Sales team trimmed in time for the holidays Exclusive Enterprise cloud storage biz SwiftStack got smaller on Wednesday when it laid off an unspecified number of people.…
Lees meerOn the plus side, this saves cable companies the hassle of laying down fiber America's communications watchdog, the FCC, has unveiled another piece of its rural broadband master plan – and it comprises blowing $89m on getting a tiny number of people…
Lees meerOnce a hit with drug entrepreneurs, though its algos had been weeding them out When Intersection first announced it was bringing LinkNYC's smart billboard technology to the UK in 2016, it promised to drag the humble telephone booth into the 21st cen…
Lees meerTurns out even with the luxury and protection of billions of dollars, you still can't take any criticism Stung by an article mulling Amazon Web Services' market dominance on Monday, AWS VP Andi Gutmans fired back, complaining the reporter ignored fl…
Lees meerTechie allegedly fed secret financial info to buddies ahead of public release A now-former Palo Alto Networks IT administrator illegally exploited his employer's confidential financial figures to line his pockets with stock-market profits, it is cla…
Lees meerYou need stability concerns? Here’s some stability concerns, say DNS gurus at Packet Clearing House The sale of the .org registry to a for-profit private equity firm would have “a disastrous effect on stability,” a DNS specialist has warned.…
Lees meerAnything less than the latest version of Outlook to be blocked soon The clock is ticking for businesses using what Google defines as a "less secure app" (LSA) to access services like its G Suite mail, calendar and contacts. New accounts will be bloc…
Lees meerOld world vendors should club together, form new biz called 'Screwed by Cloud' Hyperscale operators accounted for a whopping third of the $38bn spent on data centre kit and software during the first nine months of 2019 – indicative of the buying pow…
Lees meerAnd you thought it was just ICANN and the Internet Society having a bad month Comment The organization responsible for allocating internet addresses across Africa has yet again become embroiled in scandal, this time over long-standing claims of cor…
Lees meerBoard 'profoundly upset', eh, amid claims PFYs sacked after discovery The head of Canada’s .ca internet registry is under fire following allegations multiple IT staffers were axed after a porn stash was apparently discovered on his iMac and reported…
Lees meerThink of a number, triple it, add seven, multiply by zero, and that's pretty much this tech giant's Q2 revenue growth Oracle's financial figures were more or less flat in its latest financial quarter compared to a year ago.…
Lees meerAnd in the darkness bind them – to next year's IT budgets Cisco has launched a single chip architecture that it claims will work well in network routing and switching gear, and manage data better than existing processors in both categories.…
Lees meerHot mic snafu reportedly caught by TV station China's ambassador to Denmark has reportedly threatened to kill off a proposed free trade deal unless the semiautonomous Faroe Islands sign a deal with Huawei for 5G mobile network equipment.…
Lees meerAWS tech academy, aka Her Maj's Government, trains next gen of Amazonians Amazon Web Services has once more dipped into its public sector employee tech training academy – also known as Her Majesty's government – and made off with another senior head…
Lees meerThen mercilessly evict it: Out, darned Spot Microsoft has teased Azure Spot Virtual Machines, discounted VMs that can be "evicted any time if Azure needs capacity".…
Lees meerExcept it looks like all the trusts already have plans Hundreds of thousands of devices managed by the UK's NHS are still running Windows 7. With the end of support looming, is the service about to have another Windows XP moment? Er, probably not.…
Lees meer*Total Inability To Shuffle money Using Phone The Co-op Bank's app and online services are enjoying an extended lie-in today with multiple customers complaining they're locked out.…
Lees meerOS director on staying safe and advantages of Amazon's Nitro hypervisor Interview At the AWS re:Invent conference last week, The Register asked Chris Schlaeger, director of kernel and operating systems, how the cloud giant protects itself and its c…
Lees meerCEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court Apple is suing the former chief architect of its iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who in February quit to co-found a data-center chip design biz.…
Lees meer'Blatant and sustained effort' to deny AWS Pentagon IT mega-contract, cloud giant claims Amazon has officially accused President Donald Trump of pressuring the Pentagon not to award it a $10bn cloud contract because he hates its CEO Jeff Bezos.…
Lees meerSwedish comms flinger enters agreement with DoJ and SEC Swedish telco slinger Ericsson has paid $1bn to end a double probe into bribery allegations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…
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