UK consumers ditch SVOD services
The number of UK households with a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service continued to decline in the first quarter of this year, new data shows.
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ICO slaps TikTok with £12 million fine
‘TikTok should have done better’ says the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as it issues a £12,700,000 fine to the social media site over the use of children’s personal data.
The Telecoms.com Podcast: media tech, Open RAN and Huawei
The pod is delighted to welcome back media technology Analyst Ed Barton this week. Following a refreshingly short preamble, they get straight into Ed’s area of expertise, which includes tangents onto video streaming, social media and AI Armageddon. They then reflect on a day out Iain and Scott had with Rakuten Symphony before concluding by reviewing Huawei’s recent annual report.
Ofcom finds signs of responsible social media use among children
When it comes to social media, the kids might be alright, according to the latest research from UK comms regulator Ofcom.
UK follows US by banning TikTok from government devices
Being the obedient little sidekick that it is, the UK government this week took measures to curb the alleged threat posed by TikTok.
Google expands European information ‘prebunking’ initiative
US internet giant Google is worried about people getting the wrong information online and has decided some interventions are required.
Orange, DT, Telefónica and Vodafone advertising JV cleared by EC
The European Commission has given the green light to a JV by some of the biggest European telcos, which has been formed to develop a new type of digital advertising platform.
The Telecoms.com Podcast: InterDigital, 6G and the Twitter Files
The pod is delighted to welcome special guest Rajesh Pankaj, CTO of InterDigital, and they start by asking what exactly his company does. That leads on to a wide-ranging chat about telecoms R&D, patents, standards and, ultimately 6G. They still find time at the end to hear about Scott’s latest piece of self-indulgent writing, in which he tasked himself with a full summary of all the revelations coming from the Twitter files.
The Twitter Files – manufacturing misinformation
The latest tranche of Twitter Files revelations focuses on a tool extensively used by the media as proof of coordinated Russian disinformation campaigns.
AWS joins other hyperscalers at TM Forum
Amazon Web Services (AWS) appears to be ramping up its efforts to convince more telcos that public cloud is the future of telecoms networking.
Google joins tech cull by cutting 12,000 staff
Search giant Google has announced plans to make 12,000 redundancies, heaping further misery on tech sector workers.
Microsoft CEO says tech sector is ‘unforgiving’ in culling 10,000 staff
Employees at Microsoft this week learned a harsh lesson from CEO Satya Nadella about the fickle nature of the tech industry.
ChatGPT and other AI apps are going to create new winners and losers in the job market
Advanced AI services may be coming for content creators’ jobs, but they will also be free to busy themselves with art or other ‘more human pursuits’, says CEO of conversational AI firm Gupshup Beerud Sheth.
European telcos prep advertising JV
Some of the biggest operators in Europe are getting together to offer ad-targeting tools to marketers.
Orange to sell off its content businesses
Vivendi subsidiary Canal+ Group is set to purchase the OCS pay TV unit and Orange Studio from the French operator for an undisclosed sum.
Ericsson warns of $76 million hit to cloud business
Swedish kit maker Ericsson has revealed the expected financial toll of impending cutbacks at its Cloud Software and Services division.
Spark exits the sports streaming market
Spark is pulling out of its sports pay TV business next year, a move driven in no small part by the cost of content rights.
Ericsson gains cloud RAN traction with Telstra and Verizon
Telstra has become the latest telco to sing the praises of virtualised RAN infrastructure.
UK government asks app firms to volunteer for new rules
The UK government is asking the app industry to sign up to a new voluntary code of practice which is supposed to bolster security and privacy requirements on all apps and app stores available in the UK.
How will the growth of cloud gaming impact telecom providers?
The wider adoption of Cloud gaming will require reliable, scalable, and high-performance mobile networks to avoid lag and congestion issues.
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