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• UK government asks app firms to volunteer for new rules

  09-12-2022 13:22
  The UK government is asking the app industry to sign up to a new voluntary code of practice which is supposed to bolster security and privacy requirements on all apps and app stores available in the UK.
  It claims that there is a ‘lack of rules governing the security of apps’ and that means apps riddled with filthy malware can be installed on people’s phones and leave them open to subsequent data and money theft, which prompted it to launch a ‘call for views’ earlier
  
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• We Will Rock You – the Queen and Ben Elton musical returns to London

  09-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It has been over 20 years since the premiere, and the rock musical is returning home to the London Coliseum for a 12-week run in summer 2023.
  We Will Rock You was created by Ben Elton and Queen and opened at the Dominion Theatre in May 2002. Having earned its place on the top ten list of London’s longest musicals, it won the 2011 Olivier Audience Award for best musical, the only award voted for entirely by the public.A number of international productions of the show have followed, and We W
  
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• Nokia bags major networking deal from Paris metro

  09-12-2022 10:37
  Finnish kit maker Nokia has won a high-profile contract to provide IP and private wireless connectivity to Paris’ new metro network.
  Announced back in 2007, the Grand Paris Express will create four new metro lines, extend two existing lines, and build 68 new stations in the greater Paris area. When it is completed, driverless trains will carry up to 2 million passengers per day along 200km of new track. The project is being run by a public body called Société du Grand Paris (
  
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• T-Mobile buddies up with Verizon on FWA broadband mission

  09-12-2022 10:27
  T-Mobile US is on a mission to prove that fixed wireless access (FWA) is succeeding as a replacement for traditional broadband services and has chosen an unlikely ally to help it get its message across: rival operator Verizon.
  The US mobile operator has spent years taking pot shots at its telco competitors, positioning itself as the un-carrier taking on established players AT&T and Verizon. Thus, it came as something of a surprise when it published its 2022 State of Fixed Wireless report thi
  
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