BlackBerry throws lifebelt to marooned users BlackBerry has said it will open up its BBM Enterprise encrypted chat service to all-comers as the consumer version nears death.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, customers complain of complete comms shutdown Customers of web host 1&1 Ionos are complaining of a lack of communication after the company suffered a day-long server outage that pulled some websites offline.…
Lees meerIt's like talking to my children, sighs marketing bigwig Huawei top brass took to the stage in Shenzhen this week to insist that everything was fine and dandy in the company's world, despite the shrieking from US lawmakers.…
Lees meerCritical patch available now for those with vulnerable kit Cisco has issued a security patch for a flaw in some of its routers that can be exploited by miscreants to potentially rifle through telecommunications networks.…
Lees meerWelcome to the free market as defined by right-wing politics America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will block the entry of the world's largest mobile company – China Mobile – into the US market, citing security concerns.…
Lees meerIT services are in, building and upgrading your own data centres – not so much Bean counters at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending in 2019, and the total remains roughly the same - $3.8tn – but the way the money is distributed is ve…
Lees meerSure, FPGAs don't make much cash, but they might soon? Intel is buying Omnitek, a small British FPGA design house primarily serving the media and broadcast industries.…
Lees meerThat Storwize array refresh was really needed Analysis IBM has posted a third sequential quarter of storage hardware revenue decline as part of its first 2019 quarter's results.…
Lees meerVirgin complaint upheld The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has slammed Brit telco Vodafone's ads for its "Gigafast Broadband" as misleading.…
Lees meerSkip it, it's a Google thing Linux-loving hyperscale types at Euro startup Quobyte have pushed out a plug-in for its Data Centre File System, used in HPC-style workloads, that enables TensorFlow apps to access its files directly instead of having to…
Lees meerApproach could one day create faster data centre interconnect Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have said they have developed a novel method of encoding information with lasers that could boost the amount of bandwidth sent down a…
Lees meerHold the front page Red Hat, now a part of Big Blue, on Tuesday released its first annual survey on the State of Enterprise Open Source, a statistical snapshot of what IT leaders think about Linux, Kubernetes and the like.…
Lees meerSo tonight I'm gonna party like it's, er, two thousand sixteen IBM is attributing another slow quarter to currency headwinds and purchase cycles, as Big Blue logged a dip in revenues for the third consecutive quarter. That means it's back into its o…
Lees meerHPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg Folk wanting in on the Arm-based goodness baked into Japan's upcoming "Post-K" exascale supercomputer are in luck – Fujitsu has finished the design and sales of commercial versions will begin some time betw…
Lees meerAs files pile up, customer numbers grow, storage systems spread, it's only going to get worse Sponsored One customer, one customer order, right? Wrong.…
Lees meerPayout will cover costs incurred for (not quite) burying cable Google has cut a deal with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, to settle lingering costs from its ill-fated Fiber broadband installation.…
Lees meerEmail contents exposed for unlucky punters Microsoft says miscreants accessed some of its customers' webmail inboxes and account data after a support rep's administrative account was hijacked.…
Lees meerDell Technologies, Nutanix have more than half the market licked Top dog Dell Technologies and second-placed Nutanix have more than half the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market cornered between them.…
Lees meerCityfibre loses judicial review against ad regulator Broadband infrastructure slinger Cityfibre has lost a judicial review against the Advertising Standards Authority after the regulator decided that the term "fibre broadband" could include connecti…
Lees meer... or this is a massive, massive coincidence. What's a Zuckerberg? We're Siculus! A legal entity called Siculus Inc plans to build a data centre covering 1 million square foot (c 92,900m2) next door to Facebook's 2.5 million square feet (c 232,257m…
Lees meerWait till you see the real thing A leading industry figure has dismissed 5G "launches" in Korea and the United States as "LTE with new shoes".…
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