GCHQ limb tight-lipped but we can read between the lines Huawei is nursing bruises from a fresh round of bashing in the popular press, this time from a report stating that Britain is to criticise the embattled Chinese telco kit maker over ongoing se…
Lees meerTSB TITSUP: Tirelessly Sucky Banking, Total Inability To Shock Us, Period. Totally Shocked Businesses have faced a morning without access to their online accounts following yet another IT meltdown at embattled TSB.…
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Lees meerUnless he gets off the sofa and finds another job beforehand Oh to be on the executive merry-go-round: BT CEO Gavin Patterson today leaves his post but will continue to rake in filthy lucre from the corp until the latter part of October – seven big …
Lees meerWhoops! I've broken the internet... but hey, everyone gets a coffee break Who, Me? Monday, bloody Monday. But fear not – Who, Me? has a suitably stressful story to remind you things can always be worse.…
Lees meerAppeals court hears arguments over whether watchdog was right to tear up protections Analysis A year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was sued for scrapping America's net neutrality rules, the issue finally ended up in court on Fri…
Lees meerChipzilla sets final date for the sinking of the Itanic Intel has announced the official, pinky-swear, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die end to its Itanium line, notifying system makers that production of the server processors will end by mid-2021.…
Lees meerIT meltdown cost TSB £330m and 80,000 customers IT meltdown bank TSB has reported a £105.4m statutory loss this year, a whopping 165 per cent drop from 2017's profit of £162.7m.…
Lees meer999, what is your emergency?... Oh sh- On Call The weekend is approaching, dear readers, but before we get there, our weekly column of tech support drama beckons.…
Lees meerRevenue growth appears to be slowing, though... Shares down in after-hours Amazon closed out 2018 with a bang, well, a $72.4bn fourth quarter, according to figures released Thursday.…
Lees meerSandbox test environment door left wide open Rubrik has fingered one of its developers after a database packed with customer information was left exposed to the internet. Security researcher Oliver Hough spotted the database, which apparently was no…
Lees meerThat's what happens when you axe the jobs of your nearest and dearest... BT's exiting chief exec Gavin Patterson is bowing out on a relative high as profits leapt by more than a quarter for the first nine months of this fiscal year, boosted by the c…
Lees meerSays named documents are already covered by the record Oracle's bid to depose two former US government staffers and pull in extra material to support its legal wrangling over the $10bn Pentagon cloud contract has failed.…
Lees meerUp to 4TB spinners to hold *gasp* more than eight titles Seagate has launched an external disk drive for the PlayStation 4 so gamers can cram more gear into their consoles.…
Lees meerThis is fine, everything's fine, CEO assures analysts on call. Look, we made $1bn in profit! Despite revealing its sales fell by 20 per cent in its latest quarter, Qualcomm shares managed to hold in after-hours trading on Wednesday, up a tad over tw…
Lees meerWhat went well? Services, services, services, services! Microsoft on Wednesday credited a boost in its web services operations in driving a 12 per cent jump in sales.…
Lees meerFTC calls for end of smartphone modem 'monopoly', Qualy quietly confident of victory It's been a couple of weeks of contradictory arguments in the FTC's case against chip designer Qualcomm so perhaps it was appropriate that the whole thing ended wit…
Lees meerFive-minute gap in which transactions for some punters are toast Exclusive The Azure outage of January 29 claimed some unexpected victims in the form of surprise database deletions for unlucky customers.…
Lees meerRoute to Ireland via UK will be surveyed, says local ministry Iceland has made public its plans to build a fourth undersea internet cable to Europe. While one Icelandic news outlet reported that this was because of "security reasons", the truth appe…
Lees meerWe have 'unparalleled arrangements' don't you know While the US was preparing criminal charges against Huawei and its exec, British government spokespeople were telling Parliament they are quite happy with the UK's "unparalleled arrangements" for fi…
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