Facebook-squishing Indian regulator's next move: Open source code

How's that for colonialism, Andreessen?

Fresh from squashing Facebook's effort to grab the enormous India market, the sub-continent's regulator has another goal in mind: open source software.…

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RDS now supports sharing encrypted database snapshots with other AWS accounts

Starting today, in addition to sharing your unencrypted database snapshots, you can also share encrypted database snapshots with other AWS accounts. You may share an encrypted DB snapshot with up to 20 accounts via the RDS console, API and CLI. Encrypted snapshots can be shared within the same region only, and cannot be shared publicly for security reasons. Learn more about how to share encrypted database snapshots on the RDS documentation. 

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Amazon API Gateway Supports Custom Request Authorizers

Amazon API Gateway now supports custom request authorizers allowing you to implement various authorization strategies (e.g., JSON Web token verification) to secure your APIs. Custom request authorizers are implemented as AWS Lambda functions that run code for your authorization strategy implementation. 

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1Gbps quad-antenna mobile broadband chip dives off Qualcomm's drawing board

Lots of clever signal processing coming to a hotspot near you

California chip designer Qualcomm says it has crafted an LTE modem capable of downloading data at 0.98Gbps.…

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Indian telcos ask for details of Facebook-flaying neutrality law

Regulator's Zuck-off to Free Basics has carriers worried they might be in trouble too

Hard on the heels of India implementing a net-neutrality regulation, its telecommunications carriers have asked the country's regulator to clarify its impact on them.…

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Japanese boffins fire up 100Gbps wireless broadband connection

Terahertz radio transmitters lead to possibility of high-speed pipelines

A group of university researchers in Japan say they have achieved wireless data connections of up to 100Gbps with a new transmitter operating at the submillimetre terahertz frequency range.…

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How one of the poorest districts in the US pipes Wi-Fi to families – using school busses

Coachella Valley uses its imagination for IT setup

America's second-poorest school district is also home to a surprising IT program that has won it national acclaim.…

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Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for Amazon S3 in China (Beijing) Region

Amazon VPC Endpoints for S3 is now available in China (Beijing) Region. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to Amazon S3 without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. With VPC endpoints, the data between the VPC and S3 is transferred within the Amazon network, helping protect your instances from internet traffic.

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Three scoops 'most reliable network' crown, EE takes every other title

And if you're on Vodafone ... well, it sucks to be you

Three emerges as the UK’s most reliable mobile operator and EE as the UK’s fastest, in RootMetrics' biannual network survey.…

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Improved Amazon Redshift Data Schema Conversion from Amazon Machine Learning Console

You can now use the Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) console to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift with an improved data schema conversion functionality. Data types supported by Amazon ML are not equivalent to Amazon Redshift’s supported data types, requiring a schema conversion when creating an Amazon ML datasource. Using the Amazon ML console, you will now be able to take advantage of more accurate rules for this schema conversion process, based on the data type information provided by Amazon Redshift. For more information about using Amazon Redshift with Amazon ML, please reference the documentation in the Amazon ML developer guide.

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Linode SSH key blunder left virtual servers open to man-in-the-middle fiddles for months

Regen your keys ASAP

Web hosting biz Linode broke the security in its customers' virtual machines, allowing attackers to eavesdrop on SSH connections and hijack them.…

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Amazon RDS now supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE) in all Amazon RDS for Oracle editions

You can now use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Native Network Encryption (NNE) to establish a secure network connection to all editions of Amazon RDS for Oracle. Starting with Oracle database version 11gR2, these features are no longer part of the Oracle Advanced Security option and are available in all Oracle editions supported by Amazon RDS.

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Telstra proclaims free data day to make up for epic TITSUP

Sysadmin's nightmare: 'I crashed the whole network'

A somewhat red-faced Telstra is going to give its customers free data on Sunday to apologise for yesterday's mobile network outage.…

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Want blazing fast Netflix streams? Then Northern Europe is for you

Tiny continental nations leading latest broadband poll

Northern Europe and Scandinavia enjoy the fastest streaming speeds for Netflix.…

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AWS Mobile Hub is now Generally Available

We are concluding beta for AWS Mobile Hub and making it Generally Available. 

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Private clouds kind of suck

Enterprises want them, but they're still a pain in the ASCII

Sysadmin Blog  Are enterprises really starting to act like service providers? If you ask vendors, social media and "thought influencers" hired to speak at conferences, the answer is yes. I'm not so sure.…

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Ballmer schools SatNad on Microsoft's mobile strategy: You need one

Otherwise, everything's just fine and dandy

The world’s wealthiest activist shareholder, Steve Ballmer, has offered another critique of Microsoft, the company he helped build.…

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Ex-TalkTalker TalkTalks: Records portal had shared password. It was 4 years old

Is that how crims nicked the engineers' data?

