IoT firm Sigfox acquired by UnaBiz

Troubled French IoT startup Sigfox has been saved from receivership by Singapore based UnaBiz.

FCC set to fine Truphone over alleged Russian ties

US comms regulator, the FCC, has taken enforcement action against UK eSim firm Truphone for failing to accurately disclose foreign ownership stake by dual Russian/Cypriot nationals.

CNN + Musk = changing of the guard

The failure of CNN+ and the establishment panic over Elon Musk’s attempt to acquire Twitter are related events.

Daily Roundup: Verizon's 5-year 5G Payoff Plan

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Verizon CEO Hints at 5-10 Year Wait for 5G ‘Payoff’

Verizon entered 2022 with no mid-band 5G network and ended the first quarter with 113 million people covered by its C-band spectrum. The carrier also remains confident its deployment activities are on pace to allow it to reach 175 million people with mid-band 5G by 2023.

Forrester Warns Against Sustainability Emerging Tech Externalities

Emerging technologies like automation, blockchain, edge, and artificial intelligence (AI) show potential to power a net-zero future. But enterprises still must carefully assess the environmental costs of those technologies “and not just follow every shiny ball,” Forrester analyst Abhijit Sunil told SDxCentral.

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: Ericsson’s Corruption Quagmire Overshadows Raw Results

Security Agency Adds ICS Vendors to Cyber Defense Project

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week expanded the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) project to include industrial control systems (ICS) security vendors and operators. The announcement came out the same day as Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities released a joint advisory warning of increased Russian state-sponsored malicious cyberattack activity.

VMO2 has been busy beefing up its networks in Greater Manchester

UK telco VMO2 has announced a roster of network upgrades deployed across the Greater Manchester Region over the past year or so.

US issues another warning over Russian cyber attacks

A report authored by The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns of an increased threat of Russian cyber attacks on critical infrastructure.

EU inches forward on plans for ‘common charger’

MEPs are solidifying their pitch to make USB-C the default, and indeed the mandatory, charging interface for all consumer electronics.

OneWeb and New Space India sign satellite launch programme

Following multiple deals last month, UK low earth orbit satellite company OneWeb has agreed a new launch programme with the Indian Space Research Organisation.

AT&T Enters New Era Wounded But Focused

As AT&T enters a new era, back where it began as a company singularly focused on connectivity, it’s confronting acute challenges that could hamper its ability to grow and remain competitive on 5G.

Oracle Sustainability Survey Finds Bots Trump Humans

Human bias and emotions can hurt corporate sustainability efforts, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs might be more impactful if left in the hands of bots, according to the results of a recent study by Oracle and CIO Advisor Pamela Rucker.

Canonical Ubuntu Update Gains VM Compute Confidence

Canonical fleshed out its latest Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) platform, touting expanded security and functionality updates to its widely-used Linux operating system. Company CEO Mark Shuttleworth also dusted off the vendor’s planned initial public offering pledge that sat dormant through the pandemic.

AMD EPYC, VMware Power Dense New Oracle Cloud Instances

Oracle tapped AMD’s EPYC 3 processors to power its latest VMware Cloud-backed instances. The company’s E4 Dense bare-metal compute instances provide customers with memory dense, high-core-count instances designed to power large artificial intelligence and real-time transactional processing applications.

Nokia Nabs Microsoft Data Center Switch Sale

Nokia is providing data center switches to Microsoft’s tier-two network architecture, building on past work between the two companies tied to the Microsoft-developed Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) open source platform.

Cisco Sees Services as 'Secret Sauce' for Software Domination

As networking hardware giant Cisco evolves toward being a global software leader, it has strengthened its services business to include customer experience (CX) Cloud and strategic advisory services. Cisco executives called the business its “secret sauce.”

‘Hyperautomation’ is here to save customer services, claims SAS

A third of customers would ditch telcos if they don’t get a decent response to a complaint in five minutes, and analytics firm SAS reckons ‘hyperautomation’ is the solution.  

Refurbished smartphones are getting more popular – Counterpoint

The global refurbished smartphone market grew by 15% in 2021, according to research from analyst firm Counterpoint.

Netflix is losing significant numbers of users for the first time

The streaming services blames password sharing, inflation the Russia-Ukraine war and inflation for a 200,000 drop in subscribers in Q1, as shares plummet around 25%.

