Los Angeles, Calif. -- Barry Baker, vice president leading offering and product management for IBM Z and LinuxONE, alongside Shaun Frankson, co-founder of The Plastic Bank, tag teamed a keynote presentation at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America. The duo’s presentation,...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Actor turned internet entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt participated at this year’s Open Source Summit North America, delivering a keynote presentation titled “The Difference Between a Crowd and a Community.”
Gordon-Levitt is director of production company HitRecord and more widely known for his...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, had a conversation with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux kernel and Git, at the Open Source Summit North America this week.
Torvalds revolutionized technology twice. He originally developed the Linux kernel, the essential...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source at SUSE, and chairman of the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Lightning Talk: Human Enablement” at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America...
When considering Apple iOS, which runs the iPhone, or Google Android, there is more than just a different operating system to consider. Apple iOS is much more secure compared with Google Android. These different operating systems account for the vast majority of phones and...
After selling Motorola's smartphone business for less than a quarter of what it paid to buy it, Google is reportedly planning another acquisition in the mobile device space. This time Taiwan's HTC is said to be the target. The company has been an Android...
LTE to 5G Evolution: Key device upgrade considerations for increasing efficiencies in the network
The network evolution to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) and LTE-Advanced Pro (LTE-A Pro) are essential enhancements for extending the lifespan of LTE, and critical steps for ensuring a smooth transition to 5G. Not...
The evolution of data centers
Data centers are constantly changing to stay up to pace with the latest tech novelties. Among the technologies anticipated to have the biggest impact on the data center market are containers, which have been championed by IT administrators as a...
WiGig use cases include wireless docking and untethered VR
The 802.11ad standard, also called WiGig due to its ability to deliver multi-gigabit throughput using unlicensed 60 GHz frequencies, has been something of a slow burn. But Mark Grodzinsky, senior director of product management for Qualcomm,...
T-Mobile US is trying once again to disrupt the U.S. wireless industry by attempting to offer consumers exactly what they want. This time, the self-described "un-carrier" says it has created an offer that is tailor-made for T-Mobile customers. T-Mobile says its customers use three...
CNCF teams up with Packet to provide Lab to developers
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of cloud native applications, announced today it is making its CNCF Community Infrastructure Lab publicly available for open source projects.
Cloud native computing...
The six devices that support gigabit LTE are built on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 platform and X16 modem
More than two dozen carriers around the world, as well as all four major U.S. mobile carriers, are working to deploy gigabit LTE technologies. While network testing has...
Four-channel carrier aggregation uses three channels of unlicensed spectrum
Verizon Wireless is ready to start rolling out license-assisted access technology nationwide. Following a demonstration that delivered 953 megabits per second with commercial network equipment, the carrier's VP of network support, Mike Haberman, said Verizon will...
Samsung said its newest LTE modem is capable of aggregating six component carriers, an industry first. The 3GPP currently defines carrier aggregation as a maximum of five component carriers, each having up to 20 megahertz of bandwidth. Samsung said its new LTE Category 18...
Company is on track to replace Intel as world's largest chipmaker
The world's leading smartphone vendor had a very strong second quarter, but smartphones were not the biggest contributor to Samsung's bottom line. Operating profit for Samsung's semiconductor business was almost double that at its...
So, your smartphone got wet and now it won’t work. What should you do? I spoke with David Naumann who started a company called DryBox. He says don’t try and fix it yourself, don’t try and turn the phone on and don’t stick it...
Qualcomm is asking U.S. trade authorities to potentially ban the sale of iPhones that do not use Qualcomm's baseband processors. The chipmaker is calling for an import ban, as well as an order that would prevent the sale of phones that are already in...
I spoke with Marc Seelenfreund, CEO of Siyata Mobile Inc., a push-to-talk player. Think of them like Nextel on steroids. You remember Nextel. They were the PTT company that flourished in the business marketplace, then suddenly disappeared. Since that time, carriers like AT&T Mobility,...
Why are smartphone product designers getting it so wrong? Maybe they are using their own personal preferences. Maybe they got some bad data. It doesn’t matter. They are wrong. The entire wireless marketplace does not want huge screens and giant smartphones. A slice of...
Apple, Nokia patent deal settles intellectual property dispute
Apple and Nokia have settled all lawsuits in their intellectual property disputes and agreed to a multi-year patent license.
Most of the details were kept confidential, but the companies said that deal involved an undisclosed up-front cash payment from Apple...
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For many device companies, a significant percentage of all product or part returns end up in the category “No Trouble Found” or NTF, also known as “No Fault Found” or NFF. This is the label received by a product that fails (or appears...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It is a better smartphone than previous versions in a few ways, but it is not a home run. The screen is bigger and better. Bixby, their new AI, which I’ve been waiting to try is...
The Device Hub initiative, which was formed based on partnership efforts with Sprint, continues to attract CCA members looking for LTE device procurement.
LAS VEGAS – The Competitive Carriers Association announced six new members to its Device Hub initiative, which was formed with Sprint...
After the Galaxy Note 7 battery disaster several months ago, Samsung teased us with their upcoming AI services. Last week Samsung introduced Bixby, which is their new AI service. It is similar to Apple Siri, Google Now and Microsoft Cortana. It is on the...
