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• Rare photos of The Jam and Paul Weller at the Barbican

  14-01-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A collection of rarely seen photos of The Jam in concert and behind the scenes have gone on display in the Barbican’s music library for a few months.
  They’re all by Derek D’Souza, who got his break as the band’s photographer after sending in some photos to the band’s fan club, and Paul Weller’s mother, Ann, who ran the club, asked if he could photograph them for their next single, Absolute Beginners.
  That reply resulted in spending a day in the grounds of Chis
  
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• Charterhouse tours by Candlelight

  14-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  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 they also offer evening tours that will take you around the main buildings, a glass of wine in hand, with the tour guide showing you the sights by
  
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• Italian broadband recovery plan in doubt after small islands failure

  14-01-2022 14:14
  
  Italy’s telecoms players have all declined to take part in a project to roll out high-speed broadband in its islands, an outcome that could have a knock-on effect.
  The first ultrabroadband tender under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan, known locally as PNRR, was designed to allocated €60.5 million in funding to network builders, systems integrators and so forth, for the build out of submarine fibre-optic cables to provide fast broadband to around 20 so-called minor is
  
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• New year, same old calls for digital censorship

  14-01-2022 13:57
  
  The ‘fact checking’ industry thinks YouTube should use them more, while some doctors think Spotify should censor other doctors.
  Open letters seem to be back in fashion this year, with self-proclaimed ‘global leader in journalism’, the Poynter Institute, publishing one on behalf of ‘the world’s fact checkers’ addressed to Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube. “YouTube is allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and e
  
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• Facebook is being sued for £2.3 billion for ‘exploiting users’

  14-01-2022 13:26
  
  A class action lawsuit claims social media giant Meta abused its dominant position and exploited the data of 44 million UK Facebook users.
  The claim is being launched by ‘International competition law expert’ Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen for a minimum of £2.3 billion damages on behalf of 44 million affected UK Facebook users, and covers the period between October 2015 and Dec 2019.
  It is asserted that Facebook (as the firm was called then) ‘abused its market dominance to impos
  
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• Plans to improve railway arches through Lambeth and Wandsworth

  14-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A competition has been launched to come up with a plan to improve some 250 railway arches running through the Vauxhall and Nine Elms districts.
  The competition aims to link up with the existing Low Line that runs through Bermondsey, potentially creating a single walking route from London Bridge to Battersea Power Station.The brief to architects and designers says that the “aspiration for this work is to demonstrate how a continuous route tying into the area’s historic and cultural co
  
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• Edge spending on track to hit $176 billion this year

  14-01-2022 12:21
  
  Enterprises and service providers alike are preparing to spend big to unlock the benefits of edge computing.
  IDC on Thursday predicted that global spending on hardware, software and services for edge solutions will reach $176 billion this year, up 14.8 percent on 2021. As momentum accelerates and more players want in on the market, spending is forecast to grow to $274 billion by 2025.
  “In the service provider segment, a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6 percent reflects
  
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• Much delayed Belgian 5G spectrum auction targeted for June

  14-01-2022 01:00
  Today, the BIPT has announced that it is inviting parties to submit their candidacies for participation in the upcoming spectrum auction, which is set to take place in June later this year.  Spectrum will be allocated in the 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 1…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Japan's OPTAGE using HPE 5G core to test Local 5G

  14-01-2022 01:00
  OPTAGE is testing the viability of Local 5G networks to meet business customer demands for use cases such as manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and education.Local 5G is a Japanese Government initiative that enables organizations, such as enterprises, local government and universities, to deploy private 5G networks in a limited area using spectrum which is different from that used by mobile operators…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Facebook faces £2.3bn lawsuit in UK over user exploitation

  14-01-2022 01:00
  Facebook, now rebranded as Meta, is set to face its first class action lawsuit in the UK, with the claimants seeking at least £2.3 billion in damages.The lawsuit, being brought by competition law expert Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, suggests that the social media platform used its dominant market position to force 44 million users to agree to terms and conditions that allowed their data to be exploited…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Eir offloads stake in Tetra Ireland to Digital 9

  14-01-2022 01:00
  Eir has announced its intention to sell its stake in Tetra Ireland to Digital 9 Infrastructure for €76 million.Tetra Ireland owns and operates the National Digital Radio Service (NDRS), which is used by Ireland’s emergency services and public safety organisations. The company was first commissioned to develop the purpose…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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