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Friday, 31 October 2014
Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
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FP2 - Hamilton edges Rosberg by the narrowest of margins
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FIA confirms Vettel will start from Austin pit lane
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FP1 - Hamilton sets the early pace in Austin
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Sky ponders 200,000-customer MVNO 'trial'. Soft launch, anyone?
A decade of 'will they, won't they' rumours reawaken
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky is looking to become a mobile network in partnership with Vodafone, which would help tout services to the telly company’s five million customers.…
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Marc Benioff tethers Salesforce cloud to Blighty
First European data centre spotted off west London
Salesforce has opened its first European data centre in the UK.…
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Samsung launches 'perfect pair' of skinny mid-range phones
A3 and A5 to paper over cracks in finances
The world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer has unveiled two new Galaxy devices aimed at halting its falling market share and plummeting profits.…
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How many telecoms firms left in Europe? Another mega-billion deal slated in France
Numericable's acquistion of Vivendi's SFR approved
French cable telecoms operator Numericable has won conditional approval for its multi-billion-euro takeover of Vivendi's SFR mobile network operator, paving the way for the firm to close the deal by the end of the year.…
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Thursday, 30 October 2014
Brazil greenlights $200m internet cable to Europe in bid to outfox NSA
Only one problem: it won't make the slightest difference. And they know it
Brazil is moving ahead with plans to build an "anti-NSA" internet cable to Europe, even though it won't make the slightest difference to spying efforts.…
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Qualifying format revised due to Caterham and Marussia absence
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Verizon set to pay $64 MEEELLION for overbilling customers
Company looks to settle charges of bloating family bills
Verizon has agreed to pay $64m to settle claims that the mobile carrier overcharged some customers on their bills.…
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FIA Thursday press conference - United States
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EE launches 150Mbps '4G+' in Central London
LTE-A - Faster phones for Hoxton Hipsters
Mobile network EE has announced that higher speed LTE-A is now available in select areas. This will give speeds of up to 150Mbps.…
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Watch out, Samsung and Apple: Xiaomi's No 3 in smartphones now
From obscurity to selling 19 million mobes a quarter
Chinese Android mobile firm and fierce Apple rival Xiaomi has nabbed the third place finish in the world’s largest smartphone vendors just three years after first setting up shop.…
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Bianchi remains critical but stable, to stay in Japan
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Ferrari impressed by Ocon after Fiorano test
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This time it's SO REAL: Overcoming the open-source orgasm myth with TODO
If the web giants need it to work, hey, maybe it'll work
What can the world learn from Google, Twitter and Facebook - apart from how to make millions through ads flinging? How to run a successful open-source project.…
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Amazon's hybrid cloud: our cloud plus Microsoft's control freak
Plug-in for System Centre can wrangle EC2 instances alongside other VMs
Hybrid clouds are the new black: world+dog has decided that some workloads just won't ever ascend into the elastosphere, but that running a private and public cloud from separate control freaks is a dumb idea.…
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Has the United Nations taken over the Internet yet?
Impress at your next dinner party with this primer on what's happening at the ITU gabfest
For the past five days, and the next nine, dozens of government representatives are in Busan, Korea discussing changes to the international telecommunications regime.…
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014
AWS Systems Manager for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager is Now Available
AWS Systems Manager for SCVMM lets you administer your AWS resources using SCVMM. Now you can monitor and manage your EC2 for Windows instances in the AWS Cloud, as well as on-premises virtual machines—from the SCVMM console.
AWS Systems Manager for SCVMM is available to download and install as an add-in to SCVMM. The add-in leverages AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to authenticate to Amazon EC2. Once setup, you can view all EC2 for Windows instances by region and availability zone, in addition to other hypervisors and environments already supported within SCVMM. You can use the SCVMM interface to perform common maintenance tasks such as restarting, stopping, and removing instances, as well as remotely accessing an instance using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
To get started, visit the documentation page and download Systems Manager for SCVMM here.
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FCC boss clears way for internet TV and dismantling of cable bundles
Wheeler says web services no different from broadcast channels
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has outlined a plan which could lead to a change in the way Americans pay for television and internet services.…
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FIA press conference schedule - United States
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Moments in time - United States special
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Dragon's Outsourcery flaunts UK.gov cloud bazaar credentials
'Still a lot of distrust for cloudening among these gov primitives', admit biz chiefs
Outsourcery is crowing about the O-Cloud platform receiving pan government accreditation - IL2 in old money - that will allow it to unleash IaaS and hosted Microsoft apps on tech buyers in the Digital Marketplace.…
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Ferrari to trial 2015 developments in the USA and Brazil
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Renault 'nervous' about Austin challenge
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Google may hook Kubernetes deep into own cloud
'Highly differentiated experience' promised, details likely at November gabfest
Google's Cloud Platform Live event in the USA next week may offer up some news on how The Chocolate Factory will allow developers to put Kubernetes to work in its own cloud.…
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Storage array giants will point their back ends at Azure
Azure Site Recovery expands to save and serve SAN snapshots, scare backup vendors
Azure has turned itself into a destination for storage of SAN snapshots captured on devices provided by EMC, NetApp, HP and Hitachi Data Systems, further enhancing the Microsoft Cloud's disaster recovery prowess.…
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Bangkok gets 'net exchange with help from ISOC
Bit barns and their brethren busting out all over Asia
The Internet Society has nominated Alcatel-Lucent to supply kit for a new Internet exchange in Bangkok.…
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Telstra (re)launches am app store (again)
Is it over the top to keep fighting over the top players with the same underwhelming idea?