Exclusive  Fraudsters who attempted to scam TalkTalk customers by using records of their maintenance engineer visits are thought to have bought that info from current or former staff.…

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Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift Now Available for Game Developers

We are excited to announce that Amazon Lumberyard is now available for download at http://ift.tt/1Sd6SHi. Amazon Lumberyard is a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine for developers to create the highest-quality games, connect their games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans on Twitch. Amazon Lumberyard helps developers build beautiful worlds, make realistic characters, and create stunning real-time effects. With Amazon Lumberyard’s visual scripting tool, even non-technical game developers can add cloud-connected features to a game in minutes (such as a community news feed, daily gifts, or server-side combat resolution) through a drag-and-drop graphical user interface.

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Telstra mobile in continental TITSUP

Australia's dominant carrier can't currently do 3G and 4G voice and data

Australia's dominant carrier, Telstra, is experiencing a total inability to support usual performance (TITSUP) on its mobile voice and data networks.…

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Amazon Redshift Now Supports Appending Rows to Tables and Exporting Query Results to BZIP2-compressed Files

Append rows to a target table: Using the ALTER TABLE APPEND command, you can now append rows to a target table. When you issue this command, Amazon Redshift moves the data from the source table to matching columns in the target table. ALTER TABLE APPEND is usually much faster than a similar CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT INTO operation because it moves the data instead of duplicating it. This could be particularly useful in cases where you load data into a staging table, process it, and then copy the results into a production table. For more details, refer to the ALTER TABLE APPEND command. 

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Microsoft crams more tools into its Azure-in-a-box technical preview

Redmond wants silver lining to cloud stack

Barely a week after releasing the first preview of its cloud-in-a-box Azure Stack, Microsoft has doubled down with new tools for the code base.…

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Facebook cares about you, yes you, so much it won't give up on India

Mark Zuckerberg responds to India's Free Basics ban

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken to Facebook – of course! – to vent about India's decision to ban its neo-colonialist virtual land grab Free Basics internet-on-ramp.…

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Government hails superfast broadband deal for new homes

But will house builders do their bit?

The Government has brokered a deal between BT Openreach and The Home Builders Federation (HBF) which means “new build homes [are] to have superfast broadband connectivity”. This is a tad optimistic as there is no legal compulsion for house builders to comply with the new arrangement.…

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TalkTalk confesses: Scammers have data about our engineers' visits to your home

Info exploited, say customers

A number of TalkTalk customers have had their maintenance visits data breached by fraudsters in an attempt to gain remote access of their computers, it has emerged.…

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EU could force countries to allocate 700 MHz band to mobile by mid-2020

New law deals with expected growth in mobile internet traffic

New legislation could force EU countries to make sure the 700 MHz band of spectrum is made exclusively available for mobile services by the middle of 2020.…

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Europe makes it rain for cloud biz: £30m of gold showered on BT, IBM etc

And Accenture and Atos and ... wait, no Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure?

The European Commission has announced what companies will supply the organization with its new cloud services.…

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If you're reading this on your phone, pray you're in Singapore

LTE speed data from 15 million phones puts New Zealand ahead of USA, UK and Australia

If you're reading this on your phone, pray you're in Singapore, New Zealand, Hungary or Israel, because they're the four nations where LTE networks deliver the fastest downloads. Clasp your hands and look heavenwards again if you live in the United Kingdom or United States , as those nations come in 29th and 55th respectively in Open Signal's State of LTE report for 2015's fourth quarter.…

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NBN activations to rise from 10,000 per week to 8,400 ... wait, what?

