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• Tickets Alert: Charterhouse tours by Candlelight

  31-08-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A chance to step into a medieval monastery near the Barbican on a Friday evening for a guided tour by flickering candlelight. The Charterhouse has long been hidden from the outside world by a high wall, but a few years ago, the people who still live there started offering tours, and then a museum was opened, and now the tours are a regular event.
  Now though, on one evening a month, the Charterhouse’s new evening tours will take you around the main buildings, a glass of wine in hand, with t
  
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• South Korea demands Apple and Google open app stores to 3rd-party payments

  31-08-2021 18:11
  
  A bill voted through by Korea’s parliamentarians demands application store operators like Apple and Google allow customers to choose alternative payment methods when buying apps and content.
  Dubbed “Google power-abuse-prevention law” in Korea, the bill was passed by the parliamentary committee on Tuesday and is now waiting to be signed into law by the president. The bill, which technically is an amendment to Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act, seeks to stop app store
  
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• Swivel to Success, or Swivel Chair?

  31-08-2021 17:20
  
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  How service activation and fulfilment can make or break your telco merger and acquisition ROI
  Communication service providers (CSPs) have been pursuing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for a long time, but they’re now becoming more popular to keep up with new technology. They are prioritizing their core telecom businesses through fiber and infrastructure buys while also divesting assets to stay true to their roots. Even com
  
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• There’s a pride of painted lions in the West End

  31-08-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you head into the west end at the moment, there’s a load of painted lions on the streets mostly around Piccadilly and St James. It’s one of those things where artists and celebrities are asked to paint an item and then they are displayed around town before being sold for charity.The Tusk Lion Trail is aiming to raise awareness of the shrinking African lion population and support the conservation of all wildlife and rural communities. Each lion features a QR code to scan where you
  
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• How 5G networks can become a platform for innovation

  31-08-2021 15:42
  
  Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Niall Norton a General Manager in Amdocs Technology division responsible for network software, looks at BSS in the 5G/cloud era.
  Telco networks’ cloud transformation is firmly accelerating, with more and more operators seeking and signing partnerships with the hyperscalers. The announcements from AT&T moving its 5G network to Microsoft, and from S
  
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• Smartphone growth returns after Covid blip

  31-08-2021 15:31
  
  Global smartphone shipments are set to increase by 7.4% this year, marking a return to growth after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the industry in 2020, according to new analyst figures.
  And interestingly, consumers are showing an increased willingness to part with big bucks for new phones.
  IDC puts smartphone shipments worldwide at 1.37 billion units in 2021, which represents “minimal growth” compared with pre-pandemic 2019. Its data for 2019 shows shipments of 1.372 billion, then a 5.9%
  
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• Extent of EU corruption by big tech lobbying revealed

  31-08-2021 15:25
  
  According to a new study technology is the biggest lobby sector to the European Union and that spend is dominated by US tech giants.
  The study was compiled by Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobbycontrol and relied on data from the EU Transparency Register, which publishes the details of those organisations who carry out activities to influence the EU policy and decision-making process. Otherwise known as lobbying, this is essentially legalized corruption through which those organisations with
  
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• Martech Disruptor Modo25 Secures Fourth Six Figure Investment

  31-08-2021 14:17
  
  Leeds, UK: Having delivered growth beyond expectations, digital martech innovator, Modo25 (www.modo25.com) has secured a fourth six-figure investment round for its award-winning BOSCO™ Connect solution that delivers real and significant benefits to online marketers globally. This time, the investment has come from three new investors with significant industry experience to support the continued global growth of Modo25 and BOSCO™. Richard Flint former CEO of Sky Betting & Gaming w
  
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• Adtran adds Adva in €789 million fibre merger

