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• West Hampstead tube station to get step-free access

  31-03-2023 18:38 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The busy West Hamstead tube station is to get step-free access after Camden council approved a large housing development which will include funding for transport upgrades in the area.The O2 Centre development will see a large space of underused land that sits between West Hamstead and Finchley Road tube stations being redeveloped as a large housing estate. LandSec owns the O2 shopping centre on Finchley Road and most of the land behind it, which is mostly a large car park and some businesses, an
  
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• A London Underground steam loco comes to OO model railways

  31-03-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When steam trains returned to the London Underground for the 150th-anniversary celebrations, the trains were hauled by Met 1 loco, and now a OO gauge model of that locomotive has been released.
  The release of the model is timed to coincide with the London Underground’s 160th anniversary — which happens to be this year. This year also marks the 125th anniversary of the Met 1 locomotive which was first built in 1898 at the historic Neasden Works in northwest London.
  The scale model is
  
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• London’s first Action Plan to promote the growth of cargo bikes

  31-03-2023 15:21 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The slow but steady growth in the use of cargo bikes could speed up, with plans to make them easier to use in London.The use of cargo bikes for freight and servicing trips is becoming more widespread, with major businesses starting to use them for last-mile deliveries, and some also being available to hire by private individuals needing to move heavy shopping around at times.
  At the moment, ransport for London (TfL) estimates that 90 percent of all goods in London are transported by road and aro
  
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• Huawei profits plunge as former CFO takes top job

  31-03-2023 14:24
  Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei has revealed a 69% fall in profit for 2022, which it blames largely on ‘non-market factors’.
  It should be stressed that the previous year’s profit figure was inflated by some one-off disposals, including a server and a smartphone business. But profits of CNY 35.6 billion 2022 still represented just over half of the total from two years ago. A more positive datapoint for Huawei was it managed to slightly increase revenue, which had fallen dramatica
  
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• Virgin Orbit makes most of its staff redundant amid funding struggles

  31-03-2023 13:06
  The satellite comms arm of Richard Branson’s extremely eclectic empire, Virgin Orbit, has laid off the bulk of its staff due to an inability to secure more funding.
  CEO Dan Hart told employees during an all-hands meeting yesterday that the firm will cease operations for the foreseeable future after failing to secure funding, according to CNBC who managed to get its hand on the audio from the meeting.
  “Unfortunately, we’ve not been able to secure the funding to provide a clear p
  
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• Virgin Orbit makes most of its staff redundant amid funding crisis

  31-03-2023 13:06
  The satellite comms arm of Richard Branson’s eclectic empire, Virgin Orbit, has laid off the bulk of its staff due to an inability to secure more funding.
  CEO Dan Hart told employees during an all-hands meeting yesterday that the firm will cease operations for the foreseeable future after failing to secure funding, according to CNBC who managed to get its hand on the audio from the meeting.
  “Unfortunately, we’ve not been able to secure the funding to provide a clear path for th
  
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• Flash sale on Peaky Blinders immersive tickets

  31-03-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An immersive theatre show based on the television series is currently running in Camden, and there’s a flash sale on tickets at the moment.Prepare to walk the urban settings of 1920s London. The year is 1921, a time of golden-age cinema, Victorian terraces and post-war prosperity. Mob boss Tommy Shelby has sent you an important invite. He has a plan, one that he needs your personal input on. However, this isn’t any old meeting, it is a night of celebration and victory.
  Step inside Th
  
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• Foldables could be a potential bright spot in a gloomy 2023

  31-03-2023 10:12
  Smartphone makers need to tread carefully in their hunt for elusive growth opportunities this year.
  The overall market is expected to shrink again in 2023, according to IDC, which predicted earlier this month that continued weak demand in the first half will result in global shipments falling to 1.19 billion from 1.2 billion in 2022. A proper recovery isn’t expected until 2024.
  However, there are expected to be some bright spots shining through all the gloom. The analyst firm predicted on
  
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• Lockheed takes one giant leap (of faith) with Moon comms

  31-03-2023 10:10
  US aerospace and defence giant Lockheed Martin has launched a new subsidiary to provide communications services on the Moon.
  Convinced this will be a growing area of need in the years to come, the company this week presented Crescent Space, an outfit whose remit is to provide infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) for lunar missions.
  It might seem like something of a niche area – and indeed it is, when you consider that no human has set foot on the Moon in more than 50 years, and that all Moon
  
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• Using real-time charging to tap revenue beyond connectivity

  31-03-2023 07:00
  Communications service providers (CSPs) have traditionally used a prepaid and postpaid model for connectivity, charging only for consumption – by the minute for voice services and per megabyte for data. Over the years, CSPs have not developed new business models, so little has changed. As a result, charging has become commoditized. But in a digital world connected via 5G, charging should be a differentiator, not a commodity.
  Know how real-time charging and policy can be a game changer and
  
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• Unlocking B2B2X monetization with partner-centric platform

  31-03-2023 07:00
  5G promises to unlock new business opportunities among enterprises for digital transformation. To monetize this emerging B2B2X opportunity, CSPs must break from their tradition of simply selling connectivity and provide highly specialized solutions in partnership with best-of-breed players.
  Learn more on how to unlock the B2B2X partner opportunity:What are the revenue opportunities from B2B2X
  Challenges to address these opportunities
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• Deep packet inspection and encrypted traffic visibility for IP networks

  31-03-2023 07:00
  By concealing more layers of critical traffic information, new encryption protocols such as TLS 1.3, TLS 1.3 0-RTT and ESNI have led to a significant loss in network traffic visibility, resulting in poor network performance, heightened susceptibility to security risks, and inefficiencies in resource utilization. At the same time, the existing use of decryption methods such as SSL/TLS inspection are continuously challenged by various security, regulatory and practicality issues.
  This report, whic
  
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