Ex-CTO unpicks growth numbers

Last Friday, nbn^TM congratulated itself on a positive user experience and a record number of activations.…

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Reports of Twitter's death greatly exaggerated says CEO

Hints of new curated timeline leads to #RIPtwitter chatter, followed by smackdown

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has mostly quashed rumours that the struggling social network is introducing an algorithmically-curated timeline.…

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Submarine cable cut lops Terabits off Australia's data bridge

The PPC-1 cable us out of service until March ... if a ship to fix it can be found

Another of the submarine cables connecting Australia to the world, for data, has broken.…

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Virgin gives blessing to O2/Three merger

Eyes up prospect of tasty 4G

Virgin Media has weighed in to give its blessing over the controversial £10.5bn proposed merger between Three and O2, hoping such a move would give it greater network access.…

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RSA awards 7-year infrastructure overhaul deal to Wipro

IBM politely shown the door in digital revamp bid

RSA, one of Britain's oldest insurance firms, has awarded a seven-year IT infrastructure transformation deal to software company Wipro.…

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Sir Michael Lyons tells .uk registry Nominet: Time to grow up

Humph, responds board to ex-BBC Trust chairman's review

A long-awaited review into the future of .uk registry operator Nominet by former chairman of the BBC Trust has told the company it's time to grow up.…

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Optus, Telstra, TPG and Vodafone spaff AU$543.5m on spectrum

1800 MHz auction will bring 4G to the Australian bush

Australia has scored AU$543.5m (US$391m) for part of its 1800 MHz spectrum.…

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You, FCC. Do something about these overpriced cable boxes, yells Bernie Sanders and pals

Taking a pop at Comcast – election-winning move, that

Six US Senators are taking aim at the excessive fees cable and internet providers charge for modem and set-top hardware.…

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FaceTime, WhatsApp UDP streams AWOL on iOS 9 beta with T-Mo US

IPv6 LTE fingered in networking mystery

A problem with the handling of UDP network packets is leaving T‑Mobile US customers unable to make FaceTime or WhatsApp calls with the latest Apple iOS beta.…

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Cruz missile slams into DNS overlord ICANN over Chinese censorship

Republican presidential frontrunner sends nastygram to CEO

US Senator Ted Cruz has accused the head of domain name overseer ICANN of being complicit in Chinese online censorship.…

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Speednames 'fesses up, admits customers' emails are borked

You can shout into the ether but you won't hear the echo

Customers of Speednames, the subsidiary of domain name registration firm NetNames, have been unable to receive emails since yesterday.…

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Three: We won't hike prices if you say yes to £10.5bn O2 merger

Please Ms Regulator, let us do our deal

Three has promised it will not raise prices for customers if it is allowed to hop into bed with O2 in its proposed £10.5bn in an open letter hitting back at regulators' fears over the deal.…

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Barracuda kills CudaDrive and Copy cloud storage services

Blood in the water as company decides to ' focus resources on our most strategic initiatives'

Barracuda Networks' financial woes look to be biting, as the company has announced it is killing its cloud storage services, CudaDrive and Copy.com, and focussing resources on stuff that really matters.…

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T-Mobile US's BingeOn does break net neutrality, says law prof

But where's John Legere's ranty response?

The T-Mobile US Binge On video service does in fact break network neutrality and so is illegal.…

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Google to pump free gigabit Fiber into homes of hard-up families

Chocolate Factory tosses a few more bucks into 'Other Bets' with goodwill project

People living in public housing in Kansas City, Missouri, will soon be getting free gigabit internet connections.…

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Speaking in Tech: How good is the UK's broadband? Really awful

Replicate Comcast Raspberry Pi experiment? Nah, we're too weak to tweet

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World's annual mobile data intake to hit 367 exabytes by 2020

Think we're data hogs now? Just wait five years, says Cisco

Continued growth of mobile broadband, connected devices and economic development will have data consumption rising by 53 per cent yearly from now to 2020.…

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BT blames 'faulty router' for mega outage. Did they try turning it off and on again?

Dodgy kit caused nationwide thinning out of Netflix

BT has blamed a faulty router for knocking its network offline yesterday, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without the internet.…

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Intel, Qualcomm set up their WiGig 802.11ad devices on blind dates

Good news, seeing as they're already flogging the hardware

Intel and Qualcomm say they have gotten their respective 802.11ad (WiGig) chips and antennas to successfully link up.…

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See that fist punching through the clouds? That's Veeam's, that is

Read this and weep, fellow storage upstarts

You've got to have sympathy for Veeam's competitors. Ratmir Timoshev's storage upstart pulled off another slam dunk quarter to close 2015.…

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BT broadband goes TITSUP

Outage appears to be nationwide

BT appears to be suffering a major broadband outage, with multiple readers contacting The Register to report a "nationwide" outage and more than 12,000 reports of service problems on the internet monitoring site Down Detector.…

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Cloudian's better at Amazon S3 than anyone else, apparently

Except for that Amazon cloud character - obviously

Comment  Object storage startup Cloudian says it's the most S3-compliant of all object-storage vendors, and this really, really, really matters.…

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TalkTalk admits losing £60m and 101,000 customers after THAT hack

