
HPE beats estimates
Thanks to storage and data centre gear
The former maker of expensive printer ink, HPE beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit and revenue, thanks mostly to greater demand for its storage and data centre networking gear.

100G/400G switches expected to take off
Hyper-scale datacentre establishments
Demand for 100G/400G switches is expected to take off earlier than expected thanks to increasing hyperscale datacentres.

Twitter is highjacked by a small number of bots
Spreading Fake news
Hopes that Twitter might police its network for fake news were dashed when it a new report revealed that a small number of bots could overwhelm its fact checkers.

Sprint throttles Skype
If only there was a net neutrality law to stop this sort of thing
US telco Sprint has been throttling Microsoft’s Skype service.

Nokia wins $2.3 billion frame deals in China
One of the advantages of not being an American company
Finnish mobile telecom network maker Nokia announced on Wednesday that it had signed frame deals with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom worth more than two billion euro.