Stories by: Brad Reed

Patent trolls beware: Some of the tech industry's biggest names are banding together to run you out of court.

The Femto Forum will be working with a next-generation wireless industry group to explore how femtocells can help carriers roll out 4G technologies such as WiMAX and LTE.

The global battle to control the smarts in your smartphone escalated this week when some of the combatants redeployed their forces in two big moves.

Comcast announced this week that it will no longer target individual protocols for traffic shaping, and will instead slow Web traffic for individual users who consume a "disproportionate" amount of bandwidth.

In a development that will give pause to drunk-dialers everywhere, a Web site has been launched that lets users upload any and all of their voice mail files for the world to hear.

Wi-Fi moochers beware: eTelemetry has released a new device that's designed to spoil your free ride.

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study Thursday showing that Cox Communications and Comcast have been blocking BitTorrent transfers within the United States at both peak and non-peak hours.

Comcast announced this week that it has decided to stop targeting such P2P protocols as BitTorrent when managing network traffic.

Verizon announced last week that it has successfully tested a new peer-to-peer, file-transfer system that the company says could eliminate many of the headaches that P2P systems have traditionally caused ISPs.

The National Science Foundation announced this week that it had reached an agreement with Google and IBM that would let the academic research community conduct experiments through the companies'1,600-processor computer cluster.

Critics of the US ISP Comcast aren't backing down after the company defended its traffic management practices in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing last week by asserting that its tactics fall well within the bounds of reasonable network management practices.