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• Sale on tickets to see Oleanna at the London Art’s Theatre

  08-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the most controversial and celebrated plays of the last thirty years makes its return to the West End.
  Oleanna, a 1992 two-character play by David Mamet, is about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure.
  The show last had a London production in 2004.
  For its 2021 revival, it’s being performed at the London Art’s Theatre, just around the c
  
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• Netherlands reportedly finds Apple app store rules to be anticompetitive

  08-10-2021 13:02
  
  A Dutch antitrust authority has been looking into Apple’s policy of excluding all other payment systems and seems to have decided it needs changing.
  The scoop comes courtesy of Reuters, which says it has spoken to no less than four anonymous sources who reckon they know a thing or two about the matter. The report says the Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers and Markets has notified Apple of its decision that the company abuses its market power by forcing app developers to use its pa
  
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• Mail Rail tunnel walks return with a new bit added for Christmas

  08-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Mail Rail is resuming its occasional walks through the old rail tunnels and will be adding an extra detour for Christmas to a part that’s not normally accessible.
  During the walk through the tunnels, guides will reveal stories of the underground railway from over the course of 100 years – from its construction in the early 1900s, through the heyday in the middle of the century, to the eventual closure in 2003.The Festive Tunnel Walk takes a detour exploring a loop of the tunnels
  
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• Mexican regulator blames high prices for spectrum auction failure

  08-10-2021 11:57
  
  It’s not often a spectrum auction attracts as little interest as the one that just closed in Mexico.
  The country had 41 blocks of spectrum in various bands up for sale and managed to offload just three of them to the only two companies that submitted bids. AT&T submitted bids for two blocks of frequencies in the 800 MHz band, while America Movil’s Telcel bid for one block of 2.5 GHz spectrum, regulatory body the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) announced.
  It has stil
  
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• Google punishes commercial partners who flout ‘scientific consensus’

  08-10-2021 11:45
  
  If you don’t express the correct views on climate change then Google doesn’t want to do business with you, according to new policies.
  “…we’re announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishers and YouTube creators that will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” announced the Google Ads bulletin.
  “This includes content
  
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• Carphone Warehouse brand disappears after 30 years on the high street

  08-10-2021 10:00
  
  Carphone Warehouse has disappeared from the UK high street as part of a major, although admittedly none-too-creative, rebrand by its parent company.
  Dixons Carphone, as it was then known, announced the rebrand in May, talking up the merger of four fairly big names in the UK consumer tech space into a single brand. “Currys PC World, Carphone Warehouse, Team Knowhow and Dixons Carphone become one brand,” the firm declared. The whole thing became a little less exciting when it explained
  
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• Oracle, TIM, and Noovle team up for Italian cloud services

  08-10-2021 02:00
  Oracle, TIM (Telecom Italia) and Noovle, TIM Group’s cloud company, today announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement as part of a plan to offer multicloud services for enterprises and public sector organizations in Italy.Under the agreement, TIM Group plans to utilize advanced cloud infrastructure technologies to support its goal of advancing Italy’s digital modernization and establishing its position, through Noovle, as the market reference point for enterprise multi
  
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• Facebook unveils fibre-deploying robot Bombyx

  08-10-2021 02:00
  Digging trenches to deploy underground cables can be an expensive, time consuming, and disruptive process, but one that has been broadly accepted as necessary by the telecoms industry for decades. Now, Facebook Connectivity thinks it has developed an alternative in the form of a cable-crawling robot called Bombyx…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Deutsche Telekom taps Eutelsat for rural broadband coverage

  08-10-2021 02:00
  It has been a busy week for Eutelsat, who, in addition to investing an additional $165 million investment in OneWeb, have now announced a new partnership with German operator Deutsche Telekom. The deal will see Deutsche Telekom make use of Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite, which came into service back in November 2020…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT teams up with Toshiba for quantum-secured metro network

  08-10-2021 02:00
  Quantum computing is a highly complex and esoteric topic, the impacts of which many industries, including the telecoms sector, are struggling to come to terms with.Perhaps the technology’s greatest impact will be felt when it comes to network security, with quantum computing potentially able to overcome traditional data encryption methods. According to BT, some estimates predict that quantum computer-enabled cyber-attacks will be possible within the next five years and likely within the n
  
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