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• The latest release of London Underground themed whiskies

  17-05-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The third batch of London Underground themed whiskies has been released by London’s Bimber Distillery, produced in conjunction with Transport for London (TfL).
  Release No.3 showcases four new stations: Camden Town, Canary Wharf, Notting Hill Gate and Tower Hill – each featuring iconography presenting unique pieces of London’s history, and adorned with labels and packaging design that observes the significance of each station’s location.
  (c) Bimber Distillery
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• Ericsson and Intel open cloud RAN technology hub in California

  17-05-2022 18:59
  
  The straightforwardly titled Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub will be tasked with coming up with new cloud RAN applications to release to the market.
  The Californian site pools the R&D resources of kit vendor Ericsson and chip giant Intel in the pursuit of cloud RAN applications. Based within Ericsson’s D-15 facility in Santa Clara, the Ericsson-Intel Tech Hub is up and running and specifically is looking at power management and cloud RAN containerized network function (CNF) applications on upc
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Elizabeth line

  17-05-2022 17:11 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Earlier today The Queen paid a visit to Paddington station to officially open the Elizabeth line ahead of its opening to the public next Tuesday, and during the visit, The Queen unveiled a plaque to celebrate the completion of the line. The plaque will later be moved to be permanently mounted on the wall at Paddington station.
  (c) TfL
  This was in fact Her Majesty’s second visit to the Elizabeth line, as she had been into the tunnels in 2016 to mark the name change from Crossrail to the Eli
  
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• Vodafone cites German performance as drag on 2022 results

  17-05-2022 16:13
  
  UK operator group Vodafone pointed to an ‘unsatisfactory’ commercial performance in Germany as well as inflation as main pain points in its FY2022 financial results.
  Vodafone says overall it made good financial performance in FY2022 which were in line with expectations, citing improving YoY service revenue trends in ten out of 11 European markets. Overall the group clocked a 4% revenue increase to €45.6 billion for the period ending March 31st. However Group CEO Nick Read pointe
  
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• The Musk Twitter saga hits an impasse

  17-05-2022 16:13
  
  Billionaire Elon Musk is unconvinced by claims that less than 5% of Twitter users are fake or spam and seems set to abandon his acquisition bid.
  Musk first voiced his concern, via Twitter of course, late last week.To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter.
  I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover …
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022It’s not clear what prompted these concerns at this late stage. Presumably Musk has
  
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• Guildhall exhibiton looks at art that’s been inspired by art

  17-05-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An exhibition of Victorian art inspired by music and poems has opened at the Guildhall Art Gallery, calling on the City of London’s permanent collection to look at how the muses inspired artists. The exhibition, Inspired!, is about the inspiration that lead to the work being created, from grand Greek epics to modern plays and even the newspaper trade.Ranging from grand Victorian landscapes to small modern portraits, biblical scenes and wars, it’s a mix of a display, with paintings in
  
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• ThreatQuotient Selected By Comcast To Support Cybersecurity Operations

  17-05-2022 14:00
  
  ThreatQ Platform and ThreatQ Investigations will be used by telecom conglomerate Comcast, parent of NBC Universal and SKY Group, to operationalise security intelligence across cybersecurity use cases London, UK. – May 17, 2022 – ThreatQuotient™, a leading security operations platform innovator, today announced that Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has selected the ThreatQ Platform and ThreatQ Investigations to meet their cybersecurity operations needs. A full customer success story detai
  
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• Outdoor film screenings in London this summer

  17-05-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Summertime now seems to mean watching a film at an outdoor location, so below is an almost certainly not a complete list of all the outdoor film screenings taking place in London this summer, but it’s probably not far off.
  Rooftop Film Club
  JuneWed 1 June
  Peckham
  Spider-Man: No Way Home
  Stratford Centre
  Death on the Nile (2022)
  Thur 2 June
  Peckham
  Downton Abbey: A New Era
  Stratford Centre
  The Big Lebowski
  Fri 3 June
  Peckham
  The Favourite
  Stratford Centre
  The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  Sat 4
  
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• EU and US step up collaboration on tech and supply chain issues

