Biological data will crush what’s commonly called Big Data when it comes to making use of Cloud Computing, world-renowned cloud security executive and “biohacker” Dave Asprey wrote last week on the Trend Micro company blog.  Looking at that from a wireless perspective, you’ve got to wonder: can networks handle so much data? Jeremy Geelan caught Asprey’s [...]

T-Mobile USA garnered some attention as Google unveiled its highly anticipated music offering in Los Angeles. As the only nationwide operator not offering Apple’s iPhone and corresponding iTunes service, T-Mobile USA used its long history with Google’s Android mobile operating system to share some of the limelight from the Google Music launch. While the Google [...]

Service fulfillment is one of the twin pillars of the traditional OSS/BSS architecture, turning customer orders into active communication services and mirroring a parallel flow of chargeable records from network to bill. But these straightforward days are fast disappearing – are we now witnessing fulfillment’s final finale?

Consumer appetite for video-on-demand services – the ability to access videos when and where it is convenient to them – is on the rise. The arrival of 3G/4G and LTE networks has opened up new bandwidth for on-demand access, with entertainment such as movies and television shows driving adoption. Other driving factors are at work, too, particularly for mobile subscribers, which leaped over the 300 million mark in the United States alone this past year.

Terry McCabe, CTO of Mavenir Systems, says there are many bumps on the road to actually offering valuable services to subscribers over LTE. He also cautions that LTE networks can create opportunities for “over-the-top” competitors to offer new services to consumers if operators are not ready to deploy these services themselves. Mavenir Systems enables mobile [...]

InfiNet Wireless, manufacturer and provider of carrier-grade wireless infrastructure solutions, announced that LCR Honda has selected its InfiMan 2×2 wireless solution to provide a mobile team communications infrastructure for its race-day locations. Both engineering and mechanical teams rely on high-speed, high-capacity communications connections to provide real-time track-side information such as the analysis of racing data, [...]

ViaSat Inc. is supplying its Edge Access Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to Grupo TVSA of Argentina, enabling the CATV and broadband Internet provider to offer triple play services. ViaSat is also integrating a back office application for administration, provisioning, and billing from IPVision called SIMA into the Grupo TVSA network. Read more. Payfone, mobile payment [...]

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – August 24, 2011 – Technology alliance partners CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and HyTrust Inc., a leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, today announced a collaboration to further improve security and compliance for customers leveraging virtualized systems and cloud infrastructures. …

PALO ALTO, Calif., August 24, 2011 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the immediate beta availability of Micro Cloud Foundry™ as a free download at http://micro.cloudfoundry.com. …

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that The Washington Trust Company, the nation’s oldest community bank, has built a high performance, cost effective private cloud with EMC