India, April 8 -- Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Synamedia lands Vodafone TV gig; the march of the altnets; Deutsche Telekom gets on board with Azure.

The Vodafone Foundation has teamed up with scientists at London's Imperial College to look into ways of harnessing the processing power of the millions of smartphones out there in general-public land to help speed up research into treatments for COVID-19. They will use an app developed by Vodafone Foundation Australia, DreamLab, which can draw on the chips inside people's idle smartphones while they are recharging overnight to help power a "virtual supercomputer" to do the math. According to those behind the project, the mobile cloud-based approach of DreamLab can drastically reduc...