Vom brisanten Geheimdienstmaterial des US-Informanten Edward Snowden ist nach Angaben der Zeitung "Guardian" erst ein Bruchteil an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt. Man selbst habe bisher ein Prozent der von Snowden erhaltenen Dokumente veröffentlicht, sagte Chefredakteur Alan Rusbridger vor einem Ausschuss des britischen Unterhauses in London.
Einen wahren Schatz an uralten Bibeln sowie seltenen hebräischen und griechischen Texten haben der Vatikan und die Bibliothek der Oxford University online gestellt. Eines der ersten Bücher, das am Dienstag auf der gemeinsamen Website veröffentlicht wurde, war die Kopie einer Gutenberg-Bibel von 1455.
Der "Cyber-Monday" als wichtigster Einkaufstag der USA im Internet hat dieses Jahr alle Rekorde gebrochen. Die Onlinegeschäfte in den USA hätten am Montag den grössten Ansturm in ihrer Geschichte verzeichnet, teilte das Analyseunternehmen IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark mit.
Nach dem Zugunglück mit 79 Toten im Sommer hat die spanische Regierung Zugführern verboten, während der Fahrt mit dem Handy zu telefonieren. Nur in Notfällen seien Anrufe gestattet, sagte die Ministerin für öffentliche Bauvorhaben, Ana Pastor. Geplant sei auch die Installation einer sogenannten Black Box, mit der wie in Flugzeugen Gespräche und Daten aufgezeichnet werden könnten.
Zirka alle zwölf Monate verdoppelt sich die Datenlast auf den Schweizer Mobilfunknetzen, was die Mobilfunkbetreiber Orange, Sunrise und Swisscom dazu zwingt, ihre Netze kontinuierlich auszubauen. Erstmals belegen nun Vergleiche mit den Nachbarländern, dass in der Schweiz der Umweltschutz, das Baurecht und die Raumplanung die Entwicklung der Mobilfunknetze deutlich erschweren und verteuern. Das Forum Mobil, die Mobilfunkbetreiber und der Schweizerische Telekom-Verband Asut fordern deshalb eine Überprüfung der geltenden Rahmenbedingungen.
Bei T-Systems Schweiz hat der 37-jährige Alen Mijatovic die Funktion des Head of Portfolio Managements übernommen. Als Mitglied des Vertriebsmanagements ist der in der Schweiz geborene Kroate mit seinem Team fortan für die Planung, Entwicklung und Vermarktung des Lösungsspektrums von T-Systems in der Schweiz zuständig.
CDs sind für viele SchweizerInnen passé: Heute hören rund ein Drittel aller Eidgenossen Musik voll digitalisiert über den Computer, das Tablet oder das Smartphone. Junge Leute sind dabei kaum mehr bereit, für Musik zu zahlen.
Der Online-Versandhändler Amazon hat kürzlich auch in Deutschland das Bezahlen mit der Gutscheinwährung Coins eingeführt. Damit sollen Kunden einfacher bezahlen können. Doch die Vorteile dieser Kunstwährungen sind umstritten. Neben Coins gibt es noch ein ganze Reihe weiterer virtueller Währungen, die inzwischen auch zum Bezahlen im Netz oder im Cafe geeignet sind.
Die auf Open-Source-Lösungen spezialisierte NXC mit Sitz in Lausanne übernimmt die Zürcher digitale Marketingagentur Ground15 Productions. NXC will sich damit auf dem Gebiet von Entscheidungshilfen, basierend auf datengestützter Analyse (Big Data), profilieren.
Google bietet die Leistung seiner Rechenzentren nun auch als Mietservice an. Der Internetkonzern startete heute seinen Dienst „Google Compute Engine“. Bisher bot Google lediglich konfektionierte Anwendungspakete wie E-Mail, Textverarbeitung, Tabellenkalkulation und eine Onlinefestplatte als Dienste in der Internetcloud.
