Protesters in Hong Kong have turned to the FireChat app to communicate online – because it uses mesh wireless networking and thus evades the Chinese authorities' web censorship crackdown amid the unrest.…
Broadband and IPv6 are hot – and distributed denial-of-service attacks and IPv4 – are not. Well, that's according to Akamai.…
With one eye on data sovereignty issues Cisco has hauled another batch of companies onto the Intercloud bandwagon, including telcos, channel partners and cloudy service providers.…
Beijing has approved the new iPhone 6 for sale after regulators were reassured that the devices contain no backdoors allowing NSA snooping.…
Consumers carelessly use public Wi-Fi without regard for their personal privacy, even blithely agreeing to surrender their first born in exchange for the opportunity to check their emails without paying.…
Two teenagers have braved the wrath of Tim Cook after apparently sneaking into an Apple store and bending a number of iPhones, after which they uploaded the vid to YouTube, as you do.…
The OpenDaylight foundation has opened the valve and let Helium escape into the software-defined networking (SDN) atmosphere.…
CloudFlare announced today it will extend SSL support to customers who use its free cloud-based web hosting service.…
Despite once declaring that the cloud was “complete gibberish”, “insane” and “idiocy”, former Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison has announced that the firm is now ready to be the foundation of the cloud for its customers.…
Chinese grey market sales of Apple's new range of iPhones have been sluggish, according to local sources, as the Asian giant fails to warm to the mobes despite Apple's claims about the device's power.…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing an estimated five times more quickly than the overall embedded processing market, so it's no wonder chip suppliers are flocking to fit out connected cars, home gateways, wearables and streetlights as quickly as they can.…
By any measure, Netflix’s European expansion – adding six more countries – could not have gone better, although this still does not mean the operator will achieve its bullish forecast of penetrating one-third of all homes within seven years of launching in every market.…
Oracle has become the latest US IT giant to placate European businesses with extra local data centres.…
NBN Co is still complaining about media and political attention being given to the leaked results of a deployment trial conducted in an area of the Victorian town of Melton.…
Outraged EE customers who have reported flawed data usage spikes on their accounts are being told not to panic by the mobile operator.…
Rackspace has warned its customers that it plans to reboot all of its servers across the globe to nix a security bug that was first spotted in the Xen virtualisation platform earlier this week.…
BT has claimed that ultrafast modern broadband can be delivered using a decidedly old school method: copper wires.…
IP transit prices are still declining globally, but in bad news for 'net users of all kinds, the declines are slowing.…
“It works for dating apps, so why not for SDN infrastructure?”, HP might be hoping, with the launch of its software defined networking app store.…
Vendors are generally delighted to raise their profile by pretending to have "5G" systems just around the corner, but it was a CTO from Alcatel-Lucent who threw a welcome bucket of cold water over the 5G hype at last week’s CTIA Super Mobility Week conference in Las Vegas.…
Amazon will tomorrow begin a bloody global reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute instances after it found a bug said to be within the Xen virtualisation platform.…
Construction has begun on the next major submarine cable, which when it's completed in 2016 will provide a big increase in capacity between South-East Asia and Europe.…
Google reckons its Loon balloons are going to be delivering a service within the next year, and has revealed that it's abandoned the radio kit it first tested in favour of LTE.…
Comcast has branded Netflix, Discovery and others extortionists after they opposed the ISP's proposed merger with Time Warner Cable…
Western regulations like the mooted US changes enforcing “net neutrality” will hold back internet development for consumers, Huawei President and board member Ryan Ding told us today. Ding said it was absurd to have a put up with one-speed slow, dumb networks when different consumers and applications had different requirements.…
Apple claims its latest device is bigger and better than any other mobile phone, but the iOS 8 sporting iPhone 6 Plus has already been criticised for supposedly bending in fanbois' pockets.…
Good old fashioned kit and licence reselling remains the primary way local tech suppliers pay the bills, with IT services still accounting for less than a quarter of revenue generation.…
Telstra has announced two new offshore Intercloud POPs and has signed with Equinix for connections in Sydney and Melbourne.…
While Red Hat is trumpeting that it wants to be the "undisputed" OpenStack market leader, its rivals Canonical and Oracle have teamed up to ensure that each's Linux distro plays well with the other's OpenStack implementation, even though they also compete.…
Hewlett-Packard didn’t just buy cloudy startup Eucalyptus Systems to build its fledgling OpenStack cloud biz, it also bought Marten Mickos, the firm’s Finnish CEO.…
More than half of all the Apple faithful have declined the opportunity to update their mobes to iOS 8, the newest iteration of the firm's mobile operating system.…
