'Idiot? You're calling me a f*cking idiot?!' Who, Me? Once again, Monday has put an end to the weekend's fun – and Who, Me? is tagging along, as always.…
Lees meerIt's something to do with the Mexican border wall Analysis When the Democrats took over the House of Representatives in America, one of the first things that the House Energy and Commerce Committee did was call a hearing on net neutrality. We had a…
Lees meerArkansas is looking good, Kentucky not so much Analysis In what could prove to be an important turning point in the rollout of fiber across the US, this week the Arkansas congressional committee voted to repeal their state's prohibition on municipa…
Lees meerWorkaround needed if you suddenly run into trouble with latest Linux OS update While the Redmond executioner was bringing the axe down on the neck of Azure Party Clusters, an Ubuntu security update has done the same to the Azure cloud's Service Fabr…
Lees meerNot a euphemism. I really did this Something for the Weekend, Sir? I spent this week on the floor.…
Lees meerSomething something cloud computing: Massive multi-hour outage across US, and it's still down Wells Fargo customers have been unable to access their online bank accounts for more than seven hours today, after smoke knackered one of its data centers.…
Lees meerThere's life in the old Silicon Glen yet Though Texas Instruments has finally pulled out of its wafer fabrication plant in Greenock, Scotland, all is not lost for the 300 folk employed there – fellow US firm Diodes Inc has stepped in with a £50m buy…
Lees meerAs for the Big 4 UK mobile firms, there's a first mover disadvantage The UK's Ministry of Fun* has introduced draft legislation enabling UK operators to charge roaming fees for calls and data inside the EU, should the UK crash out of the EU (and the…
Lees meerRail fails to keep up with 4G As well as the traditional New Year's price hikes, UK rail commuters face an additional humiliation – data speeds aren't increasing as fast as they might.…
Lees meerIf anyone's seen Ed Sweeney recently, please let us know Analysis You may not have heard of the Heard and McDonald Islands – it's one of the most remote places on the planet just north of Antarctica – but thanks to one of the quirks of the internet…
Lees meerMalicious acts would 'destroy' us, exec insists Huawei has admitted "room for improvement" in its product design processes in an open letter to the UK Parliament – but strongly refuted allegations of spying.…
Lees meerIf yer name's not on Azure's list, you ain't coming in Microsoft has said it is killing off Azure Party Clusters, the software giant’s free trial for Service Fabric workloads, so engineers can concentrate on stopping the rest of the stack from toppl…
Lees meerBrussels court (no, not that one) comes up trumps for US biz Viasat, US arch-rival of British satellite comms biz Inmarsat, has claimed victory in a Belgian court during a bitter continent-wide legal row over the proposed EU Aviation Network for in-…
Lees meerCome comrades, join the coding collective Enterprise Linux biz Red Hat, plated for consumption by IBM later this year, said on Tuesday that its containerized cloud development environment, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, has ripened to the point of ge…
Lees meerSoftware and cache acceleration ramps restore rapidity remarkably Dell is claiming a 2.5 to 4x increase in restore speed for software and cache updates to its Data Domain and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products, and has added extended publ…
Lees meerThe hits, misses, and axings by the newish CEO Stepping into the sweaty shoes of Steve Ballmer was never going to be an easy task. Satya Nadella’s first five years as third CEO of the software giant has brought pain to fans of Microsoft's consumer t…
Lees meerHosting outfit wants to get up close and personal Manchester-based hosting outfit UKFast has squeezed out a developer platform in the hopes of fending off the relentless march of cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft.…
Lees meerI really neeeeed to learn. 'Cos buyers aren't draining high-cap drive pools Seagate was caught out by an unexpectedly deep drop in disk drive demand and saw its revenues fall 7 per cent. Along with the rest of the tech world, it talked about a recov…
Lees meerGrey area in comms law needs a tad more black and white Can the UK Home Secretary order Ofcom to ignore its own legal duties? A court case that effectively began with the trial of a GSM gateway operator will soon decide the answer to that difficult,…
Lees meerCosts on the rise but still added $99m a day to its bottom line in Q4 2018 Google parent company Alphabet says it logged a 23 per cent jump in revenues in the final quarter of 2018, even as losses from its various side projects continue to mount.…
Lees meerSnotagram accuses comms regulator chief of being a Useful Ajit for telcos The chairs of the US House of Reps' commerce and technology committees have picked a fight with FCC boss Ajit Pai, accusing him of being a corporate stooge.…
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