Ericsson Claims 35% Share of Mobile Infrastructure Market

Ericsson's market share for mobile network equipment declined from 38% in 2011 to 35% in 2012, according to figures released by the company.  The company's share of the overall network equipment market also declined from 27% in 2011 to 24% in 2012. However, Ericsson's presence in Global Services increased in 2012, as the company now puts is share in this category at 13%, a strong lead over the nearest competitor.  After the acquisition...

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Amazon Web Services Trims Price for NoSQL Cloud Database

Amazon Web Services is cutting the price of its DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service.  The price of indexed data storage has decreased by up to 75% in all AWS regions. The price of provisioned throughput capacity has decreased by up to 35%. AWS is also enhancing the service with a new Reserved Capacity option that offers significant savings over the normal price of DynamoDB provisioned throughput capacity. Purchasing Reserved...

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Google Gains MPEG LA License for Techniques in VP8

Google and MPEG LA reached a deal granting Google a license to techniques that may be essential to VP8 and earlier generation VPx video compression technologies under patents owned by 11 patent holders. The agreements also grant Google the right to sublicense those techniques to any user of VP8, whether the VP8 implementation is by Google or another entity. It further provides for sublicensing those VP8 techniques in one next-generation VPx video...

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