Verizon has backed down over its mandatory fingerprinting of subscribers using so-called "super-cookies".…
Hutchison's Three will finally launch into the prime 800Mhz band later this year, which it expects will improve rural coverage significantly.…
People are turning away from pricey "flagship" smartphones sold on complicated expensive contracts, according to industry figures.…
Sales at one-time state telco monopoly BT fell by three per cent to £4.48bn in its third quarter, the company announced today.…
BT has announced that it wants to roll out G.fast and fibre to the home to provide internet speeds of up to 500Mbps and 1Gbps.…
Oracle’s co-CEO Mark Hurd is banging the drum for the database giant’s success in cloud computing.…
As we predicted, Sky is to launch an MVNO and get competitive against the other networks' four-play offerings.…
A decision by Canadian telecoms regulator CRTC may have significant implications after it applied net neutrality rules to wireless connections.…
Amazon left smiles on investors' faces on Thursday following a fourth-quarter earnings report that trounced analysts' estimates.…
Cell networks in the US have spent $44.9bn buying the rights to use a chunk of the American government's airwaves for wireless broadband networks.…
US internet tweaker FCC this morning redefined the meaning of "broadband" internet to mean at least 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up – from the previous 4Mbps/1Mbps definition.…
NXP Semiconductors, the chipmaker which was once part of Philips, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Marvell Electronics, alleging that its patented wireless technology has been used in the Microsoft Xbox.…
Microsoft has released new Outlook apps for iOS and Android.…
Engineers from the Bloodhound supersonic car world record attempt have been testing their radio comms gear as plans to stream the 1,000mph (1,610kmph) event live come together.…
Yet again, the coaching that spooks and bureaucrats have given Australia's Attorney-General George Brandis has proven to be at odds with the realities of the telecommunications industry.…
US internet tinkerer the FCC will likely vote tomorrow to change its definition of "broadband" connections from 4Mbps to 25Mbps – effectively moving 13 per cent of the American population outside the envelope of "fast" internet access.…
Amazon Web Services wants to tout webmail to the business world.…
US watchdog the FCC has ruled that no one – not even hotels and other commercial outfits – can block or ban personal Wi-Fi hotspots.…
UK regulator Ofcom has published a report [PDF] into the so-called internet of things (IoT) in which it promises to do something at some point in the future.…
With BT now expected to complete the deal to buy EE, it has been reported that EE will kill off the T-Mobile and Orange brands in the UK. The mix of brands from BT, EE, T-Mobile and Orange is all a bit confusing.…
YouTube has decided it's had enough of Adobe's perenially-p0wned Flash and will therefore now default to delivering video with the HTML5 <video> tag.…
The US government official in charge of the critical Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract wants a course change in how the globe's core DNS systems will be moved out of Uncle Sam's hands.…
Industry objections notwithstanding, the federal government has okayed Telstra submitting its revised NBN migration plan to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).…
Ericsson's flat sales last year were the result of its disappointing fourth quarter, especially in America, its latest financial results show.…
Channel partners that want to cosy up to Microsoft at this year’s Worldwide Partner Conference have got the option to be an extra special pet – cough $500 and they could be within spitting distance of the event… literally.…
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which sets the standards for mobile comms, has just started work on five specifications for millimetre Wave Transmission – the 30GHz to 300GHz range.…
Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina believe they will be the next to enjoy Google Fiber.…
ICANN's CEO has infuriated domain investors by dismissing them as domain "hoggers" in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.…
An upgrade to China's Great Firewall is having knock-on effects all over the internet, with seemingly random sites experiencing massive traffic spikes.…
Cubans are fighting back against restrictions on their use of internet with SNet, a secret network. Also known as StreetNet, it pools the resources of citizens, who are effectively prohibited from using the internet.…
Former G-Cloud head Chris Chant has entered the growing row over the status of the framework under the UK's Government Digital Service (GDS), criticising its decision to ditch a brand "that has won hearts and minds".…
The Post Office is ramping up its plans to become a virtual mobile phone network, with hardware distributor Brightstar being appointed to handle logistics for SIMs and phones.…
Google exec chairman Eric Schmidt misled the world last week by claiming that – one day – the internet will vanish.…
Britain's ISPs have attacked sneaky, proposed amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill that were tabled by four peers in Parliament this week – as they mounted an attempt to resurrect the Snoopers' Charter.…
The controversial effort by ICANN and the World Economic Forum (WEF) to devise a new internet governance body may have gone into hibernation but it is still causing ructions.…
Google has expanded its support for Docker-based Linux containers on its Cloud Platform, with the addition of a new, cloud-based hosting service for private container registries.…
China's notorious "Great Firewall" is being blamed for widespread reports of virtual private network (VPN) outages in the country.…
Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) region. Customers can use the service to create fast, managed and reliable in-memory key value stores in the second European AWS location. To learn more about ElastiCache please visit the product page.
Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing now support ClassicLink, enabling you to launch EC2-Classic instances that are linked to a VPC into an Auto Scaling group. EC2-Classic instances can also be registered with Elastic Load Balancers in the VPC.
You can configure ClassicLink using the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Tools for Windows Powershell, or through the AWS SDKs. To learn more about ClassicLink, see the documentation. To learn more about Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing support for ClassicLink, please refer to the Auto Scaling documentation and Elastic Load Balancing documentation, respectively.
The cloud caper's getting more competitive, with four of the industry's bigger players jostling in new and fun ways.…
Verizon is sick of having to refresh its copper network merely to replace stolen metal, and for the forth time since 2013 has posted a reward for information leading to arrests.…
Amazon has agreed to buy a secretive Israeli chipmaker in an apparent bid to build new custom tech for its massive data centers.…
Google's plans to become a mobile phone operator - which we outlined earlier this month - have grown closer to reality with the news that the search giant has signed deals to run calls and data over Sprint and T-Mobile's network.…
One of the FCC's five Commissioners has argued that the Commission should delay its net neutrality ruling until Congress has had an opportunity to devise new legislation aimed at resolving the issue.…
In a blog post on the BlackBerry website, CEO John Chen has called on regulators to force Apple and Netflix to support Blackberry hardware, claiming this forms part of the ongoing net neutrality debate.…
Newly leaked specifications for the Samsung Galaxy S6 show the South Korean company taking the fight back to Apple. The expected flagship is expected to debut a year after we saw the S5 at Mobile World Congress.…
Mobile network operator EE appears to have been hit by a nation-wide outage.…
The founder of web cesspit 4chan has bailed from the site he created.…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has rolled Red Hat Enterprise Linux into its ESA Cloud, an ongoing cloud computing rollout.…
Not one but two Congressional hearings over net neutrality have taken place this week, sparking a wave of letters, commentary, and advocacy but precious little resolution.…
The European Broadcasting Union, which organises the annual Eurovision musical telly glitterfest, has rounded up a group of “civil society” pressure groups to send a letter to EU leaders demanding net neutrality.…
You may not think being a mobile phone customer in Britain is much fun, what with rural Not Spots, the world's most irritating advertising campaigns*, and LTE arriving later (and rolling out slower) than anywhere else. Readers are quick to complain.…
VMware's made some tweaks to its vCloud Air public cloud.…
Imagine for a moment you're a sysadmin that's embraced VMware for server virtualisation, so you have a fleet of well-used servers and the ability to dial them up and down as required.…
Satellite communications oldie Inmarsat is to open up its systems to third-party developers – and wants them to create new ways to use its communications grid to link ships, aircraft, and machine-to-machine data traffic.…
NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow has told a TasICT gathering that the original National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout plan, which prioritised regional areas to receive fibre first, was a mistake.…
Having tried and seemingly failed to steer the FCC away from enacting new net neutrality rules under so-called Title II legislation, US telcos have turned to Congress for relief.…
German software giant SAP has cut its profit margin forecast for 2017, as its cloud offering is set to take off and dent the company's (still-bulging) pockets.…
Google is reportedly close to slinging $1bn at Elon Musk's SpaceX to pad out investment in the private company's development of satellites for internet-based services.…
India is pushing ahead with the Modi government's fibre vision, under which 20,000 rural villages will get fibre backhaul by December 2016.…
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has decided that the 6 Mbps that's out of reach for a million residents of the state isn't good enough, and has created a half-billion-dollar fund to kick things along.…
The impact of weather on Telstra's ailing copper network has hit the headlines, with some parts of Canberra told they'll suffer outages well into February.…
Virgin Media, Vodafone and EE have promised to be more upfront with their subscribers about traffic management policies two and half years after rival, big name UK ISPs signed up to the voluntary "Open Internet Code".…
Rising star mobile company Xiaomi is planning an assault on TV content and has reportedly set aside $1bn with which to do it.…
As cloud providers add more regions, folks who've committed to one data centre may find they have good reasons to move to another.…
Another day, another billionaire with a space broadband plan.…
NBN Co, the entity building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) has started identifying which apartment blocks are to get its fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) rollout, with 43 blocks totalling 6,000 premises on the current plan.…
Turkey has once again browbeat Twitter into censoring some of the content posted on the micro-blogging site, after being threatened with an outright ban in the country.…
