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Big Switch Expands SDN Fabric Support to VMware NSX

Big Switch Networks, which in January brought support for VMware's vSphere server virtualization technology to its networking fabric, is now extending that support to...

MediaTek Puts 10 Cores Into Helio X20 Mobile SoC

Low-power chip maker MediaTek late this year will release a new 10-core mobile processor that includes a unique architecture that puts the cores into...

802.11ac, Hotspot 2.0 Help Fuel Growth of Carrier WiFi Revenues

The carrier WiFi equipment market is continuing to see rapid growth due in large part to such technologies as 802.11ac and Hotspot 2.0 and...

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headgear Coming Q1 2016

Facebook's Oculus division says it will finally be launching the consumer version of its long-awaited Rift virtual reality (VR) headset in the first quarter...

Ex-HP CEO Fiorina Officially Enters Presidential Race

After months of speculation, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina made her presidential bid official May 4, announcing her intentions on Twitter and launching a...

Nokia $16.6 Billion Bid Opposed by Major Alcatel-Lucent Shareholder

Nokia's planned $16.6 billion acquisition of rival Alcatel-Lucent is getting pushback from a major Alcatel-Lucent shareholder that is complaining the price is too low.Investment...

Riverbed Technology Becomes a Private Company

Now that private equity firm Thoma Bravo has completed the $3.5 billion deal for Riverbed Technology, the application performance technology vendor becomes a private...

Fiorina’s Presidential Campaign to Launch May 4

The key parts of her resume are a controversial seven-year tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and a failed run in 2010 to unseat U.S....

A Cheer for Google’s Higher Rankings for Mobile-Friendly Web Pages

Web searching on the small screen of my Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is maddening enough compared to the searches I perform on the large,...

FM Radio in Norway Moving to Digital in 2017: Could It Happen in U.S.?

Norway has announced that by the end of 2017, its FM radio stations will no longer broadcast over analog networks but will instead move...