European governments haven’t got a clue how to implement cloud services. So say the EU's own cybersecurity experts.…
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in the open source Xen virtualization hypervisor have once again sent major public cloud companies scurrying to patch and reboot their systems before attackers can pull off a massive exploit.…
Qualcomm says it will begin shipping new chips later this year that will help relieve mobile network congestion by routing LTE mobile broadband traffic over short-range, unlicensed radio frequency bands.…
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has announced a consultation (PDF) on reforming the Electronic Communications code. This is crucial ingredient to the “landmark” not-spots deal announced at the back end of last year.…
IBM is betting billions that it can claw its way back to growth by focusing on what it calls its "strategic imperatives," including cloud, data analytics, mobility, social networking, and security.…
The signs of future suicide often pop up on social media, so Facebook has partnered with the University of Washington (UW) to roll out new tools that can hopefully provide a lifeline to those in need.…
There is a quote attributed to Visa International that NFC has had “more pilots than the RAF”. Well, that may or may not be true, but what's beyond doubt right now – according to Jeremy Nicholds, Executive Director, Mobile, Visa Europe – is that people will soon be using mobile phones to tap to pay.…
A new design of mobile cell site that sits on top of an existing street light has been developed British design company The Technology Partnership (TTP).…
UK banking giant Barclays has confirmed plans to allow Brits and small businesses to use their, er, Twitter handle to make payments online.…
It's a matter of ups and down for the National Broadband Network: the fibre rollout (which will be replaced by hybrid fibre/coax (HFC) and node/basement fibre in future geographies) accelerated and the activation rate improved.…
It's a matter of ups and down for the National Broadband Network: the fibre rollout (which will be replaced by hybrid fibre/coax (HFC) and node/basement fibre in future geographies) accelerated and the activation rate improved.…
Six days after Gemalto, the world's largest SIM card manufacturer, was told that, back in 2010, it was ransacked by NSA and GCHQ hackers, the company today gave itself the all-clear: no encryption keys, used to secure phone calls from eavesdroppers, were stolen, apparently.…
NetApp is cosying up even more to Amazon in pursuit of its hybrid cloud data fabric ideas.…
In the arms race for faster data speeds, Nokia Networks has pulled out 600Mbps over Ericsson’s 450Mbps by using 4X4 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology.…
Microsoft is doubling down on Skype by killing integration with Google Talk and Facebook Messenger in Outlook.com.…
Airline-magazine-grade chatter about cloud suggests that running an app in Azure, AWS or Google requires not much more than a few clicks before vaporised magic takes over, infrastructure bills decrease and scalability becomes infinite.…
The real cost of completing Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) in its originally-planned fibre-to-the-premises configuration may well have been close to the $AU43 billion first budgeted, according to data presented by NBN Co's CEO and CFO to a Senate Estimates hearing.…
BT has finally fixed a snag in its Home Hub 5 more than 12 months since customers began complaining about mystery disconnections that were hampering the wireless router.…
Leadership at HP's cloud division is in flux once again, with senior vice president Mårten Mickos backing away from day-to-day operations of the unit and other execs stepping up to take his place.…
The two Republican commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have formally called for this week's vote on net neutrality to be delayed.…
In the last few years IP-based voice communication has increasingly come to the attention of business managers.…
NBN Co has settled on its key partner for the HFC part of its network, with Arris nominated to provide cable termination and passive equipment.…
Microsoft has changed its data retention policy for Office 365 email and the upshot is that deleted items will never disappear, unless you set up a policy to bin them.…
With commissioners at US watchdog the FCC due to vote on proposed net neutrality rules next week, a poll of Americans has revealed two interesting and important aspects:…
Carphone Warehouse will use RootMetrics data – essentially network performance information – to help customers choose which networks they should be on.…
The Azure-Site-Recovery-powered SAN snapshot wrangler Microsoft previewed last year at TechEd Europe has reached General Availability status.…
Google's Cloud Engine (GCE) has experienced Total Inability to Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) for about two-and-a-half hours.…
The CEO of Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, will step down in May.…
The NSA and Britain's GCHQ hacked the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer to harvest the encryption keys needed to silently eavesdrop on people without a warrant.…
The process to move oversight of the world's DNS system away from the US government is heading to Congress with a hearing scheduled for later this month.…
A new design of mobile base station by Ericsson aims to do away with the traditional cabinet on the ground connected by a thick wire to an antenna on a pole.…
Ofcom has announced a consultation, revisiting the revisiting of the revised fees for the most-used mobile radio spectrum.…
Chinese mobe-maker ZTE is ramping up its R&D by US$400 million, and wants 800 new engineers in China, Europe and the US – all to help it keep pace with 5G development.…
Environment Cloning
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports environment cloning. Previously, you would have to create a new environment and manually configure the variables and options to match your previous environment. You can now use the Management Console or CLI to clone an existing environment with a few clicks. Elastic Beanstalk will provision the exact same resources as your selected environment and configure them the same way. We release new versions of Elastic Beanstalk environments with security updates regularly. This feature will make it easier to upgrade your environments to new versions. Read more about this feature here.