British mobile operator O2 has reportedly been eyed up by Hong Kong biz baron Li Ka-shing, with a buyout bid of up to £9bn apparently being floated.…
Fourth-place US mobile operator Sprint has broken ranks with the telco industry and said it think that Title II legislation should apply to broadband internet provision - both wired and wireless.…
The made-of-straw “landmark deal” to fix the not-spots in mobile phone infrastructure - which has made the UK the poor man of Europe in mobile coverage - is already starting to crumble.…
Microsoft’s cloud had the worst service reliability of the three main players in 2014, according to annual metrics from uptime experts CloudHarmony.…
After such a banner year of Linux releases it might seem overly pessimistic to pause and ask this question: is there a future beyond this?…
WorldVu, an outfit that last year looked to have Google and Elon Musk backing its vision for a fleet of broadband-beaming low-earth orbit satellites, has scored backing from Virgin and Qualcomm.…
As growing user populations and hunger for mobile capacity drive ever-smaller cell sizes (even before the advent of 5G), electricity becomes a problem.…
The US Supreme Court has made it a bit easier for telcos to build cell towers in America.…
Hotel chain Marriott has lifted a ban on personal Wi-Fi networks in hotels.…
Ofcom is attempting to clip BT’s financial wings by proposing to regulate the margins it banks from superfast broadband sales to consumers, essentially to prevent the firm from future profiteering and elbowing rivals out of the market.…
Windows Phones fanbois aren't happy that there's no new €600 flagship to fondle – but nobody can accuse Microsoft of complacency as it tackles the low-cost smartphone business.…
Patchy connectivity in rural areas is hampering small businesses with half complaining of poor broadband speeds, according to an extensive survey from the Federation of Small Businesses.…
Demon internet broadband users are currently unable to connect, with the company reporting a complete outage of its services.…
Google has regurgitated Stackdriver, eight months after swallowing the cloud monitoring service.…
Cloud, Big Data, the Internet of Things are among the hottest topics that vendors are driving in 2015, but there are five legal developments in each that are worth tracking.…
President Obama wants US internet watchdog the FCC to overturn bans on city-run broadband in America.…
Cloud operator Digital Ocean has added an option to run Free BSD in its cloud and is considering adding Windows servers.…
Facebook will soon tell its users (sorry, people ) to dump its colleagues on the site and interact with them instead on the company's social-networking-for-suits site, Facebook at Work.…
While millimeter-wave radio frequencies are hyped as the future of high-speed wireless networks, they're severely range-limited. A group of Spanish boffins has proposed using user context information like location to help mobile devices get the best speed.…
EU cloud service companies have until 5 March this year to bid for lucrative EU Commission contracts.…
In a blog on the Vodafone website, its UK CEO Jeroen Hoencamp claims the global operator could build something as fast, or faster than, EE’s 300Mbps - it just doesn’t want to.…
The European Commission wants help in deciding whether or not to allow terrestrial TV to hang on to valuable spectrum.…
Auto Recovery is a new Amazon EC2 feature that is designed to increase instance availability. You can automatically recover supported instances when a system impairment is detected. Auto Recovery keeps your existing instance running and automatically recovers your instance on new underlying hardware, if needed, so you do not generally need to migrate to a new instance.
You can enable Auto Recovery for an instance by creating an AWS CloudWatch alarm. Choose the “EC2 Status Check Failed (System)” metric and select the “Recover this instance” action. The instance will reboot during the recovery process. The recovered instance will be identical to the original, including the same Instance ID, IP address(es) and configuration.
Instance recovery is subject to underlying limitations, as reflected in the Instance Recovery Troubleshooting documentation. To learn more or to get started, please visit the Auto Recovery documentation.
With the Australian government's multi-technology model for the National Broadband Network (NBN) set in stone, competitors to dominant carrier Telstra are concerned that proposed transition arrangements give the incumbent too much power while crimping the reach of regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.…
Amazon Web Services has raised the stakes for high-performance cloud computing with new, compute-optimized instance types for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.…
Google has decided to end support for older versions of Android WebView, the default web browser on 'droid devices. This will apply to users running 4.3 or earlier versions of its Android smartphone OS.…
Stats from self-pleasuring site Pornhub (that link is suitable for work) show that mobile viewing has overtaken desktop, and Android is the OS of choice for viewers of its select content.…
You can now launch C4 instances, the latest generation of Amazon EC2 Compute-optimized instances. C4 instances are designed for compute-bound workloads, such as high-traffic front-end fleets, MMO gaming, media processing, transcoding, and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.
