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• Big internet served notice by Rumble acquisition of Locals

  26-10-2021 22:19
  
  The oligopoly dominating social media and the digital economy faces an emergent threat in the form of the newly combined Rumble and Locals.
  Rumble is a social video platform that positions itself in competition with Google-owned YouTube. As such it has also served as a haven for content producers frustrated by the restrictions, censorship and constantly shifting goalposts imposed by such internet incumbents. Inevitably that has resulted in the establishment attempting to characterise the platfor
  
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• Tickets Alert: 90 Anniversary of Abbey Road Studios

  26-10-2021 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Next month you can step inside Abbey Road Studio’s famous Studio Two to discover 90 years of music history, as part of their 90th-anniversary celebrations. As the Abbey Road Studios are normally closed to the public, this is a rare opportunity to step inside the famous house and see where recorded music history is made.
  Before you get too excited though, I should warn you though that these events are not cheap.
  As part of their anniversary, over two weekends in November, they’re open
  
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• A vintage tube train comes to Train Sim World 2

  26-10-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you missed out on driving a 1938 era tube train, you can now get a virtual version with the latest addition to Train Sim World 2.
  The Train Sim World 2 1938 Stock features a highly detailed, feature-rich driving cab. Climb into the cab, take in the cosy lightbulb-lit interior, the old school driving controls and get ready to command this authentic locomotive across 3 detailed and challenging scenarios, delivering passengers to their destinations up and down the Bakerloo Line.
  As the driver, y
  
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• Verizon chooses Amazon as its LEO satellite buddy

  26-10-2021 15:30
  
  US operator Verizon has announced its collaboration with Amazon’s Project Kuiper to help it with its 5G coverage challenges.
  Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low earth orbit (LEO) satellite initiative, designed to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink and UK-based OneWeb in the next-generation satellite connectivity market. Being closer to the earth, LEO satellite connectivity has advantages over the geostationary equivalent, including lower latency.
  Verizon seems to have signed some sor
  
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• TPG taps Nokia for indoor 5G

  26-10-2021 13:33
  
  Australian operator TPG plans to use Nokia Smart Node femtocells to ensure top-notch 4G and 5G indoor coverage for enterprise customers.
  Since Huawei was excluded from Australia’s 5G infrastructure, TPG Telecom has been pretty democratic when handing out 5G vendor contracts, with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung all in the mix.
  Nokia has been especially prominent: the Finland-based vendor is supplying the equipment for TPG’s standalone 5G network at 700 MHz, for instance. While use of 700
  
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• Facebook ‘whistleblower’ is a government Trojan Horse

  26-10-2021 13:10
  
  As Frances Haugen’s tour hits the UK it seems clear her main aim is to help pressure Facebook into giving governments greater control over the company.
  For all the breathless coverage of Haugen’s testimony to a UK Parliamentary Committee devoted to increasing government censorship of the internet, she added little to her first carefully choreographed crusade. There were mainly the familiar infantile allegations that Facebook, apparently uniquely among commercial organizations, priori
  
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• The Lord Mayor’s Show returns next month

  26-10-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cancelled last year for the first time since WW2, the Lord Mayor’s show will resume its annual parade through the City next month.
  The annual event enables the Lord Mayor to ‘show’ himself or herself to people across the City of London, as well as to swear an oath of allegiance to the sovereign outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
  Accompanying the newly elected Lord Mayor, Alderman Vincent Keaveny on Saturday 13th November will be a procession of over 6,500 people, 120 horse
  
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• ST Engineering iDirect partners with XipLink to implement advanced security feature for 4G LTE deployments across Europe and Africa

  26-10-2021 12:31
  
  Feature will ensure highest levels of security on SatHaul-XE solution without compromising acceleration and optimization, with first deployment by satellite operator Turksat Herndon, VA., October 26, 2021 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has collaborated with technology provider XipLink to implement a security feature required for 4G backhaul services. The feature will support IP security (IPsec) encryption with CMPv2 digital certificate management, bu
  
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• AccelerComm Announces 5G IP with O-RAN Acceleration Abstraction Layer (AAL) Interface

  26-10-2021 10:19
  
  Product allows swift integration into any 5G Distributed Unit (DU) that supports the O-RAN AAL, enabling operators to select the most appropriate 5G physical layer accelerator cards to maximise flexibility and ease of deployment Southampton, UK – 26th October 2021 - AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with physical layer IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has successfully demonstrated a fully compliant O-RAN AAL (Acceleration Abstracti
  
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• Inside HS2’s huge Euston construction site

  26-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In about a decade, the first HS2 train will arrive at London Euston station, and right now a huge construction site is preparing for that moment, with a chance last week to go and see what is happening.
  Peering down from the HS2 offices into the basement of a former Euston station office block, this is a taster of what the rest of the site looks like today. This current site clearance is to make space for the new London Underground station that will be needed to handle the huge numbers of people
  
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• Verizon partners Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite project for 5G

  26-10-2021 02:00
  Today, Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) and Project Kuiper, an advanced low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced a strategic collaboration to develop connectivity solutions for unserved and underserved communities. As part of the collaboration, Project Kuiper and Verizon have begun to develop technical specifications and define preliminary commercial models for a range of connectivity services for U.S. consumers and global enterprise
  
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• Nokia and TPG Telecom deploy Asia Pacific’s first live 5G femtocell

  26-10-2021 02:00
  Using Nokia’s unique modular 4G/5G Smart Node, the solution allows operators to provide their customers with superior indoor 5G coverage from a dedicated femtocell.Nokia Smart Node is a dedicated indoor solution providing superior coverage and capacity and can be easily scaled from single to multiple units to meet the customer&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• A partnership power balance: Vodafone talks ecosystem dynamics at TTC

  26-10-2021 02:00
  In the opening session of this year’s Total Telecom Congress, a major theme of discussion was something that telcos around the world are coming to know only too well; namely, that they must go beyond just connectivity if they are to succeed in this ultradigital age.The past two years have made it very clear that traditional telco model will no longer deliver the consistent growth of the past. At the height of the pandemic, some telcos were experiencing increased network traffic of over 50
  
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