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• Bank tube station just got a lot easier to use

  28-10-2022 16:49 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A pair of new moving walkways opened this morning at Bank tube station transforming the connection between the Northern and Central lines.Previously the link between the two lines involved a spiral staircase at the Central line end, a narrow corridor and more stairs to the Northern line, but now there’s a simple wide moving walkway, and a short set of escalators.
  So, 62 years after Bank station opened Europe’s first ever travolators, the same station has gained two more moving walkwa
  
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• Amazon’s weak outlook adds to cloud pessimism

  28-10-2022 14:44
  US internet giant Amazon was the last of the ‘hyperscalers’ to deliver their quarterly numbers and they did little to lift the general gloom.
  Q3 itself was fairly healthy, with sales up 15% to $127.1 billion. Having said that, operating income almost halved and net income was flattered by some one-off stuff. As you can see from the table extracted from its earnings announcement below, Amazon owes its profitability entirely to the AWS cloud division, but growth there is also slowing a
  
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• Half price tickets at London’s newest theatre

  28-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The West End’s newest large-scale theatre in 50 years opened recently, and as an opening offer, there’s a discount on the inaugural play.The critically-acclaimed Marvellous follows the tale of one mans’ chaotic yet brilliant journey along the path of change and success.
  Marvellous begins in the 1950’s and details the life of Neil Baldwin. Despite the limited opportunities of his surroundings, Neil refuses to make his life anything but a roaring success. On a path that is
  
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• Smartphone market plunges to lowest Q3 shipment level since 2014

  28-10-2022 12:37
  Analyst estimates agree that the global smartphone market is at a historical low as macroeconomic headwinds hit consumer sentiment.
  Most analyst firms tend to wait until Apple and Samsung issue their quarterly numbers before publishing their smartphone shipment estimates. We usually use numbers from Counterpoint in our table, but plenty of others also offer plausible data and it’s probably best to factor them all in to get the most accurate snapshot.
  One thing they all seem to be agreed on
  
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• London Underground’s smartphone ticket sales exceed pre-pandemic levels

  28-10-2022 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  If you’ve noticed people are increasingly tapping in on the London Underground with their phone or watch, you won’t be surprised to learn that than a third of contactless pay as you go journeys on the tube are now being paid for with a smartphone or smartwatch, according to new figures from Transport for London (TfL).
  (c) TfL
  Using contactless payment cards to automatically debit bank accounts for fares was launched in 2012, initially with a simple model on buses, but really took off
  
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• Virgin Media signs wholesale deal with Vodafone Ireland

  28-10-2022 10:25
  The Irish wings of operator Vodafone and fixed line provider Virgin Media have signed a wholesale agreement that will see the former being able to flog the latter’s fibre.
  Virgin Media Ireland and Vodafone Ireland have today agreed a wholesale network access deal, which will allow Vodafone to offer its regional customers fixed line broadband services using Virgin Media’s fibre broadband network.
  Virgin Media’s broadband network passes 1 million premises across Ireland currently
  
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