UK mobile networks could be able to shove their kit on more of the capital's rooftops following a draft agreement put together by the Mayor of London's office.…
Cisco has begun live trials of its OpenRoaming technology on the Orkney islands off the north coast of Scotland, intended to allow people to move more easily between Wi-Fi hotspots.…
When it comes to valiant defenders of the people from American spies there are many names that spring to mind. Microsoft is perhaps not typically one of them – though Redmond, if you had forgotten, is still battling the US government in a fight over cloud subscriber privacy.…
Google recommends that anyone using its translation technology add a disclaimer that translated text may not be accurate.…
The latest iteration of the ubiquitous HTTP internet protocol - version 3 - has hit the web.…
A security engineer has complained that a feature of Dropbox Paper, a document collaboration tool, leaks email addresses by design.…
Analysis Feeling overwhelmed by the number of unread emails in your inbox? Frustrated that you had to trawl through 1,000 Slack messages before finding the one you were looking for? Unable to find the latest version of the presentation your team has to give tomorrow?…
Dropbox now longer wants to be just a cloud storage service but the provider of “a calmer and more focused working environment” its CEO announced this morning.…
Following an Ofcom review of broadband pricing, a bunch of British ISPs have promised to allow loyal customers access to better deals once their contracts end.…
A US lobbying group is calling for open standards as a solution to the supposed security threat posed by Huawei.…
The UK's communications regulator has launched an investigation into mobile network EE after an outage earlier this year may have left some customers unable to access the emergency services.…
The cost of banning Huawei from European 5G markets would be minimal, and not significantly slow the deployment of upgraded networks, according to an analyst whose opinion files in the face of some mobile operators.…
Webcast Public, private, hybrid, multi... with so many options open, how do you build a full-stack cloud solution that takes advantage of all available resources in the best possible way?…
AWS has joined the .NET Foundation as a Corporate Sponsor, which means the cloud giant gets a seat on the Foundation's Advisory Council as well as helping to fund the foundation's activities.…
In what seems to be becoming a bit of a habit within the halls of Redmond, Microsoft has extended the life of another product, this time the doomed Azure Scheduler.…
Kazakhstan officials blocked 93,000 websites from domestic access in a ham-fisted attempt to blacklist an adult massage parlour.…
Wondered why all those government initiatives to expand broadband internet provision into poor or remote areas never seem to come to fruition? It's because we've been misdefining what broadband means all along.…
Promo If you’ve decided that your traditional data warehouse or analytics tooling isn’t fit for the next decade, you should take time out to join Google Cloud’s Global Digital Conference tomorrow – Wednesday, 25 September.…
Microsoft has new applications for Dynamics 365 that retailers will be pleased to note use data and AI to assist "personalisation" and optimisation across multiple retailing channels, including online and in-store.…
Interview Most people are unaware of the huge infrastructure challenge the UK is about to undergo as 15 million phone lines are switched off.…
Promo Even if you’re not worried about your traditional data warehouse delivering all the insight it could, you’re almost certainly worried about it staying secure and compliant.…
It has been a rough morning for Salesforce, here in San Francisco: part of the cloud giant's sprawling empire fell over and stayed down for more than 12 hours. In fact, it stumbled over so hard, CEO Marc Benioff's techies are having to apply fixes to servers manually.…
Interview Amazon's latest PR efforts to paint itself as a responsible corporate citizen in the UK have been branded "complete bollocks" by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, a long-term critic of the online giant's tax practices.…
UK consumer charity Citizens Advice has accused telco giant Hutchison's UK network Three of "ripping off loyal customers" to the tune of £32.4m per year, by refusing to apply automatic discounts once contracts end.…
Webcast If you depend on your data to disrupt the market, you’ve probably already built a modern data-oriented infrastructure. But you are also likely coming up against some common challenges facing many organisations that operate at the cutting edge of data.…
Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sell their software as a service without paying for the privilege.…
Brit hosting provider Claranet found itself resetting the "29 days without incident" sign this morning as "connectivity issues" felled customer emails and websites all over again.…
BT is considering moving its entire network to full fibre and will decommission its copper cables by 2027, according to reports.…
