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• New self-guided tours of Lincoln’s Inn

  05-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Once a week, there are guided tours of the ancient enclave of Lincoln’s Inn, but if the timing is inconvenient, they’ve now started offering self-guided tours on other days as well.Lincoln’s Inn is in Holborn and is a cluster of grand buildings surrounded by a high wall that gives it the air of a sealed-off fortress within the city, but is actually open to the public.
  They offer full guided tours on Tuesday mornings, but if that’s inconvenient, they now offer a cheaper se
  
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• 2023 shaping up to be even worse for smartphone market than first thought

  05-06-2023 18:03
  Weak consumer demand has led analyst firm IDC to lower its outlook for the global smartphone market.
  The picture was already looking bleak back in February, when the same outfit predicted that shipments would fall this year to 1.19 billion from 1.2 billion in 2022. Last week, IDC said that even this forecast was a little optimistic.
  “Our conversations with channels, supply chain partners, and major OEMs all point to recovery being pushed further out and a weaker second half of the year,&rd
  
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• Knightsbridge tube station’s heritage shopping posters

  05-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The newish entrance to Knightsbridge tube station has been decorated with a range of vintage London Underground posters, promoting, most appropriately for the area – shopping.Many of the posters date from the time when Frank Pick was the publicity manager for the London Underground in the early 1900s, and he commissioned the posters to promote the idea of using the tube to go shopping.
  They might have been a bit too successful though, as there’s some in the range suggesting that peop
  
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• Germany probes 1&1 claim against Vodafone

  05-06-2023 14:51
  Germany’s Federal Cartel Office is looking at whether Vodafone, through its Vantage Towers unit, has broken competition law by effectively blocking rival 1&1’s 5G network rollout.
  The Bundeskartellamt is acting following a complaint to that end from 1&1. The telco, which is working to become a credible fourth MNO in Germany, claims that Vantage Towers is impeding its rollout by failing to provide access to its sites as per a contract between them. The regulator will now exami
  
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• EU telco ministers side with big tech on fair contribution

  05-06-2023 13:52
  The majority of European lawmakers appear to be unconvinced by the idea of charging content companies for the traffic they generate.
  According to a Reuters report on Saturday, EU telecoms ministers met last Thursday to discuss the matter with internal market commissioner Thierry Breton. Sources cited by the newswire claim that 18 of them rejected a proposal to levy a network fee on so-called CAPs (content and application providers), or demanded further investigation into it.
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• NBN launches uncapped satellite plan

  05-06-2023 13:10
  Australia’s state-owned broadband network company NBN is now offering uncapped data to 400,000 homes via a new satellite plan called NBN Sky Muster Plus Premium.
  Being a satellite plan, it’s aimed at remote and regional areas that are otherwise not well served by terrestrial networks – which in Australia covers a fair bit of land. As well as the uncapped data, the benefits of the plan are presented as ‘burst download speeds’ of up to 100Mbps, and lower wholesale pri
  
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• V-shaped piers unveiled for HS2’s Colne Valley railway viaduct

  05-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  New photos of the V-shaped piers that will carry the HS2 railway over the Colne Valley in west London have been released, showing how the railway’s longest viaduct will span the lakes. Construction of the viaduct started a year ago, with deep piles sent into the former gravel pits that now form the lakes.
  V pier under construction for the Colne Valley Viaduct (c) HS2
  For the past year, a 700-tonne ‘launch girder’ – the only one of its kind in the UK – has been assem
  
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• Amazon reportedly looking to bundle phone contracts with Prime

  05-06-2023 12:05
  Amazon is thinking about offering mobile contracts with Prime subscriptions in the US, according to a report by Bloomberg.
  The Bloomberg report, citing ‘people familiar with the situation’ claims that Amazon has held negotiations with US operators including Verizon, T-Mobile, Dish, and AT&T about tapping into their networks to offer mobile connectivity, and then offered to Prime subscribers as part of their existing subscription or for $10 a month.
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• London’s Alleys: St Martin’s Court, WC2

  05-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a wide and often very busy alley just off Leicester Square that is now surrounded by theatres and a famous oyster bar.The area developed in the early 1600s when Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury was granted 5 acres of land in the area for building. It was initially lined with large houses with back gardens that faced onto St Martins Lane and Charing Cross Street (at the time Castle Street), so much more of a residential district than it is today.
  St Martin’s Court appeared in the
  
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