Periodic Tasks for Worker Tier
Elastic Beanstalk now supports Periodic Tasks for the Worker Tier environments. Worker Tier environments are optimized to process application background tasks at scale. You can now use Worker Tier environments to run tasks on a defined schedule (e.g., every minute, every hour, etc). Learn more about this new feature here.
1-Click IAM Role Creation
Elastic Beanstalk now supports one click IAM role creation. Previously, you had to copy and paste an IAM policy when you wanted to create a new IAM role and instance profile. You can now also create an IAM Role with one click for the Worker Tier.
For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:
Russia's answer to Google has hit out at the Chocolate Factory. Yandex on Wednesday filed an official complaint against Google with the Russian competition authorities.…
QNX Software Systems, the BlackBerry subsidiary that markets operating systems and tools for embedded systems, has released new virtualization software designed to allow device makers to deliver rich graphical UIs without sacrificing reliability or safety.…
Efforts to reboot a controversial new internet governance body have been met with a resounding note of apathy.…
SK Telecom reckons software-defined networking (SDN) is going to be the Way of The FutureTM and has signed up as a member of the ON.Lab open source project.…
The history of mobile device processors is that of two companies, Qualcomm and ARM, both with unique licensing models which many envy but few can successfully copy or compete with. As the growth in the wireless world shifts to embedded and larger-screened devices, and the mobile chip balance of power moves towards China and Wi-Fi, these two firms’ models are coming under pressure.…
The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) has called out Telstra's copper network, saying that this year's bad weather has left 20,000 lines out of service in NSW alone.…
Virgin Media temporarily pushed BT's shares down more than 2 per cent on Friday, after it announced a juicy £3bn cash injection into Britain's internet infrastructure.…
Google is trying to establish an independent cloud benchmark, driven by a new tool called PerfKit Benchmarker.…
OpenStack has named its forthcoming twelfth release Liberty.…
President Barack Obama has backed Apple Pay – Cupertino's new payment system – after iThing chief Tim Cook was given a 15-minute-long ad spot at the White House on Friday.…
As the big vote on new net neutrality rules draws close, opposition to the FCC chairman's plan to reclassify broadband under so-called Title II legislation is growing.…
Hitachi Data Systems intends to acquire Oxya, a SAP technical services and hosting outfit.…
A trial at London Zoo has paved the way for Ofcom guidelines on using the unused “White Space” parts of the radio spectrum in the 470 to 790 MHz frequency band.…
Combining frequencies to get more bandwidth is part of the LTE (4G) specification. Wireless boffins have now demonstrated the concept, achieving blazingly fast speeds in a test lab.…
Future operators of train franchises in the UK will have to include free WiFi in their bids, Rail Minister Claire Perry announced on Wednesday.…
Nearly all private clouds customers build are failing – and the biggest problem isn’t the technology, it’s people.…
The world's governments have told domain name overseer ICANN that its processes are "complex, lengthy and ambiguous" and warned that they may be ineffective at dealing with domain-name abuse or fraud.…
No less than 43 small ISPs have written to US watchdog the FCC [PDF] asking that it not introduce Title II legislation later this month.…
Just watch that elephant dance: Cisco believes it's managed something Silicon Valley startups often die trying to do, “pivoting” the business to reverse a downward trend.…
It's phone Independence Day as American mobe owners can now legally unlock their smartphones again from their network carriers – provided you've finished paying for them.…
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai used a Tuesday press conference to slam net neutrality rules that are expected to be approved by the regulator later this month.…
VMware will create a new team dedicated to what it calls “networks functions virtualisation” (NFV).…
A second trans-Tasman submarine fibre cable is a small step closer, with New Zealand's Commerce Commission (NZCC)reportedly giving the Tasman Global Access (TGA) project the competition green-light.…
AWS Config is now available for customers and partners to use in US East (N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Customers can now monitor resources for configuration changes in these regions and choose to aggregate configuration data into a common Amazon S3 bucket, or aggregate configuration changes delivered to different Amazon SNS topics into a common Amazon SQS queue.
Learn more about this capability in our blog post. To get started, visit the AWS Config Management Console.
All API call made to AWS Config are now logged through AWS CloudTrail. Customers can easily determine who made changes to AWS Config settings, and who is accessing historical configuration data recorded by AWS Config.
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance.These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting. AWS Config is available in US East (N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney).
Learn more about this capability in our blog post. To get started, visit the AWS Config Management Console.
You can now run your Amazon CloudSearch domains on M3 instances, which provide higher, more consistent compute performance for most use-cases than previous generation instances. Starting today, you can create new CloudSearch domains on M3 instances. You can convert your existing CloudSearch domains to the M3 instance type by modifying the “Desired Instance Type” setting using the AWS Console, SDK, or CLI.
To learn more about using M3 instances with CloudSearch domains, see Configuring Scaling Options in the Amazon CloudSearch Developer Guide. For more information about pricing for M3 instance types, please refer to the Amazon CloudSearch pricing page.
Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed search service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application. To learn more, see Amazon CloudSearch overview.
