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Are Your Virtual Meetings Actually Secure?
Businesses large and small have turned to VoiP, Videoconferencing and many other IP enabled communications platforms to enhance collaboration and speed the…
Read MoreWhat is the “missed call” market and why does Twitter want in?
Twitter's acquisition of Bangalore-based ZipDial gives it access to a fairly massive market for "missed call" services, which many phone users in developing countries use as a low-cost method of accessing marketing deals and services like Twitter…
Read MoreTycoon Carlos Slim breaks up his Mexican telecom empire under regulatory pressure
You may think the U.S. fell short on telecom competition, but in Mexico a single company has long dominated the communications landscape: América Móvil(s amx).…
Read MoreCisco buys Tail-f for $175M to build telecom networks in the cloud
Tail-f Systems specializes is one of the new breed of telecom companies virtualizing telephone and mobile networks in the cloud. It's specialization is an obscure part of the network called the OSS.…
Read MoreWhatsApp will add voice calling later this year
Facebook's latest acquisition, WhatsApp, will roll out voice calling to all users sometime during the second quarter of this year.…
Read MoreThe 2020 network: How our communications infrastructure will evolve
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industries. In this essay, Ericsson's Vish Nandlall describes the transformation of the mobile network.…
Read MoreDespite stocking the iPhone, Japan’s NTT DoCoMo continues to bleed subscribers
In September, Japanese telecom company NTT DoCoMo finally joined its competitor companies, KDDI Corp and SoftBank Corp, in stocking the iPhone(s aapl). However,…
Read MoreIt’s time for satellite makers to start doing something about space weather
Satellites are built to withstand the great deal of radiation they are exposed to over their lifetime, but better understanding how cycles of extreme radiation work could lead to hardier designs.…
Read MoreVodafone Germany hacked, 2 million customers affected
Today, Vodafone Germany released a press statement confirming that the company’s servers had been hacked, compromising 2 million mobile customers. The attack, which…
Read MoreReport: The NSA can access 75 percent of all U.S. internet traffic
According to the Wall Street Journal, the NSA's surveillance program allows it to tap into more data than it has previously admitted -- up to 75 percent of all internet traffic in the U.S., the newspaper says.…
Read MoreThe FBI wants telecom companies to install secret eavesdropping technology
According to interviews with government sources conducted by CNET security reporter Declan McCullogh, the FBI is pressuring telecom carriers like AT&T and…
Read MoreGreenTouch details roadmap for wiping out 90% of telecom’s energy demands
After three years of investigation, the GreenTouch consortium issued its first recommendations for energy efficient telecom networks. GreenTouch claims the roadmap, if implemented, would cut the communications industry's power needs to a fraction of current levels.…
Read MoreWhy you should be afraid of the UN’s plan to regulate the internet
The United Nations may not be trying to take over the internet, but its telecom arm is discussing proposals that could seriously threaten the openness of the network, according to people like Vint Cerf -- and could also change the way we pay for it.…
Read MoreThanks to telecom oligopolies, it’s always raining in the cloud
Even using a smartphone in fairly normal ways -- checking your location with a web-based map, sending email or text messages, uploading photos and so on -- can result in massive charges when it is done while roaming internationally, thanks to the market control that telecom carriers enjoy.…
Read MoreBattered by the global LTE war, Alcatel-Lucent will cut 5000 jobs
Faced with increasing pressure from its telecom vendor rivals as well as the poor economy, Alcatel-Lucent is cutting its workforce by 7 percent. In order to generate revenue, the vendor is looking toward its vast patent pool, setting up a new intellectual property management division.…
Read MoreAn African telecom embraces off-grid batteries
Fenix, a startup that makes a plug-n-play, portable, lead-acid battery for off-grid use has shipped about 2,000 of its batteries to African telecom MTN, the company's CEO Michael Lin tells me.…
Read MoreThreatened by startups, telcos try to think like entrepreneurs
At MWC executives of two prominent operators said the industry has significant challenges in the form of over the top providers commoditizing their revenue streams without those companies putting any significant investment of their own into the network. Here's what operators should do.…
Read MoreIt’s the end of the line for telco
Martin Geddes thinks the telecom industry has reached its peak. As he explains, telecom is like the railroad business at the height of the railroad barons. It has acquired its maximum share of the economy, and the only way now is down.…
Read MoreVerizon’s acquisitions provide an enterprise path to the cloud
At the end of last month Verizon acquired CloudSwitch, adding value to Verizon’s January acquisition of cloud data center provider Terremark. Around…
Read MoreNokia Siemens is up against the wall
Nokia Siemens Networks, the telecommunications gear joint venture, is running out of options. The Wall Street Journal reported that the companies couldn’t find a private equity buyer for the gear maker and that the companies were thinking of putting more money into the entity.…
Read MoreG.hn’s cloudy outlook in the home-networking space
The proponents of G.hn should be excited. After all, the new triple-wire home networking standard is inching ever closer to market, what…
Read MoreZTE Fires Back at Huawei in Chinese IP Showdown
Chinese telecom ZTE filed a patent infringement suit against rival Huawei today, a clear response to the multiple international suits Huawei filed against ZTE yesterday.…
Read MoreAT&T + T-Mobile: What the Web Is Saying
Telecom giant AT&T dropped a bombshell on Sunday when it announced that it plans to acquire competitor T-Mobile for $39 billion, provided the deal is approved by federal regulators. Here's what some bloggers, technology analysts, former regulators and other observers are saying about the deal.…
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