Telstra has taken the defibrillator to the in-house app store idea, announcing the business-focussed Telstra Apps Marketplace.…
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Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Hunk now integrated with Amazon EMR
You can now use Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL with Amazon EMR to interactively explore data stored in HDFS and Amazon S3.
Hunk is a full-featured, integrated analytics platform that lets everyone in your organization interactively explore, analyze and visualize data. Simply point Hunk at your data to start visualizing patterns and exploring your data. Hunk also makes it easy to create dashboards and share reports.
You can pay for Hunk by the hour ($0.75 per EMR instance per hour) or you can bring your own license. To learn more, visit the Hunk for Amazon EMR detail page.
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New Nominet CEO: I'll embrace past but look forward to the future
Dot-uk registry hires software investor Russell Haworth
"It's too early to tell what areas of growth will be best for Nominet," says Russell Howard, "but the company has got some smart people, a good board and an active membership base so if we can corral all three, everybody wins."…
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Amazon sells Fire Phone in UK ... on CONTRACT
Hooks up with O2
Hasn’t Amazon sold mobile phones before? Wasn’t the first third party deal Amazon did in Europe with Carphone Warehouse back in 2001? The answers are no... and yes.…
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IP Freely? ECJ to rule on privacy rules for dynamic IP addresses
German court wants clarification
The European Court of Justice has been asked to rule on the issue of whether or not dynamic IP addresses constitute private data.…
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HDS flings cloud-in-a-box at EMC Vblock, NetApp FlexPod
Still plenty of room in the converged on-premise game
HDS has started competing with EMC Vblocks and NetApp Flexpods with an offering its own managed, on-premises cloud-in-a-box.…
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Arrrr GOSH! Argos website goes titsup to make it EVEN BETTER
Who ya gonna call? High Street retailer apologises for blunder
UK High Street retailer Argos, which recently made a big deal of sexing up its store, is suffering from a major online outage right now.…
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I'll cap internet tax, says Hungarian PM as mob attacks his party HQ
Angry demonstrators vow not to rest until entire idea is binned
Following a protest by tens of thousands of people on Sunday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised to cap a proposed new internet tax.…
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Faster, Igor! Boffins stuff 255 Tbps down ONE fibre
Yet another speed record
The 2014 game of “leapfrog with fibre speed records” has a new and probably temporary leader, with boffins from China, the US and The Netherlands claiming a 255 Tbps record in a single fibre over 1 km.…
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AWS scores same Oz gov sec creds as Azure
The IRAP cert is suddenly very fashionable
Microsoft yesterday pressed the ON button for Azure Australia, and one of the things the Redmondian outpost was keen to point out was that it was the only cloud in Australia to have earned the Australian federal government's Industry Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) certification.…
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Monday, 27 October 2014
NetApp offers ONTAP as a cloud for all seasons
Updates to hybrid ONTAP?
NetApp has updated its ONTAP operating system release into what it calls a data fabric spanning private, hybrid, and public clouds, and includes a SW-only Cloud ONTAP edition running in public clouds.…
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder API calls are now available in CloudTrail
You can now record and log API calls to Amazon Elastic Transcoder through AWS CloudTrail. These logs will be delivered to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify.
If you are already using AWS CloudTrail, you will start seeing Elastic Transcoder API calls such as CreateJob and ReadJob in your AWS CloudTrail log. If you have not turned on AWS CloudTrail for your account, you can turn on CloudTrail from the AWS Management Console with two clicks.
There are no additional Amazon Elastic Transcoder charges for recording your API calls, but standard rates for Amazon S3 and Amazon SNS usage apply. Refer to Amazon S3 and Amazon SNS pricing pages for details.
Please visit the CloudTrail documentation or the Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide to learn more.
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OneDrive STORE-gasm: Microsoft lifts storage caps for Office 365 subs
Sky's the limit with unrestricted space in the cloud
With cloud storage rapidly becoming a commodity, Microsoft has taken the next logical step in the file-syncing bunfight, doing away with storage quotas altogether for paying customers of its subscription Office 365 offerings.…
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Painfully trendy: Someone just spent $200k on ebola.com
Paid owner in cash and, er, Cannabis Sativa shares
Anyone looking to cash in on the zeitgeist by buying the domain name ebola.com has left it too late, because the domain name has sold for more than $200,000.…
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Marussia and Caterham set to miss Austin round
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HP releases OpenStack cloud
Community version now, commercial to follow
HP has put its stamp on the world of OpenStack clouds, with its Helion OpenStack community edition code general availability, as of today.…
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Azure Australia launches, complete with full-fibre diet
No details on bit barns, but here: listen to this cloud ambient trance instrumental
Microsoft has, as expected, pressed the Big Blue Button to enliven the Australian “geo” of its Azure cloud service.…
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Sunday, 26 October 2014
T-Mobile US chief sucks up to Apple, gently ridicules rivals over SIM lockdown play
This relationship status – it's complicated, m'kay?
AT&T has been getting plenty of stick in the US, after it decided to disable Apple's SIM carrier-switching feature and greedily grab a customer's new iPad for good.…
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Knocking Knox: Samsung DENIES vuln claims, says mysterious blogger is a JOKER
But YES, system does store encryption key on the device
A damning security critique against Samsung's US government-approved Knox system has been dismissed by the South Korean tech giant.…
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No bonking for you! US drugstores FLATTEN Apple Pay system
Reports suggest Google Wallet also dismissed in NFC lockdown
Apple's new payment system has reportedly been yanked from two leading US pharmacies, apparently because the stores' parent company is developing its own system.…
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Saturday, 25 October 2014
'ANYTHING BUT STABLE' Netflix suffers BIG Europe-wide outage
Friday night LIVE? Nope. The only thing streaming are tears down my face
Netflix was struck by what appeared to be a fairly significant 90-minute outage on its streaming service late on Friday night that affected folk across Europe.…
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Time to test your sarcasm detectors: It's the UN's global comms shakeup extravaganza!
