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• Russia cyber-attacked Viasat ahead of Ukraine invasion

  10-05-2022 18:38
  
  Russia deployed a cyber-attack on comms company Viasat in the Ukraine which had effects throughout Europe, according to new UK and US intelligence.
  The Russian cyber-attack was apparently launched on 24th February about an hour before Russian forces invaded the Ukraine. While the primary target is believed to have been the Ukrainian military, the attack caused outages for thousands of Ukrainian customers and effected windfarms and internet users in central Europe, claims an announcement from the
  
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• VMO2 bets on a whole lot of Nothing

  10-05-2022 18:35
  
  Nothing, the latest supposedly disruptive smartphone brand, will be offered exclusively by O2 in the UK when they get around to making it.
  Founded by the bloke behind the OnePlus brand, Carl Pei, Nothing aims to shake up the smartphone market in ways so revolutionary it refuses to disclose them, presumably for fear of blowing our minds. So avant-garde and too-cool-for-school is Nothing that it can’t even be bothered to give its phone a proper name, simply calling it ‘phone (1)’
  
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• In a Pot of Hot Soup – An exhibition of contemporary Nigerian art

  10-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a difficult exhibition to describe as it’s so varied that while there are themes to the displays, they can almost be described as a cluster of small individual exhibitions in one.
  The curious title of the main exhibition, In a Pot of Hot Soup, was inspired by a comment by the artist Jerry Buhari, who reflected on the challenging times that Nigerian artists have faced over the years. A collective of artists known as the Zaria Rebels could find themselves “in a pot of hot soup&
  
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• Samsung says 6G will need all the mmWave spectrum it can get

  10-05-2022 15:05
  
  Samsung wants tens of Gigahertz of contiguous millimetre wave spectrum so we can all enjoy the myriad benefits of 6G holograms.
  In a white paper published over the weekend, the Korean electronics giant proposed that industry and policy makers consider allocating all available frequency bands – from sub-1 GHz right the way up to the 24-300 GHz range – to 6G technology. Belgium is going to be livid.
  It is a sacrifice demanded of us by the use-case gods which, in addition to holograms,
  
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• EE says its 5G network now covers half of the UK population

  10-05-2022 14:23
  
  UK MNO EE claims it is the first operator to expand its 5G coverage to more than 50% of people in the country.
  Having launched in in May 2019,  EE’s 5G network has now passed the 50% population milestone thanks to new or improved access in Blackpool, Clacton-on-Sea, Clitheroe, Cowes, Eastbourne, Exeter, Exmouth, Falmouth, Great Malvern, Hastings, Inverness, Minehead, Morecambe, Plymouth, Pontypridd, Poole, Ross-on-Wye, Salisbury, St Austell and Tiverton.
  EE has pledged to offer 5G any
  
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• Tinder operator Match sues Google over Play Store billing

  10-05-2022 14:20
  
  Match Group runs a bunch of dating apps and it reckons Google is abusing its power by making its own billing system mandatory on the Play Store.
  This new legal action, which even has its very own website, is highly reminiscent of the Epic vs Apple case, which concluded in an apparent score-draw last year, leaving legal precedent still somewhat up in the air. So it looks like Match, which operates the dating apps Tinder, OkCupid and Match, has decided get the courts to take another look at the wh
  
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• GDPR killed a third of the Android app market, claims study

  10-05-2022 13:23
  
  A paper by a cohort of economic boffins claims the EU’s GDPR legislation has led to a reduction in the number of apps on Google Play, as well as increased costs and reduced revenues for developers.
  The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation legislation – a key driver of why websites are so annoying to use nowadays thanks to mandated pop ups – has had quite an effect on the Google Play app store since it was enacted in 2018, according to a paper titled GDPR And the Lost G
  
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• Frontier seeks $800m for fibre build

  10-05-2022 13:10
  
  US broadband provider Frontier is after fresh funding to maintain the momentum of its ambitious network deployment.
  The company this week announced it will launch a new debt offer totalling $800 million, repayable by 2030. In a brief statement, Frontier said it intends to use the sum to fund capital investments and operating costs arising from its fibre rollout and the growth of its fibre customer base, and for general corporate purposes.
  Led by former Vodafone UK CEO Nick Jeffery, Frontier is o
  
