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• XCOM top brass jump ship to Globalstar

  30-08-2023 17:12
  Paul Jacob (right), founder of XCOM Labs and former CEO of Qualcomm has become CEO of Globalstar, while XCOM CTO Matt Grob (left) becomes CTO and a raft of other execs also join the firm.
  Jacob’s move is effective immediately, succeeding David Kagan who will retire as Globalstar’s CEO, and he will also been appointed to the board of directors.
  As well as Jacob and Grob the release mentions a raft of other XCOM execs joining the Globalstar ranks – namely Peter Black, Chief Scien
  
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• Rail passengers warned of severe disruption this Friday and Saturday due to train strike

  30-08-2023 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The rail companies are warning that there will be severe disruption to train services this Friday and Saturday due to strike action by the RMT and ASLEF unions.The train drivers union, ASLEF is holding a strike on Friday 1st Sept which will see most train services cancelled entirely, while an overtime ban by ASLEF and a strike by the RMT on Saturday 2nd Sept will severely affect those services that can run.
  As the levels of disruption will vary across the country, passengers are advised to check
  
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• The Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling at the Brunei Gallery

  30-08-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  We’ve been recycling and reusing worn-out clothing pretty much since it was invented, but the Japanese turned it into an art form.An exhibition at the Brunei Gallery in Bloomsbury is showing off a range of fabrics and objects created by recycling, often unexpected, materials to create entirely new clothes to wear.
  Ranging from around 200 years ago to modern times, most of the clothes on display superficially look like blue-dyed denim, but they’re made from anything as varied as old c
  
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• How e& is Riding the Telecommunications Transformation Wave

  30-08-2023 15:21
  It’s no secret that the telecommunications industry is in the midst of an unprecedented period of innovation and change.
  This evolutionary phase – commonly referred to under the massive umbrella of digital transformation – spells significant disruption for some operators. For forward-thinking companies like e&, however, this is a time with opportunities to transform and make a major difference in the lives of the consumer. The global technology group’s transformation
  
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• Nokia and NTT team up for 5G private network push in Thailand

  30-08-2023 14:00
  Kit vendor Nokia has partnered with NTT to flog private wireless networking solutions to enterprises across Thailand, which it numbers at more than 3.2 million.
  The tech will be deployed at multiple enterprise business parks across Thailand, and ‘will revolutionise business critical applications and use cases’ across manufacturing, mining, healthcare, and educational organisations, we’re told.
  The partnership is designed to create an ‘agile environment’ for enterpri
  
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• Huawei launches new flagship phone but who made its chips?

  30-08-2023 13:25
  Embattled Chinese tech giant Huawei quietly launched the Mate 60 Pro in China but has omitted any reference to its application and baseband processors from the published spec sheet.
  We’re not aware of any press releases on the matter, even in Chinese, let alone a launch event. Nonetheless you can find out all about this new device on the Chinese version of Huawei’s consumer-focused site. Well, not quite all. Conspicuous by its absence in the spec sheet is any mention of either the pr
  
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• Heritage restoration for Harrow and Wealdstone station

  30-08-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The older platforms at Harrow and Wealdstone station in west London are to be restored after Network Rail applied for planning permission to enable the works to be carried out.
  South entrance to the station – source: Network Rail planning docs
  The station opened in 1837 as a mainline railway station in a fairly rural area, but as the area urbanised, in 1912, the station was enlarged and a second entrance opened on the north side next to the newly built main road outside. A few years later
  
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• Vodafone and NSPCC launch phone advice tool for worried parents

  30-08-2023 12:09
  Operator Vodafone has teamed up with children’s charity the NSPCC to develop a new online platform tasked with providing parents with resources and info around buying their child’s first phone.
  The new platform is designed to be a source of practical resources around things like setting parental controls on phones and advice on the best deals on new and refurbished devices, which is apparently supplementary to a series of ‘Digital Parenting’ resources Vodafone has previou
  
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• Vodafone and NSPCC launch advice tool for parents worried about their kid’s first phone

  30-08-2023 12:09
  Operator Vodafone has teamed up with children’s charity the NSPCC to develop a new online platform tasked with providing parents with resources and info around buying their child’s first phone.
  The new platform is designed to be a source of practical resources around things like setting parental controls on phones and advice on the best deals on new and refurbished devices, which is apparently supplementary to a series of ‘Digital Parenting’ resources Vodafone has previou
  
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• Open RAN revenue growth dries up

  30-08-2023 11:36
  According to the latest data from analyst firm Dell’Oro, both Open RAN and vRAN revenues declined for the first time in Q2 2023.
  Dell’Oro hasn’t publicly shared the precise quarterly number but the annual picture below shows the extent of the drop-off in the first half of this year for Open RAN. If this trend continues, the full year 23 growth number will likely be in the negative. Apparently we have APAC and North America to thank for the decline, with Europe still growing. Th
  
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• Risky Shortcuts: Passengers risk lives walking along railway tracks during station footbridge installation

  30-08-2023 11:15 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Passengers using Motspur Park station have been caught walking along the railway in recent weeks because they don’t want to use a diversion while a new footbridge is being installed.
  (c) Network Rail
  The station, in southwest London, has a platform between two railway tracks and an old footbridge that links both sides of the station to the platforms. A few months ago, the ticket office entrance closed as Network Rail is building a new footbridge with lifts to make the station accessible.
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• The Tanner Street Drinking Fountain

  30-08-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There’s a drinking fountain in Bermondsey that would once have been very difficult to get a drink from, as it used to be on top of a church.
  Not that it was a drinking fountain at the time, though.What is now a drinking fountain was originally the turret on top of the tower of St Olave‘s Church on Tooley Street. The church, which sat next to the Thames London Bridge is thought to date all the way back to the Domesday Book of 1086 and was dedicated to Olav Haraldsson, an early King of
  
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• From Strategic Vision to Rollout Reality

  30-08-2023 08:00
  The story of a Programme Management Office – with a difference.
  CityFibre’s Programme Management Office (PMO) function, led by Sarah Malin, has played a critical role in driving the company’s fibre rollout from a standing start to 2.5m homes ready for service today. We caught up with Sarah (who often light-heartedly refers to herself ‘Director of Stuff’) to explore her team’s unusual remit and its role in the next phase of a challenger’s journey.“S
  
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• India’s communications ‘backdoor’ attracts surveillance companies

  30-08-2023 02:15
  Little-known Israeli groups emerge as key providers of tracking equipment installed at subsea cable stations
  
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