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Red Hat and Ericsson Forge 5G, IoT Open Source Alliance

 October 20, 2016

Red Hat and Ericsson on Wednesday announced an alliance meant to speed adoption of open source solutions in the information and communications technology space. The alliance will help promote a range of fully open source and production-ready cloud solutions, spanning OpenStack, software defined-networking and software-defined infrastructure, the companies said, to meet the growing demand for products using 5G and the Internet of Things. Red Hat has a long history of collaborating with Ericsson...

Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT Network

November 10, 2015

Cisco and Ericsson on Monday announced a partnership to build out a next-generation network for smart things and the carriers and enterprises that want to support such devices. The deal plays to the companies' strengths in cloud, data center, mobility, management and control, networking, routing and...

Verizon Floors the 5G Accelerator

September 9, 2015

Verizon on Tuesday announced that it was accelerating its efforts to boost wireless connections to 50 times faster than current offerings. The company has begun putting the components in place to enable it to begin field testing a new, speedier wireless technology, known as "5G," next year. "5G is n...

Encryption Can Create Stormy Weather in the Cloud

February 17, 2015

Encryption has received a lot of attention lately as a solution to the growing data breach problem, but one of the hang-ups dogging the technology has been its ability to play nice in the cloud. That's especially true if an organization wants to control the keys by which its data is scrambled and us...

Russia to Battle Thug Image With Patriotic Video Game

October 14, 2013

The Russian government plans to produce a patriotic video game to offset the legions of games in which Russian soldiers are the villains. Russia is also mulling a ban on foreign video games that it claims "distort historical facts." Russia's culture ministry cited Company of Heroes as particularly p...

Tech Vendors Are Treating Customers Worse Than Before

July 26, 2013

Businesses depend on their customers, and it would make sense that good customer service would translate into loyalty and sales, but high-tech vendors don't seem to have gotten the message. The average customer experience rating for tech vendors fell from 58 percent to 52 percent since last year, in...

Sprint Launches Spunky $99 Vital Smartphone

June 11, 2013

Sprint this week released the $99 ZTE Vital, a high mid-range Android smartphone that could rock the market. The device, which has been pegged as a competitor to Samsung's highly regarded Galaxy S4, has a host of power-packed features and has already divided analysts. "The price is the key," said Ri...

Raspberry Pi Launches App Store to Sweeten Its Ecosystem

December 18, 2012

The Raspberry Pi project launched an app store Monday to support its eponymous $35 Linux PC, which hit the market in February. The store will carry both free and paid apps. Its launch has stirred mixed reactions among Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, with some criticizing plans to offer paid apps and other...

The AT&T of Tomorrow

November 15, 2012

Last week, AT&T held a meeting for investment analysts. It will increase capital spending by about 16 percent to $22 billion a year over the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. This would be a perfect advertising campaign. AT&T should consider creating an entire m...

The AT&T of Tomorrow

November 15, 2012

Last week, AT&T held a meeting for investment analysts. It will increase capital spending by about 16 percent to $22 billion a year over the next three years to upgrade its wireless and wireline networks. This would be a perfect advertising campaign. AT&T should consider creating an entire m...

Mobile Carriers Could Lose Premium Services Game

September 21, 2012

Mobile network operators are investing enormous sums into their next-generation LTE networks out of necessity, and with the release of the iPhone 5, with 4G/LTE capability, operators are under even greater pressure to offer LTE services in order to stay competitive. The success of these investments ...

Alcatel-Lucent Makes a Grab for Core Systems With New Backbone Router

May 22, 2012

Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday unveiled its 7950 Extensible Routing System core routing platform in a bid to take on rivals Cisco and Juniper Networks, the current leaders in the $4 billion market. The company's seeking to leverage the increasing demand placed on carrier networks by the growing move towa...

Entertainment Device Convergence: The State of Play

April 13, 2012

The tumultuous convergence of entertainment devices, greater interaction with the television-viewing experience, and increased involvement of social networks were all in the Klieg lights at the IP&TV World Forum, the Internet television show I attended recently in London. I was immersed in the f...

AT&T Mobility, for Better and for Worse

February 16, 2012

Every day, I get calls from reporters looking for comments on stories it are writing about AT&T. I'm sometimes asked whether I love or hate AT&T. After giving that question some thought, let me set the record straight: a little of both. I have been a fan of AT&T for many years -- in fact...

AT&T Mobility, for Better and for Worse

February 16, 2012

Every day, I get calls from reporters looking for comments on stories it are writing about AT&T. I'm sometimes asked whether I love or hate AT&T. After giving that question some thought, let me set the record straight: a little of both. I have been a fan of AT&T for many years -- in fact...
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