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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

GeekWire

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Gopuff Photos). billion. —

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PowerLight joins Blue Origin to study power beaming system for the moon

GeekWire

The DARPA LunA-10 study takes its name from the goal of advancing a lunar architecture for infrastructure over a 10-year time frame. Hardware development isn’t the point of the study. PowerLight’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Tom Nugent, said the company didn’t focus on space applications at first.

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Real-Time Data at Verizon: It’s as Critical as Air

CIO Business Intelligence

By Reed Peterson, Field CTO, Telecom, DataStax. It’s one thing to deliver performance and new services that impress customers, but doing so at the scale of one of the largest wireless carriers in the world and at the speed required to compete in a cutthroat industry requires data – petabytes of it. So, real-time data has become air.

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