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GSMA wants the world to do more for operators - The trade association that represents the interests of operators has issued a call for more to be done for operators. The catalyst for this move is the culmination of the 11th World Trade Organization (W...http://ow.ly/NNzo50fH5YP 

AT&T finally does something with its Project AirGig wireline internet thing - Project AirGig is a novel initiative from AT&T in which public power lines are used to guide millimeter wave data transmissions. AT&T has been banging on about this for a wh...http://ow.ly/ondG50fH2F0 

China Mobile gets into the UK MVNO business - The world’s largest mobile operator – China Mobile – has decided it’s time to get involved in the UK market. Its first move, announced today, is the launch by its international arm (appropriately named Chi...http://ow.ly/Pfvy50fH2EZ 

BT starts InLinkUK roll-out, gets Santa involved - The symbolic replacement of the Great British phone box is set to go nationwide and is also being given a festive tweak. InLinkUK is a public wifi hotspot terminal that also offers free domestic phone...http://ow.ly/mXrO50fH05o 

Huawei goes on a road-trip - Networking vendor Huawei’s quest for global domination shows no sign of slowing in the run up to Christmas, with raids on Dublin and Cairo. There’s nothing Huawei likes more than photos of people in business attire, symbol...http://ow.ly/wQe850fG6EG 

Atos wants to buy security vendor Gemalto for €4.3 billion - Gemalto, which specialises in SIM-card technology among other things, has received an unsolicited take-over bid from French IT giant Atos. Atos is offering €46 per share, which is apparently...http://ow.ly/eRCT50fFMpv 

Huawei CloudFabric Solution Assists China Mobile’s MIGU - Huawei announced that its CloudFabric Solution succeeded in helping China Mobile’s MIGU construct elastic, intelligent, and accurate converged data center (DC) IT resource pools, which are to b...http://ow.ly/77Ta50fFMpx 

Huawei & China Mobile Propose First Cloud-Based BNG Interface Protocol - SHENZHEN, China — Huawei and the China Mobile Research Institute have submitted a standards proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the first cloud-based Broad...http://ow.ly/48Gb50fFMpw 

Ericsson heralds Verizon 5G kit win - Ericsson will be one of Verizon’s kit partners when it first dips its toe in the 5G water next year, and it wants us to know it. This is the sort of thing telecoms marketing departments have erotic dreams about. F...http://ow.ly/e3gH50fFvOW 

Have you heard? Apple is buying Shazam - US gadget giant Apple has made a rare foray into major M&A with the acquisition of UK audio recognition app Shazam. Despite having enough money to buy the entire world and still leave a generous tip, Apple is n...http://ow.ly/EyIp50fEMmW 

Verizon spends billions on NFL rights to give Oath a boost - US telco Verizon has announced a new deal with the NFL – i.e. American Football league – to distribute games across its digital media network. This appears to be an attempt to answer the oft...http://ow.ly/w7By50fExwA 

Nokia COO calls it a day after only eight months in the job - Monika Maurer, who was only promoted to the Chief Operating Officer role at Nokia last April, has apparently decided she doesn’t like what she’s seen at the top table. People don’t leave so...http://ow.ly/M80f50fExwB 

Spotify looks east with Tencent umbilicus - Music streaming service Spotify has made a clear statement of geographical intent by entering into an equity swap with Chinese internet giant Tencent. Specifically Spotify is doing business with Tencent Musi...http://ow.ly/ETSi50fEu5Z 

Ericsson and Singtel claim APAC LAA record - Ericsson and long-time operator partner Singtel have announced they managed to hit 1.1 Gbps in a joint trial of a new LAA configuration. License Assisted Access is all about increasing the amount of spectru...http://ow.ly/dXzz50fEu5Y 

Looks like Elon had a few too many at the Tesla Christmas party - Everyone gets a bit bold when they have a couple of beers, and it seems Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no different as he ‘boldly about Tesla’s upcoming custom artificial intelligence hardware’...http://ow.ly/C2w150fBTqC 

And something less serious for a Friday; a smart urinal - Every now and then it’s important to take a moment have a chuckle and wonder what sort of world we’re now living in; introducing Mr. Friendly, a smart urinal. The last couple of years have been...http://ow.ly/dMIl50fBJhn 

AT&T/Time Warner vs. Department of Justice; bout set for March 19 - Judge Richard Leon of the District of Columbia has set a date for the antitrust trial to finally settle AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner and the Department of Justice’s w...http://ow.ly/MIHj50fBBTv 

Nvidia unveils Titan V with 110 Teraflops of deep learning power - Nvidia has unleashed new desktop GPU, with claims the beast is taming 110 Teraflops of horsepower under the hood, a moody nine times that of its puny predecessor. Designed for computat...http://ow.ly/5Vfg50fByBw 

The new AI Team; Baidu and Qualcomm - Qualcomm and Baidu have announced a strategic alliance to create an AI voice solution based on the new Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform and Baidu’s DuerOS Conversational AI System. The aim will be to optimize Baidu’...http://ow.ly/vKzy50fByBu 

iOS HomeKit bug allowed remote access to smart locks - As consumers sit down at their computers to buy Christmas presents for the near and dear, the last thing they want to know about is a bug which allows the tech-savvy to override smart home devices...http://ow.ly/80w550fByBv