If you’ve used text messages from Facebook or Google to authenticate your account information, you’ve used application-to-person messaging – and a recent survey from Mobilesquared shows that such usage is …
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill
Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.
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SAP saw its enterprise cloud revenues jump 41% year-over-year, and CEO Bill McDermott told investors that the company is “accelerating our shift to the cloud.” SAP reported that it now has …
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Interest in big data education programs is ramping up, according to representatives at big data company Teradata, and colleges and universities across the country are trying to figure out how …
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Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at test and measurement news to see …
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In a small, simple box, Signal Hound has put big capabilities. The small company located in La Center, Washington, has been working for years on designing and manufacturing its line …
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A new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration reflects the fact that Americans have been rapidly adopting mobile broadband use. NTIA’s report “confirms skyrocketing demand for devices that allow users …
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Editor’s Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile …
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How It Works: Flash memory for billing applications, real-time network monitoring
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillEric Herzog of Violin Memory explains to RCR Wireless how flash memory has disrupted the telecommunications storage market. Violin has led disruption of the memory market for telcos with five …
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PIM, or passive intermodulation, is a type of interference that has become increasingly important to detect and mitigate because LTE networks are particularly sensitive to it. PIM Explained: what is …
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Telco Case Study: Vodafone and Argyle Data on using big data to combat fraud
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillUsing big data to prevent impacts from fraud has been part of the focus in a case study discussed by Vodafone and Argyle Data in this video from the recent …
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NetScout makes $2.6 billion network monitoring, security purchase from Danaher
by Kelly Hillby Kelly HillNetwork performance monitoring company NetScout is making a major purchase of communications test and measurement assets, buying Tektronix Communications and some parts of Fluke Networks as well as advanced network …
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Investment in big data and analytics (BDA) is booming, with the large number of vendors and startups in the field creating an environment ripe for acquisitions. BDA mergers and acquisitions …
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Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at test and measurement news to see …
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With Christmas decorations now cropping up next to Halloween costumes, the holiday shopping season seems to be creeping earlier every year. And so are the predictions about what the all-important …
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Social capital, as John Feland explains, looks at the strength of the relationship between people and their devices or products. Feland, who founded Argus Insights, became interested in the metric …
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Editor’s Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile …
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Test and measurement company Rohde & Schwarz is one of the largest test and measurement companies globally. It currently has openings in the U.S. as well as Germany, Singapore, the …
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Mobile marketing company Urban Airship is partnering with location-based information company Gimbal to more precisely target users via geo-fencing and low-energy Bluetooth beacons as well as location history data. Urban Airship …
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OSS/BSS doesn’t exactly send a thrill through most audiences. “The three words that really put fear in the heart of people in Silicon Valley are ‘telco billing software.’ Tediously boring,” …
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Continuing its investment in education programs related to big data analytics, IBM announced a partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for an executive program focused on …
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Startup company Mobolize focuses on end-point mobile data optimization through an application on smartphones that allows content caching on the device and allows more users to share cell sites by …
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Parallel Wireless co-founder and chairman, in what he called the first public discussion of the company’s work in virtualizing the Long Term Evolution (LTE) access and core networks, described virtualization …
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As wireless technologies are developed, designed and eventually deployed, that process requires the expertise of network test engineers to troubleshoot and fix issues along the way. So what companies have …
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Editor’s Note: The ability to test network and device features and functions is an important piece of technology development and deployment. RCR Wireless looks weekly at test and measurement news to see …
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In a survey that goes a long way toward explaining the continuing explosion in mobile data traffic, Tata Communications found that Americans have gotten so attached to the Internet that they …
