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With initial reports saying Verizon in the US would delay Google Android OS updates, now refuted by Verizon, what will Telstra do?

Yahoo! appears to have put an obstacle in the path of users who want to quit its services in the wake of news of a massive leak of user data and reports that it spied on users at the behest of an US intelligence agency.

Verizon is trying to get the price it pays for Yahoo! lowered by US$1 billion following the string of bad news that the latter has been hit with in recent weeks.

All major phone carriers on the east coast of the United States experienced outages of up to 45 minutes beginning at 11am local time on Tuesday (1am AEDT Wednesday), according to information from the outage monitoring site, DownDetector.

A massive data leak from Yahoo! of account details of about 500 million users took place two years ago, according to the company.

Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a division of US communications giant Verizon, has appointed 30-year ICT industry veteran Vic Bhagat as chief information officer for its global business.

Eight years after Microsoft made an offer of US$44 billion to buy Yahoo!, the company that once was synonymous with Internet search has been sold to Verizon for US$4.83 billion.

Using Ericsson/Calix and ADTRAN technology for the trial, major US telco Verizon is assessing the next-gen advanced tech to see how it increases system capacity.

How the mighty have fallen! Yahoo! is set to sell its core business to Verizon for the relatively paltry sum of about US$5 billion, according to numerous media reports.

Telstra’s thrust into the Asia Pacific and broader global markets continues with the big telco bringing in former Nokia APAC executive, Paul Tyler, to take up a newly-created role as group managing director international.

Megaport says it is "the global leader in software defined networking based elastic interconnection", and "taking you from any location, to any service, on your terms", with a very impressive list of customers to whom the company already provides services.

US telco Verizon has partnered with data virtualisation vendor Actifio to launch a new cloud backup service which the two companies say will enable enterprise customers to embrace hybrid cloud, accelerate application development and improve business resiliency.

Verizon has warned that data breaches are on rapid ascent despite organisations repeatedly told that they are at risk and then failing to implement even basic defences and training.

Verizon, the largest US telco, has warned that data breaches are on rise around the world but bemoans the fact that despite being repeatedly told organisations don’t seem to be heeding the messages about the risk of attacks and are failing to implement basic defences and training.

At the TV Connect 2016 conference in London, four major mobile network operators in Australia, the US, the UK and South Korea have joined forces to create the LTE-Broadcast Alliance.

Tech firms, and to a lesser extent telcos, around the world collectively spent over US31 billion in investments in IoT-related start-ups in five years to the end of 2015, with Intel out front with its massive US$16.7 billion acquisition of chipset maker Altera.

Last year - 2015 - was the year the Internet of Things (IoT) went ‘mainstream’, with companies finally embracing the technology and building it into future strategies and business models, according to US telco Verizon.

Verizon has moved to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific region with the rollout of a new partner program, including in Australia, which the company says will allow it to serve a broader range of clients.

Telstra has a big tick of approval as the best performer of all telcos in the Asia Pacific market last year, with global analyst firm IDC noting that industry specific solutions and cloud services - mainly in Australia - and its Indonesia joint venture with Telkom Indonesia helping in Telstra’s “upward push”.

Just because you're not in the health industry, you may still be responsible for storing health-related data securely.