SoftBank waves cash at FCC's broadband spectrum bonanza

Sprint's sugar daddy could further push prices at incentive auction

US carrier Sprint could be getting in on the upcoming FCC wireless spectrum auction after all.…

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Customizable failover order for Amazon Aurora read replicas

Amazon Aurora now allows you to assign a promotion priority tier to each instance on your database cluster. The priority tiers give you more control over replica promotion during failovers. When the primary instance fails, Amazon RDS will promote the replica with the highest priority to primary. You can assign lower priority tiers to replicas that you don’t want promoted to the primary instance. For more information on promotion tiers and failover logic, read the Amazon Aurora User Guide. To know more about Amazon Aurora, visit our product page. 

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Dropbox buries your data in its Magic Pocket, not spread over AWS

Shifts 90% of files from Amazon to in-house systems

Dropbox has sucked the vast majority of its data off Amazon's cloud servers and into its own custom storage centers. This shunting of customers' files has been dubbed Project Magic Pocket.…

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AWS SDK for C++ - Developer Preview

The AWS SDK for C++ is now in Developer Preview. Since introducing the experimental version of the SDK in September 2015, we have made a number of improvements including:

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Amazon SES Adds Support for Custom MAIL FROM Domains

To enable you to maximize your email authentication opportunities, you can now specify the MAIL FROM domain of emails you send with Amazon SES. The MAIL FROM address, also called the "envelope MAIL FROM," is the address that the sending mail server (Amazon SES) specifies to a receiving mail server to indicate the source of the message. Whereas you have always been able to specify the address that recipients see in their inboxes (the "From" address from the email header), this is the first time that Amazon SES enables you to specify the MAIL FROM domain. 

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Virgin bins Webspace, tells customers they can cry to GoDaddy

And after 12 months you can pay for that too

Virgin Media is to put its legacy hosting biz Webspace out to pasture, after taking over the service via its acquisition of NTL back in 2006.…

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Beer-powered bid to build mobile network goes flat

San Miguel left with bitter taste in mouth after collapse of talks with Australian telco

An attempt by Filipino giant San Miguel Corporation to create a mobile phone business has gone flat.…

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Tasmania's Basslink data and power cable cut (on purpose) but fix not until May

Broadband users limp along

Cable ship the Ile de Re has made its first cut to the Basslink electrical cable, and residents of the Australian state of Tasmanians have been plunged back to the era when only one telco (Australia's dominant player Telstra) provided Internet backhaul to the mainland.…

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If your ISP is selling info about you, that has to be opt-in, says FCC boss

Regulator hopes to smother broadband providers in privacy-protecting rules

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed new rules that would bring ISPs in line with general data privacy laws and give citizens the right to opt out of their personal information being shared commercially.…

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GameLift Expands Game Server Availability to Europe and Asia and Adds Auto-Scaling

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, operate, and scale session-based multi-player game servers in the cloud. GameLift, which launched a month ago for two regions in North America, can now provide optimal game server performance for players in Europe (gamelift.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com) and Japan (gamelift.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com).

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AWS CodeDeploy Available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) AWS region. 

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Amazon Redshift now supports table level restore

You can now restore a single table from an Amazon Redshift snapshot instead of restoring the entire cluster. This new feature enables you to restore a table that you might have dropped accidentally, or reconcile data from a table that you might have updated or deleted unintentionally. To restore a table from a snapshot, simply navigate to the “Table Restore” tab for a cluster and click on the “Restore Table” button.

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds AWS CloudTrail support and new Amazon CloudWatch Metrics

Amazon CloudWatch Logs is enhancing security and visibility by adding support for AWS CloudTrail. You can now use AWS CloudTrail to track changes to your CloudWatch Logs resources such as your Log Groups, Log Streams, Metrics Filters, Subscription Filters, and Log Export Tasks. 

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DDoS protection biz Incapsula knackers its customers' websites

An unwelcome PITSTOP

Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday.…

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs Available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the South America (Sao Paulo) region. 

