C'est simple comme bonjour! Orange, France's largest telecoms company, will use Nokia and Ericsson to deploy its 5G networks as pressure to ban Huawei from European networks mounts.…
Lees meerThe customers will never know what we did. Until now Y2K As the IT world continues to suffer the after-effects of 20-year-old botched Y2K fixes, please take a moment to enjoy a bonus Y2K tale of Microsoft Access 97 taking the place of a mainframe a…
Lees meerFull-year profit up 14% to $34.3bn, YouTube bringing in $15bn ad sales – and shares down Google's parent Alphabet on Monday reported $162bn in revenue for its 2019 fiscal year, up 18 per year over year, and $46bn in revenue for its fourth quarter, u…
Lees meerBT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? Today was more Friday the 13th than Friday the 31st in the UK, it seems. Not only is it Brexit Day, marking Blighty's departure from Europe, but a bunch of services and internet connectivity broke.…
Lees meerDNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale The California State Attorney General's Office (CA-OAG) sent a letter last week to DNS overlord ICANN asking for confidential information about the planned sale of the .o…
Lees meerFight! Fight! Fight! The cloudy database world was plunged into drama at the close of this week, as Amazon Web Services locked horns with Microsoft in a spat over benchmarks.…
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Lees meer'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool Hundreds of thousands of unwanted .uk domains are being dropped by their owners – and picked up by Europeans looking to profit from Blig…
Lees meerBig Blue shares up more than six per cent after-hours on the news In a surprise announcement on Thursday, IBM named a new CEO, Arvind Krishna, and said Virginia "Ginni" Rometty, who has led the company since 2012, will step down on April 6 to serve …
Lees meerSurvey is thinly veiled marketing from Microsoft, but the issue is real A new survey published by Microsoft shows the extent of confusion in businesses about how to comply with data protection regulations in the cloud era.…
Lees meerI didn't see that on the side of a bus Tomorrow, after nearly four years of excruciating debate and rancour, the UK will finally depart the European Union. What happens then? Not much. Britain enters an 11-month transition period, where it effective…
Lees meerAnd judging by today's Q3 numbers, that won't be welcome BT is factoring in a £500m financial cost over the next half decade in light of the UK government's decision to limit the amount of Huawei gear used in the building of the country's 5G and gig…
Lees meerKnock knock knock: Give us the money! Knock knock knock: Give us the money! Apple and Broadcom have been told to pay the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) a beefy billion bucks for ripping off three of the US university's Wi-Fi patents.…
Lees meerAzure am glad we got into the computer rental business, says CEO Microsoft on Wednesday made noise about inclusivity, trust, and sustainability, while also gleefully noting that it had banked about $1.5bn more than expected in its second quarter of …
Lees meerTelecoms giant denies everything, Germans put in order anyway America warned Germany Huawei's cheap'n'cheerful 5G gear was effectively bugged by Beijing's spies and leaking secrets to agents, it is claimed. The US government's evidence of this alleg…
Lees meerYou've fscked us, says Uncle Sam Yesterday it was decided that certain "high-risk" vendors, cough, cough, Huawei, will be permitted to contribute towards the UK's 5G network in a limited way.…
Lees meerJust keep 'em out the core and keep supply chains diverse, ja? It's not just the UK government that's wrestling with the decision to permit Huawei's gear on the 5G network. Across Europe, a similar debate has raged. Can Huawei, which many in intelli…
Lees meerIf Western Link had a report card, it'd definitely be under the C Brit energy regulator Ofgem has opened an investigation into National Grid and Scottish Power's operations on the Western Link subsea cable.…
Lees meerAnd good luck opting out of that one Ubiquiti Networks is once again under fire for suddenly rewriting its telemetry policy after changing how its UniFi routers collect data without telling anyone.…
Lees meerToo bad the Republicans aren't going to agree with her Comment It's troubling how in the past few years some countries have, with increasing zeal, blocked off their own citizens from the internet for gross authoritarian reasons.…
Lees meer'We finished 2019 very strongly – but that is on the strength of the product portfolio' says CEO Lisa Su AMD is touting record quarterly numbers as the chip designer closed out a solid fiscal 2019.…
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