With quite a bit of a shock going through the market regarding the Telefónica/BT deal, it didn’t take Vittorio Collao long to have a similarly heavy deal on the table. Vodafone seems to be weighing takeover of Liberty Global according to Bloomberg: “Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) is exploring a combination with John Malone’s Liberty Global Plc (LBTYA) that would create Europe’s largest phone, Internet and TV company, worth more than $130 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.” At least, the shares of vodafone won 2.9% on the London… Read more Vodafone Weighing Takeover of Malone’s Liberty Global →
China TV (CCTV) marks iPhone function as security threat on national level. This follows a definition of Windows 8 as an insecure operating system. While the government issued an prohibitive… Read more China picks on Apple’s location tracking function in iOS/iPhones →
STC selects Ericsson innovation in world’s first Zero Site deployment. This will come in handy during the Hajj season, I would assume. The question is, how to cope with… Read more STC selects Ericsson innovation in world’s first Zero Site deployment →
Given that both Qualcomm and Swisscom Ventures invested in the series B of PlumGrid startup (see here for more portfolio companies of Swisscom), it does not come as a… Read more Swisscom to deploy SDN by PlumGrid →
From the den I am sitting here, in the uncharted backwaters of the galaxy, a fraction of a megaparsec away from Frankfurt city centre. On my desk,… Read more EE to introduce mobile calls over WiFi, where GSM is not available →
If you want to play Spy&Spy, then http://www.nsaplayset.org/ is your playground. The inventor of this smallish lookalike “webshop” for the ANT catalogue presents his proof of concept during Defcon:… Read more Serious Playstore →
