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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

Facebook’s Nearby Friends feature that lets people share their current location with other Facebook users, will no longer be available starting May 31 this year. As per user reports on social media platforms, the Meta owned company has started informing users about the discontinuation of Nearby Friends and other location-based features. The functionality allows users

Social media platform Facebook (Now Meta) on Thursday filed its response in the Delhi High Court on the petition related to the suspension of social media accounts. Meta said that it is a private entity and does not discharge public function and therefore the jurisdiction of the High Court cannot be invoked against it. Meta

Pinterest TV Studio app has been silently launched and is available for select creators on its platform. The new app is currently available on both Android and iOS. The Pinterest TV Studio app is said to make it easier for creators to livestream. It will allow creators to start a livestream with improved streaming setup,

Elon Musk’s decision to accept some foreign investors as part of his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,000 crore) buyout of Twitter runs the risk of inviting the kind of regulatory scrutiny over US national security that social media peer TikTok faced, legal experts say. Musk disclosed on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Qatar’s sovereign wealth

Bengaluru’s traffic has often messed up our minds. The traffic jam is a great trouble for daily commuters. Needless to say that delivery agents in Bengaluru also have to face this problem every day for hours at a stretch to provide orders to customers’ doorsteps. Given the daily hustle of hour-long traffic and scorching hear, a Swiggy

At the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Summit (HAS), Informa Tech held the Towards F5G Evolution, Promoting Industrial Prosperity session. At this session, David Wang, Huawei Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, gave a keynote speech titled Driving Industry Development with F5.5G. “The broadband industry has seen rapid development

Samsung’s Galaxy S22 series’ premium smartphone has turned out to be one of the best-selling phones for the company. One of the smartest features that sets apart the Samsung Galaxy S22 from other models is the introduction of Smart Widgets that the users can swipe through. Now, the South Korean smartphone maker appears to be

UK comms regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into Shell Energy, with regard to rules around end-of-contract and annual ‘best tariff’ notifications to broadband and landline customers. Ofcom introduced new rules in 2020 which stated that broadband, mobile, home phone and pay-TV companies have to warn their customers when their minimum contract period is coming

Question marks are appearing over the use of millimeter wave (mmWave) technology for 5G, with growth in investments in the sector slowing last year. While the numbers do not directly point to problems in the mmWave market, particularly given that it outperformed expectations in the previous couple of years, it is not too much of