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• An exhibition of minature books at the British Library

  03-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Some of the most charmingly beautiful books can also be the very smallest of books, and a selection of miniature books is currently on show in the British Library.
  Miniature books range from small toy books made for children through to devotional texts and even entire bibles or Korans to be carried by travellers and soldiers. Despite their almost impossibly tiny size, many are finished to the same high quality as full-size rare books, with carefully set print, illustrations and bindings.There&rs
  
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• Save on tickets to Anything Goes at the Barbican

  03-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Felicity Kendal and Robert Lindsay are currently starring in the Cole Porter/P. G. Wodehouse classic at the Barbican, and there’s a sale on ticket prices at the moment.Bon Voyage! It’s all hands on deck for the crew on the S.S. American, who are in for some rough seas. Kiss all smooth sailing goodbye. Etiquette is cast away through the portholes as two unlikely duos set sail to find the right course to true romance. Taking destiny by the helms, they soon find that thei
  
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• Ericsson CEO vows to fight for Chinese presence

  03-09-2021 14:08
  
  Börje Ekholm, CEO of Swedish kit vendor Ericsson, is determined not to throw in the towel over China despite geopolitical forces working against him.
  Ekholm expressed his position to Reuters in a recent interview, stating “We have been in China for 120 years and I don’t intend to give up easily. We are going to show that we can add value to China.” The reason he is even making such comments Is the fact that the most recent allocation of 5G work in the country saw Ericsson&
  
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• Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone both claim eSIM first with BMW

  03-09-2021 12:20
  
  BMW is adding a personal eSIM to the BMW iX and both DT and Vodafone are claiming to be first to market with the add-on that makes it work.
  Nothing unusual about that, you might say; telcos make spurious first-to-market claims all the time. Well yes, but normally, they don’t do it on the same day and issue the exact same press release, almost word-for-word.
  “The BMW Group is the first premium manufacturer to bring 5G to a globally available production vehicle and Deutsche Telekom is
  
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• AWS reportedly planning to increase platform censorship

  03-09-2021 12:13
  
  Dominant public cloud platform AWS is reportedly forming a censorship team that will help it remove more content that violates its policies.
  The scoop comes courtesy of Reuters, which has chatted to a couple of anonymous people who reckon they know what they’re talking about. Apparently Amazon wants AWS to be more ‘proactive’ in its policing of the platform. Accordingly the team will ‘develop expertise and work with outside researchers to monitor for future threats.&rsquo
  
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• Northern line extension’s opening date announced

  03-09-2021 11:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Northern line extension on the London Underground to Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station will open on the 20th September, TfL has confirmed.
  Tube services on the extension will start on Monday 20 September, running from Kennington station on the Charing Cross branch. There will be an initial peak time service of six trains per hour on the extension, increasing to 12 trains per hour by mid-2022. There will be five trains per hour during off-peak times, doubling to 10 trains per hour next ye
  
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• Mexico shared network secures $50m loan, but its troubles remain

  03-09-2021 11:17
  
  Altán Redes, the company that operates Mexico’s shared LTE network, has secured a US$50 million loan from shareholders to help it continue operations.
  The firm filed for bankruptcy protection under Mexican law in July. It did not give a lot away about the state of its finances, but it’s pretty clear what’s going on: it has racked up a lot of a debt and has failed to attract customers.
  The new loan, which it states will enable it to continue with network operations and se
  
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• Seaborn Networks: A decade under the sea

  03-09-2021 02:00
  Seaborn Networks recently celebrated their 10-year anniversary, having grown from a tiny organisation to one of the most exciting players in the subsea space. But the submarine cable industry is changing now more than ever and, as a result, Seaborn is changing too.Diversification Seaborn’s new CEO, Steve Orlando, who joined the business in October 2020, explained to us how the company had successfully made the transition from being reliant purely on data transport to running an IP ne
  
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• Ericsson and Vodafone halve 5G network energy consumption in latest trial

  03-09-2021 02:00
  Situated on the roof of the Speechmark, Vodafone UK’s central London office, the controlled deployment of Ericsson’s antenna-integrated radio solution (AIR 3227) saw Vodafone’s daily network energy consumption decrease by an average of 43 percent in direct comparison to previous generations of radio technology, and as much as 55 percent at off…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Airtel boasts India’s first 5G-powered cloud gaming

  03-09-2021 02:00
  In India, 5G is still very much in its infancy, with the operators conducting various tests ahead of the much-delayed spectrum auction set to take place later in the year.  Now, as part of these tests, Bharti Airtel is demonstrating some of the exciting potential that 5G has to offer, exhibiting cloud gaming on a 5G network for the first time in India…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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