Apple has reportedly agreed to work with American Express on its new iPhone 6 payment system - which is now just nine days away from being unveiled by Cupertino.…
Stateside mobile carrier Sprint is reportedly planning to bring the Sony Xperia handset to the US market for the first time.…
Facebook is testing a search feature on its mobile application that will allow users to immerse themselves in forgotten old posts on the free content ad network.…
Many T-Mobile customers in the UK were without access to the EE-owned network on Friday, after the service went titsup due to a "broken fibre cable".…
Ostensibly getting Samsung, the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer, to use Nokia's HERE Maps is a huge win.…
Europe’s digital chief Neelie Kroes will reiterate her commitment to “international governance of the internet” later today – that’s code for a smaller role for the US.…
The new resource APIs expose AWS resources such as EC2 instances and IAM users as Java objects with attributes that can be implicitly loaded from the service and actions that can be taken directly on the resource objects. While the SDK's current request-response APIs allow explicit and granular control over the network calls your application makes to AWS, using the new resource APIs can reduce development time by simplifying your code and giving you a more object-oriented way to work with your AWS resources.
Here's a quick example to demonstrate:
Instance instance = ec2.getInstance("i-xxxxxxx"); // Reference to an instance resource object
String instanceType = instance.getInstanceType(); // Retrieve attributes with implicit network calls
instance.stop(); // Take actions on the resource
The team plans to introduce resource objects for more services and expand the capabilities during the preview period. We encourage you to try out the new APIs and send us feedback via GitHub Issues.
Find more information on AWS Java Development Blog and AWS Blog.
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While EE didn’t win our Monopoly board coverage survey, the formerly fruity network did prove to be top dog for data speeds – and that’s down to having more spectrum than its rivals.…
Enterprise sync 'n' share appears an unlikely battleground for a rolling brawl between startups and enterprise titans, but that's what's happening out there today.…
NBN users are data-hungry beasts, and while the move from early-adopter to mainstream is expanding the number of users on lower-speed plans, around two-thirds of the 210,000 connected customers are on speeds above 25 Mbps.…
Dropbox has become the latest company to slash its cloud storage costs as the price war in the sector heats up, leaving consumers to reap the cost benefits.…
The mayors of the two largest cities in America have sent letters to US watchdog the FCC expressing their concerns over the proposed merger between cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable (TWC).…
We are pleased to announce that Amazon Zocalo is now available to all AWS customers.
Amazon Zocalo is a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity. Users can comment on files, send them to others for feedback, and upload new versions without having to resort to emailing multiple versions of their files as attachments. Users can take advantage of these capabilities wherever they are, using the device of their choice, including PCs, Macs, and tablets. Amazon Zocalo offers IT administrators the option of integrating with existing corporate directories, flexible sharing policies, audit logs, and control of the location where data is stored.
Amazon Zocalo is initially available in the US-East-1 (N.Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) AWS Regions, with additional regions coming soon.
For more information about Amazon Zocalo, please visit the product detail page, where you can learn more and watch a short introductory video that will explain the service. You can get started with the service using the AWS Management Console.
