Israel Holds 5G Mobile Network Tender, Aims For 2020 Launch

Jerusalem: Israel launched a tender for fifth-generation (5G) cellular frequencies on Sunday, hoping discounts to cash-strapped mobile phone operators battling fierce competition will entice bids. The telecoms regulator expects three groups…

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Riverbed Updates SD-WAN to Serve Businesses From Cloud to Network Edge

Riverbed released updates to its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) product, SteelConnect, to create a networking product that spans from the cloud to the edge. The updates include integrations with Xirrus WiFi, LTE…

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Facebook Is Using AI to Make the Social Network a ‘Hostile Place for Terrorists’

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook is ramping up its efforts to curb online extremist content It plans to use artificial intelligence to detect and remove such content An algorithm is being built by…

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Pinterest is Getting Rid of its Like Button, Moving Away from Social Network Label

Pinterest has announced that it will soon be retiring it’s Like button, which may require a slight change in process for Pinners, particularly those who track Likes for their performance metrics.…

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Why an Incident Response Plan Is Not Enough for Network Security

Cyber-attacks grow steadily each year. Hackers have managed to make the internet their playground, holding the data they steal to ransom and getting pay-offs worth millions of dollars. In order…

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Revenue-Sharing Social Network Tsu Shuts Down

Back in October 2014, a new Facebook challenger emerged, this one with a view to giving creators a cut of ad revenue and sharing their profits amongst the user community.…

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Yin and WAN? Analysing the relationship between network and cloud provider

More than half (56%) of businesses have expressed concern over security gaps at the point between their wide area network (WAN) and public cloud provider, according to a recent research…

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Airtel Deploys LTE-Advanced 4G+ Network in Kerala

Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Sunday announced it has commercially deployed LTE-Advanced (4G+) in Kerala, which enables the operator to provide data speeds of up to 135 mbps. "Bharti Airtel…

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Midokura Provides More Network Virtualization Visibility

While it’s taken some time, network virtualization is now quickly becoming fairly common. The challenge now is finding a way to apply network virtualization to support heterogeneous IT environments. To…

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