EE and Qualcomm aggregate no less than seven spectrum carriers

UK MNO EE joined forces with US mobile chip giant Qualcomm to use seven distinct chunks of spectrum at once, resulting in more 5G bandwidth.

HPC-as-a-Service Poised for Takeoff, GlobalData Says

High-performance computing (HPC) is seeing stronger adoption than ever thanks to the rise of HPC-as-a-service offerings from the major cloud providers, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Lenovo, according to GlobalData analysts.

Paying Cyber Ransoms Won't Get Your Data Back, ESG Finds

Ransomware groups have a habit of breaking their promises to return stolen data after the ransom is paid, according to a study by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

Verizon Bolsters 5G Private Network, MEC Efforts

Verizon’s investment this week into cloud-native network core platform provider Casa Systems could set the carrier up to break open the private network market with a flexible 5G-powered platform.

Analysys Mason: Cloud Can Lower Carrier IT Costs by 25%

Communication service providers (CSPs) that deploy cloud-based telecom software can save up to 25% on IT costs over a five-year period, according to an Analysys Mason report commissioned by Nokia. 

Daily Roundup: Analysys Mason Reports Cloud Can Lower Carrier IT Costs by 25%

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Amazon Claims 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

Amazon today revealed an accumulation of 37 new renewable energy projects that will help it power all of its operations with renewable energy by 2025. This accelerates the company’s plan to reach 100% renewable energy five years ahead of its original 2030 target.

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How Visa Protects Your Money With Multi-Layered Security

Visa executives this week provided a rare look behind the scenes of its security apparatus, shedding light on the financial giant’s multi-layered cybersecurity approach.

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in Q1 – Canalys

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in Q1 2022 amid ‘unfavourable economic conditions and sluggish seasonal demand’.

UK streaming subscriptions fall amid household budget crunch

New research has revealed that the number of UK homes paying for streaming services fell in Q1 2022, with 1.5 million total cancellations in that period.

UK government said to be latest Pegasus spyware victim

10 Downing Street and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are suspected to have been infected with Pegasus spyware, developed by Israeli firm NSO Group.

Nokia gets SaaSy with its customers

Finnish kit vendor Nokia has commissioned some research that CSPs can save 25% over five years if they move their software from on-premise to the SaaS model.

Can AI Save IBM’s Mainframe Biz From AWS?

You’d be forgiven for thinking mainframes were a relic of a bygone era. In reality, they’re responsible for processing nearly every financial transaction today. But that could soon change if public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) have their way.

Daily Roundup: Verizon Cascades Cash Into Casa Systems’ MEC Model

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Public Cloud Spending to Near $500B in 2022

The surge of public cloud services will continue in 2022, and nearly capture $495 billion in global spending this year, according to Gartner. This represents a 20.4% increase in spending from 2021.

Google Seeks Grid Decarbonization, Energy Market Reform

As cost-effective carbon-free energy (CFE) technology rapidly evolves, it places hopes of decarbonized electricity grids within reach. But the right public policies are needed to accelerate this transition and ensure its certainty, according to Google.

Rakuten Symphony CMO Sets Open RAN Limits

Open radio access network (RAN) architecture enjoys a simple premise with complicated caveats — ones that require an understanding or acceptance that not everything can be truly open in a wireless network environment.

Mandiant Plans to Partner Its Way to Security Domination

After splitting with FireEye, Mandiant set out to collaborate with its former competitors, fellow security vendors, and cloud service providers. Google’s $5.4 billion takeover bid is unlikely to change that strategy, according to executives at the company.

Will the Data Center Industry Grow Sustainably?

Data center capex is expected to grow, supply-chain willing, at a 10% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2022 and 2026, according to Dell’Oro Group. Now the industry is grappling with how to achieve that growth sustainably, analyst Lucas Beran said during an Open Compute Project webinar.

Daily Roundup: Netskope Says Unified SASE Is at Least a Decade From Practicality

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Versa SASE Slides Into S-Net Communications

Versa Networks scored another victory this week after S-Net Communications added the vendor’s secure access service edge (SASE) to its managed services portfolio.

Verizon Cascades Cash Into Casa Systems’ MEC Model

Verizon took an investment stake in cloud-native core platform vendor Casa Systems, which further propels and diversifies the telecom giant’s wide-ranging mobile edge computing (MEC) plans.