All those ads promising free stuff, yet they still fled

TalkTalk has reported a loss of £60m related to its major hack in October, attributing the write-off to IT costs and shedding 101,000 customers during its third quarter.…

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Google adds lots of cloudy flash, no sign of saviour

Alphabet subsidiary’s scaling its cloud, but won't say if sales are up, down, or sideways

Google's a laggard in infrastructure-as-a-service: Amazon Web Services moved first and set agendas, then along came Microsoft with an unusually strong version 1.0 product that's just kept growing and adding features. IBM bought SoftLayer and is building cloud products at speed.…

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Sure, encrypt your messages – but it's that IoT toothbrush that's really spying on you

Harvard's internet arm frets about security

Analysis  The increasingly noisy debate over encryption is nothing to worry about, eggheads at Harvard have announced today: it's your toothbrush you need to worry about.…

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Network builders: LTE costs will transform the cell tower biz in 2016

The effects of high-speed broadband on radio electronics

Analysis  The vast cost of keeping up with demand for mobile data is intensifying the pressure on mobile operators’ capex budgets and accelerating their moves to improve their infrastructure cost base. Major agreements to share passive and active cell site equipment are becoming commonplace as regulators ease up on previous restrictions, accepting that, in the age of the MVNO, a common network need not reduce consumer choice at the services and pricing level.…

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Oracle hires cloud 'success' pushers, denies EMEA customers are floating away

March of the persuaders

Oracle is expanding its platform-as-a-service cloud team in Europe, but denied it is a move to revive renewals.…

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Ofcom's head is dead against Three and O2's merger

Brit industry regulator snuggles up to EU mummy

Ofcom chief exec Sharon White has decided to tell everyone what she really thinks about the possible £10.5bn merger between O2 and Three – and it turns out the regulator-in-chief is not a fan.…

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Trend Micro Deep Security on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Update

This new version of the Quick Start makes it easier than ever to get up and running with Trend Micro Deep Security on the AWS cloud. Trend Micro Deep Security is a host-based security product that provides Anti-Malware, Host Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, File Integrity Monitoring, Log Inspection, Web Application Firewalling, and Content Filtering modules in a single agent running in the guest operating system.

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Loons in balloons: Google asks FCC to approve Net plan

Microwaves in the sky

Large balloons firing data are nothing to worry about, Google has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in its latest license application.…

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T-Mobile’s BingeOn is a smash hit. So what now?

Popular video thing may be 'illegal'. And looks like a witch.

Analysis  T-Mobil'e BingeOn gamble of removing video consumption from its subscribers data bundles, appears to be defying its critics, with large increases in mobile video viewing.…

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BT scoops £100m network provision deal from the BBC

State broadcaster opts for former state monopoly

The BBC has picked BT to provide its internal network, in a £100m deal that will run for the next seven years.…

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'Printer Ready'. Er… you actually want to print? What, right now?

Reg columnist snorts suspicious powder

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  Whirr whirr click. Oh come on, print, dammit. Bzzzzt. Whirr click [silence] brrrrrrrrrrr [silence].…

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'Blue light services will get 4G on London Tube!' Cool, how? 'Errrrm...'

Emergency Services Network deal mired in confusion as Airwave flings sueball

The government's contentious Emergency Services Network deal, intended to provide 4G coverage and devices for all blue light services, will be able to run on the London Underground, the man in charge of the scheme has insisted.…

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Oracle kicks Amazon after Glacier download bill shock

One thing cloud doesn't improve is readability of fine print

Last week, a chap named Mario Karpinnen took to Medium with a tale of how downloading 60GB of data from Amazon Web Services' archive-grade Glacier service cost him a whopping US$158.…

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon CloudSearch Available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) and Amazon CloudSearch are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. 

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Amazon WorkSpaces supports Audio-in, High DPI Devices, and Saved Registrations

We are excited to launch three new features to enhance the WorkSpaces user experience. Amazon WorkSpaces has added support for voice communication with headsets, high DPI screens, and saved registrations.

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Indonesia's dominant telco blocks Netflix

Too sexy, no licence and nobody bothered rating the movies

Telkom Indonesia, the nation's dominant telco thanks to its nearly 130 million subscribers, has decided to block Netflix.…

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Research: By 2017, a third of home Wi-Fi routers will power passers-by

Telcos pimp out your bandwidth and profit

Companies are going to be selling a lot more public Wi-Fi plans over the next few years and it's going to be home Wi-Fi users who'll be the backbone of the network, according to analysts from Juniper Research.…

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AWS IoT Now Supports WebSockets, Custom Keepalive Intervals, and Enhanced Console

We are pleased to announce support for MQTT over WebSockets and additional new features for AWS IoT.  

