
  
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• Cluster of Leicester Square buildings set for demolition

  04-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A corner block of buildings in Leicester Square, including the large Burger King, is likely to be demolished under plans by the landlord to seek a new tenant for the site.
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  The landlord, Soho Estates, which owns a large swathe of property in the area is currently seeking “an iconic entertainment brand” to take a pre-let on the site as part of a new development they are planning.
  The property development, next to the Odeon Cinema covers 17-21 Leicester Square and 13-
  
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• 5G network kit revenues to near $20 billion this year — report

  04-08-2021 14:40
  
  Global 5G network infrastructure revenue is on course for a growth spike this year, but growth will slow in 2022, according to new data published on Wednesday.
  5G infrastructure revenue will reach US$19.13 billion in 2021, up from $13.77 billion last year, Gartner predicts, citing an acceleration in 5G rollout both this year and last on the part of telcos responding to greater bandwidth demands coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  The pandemic “spiked demand for optimized and ultrafast bro
  
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• Eurobites: Amazon’s Prime Air programme enters tailspin in UK – report

  04-08-2021 13:16
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Sparkle turns to Infinera to power 400G services; auctions ahoy in French overseas territories; EE puts on its headphones and Hawaiian shirt in the cause of 5G.Amazon’s Prime Air drone-delivery research programme, based in Cambridge, UK, appears to have gone into a nosedive, if a report on Wired is anything to go by. The report says that more than 100 employees at the Prime Air programme have lost their jobs and “dozens” of others h
  
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• London’s Public Art: Two Pupils

  04-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On a side street in Chelsea is a sculpture of two children playing, and they were made by a man who also designed a number of costumes for Doctor Who.
  Allister Bowtell is the artist, a former chairman of Chelsea Arts Club, who designed the leaping children, officially called Two Pupils and they were commissioned by the local landlord, Cadogan Estates and unveiled in March 2003 as part of the Duke of York Square development.
  The sculpture is not just fun to look at, but has a link with local hist
  
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• Zylpha Bundling Delivers Clear Benefits To Maria Fogg Family Law

  04-08-2021 12:36
  
  Maria Fogg Family Law has chosen Zylpha Document Bundling to drive clear efficiency & compliance benefits. Based in Liverpool, family run practice Maria Fogg Family Law provides expert family legal services in Child Care Proceedings (Local Authority Involvement), Domestic abuse injunctions, Divorce, Separation, Child Matters, Financial Matters and Property Affairs. The Firm offers Legal Aid, fixed fees, competitive rates with office, telephone and video appointments. Since its inception 9 ye
  
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• Lumen offloads consumer ops for $7.5 billion

  04-08-2021 12:33
  
  Lumen has brokered a US$7.5 billion deal with Apollo Global Management that will see it part with its legacy consumer operations in 20 states across the Midwest and Southeast of the US.
  Following rumours to that effect a few weeks ago, Lumen confirmed that it has reached agreement with the asset manager to sell a sizeable chunk of the old CenturyLink business that offers services to consumers and small businesses mainly via DSL.
  The US telco adopted the Lumen brand in September last year, as par
  
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• Cloud Native Development Portfolio: Architectural Blueprint

  04-08-2021 12:08
  
  Taking full advantage of the cloud computing model delivers well-recognized business value. As public, private, and hybrid clouds become increasingly prevalent, cloud-native application development is a means to quickly take advantage of the benefits these modern, dynamic environments make possible.
  This blueprint, based on actual implementations, reveals the basic outlines for designing and implementing a cloud-native development architecture, illustrating:Common elements across cloud-native de
  
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• UK leaning towards blocking Nvidia’s Arm deal — reports

  04-08-2021 12:07
  
  The planned $40bn merger could be in jeopardy over national security concerns.
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) delivered its first report on the planned acquisition of British chip designer Arm by US-based Nvidia around ten days ahead of the 30 July deadline. Now, the word on the street is that the UK government is leaning towards blocking the proposed $40 billion semiconductor consolidation on the grounds of security concerns.
  Reports on this latest development from the likes of
  
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• Rakuten acquires OpenRAN partner Altiostar

  04-08-2021 11:57
  
  Rakuten announced that it has completed the acquisition of the software company Altiostar, which it had already partly owned and has collaborated closely on OpenRAN.
  Rakuten Group, the Japanese e-commerce heavyweight and parent company of Rakuten Mobile, announced that it has completed the acquisition of the US-based software company Altiostar Networks, Inc. The means of transaction or the price was not disclosed though the company claimed the deal would give Altiostar a valuation of more than $
  
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• The future of cloud native app delivery is here: What you should know

  04-08-2021 11:50
  
  Cloud-native application development offers a way to meet the rising demand for innovation solutions. Red Hat® Marketplace features automated deployment, simplified governance, and a single dashboard across clouds for both open source and proprietary software, meaning that organizations can respond to change with speed, resiliency, and agility.
  In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about:• What the cloud-native approach offers, with key features and benefits• Challenges that
  
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• 6 considerations for choosing the right Kubernetes platform

  04-08-2021 11:37
  
  With an integrated Kubernetes platform that comes ready to build and manage applications, you can gain efficiencies quickly without having to create a system from scratch. Opt for an innovative, enterprise-ready solution with thousands of successful use cases in production.
  In this checklist, get 6 considerations for choosing a Kubernetes platform that will help you:Operate consistently
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• Two Grinling Gibbons exhibitions in London at the same time

  04-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You wait for ages, then two exhibitions open at the same time about the same man in London – Grinling Gibbons, probably the most famous woodcarver in England.
  The impetus for two exhibitions is that this year marks the 300th anniversary of his death, so there’s both a look back at his work, but also a look forward at the woodworkers of modern times.
  Grinling Gibbons unique gift wasn’t just being a master carver, but that he switched from the oak that predominated and leant itse
  
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• Vi struggling to stay afloat as parent companies refuse reinvestment

  04-08-2021 02:00
  Late last month, the Indian Supreme Court rejected calls from Bharti Airtel and Vi to recalculate the amounts due the government as a result of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) fees. Now, with a batch of repayments imminent, Vi is struggling to survive, with both of its parent companies, Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group, loathe to inject more funds into a potentially sinking ship.  The company is facing a roughly $3 billion shortfall in cash flows for FY2023 as a result of AGR&hellip
  
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• Rakuten to acquire Altiostar for >$1bn in Open RAN push

  04-08-2021 02:00
  The growth of Rakuten’s relationship with Altiostar Networks clearly reflects the meteoric rise in interest surrounding Open RAN in recent years.The Group first invested in the US-based virtual RAN (vRAN) tech vendor back in May 2019, investing $114 million in what was a natural marriage between the specialist vendor and a company on the brink of launching their own fully virtualised mobile network in Japan…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Mantra Data Centres plans $1bn Indian expansion

  04-08-2021 02:00
  Yesterday, MDC announced that it would design, build and operate new data centre facilities in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Kolkata as part of a $1 billion expansion in their home market of India.The company says the move is motivated by the rapid growth of the Indian data centre market, which is being fuelled by the country’s increasing internet penetration, government digitalisation programmes…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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