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• From a golden State Coach to an art bus: Highlights of the Lord Mayor’s Show revealed

  26-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s just two weeks until the huge annual parade that’ll see over 7,000 people marching through the City of London alongside the Lord Mayor of London.
  The golden State Coach (c) ianVisits
  The Lord Mayor’s show dates back to the 13th century, originally on the river, and since the 1850s, in the streets of London, and will this year include over 50 decorated floats accompanying the Lord Mayor’s state coach in a parade which will see ancient pomp and ceremony mixing with mod
  
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• A counterclockwise adventure game: Explore the twisted world of fantasy novels at the British Library

  26-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  From faeries to forests, castles to cthulhu, and hobbits to the holy grail, the British Library takes a look at the lore of fantasy writing from the ancient to the modern day.
  A space filled with atmospheric backgrounds, it’s a heady collection of a wide range of fantasy novels from the obvious to many you probably haven’t heard of. Yet, what links all of them is the fantasy narrative, sending the reader into an otherworldy landscape.One thing that comes across is how strongly the va
  
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• Ofcom pushes ahead with net neutrality overhaul

  26-10-2023 15:20
  UK telco regulator Ofcom hopes to encourage a bit of broadband innovation with its newly-tweaked net neutrality rules.
  It has issued new guidance stating that operators are allowed to offer tiered services based on factors like latency, not just throughput. It means that while your run-of-the-mill Netflix watcher or cloud storage user can sign up for a cheap, entry-level tariff, those who want more responsive broadband for applications like gaming and VR can pay a bit extra for a lower-latency s
  
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• Google Fiber taps up Nokia for its 20-Gbps network

  26-10-2023 15:17
  At Network X 2023 Finnish kit maker Nokia revealed that its 25G PON solutions are powering Google Fiber (GFiber) Labs’ 20-Gbps fibre service.
  The search giant has been testing its 20 Gig product for more than a year. It emerged from the lab last September, when GFiber’s head of commercial strategy, Nick Saporito, began using it in his home. It announced a bigger commercial test in partnership with the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) last November.
  GFiber followed it up in M
  
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• Telenor’s Nordic M&A plans hinge on EU’s Spain decision

  26-10-2023 14:45
  M&A is still an option for Telenor in its Nordic operations, but it is unlikely to make any move until the European Commission has decided what to do about Orange and MasMovil’s planned tie-up in Spain.
  That was one of the key messages from the Norwegian operator’s third quarter results presentation this week. The quarter showed a solid performance from its four Nordic markets, but the telco is keeping its options open for the future of at least some of those businesses.
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• Plume lands major Reliance Jio deal

  26-10-2023 14:40
  Cloud wifi platform provider Plume has announced a new partnership with India telco giant Reliance Jio to provider smart home services to 200 million premises.
  The deal was announced at the Network X telecoms trade show in Paris and must surely be one of Plume’s biggest. Subscribers of JioFiber and JioAirFiber will get access to what is being described as AI-enhanced in-home services. In practice this refers to Plume’s HomePass and WorkPass services that include adaptive wifi, connec
  
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• US comes top in broadband and cloud report

  26-10-2023 14:19
  The World Broadband Association has put out a listing of the top performing countries in the cloud and broadband sectors, in which the US comes out on top.
  The Broadband and Cloud Development Index tracks the development and overall performance of the two sectors across 21 countries from five continents. In terms of its methodology, it generates a score based on access, usage, application, and potential. The results of the study were announced at Network X, taking place this week in Paris.
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• Skateboard’s 70-year evolution unveiled at the Design Museum’s new exhibition

  26-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There aren’t many exhibitions where you can try out the product, but the Design Museum has built a skateboard ramp inside its new exhibition about the history and culture of skateboarding.
  The skateboard itself feels like it’s been around for ages, but it’s only about 70 years old, and as a fusion of leisure and sport, it has also managed to build up a counter-culture all of its own. Skateboarding became the Easy Rider for people who couldn’t afford a motorbike.
  Now, as t
  
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