Saturday, February 19, 2022

Great Resignation Shines a Spotlight on Insider Threats

As the so-called Great Resignation seems still to be in full swing, one critical topic is often left out of conversations — cybersecurity concerns specific to the employee exodus. However, security practitioners and analysts warn that insider threats tied to the Great Resignation can pose a substantial risk to organizations.
           

Friday, February 18, 2022

Nvidia's Arm Ambitions Are Anything But Dead

Nvidia shrugged off its failed bid to acquire Arm Holdings to end the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021 on a high note. The chipmaker’s net income doubled to $3 billion from the year-ago period on $7.6 billion in revenues.
           

Will the Developer Shortage and Great Resignation Collide?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re familiar with what’s been coined the Great Resignation: the pandemic-inspired trend of employees across all industries quitting their jobs in droves. Some analysts say this phenomenon hasn’t trickled down to the software developer community just yet, but it likely will in the future. Instead, the skilled developer shortage poses a bigger threat that could be compounded by a belated arrival of the Great Resignation.
           

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Water Utility Taps Cisco As Cyberattacks Loom

Protecting the water supply from cyberattacks was the subject of a recent White House initiative, and New Mexico’s largest water utility recently showed how it can be done. Working with Cisco, the utility replaced its legacy system and gained visibility and real-time alerts across its information and operational systems.
           

Ericsson Touts 5G RAN Efficiency Gains

Ericsson this week embraced the growing demand for greater sustainability and pointed to improvements in hardware engineering, silicon, and software to deliver “smart, slim, and sustainable 5G networks.”
           

Orange is still struggling in Spain

French telecoms group Orange hit its targets for the full year but a closer look at the numbers shows it’s still not having an easy ride in its home market, nor in neighbouring Spain.
           

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Cox sets path to '10G'

Operator says it will splash out a multi-billion dollar annual investment over the coming years to offer symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds over a mix of DOCSIS 4.0 and FTTP networks.
           

Corning aflutter about US-made fiber

A wide range of public and private companies are promising massive fiber network buildouts. Meanwhile, new federal regulations could require providers to use US fiber suppliers. And the only big one is Corning.
           

The Divide: STL's Ankit Agarwal on what's prolonging the digital divide globally

Ankit Agarwal, managing director at STL (aka, Sterlite Technologies Limited), joins the podcast to discuss STL's perspective on the digital divide based on its work delivering network solutions in over 100 countries, including what the ongoing connectivity challenges are worldwide and where government plans are making a difference.
           

Altice USA joins the fiber frenzy

Operator plans to deploy FTTP and multi-gigabit services to two-thirds of its footprint - about 6.5 million homes passed - by the end of 2025. Fiber buildout plan includes 2.5 million homes in rural Suddenlink areas.
           

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Google Cloud’s CISO Wants to Talk About Your Digital Immune System

Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables has a theory on cloud adoption and how it improves customers’ security posture without requiring any extra effort on their part. He calls it “the concept of the digital immune system,” and says it played a big role in his decision to join Google Cloud as its first chief information security officer a little over a year ago.
           

NBCU claims Super Bowl LVI streaming record

NBCU says the average minute audience for the game live stream reached 6 million across Peacock, NBC Sports Digital platforms, NFL Digital platforms, Rams and Bengals mobile properties and Yahoo Sports mobile properties.
           

Spain acts on 5G TV interference

Spain has set out a series of proposals to ensure that 5G mobile services do not affect terrestrial TV reception and putting the onus on telecoms operators to keep viewers in the loop.
           

Monday, February 14, 2022

AT&T Goes Green With Dutch Solar

AT&T plans to buy 155 megawatts of solar power from Dutch energy company Vitol, expanding the operator’s green energy portfolio to 1.7 gigawatts and emphasizing the importance of collaboration in mitigating climate change.
           

Rakuten Mobile Losses Surpass $1B in Q4

Rakuten’s foray into mobile network infrastructure continues to be a costly affair that culminated in a $1.02 billion operating loss for its mobile network business in Japan during the fourth quarter of 2021. 
           

What if Aereo had a do-over?

Reflecting on Aereo's debut ten years ago, Chet Kanojia, the founder of the now-defunct streamer of local broadcast TV, says he would have engaged with broadcasters and let them take most of the money.
           

Sunday, February 13, 2022

10M US households signed up for monthly broadband subsidy

The FCC has signed up roughly 1 million households since the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) launched in January. That's in addition to the 9 million households enrolled in the program's predecessor, the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) which ended on December 31, 2021.
           

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