Firefox Hello, the WebRTC-based video-calling feature that Mozilla and partner Telefónica revealed as a beta feature in October, hit the mainstream — sort of — with the full release of Firefox… Read more »
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Orange’s proposed takeover of Spain’s Jazztel. France’s Orange already has a Spanish subsidiary, whose connectivity Jazztel resells as a mobile virtual network operator… Read more »
The company said on Monday that it was in preliminary acquisition talks with two carriers, one of which it confirmed as being O2. The other is reportedly EE. Read more »
Telefónica has tapped Israeli networking startup eVolution to help it manage the power consumption of its mobile networks in Latin America. Read more »
The firm announced its Skylink platform at AWS re:Invent. As it’s entirely built on the Amazon Web Services stack, the firm claims Skylink will work particularly well for startups that also… Read more »
The hub’s development is only on the Spanish carrier group’s to-do list, so there are scant details right now, but it will handle the fixed lighting and heating that Thinking Things… Read more »
The pack includes plug-and-play modules for power, connectivity, and sensing ambient light, temperature and humidity — as well as 2G connectivity that works in a bunch of places. Next to come… Read more »
Telefónica will cut 1,600 jobs in Germany following the merger of O2 Deutschland with E-Plus, to get rid of duplicate roles. The jobs will be phased out by 2018, the firm… Read more »
Users of the Firefox 34 beta will be able to have anonymous, WebRTC-based voice and video chats from the browser itself, with no need to install an add-on or plugin, or… Read more »
The introduction of LTE-A will mean theoretical maximum speeds of 300Mbps, though of course people will get lower speeds due to capacity sharing — and they’ll need the right handsets, too. Read more »