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patent trademark
BlackBerry has entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations Inc., a Delaware company, pursuant to which BlackBerry has agreed to sell substantially all of its non-core patent assets to Catapult for total consideration of $600 million.
OpenRAN
BT and Nokia are to trial Open RAN technology in the city of Hull, UK, where BT will install Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) for Open RAN, across a number of sites, to optimise network performance for customers of its mobile network, EE. 
Vizmo Tracking
Vismo has launched the Vismo Monitor, an app to help organisations easily monitor alerts about threatening, or potentially threatening events, from their travelling or lone working employee
BlackBerry Smartphones
For those BlackBerry users desperately clinging on to their old BlackBerry phones, this is a reminder that BlackBerry are to decommission legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, with an end of life or termination date of January 4, 2022. 
BlackBerry Corporate Responsibility
BlackBerry says it has achieved carbon neutrality across Scope 1, Scope 2 and material Scope 3 emissions, the three groups that categorize the emissions a company creates, as classified under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Corporate Standard. 
Competition and Markets Authority
Facebook parent company Meta has been ordered by the UK competition watchdog , the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), to sell the gif creation website Giphy
Glasgow Subways
EE has installed and activated the Emergency Services Network (ESN) in Glasgow’s Subway stations, connecting all 15 Subway stations. This 4G connection will be important when first responders reach the stage of transitioning to ESN.
BT Digital Marketing Hub
BT has launched a new digital advertising platform to make it easier for businesses to run their own digital marketing campaigns, helping them to better promote their goods and services online.
Apple
Apple today kicked off Tech Talks 2021, a new online developer engagement series with more than 100 live sessions and 1,500 office hours running over the course of the next eight weeks.
FWA
Nokia has made a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) breakthrough which could see wireless broadband capacity increase by 5 to 10 times. Nokia engineers have used a novel approach to make 5G mmWave fixed wireless access viable.
Billington Security Summit 2021
John Chen, Executive Chairman & CEO of BlackBerry, will lead a discussion on National Zero Trust Strategy at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit.  Joining him for the discussion will be executives from the United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Accenture, and Appgate. 
USB-C Connector
The European Commission wants to make it mandatory for smartphone manufacturers and manufacturers of other electronics to include a USB-C charging port on their devices and is putting forward legislation to establish a common charging solution
iOS 15
Apple officially began the rollout of iOS 15 today, a major update making FaceTime calls more natural, introduces SharePlay for shared experiences, new ways to manage notifications, and brings more intelligence to photos and search to quickly access information.