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US still lagging on broadband but FCC promises change is coming

Latest vote inches faster speeds and more competition closer

The United States is still lagging the world in the rollout of broadband, but things are looking up as federal telecom regulator the FCC formally gave itself the power to act Thursday.…

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Scheduled Auto Scaling Now Available in the AWS Management Console

You can now configure Auto Scaling to operate on a schedule using the AWS management console. Previously, this functionality was only available through the AWS Application Programming Interface (API), Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS CloudFormation.

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Introducing Amazon VPC NAT Gateway in EU (Frankfurt) Region

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the EU (Frankfurt) region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet. 

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Can't upgrade, won't upgrade: Windows Mobile's user problem

Darn customers and their 'I-just-wanna-use-a-working-phone' desires

Microsoft’s dream of a smooth transition to Windows 10 Mobile needs a reality check. Figures from AdDuplex, which samples devices actually in use, finds that much of today’s active Windows Phone user base won’t be able to make the update.…

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TalkTalk CuffCuffs ScamScam CrimCrims

Indian call center workers accused of harvesting data

UK ISP TalkTalk is considering cutting ties with its Indian call center provider after three employees at the site were arrested for allegedly scamming customers.…

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CableLabs certifies first gigabit-class cable modems

The HFC cables that deliver pay TV are getting closer to being broadband blasters

Broadcom's grinning like the Cheshire Cat, with its OEMs apparently dominating the first round of DOCSIS 3.1 device certification. DOCSIS 3.1 is a standard allowing for gigabit-and-above data transmission rates over existing hybrid fibre-coax cables widely deployed around the world for cable television delivery.…

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Map of Tasmania to be shorn of electrical, data links to outside world

Basslink comms fibre will be cut on purpose during power cable fix

Internet service providers in the Australian state of Tasmanian are bracing for a temporary loss of connectivity, as the owner of the Basslink cable connecting the island state to the mainland scrambles to fix a break in its electricity transmission system.…

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Aereo TV boss is back ... pitching gigabit internet and a $350 Wi-Fi router

Forgive us if we're skeptical, Chet, but that last venture didn't go so well

The man who started the ill-fated Aereo TV service is back, and this time he wants to start an ISP.…

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Microsoft: We think your Office files should see other people

Documents can now be stashed in Box, Dropbox, etc

Users of Microsoft Office now have more choice where they keep and work on their documents, and with whom they co-create them.…

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Death to clunky, creaky rip-off cable boxes – here's how it will happen

FCC proposes blowing open the market to competition

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is trying to kill off one of life's most frustrating rip-offs: the clunky, outdated cable box that you are pressured to "rent" from your cable provider.…

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AWS WAF Now Inspects HTTP Request Body and Adds Size Constraint Condition

You can now configure AWS WAF to block, allow, or monitor (count) requests based on the content in HTTP request bodies. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from an HTML form.

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AWS WAF Now Inspects HTTP body POST/PUTs

You can now configure AWS WAF to block, allow, or monitor (count) requests based on the content in HTTP request bodies. This is the part of a request that contains any additional data that you want to send to your web server as the HTTP request body, such as data from an HTML form.

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Apache Hadoop 2.7.1, Spark 1.6.0, Presto 0.130, and Ganglia 3.7.2 now available on Amazon EMR

Amazon EMR release 4.3.0 now offers upgraded versions of Apache Hadoop (2.7.1), Apache Spark (1.6.0), Ganglia (3.7.2), and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.130). Hadoop 2.7.1 is a minor version upgrade with various bug fixes and performance enhancements. Spark 1.6.0 includes several new features, such as the compile-time type safety using the Dataset API, machine learning pipeline persistence using the Spark ML Pipeline API, a variety of new machine learning algorithms in Spark ML, and automatic memory management between execution and cache memory in executors. Presto 0.130 now supports S3 server-side encryption and client-side encryption using the PrestoS3Filesystem. 

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AT&T and Big Telco pals join Facebook OCP club

El Reg talks open with Equinix

Facebook's Open Compute Project has staked out its next battlefield: the conservative world of the telco. The OCP Telco Project whichjust launched counts AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, SK Telecom, Verizon, Nexius, Nokia Networks and Equinix as its foundation members.…

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Amazon CloudFront Integrates with AWS Certificate Manager

You can now provision SSL/TLS certificates and associate them with CloudFront distributions within minutes. Simply provision a certificate using the new AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and deploy it to your CloudFront distribution with a couple of clicks, and let ACM manage certificate renewals for you. ACM allows you to provision, deploy, and manage the certificate with no additional charges. 