Windows tablets will gain market share in the coming years, but not fast enough to challenge the dominance of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS, IDC said on Tuesday. IDC is projecting Windows tablets to occupy 10.2 percent of the market by 2017, growing from a projected market share of 3 percent this year. By comparison, tablets based on Android and iOS will register slight dips in market share. In 2017 Android will have a tablet market share of 58.8 percent, compared to the projected market share of 60.8 this year. Apple’s iOS will have a tablet market share of 30.6 percent in 2017, compared to 35 percent this year. Over time, Microsoft’s market share in the tablet market will increase, thanks to more devices and aggressive pricing. But underlying Windows OS, device design and application problems will continue to prevent faster growth, said Tom Mainelli, research director of tablet research at IDC.
The U.S. House of Representatives needs to take more time to debate and rewrite a bill targeting so-called patent trolls because several provisions would hurt legitimate patent holders, several critics of the bill said Tuesday. The House is scheduled to vote on as soon as this week, but members of the higher education, venture capital and other industries called on Congress to refine the legislation before passing it. The Innovation Act is good “for people who don’t like patents and would like them all to go away,” said John Vaughn, executive vice president of the Association of American Universities. University researchers often invent products that are manufactured by private companies, and the bill, as written, is “going to disrupt this system,” he said during a press briefing Tuesday. The Innovation Act, sponsored by several members of the House Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican,
Let’s face it: aside from the tired “put your hands in the air” schtick, modern DJing can be a pretty low-key affair. But a new app from Japan’s Shikumi Design could put the energy back in the booth. On Tuesday, Intel announced the winner of the Perceptual Computing Challenge—Shikumi, whose Kagura app won $100,000 from the chipmaker for its use of gestures that could be interpreted with a Microsoft Kinect-like camera attached to a PC. (Microsoft also gave Shikumi its own award for the app earlier this year.) Kagura—which, like so many contest winners, appears to be a proof of concept—allows users to play a number of virtual instruments just by waving their hands. Placing a hand over a drum icon, for example, plays a beat, while a user could wiggle his or her virtual fingers to “play” a mandolin. The app appears to be fairly sophisticated, allowing users to control the tempo via gestures, for example, or record sound samples on the fly. As the demonstration video below plays, your first thought might be: how is this any different than a turntable, keyboard, or touch screen? But as the music plays on, there’s a glimpse of what this app could be: a fusion of dance and gestures, allowing the DJ to play pre-recorded samples or tracks, mix in a custom instrument or two, and do it in a way that’s visually engaging.
Building on a collaboration with Google, software vendor JetBrains has updated its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE (integrated development environment) to offer more capabilities for creating applications to run on Android devices. IntelliJ IDEA 13 also features a number of improvements in how it supports the Java Spring framework, which is an essential component for Pivotal’s (platform as a service). First released in 2001, IntelliJ IDEA is one of a number of popular IDEs used for writing Java applications, alongside Oracle’s NetBeans and JDeveloper as well as the open-source Eclipse. Developers the software’s ease of use and intuition in anticipating the programmer’s next action. Earlier this year, Google the open-source IntelliJ as the base platform for its own Android Studio, a toolkit to help developers build Android applications more effectively.
comes to the Android platform this Thursday, December 5. , but you'll control Alonso from start to finish. The game makes liberal use of the Android platform's intuitive, touchscreen controls, letting you swipe the screen to steer your ship, for example. Naturally, waterborne combat is a major focus of the game, and you'll use similar controls to carry out your attacks. Drag your cannons from side to side to aim them, and tap the screen to attempt to dodge the return fire that comes your way (and hopefully live to sail another day). Victorious players can salvage items from sunken ships through a built-in minigame. Of course, when you aren't under fire, you can also customize your ship and its crew with nearly endless options. just fine), but Android is clearly growing into its own as a credible platform for video games. It's only a matter of time until the handheld OS can carry a title like this without a major console tie-in to back it up.
