Used by the elderly in M2M connections and eCall services In the dash to move everything to next-generation services, mobile operators mustn't be too hasty to switch off 2G, a report by industry bodies has warned.…
Lees meerYou could say the US has... stiffened its defenses. Get it? Sti – OK, you got it The US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) has reportedly replaced the ancient eight-inch floppy disks it uses to store data on the US nuclear arsena…
Lees meerBuilding blocks for devs. Because you can't be all Waity K8-y when Google's all-in Ahead of Microsoft's Ignite conference next month, the company has announced Dapr, now available as an Alpha preview, a runtime to simplify developing microservices.…
Lees meerFirst 123-Reg, now prominent Brit telco. Who's next? Updated Three UK has suffered a nine-hour outage and counting, affecting 3G and 4G calls across the entire British Isles.…
Lees meerFantastic quarter: Sales, down. Profit, down. Business as usual IBM is talking up the success of its Red Hat as Big Blue continues its efforts to ax losing businesses.…
Lees meerApp-quiesced backups could fail, workaround is to shrug it off A compatibility issue between VMware's ESXi hypervisor and Windows Server 2019 may leave some customers unable to properly back up their virtual machines.…
Lees meerDomain-name slinger keeps mum amid hours-long multi-service outage 123-Reg, which promotes its “award-winning 24/7 UK support,” as a selling point for its service, is suffering a sustained and ongoing email service outage – with Reg readers claiming…
Lees meerCompo pledged to women's rights charities A former TalkTalk programme director is crowdfunding the legal costs of an equal pay claim against the budget ISP.…
Lees meerNo Big Red now in use other than by third-party apps, firm claims Amazon has turned off its final Oracle database, completing a migration effort that has involved "more than 100 teams" in the consumer biz.…
Lees meerNo next-gen mobile internet for you but, hey, no cancer either Brighton and Hove has been claimed as the latest victory in the battleground against common sense, with the council agreeing to ban the erection of three 5G masts.…
Lees meerHPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast Cray has landed a £79m deal to construct Blighty's 28-petaFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer, which will use second-generation AMD Epyc processors.…
Lees meerBut without a majority, it's more likely to form basis of Tory manifesto than law The UK government has promised to roll out new legislation to achieve nationwide "gigabit-capable broadband" among 26 bills set out in Parliament's State Opening today…
Lees meerBills as high as £9k, but don't worry – they're working on it Vodafone has apologised for a "technical error" that left customers abroad facing thousands of pounds in roaming fees over the weekend.…
Lees meerAttention has shifted away from VMs, however, COO tells El Reg OpenStack chief operating officer Mark Collier told The Reg that while SUSE's decision to abandon its OpenStack Cloud product is "obviously disappointing", adoption is "strong and growin…
Lees meerStorage is no longer 'snorage' Survey results Storage is no longer snorage. And long gone are the days when enterprise storage could be taken for granted, or at least forgotten about until either users noticed access wasn’t speedy enough or the IT …
Lees meerYou shoved your documents where, exactly? On Call Friday is that special time of the week when clocks seem to slow to a crawl and software giants drop their buggiest code. It is also the time when The Register pokes a talon into the sack marked "On…
Lees meerMedia giant says it can now pay back subscription fees Adobe has reversed course on its decision to withhold refund payments from customers in Venezuela.…
Lees meer200,000 homes and biz have gigabit-capable connections Step forward, Hull: first city in Blighty to claim the title of full-fibre connectivity.…
Lees meerThere’s nothing like reasoned policy debate. This is nothing like reasoned policy debate The European Union has published a risk assessment of next-generation 5G mobile networks and concluded that everyone needs to think differently about security, …
Lees meerAuthoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box China and Russia will sign a joint treaty aimed to tackling “illegal internet content” later this month, the Russian telecoms regulator has announced.…
Lees meerYep, storage firm's software pre-installed on HPE servers Hyperconverged playa Nutanix opened its .NEXT conference in Copenhagen with a triple announcement: an HPE GreenLake deal, its software pre-installed on HPE servers, and integration with Servi…
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