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Regus has coughed to what appears to be a major network outage affecting its UK-based customers, but the company is yet to explain what has gone wrong.…
Time Warner Cable is staggering back to its feet after wrestling with a major network outage that hit a number of big cities in the US on both the East and West Coast of the country this morning.…
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm could be facing into an antitrust probe from the EU at the same time as it fends off a similar investigation in China, according to Reuters.…
EE has dismissed claims that its social media staff are attempting to hush fair criticism levelled at the mobile operator on sites such as Facebook.…
With the launch of the report, communications minister Malcolm Turnbull seems to have taken a more generous view of the predictability of the future.…
CloudFlare has carried the fail-bucket to Australia and dumped it on incumbent Telstra's doorstep.…
Distributed web host CloudFlare says its costs rise dramatically in places where telcos have little to no competition.…
Google has confirmed the purchase of Zync, a cloud-based special effects rendering service.…
The mobile phone company once known as "Lucky Goldstar" has taken a trip back into the past and will launch a phablet with a stylus at German phonefest IFA.…
Former smartphone giant BlackBerry has another trick up its sleeve for its comeback, alongside the oddest looking phone in recent years. The Passport is expected to be unveiled next month, along with an intriguing bit of software, the as-yet-unannounced BlackBerry Blend.…
Virgin Media customers who retained their old @ntlworld.com email addresses are currently blocked from accessing their accounts after the cable company appeared to have made an embarrassing DNS blunder.…
The BBC website fell over today, taking down its online news service and iPlayer service – but it's unclear whether the outage relates to the significant Distributed Denial of Service attack hitting Sony's gaming network right now.…
The web version of Britain's BBC iPlayer service has gone titsup, but it's unclear whether the outage relates to the significant Distributed Denial of Service attack hitting Sony's gaming network right now.…
Sony is suffering a major Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on its network, the company's Online Entertainment boss confirmed today.…
Sony is suffering a major Distributed Denial-of-Service attack on its network, the company's Online Entertainment boss confirmed today.…
Microsoft researchers have developed software that, they say, cuts through network delay issues in cloud gaming systems.…
An unknown number of gamers have been kicked off of Sony's PlayStation Network, but the company is continuing to insist that its service is stable.…
BT's broadband and landline tariffs are set to balloon by more than 6 per cent, the one-time state monopoly has said.…
Nokia's X and Motorola's G now have two new rivals to compete for the reals, pesos and quetzals as LG targets emerging markets with landfill Androids.…
T-Mobile US has promised a year's free mobile data for subscribers who convince friends and family to join its network.…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has leveled up its US government security certification, winning the right to handle more sensitive work from the Department of Defense (DoD).…
The US government's National Science Foundation has handed out $20m in funding for two big new cloud computing research projects.…
NBN Co, the entity building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has revealed the data transfer speeds obtained by folks connected to its test fibre—to-the-node network in the New South Wales Central Coast suburb of Umina.…
AWS GovCloud (US) achieves the first ever DoD Security Impact Level 3-5 Provisional Authorization enabling DoD customers’ use of AWS.
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We have made several enhancements to Amazon CloudFront to further improve the security and performance of your content delivery over HTTPS.
High security ciphers improve the security of HTTPS connections. Amazon CloudFront edge servers and clients (e.g. browsers) automatically agree on a cipher as part of the SSL handshake process, and now the connections can use ciphers with advanced features such as Elliptic Curve signatures and key exchanges.
Perfect Forward Secrecy provides additional safeguards against the eavesdropping of encrypted data, through the use of a unique random session key. This prevents the decoding of captured data, even if the secret long-term key is compromised.
OCSP Stapling improves the time taken for individual SSL handshakes by moving the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OSCP) check, a call used to obtain the revocation status of an SSL certificate, from the client to a periodic, secure check by the Amazon CloudFront servers. With OCSP Stapling the client no longer needs to handle certificate validation, which improves performance.
Session Tickets help speed up the time spent restarting or resuming an SSL session. Amazon CloudFront encrypts SSL session information and stores it in a ticket that the client can use to resume a secure connection instead of repeating the SSL handshake process.
There is no additional charge for these new features, and they are automatically enabled when you serve content with Amazon CloudFront over HTTPS. To learn more about how these new SSL features work, visit the Amazon Web Services Blog. To learn more about delivering HTTPS content with Amazon CloudFront visit the Amazon CloudFront SSL page.
We have added support to Amazon SNS for large topics (more than 10,000 subscribers) and authenticated delivery to MPNS (Microsoft Push Notification Service).