The Communications Alliance has published drafts two key standards associated with the introduction of vectored VDSL2 services to the Australian market.…
The Federal Communications Commission says that – despite immense pressure from all sides – all options are still on the table for implementing its grand Open Internet scheme.…
Cloud hosting firm Rackspace has claimed victory over another patent troll, this time not merely by successfully challenging a patent suit, but by actually having the patent in question invalidated.…
Not content with running the industry's largest enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says he wants to make the company the industry's leading enterprise cloud vendor – and he plans to "win" that market before someone else does.…
Mark Mitchinson, executive veep of Huawei's UK and Ireland consumer devices division, will leave the Chinese firm at the end of the month.…
Ericsson, once the major manufacturer of modems, is planning to leave the business. The move will see 1,000 redundancies and 500 people moving to other Ericsson projects, such as small cells.…
EE has scooped up 58 Phones 4u stores from the beleaguered High Street retailer, one week after it slipped into administration.…
In surprising-no-really-it's-surprising research from NBN Co, Australians with slow internet services apparently get frustrated trying to work from home, so they unnecessarily condemn themselves to the frustration of commuting instead.…
The British government has appointed a senior diplomat who will act as a go-between on overseas data access jurisdiction issues, to push US telcos to share more information with UK spooks.…
A new round of what appear to be private, naked photos of female celebrities including US television reality star Kim Kardashian have apparently been leaked online.…
EE is reportedly the latest company to pick over the carcass of stricken British High Street mobile phone retailer Phones 4u, which fell into administration late last week.…
Google has quietly removed mandatory signups to its unloved "network thingy" Google+, which new Gmail users had been automatically shoved into when creating accounts on the ad giant's web-based email service.…
Google has quietly removed mandatory signups to its unloved "network thingy" Google+, which new Gmail users had been automatically shoved into when creating accounts on the ad giant's web-based email service.…
Vodafone has swooped on 140 Phones 4u stores just days after the retailer blamed the operator for contributing to its untimely demise when it slipped into administration late last Sunday.…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has never been one to hide his opinions. Now the father of the World Wide Web is up in arms about the state of net neutrality in the United States.…
French telco Iliad, which earlier this year was shot down in its attempt to buy T-Mobile US, is once again hoping to make a play for the American carrier.…
With iOS 8, Apple introduced new features that enable some rich new use cases for mobile push notifications — interactive push notifications, third party widgets, and larger (2 KB) payloads. Today, we are pleased to announce support for the new mobile push capabilities announced with iOS 8. We are publishing a new iOS 8 Sample App that demonstrates how these new features can be implemented with SNS, and have also implemented support for larger 2KB payloads.
Both interactive push notifications and widgets can be implemented by adding additional parameters to your push notifications. You can use SNS platform-specific payloads to specify those additional parameters for your iOS customers. You can now also download an iOS 8 SNS sample app which demonstrates how to take advantage of these new features using SNS.
In the past, the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) would only accept payloads of up to 256 bytes. As of yesterday's launch, APNs can now accept payloads as large as 2 KB. This change was introduced along with iOS 8, but 2 KB payloads will also work for devices running older versions of iOS. SNS also supports 2 KB APNs payloads beginning today.
To learn more about getting started with SNS Mobile Push, and to download our new iOS 8 sample app, simply click here.
Starting October 1st, the AWS Pop-up Loft will relaunch in San Francisco as a space and community where startups and anyone interested in AWS can drop in, hang out, enjoy snacks and candy, and receive free in-person AWS technical guidance from our experts. The architects and engineers who helped build services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon RDS are taking-up residence in this space and available to help you on demand. The AWS Loft will be open Monday - Friday, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and remember, everything at the AWS Pop-up Loft is free. Learn more and register here »
Amazon EMR now provides ODBC and JDBC drivers for Hive, Impala, and HBase. This makes it easier to use a variety of popular business intelligence (BI) tools with Amazon EMR, including SQL Workbench, Microsoft Excel, Tableau, MicroStrategy, and QlikView. You can download the drivers here.
The EMR File System (EMRFS) allows Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters to read from and write data to Amazon S3 securely and with high performance. EMRFS now supports consistent view, a feature that checks for list and read-after-write consistency for new objects in Amazon S3 by comparing EMRFS metadata with the results of Amazon S3 operations. EMRFS will retry Amazon S3 operations when needed, and you have the ability to define the retry logic. EMRFS also supports encryption for data at rest using Amazon S3 server-side encryption (SSE).