Sponsored So, you’ve fork lifted a bunch of applications to the cloud, and you’re looking forward to happy years of low cost, worry-free operation, where you can provision oodles of computing power at the flick of a switch. Congratulations. But you didn’t really think it would be that easy, did you?…
Plans to introduce a legal right for everyone in the UK to have minimum broadband speeds of 10Mbps next year will be "obsolete soon after introduction", a Parliamentary report has found.…
AWS Transformation Day It's London's turn with AWS Transformation Day, where attendees endure a cacophony of buzzwords intended to hammer home the message that Amazon's cloud is where you wanna be.…
UK.gov is on the lookout for a Government Chief Digital Information Officer (GCDIO) - a permanent secretary role that sets the strategic direction of travel for public sector IT in return for up to £180,000 a year.…
Promo If you are beginning to wonder whether your familiar old data warehouse and analytics solutions can keep pace with the fast-moving modern world, you should check out today's state-of-the-art data-handling and analytics systems.…
OpenWorld Oracle on Monday debuted a free, self-fixing Linux distribution for paying Oracle Cloud customers, and a free Cloud service tier that includes a limited version of its paid Autonomous Database, for winning developer favor and fostering future Cloud customers.…
Colin McDermott was surprised this week to receive an invoice from the UK’s largest domain name registrar, 123-Reg, auto-billing him £11.99 for a domain name he never ordered.…
Troubled telecoms provider Avaya has hit pause on plans to find a buyer amid reports it may enter into a joint venture with videoconferencing provider RingCentral instead.…
CF Summit IBM has demonstrated Cloud Foundry running on Red Hat OpenShift, a Kubernetes (K8s) container platform, at an event in the Netherlands.…
Sponsored There used to be a set process for securing the enterprise, with measures that could be put in place by any competent network manager.…
BT's Openreach is pausing its hybrid G.fast fibre investment as it mulls the product's future in light of its recent conversion to full fibre.…
Interview Pivotal's current alpha release of the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) for Kubernetes has a dependency on VMware, but that will be removed in the final release, senior veep of products Ian Andrews told The Reg.…
Despite all the talk among Western tech vendors of an economic slowdown in the Middle Kingdon, spending on cloud infrastructure services in China is comfortably outpacing that of the global average.…
Analysis Cloud providers, social media platforms, and e-commerce companies are going to be hit hard in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to official UK government correspondence.…
NHS Shared Business Services - the UK health service's back-office IT provider - has launched a list of pre-approved cloud services suppliers for public sector orgs.…
Huawei has dropped a lawsuit against the US government after the Department of Commerce returned hardware it seized from the company back in September 2017.…
At 55 years old, Jack Ma, boss of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, is stepping down from day-to-day management of the company he founded – with a $38.6bn fortune in his pocket.…
Promo Attendees at the annual Sibos financial services exhibition are invited to relax and rest their weary feet at an afternoon reception hosted by Box at the end of the first day of the event, in London, on 23 September.…
Microsoft has buddied up with a trio of satellite operators to hook up its Azure cloud to locations lacking connectivity.…
It is that time of the year again when Amazon's bean counters put into words a tale of intrigue and daring: the latest set Profit & Loss accounts for the UK Services subsidary. Spoiler: tax remains an issue.…
Thieves have stolen 500 metres of Openreach's copper cable in Cambridgeshire, leaving thousands of people without broadband or a working telephone.…
The City of New York is suing T-Mobile US, alleging that it is unfairly exploiting people with its "Metro by T-Mobile" brand – its no-contract, pre-pay service.…
The former boss of BT, Gavin Patterson, is to join US software giant Salesforce offering "strategic guidance" to its European business.…
Microsoft has snapped up cloud migration specialists, Movere, in its efforts to smooth the path for customers to Azure.…
Yahoo!, it appears, is still a thing. Unless it's Thursday morning, in which case it isn't.…
A power outage fried hardware within one of Amazon Web Services' data centers during America's long Labor Day weekend. Backup generators also failed, virtual server instances evaporated, and cloud-hosted data was lost and had to be restored from backups, where possible, we're told.…
Huawei claims, albeit without evidence that the US government has tried to break into its internal computer networks. The mobile tech giant is also upset that Uncle Sam's ongoing patent theft probes are little more than an excuse for American officials to pry into its business.…
Virgin Mobile customers are struggling to get new SIM cards to work or be recognised by the network, leaving them unable to make or receive calls or use data services.…