Five days of socializing and… well, judge for yourself
The United Nations is often mocked as an old boy's network where representatives spend all their time making speeches about nothing and attending social events while wasting millions of dollars congratulating each other for doing so.…
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Wanna see how Russia et al hope to shape the internet? ITU opens up (a little more) to public
Unfortunately you now have to make sense of the documents
Having tried and failed for a decade to understand and influence the internet, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) appears to finally be grasping the fundamentals of the open web.…
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FCC: You'll have to wait even longer for faster wireless broadband
US spectrum auction won't happen until 2016 now
The FCC today said it will delay its planned wireless broadband spectrum auction until at least 2016.…
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Friday, 24 October 2014
Screw the guvmint, vows CEO of ubiquitous Korean jabber app KakaoTalk
Ordinary Koreans: 'Meh, that's nice. What's for tea?'
The boss of South Korea's leading messaging app KakaoTalk has apologised for handing access to users' private conversations to the country's authorities and vowed it won't happen again.…
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Lotus and Grosjean close to completing 2015 deal
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United States preview quotes - Red Bull and Lotus on Austin
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CBS goes OTT, releases EVERY EPISODE of Star Trek EVER MADE
$5.99 a month will buy you current primetime shows too
Only a day after HBO announced its OTT intentions, CBS followed suit and unveiled its own online ambitions – with archived content, current shows and livestreams in CBS’s 14 largest markets.…
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Rackspace launches big red rack eater
RackConnect 3.0 release gives Rackspace a much better hybrid cloud story
Rackspace has flicked the switch on the third version of its RackConnect hybrid cloud-maker.…
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Thursday, 23 October 2014
Fong, Nissany and Ocon complete Valencia test
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Upstart brags about cheaper-than-Amazon private cold data cloud
Storiant man asks you to check out their racks
Storiant is an object storage startup which claims its customers can use its technology to store petabyte-scale data in a private cloud at a price below public cloud storage. How does it pull this trick off?…
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Amazon opens second Euro AWS data centre – in Germany
Scalablity without the snooping
Amazon’s European customers wary of US data snoops can now build scalable clouds on AWS and stay entirely within EU borders.…
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There's a lot more to backup than you thought
Which kind will you choose?
If backup is too often an afterthought, have you considered its even poorer relation, archive. You haven’t? What a surprise.…
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NBN Co reports fibre traction and Telstra action
FTTP services breach the not-very-magical 200,000 barrier
NBN Co has made the slightly awkward announcement that it's more than tripled the number of premises connected to its fibre network in the past year, while maintaining its commitment to the multi-technology model for future rollouts.…
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Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Pay a tax on every gigabyte you download? Haha, that's too funny. But not to Hungarians
Sssh, don't give anyone any ideas, Hungary
Hungary is threatening to tax its broadband providers for every gigabyte their subscribers use.…
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Is your home or office internet gateway one of '1.2 MILLION' wide open to hijacking?
Doublecheck your NAT-PMP settings now
Hundreds of thousands of routers, firewalls and gateways used by small offices and homes are said to be vulnerable to hijacking due to bungled NAT settings.…
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Big Azure? Microsoft and IBM ink deal on business cloud
Enterprise round-up time...
IBM and Microsoft’s Azure cloud are blending after the two firms inked an enterprise partnership.…
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Sam Michael to leave McLaren at end of 2014
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Broadcom pitches chips at G.fast OEMs
'Gigabit' silicon should land in equipment in 2016
Broadcom has become the latest vendor to stake out its ground in the G.fast market, as the ITU's standardisation bods stretch their hands slowly towards the rubber stamp.…
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Telstra ambit claim gets ACCC pushback
Tell 'em they're DREAMING, son
The stage is set for another drawn-out battle over wholesale telecommunication service pricing in Australia, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) indicating it's going to rubber-stamp Telstra's request for a 7.2 per cent price hike.…
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Tuesday, 21 October 2014
How much will it take to make OpenStack great? Well, stack dev Mirantis just bagged $100m ...
We'll knock out a wall there, put through some pipes there
Three-year-old OpenStack startup Mirantis has scored $100m in venture-capital funding, we're told.…
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NSA approves Samsung Knox for use by TOP SECRET g-men
Nine gadgets from chaebol green-lighted
US spooks will be allowed to access sensitive government information on their KNOX-locked Samsung gadgets from now on.…
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Migrate to the cloud and watch your business take flight
Expand your horizons
Think cloud computing is about getting rid of IT infrastructure to save money? Think again.…
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Steelie Neelie orders Germany to sort out its mobe charges – or EU will go FULL LEGAL
Explain this 80% hike or PAY, thunders EC commish
Steelie Neelie has warned Germany – for the fifth time – that if it doesn’t sort out its proposals on mobile termination rates, the Commission will take legal action.…
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Most cloud apps flout EU data protection rules – study
Data Protection Directive not passed yet, though...
