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Automaker partners with Lyft on go-to market strategy for autonomous vehicles The future of autonomous vehicles is slowing approaching with advancements like Tesla’s autopilot and driverless trams, but what will it take for fully autonomous vehicles to break into the widespread consumer market? Investment activity may...

French telco Orange could pay $10.86 billion for rival operator French state-controlled telecommunications group Orange signed a confidentiality agreement with rival conglomerate Bouygues to acquire the latter’s telecom business for a total of 10 billion euros ($10.86 billion) in cash and shares, French newspaper Le Journal...

Purchased Austin-based StackEngine; growth driven by cloud sales IT giant Oracle, which provides everything from data center operation to cloud applications, is investing heavily in cloud computing with the recent acquisition of Austin, Texas-based StackEngine, as well as the unveiling of plans to build a...

Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US and Sprint have worked together to bring LTE service to all of Chicago’s more than 400,000 daily subway passengers. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority said the move makes Chicago the largest public transit in...

Apple is in trouble in Italy for allegedly failing to pay taxes in the country to the tune of $347 million. According to multiple news outlets, the issue stems from a disparity in revenue reported between 2008 and 2013. It is believed in those...

The Indian manufacturer plans to set up three new factories in 2016 Indian smartphone maker Micromax expects to manufacture all of its mobile phones in India by 2018 due to increasing local demand and higher labor costs in China, local press reported. The company’s co-founder Rahul...

The Christmas holiday was a productive one for Apple. From Dec. 19 through Dec. 25, Apple iOS devices accounted for 49% of all device activations, according to data from an analytics firm. But its not all good news for Apple. The company was down overall...

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio started the first phase of its "4G" network rollout. Employees of the disruptive telco will be the first to try the new service. Reliance Comm is looking to shake up the world’s second-largest mobile subscriber market with the launch, taking...

The wireless industry used to be easy to understand and easy to track and compare. No longer. Yesterday there was one segment full of larger and smaller players. Today the industry seems to be split into three distinct segments of wireless networks including AT&T...

Sprint is looking to social media to help it better serve customers, teaming up with Coversocial, a cloud-based social customer service solution, to provide customer service via Facebook Messenger. “We want to build long-term relationships with our customers who choose to engage via social channels...

Joint NFV lab focused on NFV, SDN research Hewlett Packard Enterprise and China Telecom Beijing Research Institute said they opened a joint lab in Beijing focused on network functions virtualization research with the intent of helping China Telecom plan for implementing NFV technologies. The joint NFV...

India’s fourth- and fifth-largest carriers are in talks to combine wireless operations. The potential merger between Reliance Communications and Aircel would make them the second-largest carrier in India in terms of customer base. Reliance Comm, which is currently India’s No. 4 operator, entered into exclusive...

Verizon Communication CEO Lowell McAdam recently met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to stress the importance of opening up high band spectrum for future "5G" networks, according to Verizon. The meeting was memorialized by this Dec. 18 "ex parte" communication from Verizon VP of...

Deal between Ericsson and Apple ends an international probe and lawsuits in four countries Effectively ending an international investigation and lawsuits in four countries, Ericsson and Apple this week announced a seven-year agreement covering technology licensure. According to Ericsson, the deal includes “a cross license that...

According to a study by Vasona Networks, smartphone users in the United Kingdom believe their mobile operators are not meeting their mobile data expectations and they are willing to go elsewhere to get the coverage they expect. The survey found two-thirds of broadband users in...

Apple stock peaked back in April at a per share value of $134.54, which has now fallen to $106.03 per share as of Friday representing a collective loss of $160 billion in value. Based on a perceived decline in demand for iPhones, Apple is...

AT&T Mobility, Sprint and an unnamed third wireless carrier will partner with Cox Business and InSite Wireless Group on a new distributed antenna system to beef up wireless connectivity at the Las Vegas Convention Center ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The companies...

T-Mobile US' prepaid brand MetroPCS expands talk, text and data to Canada Continuing to take cues from its parent company T-Mobile US, prepaid brand MetroPCS expanded its international efforts to Canada, offering unlimited talk, text and data north of the border as part of a...

The Federal Communications Commission, in the wake of adopting net neutrality rules, wants to better understand services that allow customers to stream certain types of content without detracting from data buckets. One of the tenants of net neutrality is certain types of traffic do not...

Google Project Fi, the tech powerhouse's mobile virtual network operator service, now offers support for data-only devices like an Apple iPad; customers can request from Google Project Fi a free data-only SIM card to enable the new functionality. Project Fi senior product manager Laura Holmes...

A former Verizon employee has been arrested in Connecticut for allegedly opening fraudulent accounts in victims' names and selling the fraudulently acquired phones to an accomplice. Trumbull, Connecticut, police were tipped off to the alleged fraud when a victim contacted them after getting a notification...

Verizon Wireless is in the process of deploying 400 small cells in San Francisco before the Super Bowl next year, which will be hosted in the bay front metro. In a recent interview with a local ABC affiliate, Verizon Wireless engineering director Jacob Hamilton said...

Starting Dec. 18, T-Mobile US will begin its final offer of the holiday season. The "Un-carrier" plans to offer customers $100 off the Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Edge+ or Note5 smartphones, as well as a full year of Netflix when they purchase one...

Global fiber optic connectors market expected to reach $4.9 billion by 2020 Fiber is the vein that keeps data pumping through the heart of our communications systems. As infrastructure continues to expand to keep up with the growing number of connected devices, companies are fighting...