Large Topics: SNS already supports broadcast notifications with SNS Topics, which are ideal for breaking news, announcing flash deals, and announcing in-game events or new features. Today we are lifting the limit of 10,000 subscriptions per SNS topic; you can now create as many as you need and no longer need to partition large subscription lists across multiple topics. This has been a frequent request from AWS customers that use SNS to build news and media sharing applications.
There is an administrative limit of 10 million subscriptions per topic, but we'll happily raise it if you expect to have more subscribers for a single topic. To raise your limit, please submit a Service Limit Increase request for Amazon SNS using the form here.
Authenticated Delivery to MPNS: Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) is the push notification relay service for Windows Phone devices prior to Windows 8.1. SNS now supports authenticated delivery to MPNS. If you require this functionality for devices that run Windows 8.1 and above, please also consider using Amazon SNS for Windows Notification Service (WNS).
For more information about getting started with SNS Mobile Push:
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We are excited to announce that the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Agent is now supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. The Amazon CloudWatch Logs Agent is free of charge and can be used to quickly and easily send your log data to CloudWatch Logs from your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances or other sources for near real-time monitoring and storage. This update adds to the existing support for Amazon Linux, Ubuntu and Windows. Customers who are already using the CloudWatch Logs Agent do not need to make any changes.
To start using the CloudWatch Logs Agent, visit the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Getting Started guide. To learn more about how CloudWatch Logs can help you better understand and operate your systems and applications, visit the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Developer Guide. To learn about pricing for CloudWatch Logs, see http://ift.tt/1mbAcZj.
Virgin Media is once again hiking up the price of its broadband service, while at the same time championing its cable network.…
Public sector organisations in the UK will be able to buy cloud-based IT products and services from suppliers from a new online platform from the end of the month.…
Opera will provide the browser for Microsoft's last dumbphones, under a new agreement between the two companies.…
Netflix has inked yet another peering deal with a major US telco, this time signing an interconnect agreement with Time Warner Cable.…
A group called Xennet wants to create a blockchain-managed market in which users rent out their spare processor cycles for a closed-shop crypto-currency.…
US television broadcasters are suing the FCC over the planned auction of TV spectrum space to mobile phone networks.…
A so-called "fangless" activist investor has increased its grip on OpenStack cloud cheerleader Rackspace, with a view to a possible sale.…
EE is still the best mobile network in the UK, but the others are catching up and Three is the one to watch.…
Microsoft's Service Deployment and Operations (SDO) team has detailed plans to modernise the company's own data centres and says the result will be lots – but not all – workloads in the cloud.…
Microsoft on Monday is struggling to correct a service outage that has left many customers unable to access various features of the company's Azure cloud services.…
Ericsson's February 2014 agreement with Ciena has paid off in Australia, with the two to work on a major optical network upgrade for incumbent Telstra.…
Microsoft has signalled it will harmonise the feature set of the cloudy and on-premises versions of its BizTalk Server.…
The world's submarine cables are subject to a brand-new threat: sharks.…
The new CEO of US mobile operator Sprint says he's planning aggressive moves to regain market share starting next week, but the big changes he has in mind will make job cuts unavoidable.…
In an effort to woo buyers in China, Apple has inked a deal to store Chinese customer data in Chinese servers for the first time.…
You can now deploy and manage Ruby 2.1 applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. You can use Elastic Beanstalk with Ruby 2.1 on Passenger Standalone or Puma with Nginx as reverse proxy.
To get started, please see the walkthroughs for deploying Rails and Sinatra applications on Elastic Beanstalk. Or, you can launch a sample Rails application directly by clicking here.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Online services for software developers are in the midst of a total outage that has lasted for more than four hours. The Redmond giant has blamed a database snafu.…
Advertisers on global ad network Facebook can now pinpoint exactly which devices and computers people use to buy stuff through online ads.…
AWS OpsWorks now allows users to define environment variables per application. Instead of creating a custom recipe and managing environment variables as Chef attributes, you define the environment variables on each app and OpsWorks takes care of securely storing and sending the environment variables from your OpsWorks app definition to your instances and adding them to the application server context. All you have to do is reference the environment variables in your application's code using the methods defined in the Java, Ruby, PHP, and Node.js application servers. The environment variables are passed to the application server during instance setup and can be updated on each application deployment. Environment variables can also be defined as protected values, so that they cannot be read by OpsWorks users. For example, a user can set separate environment variables for database endpoint, username, and password. The password environment variable can be defined as a protected value, so it cannot be viewed in the console, SDK or CLI and is only made available to the defined application.