Three in four cloud services do not conform to the current EU Data Protection Directive, according to a new study.…
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ESNet's 100 Gbps Atlantic link almost ready to flow
London, Geneva added to destinations for giant research net
The trans-Atlantic expansion of the ESNet academic network is nearing completion, with Fermilab announcing that testing and commissioning of the 100 Gbps-plus link is near.…
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CAGE MATCH: Microsoft, Dell open co-located bit barns in Oz
Whole new species of XaaS spawning in the antipodes
Microsoft has let slip one of its least-well-guarded secrets: two new Azure bit barns will go live in Australia next week, as predicted by Vulture South.…
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US Senate's champion for net neutrality asks Comcast: Tell us how much you hate web fast lanes
You do hate them, right?
US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has issued an open letter asking Comcast to make a public commitment against erecting internet fast lanes for wealthy websites. Leahy also wants the American telco to use its market and lobbying muscle to support net neutrality.…
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Monday, 20 October 2014
Brawn, Domenicali among members of new FIA Accident Panel
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Ex-Microsoft man takes up arms for Red Hat's open-cloud crusade
Because enterprise cloud doesn't just happen
“We want to be the undisputed leader in enterprise cloud,” Red Hat’s chief executive Jim Whitehurst said recently.…
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Hulkenberg to stay with Force India for 2015
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DTM champion Wittmann earns Toro Rosso test
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FCC, Google cast eye over millimetre wireless
The smaller the wave, the bigger 5G's chances of success
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is firing up an investigation into millimetre-wave frequency spectrum allocations, and Google has filed an application to fool around with the same band.…
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NBN Co adds 'burbs to copper map, claims 'speed up' rollout
140 lucky locations won't get fibre
NBN Co has re-designated 140 suburbs from fibre-to-the-premises to fibre-to-the-node, a move it says will deliver high-speed connections to the target locations earlier than would otherwise have been a case.…
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Austrian telco trials G.fast as 'interim solution'
Commercial services planned for 2016, long-term plan calls for fibre
Telekom Austria is the latest outfit to trumpet the virtues of the yet-to-be-ratified G.fast standard, announcing that a deployment trial conducted with Alcatel-Lucent achieved speeds beyond 100 Mbps per household.…
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Sunday, 19 October 2014
Yahoo! finally! releases! Flickr! app! for! iPad! BUT! shuns! Windows! fans!
Purple Palace got selective hearing, much?
Yahoo! has finally developed a Flickr app for Apple's iPad – but the move has upset Microsoft Windows' fans who have accused the Purple Palace of having "selective hearing" about its userbase.…
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Saturday, 18 October 2014
FCC looks to boost next-gen wireless networks with 24GHz study
Commission examines plans to add new spectrum room
The FCC is opening up an investigation into a possible new class of wireless broadband services which could improve mobile network performance and reliability in the US.…
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Friday, 17 October 2014
HBO shocks US pay TV world: We're down with OTT. Netflix says, 'Gee'
This affects every broadcaster, every cable guy
HBO this week has finally done as Netflix said it would, admitting that it WILL provide over-the-top (OTT) streaming content to the masses in the United States.…
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iPhone 6 shunned by fanbois in Apple's GREAT FAIL of CHINA
Just 100 Beijing fanbois queue to pick up new mobe
The belated Chinese launch of the iPhone 6 appears to have been a total flop after just 100 people queued outside a flagship store to buy the new mobe.…
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Pirelli alter Brazil tyre nomination
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Sauber to test Fong and Nissany in Valencia
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Make life easy for yourself when you move to the cloud
Know what you really, really want
So the boss has decided that the company needs a “highly scalable elastic cloud infrastructure” and in true Dilbert style, the rank-and-file IT people have to build said cloud yesterday.…
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It's even GRIMMER up North after MEGA BROADBAND OUTAGE
By 'eck! Eccles cake production thrown into jeopardy
Life in the famously grim north of England became even more appalling today following a massive broadband outage.…
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Mobile carriers keep the promised land on an ever-receding horizon
Nobody - not you, devlopers or carriers - can afford the next generation of mobile services
Upon taking delivery of a new iPhone last month, my mobile carrier informed me that as a special gift, the data fairies had granted me an additional 25 GB of mobile data. The catch: I had to use all of it within 30 days.…
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Juno what's just been released? OpenStack 10, that's what
1,419 contributors at 133 companies deliver 342 new features and fix 3,219 bugs
The tenth version of OpenStack is upon us, and thanks to 1,419 contributors from 133 companies offers 342 new features and 3,219 bug fixes.…
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New iPads offer ONE SIM TO RULE THEM ALL
Apple SIM will allow quick switch of carriers
Buried in today's news of the new iPad Air 2 and Mini 3 was a potentially huge revelation from Apple that could shak eup the way people buy and use mobile data plans.…
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Don't mess with Texas ('cos it's getting Google Fiber and you're not)
A bit late, but company says 1Gbps Austin network almost ready to compete with AT&T
Another US city will be get a high-speed fiber broadband network courtesy of Google, though it is a few months late.…
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Enormous advertising giant (Google) keeps wolfing down billions as ad sales swell
Another three months, another 16.5 Instagrams' worth of cash
Google managed to shrink the portion of its revenues that came from advertising in the third quarter of its fiscal 2014 – albeit slightly – but lest you doubt what the online giant's real business is, ads still accounted for 89 per cent of its sales.…
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Thursday, 16 October 2014
Keep a beady eye on your business's cloud service shopping
Don't let staff go crazy
If you believe the hype, it is only a question of time before every Tom, Dick and Harriet in your organisation becomes a tech decision maker who can spend your company's money, with the power to do so a mere click away.…
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Ericsson slurps up unified data centre software shop
Customer becomes owner
Ericsson has bought an 11-year-old data-centre cloud specialist.…
