Analyst: Samsung Driving Market While Droid Profits Surge

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Everyone knows Samsung is Android’s dominant force — the South Korean company recently shipped 10 million units of its flagship Galaxy S4 — but how much of Android’s revenue does Samsung actually capture? According to Neil Mawston of Strategy Analytics, Samsung accounts for roughly 41% of Android device shipments yet claims an astonishing 95% of … Read more

Calitii Partners with BridgeBio for Managed ServiceNow Services

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Calitii, a Synechron company and IT consultancy, has announced an agreement with BridgeBio, a biopharmaceutical firm, to provide comprehensive ServiceNow Managed Services. The collaboration builds on Calitii’s initial implementation of ServiceNow IT Service Management for BridgeBio last year and now advances to daily operations, proactive maintenance, and continuous improvement of the ServiceNow platform. Under this … Read more

Verizon Backs One Touch Make-Ready Plan to Speed Fiber Deployment

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Verizon is voicing its support for “One Touch Make Ready,” a proposal designed to speed fiber deployment by cutting through the regulatory and logistical delays associated with pole attachments. The approach has been piloted in several U.S. metropolitan areas and has sparked controversy: notably, Comcast and AT&T sued Metro Nashville after the city adopted a … Read more

Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile Launch First End-to-End 5G NR Interoperable System

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Qualcomm Technologies, ZTE and China Mobile have announced a successful demonstration of the world’s first end-to-end 5G NR Interoperability Data Testing (IoDT) system, establishing a data connection based on the 3GPP Release 15 (R15) standard. The demonstrated end-to-end 5G New Radio (NR) system operates in the 3.5 GHz band and supports a 100 MHz channel … Read more

Check Point Software Launches Agent-Based Security Orchestration

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Security company Check Point Software has launched Agentic Network Security Orchestration, a new AI-driven platform designed to automate and simplify enterprise network security management. The solution aims to reduce the manual administration that has long burdened security operations and to help organizations respond more quickly to threats in complex IT environments. As organizations expand hybrid … Read more

Vodafone Launches R&D Center to Develop Its Own Open RAN Chips

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Vodafone has opened Europe’s first dedicated R&D centre focused on designing Open RAN chips for the operator’s networks. Open RAN (Open Radio Access Network) breaks up the dominance of a small number of telecom equipment vendors by enabling greater vendor diversity and interoperability in national infrastructure. Governments and operators are increasingly backing Open RAN because … Read more

EU Forms Research Task Force to Curb Problematic Internet Use

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The European Union has launched the European Problematic Use of the Internet (EU-PUI) research network to address and reduce harmful internet behaviours. Activities such as gambling, viewing pornography, and excessive social media use may seem harmless or enjoyable to some, but for others they can become serious problems that affect daily life. Although support groups … Read more

Netskope Launches AgentSkope: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Platform

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Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leading provider of modern security and networking solutions for the cloud and AI era, today introduced Netskope One AgentSkope. This new architectural foundation enables organizations to easily deploy Netskope AI agents capable of executing end-to-end workflows. As an intelligent layer within the Netskope One platform, AgentSkope powers agent-based workflows that support … Read more

European Mobile Data Traffic to Nearly Triple in Five Years

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The GSMA forecasts that mobile data traffic in Europe will nearly triple over the next five years, driven by expanding 4G coverage in Central and Eastern Europe and ongoing improvements in 5G capacity and reach. Their analysis indicates that 5G subscribers are eager to adopt high-bandwidth services such as cloud gaming, extended reality (XR), and … Read more