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Russia deployed a cyber-attack on comms company Viasat in the Ukraine which had effects throughout Europe, according to new UK and US intelligence. The Russian cyber-attack was apparently launched on 24th February about an hour before Russian forces invaded the Ukraine. While the primary target is believed to have been the Ukrainian military, the attack

Intel has unveiled an all-new 55W tier in its 12th Gen ‘Alder Lake’ laptop CPU portfolio. The seven new CPU models, known as the HX series, are essentially desktop-class Alder Lake CPUs repackaged to fit into laptops. The 55W nominal TDP can rise as high as 157W with an adequate cooling system. These CPUs, announced today

Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Ronny Haraldsvik, SVP Business Development at Cohere Technologies, makes the case for OpenRAN as a transformational technology. Opening up the RAN has been a widely discussed topic in the telecoms industry for years now, and readers of

The Advanced Security Testing and Research (ASTaR) lab is located in Dallas, Texas and Nokia claims it is the first end-to-end 5G testing lab in the US to focus solely on cybersecurity. ASTaR’s ‘holistic approach’ to testing and analysing threats will apparently go beyond individual network elements and also take in the larger context of

EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet Tesla boss Elon Musk in Texas on Monday to discuss global supply chain issues and the bloc’s newly agreed rules requiring tech giants to do more to police online content, Breton’s spokesperson said. The meeting comes weeks after the world’s richest man clinched a deal to buy social

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Amazon Summer Sale 2022 is currently live in India and will go on till May 8. A slew of home appliances and products including air conditioners, washing machines, and refrigerators are available at discounted prices during the sale. Amazon is also offering an instant discount of 10 percent for purchases using SBI, ICICI, RBL bank

T-Mobile US is making a renewed push into 5G-based fixed wireless services for home broadband, in the process hitting out at the country’s established ISPs in its own unique style. The US mobile operator on Wednesday launched a new fixed wireless service for consumers, encouraging them to ‘cheat on’ and ultimately ‘break up with’ their

The coronation of EE as the BT group consumer brand has apparently unlocked a new raft of whacky marketing initiatives. From the people who brought you robot shaving, air traffic control from the comfort of your own home and 5G clubbing, we now have workouts for gamers. The understandable premise is that people who play

A cross party committee has has taken to Twitter to openly invite Elon Musk (pictured) to appear before it and discuss the future of Twitter as he sees it. A committee in question is called the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is set up to scrutinise the work of the government and

UK MNO Vodafone brought in Google Cloud and Cardinality.IO to help it build out a pan-European cloud software project called United Performance Management. UPM uses AI to process and analyse up to eight billion points of data every day across the 11 countries its mobile network spreads across. The real-time insights this generates apparently allow

The boss of Italian telco TIM will soon broker a deal to merge its fibre network assets with those of rival Open Fiber, but admits it has not been smooth sailing. Pietro Labriola made the comments to journalists in the wake of the incumbent’s Q1 results announcement, Reuters reports. And those financials help to demonstrate

Irish satellite services provider EchoStar has launched an early adopter programme for its pan-European LoRa network. The scheme is pitched at the transport and logistics, agriculture, oil and gas, and utilities sectors. Presumably other verticals are also permitted to join in the fun, but these were the ones referenced by EchoStar. Participants will be able

[Shenzhen, China] Recently, Informa Tech, a well-known UK analysis and research institute, jointly held the “F5G Evolution Summit” in Shenzhen with the participation of several operators, ETSI, WBBA and Huawei. Dr. Luca Pesando, Chair of ETSI ISG F5G, ETSI board member and manager of standard at TIM, highlighted the progress made by ISG F5G during

This weekend’s Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix will be feature of a series of fancy retail and video experiences supposedly powered by Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network. The Grand Prix takes place this weekend at the Miami International Autodrome, located at the Hard Rock Stadium. It will apparently be the first Formula 1 race

It looks like the EU has agreed on the final text for the Digital Markets Act, which is designed as an exercise in regulatory catch-up with US big tech firms. The preliminary version of the DMA was unveiled a few weeks ago, positioned as an attempted to rein-in the power of perceived digital ‘gatekeepers’, the

UK comms regulator Ofcom says the rules it has imposed on telcos compelling them to inform customers when contracts are up, and of any better available deals, are having a positive effect. There is an uptick in customers taking out new contracts and securing better deals with their broadband providers having been reminded their contract

Twitter for Android is reportedly working on a host of new features, including support for adding both pictures and videos to the same tweet. Among the features under work are Statuses, Awards, and pronouns page. A recent report indicated that Twitter is testing a new feature called Twitter Circle where users can handpick a smaller