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City council thinks what we're all thinking: 'Comcast is terrible – and NOT welcome here'
Worcester makes bold, entirely pointless stand against deal
New England's second-largest city has hit out against a proposed deal that would take place should Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable go through.…
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McLaren to bring in major updates before Abu Dhabi
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Euro Commission drags Belgium to court over telco regulator's independence
Ministerial veto must be, er, vetoed, Eurocrats demand
The European Commission is taking Belgium to court for not allowing its telco regulator enough independence.…
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Hamilton and Rosberg told not to change approach
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Cloud skills certification can add zeros to your pay cheque
Grab some letters to put after your name
As IT recruiters collectively bemoan the dearth of cloud professionals, the doom-and-gloom predictions that cloud services would result in the death of the IT department now seem nothing short of laughable.…
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AWS takes desktop-as-a-service out of the PC
Support for PCoIP protocol means zero clients can run cloudy desktops
Amazon Web Services has made a significant enhancement to its Workspaces desktop-as-a-service service, by allowing support for Teradici's PC-over-IP protocol and “zero clients” that run it.…
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Another ICANN Board member resigns
Olga Madruga-Forti quits domain oversight organization
ICANN has seen its second Board member resign in less than a year.…
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Arab States make play for greater government control of the internet
Nerds told to get lost in last-minute power grab bid at UN meeting
The Arab States will push for greater control of the internet next week – by arguing that only governments should steer how the web is run rather than independent bodies.…
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Second winners of F1® Connectivity Innovation Prize announced
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Vodafone does it in two places at once: Carrier aggregation to boost 4G
Two frequencies at the same time, just like EE
Vodafone has to followed EE’s lead and launched carrier aggregation – which potentially doubles data bandwidth.…
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Deutsche Telecom's BRATTY OFFSPRING earns parent €38m fine
Thanks for that you little ****
The EU's competition chief has slapped a €38m fine on Deutsche Telekom for allowing its bratty offspring Slovak Telekom to bully the Slovak broadband market, charging inflated prices to competitors for network access.…
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Ravetto: Caterham looking for a new base
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Virgin Media DOUBLE-PUNCHED by BSkyB AND BT over ad fibs
Cable outfit suffers slow-motion knockout from its arch enemies
Virgin Media has been placed on the naughty step by the UK's advertising watchdog following two separate complaints from rival telcos BSkyB and BT.…
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Coughing for 4G, getting 2G... Networks' penny-pinching SECRETS REVEALED
Half-rate codecs, you say? You must be joking
Top 4G? Shockingly, the team that completed the London commuter train connectivity study we covered yesterday has reported the use of half-rate codecs among UK mobile providers.…
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SAP, IBM snuggle up for HANA-as-a-service
Thanks for the in-memories
IBM will host SAP’s HANA Enterprise Cloud on its global data centers, it was announced today.…
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Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Marussia: Bianchi's situation 'remains challenging'
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Wolff: Mercedes keen to retain Hamilton-Rosberg line-up
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Ocon earns Lotus test after F3 triumph
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Commerce Secretary feeds digital catnip to NET NERDS
Pritzker swears to protect net, beat up evil-doers, defeat Smaug
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has vowed to protect the “free, vibrant and open internet” by letting net nerds decide how to replace the US government’s traditional role overseeing the internet.…
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Mobile coverage on trains really is pants
You thought it was just *insert your provider here*, but now we have numbers
Mobile survey coverage company GWS, the company behind The Reg's awesome Monopoly test, has numbers to back up what we’ve always suspected: mobile coverage on trains is pants.…
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Salesforce and Microsoft to unleash integrations ... next year
Timetable for collaboration looks to be slipping a bit
SaaS superpower Salesforce has revealed the details of its cloudy collaboration with Microsoft, and the main detail is that the fruits of the relationship won't be delivered until deep into 2015.…
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Monday, 13 October 2014
Something ate Google's 8.8.8.8 at about eight in Asia's evening
Public DNS outage sends sysadmins scrambling across Asia
Those who worry about cloud resilience have another incident to point at and frown, after Google's public domain name system (DNS) servers at the attractive IP addresses of 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4 went down for Asian users yesterday.…
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Ofcom: 'White space' tech to support digital terrestrial TV in 2015
Will help UK meet demand for data in 'internet of things' era
"White space" wireless technology could be used for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting as early as next year, Ofcom has said.…
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GSMA places operators' towel on Internet of Things deckchair
Tells devs how to use mobe networks for M2M IoT
The Internet of Things is coming and the GSMA wants all the things to play nicely on the networks.…
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Samsung promises 4.6 Gbps WiFi, maybe next year
Movie metric: 1GB flicks fly in three seconds
Samsung has claimed a WiFi breakthrough, saying it has “successfully overcome the barriers to the commercialization of 60GHz millimeter-wave band Wi-Fi technology” and will soon deliver products capable of wireless data transmission at up to 4.6 gigabits per second.…
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Sunday, 12 October 2014
Want a customers' call records Mr Plod? Got a warrant? No probs
EE, Three and Vodafone automate delivery of comms data requests
Three of the UK’s four largest mobe networks run automated systems that make customers’ call records readily available to the cops without the need for any human intervention.…
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FIA post-race press conference - Russia
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Race - selected team and driver quotes
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Oracle hires former SAP exec for cloudy push
'We know Larry said cloud was gibberish, and insane, and idiotic, but...'
