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March 15: Delivering IT Services with a Private Cloud Wrapping your hands around all of the options, deployment strategies, and practices for the private cloud can be difficult. In this virtual event, we will learn from companies and consultants who have successfully designed and built private clouds. Hear how they got started, the key drivers for adopting a private cloud, and lessons to learn from along the way.
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Rethink Wireless: Industry Coverage, News and Analysis
T-Mobile USA's problems mount, as it announces plans to axe 5% of its workforce as part of a broader restructuring. The firm has to plan to stand profitably on its own two feet and move into LTE, afte ...
Android has overtaken iPhone in the US market for the first time, while worldwide, sales of phones running the Google OS have leapt by a huge 886%. In the second quarter, according to new research from Canalys, Android's US growth was 851% year-on-year, almost as high as the global average, even though it was starting from a higher base in its strongest territory. The US smartphone market as a whole grew by 41% year-on-year, in unit sales terms, said the researchers, making it the largest base for the open OS handsets in the world. Within that, Android devices accounted for 34% of sales, overtaking RIM and Apple for the top spots. Canalys particularly singled out Verizon's aggressive promotion of its Droid range, the latest flagships being the HTC Incredible and Motorola Droid X.
Android overtakes iPhone in the US - Rethink Wireless
27 Apr 2012 : Industry Perspectives Top-notch IT organizations are moving apps to the cloud, because they are realizing that it's easier to consume quality infrastructure from vendors than to build out increasingly large numbers of assets into their own data centers, writes Josh Crow, of Internap. Read More
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Roughly nine months after Google Inc. edged out rival Microsoft Corp. to win a high-profile contract to supply email and collaboration software to the City of Los Angeles, the company has missed a June deadline for full implementation due to lingering security concerns. The delay is a setback for one of Google's most strategic businesses, and an illustration of troubles that large organizations can encounter as they shift to a so-called "cloud computing" model, in which data and applications are stored and accessed online. Google's /quotes/zigman/93888 /quotes/nls/goog GOOG -0.63% failure to have all municipal employees outfitted with Google Apps by the June 30 deadline will have the company and its implementation partner reimbursing L.A. for extra costs, as the city continues to rely on former supplier Novell Inc. , according to Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Randi Levin.
Google misses deadline in high-profile L.A. deal - MarketWatch
Aereo, which syndicates local broadcast television to your mobile devices, has filed a second countersuit against PBS, Fox, and two New York broadcasters already embroiled in legal battle with the entertainment tech startup.
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4G-Satellite Network Planned for US Next Year - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
IDG News Service — An investment company has hired Nokia Siemens Networks to build a hybrid 4G-satellite mobile network, called LightSquared, across the U.S. to go live next year. Harbinger Capital Partners, which earlier this year acquired satellite phone service provider SkyTerra, announced on Tuesday it will pay NSN more than US$7 billion over eight years to design, build and operate the network. LightSquared will reach 92 percent of the U.S. population by 2015, the company said.4G-satellite network planned for US next year
An investment company has hired Nokia Siemens Networks to build a hybrid 4G-satellite mobile network, called LightSquared, across the U.S. to go live next year. Harbinger Capital Partners, which earlier this year acquired satellite phone service provider SkyTerra, announced on Tuesday it will pay NSN more than US$7 billion over eight years to design, build and operate the network. LightSquared will reach 92 percent of the U.S. population by 2015, the company said. It expects a commercial launch in the second half of 2011, according to the LightSquared website.
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Hybrid satellite cell phones aren't far off | Tech Gear News - Betanews
The largest commercial communications satellite ever has been launched. The Terrestar-1 from Terrestar Networks lifted off from the ESA (Europe's equivalent of NASA) aerospace center in French Guiana on the northern coast of South America. The satellite's network will operate in two 10 MHz blocks of contiguous MSS spectrum in the 2 GHz band throughout the United States and Canada with a footprint that covers a population of nearly 330 million.Following yesterday's announcement that Nokia-Siemens would be acquiring Motorola's wireless infrastructure business for $1.2 billion, Nokia Siemens turns around and announces a $7 billion agreement to deploy, install, operate and maintain the U.S.' first wholesale LTE network from the newly formed company LightSquared. LightSquared is the name of the multi-billion dollar network Harbinger Capital partners has been planning to build as an alternative for network operators who cannot afford to build an LTE network of their own, like T-Mobile USA. The company will build the network, and then lease it to operators. It will not directly offer services to consumers.
Huge: Hybrid satellite-LTE network launches under the name LightSquared | Wireless News - Betanews
Photo courtesy of ILS LightSquared has been delivering mobile satellite voice and data services to North America since 1995 over its MSAT-1 and MSAT-2 satellites. Today hundreds of thousands of devices operate using the LightSquared SkyTerra 1 satellite, providing reliable, ubiquitous coverage primarily for public safety, security, fleet management and asset tracking.
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Five Trends Shaping Data Center Designs - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
CIO — In the past, companies built data centers like parents buy clothes for their children: Buy big and wait for the kids to grow into them. However, companies that designed spacious data centers ended up wasting a lot of money, powering unnecessary infrastructure. Today's data-center design decisions all pivot around maximizing efficiency, while giving companies a path for future growth, says Steve Sams, VP of global site and facilities services for IBM ( IBM ). "We see our customers make very different design decisions than they used to," Sams says. "And the end result is that they are saving 30 percent in operational costs over the lifetime of the data center."LONDON--( BUSINESS WIRE )--ISIN XS0198259813 Issuer Name ANNINGTON FINANCE Paying Agent MTN Redemption Type REPURCHASE Currency GBP O/S Balance 315,830,000.00 New Balance 300,040,000.00 Value Date ... more »