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David Cameron hints at Budget law change to end mobile not-spots

Look here, Farmer Jones, we're building this mast whether you like it or not

David Cameron has hinted a law change will be introduced in the budget next week to make it easier to erect mobile phone masts in “not spot” areas.…

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Stop whining, USA: Your LTE makes Europe look slow

Next-gen LTE is making a monkey out of Wi-Fi

US consumers love to moan about their internet providers, but in reality they enjoy superior LTE speeds to Europe. A vendor’s global survey of mobile broadband performance highlights some intriguing trends - and tips India to leapfrog into the future.…

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Plan to end US government control of key internet contract approved

Big hurdle jumped, but flaws in IANA plan remain

A plan to end US government control of the top level of the internet was formally approved Wednesday when six different internet groups voted to send it on to the board of DNS overseer ICANN.…

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EE-gads! Orange webmail cut off in UK outage

EE says everything back to normal now

Everything Everywhere (EE) says it has resolved a problem that left many Orange customers in the UK unable to access their email accounts.…

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Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached Auto-Discovery for PHP 7

You can now use Memcached Auto-Discovery capabilities for PHP 7 on Amazon ElastiCache. For instructions on compiling the code for your client, please refer to the documentation on our GitHub repository here. For more information about node Auto-Discovery please see this. 

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Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux. Repeat, a custom Debian Linux for networking

It's an open-source switch OS for clouds

OCP Summit  Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft will today release a homegrown open-source operating system, based on none other than Debian GNU/Linux, for network switches.…

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Qualcomm ARM server chips try on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for size

While Linaro slings data center ARM chips into new developer cloud

Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…

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Telstra strides into enterprise SDN with VPNs, dynamic WANs

It's the Big T's usual play: own the network, build services, insist integration delivers a better experience

Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has sniffed the software-defined winds and decided to label some services as software-defined networking (SDN), with Cisco's help.…

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Run XCTest UI tests with AWS Device Farm

You can now use AWS Device Farm to run automated tests for your iOS apps written with the XCTest UI automation framework. The XCTest UI testing allows you to write automated UI tests in Swift or Objective-C. To get started, simply choose XCTest UI when creating a new test run and upload your UI test package using the steps outlined in the documentation. No configuration or modification to your app or tests is necessary. If you have any questions, please let us know in the discussion forum.

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Coming Soon: AWS Config will be available in AWS GovCloud (US) in the coming months

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. 

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Amazon EC2 announces availability of t2.nano in EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions

T2.nano, the smallest and cheapest Amazon EC2 instance type is now available in two new regions: EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). 

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Basslink cable repairs about to start

Cable fault lies 98 km from Tassie coast, company says

Basslink has announced that it has nailed down the location of its cable break and is about to start repairs. The company says the break is about 98 km from the Tasmanian coast.…

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AWS CodeCommit Adds Repository Triggers

You can now create triggers that send notifications or automatically run code whenever a change occurs in an AWS CodeCommit repository. You can send notifications from Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) or invoke AWS Lambda functions in response to the repository events you choose (e.g. commit to a branch, branch or tag creation, and branch or tag deletion). This helps you customize and automate your development workflow. 

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Verizon fined $1.35m for stalker supercookies

But FCC lets mobile operator keep its opt-out for customers

Verizon will pay $1.35m for its use of "supercookies," but its customers will still have to opt out of the permanent trackers, under an agreement [PDF] reached with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday.…

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New accounts default to long EC2 resource IDs on March 7

In January, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of longer IDs for EC2 instances and reservations. As of March 7, 2016, newly created AWS accounts will use longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs by default in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and EU (Frankfurt). In other regions, new accounts will use longer EC2 instance and reservation IDs by default starting in mid-April 2016. 

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AWS Schema Conversion Tool Feature Release

You can now download version 1.0.202 of the AWS Schema Conversion Tool. This version adds support for:

• Editing the converted SQL that was generated for the target database engine
• Improved selection capabilities in the source database and target database instance tree views
  
• Add support for connecting to an Oracle source database using Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) names
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

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New VPN Features in Sao Paulo

We have released four new features for our VPC VPN product in the Sao Paulo region. Starting today the VPN product now supports AES 256, SHA-2, additional Diffie Hellman groups, and NAT Traversal. In addition to those new features, you can also re-use your Customer Gateway (CGW ) IP address. You no longer need a unique IP address for each connection you create. 

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Everything bad in the world can be traced to crap Wi-Fi

You know it’s going to go wrong, don’t you?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?  “Ah, it’s sod’s law,” murmurs the person sitting next to me. I nod agreeably. It was inevitable.…

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Net neutrality crusaders take aim at Comcast's Stream TV service

Complaint asks FCC to punish cable colossus

Open internet group Public Knowledge is accusing Comcast of violating net neutrality rules.…

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WANdisco boss: 'We're seeing a humongous movement to the cloud'

Cometh the migration hour, cometh the migration technology

+Comment  WANdisco has active-active replication technology that's been used for disaster recovery and other business continuity-type uses. That's all well and good but not epoch-making or associated with major disruptions ... until now.…

