Industry

$15B market for “live” SDN by 2018

$30B total potential market for service provider deployments, says ACG

VMware acquires AirWatch to boost mobile device, application management

The company accelerates its client computing push with the addition of AirWatch's tools

4G Data Service in Cars Offers Amazing Potential, Familiar Challenges

Verizon: US gov’t made 320,000 requests for customer info in ’13

Law enforcement requests to Verizon far exceed those made to other tech companies

New think tank tackles Internet governance

Newly founded Commission for Internet Governance wants to inform the discussion

Boycotting RSA Conference is a misplaced endeavor

Publicity stunt or conscientious objector, either way boycotting the conference isn't productive.

Google uses YouTube performance to rate ISPs

To get the highest rating, an operator's networks has to serve users with good quality HD content 90 percent of the time

Big Data startup MemSQL raises $35 million

MemSQL was founded by former Facebook engineers, specializes in distributed in-memory database technology

Amazon posted 16,100 IT job ads last year, tops in U.S.

Service firms, tech vendors and Best Buy also among top posters of U.S. IT job ads

Researchers plan to use nano-satellites as space traffic cops

Dozens of tiny satellites in low Earth orbit could help reduce space junk collisions