  31-08-2021 13:47
  
  Adtran and Adva have announced a merger deal designed to help them tap into the growth opportunity in fibre.
  The vendors aim to bring together their various fibre market assets – Adtran’s fibre access and connectivity solutions and Adva’s strength in metro wavelength division multiplexing, data centre interconnect, business Ethernet and network synchronisation solutions, essentially – to build some scale in the fibre networking space.
  The deal, which gives Adva an equity
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Rathbone Square, W1

  31-08-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just moments from Oxford Street, this is a newish pocket park that sits inside a new mixed development of offices and residential flats with a semi-public square in the middle.Named after one of the roads it’s next to, Rathbone Square was built on the site of the former Royal Mail sorting office, and although the old site was flattened to be redeveloped, hidden from view four floors below ground right under the pocket park is the disused Post Office railway.
  Back above ground, the central
  
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• Apple said to be mulling LEO connectivity for iPhones

  31-08-2021 12:27
  
  The word on the street is that US gadget giant Apple is planning to introduce support for low earth orbit satellites in future iPhones.
  This is very much an internet rumour-mill thing at this stage, with the catalyst being a research note from Ming-Chi Kuo, who is known for anticipating new Apple initiatives with moderate accuracy. MacRumors had a look at the note and reported that the LEO support is expected to arrive in the iPhone 13, thanks to a customized Qualcomm X60 baseband chip. So, hila
  
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• Mining Company Katanga Awards Speedcast with Multi-Year Connectivity Contract for Headquarters and Major Mine Site

  31-08-2021 09:44
  
  Open-pit copper and cobalt mine site in Sub-Saharan Africa to receive fully managed communications services with WAN Optimization Cape Town, South Africa – August 31, 2021 - Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, announced today that the company has been selected by Mining Company Katanga for a three-year contract to deliver satellite connectivity services to its headquarters and a major mine complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mining Company Katanga (
  
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• A day trip to – The Gatwick Aviation Museum

  31-08-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the far side of Gatwick Airport is a museum, partly about the airport, but mainly about the military side of aviation.
  It’s on a side road in an area that apart from the occasional roar of a plane taking off could well be a rural countryside retreat. The first thing you notice when walking down the drive to the entrance is the smell – not of planes and oil, but cow dung. We’re on a farm, and the collection here was originally started by the farmer who bought planes and kept
  
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• “Unprecedented investment cycle in fibre” sees Adtran merge with ADVA

  31-08-2021 02:00
  On Monday, US-based fibre specialist Adtran announced that it will acquire German firm ADVA for €789 million (around $934 million). The companies expect the resulting entity to have a revenue of $1.2 billion, with the move reportedly creating synergies worth $52 million in the next two years.&nbsp…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Monitoring the heart of our connected world

  31-08-2021 02:00
  Submarine cable infrastructure is responsible for the vast majority of international data traffic around the world and, as data demand continues to increase, our reliance on these systems is only going to grow.It goes without saying that damage to these cables can be catastrophic for connectivity, as well as being complex and expensive to repair. Thus, as is so often the case, prevention is better than cure, and monitoring this infrastructure to pre-empt disaster has become a crucial part of th
  
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• AT&T aims to cut emissions by a gigaton with Connected Climate Initiative launch

  31-08-2021 02:00
  AT&T has set an industry-leading target to help businesses collectively reduce a gigaton of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions —1 billion metric tons — by 2035, an effort which will contribute to a better, more sustainable world.A gigaton is equal to approximately 15% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 3% of global energy-related emissions in 2020 — or 1.6 billion flights from Los Angeles to New York. The company will work with businesses including Microsoft, Equ
  
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• AT&T aims to cut emissions by a gigaton with Connected Climate Initiative

  31-08-2021 02:00
  AT&T has set an industry-leading target to help businesses collectively reduce a gigaton of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions —1 billion metric tons — by 2035, an effort which will contribute to a better, more sustainable world.A gigaton is equal to approximately 15% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 3% of global energy-related emissions in 2020 — or 1.6 billion flights from Los Angeles to New York. The company will work with businesses including Microsoft, Equ
  
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