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• Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car show

  09-02-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Something to look forward to if you like looking at expensive cars — a big display of them is returning to London in the summer.
  The London Concours takes place in the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th June 2022. In the region of around 80 of the world’s most expensive cars will be on display on the cricket lawn and practice grounds of the territorial army just around the corner from Old Street.
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• Iliad bids more than €11bn for Vodafone’s Italian business

  09-02-2022 17:26
  Offer made as UK-listed telecoms group comes under pressure from activist investors to restructure
  
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• See some lions lounging around Waterloo

  09-02-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Until the end of next month, there’s a large pride of lions lounging around in a park next to Waterloo station.
  What’s the pride of lions doing in such an urban landscape? They’re bronze sculptures installed here to raise awareness and money for the Born Free charity.Two pairs of very large lions dominate the group, along with many more lounging around the rest of the Millenium Green. Each of the lions in the exhibition represents a real-life lion, from Christian, the cub purch
  
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• Child Abduction & Trafficking: How Technology is Used to Target the Innocent

  09-02-2022 14:49
  
  With more and more children having access to smartphones and computers, predators and human traffickers have a better chance to reach them. And with the Internet, that reach has quickly become global. This whitepaper looks into the technology leveraged to groom potential victims, but then also solve missing, runaway, and trafficked children cases.Online enticement methodologies
  Sample technologies used
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• UK government moves to improve telco access to street furniture

  09-02-2022 13:53
  
  Things like streetlights are handy places to put mobile base stations but they can often be hard to access. The UK government is trying to change that.
  The DCMS announcement says it wants to ‘slash red tape from 5G roll out’, but in this case it’s referring only to so-called ‘street furniture’. This means publicly-owned things like streetlights, bus stops, CCTV poles and traffic lights. These elevated structures can double as towers for enterprising mobile network o
  
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• EE uncovers shocking UK mobile snacking habits

  09-02-2022 13:11
  
  New research from UK operator EE has revealed some startling home truths about exactly what snacks the UK favours while watching things on the phone.
  The important survey revealed that as restrictions lift, 80% of Brits imagine they’ll be watching more videos while out and about, and 54% claim to watch a TV show or film on their smartphone at least once a week. But the real weight of the research centres around what they shovel into their gobs whilst doing so – and the results might
  
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• Public cloud forecast to account for majority of IT spending by 2025

  09-02-2022 13:01
  
  Hyperscalers rejoice, as new forecasts from Gartner on Wednesday predict an historic inflection point in IT spending.
  According to the analyst firm, public cloud will account for more than half of global enterprise IT spending by 2025. What this means in terms of a dollar amount is that $917 billion of the predicted $1.8 trillion of enterprise IT spending in 2025 will go on public cloud solutions. By comparison, this year spending is expected to total $1.3 trillion, with $775 billion spent on tr
  
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• More dates added to walk through the Mail Rail tunnels

  09-02-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Postal Museum has announced fresh dates for the chance to walk through the tunnels under Mount Pleasent where the Mail Rail used to carry the post.Visitors will get access to the original tunnels, tracks and station platforms of London’s 100-year-old postal railway, letting you explore parts of the railway that aren’t accessible on the Mail Rail ride.
  The route involves walking on uneven ground in low-light conditions for around 1.2km (0.75 miles) including stepping across rails
  
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• Metricell Are Awarded New Digital Asset Management Platform Pilot

  09-02-2022 13:00
  
  Horsham, United Kingdom, 09 February 2022: Metricell are pleased to have been selected for the Digital Connectivity Infrastructure Accelerator (DCIA) project, a government initiative which allowed local authorities to bid for funding to develop and implement digital asset management solutions, with the goal to open up public assets for rollout of advanced wireless networks. Metricell have been selected by West Sussex County Council to work as the software provider for their OpenAsset Loc8tor pro
  
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• Apple’s new Tap to Pay turns iPhones into payment terminals

