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• US government frets about domestic chip sector amid continued shortages

  26-01-2022 19:16
  
  A report by the US Department of Commerce warns the global chip shortage isn’t going away anytime soon, so the US needs to ramp up its domestic production.
  In response to global microchip supply chain issues which have impacted countless sectors over the past few years, the US Department of Commerce launched a ‘Request for Information’ in September. This was essentially a process of speaking to around 150 firms, including ‘nearly every major semiconductor producer and fro
  
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• Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show

  26-01-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  After its autumnal diversion last year, the Chelsea Flower Show is back to normal this year, and tickets are now on sale for the May floral extravaganza.
  The show is also primarily outdoors, which helps with the current situation.
  The flower show runs from 24th-28th May, but note that the first two days are for members of the RHS only, so the rest of the public have three days — Thur 26th May to Sat 28th May to attend.
  It’s not a cheap show – as tickets cost £85.85 per pe
  
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• Apple grabs top spot in Chinese smartphone market

  26-01-2022 18:19
  
  According to the latest data from Counterpoint, US gadget giant Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market is growing rapidly.
  Q4 2021 marked the first time Apple has grabbed the top spot in China for six years Given all the shenanigans going on between China and the West, especially the US, it’s a bit surprising to see a US company go from strength to strength in that country.
  As you can see from the first table below, Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market jumped
  
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• A chance to climb up the Cutty Sark sailing masts

  26-01-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For the first time since it arrived in Greenwich back in 1954, visitors to the Cutty Sark will be able to climb up the ship’s mask rigging and see the sights from up high.
  The assent will start with a briefing in the glazed space underneath the ship’s hull, and then visitors will be taken up to the main deck and onto the ship’s ratlines to climb up its shrouds, just as hundreds of sailors did during Cutty Sark’s long career at sea.
  For safety reasons, while you climb up t
  
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• Microsoft rakes in massive revenues thanks to cloud boom

  26-01-2022 13:51
  
  Microsoft’s most recent quarterly revenue clocked in at an astonishing $51.7 billion – a 20% jump which was propelled largely by Azure and other cloud services.
  For the quarter which ended December 31 2021 Microsoft registered $22.2 billion of operating income (an increase of 24%), $18.8 billion net income (an increase of 21%), and diluted earnings per share was $2.48 (an increase of 22%). Which is four different ways of saying Microsoft raked in some serious wedge for that period.
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• Virgin Media O2 bags itself a sweet private networking deal

  26-01-2022 13:29
  
  Staff at British Sugar smiled indulgently this week as the telecoms press took a golden opportunity to make jokes about sweet things.
  The chance arose courtesy of a private mobile networking contract the manufacturer awarded to Virgin Media O2 Business. Under the deal, Virgin will roll out dedicated 4G coverage to four British Sugar sites as part of the latter’s multi-million pound ‘factories of the future’ initiative. In a candid (or should that be candied?) statement on Tuesd
  
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• BT plays catch up on OpenRAN with help from Nokia

  26-01-2022 13:20
  
  UK operator group BT has decided it’s time to put a bit more effort into OpenRAN and recruited Nokia to provide the RIC for a trial in Hull.
  Compared to competitors such as Vodafone BT has kept pretty quiet on the matter of OpenRAN, apparently contenting itself to let others make the early running. This bit of news indicates the wait-and-see phase is officially over and BT has decided it’s time to spring into action. The choice of Nokia as vendor partner seems appropriate as it too m
  
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• IHS inks latest, but probably not last, Brazil towers deal

  26-01-2022 13:12
  
  IHS is spending hundreds of millions more on its Brazilian telecoms towers portfolio as part of an inorganic growth plan that is almost certainly not over yet.
  The passive infrastructure specialist has brokered a cash and debt-free deal worth US$315 million to acquire São Paulo Cinco Locação de Torres, or SP5, as it is more snappily known, from Brazilian infrastructure group GTS. SP5 comes with 2,115 telecoms towers across Brazil, which is not an enormous amount in a country
  
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• The Marquess of Westminster drinking fountain

  26-01-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It probably sounds like the name of a pub, but in Pimlico is a drinking fountain erected to the memory of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster.Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster was a landowner and later politician, and father of the first Duke of Westminster, a title that still exists and is held by the 7th Duke.
  Now, memorial fountains are not that unusual in London, but what makes this one stand out a bit are the mosaic panels on all four sides of the fountain. On one side it says In m
  
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• America in Crisis – Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery

  26-01-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A fusion of two collections of photographs of American life, separated by 40 years of time, but showing a society that seems to have changed little.
  Originally created in 1969, the America in Crisis project took place in an era of overseas wars and race riots, and a repeat project took place over the past few years in an era of overseas wars and race riots.
  The Saatchi gallery has now brought both projects together and blended them into a single display that deliberately sets to confuse you at t
  
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• Verizon teams up with Atos for 5G edge solution as C-band rollout soars

  26-01-2022 01:00
  Today, Verizon Business has announced a new partnership with French company Atos, a company specialising on IT services, including unified communications, cloud, big data and cybersecurity.The deal will see the companies co-create “immersive digital experiences that fully exercise 5G environments on the edge of their networks”, according to the press release. As part of the partnership…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Israel set to become gateway for East–West data traffic

  26-01-2022 01:00
  Today, Israel’s Partner Communications has announced that it has signed a new $12.6 million deal with Tamares Telecom to deploy a terrestrial fibre network reaching across Israel from East to West, helping better connect Asia to Europe. The cable will span around 300km over the country, linking Haifa, on the Mediterranean Sea…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• BT launches Hull-based Open RAN trial

  26-01-2022 01:00
  The topic of Open RAN has been of growing importance for operators around the world for over two years now, with most major international players exploring the technology in some form or another. In January 2021, for example, a quintet of major European operators – Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone, and TIM – signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on further developing the technology.  In the UK, all four of the country’s mobile operators ha
  
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