It's just not fair on profit-making companies otherwise Analysis ISPs should be paid to provide slower internet speeds to poor people.…
Lees meerGreat way to make friends during procurement for a $10bn contract, eh Larry? Fresh from defeat at the hands of the US Government Accountability Office, Oracle has taken its battle against the single-vendor Pentagon cloud contract to federal court.…
Lees meerVint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other identify lots of problems, few solutions If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was confirmed by a panel discussion involving the two men that are credited with inventing the internet and the w…
Lees meerAll the better to lock customers into its fluffy white services So desperate keen is SAP to lure more developers to write apps using its cloud tools that it is promising them a year's worth of platform access for free.…
Lees meerWith permission, of course: Guizhou joint-venture touts Centriq-like 48-core Arm server CPU Analysis Qualcomm is laying off 269 folk in America as it gradually wakes up from its dream of filling data centers worldwide with its own Arm-based server …
Lees meerWe don't want to be an IaaS about it, but... BT’s Cloud of Clouds (CoC) field of vision is about to narrow. Its open-source cloud software platform, based on Apache CloudStack, will be "quietly withdrawn", The Reg can confirm.…
Lees meerDNS overseer faces probe over decision to award TLD to dot-com giant Analysis An ugly struggle over the .Web top-level domain may soon spill into public view again, after one of the companies vying for control of the dot-word demanded an independen…
Lees meerNetworking nuggets from the week that was Networks roundup What if all you had to do to block SYN-based denial-of-service attacks was drop the first incoming SYN packet?…
Lees meerOscillating microwaves reduce coercivity, permit small area bit writing Toshiba, like Western Digital, is going to use Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) to escape the inability of current PMR tech to go beyond 15-16TB disk drive capacity.…
Lees meerEyebrow-raising claim will be heard in full early next year Lawyers for a man who sued the Cambridge Analytica group for £20,000 claiming misuse of his personal data have suggested the controversial data-mining biz misled a High Court judge when the…
Lees meerBring your own AWS. Or let us take care of everything. For a fee The team at Red Hat has continued its toiling in the Big Blue shadow of IBM, and has churned out some tweaks to its OpenShift Dedicated platform and also sliced a few prices for the Ku…
Lees meerIncompetence is a kind of malware Comment It's a bit of a cliche that "everything’s connected", but O2's stunning outage yesterday – chalked up by Swedish kitmaker Ericsson to an expired software certificate – is a reminder of how true that is.…
Lees meerWhat's the control panel? Okay. And what's the start menu? Right. And what's this big button here? On Call To no one’s surprise, Friday has arrived again, and brings with it On Call, El Reg’s weekly foray into the best (and the worst) technical pro…
Lees meerBeijing demands US 'correct' Meng detainment pronto The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou earlier this week is sending shockwaves through both the US and China.…
Lees meerSwede Jesus! Ericsson says an expired software certificate was responsible for the outage that left tens of millions in the UK unable to call or text from their mobile phones on Thursday.…
Lees meerSays no one has bad word to say about tie-in with former Hadoop rival Plans for the merger between former Hadoop-flingers Cloudera and Hortonworks are ahead of schedule, Cloudera boss Tom Reilly has said.…
Lees meerExtremely, er, unspecified helium-filled gaming disk performance Toshiba has taken its 12 and 14TB MG07 disk drive techn and produced PC gaming and prosumer/SMB NAS drive products, updating its N300 NAS and X300 gaming product lines.…
Lees meerTweaking the disaggregated server recipe Composable systems supplier Liqid has added Optane SSDs to its cocktail of dynamic, roll-your-own server systems – the first amongst a crowd of composable vendors that are sure to follow suit.…
Lees meerOhhhh-that-TOO! Network issue pinned on 'third party suppliers' Customers of O2, GiffGaff and virtual operators who use Telefonica's network in the UK have been hit by a spectacular outage across the country. Transport information services have also…
Lees meerExec could face trial in the US for 'cutting deals' with White House's Middle East bête noire The chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of Huawei has been arrested in Canada – and could face extradition to the US on charges of violating trad…
Lees meerIt came with the package when we swallowed EE BT and Huawei said today that reports the Chinese kit-maker's products would not be used on EE's 3G and 4G core mobile ops – and that it was out of the running for any bids for the 5G core – should surpr…
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