Networking

Dell Technologies delivered mixed fourth quarter results as earnings fell short of expectations and sales were in line. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $24 billion, up 1% from a year ago, with earnings of $416 million, or 54 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $2 a share. Wall Street was expecting Dell to […] More

At first glance, the proposed deal makes little sense. The Internet Society is trying to sell the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the “.org” top-level domain (TLD), to the new private-equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. There are about 10.5 million .org domains, and most — but not all — are […] More

Image: Asha McLean/ZDNet Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has seen its revenue decrease by 3%, mobile customer base shrink by 5%, and its net loss blow out from AU$124 million last year to AU$279 million for its 2019 full year. On the positive side, the company grew its fixed-line broadband customers to 114,000 and posted a […] More

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has opened consultation on whether any competition issues are likely to appear with the upcoming allocation of licences in the millimetre wave 26GHz and 28GHz spectrum band set that will be used for 5G deployments. The 26GHz band, from 25.1GHz to 27.5GHz, is set to be allocated by […] More

Image: Ofcom At the end of last week, the United Kingdom Office of Communications (Ofcom) released a set of testing that looked at electromagnetic energy (EME) levels from around Britain. The location with the highest total radiation level during any of the six-minute tests undertaken was London’s Canary Wharf, which had a total of 1.496% […] More

Open source revolutized technology and networking but it’s done almost nothing in cellular technology. That’s because Boris Renski, co-founder of OpenStack and Kubernetes power Mirantis, explained, “cellular wireless is an oligopoly black box primarily due to historic government regulation.” But, now that the FCC has opened up the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) […] More

New Zealand broadband wholesaler Chorus has noted in its first-half results that it is concerned people are shifting away from its fixed-line services to fixed wireless products offered by the country’s mobile network providers. “The number of disconnections from our fixed-line network slowed markedly in the first six months. However, mobile network operators continue promoting […] More

It’s a scientific fact that communication is more effective when you can see the person you’re talking to. Seeing the other person’s facial expressions, for example, makes it easy to tell a serious request from an offhand remark or a joke. But you don’t have to endure hours of air travel for an effective face-to-face […] More