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• Discount sale on The Mousetrap tickets

  27-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Famously the world’s longest consistently running play –  pandemic excepted – Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap has now been running for 68 years, and is one of those plays that everyone is presumed to see once in their lives.
  The murder-mystery storyline is set at “the present”, which presumably means England as it was around the time when the play came out in 1952, including postwar continuation of World War II rationing.
  As news spreads of a murder in London
  
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• Smartwatch market bounces back strongly as Apple Watch user base hits 100 million

  27-08-2021 14:44
  
  The latest global smartwatch market data from Counterpoint reveals 27% year-on-year growth in Q2 2021.
  The press release didn’t put a number on it as that’s data they like to charge people for, but it did reveal some significant shifts among the main smartwatch vendors. Apple remains the clear leader with a 28% share of shipments, but Samsung is gaining ground and Garmin has suddenly turned into a bit of a wearables player. Meanwhile Huawei’s decline has tracked that of its pho
  
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• Chips are down for consumers with TSMC set to hike prices

  27-08-2021 14:32
  
  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) plans to increase the price of chips in the coming months, according to a media report.
  The firm will raise prices by between 10% and 20%, the bigger rise applying to less advanced chips, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation. The increases will come at the back end of this year or the start of next, they said. The paper was unable to obtain a comment on prices from TSMC itself.
  The news, should it prove
  
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• Apple opens its purse to settle developer class-action suit

  27-08-2021 14:25
  
  Apple has agreed to loosen its grip on how mobile apps can be distributed and promised more transparency on app approval processes in a package to settle a class-action suit brought by app developers.
  It has reached a settlement agreement with the American developers that filed a class-action suit in California in 2019, called Cameron et al v. Apple Inc., in which Apple is accused of monopolistic behaviour towards developers distributing their apps through Apple’s App Store. The announceme
  
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• Partner latest to make buyout offer for Xfone

  27-08-2021 13:05
  
  Israel’s Partner Communications has made an offer to acquire smaller rival Xfone, but is one of a number of telcos interested in taking over the firm.
  And to make matters more complicated, there are serious questions over whether Israeli regulators will allow any takeover deal to go ahead anyway.
  Partner on Thursday revealed that it has made a (very) limited time offer of 187 million shekels (US$58 million) to acquire Marathon (018) Xfone, to give the business its full title. The offer is
  
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• Pewterers’ Livery Hall to open for monthly public lunches

  27-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Another of the City of London’s Livery Halls has cracked open the usually closed doors a bit and will be hosting a monthly lunch which is open to the public.
  The Livery Halls are not that easy to get inside to see unless you manage to get on an occasional tour or attend an event there, so monthly lunches are proving popular, and the company behind them has added Pewterers’ Hall to the lineup.
  The Worshipful Company of Pewterers is one of the older Livery Companies in the City of Lond
  
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• London’s leisure travel is recovering faster than work travel

  27-08-2021 11:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New numbers from TfL show that passenger numbers on London’s trains and buses are recovering from the pandemic, with the recovery stronger at weekends and evenings than during the working day.
  With a sizable percentage of people who can work from home still doing so at least some of the time, the recovery in public transport use will be skewed to the evenings and weekends until managers start pulling more people back into the offices.
  From a financial perspective though, TfL is likely to b
  
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• Mid September deadline for most of Telefonica Deutschland 3G network

  27-08-2021 02:00
  Originally Telefonica Deutschland (O2) planned to shut off its 3G network by the end of 2021 in order to free up spectrum forhigher speed 4G services, but in an acceleration to the plan the company has announced that it will now convert the majority of 3G sites by mid…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Meet the finalists for the 2021 Connected Britain Awards

  27-08-2021 02:00
  Back in 2018 Total Telecom launched the first ever Connected Britain Awards, recognising the leaders in the UK connectivity landscape. Over the past four years the awards have developed to encompass a range of categories open to service providers and altnets, public sector and charities and suppliers to the industry. Awards in 13 categories will be presented in 2021 with the winners named at the end of Day 1 of the event, 21 September 2021 [Book your place here]This years&rsquo…read
  
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• Brazil’s 5G spectrum pricing could lock out smaller players

  27-08-2021 02:00
  Earlier this week, nine TCU judges voted eight-to-one to approve the bidding notice for Brazil’s upcoming 5G spectrum auction. In effect, this gives Brazilian regulator Anatel the green light to make final adjustments to the tender process and schedule the auction in the near future.The auction process has found itself mired in controversy for over a year now…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Back to school with Calix

  27-08-2021 02:00
  Calix has launched a new virtual university to make learning more accessible for broadband service providers (BSPs) with personalized educational content and an expanded list of courses and certifications.
  Calix is combining the existing Calix Solutions Academy as well as the soon-to-launch Broadband Academy and Broadband Marketing Academy under a single digital campus. Calix Solutions Academy accelerates time to knowledge and proficiency on Calix premises…read more on TotalTele.com &raq
  
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• Adaptation and the last mile of submarine connectivity

  27-08-2021 02:00
  Submarine cable systems support around 95% of the world’s international data traffic, but despite our huge reliance on these systems, the subsea industry remains widely unrecognised and underappreciated. But, as data demand soars and the world grows more digital, it is also an industry full of opportunity.In recent years we’ve seen a small group of specialist construction partners emerge and rise to the challenge of the subsea space, bringing with them a wealth of experience from pr
  
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• A breath of fresh air: Mavenir and Vilicom team up for connected windfarm

  27-08-2021 02:00
  The Moray East windfarm, situated off the north-east coast of Scotland, first started supplying renewable electricity in June 2021, and will ultimately be optimised to deliver approximately 40% of the total electricity demand in Scotland and power 950…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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