Better improve its coverage then Mobile network O2, notable for its occasional outages, has opened the UK's first commercial lab for connected, driverless cars.…
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Lees meerBuyers aren’t super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops VMworld The US-China trade war has made more trouble for VMware’s business in Asia than the COVID-19 virus pandemic, according to Duncan Hewett, Virtzilla’s senior vice president and gener…
Lees meerAnd then mentions China 18 times and calls for dedicated agency to regulate international data links One of the four commissioners of America's communications regulator has called for more scrutiny of submarine cables between the Land of the Free an…
Lees meerApple TV, iCloud Mail, iWork for iCloud, App Store and more go TITSUP* The rivalry between Apple and Microsoft continued last night as the fruity firm's cloud services took a tumble a mere day after Azure crapped itself.…
Lees meerGet to 100 million customers, 1% pays $100 a year, and bam! $100m business Microsoft unveiled its latest crack at getting customers organised last month with Project Moca, but Redmond's scattergun approach to planning tools has left many a little co…
Lees meerIncluding private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet Analyst firm IDC has suggested Q2 2020 was a tipping point because it was the first quarter in which sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments topped sales …
Lees meerUndersecretary pays a visit to Berlin, Merkel’s not moving despite pressure The US government is continuing its crusade against Huawei, with economic undersecretary Keith Krach visiting Berlin to pressure the German government to reconsider banning …
Lees meerDoes Redmond have a reliability problem? Comment Microsoft has fixed an issue with its OneDrive and SharePoint services where users were unable to sign in, caused by a faulty remediation for the earlier Azure Active Directory outage.…
Lees meerIs that a £500m Huawei-shaped hole you're looking to plug? The big rip 'n' replace begins BT's EE has selected Nokia to fill the Huawei-shaped hole in its 5G network. The deal will involve Nokia providing crucial 5G RAN equipment, and make the Finni…
Lees meer'We were about to embark on an adventure deep in the belly of the memory allocator and Linux address translation layers' The Xen project has officially ported its hypervisor to the Raspberry Pi – the 64-bit model 4, to be precise.…
Lees meerEven third-party software could run there one day, managed by vSphere VMware has, as The Register predicted, revealed plans to make the Arm-enabled cut of its ESXi hypervisor a proper product and will run it on SmartNICs in an attempt to better serv…
Lees meerCriminal charges to follow An Amazon finance manager has been accused of insider trading, along with her husband and father-in-law who collectively bought and sold Amazon shares based on non-public financial details it is said she leaked to her spou…
Lees meer365... 364.75... 364.5... 364.25... Microsoft's online authentication systems are inaccessible for at least some customers today, locking those subscribers out of tons of Redmond-hosted services if they are not already logged in.…
Lees meerUnexpected item in bagging area? AWS has introduced Cost Anomaly Detection, a new feature now in beta driven by machine learning that pledges to notify admins of "unexpected or unusual spend".…
Lees meerWell, this is awkward Who, Me? The Register's Who, Me? column dips a toe into the world of high finance and iffy numbers as a reader realises that freebies aren't always A Good Thing.…
Lees meerAlleges silicon has military applications so puts more products on 'get a license before exporting' lists The US government has told American companies that make semiconductor manufacturing kit that they must obtain a license to exporting their prod…
Lees meerBut Vodafone's not far behind EE is the UK's fastest mobile network, according to a new report [PDF] from Tutela Technologies which examines more than 180 million speed and latency tests performed between 1 March and 31 August.…
Lees meerYou may know them as SmartNICs and they’re touted as making AI, clouds and 5G scale Crack open a firewall, load-balancer or storage array and on the motherboard you might find a chip named “Octeon” by Marvell.…
Lees meerAs I walk through this world... born-in-the-cloud companies have legacy problems too Amazon Web Services has changed its mind about ending support for the URLs originally used by S3 (Simple Storage Service), though it is delaying rather than ending …
Lees meerTelco tells freelancers it 'isn't immune to the economic volatility and uncertainty' caused by pandemic Exclusive BT is slashing day rates for contractors and reducing their notice period by 50 per cent due to the unpredictable nature of the econom…
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