Oracle has bagged itself a global head to manage the cloudy portfolio just a week after chief techie and erstwhile CEO Larry Ellison talked up the bets the company is placing behind the as-a-service model.…
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Race - Hamilton triumphs, Mercedes secure constructors' crown
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Brits: Google, we need you to scrape 60k pages from web
Hey, c'mon it's our 'right to be forgotten'
Ten per cent of links expunged from the web under the European ‘right to be forgotten’ laws were based on requests from the good people of Blighty, Google has confirmed.…
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Saturday, 11 October 2014
FIA post-qualifying press conference - Russia
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Qualifying - selected team and driver quotes
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Qualifying - Hamilton storms to pole in Sochi
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FP3 - Hamilton sets a searing pace in Sochi
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Friday, 10 October 2014
Prez Obama backs net neutrality – but can't do anything about it. Thanks, Obama
You're doing a heck of a job, Wheeley
In a visit to California, US President Obama has reiterated support for full net neutrality, but said it wasn't something he could do anything about.…
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Amazon RDS now supports new General Purpose (SSD) storage type
You can now launch DB Instances that use General Purpose (SSD) storage, a new SSD-backed storage option for Amazon RDS. This new storage option is designed to offer more cost-effective performance than previous choices for a variety of database workloads.
General Purpose (SSD) storage delivers a consistent baseline of 3 IOPS per provisioned GB and provides the ability to burst up to 3,000 IOPS. Pricing for Amazon RDS General Purpose (SSD) is also simple and predictable. You pay for each GB of storage you provision, and there are no additional charges for I/O requests. Prices start as low as $0.115 per GB per month.
You can now choose among three Amazon RDS storage types to best meet the needs of your database workloads.
- General Purpose (SSD) storage is suitable for a broad range of database workloads that have moderate I/O requirements. With the baseline of 3 IOPS/GB and the ability to burst up to 3,000 IOPS, this storage option provides predictable performance to meet the needs of most applications.
- Provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage is ideal for I/O-intensive transactional (OLTP) database workloads. It provides the most consistent performance and gives you the flexibility to provision the level of IOPS (ranging from 1000 to 30,000) needed for your application.
- Magnetic storage (formerly known as RDS Standard storage) is useful for small database workloads where data is accessed less frequently.
Amazon RDS General Purpose (SSD) storage can be used in conjunction with RDS features like Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). It is available with each of Amazon RDS's supported database engines: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server. It is available in all AWS Regions except GovCloud (US); support in GovCloud (US) is coming soon.
To learn more about Amazon RDS storage choices, visit the Amazon RDS User's Guide.
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FIA Friday press conference - Russia
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Hulkenberg set for Sochi gearbox penalty
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Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
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FP2 - Hamilton surges clear of the field in Sochi
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FP1 - Rosberg leads Hamilton and Button in Russia
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Chilton to be Marussia's sole entrant in Russia
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AWS 'won' Xen-mess-inspired cloud reboot says Rightscale
Sysadmins say less patchwork required in the cloud than own bit barns
The Xen bug that forced AWS, Rackspace and SoftLayer, among others, to reboot many of their servers appears to have gone off without a hitch, although Amazon customers report less downtime than other cloud users.…
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Thursday, 9 October 2014
Amazon CloudFront Now Publishes Six Operational Metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
You can now monitor, alarm and receive notifications on the operational performance of your Amazon CloudFront distributions using Amazon CloudWatch, giving you more visibility into the overall health of your web application. CloudFront now automatically publishes six operational metrics, each at 1-minute granularity, into Amazon CloudWatch. You can then use CloudWatch to set alarms on any abnormal patterns in your CloudFront traffic.
Six metrics appear in CloudWatch within a few minutes of the viewer request for each of your Amazon CloudFront web distributions:
- Requests: The total number of HTTP and HTTPS requests for all HTTP methods.
- Bytes Downloaded: The total number of bytes downloaded by viewers.
- Bytes Uploaded: The total number of bytes uploaded to your origin.
- 4xx Error Rate: The percentage of all requests for which the HTTP status code is 4xx (e.g. a client error).
- 5xx Error Rate: The percentage of all requests for which the HTTP status code is 5xx (e.g. the origin server didn't fulfill the request).
- Total Error Rate: The percentage of all requests for which the HTTP status code is 4xx and 5xx.
These metrics are automatically provided to all CloudFront customers at no additional costs. Alarming is billed at standard CloudWatch rates.
To learn how to get started monitoring CloudFront activity and setting alarms via CloudWatch, please view our walkthrough in the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide or simply navigate to the Amazon CloudFront Management Console and select Monitoring & Alarming in the navigation pane.
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Amazon SNS is now integrated with CloudTrail
We are pleased to announce that Amazon SNS is now integrated with CloudTrail. CloudTrail is a service that can capture API calls made from the Amazon SNS console or from the Amazon SNS API in your AWS account and deliver the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine what request was made to Amazon SNS, the source IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and so on.
To learn how to use CloudTrail to track API calls made to Amazon SNS actions, go to the Amazon SNS CloudTrail support documentation. Learn more about Amazon SNS and AWS CloudTrail in our product detail page and support documentation.
