Soz shareholders, no dividend for you Nokia – one of the so-called "Big Three" 5G kitmakers – has downgraded profit forecasts for the year and cancelled dividends, saying investments in next-generation services have not yet yielded expected returns.…
Lees meerNadella says 'accelerating our innovation', we say... Microsoft on Wednesday reported $33.1bn in revenue for its fiscal 2020 Q1, representing a 14 per cent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7bn, up 21 per cent.…
Lees meerQuanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant.…
Lees meerWhois to become Whoisn't Like a bad horror movie in which the vampire keeps coming back from certain death, the Whois protocol – which provides information on who owns specific internet addresses – has endured far longer than anyone wanted or expect…
Lees meerHey, growth is still growth Gartner analysts at its annual IT Symposium/Xpo shindig in Florida reckon IT spending is on the way up next year, despite dire predictions for the rest of this year.…
Lees meerCute, says rival Slack, polishing its library of 1,800 apps and an updated developer toolkit Microsoft has released its Azure Repos app for Teams in a bid to entice developers to its collaboration platform a day after competitor Slack upgraded its a…
Lees meer... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps Interview Thanks to your local DevOps team, containerised applications are heading for production environments. However, this can be the beginning of a world of hurt for storage admins.…
Lees meerCustomers told distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps Parts of Amazon Web Services were effectively shoved off the internet today, breaking customers' websites, after the cloud giant reportedly came under attack.…
Lees meerTop brass beams aboard from $10bn IT brouhaha as it emerges son works for IBM The US military’s controversial JEDI cloud contract has seen another strange twist: the US Secretary of Defense has stepped back from the project as it emerged his son wor…
Lees meerHere's how to sim that with RAM and hard drive space The esoteric world of quantum computing is all aquiver following a robust blog post from IBM essentially rubbishing claims from Google that it has achieved "quantum supremacy".…
Lees meerJavier Soltero looks forward to making a 'profound impact' on people's lives Former Cortana boss and Acompli co-founder Javier Soltero has popped up at Google to helm the G-Suite team, nearly a year after his departure from Microsoft.…
Lees meerAny cloud you like, so long as it rhymes with bee fix hive On the eve of its FY20 Q1 earnings and with the Ignite shindig around the corner, Microsoft has announced the purchase of cloud migration outfit Mover.…
Lees meerDigitisation across primary and secondary providers is the bigger challenge Analysis Plans for a "fully paperless" National Health Service have been announced and re-announced countless times – most recently they promised we'd be paper-free "within…
Lees meerJoin us this lunchtime with experts from Google Cloud and Trax to discuss costs, tools, and more Webcast Whether you run your business on-premises or in the cloud, you probably wish your developers and admins could deploy and manage applications wi…
Lees meerNew three-year agreement to pull S/4HANA customers into Azure SAP and Microsoft have linked arms as part of SAP's "Project Embrace", a collaboration with Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform aimed at migrating the German firm's customers to the publ…
Lees meer'I wonder what our users are surfing for… Oh' Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly confessional of sins, smut and surfing from the seemingly infinite pool of reader misdeeds.…
Lees meerHelp us understand your day-to-day challenges and triumphs with this reader poll Survey So much of the misery inflicted on customers by financial institutions is caused by disjointed systems and clumsy hand-offs between departments.…
Lees meerSign-on so secure, nobody can get in Microsoft says it is working to resolve an outage that has knackered its multi-factor authentication system, blocking people from logging into Microsoft 365 and Azure services.…
Lees meerOracle co-CEO, and ex-HP boss, dies aged 62 after stepping aside for health reasons Obit Long-time Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd died this morning. He was 62.…
Lees meerOfcom: Ahem. Just check our website The tossing away of user-generated content on Yahoo!'s long-running Groups site on Wednesday was not just bad news for all the hardcore users who are about to lose all their precious things stored there. Many were…
Lees meerBriefly had screen recording feature too Sextortion is bad. Malware is bad. Spam is bad. Unhappily for a French ISP's users, online crooks combined all three in a hideous attempt to extort cash with custom malware that records their on-screen doings…
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