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• Recycled plastic used to decorate Carnaby Street

  20-07-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Carnaby Street is being decorated with waste plastic from local shops for the next few months, although they have repurposed the waste into art first.
  Photo Credit Dave Parry PA
  The temporary art piece, which will be on display until mid September, comes in the form of three hand / heart shaped arches that will be suspended above Carnaby Street and Newburgh Street. These will sit alongside the existing “Welcome To Carnaby Street” arches that have also been upcycled with the colourful
  
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• Liberty Global spends big on Telenet

  20-07-2023 17:28
  Liberty Global has taken a sizeable step forward in its quest to take full ownership of Belgium’s Telenet, but its acquisition of the shares it doesn’t already own has come at a cost.
  The operator group this week shared details of the outcome of the takeover bid it announced back in March, the headline result being that it now holds 93.23% of Telenet. Previously its stake, including shares held by Telenet itself, stood at just over 62%.
  The initial acceptance period of its voluntary
  
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• Damien Hirst takeover exhibition at Phillips auction house

  20-07-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A collection of Damien Hirst’s coastal landscape inspired paintings have gone on public display in central London for the first time.The often very large canvases make up three series of works, Coast Paintings, Sea Paintings, and Seascapes, veering from the photo-realistic to very abstract, and are inspired by his walks along the coastline where he lives today and where he went on holiday as a child.
  It’s a collection that stems from a frenetic 2019, when the Hirst studio produced ne
  
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• China Mobile charts NFV growth, eyes next decade with ETSI

  20-07-2023 15:53
  With NFV quietly but decisively changing the telecommunications landscape, China Mobile has recognized its potential. Taking center stage at MWC Shanghai, China’s largest wireless carrier showcased a decade of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) breakthroughs.
  NFV technology enhances network flexibility and efficiency by freeing functions from dedicated hardware and transferring them to software applications. It plays a vital role in the rapid evolution of 5G networks, enabling faster sc
  
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• UK mobile companies should be clear on roaming charges, says watchdog

  20-07-2023 15:42 via ft.com
  Ofcom calls for end to ‘inconsistent and unclear’ information for customers around costs of using phone abroad
  
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• Global Open RAN market share by 2027 revised downward

  20-07-2023 15:08
  The global Open RAN market share forecast to 2027 has been revised downward by market research firm Dell’ Oro Group, for the first time.
  Since tracking this technology, the research firm reports it is the first time it has observed some hesitancy about the architecture. Despite this revision, it forecasts Open RAN to still comprise 15% to 20% of all global RAN by 2027, having now reached a “mid-single digit share” of the total RAN market. Previous announcements set this figure
  
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• Smartphones still sliding but upsurge in sight

  20-07-2023 13:36
  The global smartphone market continued to decline in the second quarter of the year, according to new data, but analysts are optimistic that it may soon turn a corner.
  Shipments fell by 11% year-on-year in the three months to the end of June, Canalys estimates. We’re still talking not far off a quarter of a billion devices being sold into the channel during the quarter (see chart), but this is the sixth quarter in a row in which growth has been negative, according to the analyst firm&rsquo
  
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• Barbican Art Centre starts £25 million upgrade

  20-07-2023 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Barbican Art Centre has been awarded the first £25 million of a planned upgrade to open up the core of the building and improve access to the arts centre.
  Scale model of the Barbican estate, on display in the Arts Centre at the moment
  The funding is coming from the City of London and will be used to develop elements of a long-term masterplan, undertake further consultation, and deliver early systems and infrastructure work to boost the arts centre’s operational and environmental
  
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• Global RAN slowdown writ large in Nokia’s Q2 results

  20-07-2023 13:25
  As expected, Nokia has published a set of financials that highlight the extent to which operators have reined in their capex.
  Sales in the second quarter reached €5.7 billion, flat compared to last year on a constant currency basis. Gross margin narrowed to 38.2% from 40.2%, and operating margin shrank to 8.3% from 9.6%. Operating profit fell 16% to €474 million.
  While Nokia’s Mobile Networks unit reported modest sales growth of 5%, this was cancelled out by a 6% decline at the N
  
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• Big tech players throw weight behind ‘ultra ethernet’ to meet AI and HPC workloads

  20-07-2023 13:15
  The Ultra Ethernet Consortium promises some new stack architecture designed to meet the ‘insatiable’ network demands of AI and high performance computing.
  Founding members of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (a project ‘hosted’ by The Linux Foundation) include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft – so there’s no shortage of tech A-listers there.
  It’s mission broadly appears to be about tweaking or improving the
  
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• Visit the Poppy Factory where Remembrance Poppies are made

  20-07-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  For over a century, there has been a factory that employs former military personnel making Remembrance Poppies, and they offer tours of the factory.They’ve run tours for some years, but there’s now a new visitor centre that shows off the history of the Poppy Factory and how it was set up after WW1 to give work to injured soldiers. The factory is based in Richmond upon Thames and now has 22 Production workers and two special wreath makers, currently making in excess of 124,000 wreaths
  
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• London Underground station telephone kiosks granted heritage protection

  20-07-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Four rare surviving K8 phone boxes that can be found on the London Underground have been given heritage listing protection.
  High Street Kensington (c) Historic England Archive
  The K8 phone box was designed in the middle of the 1960s as a modern replacement for the classic K6 phone box, which had been designed three decades earlier by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Although around 11,000 of them were built, just 54 survive as they never really gained public approval in the same way as the 1930s phone b
  
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