For more information, see the blog.
One of the most powerful men in the US Senate has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) tour all of America to hear citizens' thoughts, face to face, on net neutrality.…
EE customers are struggling to access the mobile network.…
Vodafone has been chided for misleading customers with a telly ad that wrongly implied that the majority of Blighty's emergency services' staff personally subscribed to the mobile operator.…
All of Blighty's mobile phone networks are providing great coverage and you can make a successful voice call nearly 100 per cent of the time. And the source of this wonderful news? Why, it's … er, the mobile phone networks themselves. Oh.…
Just in time for the back-to-school season, Google has made a schoolwork grading tool for teachers.…
Canadian ISP Shaw is experiencing a "nationwide outage affecting internet browsing", according to the polite phone robot put in place to discourage affected punters from overwhelming support systems.…
This new Quick Start Reference Deployment covers the implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 in a highly available architecture on the AWS cloud. The automated solution used to deploy the Quick Start is provided by an AWS CloudFormation template that allows you to choose a highly available architecture that is sized for medium or large environments based on your input. Additionally, the foundation for this environment will utilize the Active Directory Domain Services and Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group Quick Starts, which are deployed in a highly available architecture across two Availability Zones. This Quick Start Reference Deployment discusses how the Microsoft SharePoint environment is built so that you can deploy the automated solution or customize the provided AWS CloudFormation template to meet your own requirements.
This Quick Start is the fifth in a series of new Reference Deployments that describe in words and diagrams the architectures for implementing popular enterprise solutions on AWS. They also include the AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployments.
To get started with Microsoft SharePoint 2013 on AWS, use the following resources:
The AWS SDK for Python (Boto) now supports Python 3 with full backwards-compatibility. The SDK now works with Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, and 3.4. Download the latest build from PyPI or GitHub, and start using AWS for your Python 3 projects today!
For additional information, visit the Boto documentation page.
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Elastic Load Balancing now allows you to tag your load balancers to simplify the administration of your AWS resources.
A tag is a user-defined label that helps you organize your resources into groupings such as application names or projects. You can also use tags to make it easier to allocate costs and optimize spending, for example by tagging a load balancer with details such as a cost center, or the name of an administrator or project.
You can add, view, and remove tags by using the AWS Management Console, API, or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
To learn more, please see the documentation.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Amazon WorkSpaces is now available. MFA can provide you with an additional layer of security during the authentication process. Users must validate their identify by providing something they know (e.g. password), as well as something they have (e.g. hardware or software generated one-time password (OTP)).
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud. It allows customers to easily provision cloud-based desktops that allow end-users to access the documents, applications and resources they need with the device of their choice, including laptops, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android tablets.
Support for MFA means you can use your existing RADIUS-based authentication solution with Amazon WorkSpaces. MFA can help you prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to resources, while defending against common password attacks such as phishing and keystroke logging. To learn more, please see our documentation.