You can launch an Amazon EMR cluster with EMRFS consistent view and server-side encryption from the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, bootstrap action, or SDK by selecting AMI 3.2.1. If you enable EMRFS consistent view, your Amazon EMR cluster will automatically create an associated EMRFS metadata store in Amazon DynamoDB, or you can specify an already existing metadata store. Also, multiple clusters can use the same metadata store and share a consistent view of S3. To learn more about EMRFS consistent view, click here. To learn more about EMRFS server-side encryption, click here.
Australia's Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again unloaded on his predecessors in government, saying the swift planing process for the National Broadband Network made it “the riskiest and most complex project the Australian Government has ever attempted to carry out.…
"Their marketing seemed to be aimed at the more erm ... chav infested end of the market", wrote one Reg reader on the demise of Phones4U, which went into administration on Sunday.…
Apple has rolled out two-factor authentication to lock down iCloud accounts, a move designed to prevent a repeat of the Celebgate incident when smutty snaps of nude starlets were leaked from the bowels of 4Chan.…
Cisco is buying Metacloud, a startup that promises to spin-up OpenStack clouds both privately and as a service.…
Facebook has slung another slice of code into the open source world: the software that lets it sling content between caches around the world, fast enough to keep The Social NetworkTM social.…
Rackspace says it has given up on plans to either sell itself or merge with another company, and to prove it the cloud hosting provider has named a new CEO to lead its next phase of independent operation.…
Still flush with its victory on quiz show Jeopardy!, IBM's Watson supercomputer has lately turned its attention to more mundane pursuits – namely, crunching sales figures for companies.…
Amazon AppStream now enables you to build high-resolution, low-latency applications for Chromebooks and Chrome web browsers on Windows, Mac, or Linux desktops.
To view and interact with AppStream streaming applications, your customers will only need the Chrome web browser or a Chromebook. Your customers can add an AppStream Chrome App from the Chrome Web Store. An example AppStream Chrome App is available in the Chrome Web Store, and can be customized with HTML, JS, and CSS using the AppStream Chrome App SDK, available from our Downloads page.
Now with support for Chromebooks and Chrome web browsers for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux desktops, the AppStream Chrome App enables you to grow your user base by reaching more users on more devices without growing your development team.
To learn more, please see the documentation.
Social networks for the rich and famous are nothing new: the first one started about ten years ago. But, this week, a new site called Netropolitan has emerged, and thinks it's cracked the reason why so many of them fail – they just weren't charging enough dosh.…
Bill Gates in 2004 predicted the death of the password over time. “They just don’t meet the challenge for anything you really want to secure,” Gates said.…
Weve, the bonk-tastic joint venture between EE, O2 and Vodafone to “create and accelerate the development of mobile marketing and wallet services in the UK”, has abandoned plans to launch a digital wallet.…
Microsoft is about to launch a “Geo” for Azure in Australia and has decided that the way to do so down under is by co-locating its kit in an as-yet-unidentified third-party bit barn.…
We are excited to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS CloudTrail, a web service that records API calls made on your account and delivers log files to your Amazon S3 bucket.
CloudTrail provides increased visibility into API activity that occurs within an AWS account and allows you to track changes that were made to AWS resources. CloudTrail makes it easier for customers to demonstrate compliance with internal policies or regulatory standards. For more details, refer to the AWS compliance white paper “Security at scale: Logging in AWS”. Additionally, you can use the API call history produced by CloudTrail to perform security analysis and troubleshoot operational issues.
There is no additional charge for CloudTrail, but standard rates for Amazon S3 and Amazon SNS usage apply. Refer to Amazon S3 and Amazon SNS pricing pages for details.
You can turn on CloudTrail from the AWS Management Console in two clicks. To learn more about CloudTrail, visit the CloudTrail detail page.
Amazon ElastiCache is an application management service that makes it easy to deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes. To learn more about ElastiCache, visit the ElastiCache detail page.
