Google’s (GOOG) online video giant YouTube this morning announced that it is getting into the live streaming business, a move that has long been rumored but hasn’t become a reality up until today. In a blog post, the company says it is currently registering 2 billion views on a daily basis, and that they’re looking [...]
The annual Black Hat USA event kicks off this week in Las Vegas with security researchers set to discuss vulnerabilities in nearly every type of information technology. Over the years, Black Hat has created a mythos for itself as the conference where some of the most lethal hacking attacks are discussed and sometimes debunked. Black [...]
Give five hundred very technically proficient Linux enthusiasts unfettered access to the same Wi-Fi network and you might be asking for trouble. Nearly every year, network administrators at Linux.conf.au, Australia’s premiere open source conference, have to deal with some sort of shenanigans on the network. Chief among the concerns for conference network admin Steve Walsh [...]
India’s Bharti Airtel continues its move into Africa, launching a 3.75G platform in Zambia to give users high speed broadband Internet on their mobile phones. The new service will also allow users to watch television and make video calls from their hand devices, the company said on Tuesday. 3.75G technology will give our customers the [...]
LAS VEGAS — AT&T dropped its $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA in December, but demonstrated Monday that it is still running on all cylinders with announcements at CES of new smartphones, a tablet and new tools for mobile app developers. David Haight, vice president of business development for AT&T, said in an interview [...]