A new app and service aimed at people with sight impairments is being cooked up on Silicon Roundabout.…
Dented Linux mobile OS Sailfish has taken a new route to market as Three in Hong Kong prepares to start selling the smartphone-that-could-have-been from Jolla.…
Ericsson and SoftBank in Japan have demonstrated a system which lets the network control not just how much bandwidth you have but how much spectrum each user gets to play with.…
Google is slinging money towards a US$300 million project to traverse the Pacific with a new high-capacity submarine cable.…
IBM has acquired upstart Lighthouse Security Group, which lets sysadmins manage user accounts and identities in an off-premises cloud.…
The infrastructure for text messaging is creaking. Not only does it need to be fixed, but it seems mobile operators don’t understand enough about their own systems to do it themselves.…
Both Vodafone and O2 are claiming to be the best mobile phone network for people, particularly government people, who are worried about security.…
The number of machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile data connections in the UK increased by nine per cent last year on 2012 figures, UK communications regulator Ofcom has reported.…
PricewaterhouseCoopers reckons the business end of the Internet of Things is going to hit its straps in 2015, reporting that 20 per cent of US businesses polled in its most recent Digital IQ Snapshot are putting money into sensors of some kind.…
We have added a new set of commands for Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) to the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). These commands will allow you to create, describe, manage, and terminate your Amazon EMR clusters using the AWS CLI. Also, these new commands offer an improved syntax than those on our previous Ruby-based CLI. In the future, we will only be adding new Amazon EMR functionality to our commands on the AWS CLI, and we will not be updating our Ruby-based CLI. The AWS CLI is easy to install and allows you to interact with multiple AWS services using a single tool.
The new Amazon EMR commands are available on the AWS CLI version 1.4.0 or later. If you have previously installed the AWS CLI, please upgrade to a supported version using "pip install --upgrade awscli" (view complete upgrade instructions here). If you have not installed the AWS CLI, please see our installation instructions and our configuration instructions. You can learn more about our new commands in the AWS CLI Reference or type "aws emr help" at your shell prompt.
More than one million British people now have access to high speed broadband as Westminster's plan to deliver access to "superfast" speeds to 95 per cent of the UK by 2017 gathers pace.…
The good burghers of TGI Friday’s have cooked up a plan to get you in and out of their eateries faster: using mobile tech.…
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica’s unexpected €6.7bn bid to buy Brazilian broadband operator GVT, which is owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi, has put the cat among the pigeons across the Mediterranean at Telecom Italia, Italy’s largest telco.…
BT has pipped Logicalis to be the preferred supplier to provide the Welsh public sector with broadband and other IP services in a contract valued at up to £420m over its lifetime.…
EMC Federation member Pivotal has put all its eggs in one basket, by releasing the first version of its AppSuite.…
Hawaii's a tropical paradise, right?…
Researchers at Dell's SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have identified an exploit that can be used to steal cryptocurrency from mining pools – and they claim that at least one unknown miscreant has already used the technique to pilfer tens of thousands of dollars in digital cash.…
Cloudy storage startup Zadara can now drop a unified storage array in your own data centre, with you paying for its use and maintenance on a pay as you go scheme. It's essentially a "serviced storage array" (like a serviced office).…
Google has decided to give a two-year-old IETF e-mail standard a push towards universal adoption, by switching on support for RFC 6530 international character support in Gmail.…
HP has unveiled a new offering in its private cloud service portfolio that offers a basic level of cloudy functionality while keeping costs down for budget-conscious customers.…
Sprint has confirmed industry rumors by announcing the departure of its CEO and abandoned its pursuit of T-Mobile US.…
Telecoms giant BT has admitted charging a number of customers for the traffic racked up by its FON services, which uses a portion of each customer's Wi-Fi connection to provide hotspots accessible to the public.…
Virgin Media has announced the largest single expansion of its fibre optic network yet, extending its 152Mb broadband service to 100,000 homes in East London.…
“We apologise for the disruption. We have identified the cause and are working to restore the service as quickly as possible.”…
Researchers who last year demonstrated they could harvest stray RF signals to power RFID tags have scaled-up their technology to power Wi-Fi devices.…
A Singaporean outfit called Gentay Communications has launched “nanu”, an ad-funded VoIP-over-mobile-data service it says will succeed where others have failed.…
Sprint is set to give up its bid to acquire T-Mobile US and will replace its own CEO, it's claimed.…
Verizon is hitting back at the FCC's criticism over plans to throttle bandwidth hogs' download speeds.…
The latest deal for small businesses from BT is part of its move to become a mobile phone network again.…
Microsoft has made a confession: “integrating your on premises identities with Azure AD is harder than it should be” and requires “too many pages of documentation to read, too many different tools to download and configure, and far too much on premises hardware required.”…
You can now take advantage of the T2 instance type with Amazon RDS. T2 instances are a new low-cost standard instance type designed to provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above the baseline. These instances are recommended for workloads that don't use the full CPU often or consistently, but occasionally need to burst to higher CPU performance, such as small database workloads in test and developer environments.
