Alcatel-Lucent this morning announced fiber technology to deliver 10 Gigabits per second, but this won’t be used for residential connections anytime soon. This is for beefing up the back end of mobile broadband networks, especially as operators add components such as picocells in congested areas. Read more »
The U.S. Court of Appeals today denied Verizon’s motion to have the three judges who ruled against the FCC in an earlier network neutrality case hear Verizon’s current attempt to contest the regulatory agency’s network neutrality rules. It’s a small setback for foes of network neutrality. Read more »
Norman Nie helped create SPSS, one of the first companies to take advantage of the data computers enabled researchers and businesses to track. He spoke with me about why we need to speak to our data and how that conversation can change the way we innovate. Read more »
It’s expected that tomorrow the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that parcels out the IP addresses that act as the address for every site and device on the web, will announce that IPv4 addresses are gone. Here’s how the world will cope. Read more »
At the end of last year, GigaOM provided a platform for Craig Settles, an author and broadband consultant, to debate with Blair Levin, the author of the National Broadband Plan, on how to get to better broadband. On Monday, watch them debate live in Washington, D.C. Read more »
You think mobile data demand is big today, with 94 million smartphone shipped this year and 5 billion mobile subscribers? Well Cisco says it’s going to get a lot bigger by 2015, with worldwide mobile data traffic set to reach 6.3 exabytes per month. Read more »
Ericsson said it has achieved downlink speeds of 168 Mbps on HSPA wireless networks using technology that would require operators to have more spectrum and some slightly tweaked consumer devices. Is HSPA set to become to wireless networks what copper is to wired ones? Read more »
The White House today announced The Startup America Partnership, an effort to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.S. through a private program that encourages companies to offer mentorship and resources, but looks like an opportunity to get press with low returns for startups. Read more »
Intucell, an Israeli startup, has raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Bessemer Ventures. The company, founded in 2008, is one of several helping transform telecommunications networks to handle a wider array of base stations and means to connects to the web. Read more »
The mobile web is growing rapidly, but in stark contrast to the pace of the mobile web’s growth, the speed at which it performs has lagged behind consumer expectations. The gap poses a great risk to mobile commerce sites, and those that rely on advertisements for revenue. Read more »
Openwave’s next generation platform must support geographic redundancy, massive scalability and high availability. It has to distribute databases redundantly across multiple data centers and handle large customer datasets – varying from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes, and supporting thousands of transactions per second from each customer. Read more »
Jim Ousley, CEO and Chairman of Savvis is having a great day. Yesterday Verizon agreed to buy a rival for $1.4 billion, and today he has joined a small group of companies that are suddenly sought after as acquisition targets. In response Savvis stock has traded up. Read more »
Shutterfly is a popular Internet-based photo sharing and personal publishing company that manages a persistent store of more than 6 billion images with a transaction rate of up to 10,000 operations per second. Here’s why it made the journey from Oracle to MongoDB. Read more »
Verizon has agreed to buy Terremark, a provider of managed and cloud services for $1.4 billion. The deal is an aggressive move to gain customers in the red-hot cloud computing market, and makes sense, as the network and the computer are moving ever closer. Read more »
LinkedIn has filed to trade on the public market Thursday seeking to raise up to $175 million. Since its inception in 2003, LinkedIn has grown to a profitable company that has sales of $161.4 million in the first nine months of 2010. Read more »
Trend Micro maintains web reputation databases that allow intelligent detection of spam, phishing, or suspicious web sites. It processes data accumulating at the rate of about four petabytes per year. Here’s why Trend Micro settled on Apache Hbase as the core database of new elastic infrastructure. Read more »
Last night in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promoted jobs, high-speed rail and high-speed wireless access. I’m all for fast wireless broadband, but relying on wireless to solve this broadband gap is like relying on low-fat Twinkies to solve the obesity problem. Read more »
Our phones have shifted from devices designed for phone calls to computers that connect us to the web, and in the years ahead they will also become the means people capture physical and analog data about the world around them and transfer it to the web. Read more »
MetroPCS followed Verizon in contesting the FCC’s network neutrality order that sets rules around when an ISP can discriminate against traffic flowing across its network. The FCC’s decision to avoid reclassifying broadband has left the fate of web innovation in the courts’ hands. But which court? Read more »
Hewlett-Packard unveiled four cloud products in what I view as somewhat of a comeback tour for hardware giant after staying on the cloud sidelines for much of 2010. However, the products, which range from an IaaS play to some cloud-optimized hardware, aren’t all that new. Read more »