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• Norwood Junction station upgrade plans have been delayed

  10-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans for a major redevelopment of Norwood Junction station in south London are being reviewed in light of lower post-pandemic passenger numbers and the cost of the project.
  Proposed station layout (c) Network Rail
  The proposals are part of the wider plan to clean up the mess of tracks around Croydon station to improve the capacity of the lines through the area, but it is also a stand-alone project. The plans for Norwood Junction station were expected to see the tracks and platforms realigned to
  
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• London Hat Week returns in August

  10-05-2022 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A week of events to celebrate the hat, from making hats to wearing them returns to London this August.
  London Hat Week celebrates the art of hats in the city that is home to some of the best hat designers in the world and aims to encourage hat wearing, making, networking and learning and to champion the hat industry.
  There are loads of events taking place that are mainly open to anyone to attend, from talks by hat makers to offering advice on wearing and styling with hats. A few venues are also
  
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• TfL debt ratings downgraded by Moody’s

  10-05-2022 10:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The debt ratings agency, Moody’s has lowered TfL’s debt ratings, with Moody’s citing weaker economic growth and higher inflation which is hindering the recovery of passenger growth. The implication is that as ratings are used by banks and lenders to judge how likely a firm is to repay its debt, lower ratings usually leads to higher costs as lenders charge more to companies at a higher risk of not being able to pay back their loans.
  TfL’s debt stood at £13,070 m
  
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• Seadrill Renews Speedcast Connectivity Partnership with Three-Year Service Agreement

  10-05-2022 09:35
  
  Contract renewal affirms Speedcast’s innovation and market leadership, ensures latest technology delivered across global deepwater drilling fleet Aberdeen, United Kingdom — May 10, 2022 — Speedcast, a leading communications and IT services provider, today announced that the company has been selected by Seadrill to continue providing services for its global fleet via a three-year contract. Under the terms of the agreement, Speedcast will deliver the latest connectivity solutions
  
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• London’s WW2 experiment with coal-powered buses

  10-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For a few years, London had an experimental fleet of buses that dragged a trailer behind them burning a unique type of gas, made from burning coal.
  It was wartime and imported liquid fuel was expected to be in short supply, so London’s buses looked to something the UK wasn’t short of at the time, and that was coal. Specifically, London’s buses were powered by the gas that was produced from burning coal — known as producer gas.In the days before North Sea gas was discovere
  
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• SKT and DT team up to bring Ifland to Deutschland

  10-05-2022 02:00
  This week, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and SKT have announced that they have struck a partnership aiming to bring South Korea’s burgeoning metaverse platform, Ifland, to German customers. The deal will see the pair carry out a live trial of the metaverse platform before the end of the year, with the ultimate goal of co-creating virtual content for the European market. The test will reportedly include the creation of a virtual space within Ifland modelled on a specific German city…re
  
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• OADC rolls out first large-scale, open-access, edge data centre environment in Africa

  10-05-2022 02:00
  Africa’s edge data centre leader, Open Access Data Centres (OADC), today announced deployment of the continent’s first large-scale, open-access edge data centre environment, OADC Edge, in South Africa. This is the first step in a wider rollout of OADC Edge across Africa, with Nigeria expected to be the next country to benefit later this year.By consolidating edge computing, edge data centres and hyperscale connectivity within a single ecosystem, OADC is establishing an edge environm
  
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• Interxion acquires land in Barcelona to build data centre campus

  10-05-2022 02:00
  Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centres, colocation and interconnection solutions, today announced its entry into the Barcelona market with the acquisition of a land parcel that it intends to develop into a data centre campus. Interxion’s position as the leading provider of digital infrastructure capacity in the Mediterranean region and Iberian Peninsula, including our presence in Marseille…read more on
  
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• Ethio Telecom launches 5G to extend lead over newcomers

  10-05-2022 02:00
  Today, state-owned Ethiopian operator Ethio Telecom has announced that it has launched 5G services for the first time.The pre-commercial launch took place in the capital, Addis Ababa, with the operator suggesting that the rollout would be extended to other regions of the country later this year. "The 5G service is launched in selected places in Addis Ababa," said Ethio Telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamru. "In the coming 12 months, we will have 150 5G sites in Addis Ababa and outside Addis Ababa."No
  
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