One of the Big Three will snap up floaty tech pact within 'months' Deutsche Bank has reportedly invited bids from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to pitch for cloud services and other project work as part of a major tech investment scheduled over the …
Lees meerChinese mega-maker denies latest allegations of backdoor shenanigans An almighty row broke out on Tuesday over the cops-only backdoor Huawei builds into its cellular network products and who exactly can access it.…
Lees meerWell, we just reached inside our ass and pulled it out, your honor The controversial decision by the FCC to impose a $270 per year limit on what cities are allowed to charge mobile operators for hosting a 5G cell on their utility poles finally came …
Lees meerA little Shakespearean data centre drama for you There is a disturbance in the bit barn market – Vantage Data Centers has swallowed rival Etix Everywhere as part of a $2bn expansion in Europe.…
Lees meerAnd it turns out there was an upside to the US-China trade war Global server shipments are forecast to drop nearly 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus epidemic hits production lines in China, according to new figures from Dig…
Lees meerIn today's episode of Absolutely Never Happening, Amazon wants the President to testify whether or not he personally ordered AWS JEDI snub Amazon has taken the extraordinary step of moving to depose the President of the United States as part of its …
Lees meerCan GSMA really assure the event will be safe? It's been a brutal few days for Mobile World Congress, with several of its biggest participants withdrawing from the trade show over fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. The latest pack includes …
Lees meerLocking out network biz 'goes against the principles of a market economy and free trade', says diplomat The Chinese state has gone on a diplomatic offensive over Huawei and 5G, with ambassadors to the UK and France both accusing their host countries…
Lees meerWhen two become one in the server room Who, Me? Welcome back to Who, Me?, The Register's regular feature covering confessions from readers who just wanted to get the job done.…
Lees meerBell me to chat about it, eh? US attorney-general William Barr has urged the United States to buy a controlling stake in Nokia and Ericsson to build a competitor to Huawei.…
Lees meerSo hard to pick a side when it's the Hannibal Lecter and Charles Manson of technology going toe to toe Huawei and Verizon are squaring off in America over allegations of patent infringement and failed licensing deals.…
Lees meerTrial of Joshua Schulte gets off to an unusual start amid claims of hidden backdoors, backups, and more Typically, your lawyer is on your side. Which is why it was a little unusual that on the first day of the trial of ex-CIA sysadmin Joshua Schulte…
Lees meerMarket flopped as all the biggest buyers kept short arms in deep pockets Almost all of the top 10 biggest corporate consumers of semiconductors bought fewer chips last year due to softening economies, in part caused by political uncertainty: Brexit,…
Lees meerMeanwhile, DNS overseer continues to dither on whether to do anything The operator of .org has responded aggressively to a further delay in its controversial sale of the registry to a private equity firm, warning DNS overseer ICANN not to spike the …
Lees meerCortana, set a reminder for when their services work. Cortana? CORTANAAA! Microsoft is having a bad time this week. First it was Teams, and now Outlook has begun treating pretty much every email as spammy nonsense.…
Lees meerProject set to take half a decade and cost €200m Vodafone will strip Huawei gear out of its core network across Europe at a cost of €200m following last week's fresh guidelines about the use of so-called "high risk vendors" from the UK government an…
Lees meerGolden Gate Capital jettisons equity before IPO can kick in Cloudy ERP outfit Infor has been picked up by Koch Industries after investment biz Golden Gate Capital sold off its remaining equity stake.…
Lees meerTechnical requirements file appears to include references to US biz's other operations Analysis Suspicions have grown deeper that a lucrative contract to run Colombia’s .co registry was rigged to favor US-based operator Afilias, thanks to unusual r…
Lees meerCan you smell the democratisation of IT? Neither can the shrinking 'others' section AWS remains the biggest provider of infrastructure clouds with a revenue haul of $34.6bn in 2019 but for the first time it has pulled in less than double that of nea…
Lees meerLoving all those cores? You probably won't love the price Kind old VMware is updating its pricing model in a move to "continue meeting our customers' needs". Provided those needs involve paying more for CPUs with more than 32 cores.…
Lees meer'It's going to be amazingly OK' The roller coaster ride that is the semiconductor industry suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades in 2019 - and is now braced for the potential disruptions caused by the outbreak of the Coronavirus.…
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