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A successful court appeal by telco Verizon against will limit the US government’s ability to ensure ‘net neutrality’.

The speculation was correct. Vodafone has sold its 45% stake in US carrier Verizon Wireless, in one of the largest commercial transactions in history. What happens next?

Photos have leaked of what could be Google's next smartphone, featuring a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

Vodafone did not bid in the spectrum auction, but TPG has secured spectrum bandwidth for the first time. What does this mean for the future of Australian telecommunications?

Three quarters of cyber crime is financially motivated, but cyber espionage is growing. Know your enemy, says a major new report.

To meet the growing demand of its government and enterprise customers, Verizon has doubled the capacity of its Fyshwick data centre in Canberra.

Giant US carrier Verizon has been forced to deny that it will partner with AT&T to buy Vodafone, which owns 45% of its successful wireless business. But rumours persist.

There has been a lot written about the respective merits and demerits of FTTH and FTTN as competing broadband deployment technologies, some of it quite informative but sadly much has been utter tripe. The fact is ubiquitous rollout of a FTTH network in a country like Australia can only achieve take-up by creating a monopoly and shutting down competition.

A report on the development of FTTH networks in the US from research firm RVA suggests that the Labor Government is on the right track with its ambitious plan to serve 93 percent of premises by fibre. However Ovum has backed AT&T's decision to focus on FTTN.

Revenues for service providers in the global fixed and mobile sectors last year passed the US$1.91 trillion mark as the sectors recovered from a downturn which saw revenues in 2010 hit US$1.79 trillion.

How are breaches detected and what should be done to assist the process?  Mark Goudie from Verizon offers some thoughts.

Terremark is offering a single-tenant version of its Enterprise Cloud service for those who need to keep themselves to themselves.

Novosoft LLC, the acclaimed backup software developer, presented a data backup protection strategy covering the issues highlighted in the recent Verizon report on data breaches.

Start counting the pennies, if you're (un)lucky enough to suffer a data breach, on average it will cost you over $2M.

Every year, Verizon builds a major snapshot of all the data breaches they investigated in the previous year.  The latest report details the rise of hacktivism and the continuation of cyber criminal activity around the world.  We also interview one of the report's authors.

Verizon has expanded its Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services within the Asia-Pacific region, offering customers in Australia, Hong Kong, India and Singapore access to applications including social networking, video chats, mobile-device support, instant messaging and presence.

US mobile carriers experienced solid growth in mobile revenue driven by the move to iPhone and Android smartphones and LTE upgrades to mobile networks, according to a new analyst report.

Australia's Department of Defense has gone with a distinctly American company to help manage its internet environment in a $50 million deal.

Some 20 major global telecom operators, including Vodafone, MegaFon, Verizon and NTT DoCoMo, will give exclusive feedback on femtocell trials and deployments around the world at the annual Femtocells World Summit in London from 21-23 June.

SAP has promoted Peter Sertori to the role of director, business influencer & analyst relations, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. The company has also appointed Wendy Hill as head of communications, SAP ANZ.