The agreement comes shortly after Verizon announced it was selling its media arm for $5 billion to private equity firm Apollo Global, which includes AOL and Yahoo. While Yahoo has struggled to stay relevant in Western markets, the brand is a core part of Z Holdings, which owns SoftBank’s various internet businesses in Japan and earned pre-tax profit of ¥848 billion in the past fiscal year. Z Holdings, a joint venture between Softbank and Naver, is the parent company of internet businesses Yahoo Japan, Yahoo Shopping, ZOZO, Japan Net Bank, and messaging platform Line....

Doesn’t sound like that big a deal? Think again. The important part of the decision by U.S. District Court Judge Josephine L. Staton stated that SFC’s claim “that the [GPLv2] enforcement of ‘an additional contractual promise separate and distinct from any rights provided by the copyright laws’ amounts to an ’extra element,’ and therefore, SFC’s claims are not preempted.” Karen M. Sandler, SFC’s executive director, explained, “The ruling is a watershed moment in the history of copyleft licensing....

Revenue in the quarter rose 3% year over year to $664.5 million, yielding a net profit of $1.02 a share. Analysts had been modeling $637 million and an EPS of $0.98. The report sent Sonos shares up nearly 9% in late trading. “We are pleased to report that Sonos had another excellent quarter, with record-setting revenue of $664.5 million and a strong adjusted EBITDA margin of 24.6% even as we continued to invest in our business....

Also: Sonos’ new line of smart speakers feature spatial audio and USB-C This second-generation Sonos One speaker is nearly the same as the first generation, with an improved processor, more memory, and Bluetooth Low Energy. Note that Bluetooth LE is not used for streaming audio to the speaker. So, the questions are how does the speaker perform and is it worth the money? Read on for my weeks’ worth of experience with the Sonos One....

The virtual reality companion to Sony’s PlayStation 5 will officially go on sale starting February 22, 2023. It will ship in multiple versions, including a base model that comes packed with the PS VR2 headset, two PS VR2 Sense controllers, and a pair of stereo headphones, as well as a bundle with all of the aforementioned items and a PlayStation Store voucher code for Horizon Call of the Mountain. Pre-orders for the PlayStation VR2 will begin on November 15, exclusively from the PlayStation online store for buyers in the US, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg....

Shipping the terminals to customers brings the company a step closer to achieving its goal of delivering broadband connectivity to locations where access is unreliable or completely unavailable. Each Starlink Kit comes with a Starlink terminal, Wi-Fi router, power supply, cables, and mounting tripod. Under the project, beta services are currently operating in 11 different countries. SpaceX outlined as part of beta services that users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mbps to 150Mbps and latency from 20ms to 40ms in “most locations over the next several months” while the Starlink system continues to be enhanced....

The report sent Splunk shares down 1.5% in late trading. The Q3 report comes two weeks after the company surprised Wall Street by announcing Splunk’s CEO, Doug Merritt, was stepping down and the company would initiate an executive search for his replacement. Interim CEO Graham Smith, chair of Splunk’s Board of directors, remarked that the quarter’s results represented “a significant milestone for Splunk, as it was [its] first billion-dollar cloud ARR quarter, with cloud accounting for a record 68% of [its] software bookings....

Established in 2006, Infobip offers a variety of cloud communications services to enterprises and telecoms providers all over the world. Led by co-founders Silvio Kutic, Roberto Kutic and Izabel Jelenic, the company has around 3,500 employees in more than 70 offices worldwide. Despite its impressive global reach, Infobip’s main offices remain in tiny Vodnjan, where Kutic’s family has lived for more than 500 years. SEE: Cybersecurity: Why this beautiful city of spires could be the next tech innovation hub The concept that led to Infobip emerged in 2001....

This is according to the State of Marketing 2022 report, a Salesforce Research survey of 6,000 marketing leaders worldwide. The report found that marketers are still more optimistic than ever, with 87% of marketers saying their work provides greater value now than it did a year ago – a 10% point jump from 2021. Also: Digital transformation: Top 5 skills you need to succeed Here are the key findings of the report: Marketers stay optimistic amid headwinds: Although macroeconomic instabilities have teams examining their budgets and fine-tuning their tech stack, marketers remain optimistic in the face of change....