CableLabs, the industry group that develops data transmission standards for cable television networks, is experimenting with Active Queue Management (AQM) to deal with the issue of bufferbloat in cable networks.…
Comcast has denied claims that it will cut off subscribers for using the Tor project's anonymizing web browser.…
BT and other British network operators have followed in the footsteps of knickers model David Beckham by urging Scotland not to quit the Union.…
UK regulator Ofcom is looking for radio hams' opinions about proposed changes to spectrum and amateur licensing.…
A project that's just landed on github aims to let users in the developing world access Web pages over text messages alone.…
NBN Co boss Bill Morrow has told Tasmanians that communities might be able to preserve the fibre rollout – if they're prepared to kick the can for the installation.…
Phones 4u fell into administration late on Sunday, after carrier EE ended its relationship with the UK retailer.…
eBay went titsup earlier today, and the company is now attempting to bring its site back to life.…
An NSA and GCHQ surveillance programme - dubbed Treasure Map - grants US and British spooks access to the networks of German telcos such as Deutsche Telekom, according to a new stash of leaked documents from Edward Snowden.…
Drag queens are protesting against Facebook's real name policy, after the free content ad network forced them to use their legal names on the service.…
An unknown number of Virgin Media customers, who have been complaining about a shocking mobile service for at least the past fortnight, are being asked to wait for EE to resolve a technical blunder at its data centre.…
This week's internet slowdown protest has been, as one might expect, declared a rousing success by its organizers – as US regulator the FCC has once again been forced to change up its comment policy under a deluge of opinions.…
Google is offering startups a cool $100,000 in credit if they're willing to power their apps using the Chocolate Factory's cloud services, rather than the competition's.…
A plan to rename a London skyscraper Salesforce Tower has been abandoned after the building's owners decided to give it more sensible name.…
HP has acquired open source hybrid cloud software maker Eucalyptus, in a surprise move designed to bolster its Helion cloud offerings.…
You can now use T2 cache nodes with Amazon ElastiCache for both Memcached and Redis engines. T2 cache nodes are a new low-cost cache node family that is ideal for test and development environments, as well as small workloads. They are up to 70% cheaper per-GB than comparable T1/M1 cache nodes. Customers eligible for the AWS Free Usage tier can start for free and use up to 750 hours per month of a t2.micro cache node for a year.
Pricing for T2 cache nodes starts at $0.008/hour (effective price) for 3 year Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance and $0.017/hour for On-Demand usage. These pricing examples are for the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. For more information on pricing, visit the Amazon ElastiCache pricing page.
To learn more about T2 cache nodes, please see the Amazon ElastiCache Cache Node Types table.
Citrix has shaken up its cloud division with at least one senior executive checking out.…
Apple is set to be the biggest player in the smartwatch world, the analysis firm Canalys has predicted. But its reign may only be temporary, as competitors will inevitably storm the fruity barricades armed with cheaper wrist 'puters in a bid to steal away the unfaithful.…
A global survey of more than 1,200 mobile apps has discovered that the vast majority (85 per cent) fail to provide basic privacy information.…
Microsoft's Azure has switched on a range of media services, including one that makes it possible to conduct text searches of audio and video content.…
Australia's federal government has announced the outcome of its consultation into community broadcasters, and its decision is: give back the spectrum and learn how to post on YouTube.…
Australia's Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has to do nothing about junior telco TPG's plans to compete with the nation's government-mandated monopoly telephony network provider NBN Co, but is still pondering whether other telecoms retailers should be allowed to resell services running on TPG's infrastructure.…
Far from being an “unrepresentative” document based on bad data, the NBN Co internal presentation which leaked last week was the outcome of five months' work, instigated to create a benchmark for future fibre rollout areas.…
Those who log into their favorite websites tomorrow may notice that things seem a bit... slow.…
Comcast has begun injecting adverts onto the computers of users who sign up for its public Wi-Fi network, although the company prefers to use the term "watermark" to describe its efforts.…
At Microsoft's own request, a judge has held the software giant in contempt of court for failing to comply with an order to give US authorities access to customer emails housed in a data center in Dublin, Ireland.…
Facebook has apparently watched video views explode since the free content ad network decided to set them to play automatically on its News Feed.…
Virgin Media has been battling another round of YouTube buffering glitches on its cable network.…
Cloud-based security services firm CloudMask, whose technology offers to protect sensitive information in the cloud, even in the case of a network breach, launched in the UK on Tuesday.…
Ericsson is big on little cells. The new RBS 6402 is an indoor cell aimed at giving mobile coverage within what Ericsson calls “smaller buildings and venues”, but you might think of as still being pretty big – around 5,000 square metres.…
Incidences of malicious software (malware) being identified on mobile devices rose 17% in the first half of this year, according to a new study.…