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Remember that yarn about a fired accountant who blamed Comcast? It's kinda true, actually
Telco denies getting the guy sacked – but promises probe
Comcast has publicly apologized to Conal O'Rourke, the accountant who claims he was fired for complaining about the ISP's lousy service.…
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Lotus confirm switch to Mercedes power for 2015
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Cisco to sink $16m in cloudy Chinese joint venture with TCL Corp
Sets up $80m commercial cloud firm with China electronics bods
Cisco is planning to set up a new $80m commercial cloud joint venture with Chinese electronics firm TCL Corp, according to a company filing.…
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FIA Thursday press conference - Russia
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Rossi set to substitute for Bianchi in Russia
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Russia preview - F1 drivers keen to tackle 'awesome' Sochi
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Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Australia mandates* cloud use by government agencies
*Unless cloud is insecure, expensive or can't do the job
Australia's Department of Finance has updated its Cloud Policy to say “... agencies now must adopt cloud”.…
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports JSON document data structure and large items
Today we are adding native JSON support to Amazon DynamoDB. You can now write JSON documents directly into DynamoDB tables. We have also increased the maximum item size to 400KB, allowing you to store large JSON documents and nested objects in one transaction. These new features are available now and you can start using them today in the US East (Nothern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. It will be available soon in other AWS Regions.
To help you build and launch your application, we have also increased the DynamoDB benefits provided by the AWS Free Tier. You can use the AWS Free Tier to run applications on DynamoDB with 25 GB of storage and handle up to 200 million requests per month. Read more about the new AWS Free Tier benefits on our pricing page.
To get started with Amazon DynamoDB, you can download Amazon DynamoDB Local, which is a free version of DynamoDB that you can download and use on your local machine to develop and test your applications.
To learn more about Amazon DynamoDB and the new features we are adding today, please watch our launch video or visit our website.
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Amazon CloudFront Announces Wildcard Cookies and Options Caching
You can configure CloudFront to forward cookies to your origin and cache your objects based on cookie values in viewer requests. Previously, you could specify a whitelist of cookie names, but you had to specify exact names. Starting today, you can use wildcard characters in the whitelisted cookie names that you want Amazon CloudFront to forward to your origin server. This feature makes it easy to set multiple cookies to forward to the origin server at the same time. For example, several applications, including Drupal and WordPress, alter cookie names with a hash to identify logged in users, so SESS (for session-ID) becomes SESS<MD5 hash>. In this example, you can now whitelist *wordpress*, or *SESS* values as valid cookie names, and CloudFront will forward any cookie containing “wordpress” or “SESS”.
We have also enabled the ability to specify whether you want CloudFront to cache the response from your origin server when a viewer submits an OPTIONS request. An OPTIONS request allows you to retrieve a list of the options that your origin server supports. Amazon CloudFront caches the response from GET and HEAD requests by default. By also configuring CloudFront to cache the responses for OPTIONS requests, you can further decrease latency for your end users because CloudFront will respond to the OPTIONS requests from the cache instead of repeatedly forwarding the requests to your origin server.
There are no additional fees for using these new features with CloudFront. Getting started is easy – just use the AWS Management Console or APIs to use wildcard characters in cookie names or enable OPTIONS caching. To learn more about Amazon CloudFront you can visit the Amazon CloudFront product page.
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FIA press conference schedule - Russia
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Three UK fined £250,000 for customer complaints COCKUP
Ofcom punishes mobe operator for giving up on whingers
Three UK has been fined £250,000 by Ofcom after the mobe carrier was caught giving up on moaning customers' complaints without resolving their problems with the service.…
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Official: BT wins £420m Wales PSN gig... just as we said it would
Logicalis binned 7 years after setting up and running contract
The Welsh government has finally coughed to what El Chan readers have known for months, that BT dislodged incumbent Logicalis from the next Public Sector Network (PSN) contract valued at roughly £420m over seven years.…
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Pirelli reveal tyre choices for final three Grands Prix
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LTE's backers vow to KILL OFF WI-FI and BLUETOOTH
I am made all things to all men
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, weightless and Sigfox, not to mention GPS and TETRA: LTE’s proponents plan to make every one of them redundant, while also ensuring their own advanced wireless standard becomes the only one anyone, anywhere, will ever need. And all this by March 2016.…
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Strange tale of an angry bean counter, Comcast and a shock 'firing'
ISP says it's apologized but mystery remains
A Comcast customer who complained about being overcharged and crap service alleges someone at the ISP got him fired as a result.…
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First gigabit-over-COPPER chipset lands
Sckipio's new chipset promised to deliver over 250m cables
Israeli outfit Sckipio has revealed what it claims is the world's first G.fast chipset.…
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Countless Belkin routers go TITSUP in massive mystery meltdown
Maker says it's got it fixed now ... but what was it?
A large number of Belkin routers were knocked off the internet on Tuesday, owing to an as-yet-unexplained glitch.…
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Azerbaijan layout unveiled for Baku European Grand Prix in 2016
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Qualcomm, Ericsson, SingTel hit 260Mbps in live FDD/TDD demo
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor + Ericsson tech
Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Singtel have demonstrated the first carrier aggregation of FDD and TDD to achieve speeds of up to 260Mbps, meaning networks have more choice over which 4G standards to employ, as several can be used at the same time.…
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Leading like Leo: HP's Whitman rolls out Apotheker's PC plan
The executioner turns gambler as HP's PCs are set to go
There’s something in the water at Hewlett-Packard. No, I’m not referring to the "HP Way", that pseudo-Victorian philanthropic work creed.…
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Bianchi in a 'critical but stable' condition
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What mobile working can bring to every small business
The irresistible charm of 4G
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Docker acqui-slurps Koality
This one's for you, devs, to stop containers spilling into messy projects
Containerisation darling Docker has made an acquisition, slurping Koality for an undisclosed sum.…
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Russia preview quotes - Red Bull and Pirelli on Sochi
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£150m, three years... TWO base stations. Gov.uk? You guessed it
Mobile coverage project stymied by not-spot ignorance
A government project funded with £150m of taxpayers money to improve rural broadband with mobile coverage has managed to erect just two base stations in three years.…
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Redmond flicks switch on Dropbox for VMs
That's how it works, but Redmond calls it Azure Site Recovery
Microsoft has formally launched Azure Site Recovery, its service that allows one to fail over from an on-premises bit barn to an Azure facility.…
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AWS Management Portal for vCenter Setup Enhancements
If you are not familiar with the AWS Management Portal for vCenter, you can install it as a plug-in within VMware vCenter and use it to manage AWS infrastructure using vCenter. The AWS Management Portal for vCenter includes support for Amazon EC2 and VM Import. Using the portal, you can migrate your existing VMware VMs to Amazon EC2, launch new EC2 instances, create VPCs and Subnets, and manage your EC2 instances. The portal interface is simple to use and is designed to make it easy for users with VMware experience to get started with AWS. There is no cost to use the portal, aside from the cost of the underlying AWS services consumed.