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Feel old? You will now: Mobile network Three is a teenager

A brief history of Li Ka-shing's feisty challenger network

Hutchison Whampoa’s Three network turns 13 today. The fifth mobile network to launch in the UK went live on … the 3rd of March 2003. Or 3-3-03.…

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EU needs a single telco regulator, says Google's top policy wonk

We're regulated even more than traditional telco providers, reckons ad-slinger

Europe needs a single telco regulator if over-the-top providers are to flourish across the continent, Google's public policy manager of EMEA, Theo Bertram, has said.…

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There's a courier here says he's got 50TB of cloud data for you

Amazon's Snowball array-for-rent now available for data export

Amazon Web Services has announced it will happily delivery 50TB of cloud data to your doorstep.…

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Linode says 'several' submarine cables to Singapore cut

Ping times are certainly looking ugly and there's been an earthquake in the region

Once again, it seems, submarine cables around Asia are in trouble.…

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Cisco CTO: What, me worry (about cloud)?

Containers will ride to our rescue, says Singh

Cisco Partner Summit  The emergence of containers will key a new renaissance for on-premise data centers that will bring many businesses away from public cloud services, says Cisco CTO Zorawar Biri Singh.…

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Salesforce.com storage fail causes lengthy outage

One European instance experiencing eight-hours-and-counting PITSTOP incident

One of Salesforce.com's European instances is enduring a lengthy un-planned PITSTOP incident – that's a Partial Inability To Support Totally Optimal Performance, a whit below our other status indicator of a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance or TITSUP.…

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Another week, another leak: is morale that low in Australia's NBN?

Even cost-saving good ideas are now being leaked

The company building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is once again denying the veracity of a leaked document.…

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Amazon Simple Notification Service Now Sends Notifications for AWS Directory Service

Now you can use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to receive notifications such as emails and text messages when the status of your AWS Directory Service directory changes to or from an “Active” state. Amazon SNS uses topics to collect and distribute messages to subscribers. When AWS Directory Service detects a change in your directory’s status, it will publish a message to the associated topic, which is then sent to topic subscribers.  

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New AWS Config Rules Repository on GitHub with sample rules

AWS Config Rules allows you to create rules that continuously check the configuration of relevant AWS resources recorded by AWS Config, and notifies you when resources do not comply with these guidelines. Using the rules dashboard, you can track overall compliance status and troubleshoot specific resource configurations that do not comply.

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Local Time Zone Support for Amazon Aurora

You can now set the time zone for your Amazon Aurora database cluster to the local time zone for your application.

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Announcing Support for Security Group References in a Peered VPC

We are excited to announce that you can now reference security groups in a peered Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in both inbound and outbound rules. This functionality is supported cross-account so the two VPCs can be in different accounts. Support for security group references in a peered VPC simplifies configuration by controlling peering traffic via security group membership instead of CIDR ranges.

You can reference security group from a peered VPC using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, through SDKs. For more information see ‘Reference Peered VPC Security Groups’.

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Announcing Amazon VPC ClassicLink and ClassicLink DNS Support in Sao Paulo Region

Today we are announcing support for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ClassicLink in the Sao Paulo region. ClassicLink allows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in the EC2-Classic platform to communicate with instances in a VPC using private IP addresses, instead of public addresses through the Internet. We are also announcing support for ClassicLink DNS support. This feature enables support for DNS resolution of public hostnames to private IP addresses when queried over ClassicLink, making it easier for EC2-Classic instances to communicate with VPC resources using public DNS hostnames.

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Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region

The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) AWS region.

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AWS Storage Gateway support for EMC NetWorker 8.x with Gateway-VTL

Today, we are announcing support for EMC NetWorker 8.x with AWS Storage Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL). You can now backup and archive directly to scalable, cost-effective, secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier storage using Gateway-VTL with NetWorker. 

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AWS CloudFormation Adds Support for Amazon VPC NAT Gateway, Amazon EC2 Container Registry, and More

AWS CloudFormation has added support for four additional AWS services and several new features.

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Announcing New Regions for Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager

Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM) is now available in two new regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions.

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Amazon Redshift is now available in US West (N. California) Region

We are excited to announce that Amazon Redshift is now available in the AWS US West (N. California) Region.

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Amazon Kinesis Streams now available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region

Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. You can now use Amazon Kinesis Streams from the South America (Sao Paulo) Region, in addition to US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can get pricing information for all the regions from our pricing page.