On Tuesday, Microsoft updated its Lync collaboration software for Windows 8.1, a relatively minor update that still makes one wonder why Lync and Microsoft's Skype aren't a single product. Upgrading to Lync for Windows 8.1 is easy enough: on your Windows 8.1-powered PC, Lync will upgrade itself over the next 24 hours. The upgrade adds a bit of functionality, including the ability to take control of a shared screen in a Lync meeting. Essentially, Lync and Skype do the same thing: store a list of contacts, who you can communicate with either via instant message, audio, or video conferencing. Both Skype and Lync can share screens. One advantage to Lync is that the app maintains a list of upcoming meetings, along with a way to launch Lync directly. In May, , meaning that the two platforms can talk to one another; video calls can't be made from one platform to the other, however. Microsoft has pitched Lync at enterprises, with about 5 million users in May. Skype, which straddles the business and consumer worlds, has far more: about 300 million users or so.
Turbo F.A.S.T., a DreamWorks-made series, is just the vanguard of an onslaught of streaming shows targeting kids.
” allowed infected machines to communicate using sound waves alone—no network connection needed—people said he was crazy. New research from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics suggests he’s all too sane. , the proof-of-concept malware prototype from Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz can transmit information between computers using high-frequency sound waves inaudible to the human ear. The duo successfully sent passwords and more between non-networked Lenovo T400 laptops via the notebooks’ built-in microphones and speakers. Freaky-deaky! The most successful method was based on software developed for underwater communications. The laptops could communicate a full 65 feet apart from each other, and the researchers say the range could be extended by chaining devices together in an audio “mesh” network, similar to the way Wi-Fi repeaters work. attackers are first able to infect the PC with audio mesh-enabled malware.
BlackBerry has upgraded its management platform Enterprise Server 10 (BES10) with more features for managing Android and iOS smartphones and has also improved scalability to lower overall costs. BlackBerry’s problems are well documented, but the company is soldiering on. On Monday, the company posted from CEO John Chen that emphasized its renewed focus on the enterprise market. One of the key products in this effort is BES10, with version 10.2 released on Tuesday. To make it more competitive in a cutthroat sector, BlackBerry has extended its cross-platform support. Enterprises can now activate iOS and Android-based devices using what the company calls “true BYOD mode,” where management is confined to the Secure Work Space container only. This feature is a good fit for environments where full mobile device management control for iOS and Android devices is not preferred, according to BlackBerry.
Nokia has won a sales ban on the HTC One Mini smartphone in the U.K., but its Taiwanese rival can keep on selling its HTC One flagship model pending the outcome of a possible appeal, the England and Wales High Court ruled Tuesday. The High Court in late October that some HTC devices, including the HTC One, infringe on a Nokia mobile network standard patent that Nokia also asserts against HTC in Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. When Nokia won the case it announced it would seek financial compensation and an injunction against the import and sale of infringing HTC products in the U.K. While the injunction granted Tuesday was final, Sir Richard David Arnold, the judge in charge of the patents court, said in that he would stay part of it: Nokia was only granted a sales ban against the One Mini and not against the One pending the outcome of a possible appeal.
It’s the end of the line for one of the frontrunners in the solid-state drive revolution: Toshiba is buying OCZ’s SSD assets for the bargain bin price of $35 million, mere days after OCZ declared bankruptcy last Friday. That figure is for the whole kit and caboodle, too: Toshiba’s snapping up every inch of OCZ’s SSD assets, from its enterprise arm to its consumer business to its brand and sales channels. Toshiba is giving OCZ funding to keep the company afloat until the sale is completed, which is expected to take about two months. The press release made no mention of OCZ’s power supply business or cooling technology, leaving those lines in limbo. The press release says that “OCZ will continue to operate and serve existing and future customers during this process.” Given OCZ’s reputation for poor drive reliability—which is no doubt part of the reason the company’s on the block to begin with—it’s hard to imagine Toshiba selling SSDs under the OCZ banner once the sale is complete unless it invests some cash in rebuilding the brand.
