Is that 'Googley' enough for you? Google has settled out of court with 227 people, who had accused the web giant of age discrimination, for $11m. After all the legal fees are deducted, each person will, on average, get a payout of a little over $35,…
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Lees meerWith former Easynet CEO in charge of the board Brit ISP Onecom has bagged a £100m cash injection from private equity outfit Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) and asset manager Ares Capital.…
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Lees meerQualcomm, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Broadcom and Intel said to be invited White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow is reportedly meeting Silicon Valley bigwigs today to discuss the placement of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on the US trade ban Ent…
Lees meerInternet testers went down to Georgia and found a fraud Analysis American internet users are, seemingly, getting a quarter of the internet speed they are paying for.…
Lees meerTransport for London missed the train for 2019 deadline Transport for London is to trial 4G services on the eastern half of the Jubilee line, and is looking to work with a firm that wants to run a Underground-wide network by the mid-2020s.…
Lees meerWatchdog casts doubt on testbeds and trials scheme The UK's £217m 5G testbed trials have already hit a major speed bump due to a lack of available equipment, according to an official report.…
Lees meerHow our sysadmin learned to fear vSphere On Call Welcome to Friday. The weekend is almost upon us so put down that bacon sarnie and pick up today's On Call, The Register's weekly column of tales from the tipping point.…
Lees meerRecord revenue reaches Redmond, the result of a booming as-a-service business Microsoft on Thursday reported record revenue for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2019 and for its full fiscal year, predictably pushing its stock higher in after-hours tradi…
Lees meer'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak Google has identified a parcel of land for its second bit barn in Ellis County, Texas, even though the first one is still months away from completion.…
Lees meerDevice numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device With average prices for semiconductor components going down dramatically in 2019, especially DRAM and NAND, major chipmakers have been forced to reduce their producti…
Lees meer8% cloud biz growth in 12 months. Where is Red Hat when you need it? IBM notched up its fourth straight quarter of revenue decline as the areas it deems strategic – hybrid cloud, AI and blockchain – couldn't paper over cracks in the legacy operation…
Lees meerMPs hear how financial services are trying to improve stability in wake of TSB's meltdown Shifting financial services to the public cloud risks creating an over-reliance on the "dominant" service providers, banking heads told MPs yesterday during an…
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Lees meerBad news for AWS and Microsoft, who are vying for Pentagon's winner-takes-all IT super-contract The Pentagon's $10bn JEDI mega-cloud contract may be put on hold once again, this time because President Trump has ordered a probe into the massive singl…
Lees meerIn a cloud war, the US telco opts for the Swiss model, stays neutral AT&T has announced “strategic alliances” with both IBM and Microsoft, as it looks to capitalize on cloud computing without getting its hands dirty.…
Lees meerHey, that's a real use case, you at the back, stop your sniggering Mobile connectivity provider Vodafone has expanded its 5G network to another eight British towns and cities.…
Lees meerHome Office lacks plan, skills, budget control or achievable deadlines, says watchdog The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has delivered another damning report on the UK Home Office's bungling attempts to procure a replacement communications network …
Lees meerSoftware nasties, hackers, rogue admins can exploit bug duo to hide in your systems A pair of vulnerabilities in BMC firmware used in servers built by Lenovo – and in Acer and Penguin Computing boxes using Gigabyte server motherboards – can be explo…
Lees meerYour gentle introduction to this on-and-off prem tech Backgrounder The move to hybrid cloud is growing.…
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