T2 DB Instances feature the latest Intel Xeon processors with clock speeds up to 3.3 GHz during burst periods and are offered at prices up to 40% lower than comparable T1/M1 DB Instances.
Amazon RDS supports the use of T2 DB Instance types with MySQL 5.6, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server (except for Standard Edition — License Included). Support for MySQL versions 5.1 and 5.5 is coming soon. T2 DB Instances are available in all AWS Regions except GovCloud (US).
To use T2 DB Instance types, you can either launch a new DB Instance or perform a scale operation on an instance running a supported engine type. Amazon RDS for MySQL customers running MySQL 5.5 who wish to use T2 instances should first upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.6 before performing an instance scale operation.
Pricing for T2 DB Instances starts at $0.008/hour (effective price) for 3 year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances and $0.017/hour for On-Demand usage. These pricing examples are for MySQL DB Instances in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. For more information on pricing, visit the Amazon RDS pricing page.
To learn more about T2 DB Instances, see the Amazon RDS instance class table.
We are excited to announce the redesigned IAM console, now with a streamlined look and feel that makes it even easier to manage your IAM settings. We added enhancements that make it more convenient to manage large resource lists (e.g., hundreds of users, groups, roles), eliminated tab switching, and optimized the IAM console to offer a better experience on mobile devices by restructuring resource detail pages and task workflows.
To get started, simply visit the IAM homepage in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about the redesign, see this post on the AWS security blog.
Docker has sold off its dotCloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering so that it can concentrate on its much-buzzed-about eponymous Linux application container technology.…
The Scales Review of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) has found the network's early planning process was chaotic and that NBN Co, the company created to build the network, was not built on foundations suitable to enable the project's success.…
Android has raced past iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time.…
Intel’s Internet of Stuff standards-seeking group is planning to have a first code drop of middleware ready for developers in the third quarter this year, the firm told The Register.…
German hosting company Rechenzentrum Kreuznach has popped an AS/400 into the cloud, and anyone can use it for free.…
President Obama has signed off on the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, meaning that, in the US, people can take their mobile phone and unlock it from the carrier that sold it to them.…
Comcast and Time Warner will hike their broadband speeds in Kansas City, which just so happens to be the first place Google Fiber rolled out.…
Ofcom has “rethought” the fees that UK mobile networks pay for their 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrum, based on the industry's reaction to its latest proposal.…
Problems with Apple's sapphire glass supply chain could mean the Apple iWatch will only be released in small numbers this year, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has predicted.…
The wait for BBM on Windows Phone is over. BlackBerry has brought its pioneering and much-imitated messaging app to Windows, following launches on Android and iOS last year, albeit with the "Beta" label.…
Thousands of Brits are being slapped with costly cancellation fees worth hundreds of pounds when they try to switch broadband providers, the Citizens Advice charity has warned.…
So in The Register's ongoing untangling of what 5G might mean, we spoke to Tod Sizer of Alcatel-Lucent.…
Infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud concern Linode has open-sourced the support documentation it offers to users.…
French telco Iliad has made a surprise offer to acquire a majority stake in mobile carrier T-Mobile US, though the bid may have already been shot down.…