Amazon DynamoDB allows you to retrieve all items from a table by using the Scan operation. With Secondary Index Scan, you can now use the Scan operation on secondary indexes and retrieve all data from select attributes and items that are projected on a secondary index. Secondary Index Scan works on global and local secondary indexes. Secondary Indexes can be scanned from the DynamoDB console or by calling the Scan API with an additional parameter to specify the index. To learn more, please read our blog on Secondary Index Scan. Also, visit our documentation page to learn additional technical and operational details.
We are pleased to announce that you can now add tags to your Amazon ElastiCache clusters and snapshots. A tag is a user-defined label expressed as a key-value pair that helps organize AWS resources, and identify them as business-specific groupings such as application names or projects. For example, developers can use tags to make it easier to allocate costs and optimize spending by tagging their ElastiCache resources with details such as a cost center, or the name of an administrator or project.
For more information please see Jeff Barr’s blog. To learn more about Amazon ElastiCache please visit the product page or watch this introductory video.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is proposing a spectrum reallocation to give mobile carriers access to 1800 MHz spectrum in regional areas, extending the footprint of 4G networks.…
Mobile network testing company RootMetrics has again hailed EE as the best network for speed, reliability, calls and text. Three comes second in all tests. Vodafone and O2 swapped third and fourth spots in various categories but O2 came out ahead overall.…
Alibaba, which held the largest IPO in history after raising $25bn, has bought a minority stake in Meizu, the Chinese manufacturer of Android-based smartphones.…
Readers may recall a time when the Tory-led UK government trumpeted plans to have the best broadband connections in Europe by, well, now.…
Mobile internet speeds are slower in the UK than in France and Germany, says yet another mobe coverage survey.…
The “next chapter” in Windows is coming to Microsoft's cheapo, mass-market Lumia phones.…
As Telefonica looks to sell its O2 UK outfit to Hutchison Three, it is also supporting two mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) deals which are adding to the quadplay mayhem of the UK market.…
NBN Co is imposing new limits on satellite downloads, forcing ISPs to kill off plans with more than 50 GB monthly allowances.…
Do you ever think that the time you spend listening to a phone ringing is wasted? ChannelVAS does. It wants to use that time to sell you things.…
A survey by industry group, the Domain Name Association (DNA), shows that people are open to the idea of new internet extensions, with more than half of respondents expressing a preference for new names.…
FCC chair Tom Wheeler has refused to release the net neutrality rules that the regulator will vote on later this month.…
Vodafone has seen an increase in its UK revenues of almost one per cent during the fourth quarter of 2014, prompted by users gradually moving to 4G and spending more on data.…
An MP has told Parliament she was left "shocked and surprised" by BT's response that it was "not commercially viable" to improve broadband access for one of 38 Tech City businesses petitioning for more reliable speeds.…
BT has agreed terms with the French company Orange and Deutsche Telekom to buy their joint venture EE to form a quad-play superpower.…
Researchers at University College London say they have found a way to dramatically increase the distance data can be sent intact over ordinary fiber optic cables – by partially working around the Kerr Effect.…
Hold on to your cabinets: G.Fast chip shipper Sckipio has doubled the reach of its chipsets, meaning that the top speed claimed for the technology is 200 metres.…
Australia's current prime minister Tony Abbott has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the head of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to renew his call for the country's data retention regime to pass parliament as soon as possible.…
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler will put forward strong rules enforcing net neutrality this month, sparking celebration by open internet advocates.…
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has announced he will put forward strong rules enforcing net neutrality this month, sparking celebration by open internet advocates.…
From March 1, people in China must reveal their real names on social networks and other websites – or face cyber-exile.…
Germany is to be the first country in Europe to flog off the 700MHz frequency band, with auctions taking place in May and June this year.…
O2 has denied that it's suffered a serious data breach after customers began receiving sophisticated phishing emails that appeared to have been sent by the mobile operator late last month.…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, HTTP server visionary and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, has penned a blog post on the European Commission web site titled Net neutrality is critical for Europe's future .…
The government of Singapore, famously keen on connectivity, has issued a tender seeking a fibre network to connect an island-wide sensor network.…
A Nevada court has ruled FBI agents can dress up as ISP repairmen to blag their way into a suspect's home without a search warrant – but must tell the courts about it when they do.…
Fibre infrastructure provider Opticomm is hoping the federal government will help it push NBN Co into standardising its retail service provider interfaces.…
A San Francisco startup has launched a tiny mesh router aiming to kill notspots and end buffering in the home.…
While the battle lines are being drawn up between BT-EE and Vodafone over selling you great big lumps of TV, broadband, fixed and mobile phones, TalkTalk has been in the quadplay game for ages.…
Rural areas are at risk of being unable to access online-only government services thanks to poor internet connectivity, a Parliamentary report said today.…
Microsoft has let it be known that it will create another version of SharePoint, and release a version of it for on-premises operations.…
The Chicago subway system is to become the biggest transport system in North America to be completely blessed with 4G mobile broadband coverage.…
The UK National Lottery website seems to have done something nasty to itself on Saturday night, as it crashed out for much of Sunday.…
The Go language, familiar to those working in the wonderful world of Docker, is inching its way into the Amazon Web Services environment.…
