ZTE must pay up to $1.4 billion, replace its entire board of directors and senior leadership, and submit to a decade of embedded U.S. trade monitors in order to resume receiving exports from U.S. tech companies, in what the Department of Commerce is calling...
Qualcomm pushing for acquisition of NXP
As Qualcomm continues its bid to acquire Dutch silicon firm NXP, the two major global companies this week in Taipei, Taiwan, for the annual Computex event, made big product and partner announcements that highlight the reach, in terms of...
Today, Amazon is embarrassed and red-faced now that their Alexa AI smart speaker has been caught red-handed recording a private conversation, putting it into a message and sending it to someone in the address book of an unsuspecting user, without the user knowing what...
Confusion between ZTE’s networks business and devices business could hurt the company’s prospects even if the trade dispute is resolved.
Even as President Trump has seemingly become personally involved in the U.S. Commerce department’s ban on exports to ZTE, the prospects for ZTE’s future devices...
Although Qualcomm has been doing AI research for more than 10 years, a dedicated R&D unit will help to coordinate AI development efforts across the company
In a week where Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Intel are all holding simultaneous artificial intelligence (AI) developer conferences, Qualcomm announced...
Everybody loves the ride to success Apple has seen over the last decade. The next question is, will their new HomePod be a success or a failure? HomePod is their AI device which uses Siri and is like Amazon Alexa or Google Home. Will...
The U.S government is allegedly negotiating with China a deal to lift sanctions on ZTE in exchange for the removal of duties on U.S agricultural products
President Donald Trump has justified his decision to help find a solution to help Chinese vendor ZTE get back...
Report: Commerce says new evidence to be presented by ZTE would be analyzed through an informal procedure
The U.S Department of Commerce will allow ZTE to present additional evidence after the agency recently issued an order banning American firms from selling components and software to...
GSMA puts embedded SIM development on hold, pending DOJ inquiry
The Department is Justice is examining whether AT&T and Verizon worked together to use GSMA-facilitated standards to hinder U.S. consumers' ability to take full advantage of embedded SIM technology, which makes it easier for wireless...
U.S. and U.K. issue alert about Russian state-sponsored hackers
The U.S. and U.K. recently published an alert that Russian state-sponsored hackers are targeting network infrastructure devices, such routers, switches, firewalls and network-based intrusion detection systems, as part of a cyber espionage campaign.
The joint-alert was issued...
Chinese vendor says the restriction would also affect the interests of some U.S firms
Chinese vendor ZTE said that a U.S. ban on the sale of components and software to the company is unfair and threatens its survival but will also potentially affect the interests...
Intel announces Threat Detection Technology and Security Essentials
Intel recently made two technology announcements: Threat Detection Technology (TDT) and Security Essentials. The former serves as a set of silicon-level capabilities to detect new classes of threats, while the latter serves as a framework that standardizes...
U.S ban on ZTE could also negatively impact China’s 5G program
Chinese vendor ZTE’s business could be heavily impacted if the company fails to reach an agreement with the U.S government over a ban which prohibits U.S companies from exporting components to ZTE for a...
Symantec uses machine learning to detect targeted attacks
Cybersecurity company Symantec announced it has made a threat detection technology used internally to detect targeted attacks available to its Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers.
Targeted attacks are one the biggest cybersecurity threats facing organizations. They can be...
Department of Commerce says the ban on ZTE will last until March 2025
The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling telecommunications equipment to Chinese vendor ZTE after the firm allegedly did not live up to the terms of an agreement that...
IBM updates IRP
IBM is merging human and machine-based intelligence with updates to its Resilient Incident Response Platform (IRP).
The platform now includes intelligent orchestration in order to improve the response process to security threats. It consolidates features like incident case management, orchestration, automation, intelligence and...
Singtel, SoftBank,Etisalat and Telefónica join forces on cybersecurity
Singtel, SoftBank, Etisalat and Telefónica have joined forces in a global telco security alliance.
The companies collectively boast over 1.2 billion customers across 60 countries. The alliance’s founding members oversee 22 security operation centers, which employ more than...
Cisco issues patches to address software vulnerabilities
Cisco recently released patches for 34 vulnerabilities, including three critical remote code execution flaws, with the majority impacting its IOS and IOS XE networking software.
The security firm Embedi first discovered one of the more serious software flaws, dubbed...
Gluster Community announces Gluster 4.0
The Gluster Community recently premiered the latest version of the open source software scalable network filesystem, Gluster 4.0, with new features focused on container integration and storage management.
Gluster was founded in 2005 with the goal of simplifying storage using open...
Putting AI on devices moves processing to the very edge of the network
As 5G continues to develop in support of new latency-sensitive use cases, there's a broad move to augment centralized cloud-based services with processing, compute and storage capabilities at the network edge. Think...
Device sensor data, app data, network data, "goes to Google," Oracle VP says
During a keynote presentation at the Competitive Carriers Association's Mobile Carriers Show, Oracle Vice President of Strategic Initiatives Peter Lord provided an illuminating look at the amount and specificity of data sent...
If Apple was first to AI with Siri, why then are they trailing today? We all know artificial intelligence is the future. We all know it is growing in importance and will dominate our world going forward. We all know Apple was first with...
MetaSwitch and Dell EMC offer joint solution
Telecommunications software company MetaSwitch and Dell EMC announced a collaboration, which involves combining the former company's Composable Network Protocols (CNP) IP routing and MPLS networking stacks with the latter company's EMC OS10 Open Edition. As part of the collaboration,...
Cisco announces updates to network operating systems
Cisco recently announced updates on software disaggregation across service provider, enterprise and data center networking.
The company noted that software disaggregation has been on the rise for a variety reasons. Hyperscale web providers are pushing for disaggregated solutions for...
