AT&T has teamed up with Juniper Networks on a new mobile security platform which it claims will better protect customer devices from security threats. Security has become a big buzz word in mobile, with firms scrambling to add protection to their mobile services either through outright acquisitions – see Intel’s Macafee buyout – or partnerships [...]

Cisco is planning to fire 7000 workers by the end of August, with an additional 3000 taking voluntary resignation according to Bloomberg News. The massive cuts – representing around 14% of the firm’s entire workforce – follow Cisco’s catastrophic quarterly earnings, which saw the firm’s sales sink to new lows. A couple of months ago, [...]

. San Jose, CA., – At Ericsson’s Business Innovation Forum this week, journalists were given an exclusive sneak peek inside the firm’s Broadband Access Lab at its San Jose facility. The labs are a live environment where Ericsson is currently testing and developing products within its IP product portfolio. Take a look at the photos [...]

San Jose, CA., – Speaking at the Ericsson Business Innovation Forum in San Jose, CA, Wednesday, Brian Wilcove a general partner at VC firm Sofinnova Ventures said a big change was happening in the world of telecoms. “Instead of paying for minutes, we’re moving towards a model where we’re paying for apps,” he said noting [...]

JiWire Inc. has raised $20 million in new funding, bringing its total capital raised to date at $45 million. The San Francisco-based company provides a platform to deliver advertising across mobile applications and public Wi-Fi. It now claims to reach 40 million users every month. The $20 million venture capital round was led by Trident [...]

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is marking its tenth year anniversary in the U.S. today by opening a new R&D headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The 200,000 square-foot facility is said to include multiple state-of-the-art research labs and is set to create new jobs in the region. Huawei’s North America president, Charles Ding, said the firm [...]

San Jose based Networking firm Netgear was out in force at this year’s CES show in Las Vegas, showing off a plethora of products it says will help push towards a fully internet enabled home, where content can move seamlessly from one device to another.

Hewlett-Packard Co. will play $16.25 million to the government as part of a settlement for alleged fraud in the E-rate program, which funds Internet connections in schools and libraries. The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating allegations that contractors working with HP and other companies “lavished gifts on Dallas Independent [...]

Despite a run of recent setbacks in the United States, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is making strategic moves, including hires, to keep its big plans for this market alive. John Roese, former CTO at Nortel Networks, is now joining the company as SVP and GM of Huawei North America R&D. Roese has been working on [...]

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