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Network upgrades prepping for 4G launch

Troubled mobile carrier Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) is pressing ahead with the network upgrade it hopes will rebuild its fortunes in the country, with Cisco to provide the foundation of its 4G network backbone.…

By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Huong "Junie" Hoang, the actress who sued IMDb for revealing her real age on her IMDb Pro profile, isn't taking no for an answer. Hoang, who lost her case against IMDb in April after a jury ruled in the online movie database's favor, has filed a notice of appeal in the case. Hoang is filing with the Ninth Circuit court of appeals. Hoang filed suit against IMDb anonymously in October 2011, claiming that IMDb damaged her career by revealing her age after she signed up for the site's subscription service, IMDbPro. ...

By Brent Lang and Lucas Shaw LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Brian Robbins first spoke with former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg after he made "Norbit," one of those Eddie Murphy comedies in which the comedian played several characters at once. Robbins directed the movie, one of ten he has made in his career, and DreamWorks, which Katzenberg co-founded, produced it. "I remember getting a very nice phone call from him - a congrats on 'Norbit,'" Robbins told TheWrap. "But we didn't know each other." Katzenberg was focused on DreamWorks Animation, which he had spun off as a separate company. ...

By Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is considering whether the Bitcoin virtual currency should be subject to its rules, a top official at the agency said. Bart Chilton, one of five commissioners at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said he had asked staff to explore whether consumers needed more protection from any mishaps with Bitcoin, whose value collapsed last month. "Here's what I know for sure: we could regulate it if we wanted. That is very clear," Chilton told Reuters in an interview on Monday. ...

Mother's Day is nearing, but instead of scrambling for one of the typical, rehashed gifts, why not go high-tech? CNET's Sumi Das shares a roundup of clever ideas for mom.

Once again, conservatives are in an uproar over Benghazi. And once again, liberals say it's much ado about nothing.

By Sarah McBride SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley is taking itself a tad too seriously, and a few of its shriller residents have taken note. Recent weeks have seen the birth of a few new blogs poking fun at America's crucible of technology, among them whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com, a relaunched version of the classic Valleywag.com, and, perhaps most discussed, jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com Call it the zeitgeist. ...

While the iPhone itself is a head turner, it regularly gets covered over by some of the world's ugliest cases. A surprising Kickstarter project leads to a new case that looks like it could have come from Apple.

50 channels tapped for content-for-pay trial

Video streaming giant YouTube is nearly ready to begin offering some of its customers a subscription pricing model for their content channels, according to reports.…

The satirical site is either going all-in on a meta joke, or is the latest victim of a notorious hacking group

By Supantha Mukherjee and Sruthi Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc said upgrades for its flagship software package, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, would be available only through online subscriptions, effective immediately. Adobe is the latest traditional software company to make a big bet on the cloud-based subscription model pioneered by companies such as Salesforce.com Inc, NetSuite Inc and Google Inc. ...

By Helen Murphy BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday refused to be drawn into a war of words between his predecessor - and harshest critic - and Venezuela's new president, Nicholas Maduro. Maduro, elected last month to replace the late Hugo Chavez, said on Friday he had evidence that Alvaro Uribe, president of Colombia from 2002 until mid 2010, was conspiring with the Venezuelan opposition to kill him. ...

If you're a Google fan and an iPhone owner, you can do your happy dance now. An update to Gmail for iOS does an end-run around default iOS apps in favor of Google's own.

The National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan initially sued the iPhone maker in 2012, and has now taken aim at the company for its video compression technology.

Disney and Electronic Arts announced today an exclusive deal for the development and publication of new "Star Wars" video games.

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to block CBS Corp from suing it in new markets where it plans to expand. The startup company brought the complaint in Manhattan federal court, seeking a ruling that it does not violate CBS's copyright. Aereo said its complaint is a response to threats by CBS executives to sue the company in any jurisdiction where it makes its technology available to consumers. ...

The company's founder and chief executive Mark Pincus says that his company is planning to make a mobile push with FarmVille 2.

People are so mean when Republicans try to highlight there are actual young people who like the GOP. Hardly any cool bands will let Republicans play their music. When Republicans point out a song has a conservative message, the artist jumps in to dispute that analysis. To help it connect with the youngs, last month the National Republican Congressional Committee announced it would create a BuzzFeed-style site with OMG LOL WTF lists to promote their conservative message. On Sunday, the NRCC's site was hacked, and the content was replaced with spam ads about Viagra and Cialis. ...

The Japanese company is reportedly working to enable mobile app access on its consoles to boost flagging Wii U sales.

The companies combined to capture 100 percent of the industry's profits, but that's actually slightly lower than what they had been in previous quarters.

The company is now in sixth place, jumping from its previous rank of 17 last year.

