UK Telecoms Innovations Network appoints Ian Smith as its new head

Quickline Communications CTO and 5G Testbeds and Trials programme programme director Ian Smith is the new head of UK Telecoms Innovations Network taking over from Nick Johnson. UKTIN brings together industry, academia, and government stakeholders to advocate for telecoms R&D talent in investment, cooperation and commercialisation. The 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme is the government’s

Exertis staff raise £125,000 for mental health charity

Exertis employees have raised £125,000 for Mental Health UK from golf days, bake sales, dress-down days, raffles and tech sales. Exertis employees have now voted to select eight local charities including six hospices, one homeless charity and one teenage cancer charity. The full list is: St Michael’s Hospice in Basingstoke, East Lancashire Hospice in Burnley,

VMO2 and Accenture join forces to develop apps for enterprise 5G private network sector

Virgin Media O2 and IT consulting and services giant Accenture have teamed up to develop applications for businesses interested in utilising 5G mobile private networks. The technology includes computer vision AI for product quality control monitoring of equipment to meet factory floor compliance requirements and queue management systems. The applications are built on Accenture’s Edge

Focus Group chalks up its eight acquisition of the year

Focus Group has just made its eighth acquisition of the year with the takeover of Bucks voice and data provider Entropie. The deal comes less than a week after Focus announced the takeover of Cellular Solutions Entropie’s Milton Keynes base is near the offices of Boxx Communications, the comms and connectivity specialists acquired by Focus

HMD brings back the Nokia 3210 from 1999

HMD (Human Mobile Devices), the company formed from the ashes of Nokia’s mobile phone division, has turned back the clock to 1999 with a re-imagining of the Nokia 3210 ‘dumb phone’, now upgraded with 4G and a £75 price tag. The Nokia 3210 was released by Nokia in 1999 and sparked a new accessories industry

My second phone is a Porsche – Honor

Honor and Porsche Design come up with another collaboration, the Honor Magic6 RSR, yours for just £1,599. We’ll let the press release speak for itself: “Born out of a joint pursuit of innovation,this cross-industry collaboration brings together exceptional performance with timeless luxury design, offering a special-edition smartphone that meets the needs of modern users who value

South East’s Cellular Solutions snapped up by Focus Group

Another week. another Focus Group acquisition. This time the latest addition to the Focus Group is Brighton and Hove mobile services and communications provider Cellular Solutions, set up in 1999. Focus Group last month secured £21.3 million in investment funding from Hg Capital Trust, an investor in European and transatlantic software and services.  The two founders