AT&T and Verizon's battle to deliver lightning-fast LTE wireless network speeds to its customers is expected to heat up this summer. Verizon may have a jump on AT&T, for now, but don't write-off AT&T just yet. Its upcoming LTE network is shaping to give Verizon a run for its money when it launches this summer.

More than half of U.S. broadband subscribers' connections are limited by a data cap, and two digital- policy public interest groups in Washington DC are asking the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the matter.

LiveBrianD asked the Networking forum what will happen to the Internet when we run out of IPv4 addresses.

Cell phone carriers have a secret: Although they sell us data plans on their 3G or 4G networks, the idea of us actually using data brings them out in a cold sweat. Put simply, they're struggling to find the bandwidth to cope. There are forecasts that in 2012 cellular data requirements will reach 4.56 million terabytes--double that of this year.

Google, Facebook and Microsoft are among the heavy hitters of the tech industry that have teamed up to support a new, cloud-focused initiative called Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

CEOs, like children, squabble sometimes, and publicly rail against one another in the name of corporate positioning. But usually the dueling suits occupy the same product market, or are somehow competing. This doesn't appear to be the case with the global chairman and CEO of Netgear, Patrick Lo, who for no clear reason attacked Steve Jobs and Apple in the Australian press. And instead of bolstering Netgear's reputation, Lo's comments came off smug, cruel and confused.

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses.

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphrases, such as those found in homes and smaller businesses.

Which American city will receive Google's experimental fiber network? We'll have to wait a while longer to find out, it seems.

MetroPCS surprised everybody when it launched 4G LTE service in September (in Las Vegas), becoming the first wireless carrier in America to do so. They also came right out of the gate with an LTE handset--the Samsung Craft--shirking the common carrier practice of releasing a USB card first and a phone later on. OK, so the Craft isn't the best smartphone in the world, but it was first LTE phone to become available in the U.S.