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• ST Engineering iDirect recognized for Continued Leadership and Commitment to Mobility sector with MSUA Satellite Innovation Award

  08-09-2021 19:41
  
  Leading ground technology provider presented with accolade during SATELLITE 2021 for its advanced satcom mobility solution Herndon, Va., September 8, 2021 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has been named as the winner of the Top Mobile User Experience Innovation Award at the 29th Annual Mobile Satellite Users Association’s (MSUA) Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards. This recognition further cements ST Engineering iDirect’s leading position in
  
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• Prince Charles Cinema is showing The Keep on the big screen

  08-09-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What happens when you bring together Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson, and Ian McKellen, wrap them up in music by Tangerine Dream, and spend months in a Welsh quarry — The Keep is what happens.A gothic horror that is candidly more atmosphere than plot and was a commercial flop when released, but is today a cult classic amongst the few who have ever seen it.
  And next month the Prince Charles Cinema has dug out a copy to put on the big screen.
  I first saw the
  
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• NEC and AWS expand partnership to drag 5G even further into the cloud

  08-09-2021 18:04
  
  Tech heavyweights AWS and NEC are expanding their existing collaboration to deliver cloud native 5G, enhanced digital government solutions, as well as hybrid cloud.
  The two companies entered a global partnership at the end of 2020, “the first of its kind between AWS and a Japanese company”, as Toshifumi Yoshizaki, NEC’s EVP put it at the time. While the initial collaboration was focused on helping digitize and digitalize Japanese government processes, the new announcement expan
  
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• Barbican arts center set for £50-£150 million revamp

  08-09-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As the Barbican arts centre approaches its 40th birthday, the site is looking at a £50-£150 million revamp to catch up with how society and arts have changed over the decades. Expectations that the arts centre would be revamped were raised earlier this year when the City of London cancelled a proposed concert hall to sit where the Museum of London currently sits, in favour of upgrading the Barbican instead.
  To do this, a design competition has opened seeking architects to work with t
  
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• Vodafone Idea still holding out for government help

  08-09-2021 14:47
  
  Vodafone Idea remains touchingly optimistic that the Indian government will come through with a telecoms reform package to keep its business afloat.
  Himanshu Kapania, Chairman of the troubled Indian mobile operator, declared himself to be “hopeful” of government support in a letter to shareholders published this week.
  “Your Company believes the government recognizes the criticality of the sector and the importance of retaining healthy competition amongst private sector operator
  
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• Automotive demand drives Intel to mull €80 billion investment in Europe

  08-09-2021 14:44
  
  Pat Gelsinger, CEO of US chip giant Intel, sees massive growth in the automotive chip market and wants to invest heavily in Europe to meet it.
  The pronouncement came in a keynote Gelsinger delivered at the IAA Mobility trade show in Germany. His headline datapoint was a forecast that a fifth of the total bill of materials (BOM – the total cost of all stuff used to build it) in a new ‘premium’ vehicle will be accounted for by semiconductors. That compares with just 4% in 2019 an
  
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• Colao presents Italy’s plan for cloud autonomy

  08-09-2021 13:52
  
  Italy will launch a tender for the creation of a national cloud hub by the end of this year as part of a project designed to give the country a degree of digital autonomy.
  Technological Innovation and Digital Transition Minister Vittorio Colao this week formally presented the Italian Cloud Strategy, a scheme that governs the digitisation of the public administration in Italy and the implementation of cloud services, and forms part of the country’s EU-funded post-pandemic National Recovery
  
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• The King’s Observatory opens for rare tours

  08-09-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A building in the middle of a Richmond golf club that was built for King George III to observe an astronomical event will be open later this month for tours.The large square building with a telescope observatory dome on top was built to watch the 1769 Transit of Venus, an event which had seen Captain James Cook sent to the other side of the world to observe it from a better location, while at the same time nabbing a few continents for the crown.
  It later became a government building, and then od
  
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• ABS launches Managed Data Services on ST Engineering iDirect’s multi-service Dialog Platform in partnership with iSAT Africa