Apple wants to bar Samsung Electronics executives with knowledge of leaked confidential information from negotiating any mobile device licenses for the South Korean company for the next two years. The iPhone maker is also asking a federal court to bar Samsung from seeking an injunction in another patent dispute between the two companies that is currently before the court in California, because of its “unclean hands.” That case comes up for trial next year. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division, is considering sanctions against Samsung and its lawyers because of concerns that the company’s external counsel may have shared confidential information from Apple with Samsung, including information on Apple’s patent licensing agreements with Nokia, Ericsson, Sharp and Philips, which were marked for viewing by the attorneys alone. The issue came up after testimony in June from Nokia’s chief intellectual property officer, Paul Melin, that Samsung executive Seungho Ahn told him at a license negotiation meeting that he knew the terms of Nokia’s licensing agreement with Apple, and went on to recite the terms of the license to prove his point.
D-Link on Monday for a firmware coding goof that could allow attackers to remotely change the settings of several of its router models. Craig Heffner, a vulnerability researcher who specializes in wireless and embedded systems, on Oct. 12 that the web interface for some D-Link routers could be accessed remotely by setting a browser’s user agent string to “xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide.” The string suggests a backdoor was intentionally inserted into the firmware. Read in reverse, the value reads in part “edit by 04882 joel backdoor.” The patches are for D-Link router models DIR-100, DIR-120, DI-524, DI-524UP, DI-604UP, DI-604+, DI-624S and the TM-G5240. Some devices made by Planex and Alpha Networks may also be vulnerable, D-Link said, presumably because they use the same firmware.
revealed a major update to its FileMaker database platform that allows users to access FileMaker databases through a browser. The marquee feature of the new FileMaker 13 is FileMaker WebDirect, which allows FileMaker to be used through an HTML5-compliant browser. Databases accessed via the Web use an interface that mirrors that used in the desktop app. Changes made through the Web are updated to the FileMaker database in real time, so you can see up-to-date information regardless of which client was used to make the updates. At the time of the release, FileMaker 13 supports desktop browsers, with support for mobile browsers coming at a later date. In version 12, FileMaker introduced themes, a set of templates with distinct colors, buttons, fonts, and borders. FileMaker offers over 50 themes, all of them customizable. To help you give the database a uniform look, FileMaker is introducing styles, which let you change the look of objects all at once. You can create custom styles and use them later. On the iOS front, FileMaker Go incorporates more iOS behaviors, including popovers, slide controls, and gesture support. The built-in cameras in the iPhone and iPad can now be used to scan bar codes, and FileMaker Go supports seven different keyboard types, so you get the appropriate keyboard based on the type of data being entered.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. And that’s because this year, Microsoft’s Santa-tracking is touch-friendly. For the second straight year, Microsoft has partnered with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to monitor Santa’s progress around the globe. Microsoft redid the site this year, however, to allow excited children armed with Surface tablets to spin an interactive Claymation-styled globe around (beginning Dec. 24) and pinpoint when the jolly old elf will arrive in their neighborhood. The site, now live, offers several holiday-themed games (unlocked using an Advent calendar motif), holiday videos, and music. There’s also “secret Santa” files that talk about the tracker’s history, which began when an advertisement offering to help kids track Santas accidentally published the phone number of CONAD, NORAD’s predecessor. The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole, according to NORAD. Years later, Google provided the first “data” that established the Santa Tracker Web site.(For the record, NORAD says its combined radar and satellite tracking system, together with a network of “SantaCams” and U.S. and Canadian jet fighters, provide up-to-the-minute alerts on Santa’s progress.) But two years ago, Google and NORAD parted ways, for unexplained reasons, and went with Microsoft instead.. Last year, offered an opportunity to chat with Santa, download an Android app, and track him via Google+.
Mobile operators looking for somewhere to place small base stations to improve network performance in metropolitan areas can now turn to Alcatel-Lucent, which has set up a clearing house for information about available sites. Network operators can boost the coverage and capacity of 3G and 4G networks in metropolitan areas by adding more, smaller base stations—but it can be difficult for them to find sites for the new equipment. Obstacles include finding appropriate sites, obtaining zoning or construction permits, and connecting them to the rest of their LTE or 3G network. Alcatel-Lucent is working with companies that own suitable sites, including Crown Castle and EdgeConneX, to build a database describing the locations and the availability of back-haul network connections. Partners in the Metro Cell Express Site Certification Program also include unnamed outdoor advertising companies and cable operators, Alcatel-Lucent said.
