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• Public art – Now You See Me at Principal Place

  22-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A cluster of cut-out coloured shapes has appeared near Shoreditch High Street station, and it’s an art installation.Called Now You See Me, it’s described as using “simple shapes—those that often appear in their 2D and 3D works—which become inverted within edifice-like blocks, resulting in a play on the opposing relationship between space and light. Each sightline brings a discovery of new silhouettes, creating contrasting combinations of color that overwhelm the vie
  
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• Three days of national rail strikes announced for July

  22-06-2023 17:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There will be three days of strikes on the railways in late July, after the RMT union announced that staff at 14 train companies will walk out.
  The strikes will take place onThursday 20th July
  Saturday 22nd July
  Saturday 29th JulyAs is usual with train strikes, there’s also likely to be some disruption in the evening before, and certainly the morning after.
  If the strike goes ahead, some 20,000 railway workers who are members of the RMT union will walk out at 14 of the train operating comp
  
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• Analog Devices says 6G will inherently be Open RAN from day one

  22-06-2023 17:05
  At its collaboration hub in Ireland, we spoke to semiconductor firm Analog Devices about its experience working with other firms in Open RAN deployments, and the push to ‘onshore’ chip building capabilities.
  Analog Devices has operations in 31 countries, boasts 125K+ customers and an annual revenue of $12 Billion. It produces some of the key semiconductor and component tech that enables IoT and other network ecosystems, including analogue and mixed-signal, power management, radio fre
  
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• SES and Intelsat call off merger talks

  22-06-2023 16:29
  A deal to combine two heavy hitters in the geostationary satellite market is off the table.
  SES confirmed in a brief statement on Thursday that talks to merge with rival Intelsat “have ceased.”
  They had been trying to hammer out a deal since late March, with Bloomberg sources at the time valuing the potential transaction at more than $10 billion. But it appears they were unable to reach an agreement.
  Had they come to some sort of arrangement, it would have created a behemoth with mor
  
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• Veon to plough US$600 million into reconnecting Ukraine

  22-06-2023 16:17
  Veon has outlined a plan to spend US$600 million over three years on its Ukraine operation, the bulk of the sum going towards 4G mobile and fibre infrastructure.
  The telco group, which operates in Ukraine via its Kyivstar subsidiary, made the announcement at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London in this week, at the same time urging other institutions to follow suit.
  “Today’s sizeable investment commitment signifies not only a continuation of our track record, but also an acceler
  
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• A feast of costumes fills the V&A’s Diva exhibition

  22-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  We all know what a Diva is, but if asked to actually explain what makes a person a Diva, most of us would struggle to articulate what a Diva is. That’s the conundrum of the V&A’s new exhibition, called simply Diva, which looks incredible but struggles to define what it means.It’s a chronological look at how women carved out a space in the performance world, overcoming very Victorian prejudices about women actors, through the early silent movies, when women were seen and not
  
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• TfL releases a limited edition 20th anniversary Oyster card

  22-06-2023 13:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Later this month marks the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Oyster card on London’s transport network, and Transport for London (TfL) has released a limited edition Oyster card to mark the occasion. The cards are now available from ticket machines in all London Underground stations in Zone 1, as well as at all Visitor Centres and selected Oyster Ticket Stops in central London.It was on the 30th June 2003, that TfL introduced the notion of tapping in and tapping out – the O
  
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• KT Corp makes $5.4 billion bet on AI

  22-06-2023 13:14
  South Korean telco KT Corp aims to generate KRW1 trillion ($773.1 million) from AI-based services by 2025.
  To accomplish this goal, it expects to plough $5.4 billion into its AI business by 2027.
  It’s a sizeable bet, but KT Corp said in a statement (in Korean) on Wednesday that its various AI-related services have already turned over $617.9 million to date.
  These include AI contact centre (AICC), a customer care service that uses natural language processing to either direct service agents
  
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• London’s ancient Cart Marking ceremony takes place next month

  22-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Date for your diary, as over 40 historic and interesting road vehicles will roll into Guildhall Yard next month to take part in an ancient ceremony.
  They will be there to take part in Cart Marking, a 500+ year old tradition where the Sheriffs and ritually robed Carmen brand each ‘cart’ with a red-hot iron – the origin of vehicle licensing.In past times, each year the carts licensed to use the road in the City of London would have an annual mark branded into them to show they ar
  
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• TIM seeks interest in €6 billion Enterprise unit

  22-06-2023 12:57
  TIM is reportedly seeking offers for its Enterprise business, while separately its board of directors is deliberating the latest bids tabled for its networks unit.
  The Italian incumbent, which identified its Enterprise unit as an M&A candidate under the restructuring plan it presented a year ago, started sounding out potential investors earlier this month, Bloomberg reported, quoting unnamed sources as saying that CEO Pietro Labriola sent out invitation letters.
  The newswire noted that the E
  
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• Vivendi to fight Telecom Italia’s plan to sell landline network to KKR

  22-06-2023 11:53
  Move opens new chapter in long-running battle over future of heavily indebted mobile and broadband group
  
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• CityFibre given permission to connect over a million premises

  22-06-2023 11:46
  Fibre firm CityFibre has been granted wayleave permissions to hook up over a million homes owned by local authorities and housing associations.
  Wayleave agreements grant installers with permission to physically connect a property to the network, and the release says this move means tenants will be able to upgrade their broadband without permission from their landlord.
  Organisations such as Places for People, Thirteen Group, and Sheffield City Council have given CityFibre such permissions to hook
  
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• CityFibre given permission to connect a million additional premises

  22-06-2023 11:46
  Fibre firm CityFibre has been granted wayleave permissions to hook up over a million homes owned by local authorities and housing associations.
  Wayleave agreements grant installers with permission to physically connect a property to the network, and the release says this move means tenants will be able to upgrade their broadband without permission from their landlord.
  Organisations such as Places for People, Thirteen Group, and Sheffield City Council have given CityFibre such permissions to hook
  
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• Cisco is acquiring service assurance firm Accedian

  22-06-2023 11:38
  US networking giant Cisco is set to strengthen its service assurance offering with the acquisition of Canadian network optimisation specialist Accedian.
  For some reason the announcement has been made via a Cisco blog, rather than the more conventional press release. It framed the move as ‘accelerating high performance service assurance’. The stated rationale is fairly superficial, merely stressing that it’s important to make digital experiences as robust as possible and that th
  
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• The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is offering public tours of their historic buildings

  22-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far outside London is Sandhurst, the British Army’s military training centre for officers, and the grand buildings hidden behind high walls can be visited on special tours.It’s a curious place to visit, with warning signs about official secrets on the main gates that lead to what would be anywhere else, a grand country estate, with lakes and well managed gardens.
  A church is rehearsing its wedding bells, and then you hear machine gun fire in the distance. A sound that’s to
  
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