  08-09-2021 12:16
  
  8 September 2021 – ABS, a global satellite operator, in partnership with iSAT Africa, a leading satellite solution provider, announced the launch of managed data services on ABS-3A satellite. It will be operating on the ST Engineering iDirect Newtec Dialog® platform for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The deployment of this platform offers cost-effective, robust, high-speed broadband services for general enterprises, oil & gas and NGOs users. It is suitable for re
  
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• Glotel Awards entry deadline extended for the first time in at least a year

  08-09-2021 11:53
  
  In response to overwhelming demand the deadline for entries into the 2021 Global Telecoms Awards has been extended to the end of the month.
  While it’s hardly unprecedented, it serves as a reassuring reminder of the continuing good health of the global telecoms business that so many companies are desperate for an opportunity to have their achievements recognised. Not enough to interrupt their Summer holidays, it should be noted, but we’re all allowed a bit of time off.
  “In hinds
  
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• Network expansion to Blackpool landing station enables Neos Networks to facilitate high capacity fibre connectivity for hyperscalers, large-scale content providers and connectivity providers

  08-09-2021 11:15
  
  Network access point will enable Irish businesses to connect into Blackpool and onwards throughout the United Kingdom, taking advantage of Neos Networks’ expansive 24,480+km UK wide network, while also bringing high-capacity connectivity to West Lancashire LONDON, UK, 8th September – Neos Networks, one of the UK’s premier connectivity providers, today announces significant network expansion across Lancashire. The UK telco is set to bring high-capacity connectivity services to t
  
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• prpl Foundation releases prplMesh R2 open-source software to enhance whole-home Wi-Fi coverage

  08-09-2021 10:34
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif., 08 September, 2021 -- prpl Foundation, a community-driven consortium, dedicated to the harmonization of open-source network architecture, has announced the release of its prplMesh 2.0 software stack, eligible for Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) EasyMesh Release 2 certification, for both Agent and Controller roles. The mission of the prplMesh project is to create a carrier-grade, production-worthy, open-source solution for managing Wi-Fi Access Points in CPE gateways and Wi-Fi Mesh Exte
  
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• See the 700-years old murals of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood

  08-09-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A church near Gatwick Airport contains a remarkable survivor inside — a set of historically significant series of murals that date to around 1300-1350.The church was originally constructed on this site around 1080, not long after the Norman Conquest, as a single nave with tower above, but a couple of centuries later the second nave was added beside it, giving the church internally the appearance of two churches joined in the middle.As with all churches of the time, it would have been richl
  
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• NEC expands AWS partnership as it targets global 5G offer

  08-09-2021 02:00
  Back in November 2020, NEC Corporation announced that it had become the first Japanese company to sign a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), aiming to collaboratively develop a framework for various cloud services. Since then, the two companies have been gradually becoming more closely entwined. Most recently…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Myanmar junta “very unlikely” to approve Telenor Myanmar sale

  08-09-2021 02:00
  At the start of 2021, a coup d’état took place in Myanmar, replacing the civilian government with a military junta. Hundreds of civilians were killed during the resulting protests, with civil unrest continuing to this day. For the nation’s telecoms sector, the impact of the coup was immediate and severe. Initially, various social media channels were ordered to be shut down, but this soon escalated to the military leadership ordering entire telecoms blackouts for extended
  
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• Intel plans up to €80bn investment in European chip fabs

  08-09-2021 02:00
  Speaking at Munich’s IAA auto show this week, Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger said the company will invest up to €80 billion in European chip fabs over the next decade. Intel is currently planning to create two new European chip factories, the locations of which are set to be revealed by the end of the year. Where exactly these plants will be situated is a matter of fierce debate, with France and Germany considered the most likely locations. Belgium, Poland, and the Netherlands
  
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• "Broadband is a right, not a privilege"

  08-09-2021 02:00
  Can you introduce yourself and Truespeed?After building a career in the RAF and moving back to Somerset, Truespeed was born in 2014 out of my frustration at having incredibly unreliable broadband that wasn’t fit for purpose. As a Bath-based full fibre infrastructure provider and ISP, we’re on a mission to bring underserved and left behind communities, businesses and cities in the South West into the digital fast lane. Buoyed by &pound…read more on TotalTele.com &raqu
  
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