  17-05-2022 12:59
  
  The second EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting in Paris fleshed out various areas of transatlantic cooperation, including semiconductor supplies and AI policy.
  The TTC was recently set up ostensibly to address global trade and technology issues both the EU and US share, layered with some more conventual foreign policy signalling – evident in the caveat that these issues are tackled ‘in line with their shared commitment to democracy, freedom and human rights.’
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• Indian PM makes highly ambitious 6G pledge

  17-05-2022 12:54
  
  India is working towards the launch of 6G services by the end of the decade, we were somewhat surprised to hear the country’s prime minister announce on Tuesday.
  Narendra Modi delivered an address at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Telecom Regulatory Association of India (TRAI) that was peppered with positivity about the progress India has made in the delivery of mobile services in recent years and the impact 5G is likely to have on the market. Nothing unexpected about that. But his
  
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• NTT is mining a rich seam of US private networking deals

  17-05-2022 12:48
  
  Japan’s NTT is proving to be a popular choice of private mobile network partner for US heavy industry.
  The company this week won a deal to deploy private LTE/5G and Wi-Fi for Albermarle, a chemical manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. NTT will start by rolling out a pilot network at Albemarle’s lithium mine in Kings Mountain, about 30 miles west of the company’s headquarters. This will inform future deployments at other sites.
  Albermarle has operations all
  
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• Rajant and Acubis Technologies announce successful FE1 Peregrine and Hawk deployments for Stanwell's Meandu Mine

  17-05-2022 12:29
  
  100 BreadCrumbs deployed for CCTV, Access Control, Fleet Management and Autonomous Haulage Malvern, PA – May 17, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, and Acubis Technologies, a Kinetic Mesh Premier Partner (KMPP) in Australia, have delivered the first FE1 series BreadCrumbs® - Rajant Peregrine and Hawk - to a government-owned utilities provider in southwest Queensland. The customer, Stanwell, was battling the ever-evolving data and application r
  
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• Vodafone targets deals as it warns on inflation hit

  17-05-2022 09:51
  UK-listed telecoms group under pressure from shareholders to overhaul its businesses
  
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• Wireless Infrastructure Group deploys major neutral host infrastructure project across Birmingham anchored by Three’s 5G network

  17-05-2022 09:00
  
  17 May 2022 – Wireless Infrastructure Group (WIG) today announces the launch of a significant new infrastructure project set to transform mobile connectivity across Birmingham. WIG has deployed its own fibre backbone across the city and partnered with Birmingham City Council to connect up tens of thousands of streetscape assets for mobile infrastructure. WIG’s neutral host network infrastructure can support all mobile networks and has been anchored by Three UK running 5G services and
  
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• Building the Elizabeth line – in photos

  17-05-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This time next week, people will be commuting to work on the Elizabeth line for the first time, but what did it take to get the railway built?
  I’ve had a remarkable 14 years reporting on the construction of the new railway, from early public meetings to the first holes in the ground, and now the finished product. There have been lots of good times, and in 2018, a very bad day when the first of a series of delays was announced.
  Going on to the building sites meant busy people having to give
  
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• India targets homemade 6G for end of the decade

  17-05-2022 02:00
  This week, the Indian government has outlined plans to see domestically developed 6G deployed by 2030, with Prime Minister Modi saying that the country would accelerate its technological development to match those international rivals. Speaking at Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) event this week, Modi announced that work on 6G was already underway, having created an industry taskforce to focus on the new technology…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Ericsson and Intel team up for Cloud RAN tech hub

  17-05-2022 02:00
  Two of the most innovative companies in global ICT – Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Intel – are pooling R&D excellence to create high-performing Cloud RAN solutions. The companies have launched a tech hub in California, USA. It focuses on the benefits that Ericsson Cloud RAN and Intel technology can bring to: improving energy efficiency and network performance, reducing time to market…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• CityFibre’s FTTP network now larger than Virgin Media’s

  17-05-2022 02:00
  Today, reports have confirmed that CityFibre has overtaken Virgin Media O2 as the second largest provider of FTTP services in the UK.According to Think Broadband, CityFibre’s most recent audit shows the company to have reached a total of 1,083,888 premises passed…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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