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Lees meerGuess we'll drop that lawsuit now then Huawei has dropped a lawsuit against the US government after the Department of Commerce returned hardware it seized from the company back in September 2017.…
Lees meerAll work and no play makes Jack a dull boy At 55 years old, Jack Ma, boss of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, is stepping down from day-to-day management of the company he founded – with a $38.6bn fortune in his pocket.…
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Lees meerDodgy dealing in a mobile phone shop? What kind of a world? The City of New York is suing T-Mobile US, alleging that it is unfairly exploiting people with its "Metro by T-Mobile" brand – its no-contract, pre-pay service.…
Lees meerCanada and EMEA see growth. As for the rest of the world... "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" seems an appropriate phrase to describe the predicament facing server vendors. Following a record 2018, almost of all the major manufacturers rec…
Lees meerGuess it's time to put down the crisps and get off the couch, Gav ... The former boss of BT, Gavin Patterson, is to join US software giant Salesforce offering "strategic guidance" to its European business.…
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Lees meerStorage and data management unification play Commvault has said it will fork out nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to buy Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup.…
Lees meerSkipping over 16TB capacity point, no volume ships until mid-2020, though Western Digital said demand for high-capacity data centre disk drives will keep up over the next few years as it told the world it would begin shipping samples of its new MAMR…
Lees meerPostmortem report: Power outage knackered instances, volumes for unlucky punters A power outage fried hardware within one of Amazon Web Services' data centers during America's Labor Day weekend, causing some customer data to be lost.…
Lees meerComms giant says camera patent claims are a front for government intrusion Huawei claims, albeit without evidence that the US government has tried to break into its internal computer networks. The mobile tech giant is also upset that Uncle Sam's ong…
Lees meerS'OK though, network promises to fix 'as quickly as possible' Virgin Mobile customers are struggling to get new SIM cards to work or be recognised by the network, leaving them unable to make or receive calls or use data services.…
Lees meerWhat will $165m buy? Brands, ops, workers, IP, channel stocks and OEM deals Toshiba Memory Holdings Corporation (TMHC) is buying LITE-ON's SSD business for $165m.…
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Lees meerAs resilient as a bullet-riddled piece of, er, video game artwork An intensely dreary Little Red Book of media quotes from Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei uses photos to boast of the company's grit and resilience to damage – illustrating the concept wit…
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