C4 instances are available in five sizes, offering up to 36 vCPUs. C4 instances are based on Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (codename Haswell) processors that run at a base frequency of 2.9 GHz, and can deliver clock speeds as high as 3.5 GHz with Intel ® Turbo Boost. Each C4 instance type is EBS-optimized by default and at no additional cost. This feature provides 500 Mbps to 4,000 Mbps of dedicated throughput to EBS above and beyond the general purpose network throughput provided to the instance. C4 instances also provide Enhanced Networking for higher packet per second (PPS) performance, lower network jitter, and lower network latencies. The specifications of C4 instances are provided in the table below.
| Instance Type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | Networking Performance | Dedicated EBS Throughput (Mbps) | Linux On-Demand Price* |
| c4.large | 2 | 3.75 | Moderate | 500 | $0.116 per hour |
| c4.xlarge | 4 | 7.5 | Moderate | 750 | $0.232 per hour |
| c4.2xlarge | 8 | 15 | High | 1,000 | $0.464 per hour |
| c4.4xlarge | 16 | 30 | High | 2,000 | $0.928 per hour |
| c4.8xlarge | 36 | 60 | 10 Gigabit | 4,000 | $1.856 per hour |
* Pricing for US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS regions. For pricing in other regions, please visit the Amazon EC2 pricing page.
C4 instances are currently available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions, with the support in other regions coming soon.
To learn more about C4 instances, please visit the Amazon EC2 Instance Types page
Symantec's Gold membership of OpenStack only came through last December, but the company has already scored a slot on the effort's board.…
There's never any shortage of ways for Australia to feel inadequate about its broadband performance, and speed comparisons are a perennial favourite.…
Verizon Cloud's planned maintenance outage, for which the company last week allocated 48 hours but advised should “take far less than 48 hours” ran at least 40 hours, and the company now says the outage was needed for an upgrade that will remove the need for future outages of this type.…
In the aftermath of the massive hack attack on Sony Pictures – which the US government continues to insist was carried out by North Korea – President Barak Obama is expected to lobby hard for legislative overhauls to battle online threats.…
The US government has cleared the way for Google to become your next cellphone network provider – possibly without costing the company a pretty penny.…
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has completed its part of a larger effort to move crucial behind-the-scenes internet systems away from US government control.…
A massive phone and network connectivity services framework between three local authorities is up for grabs, valued up to £200m over four years.…
Having bought Motorola, Lenovo is looking to sell a lot of phones.…
IBM CEO Ginny Rometty is instigating the biggest global re-org in the history of the corporation in a bid to carve out a clearer future in a cloudy world.…
Growth of India's mobile phone using population has stalled, but the nation looks on track to notch up its billionth subscriber during 2015.…
US comms watchdog the FCC wants to increase the minimum speed ISPs must deliver in order to label an internet service as broadband.…
In less than 18 months' time the police radio network will be switched off. There is no obvious replacement and the looming omnishambles is turning into a bonanza for Arquiva, the only company brave enough to offer a solution.…
Google hopes to become your next cell phone operator by using license-free spectrum to offer cheaper internet access.…
By this time next year, we should be able to stream 4K video over home cable internet connections. That's according to Comcast, which has promised a gigabit-broadband service using a modem designed by Broadcom.…
Quick as a flash, Asigra has added Docker container support to its Cloud Backup product.…
It's a small thing but a useful one, and maybe a sign of increased maturity: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added multi-account support to its management console.…
Ofcom has released a draft of its plans for 2015 and 2016, promising to protect citizens, as well as allow them to express a view on developments, which is nice.…
Verizon's copper networks are now so old it says wireless is a better option for voice and low-speed data services.…
Oracle’s cloud growth hinges on overcoming “deep-rooted mistrust” of its core customer base.…
The Marriott hotel chain – slammed for jamming guests' personal Wi-Fi hotspots – has tried to explain why it's asking for permission to interfere with wireless networks.…
Junior telco TPG has decided it will not proceed with a fibre to the basement (FTTB) product.…
New legislation to be discussed in Parliament today will compel mobile phone networks to cut off the phones of criminals who use mobile phones in prison.…
Verizon Cloud will be down for maintenance for up to 48 hours next weekend and virtual machines hosted there will be inoperable, to enable the introduction of un-named improvements.…
Netflix is being accused of planning to enforce its terms and conditions by blocking connections from services that bypass geographic blocks.…
Many PJ Harvey fans who rushed to buy tickets from Somerset House's online store on Friday were left bitterly disappointed, after the website buckled under demand.…
US broadband watchdog the FCC is apparently planning to hold a vote next month on how it will, or won't, eventually enforce net neutrality.…
Huawei claims to have banked over $11bn in smartphone revenue in 2014 despite falling short of its volume prediction.…
The first mobile phone calls were made on Cellnet and Vodafone 30 years ago today.…