Just a few years back, buying a laptop was as easy as walking into a Wal-Mart or Best Buy, strolling past the netbooks, plunking down a few hundred bucks on a Windows machine with a trackpad that didn’t suck, and coming home, if not happy, at least with a notebook that could get the job done. Things aren’t quite so easy anymore. The laptop world has burst into a cornucopia of niches. Specialized Chromebooks, Ultrabooks, and laptop-tablet hybrids have muscled into the territory of traditional notebooks in a bid to more closely target your needs and stand out from the traditional portable-PC crowd. Which type of laptop is right for you? Read on, and you’ll know by the time we’re done. Let’s start on the affordable side of things. Chromebooks run Google’s ChromeOS rather than Windows, and ChromeOS sprang forth from, you guessed it, Google’s Chrome browser.
The revamped service offers an app store, emergency assistance, and a Wi-Fi hotspot. But it'll all cost money, and no one knows whether users will pay.
The isn’t flashy, in any sense of the word. In fact, its most distinguishing feature may be its lack of distinguishing features. It's a USB 3.0 bus-powered portable drive built around a standard rotational hard drive with a healthy 1TB of storage capacity. WD announced a version with a more noteworthy 2TB of storage capacity, but that model is not yet shipping. With read and write speeds hovering right around 100MBps, the My Passport Slim didn’t break any performance records, but is fast enough for incremental backups. The fastest test result was 130MBps reading 10GB of files and folders when running under Windows 8. The drive ships formatted as NTFS and comes with WD Smartware Pro for Windows which offers automated backups and even backups to cloud services like Dropbox. You can easily reformat the My Passport Slim as HFS+ for use with Macs and OS X's Time Machine backup application. The My Passport Slim isn't the fastest, cheapest or thinnest portable hard drive around. But it offers acceptable speed, respectable storage capacity at a reasonable price.
The U.S. Supreme Court will leave it to Congress to settle the contentious question of online sales tax collection that brick-and-mortar retailers contend puts them at a disadvantage to giants such as Amazon.com. The nation’s highest court declined on Monday to hear a petition from Amazon.com and Overstock.com asking for a review of a New York Court of Appeals ruling that upheld the collection of sales tax for online purchases. In 1992, the Supreme Court sales tax only needs to be collected if a business has a physical presence in a state. But the New York law, , considers retailers to have a physical presence even if the businesses accept “affiliate” sales leads from other websites.
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualization. MDOP 2013 R2, , lets IT administrators manage BitLocker in Windows 8.1 using version 2.0 SP1 of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) and manage Group Policy with version 4.0 SP2 of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM). The suite's Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) also can be used now with Windows 8.1, a major update to Windows 8 that became available in mid-October. The suite also includes Version 5.0 SP2 of the App-V virtualization tool, which has an Office Deployment Tool for Office 2013 virtualization. App-V is designed to let IT departments store applications on a central server and stream them on demand to multiple user devices. Office 2013 is the most recent version of Microsoft's ubiquitous suite of desktop productivity applications. More support for Windows 8.1 device management is found in version 2.0 of MDOP's User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), which is designed to establish user preferences and settings in a central server so they can be automatically applied to the multiple devices a user employs. With it, applications don't need to be reconfigured manually in each device. UE-V 2.0 now also lets IT administrators control how users apply the settings of Windows Store applications in their various devices. Windows Store apps are those written specifically for Windows 8.
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is said to have admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service attack for about a minute on a Web page of Koch Industries—Kochind.com, using software called a Low Orbit Ion Cannon Code, which was loaded on his computer. LOIC is a popular DDoS tool used by Anonymous and other online attackers to overload websites with requests and disrupt the target server. Rosol, who pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of accessing a protected computer, was sentenced to two years of federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level agreement (SLA) where it guarantees GCE to be available 99.95 percent of the time. It has also cut prices and increased the number of options the service offers. GCE “is a long-term strategic bet for the company,” said Brian Goldfarb, Google’s head of cloud platform marketing, adding that “we have an incredibly high bar for what general availability means.” Although the company has offered the Google App Engine PaaS (platform-as-a-service) since 2008, Google has been fairly late to the IaaS space. Introduced as a preview in June 2012, GCE competes with Amazon’s popular Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service. A number of companies already use GCE, including Snapchat, Evite and Red Hat.