IBM's SoftLayer public cloud branch has flicked the switch on Intel's Trusted Execution (TXT) Technology, allowing users of its service to guarantee their code runs on identifiable servers.…
Microsoft on Monday began rolling out its promised social-networking features for Office 365, in the form of a product it has freshly dubbed Office Delve.…
Salesforce has warned that miscreants are trying to infect its customers with a remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed Dyre that siphons off Salesforce.com login data.…
A governmental proposal that would require the UK mobile phone networks to share infrastructure has been shot down in flames.…
Petek Ergul, head of networks at Vodafone, doesn't just have big plans for better mobile coverage. She claims Voda is actually rolling them out across the UK, with specific team working on “World Class London”.…
US telco CenturyLink is said to be considering an attempt to acquire Rackspace, according to Bloomberg.…
NBN Co has issued a press statement assuring media that in spite of what looked like a favourable assessment of its fibre-to-the-premises rollout procedures, things really were dreadful until the new government commissioned the Strategic Review.…
Nokia has joined World+Dog, pitching a Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) platform and announcing that it will be going live with a “major operator” by the end of 2014.…
Rod Tucker, a laureate emeritus professor at the University of Melbourne, IEEE fellow, and networking researcher has posted an article that offers very heavy criticism of the Vertigan Review's cost-benefit analysis of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).…
Reddit has finally banned a page that was abuzz with private celebrity nude pics that were leaked via anarchic message board 4chan late last Sunday.…
Apple iPhone owners in England and Wales are the most likely group of citizens to have their handsets snatched by thieves, the UK government warned today.…
Another day, another round of rumours pop up about Apple's upcoming 9 September iThingy showcase. This time, a video and photos have appeared on Chinese websites claiming to be "real" shots of the iPhone 6.…
Mark Zuckerberg wore his special altruistic pants on a trip to Mexico on Friday to flaunt his messaging wares in the country, by claiming that WhatsApp could connect up to three billion people globally.…
Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive has hired a close friend to join his team in Cupertino.…
That leaking tap at Cupertino refuses to be jammed ahead of Apple's 9 September launch of new products. The latest speculative report says that the fruity company has inked iPhone payment agreements with CVS and Walgreens - the two biggest pharmacies in the US.…
Fast-growing hosting biz DigitalOcean on Friday released virtual machine images for CoreOS, the slimmed-down Linux distribution designed for running massive deployments of clustered servers.…
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says Americans owe a debt to British satirist John Oliver for the FCC's fresh stance on broadband monopolies in the US.…
Customers dependent on Salesforce were kicked offline on Friday morning as Marc Benioff’s cloud went titsup.…
The US National Science Foundation, Cisco, Verisign, Panasonic and boffins from around the world have thrown their weight behind a new “Named Data Networking Consortium” that aims to develop “a practically deployable set of protocols replacing TCP/IP that increases network trustworthiness and security, addresses the growing bandwidth requirements of modern content, and simplifies the creation of sophisticated distributed applications.”…
US Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler has issued his most damning indictment of America's broadband infrastructure to date – claiming more than half of citizens have only one ISP in their area offering 25Mbps or faster connections, and that competition has been crippled by a telecoms duopoly.…
A massive power outage in Cairo has left the city sweltering in nearly 40˚C heat, without running water or internet services.…
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has received a /12 block of IPv4 addresses from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).…
The WiFi world's quest to appropriate the term 5G for itself continues apace, with Broadcom announcing an 802.11ac/Bluetooth combo chip it says will give users download speeds “up to” 650 Mbps.…
US cable giant Comcast has provided further details on its plans for a spinoff venture designed to coax the Federal Communications Commission to approve its $45.2bn gobble of Time Warner Cable.…
Apple’s two factor authentication currently fails to protect iCloud backups or photo streams, contrary to what many might believe.…
A significant number of cell towers in the US are not what they seem to be. In fact, at least according to a recent report, it’s likely they are snooping on your calls.…
Parallels is working to bring its automation, security and management wares to the burgeoning world of Linux containerisation.…
Ericsson-LG – a joint venture company between the two communications giants – has jumped into bed with Korean telco SKT to build software to control 5G networks.…
Microsoft has announced that its two Australian Azure bit barns are up and running, in a “private preview”.…
Symantec boffins reckon it's no longer enough to shield e-mail users from malicious email and that spam and phishing over SMS are now worthy of some decent defences. They've even penned a study to back up the proposition, suggesting that SMS spam could be 97 per cent detectable with a false positive rate as low as 0.02 per cent.…
OneDrive users are complaining that Microsoft's sync 'n' share service corrupts Office 2013 files when they attempt to open them.…
A Singapore tuition agency and its director have become the first to be prosecuted and fined under the country’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which came into force on 2 January 2014.…
