Leap will make AT&T bigger, but who's the biggest?
The two biggest mobile operators in the U.S. are fiercely competitive and closely matched in size. So will AT&T’s proposed multibillion-dollar acquisition of Leap Wireless change the balance?
US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk.
Cisco releases security patches to mitigate attack against Unified Communications Manager
Cisco Systems released a security patch for its Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) enterprise telephony product in order to mitigate an attack that could allow hackers to take full control of the systems. The company also patched denial-of-service vulnerabilities in its Intrusion Prevention System software.
Apple looks to pick off engineers from Amazon and OpenStack
Apple is on the hunt for cloud infrastructure engineers familiar with building large-scale deployments like those at Amazon Web Services and OpenStack companies, according to a job posting.
Japan, South Korea continue to lead in fiber Internet
The number of fiber Internet subscriptions rose 12.7 percent in the countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Paris-based group said Thursday.
FCC looks to update school connectivity fund
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to take the first step toward revamping its program that subsidizes Internet connections to schools and libraries, with the focus in the future on big bandwidth instead of simple connectivity.
Facebook Open Compute project has "weaknesses," Cisco CEO says
Facebook’s Open Compute project, which is working on open source servers and switches, will be limited by “weaknesses” in scope that Cisco can exploit, CEO John Chambers said this week.
The promise of software defined networking
If you aren’t intimately familiar with software defined networking, don’t fret. Only 10% o 450 IT practitioners at a recent Network World event raised their hands when asked if they understand SDN. But if the emerging technology lives up to its promise to redefine networking as we know it, there is no time like the…
India allows wholly foreign-owned mobile operators
India has decided to allow mobile services operations to be wholly owned by foreign investors, a move that is expected to lead multinationals to take full control of their Indian joint ventures by buying out local partners.
Cisco building an Internet of Everything router: Chambers
Cisco is building a router for the Internet of Everything, the company’s initiative to connect the billions of devices or 99% o the world that it claims isn’t already connected.
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