Nope. Leaving aside that many consumer bandwidth numbers are bogus - link speed is not storage speed - actual performance is rarely dependent on pure bandwidth. Bandwidth is a convenient metric, easily measured, but not the critical factor in storage performance. What most storage performance tools measure is the bandwidth with large requests. Why? Because small requests don’t use much bandwidth. The following graphic, produced with a tool from ATTO storage, illustrates this....

Producing digital coins is not environmentally friendly, to say the least. Bitcoin mining – one of the best-known implementations of blockchain – consumes around 110 Terawatt Hours per year, which is more than the annual consumption of countries such as Sweden or Argentina. Tesla, whose CEO Elon Musk said that crypto’s energy use is “insane”, will no longer be accepting bitcoins as payment due to climate change concerns – at least, until crypto mining becomes greener....

According to T-Mobile, its ultra capacity network has an average speed of 325 Mbps, with peak speeds up to 1 Gbps. The carrier didn’t specify the average and peak speeds of its extended range network. Also: What is 6G, if anything? A guide to what to expect, from whom, and when To celebrate the rapid expansion of its network, T-Mobile partnered with Heritage Distilling Company and Jones Soda Company to release what the company is calling 5Gin and 5Ginger Beer, respectively....

“The new TCL 40 Series smartphones are market leading while supporting our goal of democratizing technology,” TCL CEO Aaron Zhang said in a press release. “Plus, with the support of our strong carrier partnerships, they also help us to deliver on our mission of providing 5G for everyone.” The TCL 40 XE 5G mobile phone offers 5G connectivity and a 6.56-inch HD+ display with a 90Hz refresh rate. It’s powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G processor and a high-capacity 5000mAh battery....

“COVID-19 has significantly accelerated the pace of technology adoption, business digitalisation, and is changing the way we work, we communicate, and we shop. This has the potential to spur a new wave of innovation and productivity growth. And we are positioning Australians to make the most of these opportunities of the future, including by investing more in skills, new energy technology, digital technology, and R&D. These reforms and investments will boost productivity and set Australia up for the future,” he said....

The contract, touted as Telstra’s largest IoT deal to date, will span over 15 years. As part of the deal, Telstra will enable Yarra Valley Water to utilise its new cloud-based platform-as-a-service IoT connection manager (ICM), as well as its cellular low power wide area network to access IoT coverage of about 4 million square kilometre for NB-IoT and over 3 million square kilometre for LTE-M. Telstra industry solutions and IoT group owner Mark Chapman claimed both networks were built specifically for scaled IoT deployments, including in challenging locations such as underground where digital meters are often located....

Below, we’ve highlighted five of the best data visualization tools to meet long-term goals and guide operations. Tableau Tableau’s perennially popular BI and BA platform is one of the more commonly used data visualization tools on the market. The platform helps entrepreneurs, large operations and lean small-business teams become data scientists using drag-and-drop features for in-depth operational analysis. Tableau’s machine learning-enabled Einstein Discovery capabilities provide a no-code approach to data insights and the platform....

There are so many great games on the Playstation 5, as well as many free games worth giving a go. Finding the right game is tough, and frankly, at $70 per game, you don’t want to wind up purchasing a game you won’t enjoy. So here are ZDNET’s top games currently out for the Playstation 5. Also: The best gaming solid state drives The sequel to the original God of War game in 2018 has recently been released and fans of the franchise simply love it....

When the sheep refuse to come, these are the best white noise apps to get you through the night. To help promote more health and wellness, consider our expert picks for the best sunrise alarm clocks, best book lights, and the best cheap earbuds! Developer: myNoise BVBASize: 306.2 MBSounds: 20+App Store rating: 4.6Google Play rating: 4.1Cost: Free myNoise may not have the most sounds on our list, but it has some of the most unique....

Cloud-based servers are terrible for video editing, as it takes forever to upload and download video to the cloud (even if you have a fast pipe). If you’re doing anything with video (or other large files), you’re unlikely to find cloud storage practical except, maybe, for backup. Second, cloud servers can get kind of expensive. Sure, if you’re equipping a NAS, you’re paying for drives, but once you pay out the expense for the NAS and drives, you’re done....

The problem seems to come down to iCloud servers being swamped by, well, essentially lots of people trying to set up their shiny new iPhones. Putting aside the arguments that you’d think Apple would make sure it had enough capacity to deal with all those new iPhones it sells (that costs money, and since it’s a transient Apple seems to opt for riding the wave and waiting for things to settle down), what should new iPhone owners do....