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Lees meerBrits speak their brains for comms regulator Ofcom's customer audit What do TalkTalk, Three, and Virgin Media all have in common? They've each won a gong for sating the lowest proportion of customers in broadband, mobile, and landline services respe…
Lees meerFusion and Workstation just got rather more useful for containerised CI/CD pipelines - and also rather cheaper VMware has announced new versions of its desktop hypervisors Workstation and Fusion.…
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Lees meer‘Fluid situation’ with USA not overly worrying CEO, who says company will comply with any new rules Alibaba has reported another rampaging quarter in which it recorded US$21.76bn revenue and net income of $5.59bn, a 34 percent and 28 percent jump re…
Lees meerBig Blue insists commission 'adjustments' aren't caps Yet another IBM salesperson has sued the venerable computing biz for allegedly capping their sales commissions after agreeing not to do that.…
Lees meerSeal of approval handed out for supply chain security in various tech sectors SoftBank's Japanese 5G network has been awarded "clean status" by the US government.…
Lees meerNot all users affected, but it's not a great start to the day Google cloud services across the world are having a nap, with multiple GCP products including App Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging and BigQuery down since 06:45 UTC (07:45 UK time).…
Lees meerOutraged outage-struck Equinix customer billed for dead rack check Equinix has doubled down on efforts to irritate customers following a lengthy bit of unplanned downtime at its LD8 London data centre.…
Lees meerNetwork boffin finds packets headed into China go AWOL yet packets coming out do just fine 79 percent of internet traffic flows into China struggle to flow faster than 1Mbps, but the Great Firewall is probably not to blame.…
Lees meerWe haven’t made up our mind, registry claims, we just won’t accept changes UK internet registry operator Nominet has responded to criticism of its plan to overhaul the distribution of expiring .uk domains by promising to listen to feedback… and then…
Lees meerOpenDaylight-based vendor says proprietary networking is still winning and bemoans lack of VC support Software-defined networking vendor Lumina Networks “has begun an orderly shut-down of business.”…
Lees meerBuying Mellanox has paid off, gamers are still the bigger prize Nvidia's data centre products have topped its gaming-centric products as a revenue source in 2020's second quarter, thanks to its acquisition of Mellanox.…
Lees meerChinese telco's pleas to not be booted out of America will be passed to prosecutors America's comms watchdog will hand over confidential documents on China Telecom to US government officials probing the state-owned communications giant and its opera…
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