China’s Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) released stats Monday showing that the nation of 1.3 billion now has 457 million broadband users, more than the U.S., Mexico and Canada combined. The growth of China’s web is both a challenge and an opportunity for tech entrepreneurs. Read more »
Huawei filed suit Monday to stop Motorola Solutions from selling its wireless network business to Nokia Siemens Networks, because the sale would transfer trade secrets and competitive intelligence from the Chinese equipment firm to a competitor. Is this the start of a Chinese patent offensive? Read more »
Akamai’s third quarter Internet traffic report that is expected to be released on Monday shows there’s no stopping broadband or the growth of the web. Once again the U.S. average broadband speeds aren’t topping the list at 5 Mbps, but adoption in the States is up. Read more »
In the wake of venture capital firms investing more in 2010 than they had in the previous two years, and some significant funding for hardware startups in the last 12 months, I wondered if underneath the social media frenzy there’s a hardware renaissance taking place. Read more »
Venture capital investing rebounded in 2010 after a grim 2009, but the big story arising from the latest MoneyTree results was that the superstars in the startup world appear to be reaping the rewards of big valuations while the others are pretty much left to malinger. Read more »
Verizon filed a lawsuit today questioning the FCC’s authority to implement the agency’s network neutrality rules, but while the argument here is important, the underlying goal for this lawsuit and others that will be filed is finding a court sympathetic to each parties’ cause. Read more »
Intel blew out its 2010 and fourth quarter financial results last week, which inspired a technology and business blogger to ask whether or not Intel’s incredible growth (or in general microprocessor growth) will continue next year and in the decades following. Does compute follow Jevons paradox? Read more »
Carriers in several countries are providing the data used by new Facebook app for feature phones for free, while Microsoft today is investigating a third-party app for rogue downloads. Together, these stories about different apps on different platforms expose the love-hate relationship carriers have with applications. Read more »
Amazon Web Services, which built and popularized cloud computing with its Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service has moved up the stack from infrastructure to providing Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, its brand new Platform-as-a-Service play. With Beanstalk, Amazon hopes to outgrow the competition. Read more »
Bandwidth.com and Verizon Communications today signed an agreement that could make it easier from companies such as Skype and Twilio to build out cool VoIP applications and service as well as set precedent ahead of any regulatory policy on how phone companies charge for VoIP calls. Read more »
EMC launched a slew of new products and a new product line that it hopes will keep it relevant in a changing IT world where cloud computing and products with a more consumer feel are changing the dynamic at both ends of the spectrum. Read more »
Tilera, a chip design firm that’s building a 100-core processor for hugely parallel compute problems, has raised $45 million in funding from investors that include Artis Capital Management, WestSummit Capital Management and Comerica Bank. The company has raised a total of $109 million. Read more »
The issue of identity is challenging online and few have come up with solutions to help a single real-world person adopt multiple personas for their business and personal lives online. The CEO of UnboundID makes the case that your phone or cable company could do it. Read more »
One has to look really hard to find a Silicon Valley startup that has found success in the hotly contested consumer electronics marketplace. However, one company might just change that: Sonos, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based maker of networked digital music devices. Read more »
The server market has experienced four phases of massive change over the last 25 years. Each time, the incumbent technology was replaced by “lesser” technology that offered to get the job done reasonably well but for a fraction of the price. Now it’s ARM’s turn. Read more »
Connected tablets will certainly show off the capabilities of the 4G deployed by operators, but the big profits will come from elsewhere. For example? Your medicine cabinet, where a new bill bottle cap sends 20 kilobytes of data per day while costing $15 per month. Read more »
The folks at the Sundance Film Festival are fighting physics as they add a public Wi-Fi network and boost cellular coverage in order to deliver decent mobile broadband to the 50,000 expected attendees. Here’s their plan of attack, and why it may not work. Read more »
Enomaly has managed to cobble together between 10,000 and 25,000 servers available on any given day for its SpotCloud market, said CEO Ruven Cohen, and today will open its beta program to more sellers. Next month, it will open the market up to all buyers. Read more »
A plan to bring a nationwide wholesale LTE network to the U.S. is in trouble. LightSquared has a troubled private equity backer and may be losing ground in Washington as it seeks a way around regulations that are making its planned network a long shot. Read more »
The next generation of wireless network is coming, and it will be fast. We’ve been excited about LTE networks and their speed gains for years, and now it’s close. For more on the technology and how it will affect you, check out our handy infographic. Read more »
