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Lees meerTime to move, but be warned – not everything has survived the 'modern experience' It appears that today's victim of the Chocolate Factory axeman is legacy Google Voice for personal accounts.…
Lees meerNorthants man surprised to hear former biz address used Some companies will go to great lengths to hide business expansion plans, but it appears AWS may have namechecked a defunct UK business in efforts to conceal a planning application for a new da…
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Lees meerIf at first you don't succeed, you're probably the FTC The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint that Facebook, er, Meta operates as a monopoly will be heard by the courts after the US watchdog's initial lawsuit was dismissed.…
Lees meerTells investors it has secured supplies to full demand shortfall Nvidia chief financial officer (CFO) Colette Kress says the company has only just begun to make an impact in the server market, and sees a huge opportunity for GPU acceleration there.…
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Lees meerJones in the Fast Lane with switch to PAM4 The completed PCIe 6.0 specifications have finally been unleashed by the PCI-SIG consortium, effectively doubling the speed of the PCIe standard by supporting 64 gigatransfers per second (GTps) with 16 lane…
Lees meerIf the Middle Kingdom lets its data out, Beijing might as well be in control China has earmarked ¥31.8bn ($5bn) to build the first free trade data port in the nation as it tries to bolster information flow across borders, the country's state-sponsor…
Lees meerWas no one else available? No one? US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has blasted Intel for scrubbing any mentions of China's Xinjiang region from an annual letter to its suppliers after Chinese netizens threatened on social media to boycott the US chip …
Lees meerCall of duty? Not when there's a Snorlax about A California appeals court last week upheld the discharge of two Los Angeles police officers for ignoring a robbery call because they were busy playing Pokémon Go while on duty.…
Lees meerRepairability – check. Upgrades? Must try harder Microsoft took its Surface enthusiasts back in time this week with a video demonstrating how to take apart its Surface-for-Schools laptop: SE.…
Lees meerIdeal for when you need to stealthily click through memes Review Peripherals purveyor Logitech's Signature M650 is its latest take on a workplace mouse, and The Register has a raked a talon over one.…
Lees meerUsers complain: We weren't told that LON1 had done one European data centre operator Interxion suffered an outage at its central London campus last night, with no service from its LON1 data centre for several hours and users complaining the company …
Lees meerThose astards have uggered up my site Beleaguered customers of UK hosting outfit tsoHost have been thrown a fresh curveball. Sites starting with the letter B on its cloud (Gridhost) platform are struggling to load.…
Lees meerFrench vendor joins fellow Aspire alumnus Fujitsu in winning contracts that extend beyond 2022 deadline IT consultancy and services company Capgemini has signed a £51m agreement to continue supporting UK tax systems first created under a contract HM…
Lees meerPlus: Verizon's personal data grab, and more In brief Some mobile networks in Europe, UK, and America have reportedly started blocking Apple's beta-grade Private Relay functionality in iOS 15.…
Lees meerSuper Cali goes ballistic, this deal is atrocious The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) is appealing a judge's ruling that prevented it from intervening in Activision Blizzard’s $18m settlement to end a sex discrimination l…
Lees meer25-year veteran Michelle Johnston Holthaus appointed alongside beancounter from Micron Intel today announced a new showrunner for its PC processor business and named its next chief financial officer, who is arriving from Micron.…
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