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Microsoft unbuttons shirt, teases glimpse of Azure-in-a-box Stack

Tech preview due out this month

It's a bit late, but Microsoft will be releasing the first technical preview of Azure Stack – its cloud-in-a-box for those who prefer their data on-premises.…

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Google+ Sign-in Support in AWS Mobile Hub

You can now integrate Google+ Sign-in to provide federated authentication for your Mobile Hub generated applications. With this addition, Mobile Hub now fully integrates with two external identity providers: Facebook and Google+.

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Broadband-pushers expand user piggyback rides on private Wi-Fi

Universal public coverage, one home router at a time

The number of public Wi-Fi hotspots piggybacking on private routers in the UK is set to increase "significantly" by next year, according to research.…

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Retailers urged to create 'CCTV-like' symbol to inform customers of mobile tracking

You're being followed... on your mobile... in the mall

Retailers have been urged to create a standard symbol, similar to the one used to denote the use of CCTV, to inform customers that their location within shopping areas is being tracked through their mobile device.…

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Kentucky to build 3,400-mile state-owned broadband network – and a fight is brewing

Bonkers bluegrass broadband backbone battle brings bundled bluster, boisterous bickering

Yet another US state is weighing up the idea of laying thousands of miles of cable to create its own broadband network.…

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AWS CloudFormation Adds Override for Failed Update Rollbacks

You can now instruct AWS CloudFormation to continue rolling back an update to your stack even after the rollback has failed. Previously, you would not be able to reinitiate a rollback of your stack after it had originally failed, requiring you to contact customer support.  

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Folk shun UK.gov's 'expensive' subsidised satellite broadband

Just 24 people signed up to poorly advertised scheme

Poor advertising and expensiveness have been blamed for the woeful uptake of the government's subsided satellite broadband scheme, with just 24 people having so far signed up.…

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BT dismisses MPs' calls to snap off Openreach as 'wrong-headed'

Biz slurps £1.7bn, leaves 5.7 million without proper broadband - report

BT has dismissed calls by more than 100 MPs to separate broadband arm Openreach as "wrong-headed", in response to a damning report that found that despite the telco having received £1.7bn in subsidies to get Britain online, 5.7 million people still cannot access the internet.…

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West Virginia mulls mother of all muni networks – effectively a state-wide, state-run ISP

Cable companies react exactly how you would expect them too

The US state of West Virginia is debating whether it should get into the ISP business, thanks to a new bill calling for a state-run fiber broadband network.…

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dotCloud dotGone: Ex-Docker PaaS passes away amid bankruptcy

CEO confirms app hosting service will shut down at end of February

dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) upstart, will shut down next month as its parent company Cloud Control has filed for bankruptcy.…

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Net neutrality-lovin' Sweden mulls law to censor the internet

Huge policy U-turn has ISP up in arms

The Swedish government is considering overturning its long-held opposition to internet filtering – so says one of the country's most high-profile ISPs.…

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Squeeze the banana to log into this office Wi-Fi

Ping ping ping ping ping ping ping – banana node

In some offices, you have to ask around for the Wi-Fi password, or find it written down on a bit of paper. In others, you do it by poking a banana.…

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AWS CodePipeline Adds Support for Triggering AWS Lambda Functions

You can now invoke AWS Lambda functions in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you specify actions in your pipeline’s stages that can trigger custom functions defined by your code, allowing you to customize your software release pipeline. 

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Google and Red Hat hook up for OpenShift container cuddles

Greene light for cloud plans

The Chocolate Factory and Red Hat have announced a partnership to run the Linux firm's OpenShift Dedicated container platform on the Google Cloud Platform in the next few months.…

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Public cloud storage spend to double in two years – reliable sources

It’s a pain! Data and storage capacity growth

Research house 451 reckons public cloud storage spend will double in two years, with on-premises storage spend falling 17 per cent.…

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IBM, Ustream-BM, we can't believe Ustream is now owned by IBM

Big Blue's bucks buy business to build better broadcast bundles

IBM has acquired internet telly station Ustream in hopes of boosting its cloud lineup.…

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Elastic Load Balancing: Support for AWS Certificate Manager

We are pleased to announce that Elastic Load Balancing is integrated with AWS Certificate Manager to provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates.

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