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• Improved step-free access planned for Liverpool Street station

  31-10-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Step-free access to Liverpool Street station could be improved, as Network Rail is applying for permission to install a new lift at the Bishopsgate entrance, giving step-free access between the entrance and the main concourse.
  The location for the proposed lift (c) ianVisits
  The main passenger waiting area is below street level, and the station has four main entrances, with two at the lower concourse level and two from the street down to the concourse. Currently, the station has a lift over by w
  
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• Nokia maps out tech strategy to tap into AI and cloud growth

  31-10-2023 18:13
  Finnish kit maker Nokia hopes to strike a more optimistic tone with a new high-level plan to capitalise on various technology trends between now and the end of the decade.
  The company certainly needs something to look forward to, following the recent announcement of a 15% fall in quarterly revenue, and a plan to axe up to 14,000 jobs over the next few years.
  Central to Nokia’s Technology Strategy 2030 is digital twin technology, which it will use to model traffic patterns and trends &ndash
  
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• Vodafone: mobile operator says goodbye to its pain in Spain

  31-10-2023 16:17
  New-look group has at least some features of the older model
  
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• A huge sale of Film and TV memorabilia

  31-10-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next month, there will be a sale in London of over 1,000 movie and television memorabilia, with a lot of fantasy and science-fiction up for sale.
  Prices also range from almost affordable as a nice present to needing a second mortgage to buy that. If you can’t afford the items, you could buy the catalogue instead.
  For some, this may even prove a chance to get that perfect Christmas present for a film fan.
  The full catalogue of 1,780 items for sale is here.
  Everyone has different tastes, but
  
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• Government plans to close railway ticket offices hit the buffer

  31-10-2023 13:20 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The government has backtracked on plans to close railway ticket offices following a consultation that saw widespread opposition to the plans from the public.The plans, announced earlier this year would have seen the majority of ticket offices in stations in England closed, and the staff redirected to other tasks in the station. The argument was that just 12 percent of train tickets were bought in a ticket office, so it’s not a huge leap for those people to switch to ticket machines or onli
  
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• Vodafone sells out of Spain for €5 billion

  31-10-2023 13:18
  Vodafone has inked a deal to sell its Spanish business to UK-based investment firm Zegona Communications for as much as €5 billion.
  The deal will see Vodafone receive at least €4.1 billion in cash and up to €900 million in preference shares. That’s a decent earner for Vodafone, which has been under pressure from investors to streamline its business and reverse an apparently endless share price decline for a number of years.
  As is often the case with telecoms M&A, the dea
  
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• Spanish state investor eyes Telefónica stake

  31-10-2023 13:12
  Spain’s sovereign investment fund may acquire a chunk of Telefónica, a sign that the government is making good on its pledge to defend the incumbent against Saudi Telecom Company.
  Belén Gualda González, president of the State Company of Industrial Participation (SEPI), said in a brief statement that he is monitoring Telefónica’s situation, and is conducting “an internal exploratory analysis regarding a possible acquisition of a shareholding in said c
  
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• Ericsson releases software designed to tap the potential of 5G SA

  31-10-2023 13:01
  Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has unveiled what it calls a ‘software toolkit’ that aims to enable premium 5G connectivity services.
  The toolkit has four main components. Some new algorithms are designed to improve the performance of MIMO pairing and beamforming, which in turn should improve mid-band capacity. There are also improvements to RAN slicing such that it’s delivered more quickly and reliably, improved low-latency capabilities, and tweaks to the 5G core that will allow s
  
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• Georgian Glamour: Rediscovering the extravagant light displays of the past at Sir John Soane Museum

  31-10-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you walk past the Sir John Soane Museum in Holborn in the evenings, you’ll see a series of geometric patterns projected onto the museum, and if you go inside, you can learn about how the Georgians did similar if grander things in their time.The Georgians loved their grand light displays and would often put on hugely expensive festivals of light, often for the public as much as for private entertainment. Even today, an impressive light display can wow the audience, but in Georgian times,
  
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• Apple unveils its new range of M3 3nm PC chips

  31-10-2023 12:53
  Tech giant Apple has announced its latest slate of silicon with the launch of the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, which it claims are the first 3nm chips for a personal computer.
  Apple says rendering speeds in the M3 chips are now up to 2.5 times faster than on the M1 family, the CPU performance cores and efficiency cores are 30% and 50% faster respectively, and the Neural Engine is 60% faster. Though it should be noted than in the numerous performance comparison stats it uses to illustrate the advancem
  
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• Spanish government considers Telefónica stake as Saudi group builds holding

  31-10-2023 12:43
  Madrid explores option as a counter to STC’s move
  
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• Madrid considers Telefónica stake as Saudi group builds holding

  31-10-2023 12:43
  Spanish government explores option as a counter to STC’s move
  
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• Vodafone to sell Spanish business to Zegona for up to €5bn

  31-10-2023 08:36
  Sale to UK investment fund comes as telecoms group aims to improve its competitiveness
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Fleet Valley Pocket Park, WC1

  31-10-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new pocket park has appeared in Farringdon, replacing a former bland paved plaza with plants, seats and some interesting pocket hills to climb up.This new pocket park comprises a number of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) features that are designed to capture surface water flow in an area that was previously completely paved over. The pocket park has replaced the previously impermeable pavement with permeable paving and surrounding vegetation and surface water is now redirected from the sew
  
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