Famed IP holder pops champers as Cupertino plots appeal A jury in Texas yesterday agreed that Apple should cough up $506.2m in FRAND royalties for including 4G LTE capability on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch without buying a licence from a group…
Lees meerParallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation Parallels has released a new version of its macOS desktop hypervisor and added a few handy things that developers and virtualization wonks will likely appreciate.…
Lees meerWi-Fi 7 had us on 'Extremely High Throughput,' the latency improvements sound nice, too As the IEEE 802.11 project, forebearer of Wi-Fi, marks its 30th anniversary next month, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) gear is just beginning to appear in the market, even a…
Lees meerMight float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside SoftBank has bounced back from a historic loss to post profits of $12bn as the company confirms that it is in negotiations to sell British chip …
Lees meerChip designer ruled not a monopolistic strangler An appeals court has reversed an earlier ruling that Qualcomm broke America's antitrust laws, dealing a blow to the FTC, which brought the case.…
Lees meer'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion Salesforce's 170,000-attendee annual uber-conference that the world knows as Dreamforce looks set to be no more - not even in digital form - at least as far as the 2020 ve…
Lees meerAnother chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga Capita's contract to hook up emergency services control rooms under the UK's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) is being renewed for £6.5m without competition.…
Lees meerCatching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers Nutanix has struck a deal with Amazon Web Services to have its hyperconverged stack run in the Amazonian cloud.…
Lees meerTraffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks Equinix has entered the Indian market by acquiring two data centres operated by GPX.…
Lees meerBut others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces India has inaugurated a submarine cable between the mainland and the Andaman and Nicobar islands, an archipelago 1350km from the nation’s east coast.…
Lees meerComputer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State A system crash and subsequent bungling of a digital certificate caused California to fall behind in reporting the results of around 300,000 COVID-19 coronavirus tests last …
Lees meerAdd a little hyperconverged infrastructure, and you’re on to a winner. We'll explain all this month Webcast Guess what? Ransomware’s not going away any time soon. Infections are still happening all the time, sparking reputation-ending headlines, an…
Lees meer4G connectivity in bonny Glencoe, but clock on project deadline is ticking Britain's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) hit a major milestone today with the completion of its 500th base station.…
Lees meerFor that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen? Capita has scored a hefty contract with Transport for London that includes sending the body's on-prem IT systems for the Congestion Charge…
Lees meerThe. Defining. Enterprise. Software. Company. Of. The. 21st. Century For those who can't operate a taxi app on their phone, ServiceNow has linked arms with Uber to bring the world a "Book Uber" feature via its Workplace Safety Management app to solv…
Lees meerYou're so BASIC Who, Me? How's August working out for you? Why not take a moment out of your private staycation for another tale of cockuppery from the depths of The Register's Who, Me? vault.…
Lees meerAnd expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds VMware has decided revealed plans to become an application vendor of sorts, with make-your-office-safe-ware that complements its other end-user compute products.…
Lees meerStiffened sinews and floppy disks On Call Do you remember those halcyon days when we used to enjoy a city break every now again? Relive those times with a continental Friday On Call, courtesy of The Register.…
Lees meer‘Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology’ says Chinese foreign minister China has ridiculed the USA’s plan to build a clean network and a coalition of nations who follow it by expunging all Chinese tech an…
Lees meerBlizzard of litigation ahead of purported $20bn IPO Snowflake, the much-touted cloud-native data warehouse company, has been hit with a lawsuit over its name just as it is reportedly set to launch a stock market IPO.…
Lees meerHow to survive a pandemic Western Digital ended the year on a relative high as the work-from-home trend across much of the world led to a buying frenzy from cloud builders expanding their data centres to feed demand.…
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