IT, AI & Telecommunications

SAN JOSE – – November 03, 2026 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will report first-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, after the market close, covering the period ended Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026.

Cisco schedules a 1:30 PM PT management call for Nov. 12

The conference call begins at 1:30 PM Pacific (4:30 PM Eastern). The company will distribute the earnings release via PR Newswire through its US National and European Financial services. It will also post the release on its newsroom site.

Listeners can join by phone on 888-848-6507 in the US, or on 212-519-0847 from abroad. A live and replay audio broadcast with corresponding slides will run on Cisco's investor relations website.

Cisco extends the call to YouTube, LinkedIn and X livestreams

Beyond the standard audio webcast, Cisco will livestream the call on three social platforms: YouTube, LinkedIn and X.

TAIPEI – November 04, 2026 -- Chunghwa Telecom posted third-quarter 2026 net income attributable to parent stockholders of NT$12.22 billion, up 29.5% year over year, on revenue that rose 16.7% to NT$67.59 billion. Revenue, operating income, net income and EPS of NT$1.57 all exceeded the high end of quarterly guidance.

Operating income climbed 27.1% to NT$15.38 billion, lifting the operating margin to 22.65% from 20.89% a year earlier. EBITDA rose 16.1% to NT$25.66 billion, though the EBITDA margin eased to 37.97% from 38.17%. Chairman and CEO Chih-Cheng Chien said revenue, profit and EPS reached their highest levels for any third quarter since 2009, and that a one-off gain from asset revitalization contributed to profit.

Irvine, Calif. – November 04, 2026 -- Only 22% of organizations surveyed by Gartner have scaled artificial intelligence across multiple business units or adopted an AI-first approach, even though 85% of surveyed functional leaders plan to increase AI spending in 2026, according to enterprise technology provider Trace3. The company says the gap becomes expensive when tools reach departments faster than they can coordinate purchasing, prepare data, set safeguards and measure returns.

Deloitte data shows tool access outpacing process redesign

Deloitte's 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise report found that workforce access to sanctioned AI tools rose from under 40% to around 60% within a year. Only 30% of surveyed organizations were redesigning key processes around AI.

AUSTIN, Texas – November 04, 2026 -- Scale Computing says nearly 10,000 interactions with its TCO calculator show an average 40% lower total cost of ownership than VMware, as the edge computing vendor targets customers weighing renewals under VMware's new packaging and per-core licensing.

The same calculator data produced an average modeled return on investment of 119%. The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) also named Scale Computing a Top 5 VMware Alternative for 2026-27.

Scale Computing frames VMware renewals as a distributed-site problem

The company argues that for organizations with many locations, a renewal affects staffing, maintenance, migration and site-level resilience, not only the licensing quote. Sites with minimal or no on-site IT staff face extra site visits when hardware fails, patches are missed or configurations drift.

Tokyo – November 04, 2026 -- Replit has opened its first Asian office in Tokyo, anchored by Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company, Limited (SMFL), a Japanese customer with operating assets of 9 trillion yen ($57 billion). The San Francisco-based software creation platform follows its September London opening with a second international hub for its enterprise business.

SMFL reports one employee replaced a six-person, six-month project

A single SMFL employee using Replit finished a project in one week that previously took six people six months. SMFL is Replit's first enterprise customer in Japan, and the two companies are expanding their partnership to help more businesses across Asia build custom software on Replit's AI platform.

The companies announced the office at a Tokyo press conference featuring Replit co-founders Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh and SMFL President Tetsuro Imaeda.

New York – November 04, 2026 -- Clear Secure, Inc. (NYSE: YOU) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $292.9 million, up 27.8% year over year, and raised its full-year free cash flow guidance to at least $490 million from at least $480 million.

Net margin widens 600 basis points on $75.3 million profit

Total Bookings rose 24.4% to $323.5 million. Operating income reached $82.9 million, a 28.3% margin. Net income of $75.3 million equals a 25.7% margin, 600 basis points above the prior-year quarter. Basic and diluted earnings per share were $0.53 and $0.52.

Adjusted EBITDA came in at $103.9 million, a 35.5% margin and 490 basis points higher year over year.

Partnership settlement of about $315 million drives negative quarterly cash flow

Net cash used in operating activities was $98.6 million and free cash flow was negative $103.8 million. Both figures reflect the roughly $315 million settlement of accrued partnership liabilities.

Redmond – November 04, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has cut the price of its ezAccounting 2026-2027 bundle to $319.00 from $418.00 for a limited time, as small and mid-sized employers approach year-end tax filing deadlines.

Bundle covers two tax years on one desktop platform

The updated suite combines payroll management, real-time financial reporting and tax preparation in a single desktop product. Accounting teams can generate, print or e-file required tax forms. The bundle covers the 2026 and 2027 tax years. The 2026-only version is priced at $199 for a limited time, and a 30-day no-obligation trial is available.

New 941 add-on adds e-filing to the form set

The software prints unlimited Forms 943, 941, 940, W2 and W3. Copy A preprinted W2 and W3 forms are required. A new 941 add-on enables e-filing of that quarterly form.

SAN JOSE – November 04, 2026 -- Mixx Technologies has joined the Expanded Beam Optics Multi-Source Agreement (EBO MSA) and the Open CPX MSA as a contributing member, pitching its SxCTM connector at 0.2 dB typical fiber-to-fiber loss for the near-package optics step in hyperscale AI data centers.

SxC connector holds loss under 0.5 dB at up to 24,576 fibers per rack unit

The SxCTM connector, launched in September, is the connectivity layer of Mixx's HBxIOTM platform. It is rated at under 0.5 dB maximum loss. In a single Open Compute Project rack unit it carries up to 24,576 fibers, four times the fiber density of MMC. Its optical structures are formed at wafer scale, which lets fibers sit in a two-dimensional array.

Global – November 04, 2026 -- CIQ released fixed PHP packages for Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro) LTS 9.6 and 9.2 about three and a half hours after the upstream PHP2Shell fix went public, covering PHP 8.0, a version upstream no longer supports. Fixes for the php:7.4 and php:8.2 module streams followed over the next two days.

Upstream fixes skip PHP 7.2, 7.3 and 5.4

The PHP project released fixes for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 and published source-only fix branches for 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1. It released nothing for 7.2 and 7.3, or for the PHP 5.4 that CentOS 7 ships. Teams that self-support those versions must build and test the fix themselves, or the version stays exposed.

Stamford – November 04, 2026 -- Spectrum Business has launched a fully managed Cisco Secure Networking service backed by a 100% uptime SLA, built on Cisco 8000 Series Secure Routers and Talos Threat Intelligence integrations. The company describes the offering as among the first of its kind in North America.

Spectrum Business sells the service as a monthly subscription covering hardware, licensing and operations

Eligible customers pay a monthly fee that covers all hardware, software licensing, network design, installation, configuration and ongoing updates. IT departments can hand off routine support and redirect staff to strategic projects.

Spectrum Business was one of the first U.S.-based service providers to certify and bring the 8000 Series Secure Routers to market for enterprise use. It received an early adopter award at the Cisco Partner Summit.