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Kuiper satellite network gets a big lift from Amazon’s CEO, but timeline is a bit hazy

GeekWire

Such a service would compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, which already has more than 2.6 Under the terms of the Federal Communications Commission’s license, half of that total would have to be deployed by mid-2026. million customers. Amazon is investing more than $10 billion to get Kuiper off the ground.

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Microsoft Ignite in the rear-view mirror: What we learned

Computerworld Vertical IT

Microsoft this year treated its big Ignite event as more of a marketing presentation than a full-fledged conference, offering up a variety of announcements that affect Windows users, as well as large enterprises and their networks. I "attended" online.) To read this article in full, please click here

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Thoughts from the Walkley Public Affairs conference - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

This is deeply relevant to the issue of blocking or allowing social networks in the enterprise. On the next panel, Mark Pesce commented that social networks in Australia are extremely shallow. At the Future of Journalism conference comments that Roy Greenslade made about Andrew Jaspan, editor of The Age, were immediately heard.

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Apple’s privacy-focused Private Relay feature isn’t coming to China

The Verge

The feature was announced during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as part of a new subscription bundle called iCloud Plus. Chinese citizens’ access to the internet is heavily regulated, and there is restricted access to technologies like virtual private networks, or VPNs, which help citizens evade tracking and bypass censorship.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 20, 2020

GeekWire

Microsoft Teams is getting several updates as part of the company’s virtual Ignite tech conference this morning, looking to keep pace with its rivals and keep up with the demands of users increasingly relying on the collaboration technology as critical infrastructure for remote work and learning. … Read More. … Read More.

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How opportunities are unfolding for telcos in the healthcare space

TM Forum

This was the aim of the Mobile Europe virtual conference, 5G Healthcare Panel, hosted by Darius Singh, STL Partners. Health providers are exploring the use of Mobile Private Networks, for acute hospital settings. However, enterprises require a more consultative, bidirectional approach, exploring “what is needed?

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The scalability and performance efficiency of Bitcoin blockchain

Dataconomy

Originally Bitcoin was initiated by Satoshi Nakamoto under the MIT license in 2009. These inputs give instructions to the network for those coins or coins for which the payment will be drawn. In case the transaction is valid, that will be added to the pool and further relay the transactions to the peers in the network.

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