The AWS Management Portal for vCenter now includes improvements that make it easier to get started with the portal. You no longer need to configure SAML federation as part of the setup process. You can now grant AWS permission to set this up on your behalf. When you do so, the portal will provide your end-users with single sign-on access to your AWS resources, right from vCenter. This provides a natural login experience for your end-users and is significantly easier to setup that SAML federation. If you would like to manage your own identity provider, that is still available as an advanced configuration option.
Additionally, the AWS Management Portal for vCenter now lets you manage all of your EC2 Instances through the portal, including existing EC2 instances that you have created prior to setting up the portal. You have the same control over your existing instances that you have over instances created through the AWS Management Portal for vCenter. This includes the ability to start, stop, or terminate the instances or view monitoring information. You can also manage permissions for these instances using the portal.
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Amazon Elastic Transcoder Announces Smooth Streaming Support
Amazon Elastic Transcoder now has the ability to create and deliver videos that use the Smooth Streaming format with Amazon Elastic Transcoder and Amazon CloudFront. Smooth Streaming is an adaptive media protocol that delivers your media assets as small fragments over HTTP that can be consumed by platforms and devices such as Xbox, Windows Phone and browsers that use Microsoft Silverlight players. This means that you can now reach Smooth Streaming devices with the same easy workflows Elastic Transcoder already supports for iOS devices that use the HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol common on Apple devices.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder outputs your media content in Smooth Streaming format to an Amazon S3 bucket. You can then easily deliver this content through a CDN like Amazon CloudFront to your end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds without the need for you to setup and manage third party media-streaming servers. To learn how to setup your CloudFront distribution to support Smooth Streaming, see Configuring On-Demand Smooth Streaming.
There are no additional charges for creating and delivering Smooth Streaming format media content. You pay the standard transcoding, storage and delivery rates.
To learn more, please see the blog post and documentation.
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Monday, 6 October 2014
Sprint will KILL OFF WiMax in 2015 – report
395 days to go until the 'other 4G' gets it
Third-ranked US mobile network Sprint appears to be poised to kill off its implementation of its less-regarded 4G technology, WiMax.…
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It's not you, it's Three. Mobe network goes titsup across UK
"Definitely not planned on a Monday morning (of all days)'. Well, DOH
Mobile operator Three UK is suffering a widespread outage across the country after the service was abruptly halted by server maintenance earlier today.…
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Azure Australia certified good enough for government work
Redmondian outpost signed off to handle 'Unclassified Sensitive data'
Microsoft's Australian outpost still won't say when its pair of local Azure bit barns will go live for folks beyond the current cloud test dummies, but is waving around a newly-acquired letter that proves it “has appropriate and effective security controls in place for the processing, storage and transmission of Unclassified Sensitive data”.…
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Want the EU to work on making cloud snoop-proof? Speak up, my good 'stakeholder'
That means you
The public has less than two weeks to respond to one of the vaguest European Commission consultations ever… but one that will decide where the Commish spends its money.…
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BT's consumer mobe network suffers tech snags - but telco denies delay claims
'We always said femtocell service would take two years'
BT's return to the consumer mobile market is reportedly being hampered by technical difficulties but the company has denied that the problems could force it to delay its plans.…
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Marussia ask for patience over Bianchi updates
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An interesting post about the importance of forming cross-functional teams when embarking on an agile approach.
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Sunday, 5 October 2014
Andrea de Cesaris, 1959-2014
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'Cops and public bodies BUNGLE snooping powers by spying on 3,000 law-abiding Brits'
Times claims possible abuse of Ripa
Thousands of innocent Brits have reportedly been mistakenly snooped on by UK police and public bodies.…
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Verizon permanently hits STOP BUTTON on Redbox Instant video-streaming service
US Netflix rival shutting down on 7 October
Verizon plans to axe its Netflix competitor Redbox Instant on Tuesday, just a year and a half after the telco giant first launched the video-streaming service in the US.…
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FIA post-race press conference - Japan
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Race - selected team and driver quotes
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Race - Hamilton wins rain-affected race in Japan
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Bianchi taken to hospital after Suzuka crash
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Saturday, 4 October 2014
Doctor Zuck, I'm so poorly right now! Facebook examines healthcare biz: report
Any symptoms you wish to share? Yes, a huge headache
Facebook is reportedly mulling over plans to step into the healthcare business – a move that would hardly be surprising given Google and Apple's interest in that market.…
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Even small businesses need control over their mobile devices
MDM is for everybody
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