  09-02-2022 12:53
  
  Businesses will soon be able to take contactless payments via iPhone thanks to a new feature Apple is rolling out to its smartphones.
  Apple says it is targeting millions of merchants in the US with Tap to Pay, which will be launched as part of an upcoming iOS software beta. The feature will allow businesses to take payments for goods or services through Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets on an iPhones XS or later model.
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• Neutral host provider BAI heads to Italy, led by former TIM execs

  09-02-2022 12:24
  
  BAI Communications is taking its neutral host business to Italy, headed up by a team of executives, most of whom have worked at TIM at one time or another.
  The launch of BAI Italia marks the Australia-headquartered infrastructure firm’s first European foray outside of the UK and Ireland, and comes at a time when the industry is once again starting to look to small cells to help drive 5G rollouts.
  “As one of the largest mobile markets in Europe, Italy presents an exciting opportunity
  
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• DSA to advance affordable connectivity in underserved countries

  09-02-2022 10:00
  
  Washington D.C., USA, 09 February 2022: A partnership between the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme (DAP) and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) is contributing towards digital inclusion in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. By encouraging ‘a new spectrum mindset’ the DSA and DAP aim to catalyse affordable internet connectivity in underserved regions to support the inclusive growth of the digital ecosystem. “We are delighted to partner with the UK
  
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• AdaptiveMobile Security Discloses New Research on Mobile Network-Enabled Attacks in Hybrid Warfare

  09-02-2022 10:00
  
  Company publishes research outlining emerging mobile network attack strategies in Hybrid Warfare including newly revealed HiddenArt mobile threat actor Dublin, Ireland, and Stockholm, Sweden: February 9th, 2022 – AdaptiveMobile Security, an Enea company, and the world leader in mobile network security, today published new research titled; Spectrum of Violence: Mobile Network-enabled Attacks in Hybrid Warfare. The paper highlights how vulnerabilities in mobile network infrastructure could b
  
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• Summa Networks and X2ONE shortlisted for Best Digital Tech Breakthrough for voLTEinabox

  09-02-2022 09:31
  
  Summa Networks and X2ONE have partnered to jointly develop voLTEinabox, an integrated, fully virtualized, and cost-effective VoLTE / VoWiFi solution which has now been shortlisted for Best Digital Tech Breakthrough at the GLOMO awards. Madrid/Tel Aviv, 9 February 2022 - Summa Networks and X2ONE have been shortlisted for Best Digital Tech Breakthrough (companies under $10M Annual Global Revenue) at the GLOMO awards. The companies received the nomination for their integrated, fully virtualized, an
  
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• A visit to the Sherlock Holmes museum

  09-02-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  At 221B Baker Street is a museum devoted to that most famous of amateur detectives, Sherlock Holmes.
  Actually, there isn’t, but bear with me.Today there is a 221 Baker Street, but when the novels were written, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wisely chose a non-existent address, 221 Baker Street — so how is an address that exists today also non-existent?
  At the time, Baker Street was shorter than it is today, and what is today 221 Baker Street was at the time 32 Upper Baker Street. The road wa
  
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• Subsea connectivity underpins Indonesia’s digital transformation strategy

  09-02-2022 01:00
  The Inligo Networks Asia Connect Cable System or ACC-1 will span 18,000km connecting several cities in Indonesia to Australia, Guam, Singapore, and the USA. By signing the MoU, Inligo Networks and Ooredoo Hutchinson have agreed to further discussions to reach a final agreement to build ACC…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Grid Telecom brings the myth of Minoa up to date

  09-02-2022 01:00
  The newly named but already operational MINOAS-EAST and MINOAS-WEST cables connect Crete with the Peloponnese region of the Greek mainland in parallel with the subsea electrical connections.Grid Telecom Greece, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Independent Power Transmission Operator of Greece…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Can technology address the issue of disappearing bank branches?

  09-02-2022 01:00
  Across the world banks are shuttering branches leaving many people without a face to face way to manage their money and impacting other social issues exacerbated as high streets evolve from being at the heart of communities…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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