Something on Cisco's earnings call last night went terribly wrong. In a rational business sense, Cisco made plenty of money, even though they missed analyst estimates: $1.9B in profit

The Internet privacy movement appears to be gathering steam and leading to growing paranoia (warranted) among those who have the most to lose: Dozens of venture-backed ad networks and

It's Friday, so rather than do any real work, I've been soaking in the news, networking, and catching up on all the gossip surrounding the developing sale of Slide

The bandwagon story of the day is Google looking into creating a "Facebook competitor" by talking with popular online gaming companies (Wall Street Journal). That's funny, I thought Facebook

Just because an economy is crummy, or just sub-par, does not mean you cannot make money. Plenty of companies have proven that innovation can create value even in a

One of the themes we've been following here is the buildout in more telecom connectivity -- whether it be Ethernet connections or all those data connections to mobile-phone towers

Following the reports yesterday of dysfunctional data downloading on the iPhone 4 via AT&T's network, AT&T sent us an email today with an offical response -- saying it's a

Apple and Google Android application development communities continue to flourish while others languish.

There is a growing "meme" out there that Microsoft is on the verge of death and that Google will take over the world with free stuff. Please.

I've been poking around Telecom New Zealand (NZT) for quite a while. It first showed up in a dividend stock screen when the dividend was paying about 8%. Forbes'

I recently penned a column for Light Reading on the arrival of 4G and what it will mean for the large global service providers. I think this is a

Millions of people yesterday had to resort to verbal communication with friends and colleagues in addition to returning to actual, productive work as Twitter was down for several hours.

Don't you love the way that Apple dominates the news? Steve Jobs could put out a press release saying he's going to have his teeth cleaned and it would

Well, AT&T has eliminated the unlimited data plan, and Internet anarchists everywhere are having a cow. The funny thing is AT&T's headline on the announcement: "AT&T Announes New Lower-Priced

Looks like it's Steve Jobs Wednesday here in the tech media world. Lots of stuff coming out of the Wall Street Journal's D8 Conference, where Jobs spoke at length.

The Rayno Report recently completed "The Data Deluge: A Mobile Revolution," which details enormous changes that will becoming to telecom networks over the next few years.

I have been digging into the excellent research put out by consultancy Chetan Sharma which digs deep into the telecom industry. Today I was shocked to read that more

I believe it's evident now that Facebook is not yet a grown-up company or ready for IPO, proven by its feeble response to the privacy crsis over the last

As if Google isn't doing enough to rile up the Federal Trade Commission, today it announced that it is offering $68 million in cash to buy Global IP Solutions

SAP AG has agreed to acquire Sybase Inc. in a deal valued at $5.8 to beef up its mobile platform and help compete with arch-enemy Oracle Corp. The deal

No, that crummy connection from AT&T on your iPhone is not your imagination. According to some new research from ChangeWave research, AT&T (T) drops three times as many calls

Yesterday I remarked about the proliferation of bad news. Well, here's some good news: The NYPD did an incredible job defusing a bomb in Times Square, conducting a quick

LAS VEGAS -- You've heard about the "cloud," yeah? That's a fancy marketing term for connecting to computer services over a wire. In the old days they called that

HP is starting to sound like the first year of the Obama Adminstration. They have their own version of fixing the economy, winning a war, and giving everybody health