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• Agatha Christie exhibition at the Isokon flats

  12-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A block of flats in Belsize Park that is an architectural icon has been home to many famous people, no less than the author, Agatha Christie, and now an exhibition about her time there has opened.
  The Isokon Flats were built in 1929-32 as an experiment in minimalist urban living, with very small kitchens, but a large communal dining area and kitchen to share. Thanks to its bohemian atmosphere, many architects and artists lived here over the years, and as it later turned out, a Soviet spy.Agatha
  
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• Industry group formed to advance 6 GHz Wi-Fi

  12-08-2021 15:56
  
  Facebook, Broadcom, and Cisco have created a software group under the aegis of Telecom Infra Project (TIP) to accelerate the commercialization of 6 GHz Wi-Fi devices.
  TIP, bankrolled by Facebook and best known for driving Open RAN, is playing host to the Open Automated Frequency Coordination (Open AFC) Software Group. The objective of the alliance is to promote the adoption of Wi-Fi on 6 GHz for outdoor and long-range indoor use cases by providing a common reference open-source software.
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• US Senators out to tear down the app store walls

  12-08-2021 14:14
  
  A bipartisan Senate bill is introduced to boost competition in the mobile apps market with rules to restrict what Apple and Google can impose on developers and users.
  Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced a bill to set new rules for the mobile application store operators, primarily Apple and Google, on what they can and cannot dictate. The bill aims at loosening the duopoly’s grip on the channels apps can distribute throug
  
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• NTT unveils “global” private 5G network

  12-08-2021 14:01
  
  Japanese telecoms group offers cross-border 5G network-as-a-service platform but keeps schtum on ecosystem partners.
  Japan’s NTT claimed, somewhat ambitiously, that it had launched the first “globally available” private LTE/5G network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform.
  International might be a more accurate description of coverage – the last time Telecoms.com looked 5G coverage was hardly global, nor LTE for that matter – but semantic quibbles aside the product looks imp
  
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• Eurobites: Deutsche Telekom raises full-year guidance on back of Q2 uplift

  12-08-2021 13:53
  
  Also in today’s EMEA regional round-up: Eir plans gigabit expansion in Ireland; MTN enjoys mixed H1; Nokia in smart grid trials.Deutsche Telekom saw second-quarter revenue grow by 6.8% year-on-year in ‘organic’ terms, to €26.6 billion, though once the organic goggles were removed things didn’t look quite so rosy, with the weaker US dollar doing its bit to bring reported revenue down by 1.7%. Adjusted earnings (EBITDAal format) rose by 1.1% in organic terms, to €
  
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• Ex-London Transport steam locos returning to London this autumn

  12-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two ex-London Transport steam engines will be making return trips to the London Underground this autumn, as guests of the Epping-Ongar Railway.
  The Epping Ongar Railway runs a heritage railway along a length of former Central line railway north of Epping.
  The first to return will be locomotive L.92, a former Great Western Railway pannier tank locomotive that was purchased by London Transport in 1958 and was used to work engineers trains around the system until 1969. The locomotive was immediatel
  
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• Free film screenings in Trafalgar Square

  12-08-2021 10:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Six blockbuster movies filmed or set in London will be shown on a big screen in Trafalgar Square later this month – for free.
  There will be a selection of free matinee and evening screenings in partnership with Luna Cinema, and the screenings will all celebrate London’s importance in the film industry, with all the films either made or set in London.
  From Thursday 26 August to Sunday 29 August there will be six movies being shown on the big screen to a ticketed audience of 1,500 tick
  
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• V for Vendetta exhibition looks behind the mask

  12-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s an image that is instantly recognisable, and yet far fewer people who don the Guy Fawkes mask have read the novel that inspired it. An exhibition at the Cartoon Museum seeks to shine a light on the origins of an icon that is now seen the world over as a symbol of rebellion against the system.To a degree, there are two V’s in existence, the original novel and the later and vastly more successful film, which is only loosely based on the comic novel. This exhibition is mainly about
  
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• South Korea’s Hanwha Systems invests $300m in OneWeb

  12-08-2021 02:00
  Since its rescue from bankruptcy by the UK government and Bharti Airtel back in 2020, UK satellite broadband player OneWeb has been going to strength to strength. In January 2021, SoftBank and Hughes Network System announced they would invest an additional $400 million into the company, bringing the companies total investment to $1.4 billion. By March, OneWeb had began launching low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites into orbit but warned that it would need to raise another billion dollars to re
  
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• Singapore’s StarHub sniffs out 14-year-old data breach

  12-08-2021 02:00
  Last week, Singaporean telco StarHub announced that it had found data from over 57,000 of its customers on a third-party data dump site during routine online surveillance back in July. The data breach contained personal information for over 57,000 customers, including their including national identity card numbers, mobile numbers and email addresses. Financial information was reportedly not at risk…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• NTT launches first global private 5G Network-as-a-Service platform

  12-08-2021 02:00
  NTT, a global technology and business solutions provider, today announced the launch of NTT’s Private 5G platform (P5G), the first globally available private LTE/5G Network-as-a-Service platform. With a complete end-to-end stack of services that goes beyond the network, NTT P5G helps Chief Information Officers and Chief Digital Officers leverage the benefits of private 5G to solve business problems and innovate to keep pace with the future of enterprise.
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• Inmarsat takes another leap forward with ELERA, the global network for IoT, safety and mission critical connectivity

  12-08-2021 02:00
  In its second major announcement in two weeks, Inmarsat is today unveiling Inmarsat ELERA; a global narrowband network that is ideally suited to the rapidly evolving world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and for global mobility customers, including aviation, maritime, governments and select enterprises.“ELERA is perfectly suited to the needs of the connected IoT world,” said Rajeev Suri, CEO, Inmarsat. “Global reach, extraordinary resilience, faster speeds, smaller and lower c
  
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• Inmarsat introduces ELERA, a global network for IoT and mobility customers

  12-08-2021 02:00
  In its second major announcement in two weeks, Inmarsat is today unveiling Inmarsat ELERA; a global narrowband network that is ideally suited to the rapidly evolving world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and for global mobility customers, including aviation, maritime, governments and select enterprises.“ELERA is perfectly suited to the needs of the connected IoT world,” said Rajeev Suri, CEO, Inmarsat. “Global reach, extraordinary resilience, faster speeds, smaller and lower c
  
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• Deutsche Telekom, AI, and Beethoven's unfinished symphony

  12-08-2021 02:00
  Born in 1769, German composer Ludwig van Beethoven achieved enormous acclaim within his own lifetime and to this day is widely considered one of the greatest composers to ever live. One of the maestro’s most famous pieces is his Fifth Symphony, the opening of which, with its distinctive ‘short-short-short-long’ motif, has inundated popular culture for more than a hundred years.  Beethoven in fact wrote nine symphonies, all of which are still held in high regard, but
  
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