Plus sales down, guidance scrapped. What else is new? Well OK, apart from the 'unprecedented business climate' IBM on Monday reported revenue of $17.6bn for its Q1 2020 earnings, a 3.4 per cent year-on-year decline attributed to "an unprecedented bu…
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Lees meerGiving military time to look at aspects of decision US federal judge Patricia Campbell-Smith has slapped a hold [PDF] on Amazon's legal challenge to the $10bn Pentagon Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract to give the military time to "re…
Lees meerHave you tried turning it off and on again? Yes! TalkTalk broadband users are complaining they can't opt out of its Error Replacement Service, which swaps NXDomain DNS results with an IP address. And if that sounds familiar, it should. Users of the …
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Lees meerNow incubated as part of Xen project and has plenty of plans for hyperconverged and storage fun XCP-ng, the crowdfunded effort to deliver an open-source version of XenServer, has passed the 100,000-download mark.…
Lees meerBet you thought the rural internet gap wouldn't cause this kind of disruption Former darts world champion Gary Anderson says he cannot compete in upcoming remote tournaments due to his slow home internet connection.…
Lees meerA mini revolution against Switchzilla takes form in a corner of industry group There is growing unrest at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) due to the power that some accuse Cisco of wielding over the global community of network designers, …
Lees meerBacking for use of L-Band spectrum for 5G Ligado Networks, which is currently seeking approval for a terrestrial low-power 5G network, has won a powerful friend: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Ajit Pai.…
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Lees meerOn track to do the deed towards the end of the month Nvidia's $6.9bn deal to networking kit maker Mellanox has been approved by China's competition watchdog.…
Lees meerDNS overseer accused of ignoring the very people it is supposed to represent ICANN has again delayed a decision on the sale of the .org registry, pushing the issue off for another month multiple sources with knowledge of Thursday's meeting, have tol…
Lees meerDust off your COBOL code and give it new life in WebAssembly Network infrastructure biz Cloudflare has implemented a way to run COBOL code on its serverless platform Cloudflare Workers.…
Lees meerThat's the Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform btw US FPGA manufacturer Xilinx has inked a deal allowing electronics giant Samsung to use its Versal ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) in 5G infrastructure products.…
Lees meerSingle point of failure, imprecise instructions and un-labelled cables are a bad, bad, mix Cloudflare has admitted that a four-and-a-bit-hour outage today was caused by someone pulling out cables that should have been left in place, but which were y…
Lees meerDaming letter sent to California attorney general asks for six-month delay Exclusive ICANN has been accused by its founding CEO and original chair of abandoning the organization’s core principles and accepting commitments it knows it cannot enforce…
Lees meerCollective amnesia over claimed 'screw Amazon' comment There is no evidence of wrongdoing or undue influence in the Pentagon’s controversial $10bn JEDI cloud contract award to Microsoft, the Defense Department’s internal watchdog has concluded.…
Lees meerWill someone rid us of these turbulent twats Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffrey has spoken out after arsonists targeted a phone mast serving the NHS Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham.…
Lees meerAmazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media' Sleepy ITV daytime show This Morning isn't typically the venue for conspiratorial chatter. It's more Loose Women than Loose Change. Still, that didn't pr…
Lees meerConservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading' An open letter from Huawei about the UK’s 5G strategy in light of Covid-19 has provoked outrage among several key politicians in the country's ruling Conservative part…
Lees meerDistributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront Give yourselves a pat on the back, ladies and gents – two teams made up of Register readers are in the top 1,000 out of more than 250,0…
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