Getting into the encrowdening field earlier than expected

Interop 2013 Juniper Networks is fast-tracking its Contrail software-defined network control freak to try to blunt the advances of myriad other players that have crashed onto the SDN bandwagon from all angles of attack. The JunosV Contrail Controller, which was not expected to be commercially available until sometime in the first half of 2014, but today at the Interop networking shindig in Las Vegas, Juniper will announce the Contrail code is in beta starting today and that it can deliver it with commercial-grade features and support before the end of 2013.…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it believed Motorola Mobility, a unit of Google, was abusing its market position by seeking and enforcing an injunction against Apple in Germany over patents essential to mobile phone standards. The Commission said in a statement it had informed Motorola Mobility of its preliminary view in a charge sheet known as a statement of objections. The Commission said injunctions could be used to combat patent infringements, but that was not the case where a potential licensee was prepared to agree on licensing terms. ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc launched an Android application store that offers paid apps in China, beating Google Inc, as the online retailer seeks to increase the amount of digital content it offers in the world's largest mobile phone market. Amazon, which opened its Kindle e-book store in China in December, launched its Android app store over the weekend for China users to download both free and paid apps, Amazon China spokesman Billy Huang said on Monday. Google's official app store only offers free apps in China. Google China declined to comment for this story. ...

By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - Worried about what your dog is chewing on when you're at work, or whether your home is secure while on vacation? New apps can transform old smartphones into remote security cameras for home monitoring systems. Presence, which was launched late last month, converts a spare Internet-connected iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into a free video camera with real-time video and audio streaming, and motion detection and notifications. ...

Better late than never. The Retina iPad Mini isn't right around the corner, says DisplaySearch.

The first refresh of the iPad Mini is coming in the third quarter, NPD DisplaySearch said Sunday, in an update.

A refresh of the iPad Mini is coming in the third quarter, NPD DisplaySearch said late Sunday in an update.

Miffed at court's refusal to block Aereo streaming service

Updated In response to a New York appeals court ruling that upheld the right of media mogul Barry Diller's fledgling Aereo streaming service to continue to provide its subscribers with broadcast television content, News Corp.'s president and COO Chase Carey says he might turn Fox television into a subscription-only cable service.…

10GE starts to ramp and the 40GE shows some backbone

The Ethernet switch market picked up a tiny bit as last year came to a close, according to various box counters, and the prognosticators at Infonetics Research and IDC were projecting that 2013 would see stronger growth as the move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet begins in earnest in the data center and companies start contemplating using 40GE switches as their new backbones.…

Trying to pull in more biz to fill in revenue hole

Switch and server adapter maker Mellanox Technologies gave Wall Street a bit of a shock with some cable issues and a big revenue shortfall in its most recent quarter and a projected one for the current quarter after one of its OEM customers bought more product in the latter part of 2012 than they could sell even into the first quarter.…

The DGS-3420-28TC isn't from Cisco and I'm OK with this

Review I have a confession to make, dear readers. While I'm aware that this admission opens me up to virtually unlimited heckling from the Cisco-indoctrinated crowd, the truth of the matter is that D-Link switches have served me in good stead for over a decade. After having spent the past month reviewing D-Link's DGS-3420-28TC, I've decided its maker stands an excellent chance of remaining a staple vendor for my SMB clients for another decade.…

Adding MetroDX for campus and a MetroX that spans 100km

InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Mellanox Technologies, recently hammered because it missed its latest quarterly results big-time and gave a weak forecast for the first quarter, is sticking to its switched-fabric knitting and expanding its product portfolio, making good on its promise to flesh out a series of long-haul switches to link data centers scattered around campuses or separated by relatively large distances.…

Misconfigured backup relay

When there was a power outage during the Superbowl, it only took minutes for someone to claim responsibility on behalf of “Anonymous”.…

Embeds OpenFlow control freakage in two 10GE switches

By acquiring Force 10 Networks back in July 2011, privatizing IT giant Dell moved itself from a maker of low-end switches to a contender for a slice of the top-end market for 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches that are ever so slowly becoming the backbone of data centers. But you have to keep up with the times, and that means providing a 10GBaseT port alternative to SFP+ ports and cables that are commonly required on 10GE gear, and it also means adding OpenFlow management to the switches.…

Adding converged Fibre Channel and pushing 10GBase-T ports

Big Blue is rounding out its RackSwitch top-of-rack switches in conjunction with the launch of entry and midrange Power7+ servers earlier this week.…

Detective work at Layer 2

Star2Star CTO Kristian Kielhofner has identified a buggy implementation the Intel 82574L Ethernet controller that makes some kit subject to a “packet of death” that hangs the port receiving the packet.…