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• WW2 Lancaster bomber to fly over London on Sunday

  23-06-2022 20:38 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Look to the skies on Sunday lunchtime, as a Lancaster Bomber will be flying over London. It’s visiting to make a flypast over the Bomber Command memorial in Green Park, which was unveiled a decade ago, but will also fly over the RAF Museum in Colindale, North London first.The flypast over the RAF Museum will be around 11:55am, and should fly over the Bomber Command memorial at the Hyde Park corner end of Green Park at noon.
  It’s not been confirmed yet what direction the plane will ta
  
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• ‘Staying afloat’ is the priority of a quarter of UK SMEs – Vodafone

  23-06-2022 18:15
  
  Far from setting their sights on world domination, a survey by UK operator Vodafone asserts that the thing many small businesses in the UK are most focussed on currently is simply not going out of business.
  The report commissioned by Vodafone was carried out by consumer insights firm GWI and surveyed over 1000 SME owners, founders and employees across the UK regarding the challenged they face within the post-covid landscape.
  A quarter of respondents listed their main priority currently as stayin
  
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• Wandsworth Town railway station to get step-free access

  23-06-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Funding has been secured to build a second entrance at Wandsworth Town station, and add step-free access for the first time. The station is elevated up on a railway viaduct, with an entrance on the south side leading to an arch that runs under the railway with stairs up to the four platforms.
  The existing southern entrance was built in 2011, to replace a very 1980s style post-modern entrance that was not much more than a glorified railway arch.
  (c) Google Street View
  Subject to final approvals,
  
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• EU recruits telecoms giants to develop connected car industry

  23-06-2022 14:07
  
  The 5G-Carmen project is a pilot scheme that leveraged 5G and edge installations to test some spicier capabilities of autonomous cars.
  The project is funded by the European Commission, coordinated by the Bruno Kessler Foundation, and the tech was provided by a roster of telco and tech firms including TIM, Magenta, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, Qualcomm, NEC and INWIT.
  The tests took place in Italy, Australia and Germany, and the crux of it seems to be about what happens when cars cross the border, wh
  
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• Fastweb wins Italian state cloud project but TIM is still in the running

  23-06-2022 14:00
  
  A consortium made up of Fastweb and hosting specialist Aruba has won the tender for the Italian cloud project, but rival bidder TIM still has a chance to match its offer.
  The announcement from Italy’s Ministry of Technological Innovation and Digital Transition (MITD) comes as something of a surprise, since TIM and its partners won a contest to design the project for the creation of a National Strategic Hub (NSH), or Polo Strategico Nazionale, as it is known locally, earlier this year, beat
  
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• An artifical hop field has sprouted at the Southbank Centre

  23-06-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An artificial field of hop plants has arrived at the Southbank as a sculpture that recalls the history going hopping in the 19th-century. Although condemned in 1519 as a “wicked and pernicious weed”, hops helped to transform thick ales into far more appealing bitters and lagers.
  Kent was filled with fields of hop plants, and each summer, thousands of Londoners would take a working holiday to Kent to work in the fields to bring in the harvest, while also getting away from the polluted
  
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• Huawei Wins the “Best New Gamechanger or Innovation” Award at the NGON WDM Forum 2022

  23-06-2022 12:55
  
  [Barcelona, Spain, June 22, 2022] At the Next Generation Optical Networking (NGON 2022) held in Barcelona, Spain, Huawei stood out from many vendors to win the “Best New Gamechanger or Innovation” award in the optical field. The award recognizes equipment vendors’ efforts to continuously innovate in the optical transport field by providing a comprehensive range of solutions.Huawei wins the “Best New Gamechanger or Innovation” award
  Huawei has devoted itself to the o
  
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• BT is building out ‘self-healing’ capabilities to its tech estate

  23-06-2022 12:50
  
  UK telco group BT has drafted in Dynatrace to upgrade its service management stack with AI and automation fault detection tools, ahead of a larger deployment of ‘self-healing capabilities’.
  BT will consolidate its application monitoring on the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform with the aim of with simplifying and adding intelligence to service operations, which it ultimately intends to automate in a new AIOps model.
  The idea is that BT will be able to benefit from the consolid
  
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• Seven in 10 UK businesses reckon 5G will help them compete

  23-06-2022 12:48
  
  The telco industry’s incessant 5G marketing efforts appear to be winning the hearts and minds of enterprises, if the results of a new survey are to be believed.
  According to UK5G, a government-backed group that promotes research, collaboration and application of 5G by the corporate sector, 70 percent of the 300 UK businesses it surveyed are now using or planning to use 5G to achieve a competitive advantage. 73 percent claim to be confident they understand the benefits of 5G.
  UK5G said its
  
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• Iain Sinnott appointed as Head of International Carrier Sales, Enreach for Service Providers

  23-06-2022 11:00
  
  Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 June 2022 – Enreach for Service Providers, part of Enreach — the fast-growing European contact leader backed by the independent investment group, Waterland Private Equity (“Waterland”) — has today announced the appointment of Iain Sinnott as Head of International Carrier Sales, Enreach for Service Providers. Sinnott joins this part of Enreach to lead the growth and continued collaboration with the international carrier community, both fi
  
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• Elizabeth line to Ebbsfleet extension could cost £3.2 billion

  23-06-2022 09:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A report looking at transport upgrades across the southeast of England suggests that extending the Elizabeth line into Kent would cost around £3.2 billion. The report, by Transport for the South East (TfSE) also supports the proposal and looks at how it could be funded.
  The Crossrail to Ebbsfleet (C2E) Partnership was set up in 2016 to promote an extension of the Elizabeth line from Abbey Wood where it currently terminates out towards Ebbsfleet.
  There have been a number of consultations ab
  
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• See inside the remarkable 575 Wandsworth Road

  23-06-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A somewhat shabby looking terraced house on a busy road in Wandsworth conceals an artistic marvel, a whole house filled with hand-carved wooden decoration.
  This is 575 Wandsworth Road, an otherwise unremarkable Georgian era terraced house that was bought in 1981 by a Kenyan-born writer who almost by accident ended up turning it into a house so important that it’s been preserved for future generations.The owner, Khadambi Asalache was born in Kenya in 1935, learning Shakespeare while herding
  
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• Softbank’s new partnership aims to enable autonomous driving in Japan

  23-06-2022 02:00
  Softbank has entered a partnership with May Mobility, a US-based autonomous vehicle technology specialist. The agreement will see the two organisations collaborate to deliver an autonomous vehicle driving service in Japan using Softbank&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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• Orange targets digital divide with new digital skills centre in Brussels

  23-06-2022 02:00
  Following the launch of a similar centre in Paris, France, earlier this month, Orange is now celebrating the launch of its second European ODC, this time in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
  The operator calls the ODC a “complete ecosystem for acquiring digital skills testing and fine-tuning actual projects”, with the centre positioned directly in the centre of the city, in the BeCentral hub within Brussels Central Station.The ODC comprises numerous elements, the including a Digital Ac
  
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• Australian businesses connected in days not weeks

  23-06-2022 02:00
  Telstra Wholesale’s communication service provider (CSP) customers are now able to provision ethernet connectivity in just days, and whilst fibre is still be provisioned, thanks to new capabilities offered by ADVA&rsquo…read more on TotalTele.com »
  
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