Just like it was supposed to do in 2019 Authorities in China have reportedly directed government agencies and state-run companies to bin all personal computers made by foreign companies and replace them with homegrown hardware within two years.…
Lees meerTelco 'ripped off customers by charging high-speed prices for slow service', says watchdog The FTC has settled a case in which Frontier Communications was accused of charging high prices for under-delivered internet connectivity.…
Lees meerParallel retrocomputing project of the week, er, month, no, year The astonishing PicoPuter emulation project can run a transputer emulator on multiple Raspberry Pi Picos, clustering them using the transputer's native inter-processor link protocol.…
Lees meerCalls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank Data warehousing specialist Teradata is taking a $60 million hit by ending sales, operations and support in Russia following the country's invasion of Ukrain…
Lees meer€14b in state aid on offer for companies to set up shop in the country Germany's government is looking to attract chipmakers to the country by offering €14 billion ($14.7 billion) in financial support, apparently spurred on by global semiconductor s…
Lees meerGovernment department struggles with 30-year-old applications The UK's chief finance minister, Rishi Sunak, has blamed legacy IT for his decision not to increase social security payments as inflation hits the highest rate in 30 years.…
Lees meerSupply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg Nokia’s "significant" contributions to Microsoft's open-source SONiC project and ongoing supply-chain challenges undoubtedly played a role in the Windows giant's de…
Lees meerUK IT service provider sees contract value more than double 20 years after first work on system The IT services arm of UK comms giant BT has won a contract extension worth up to £26 million ($32 million) for up to five years – without competition – …
Lees meerLeftover bits of wire where PC used to be? Really ties the office together On Call There was a time in IT when "brute force" meant something other than guessing at passwords while wearing a favorite hoodie. Welcome to an edition of On Call that rea…
Lees meer* Terms and so many conditions apply Starlink customers who've been itching to take their dish on the road can finally do so – for a price. …
Lees meerDingTalk goes into 'extended reality' Alibaba's DingTalk collaboration suite has entered "extended reality" with a new offering powered by smart glasses.…
Lees meerIf you can't beat the Golden State, try again at the federal level California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday welcomed the decision by a group of telecom and cable industry associations to abandon their legal challenge of the US state's net …
Lees meerWith funding from database billionaire, will Oracle-style licensing follow? $50k per like? $1m for 420-character limit? Elon Musk has bagged $7.14 billion in funding from Oracle billionaire co-founder Larry Ellison, cryptocurrency exchange Binance, …
Lees meerBluetti Mother's day deal lets you soak up the solar Advertorial A mother gives everything at home and in the office as she endeavors to secure her family’s future. For this upcoming Mother’s Day (officially on Sunday, May 8), flowers are fine and …
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom subsidiary claims Allen Wu refusing to 'hand over his management duties' The Arm saga is continuing with the ousted CEO of Arm's renegade Chinese division still refusing to step down, despite being fired again recently.…
Lees meerRussia's Google desperately seeking new energy deal after Finnish renewables supplier agreement terminated Finnish energy supplier Ilmatar says it has terminated a supplier agreement to provide electricity to Yandex's datacenter in the southern part…
Lees meerMIT folk tested the interest-based ad scheme to understand why it was discontinued Computer scientists from MIT Media Lab have exhumed the corpse of Google's FLoC ad targeting scheme and found that it lacked its key advertised ingredient: privacy.…
Lees meerLearn how to kickstart self-driving data management here Webinar We’re used to hearing about autonomous vehicles or autonomous systems. But there’s a problem. None of this is happening without a speedy stream of accurate data drawn from increasingl…
Lees meerNow all we need is a model to predict where and when and how this will be used Wish your network could predict its own problems and fix them automatically? Cisco believes it has the technology you need.…
Lees meerOEMs able to develop new products with aim of 10Gbps-plus throughput Qualcomm is sampling its Wi-Fi 7 Networking Pro Series chips aimed at throughput of more than 10Gbps for enterprise access points, gateways, and premium home routers.…
Lees meerAffected jet equipment will need retrofitting and eventual replacement, agency warns The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) met with airline and telecom officials yesterday to present its latest solution to the instrument interference problem …
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