Carol Pinchefsky

FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction

The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that a contractor tried to extort potential bidders for a block of the spectrum set aside for emergency responders, and doomed the...

Spectrum Auction Process Disputed

The 700MHz spectrum auction ended March 18 after 50 days of bidding, taking in $19.6 billion for the federal government, even though the D block-reserved for emergency access by...

Ethical Concerns Swirl Around D Block Spectrum Auction

A portion of the wireless spectrum, for which bidding closed March 18, failed to meet the government's reserve price.Now, public interest groups and members of Congress are urging the...

Sun Completes $1B Buyout of MySQL

Sun Microsystems officials said they are ready to start working with MySQL customers and developers after finalizing its $1 billion acquisition of the open-source database software company.Sun CEO and...

Surprises in Spectrum Bidding

Which is more surprising? That Chevron, an oil company awash in cash, could become a wireless carrier?Or that Paul Allen, the multibillionaire Microsoft co-founder, may be planning to boost...

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AMD’s Lynn Comp on Trends in Cloud Computing

I spoke with Lynn Comp, CVP of Server Product and Technology Marketing at AMD, about the present and future of cloud computing, from energy...

Dell Technologies World 2023: Simplifying IT Infrastructures

A central trend in enterprise IT during the past decade has been the decentralization of computation, data storage and networking. Cloud computing platforms play...

GPT4 vs. Claude

GPT4 and Claude are both leading AI applications that use generative AI: GPT4 is the latest version of ChatGPT, the popular AI-based chatbot that...

Komprise’s Krishna Subramanian on Generative AI and Data Management

I spoke with Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise, about the data management problems companies face when they use generative AI. Data management with AI...

VeeamON 2023: Five Key Takeways

This week Veeam is holding its annual user event, VeeamON, in Miami, FL. This is the 9th year that Veeam has held the event,...