The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive? Global satellite maker Viasat's proposed $7.3 billion purchase of rival Inmarsat is being held up because Britain's competition regulator is worried about the d…
Lees meerThe Great Unresignation as inflation forces hords of retirees back into work A sustained upswing in the cost of living is forcing hundreds of thousands of retirees across Britain to reconsider a return to the workplace.…
Lees meerBut we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for Systems Approach Some might say there's a possibility QUIC will start to replace TCP. This week I want to argue that QUIC is actually solving a different problem than that solved by TCP, and so…
Lees meerWhat’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what On Call As another working week ebbs away into history, dispel any thoughts that your efforts have made no mark in history by wallowing in other readers’ mi…
Lees meerKieren's here to chew gum and kick some Nominet ass. And he's all out of gum Former Register journo Kieren McCarthy was this week elected to the board of Nominet, the domain registry in charge of the .uk name space.…
Lees meerQ3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St AMD has warned investors its guidance for quarterly revenue was out by $1.1 billion.…
Lees meerThis and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human On Thursday Google held an event in Brooklyn, New York to introduce revised Pixel phones, along with the Pixel Watch mentioned at the search giant's developer conference in May. …
Lees meerRemember the bad old days when getting X settings wrong could fry your CRT? They're back, kinda A bug in version 5.19.12 of the Linux kernel "may harm" screens on laptops powered by Intel's 12th-generation Core processors.…
Lees meerWe're paraphrasing here, but that's the gist of this week's PR stunt President Joe Biden popped by IBM's latest chipmaking venture this week as Big Blue clearly hopes to keep the White House close and bag a slice of those government semiconductor ma…
Lees meerLots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too Samsung has gone public with new silicon and outlined plans for its semiconductor business at its Samsung Tech Day 2022 in San Jose, including upcoming DRAM and NAND flash…
Lees meerBiggest demo yet of single and double quantum dots, company claims Intel claims to have achieved a milestone in efforts to produce silicon spin qubit devices using existing manufacturing processes, a move they think might pave the way for large-scal…
Lees meerUK and Germany among adoption leaders in the region Europe is falling behind global leaders in 5G adoption as rising inflation and war in Ukraine affect infrastructure ambition, according to an industry survey.…
Lees meerCWU: Just like UK government did a reverse-ferret on tax, so will national telecom titan on staff pay BT strikers protesting over pay should take note that the British government was forced to climbdown on its proposed tax cut for the richest in soc…
Lees meerJust in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its governm…
Lees meerGet ready for that deposition tomorrow, Elon Elon Musk's decision this week to go ahead with his Twitter purchase – after months of trying to wriggle out of the deal – hasn't automatically stopped his upcoming trial, the judge overseeing the case sa…
Lees meerCloud and equipment vendors also keen to escape Arm's licensing boot Analysis Arm might not think RISC-V is a threat to its newfound foothold in the datacenter, but growing pressure on Chinese chipmaking could ultimately change that, Forrester Rese…
Lees meerNo formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house BPO and IT services multi-national DXC Technology has confirmed it is in contact with a "financial sponsor" that is interested in buying the business, amid…
Lees meerMemory maker says plant will help to boost memory production in America Micron has committed to a $100 billion memory chip fabrication plant in New York State, just days after saying it was cutting back on investment because of weakening demand in t…
Lees meerAnyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain? Arm has reportedly chopped around 20 percent of its headcount in the UK, unpicking some of the recruitment commitments parent SoftBank made to the government when it bought the chip d…
Lees meerIndustry insists it needs new blood, yet offers are being rescinded, pay rises delayed, and workers are furious Indian IT Service giant Wipro has confirmed to The Register that it expects employees will return to its office for at least three days a…
Lees meerNo 'corruption' alleged, rumours of a big win selling to Apple make shunting a little odd The CEO of Chinese RAM and SSD maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YTMC) appears to have stepped down from his position, a move that follows the departu…
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