IDC reported Monday that the PC market is expected to plunge by more than 10 percent this year, with consumer PC sales dipping by about 15 percent. That’s by far the steepest PC market decline in history. In total, the number of PCs sold is expected to decline by 10.1 precent in 2013, slightly below the previous projection of 9.7 percent. IDC expects PC unit sales of about 314.8 million, which is on pair with 2008 sales figures. IDC reported that commercial PC sales will fare slightly better, dropping about 5 percent, but that consumer PC sales will fall about 15 percent compared to the prior year. IDC also expects that worldwide PC sales will fall 3.8 percent in 2014 as well. after Windows 8.1 sales failed to materialize. ”Perhaps the chief concern for future PC demand is a lack of reasons to replace an older system,” said Jay Chou, a senior research analyst, at IDC, in a statement.
Topsy analyzes social data across the Web, including all of Twitter's stream
Salesforce.com has completed a review of the judging process for the hackathon it held at last month’s Dreamforce conference, and as a result it will award a second $1 million prize to the initial runner-up. The probe “determined that the winning teams met eligibility requirements, but that final round judges may not have been provided with enough information to evaluate final round entrants’ use of pre-existing code contained in their app entries,” Salesforce.com said in a statement on Monday. “As Salesforce.com is unable to determine whether or not this would have changed the outcome of the final round of judging, the company has concluded that the appropriate outcome is to declare a tie and award each of our two top winners the first place prize of $1 million.” Contestants worked to create mobile applications with Salesforce.com’s development technology. The top prize of $1 million initially went to Upshot. While the contest rules stated that applications had to be “developed solely as part of this Hackathon,” other contestants complained, pointing out that it appeared Upshot CTO Thomas Kim had demoed a similar-sounding application a couple of weeks before the official coding start date of Oct. 25.
The Federal Communications Commission still has a regulatory role to promote competition in telecommunications and broadband and to ensure Internet users can access the content of their choosing, the agency’s new chairman said Monday. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, in , rejected calls by some conservative groups and large carriers to let the free market dictate the direction of the telecom industry going forward. While the telecom industry and its networks have evolved away from a monopoly system in recent years, the FCC still has several functions, he said. “As our networks evolve, so should government oversight,” he said. “I am a rabid believer in the power of the marketplace. But I have seen enough about how markets operate to know that they don’t always, by themselves, solve every problem.” Wheeler pointed to the FCC’s decision in 2011 to as an example of good competition policy.
Creativity. For some, it’s a struggle. For others, a calling. For most of us, it’s both. But, when deadlines are looming, it’s the ability to maintain a state of flow, working productively and continuously despite external pressures, that separates the creative pros from the wannabes. Fortunately, anyone can learn to achieve flow. . It’s not always easy to get into a state of flow, and it’s a state that is easily broken. But with good habits and some helpful tools, you can get there, stay there, and work brilliantly. You can achieve this by taking steps to simplify your workspace and workflow, clearing the course so your creativity can run free.
Huawei Technologies remains the world’s biggest vendor of cellular networks despite being effectively locked out of the huge U.S. LTE market. Huawei took in 28.1 percent of all cellular network revenue in the third quarter, according to ABI Research results released Monday. That kept the Chinese vendor in the lead even though its share was down 3 percentage points from the second quarter, when it overtook Ericsson to claim the top spot, ABI analyst Nick Marshall said. U.S. government concerns about network security, stemming from accusations that Huawei is connected to the Chinese government, reportedly have Huawei gear. But Huawei has won contracts in most other parts of the world and been part of the LTE rollout of China Mobile, which has the world’s largest wireless subscriber base, exceeding 700 million. “This is one of the largest contracts we’ve seen in a long time for LTE expansion,” Marshall said.