Plus Brexity energy efficiency labelling standards thrown in The UK government has said it will introduce rules later this year that will enshrine in law the "right to repair".…
Lees meerFrench outsourcer will handle software, networking, and infrastructure Atos has been selected to run the UK's National Employment Savings Trust occupational pensions scheme in a contract award estimated to be worth £1.5bn over 18 years.…
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Lees meerLone Star state and web biz clash over First Amendment rights Twitter has sued the Attorney General of Texas, accusing him of bullying the biz in retaliation for nuking Donald Trump’s account.…
Lees meerSales of €950m in shares already agreed as float day looms The Vodafone Group told the market today it hopes to raise between €2bn and €2.8bn from the planned IPO of its infrastructure business, Vantage Towers.…
Lees meerThey're 'much too big' says Musk Elon Musk's satellite internet constellation biz, Starlink, wants to sell its end-user station devices and services for use in vehicles, judging by a filing with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…
Lees meerAs new best bud NVIDIA releases AI on-ramp bundle that only runs with vSphere VMware has unconverged hyperconverged infrastructure with a new cut of its vSAN virtual storage array.…
Lees meerAnd for my next trick... an M1 Macintosh Color Classic? The iMac G5 was once a formidable piece of computer hardware. Improbably thin for the time, it packed a 64-bit Motorola PowerPC 970 processor, and had room for a relatively extravagant 2GB RAM.…
Lees meerBut still some way to go before standards-based tech can match mainstream products Last year Vodafone bet big on OpenRAN, announcing it would shift a huge portion of its tower estate to the standards-based tech. Now Andrew Dona, the telco's director…
Lees meerIs Spain really ready for 50,000 people at one venue? Sounds like a super spreader event ready to happen Mobile World Congress appears determined to run its annual Barcelona super-conference as an in-person event this year, mid-pandemic, posting a s…
Lees meerService options decline starting next year... so there may be a Nexus 9K switch in your future Cisco has in recent days issued a blizzard of end-of-life and end-of-sale announcement for switches in its Nexus 3000 and Nexus 7000 ranges.…
Lees meerThat's the people who own Bethesda, Doom, Fallout, etc The European Commission and the US Securities and Exchange Commission have approved Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax, a US video game holding biz behind top titles like Doom and Fallout, in a …
Lees meerAnd here's us thinking 640KB was enough for anyone South Korea's SK Hynix has started mass production of its first 18GB LPDDR5 memory chip.…
Lees meerPaging Mr Heath Robinson A Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 user has solved the premium hardware's heating issues with the aid of elastic bands, a USB fan, and $50 handed over to Amazon.…
Lees meerMetropolitan police hand keys to French outsourcer Capgemini has won a £600m IT infrastructure deal from the UK's Metropolitan Police to run a service desk, data centres, and services management including the integration of other suppliers.…
Lees meerLet us tell you a tale of the Mailman's Apprentice Who, Me? The weekend is over and Monday is here. Celebrate your IT prowess with another there-but-for-the-grace confession from the Who, Me? archives.…
Lees meerWithout Honor, or 5G silicon, there can be no victory Oppo has become China’s top smartphone brand for the first time, according to analyst house Counterpoint.…
Lees meerWhy are carriers so worried about people's battery life during lockdown? US telco Verizon recently splashed $45bn on 5G spectrum and then advised its customers to use LTE to save device battery life. Not to be outdone, rival carrier T-Mobile is reco…
Lees meer'You'll be surprised at how much you can do with a personal computer' It has been 40 years since the launch of Sinclair's ZX81, a device that welcomed countless Brits to the delights of home computing at the dawn of the 1980s.…
Lees meer'No access to buildings' for striking Repayment Project engineers, confirms company Openreach’s Project Repayment Engineers who are already on the picket line to protest over changes in the grading structure that they say devalues their role, are na…
Lees meerOne-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected GPS jamming of airliners not only causes navigational havoc but delays commercial airline flights too, EU airspace regulator Eurocontrol has complained in a new report.…
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