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Yahoo wins appeal of $2.7 billion suit in Mexican court

By Stephen Lawson | 17 May, 2013 01:12

An appeals court in Mexico has overturned an approximately US$2.7 billion judgment against Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a breach-of-contract suit concerning online directories.

Cisco cites data-center, wireless for quarterly revenue increase

By Stephen Lawson | 15 May, 2013 23:15

Data-center and wireless sales led growth at Cisco Systems in its fiscal third quarter, as it saw customers spending more in the U.S. and developing countries but reported continuing weakness in Southern Europe.

U.S. carriers line up against texting while driving

By Stephen Lawson | 14 May, 2013 21:31

The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer.

Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

By Stephen Lawson | 13 May, 2013 09:10

Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.

San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

By Stephen Lawson | 08 May, 2013 21:01

San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.

Fusion-io CEO resigns, is replaced by former HP executive Robison

By Stephen Lawson | 08 May, 2013 18:48

Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard.

Isilon OneFS software to expand scope of EMC's scale-out NAS

By Stephen Lawson | 08 May, 2013 00:10

EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features.

EMC's Syncplicity to gain hybrid-cloud storage capability

By Stephen Lawson | 07 May, 2013 22:12

Only a year after acquiring Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company's enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds.

Clearwire lays out its case for a Sprint buyout

By Stephen Lawson | 06 May, 2013 21:47

Sprint Nextel's network partner Clearwire hasn't been able to find any other big wholesale customers nor sell any of its spectrum, so selling out to Sprint is the only real option for its shareholders, the company said Monday.

A telecom landmark gets wired for the cloud

By Stephen Lawson | 04 May, 2013 00:16

The Pacific Bell tower in San Francisco, the high-rise headquarters of the phone company through eight decades and several name changes, was a monument to copper.

US mobile data growing while SMS falls, CTIA reports

By Stephen Lawson | 03 May, 2013 00:00

U.S. mobile networks carried 69 percent more data traffic in 2012 than in the prior year, but roughly the same number of voice minutes and fewer SMS messages, according to the industry group CTIA.

Qualcomm calls for shared in-home cells to handle mobile demand

By Stephen Lawson | 30 April, 2013 21:59

Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday.

Detector finds smuggled cellphones even without batteries or SIM cards

By Stephen Lawson | 30 April, 2013 00:41

Turning off cellphones or even locking them in metal boxes won't be enough to keep them hidden with a new phone detector introduced on Monday.

T-Mobile USA agrees to come clean about 'uncarrier' service plans

By Stephen Lawson | 25 April, 2013 20:36

T-Mobile USA's "radical" service plans promising no annual contracts aren't quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will change its advertising and offer refunds in a settlement with the state of Washington.

Wireless networks may learn to live together by using energy pulses

By Stephen Lawson | 25 April, 2013 00:48

Researchers at the University of Michigan have invented a way for different wireless networks crammed into the same space to say "excuse me" to one another.

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