While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including Cloud computing, enterprise search, and mobile application development. (These are in addition to seven hot Cloud companies and seven storage companies to watch that we highlighted last year.)
Attention residents of Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas: You will soon have three LTE carriers to choose from.
While there are sure to be a lot of new networking and IT companies that emerge in 2012, these nine stood out to us for their potential to deliver game-changing innovations in a wide array of fields, including cloud computing, enterprise search and mobile application development.
Google knows that it's been a very, very bad company.
In retrospect, it's not hard to see why AT&T thought its proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile would sail through with relatively few issues.
While AT&T's attempts to acquire T-Mobile are stuck in limbo, rival Verizon has been quietly gobbling up spectrum from cable companies like Cox Communications, which today sold Verizon $315 million in licenses for 20MHz of its Advanced <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">Wireless</a> Services (AWS) spectrum.
Tablets are a tricky proposition for many IT departments since the mobile devices boast many of the content creation capabilities of laptops but lack mature management and security software.
Google has started pushing its Google+ social networking service further into Gmail with new features that let users add to their circles directly from their email accounts.
Verizon says that it has restored its LTE data services less than a day <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/120811-verizon-wireless-reports-4g-lte-253863.html">after acknowledging some customers had been knocked down to 3G speeds</a>.
AT&T once again has the lowest customer satisfaction ratings of any <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless.html">wireless</a> carrier in the United States, according to the latest survey from Consumer Reports.
US FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, dropped an unwelcome Thanksgiving treat on AT&T's lap Tuesday by announcing he wants an administrative hearing on the carrier's plan to gobble up T-Mobile.
With the reported success of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, it was inevitable that more top Web companies would want to develop Android devices of their own, and Facebook is no exception.
If the latest survey from Nielsen holds water, you can expect to see a lot of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/061510-smartphone-history.html">smartphones</a>, tablets and other <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/112111-cool-yule-tools.html">popular devices under the Christmas tree</a> this year.
As the sheer amount of content on the Web has continued to increase exponentially, so too have the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/network-storage.html">storage</a> needs of large enterprises.
AT&T today notified customers that there had been an "organized and systematic" attempt to hack into their personal account information.