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• Elizabeth line trains hitting 98% reliability

  16-06-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Elizabeth line trains running through the core tunnels averaged service reliability of 97.8 per cent over the first five days of service, with 100 per cent delivered for three of those five days.
  This was confirmed in a monthly letter from the Elizabeth line’s Director, Howard Smith to the chair of the GLA’s Transport Committee, Sian Berry AM
  Overall, TfL Rail / Elizabeth line delivered a Public Performance Measure of 95.1 per cent during Period 2 (1 – 28 May 2022). Perform
  
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• Claim launched against Apple for £768 million over battery ‘throttling’

  16-06-2022 18:28
  
  Allegations made in a class action suit by a man called Justin Gutmann are that automatic iOS updates caused older iPhones to slow down, and that breached UK competition law.
  The claim is that Apple breached UK competition law ‘through its exploitative and abusive behaviour in relation to the supply of iPhones and iOS updates.’ The allegation appears to be that Apple released an automatic iOS update updates which caused certain iPhones to slow down as well as cause performance issues
  
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• Tickets Alert: Frogmore House and garden open days

  16-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just outside London sits Windsor Castle, and within its grounds is Frogmore House and gardens, and they’re only open to the public on a few days of each year.Built in the 17th century, Frogmore became a royal residence in 1792 when George III purchased it for his wife, Queen Charlotte. Since then successive monarchs have enjoyed the tranquil surroundings of the private gardens. Although no longer an occupied royal residence, it is frequently used today by the Royal Family for private enter
  
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• Rail travel recovering from the pandemic, but season ticket sales still weak

  16-06-2022 15:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Rail travel continues to recover from the pandemic, but season ticket sales are still far below their pre-pandemic levels, according to figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).
  Just under a billion rail journeys were made between April 2021 and March 2022, compared to just 388 million in the previous year, at the height of the lockdown. However, it’s still just 57% of the number of journeys made on the railways before the pandemic.
  (c) ORR
  Income from passenger revenue also increase
  
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• Ericsson, TIM and Comau build experimental ‘factory of the future‘

  16-06-2022 14:06
  
  Italian operator TIM, Swedish kit vendor Ericsson and Italian automation/robotics firm Comau promise ‘innovative solutions for Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing’ thanks to some fresh 5G network slicing.
  Tim and Ericsson deployed a 5G network in Comau’s HQ in Turin, Italy, in order to demonstrate what network slicing in industrial settings might be capable of. Or as they rather more bombastically put it ‘to test the factory of the future’.
  One experiment they are
  
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• European smartphone shipments at lowest level for nine years

  16-06-2022 13:39
  
  Fresh data from analyst firm Counterpoint reveals European smartphone shipments declined by 12% in Q1 2022, to their lowest level since Q1 2013.
  A mere 49 million smartphones made it out of the door across Europe in the first quarter of this year, as a perfect storm of negative events conspired to throw a spanner in the works. On top of the generally rubbish state of most economies, Covid-related supply chain challenges, the ongoing component crisis and the small matter of a major conflict on it
  
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• Dish unlikely to be swamped with new 5G customers

  16-06-2022 13:03
  
  Dish Network says its 5G service now covers more than a fifth of the US population, but with a limited range of devices on offer, it’s unlikely to sign up new customers at first.
  The US’s fourth mobile network operator, as Dish becomes with the inauguration of its own infrastructure, has been keeping the market waiting for its 5G service for some time. It’s getting on for two years since it acquired Boost Mobile as part of the T-Mobile US/Sprint tie up, and the firm has been si
  
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• Approval for Grosvenor Square park redevelopment

  16-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large public garden in central London, Grosvenor Square will reach its 300-year anniversary in 2025, and ahead of that, plans to substantially revamp the park’s layout has been given the green light to go ahead.
  Concept design (c) Grosvenor
  At the moment, it’s pretty bland as a space, with lots of lovely plane trees to cast shade, but most of the space is a uniform grass lawn with paths and seating.
  The new plan, which was approved by Westminster Council will shrink the central law
  
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• Nokia teams up with LS Electrics to build new industrial smart stuff

  16-06-2022 12:54
  
  Kit Vendor Nokia has teamed up with South Korean firm LS Electronics – which specialises in fields such as automation, smart power and smart transportation – to come up with new industrial tech.
  The firms will work on new models for factory automation and data centre and electric vehicle charging services. Nokia will also provide technical expertise related to smart factory infrastructure, data centre business and EV charging to help modernise its own facilities.
  “We are excite
  
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• Telefónica creates platform for second-hand network kit

  16-06-2022 12:53
  
  Spanish operator group Telefónica wants other telcos including its own operating companies (opcos) to reuse its network equipment.
  To facilitate this, Telefónica this week revealed it has rolled out MAIA, which is essentially a classified advertising platform that enables its opcos to list the gear they have available for reuse and ship it to where it is needed. If an item doesn’t attract interest from a telco within the group, then MAIA makes it possible to connect with thir
  
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• The mysterious floating coffin of Pinner

  16-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a grave in Pinner, in northwest London, that is quite remarkable — it has a coffin floating in the air right through the middle of it.The monument, which can be found in Pinner Church, marks the burial site of William and Agnes Loudon, and was created by their son, the noted horticultural author, John Loudon., and is as far as I can tell, unique in its design. A triangular slice with a semi-circular grill in the base, and as if that’s not odd enough, the stone coffin th
  
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• The potential of ‘small’ wind for the telecoms industry

  16-06-2022 02:00
  Telecoms and its Journey to Net Zero  Industry leaders are working hard to expand mobile coverage to reach 95 percent of the UK by 2025, while at the same time attempting to respond to the increasing pressure to reach ambitious Net Zero targets. As a result, decision makers are having to think creatively about how to overcome these challenges.  Wind power is one avenue with genuine potential to achieve great things within the industry. Historically, traditional wind turbines
  
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• Singtel increases stake in AIS parent company

  16-06-2022 02:00
  Today, Singtel has announced that it is increasing its stake in Intouch Holdings, the parent company of Thai mobile operator Advanced Info Service (AIS), acquiring a further 3.78% stake from Temasek.The purchase, worth a roughly $237 million, will increase the Singaporean operator’s stake from 21.21% to 24.99%.According to Singtel, the motivation for the stake increase is AIS’s continued strong performance, with the Thai operator capitalising on a surging demand for cloud, data cent
  
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• Contactless police smart cards trialled in US

  16-06-2022 02:00
  The city of Alpharetta, Georgia in the US has become the first police department in the country to begin using a new Police Smart Card platform, designed to provide citizens with simpler and more verifiable way to access officer information.Alpharetta police officers will carry a smartcard that can be scanned by a smartphone…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Changing customer service for a virtual world

  16-06-2022 02:00
  The top reported business challenge in the last year, according to a study on CEOs’ most important business challenges in 2022 by Forbes, Covid-19 continues to concern business leaders, alongside other worries such as rising inflation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and changing consumer behaviours.  More specifically, companies are struggling to provide a?consistent and holistic omnichannel experience?for their customers while blending remote and in-person work.&nbs
  
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