Telecommunications Industry

Cisco’s NDS purchase more than TV

Software, services, know-how and installed base will help further video ambitions

LTE will help make in-flight data access cheaper, vendors say

Deutsche Telekom, Alcatel-Lucent and Airbus are convinced it can supplant satellites

Cricket leaps to Clearwire for LTE offload

The budget carrier's five-year wholesale deal with Clearwire is a blow to LightSquared, which it had looked to for extra capacity

Analyst: Mobile networks will need 10x fatter backhaul pipes by 2016

To keep up with demand for mobile data, the backhaul from cell sites has to grow fast, according to research firm iGR

Wordless tribute to a machine that moved millions of voices

Short 1974 film features assembly of AT&T's Electronic Switching System

Marvel hopes to give comic books a boost with augmented reality content

Extra content will include new footage and commentary from the creators

Mobile apps: The IT pro’s new power tools

Wikipedia parent: We’re officially done with GoDaddy

SOPA-inspired saga ends, as domain-name transfers to MarkMonitor complete

Wikipedia parent finally ditching Godaddy over SOPA support

UPDATED: Wikimedia Foundation chooses MarkMonitor as new registrar

China will not issue 4G licenses for another 2 to 3 years, says official

China is currently holding large-scale trials using 4G LTE TDD technology