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Oracle adds own cloud tier to its mainframe VTL

Latest StorageTek VSM 7 is bigger and badder

Oracle has updated VSM 6 to v7 four years after VSM 6 was launched, adding beefier CPUs, greater scale and auto-tiering to Larry’s own cloud.…

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Tutum technology bobs back to surface as Docker Cloud

NY-born firm now totally Docker native

The Tutum technology Docker borged late last year has resurfaced in the form of Docker Cloud.…

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Net Neutrality: Email trail reveals how Obama leaned hard on the FCC

US Senators get hands on regulator's internal memos sent during open net order wrangling

US Republican senators have today published emails that suggest the President "unduly influenced" the FCC – America's nominally independent telco regulator.…

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DDoS attacks up 149 percent as brassy booter kids make bank

Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets.

The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai's networking wonks.…

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Google cloud wobbles as workers patch wrong routers

Is 'Sorry about that, we promise to learn from our mistakes' any way to run a cloud?

Add another SNAFU to the long list of Google cloud wobbles caused by human error: this time The Alphabet subsidiary decided to patch the wrong routers.…

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Institute of Directors: Make broadband speeds 1000x faster than today's puny 2020 target

Pie in the sky? More like a Scotch egg in space

Forget the government's paltry promise of universal broadband speeds of 10 Mbps by 2020. The Institute of Directors is today calling for a target of 10 gigabits per second by 2030.…

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Indian DEITY tells Google to choose broadband bride

Project Loon needs carriers' spectrum before it can beam heavenly broadband to India

The Indian government has asked Google to tie the knot with a local carrier, so it can begin trialling Project Loon in the country.…

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NBN rollout behind target, claims yet another leaked report

Leaks, schmeaks, says CFO Stephen Rue. By 2020 everything will be wonderful

The company charged with building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is denying a Fairfax media report that its multi-technology model (MTM) rollout is stalling.…

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Azure Australia in PITSTOP slowing cloudy storage and VMs

Not TITSUP, but a Partial Inability To Support Totally Optimal Performance

Microsoft’s Azure cloud services are wobbling in Australia.…

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Competition? No way! AT&T says it will sue to keep Google Fiber out of Louisville, Kentucky

Telco files to block city from letting ad giant climb its poles

AT&T is suing to block the city of Louisville from moving forward with its plan to bring in the Google Fiber service.…

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How will Ofcom reduce our reliance on BT if it won't break them up?

Regulator needs political cover to bring fibre to millions of homes

Opinion  The publication of Ofcom’s 2005 Strategic Review of Telecoms was preceded by many long evenings of intense debates within Ofcom and with BT and other stakeholders. The review took 18 months and resulted in the UK having the most competitive broadband market in the world.…

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Orange is good to go on VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling in Europe

Quality is holding up real 4G voice

MWC16 Interview  Orange announced plans to offer voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Wi-Fi calling services in Europe this year, adding its name to the still short list of European mobile operators that offer either or both new voice services.…

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Google fingers wetware, yet again, as the reason for an cloudy outage

Users didn't get all the cloud they paid for thanks to algorithmic error

“People,” sang Nick Cave, “They ain't no good.” And Google's learning that applies double to clouds, after again finding human intervention caused an outage.…

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FCC gets Bern notice on Charter-TWC deal

Senators call for grilling of cable companies over merger

A group of US Senators is asking broadband watchdog the FCC to mull over their concerns about the proposed $78bn merger between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable.…

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Microsoft urges law rewrite to keep US govt's mitts off overseas data

Dublin warrant case is a fight for trust, says Brad Smith

Microsoft today badgered the US House Judiciary Committee for changes to the law following Europe's safe harbor collapse and amid Redmond's data center search warrant battle.…

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Verizon only cares about fiber, lets copper nets lapse into ruin – gripes

Jersey unsure why lines always crummy in Philadelphia

Verizon is taking heat in two US states over reports its cable lines have become dangerously neglected.…

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Surprise! British phone wins Best Product at Mobile World Congress

Rugged mobe wows industry's great and good. Rule Britannia!

MWC16  When’s the last time a British company won Best Product at Mobile World Congress? In fact it was yesterday - but few people realise how British this product actually is.…

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BT, Sky, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin to appeal website blocking ruling

Court must maintain brand owners' rights - expert

The Court of Appeal in London must maintain the right of brand owners to obtain website blocking orders against internet service providers as a means of enforcing their trade mark rights against infringers, an expert has said.…

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Ofcom shies away from BT Openreach split, calls for reform instead

Concludes greater independence of Openreach needed and more network access by rivals

Communications regulator Ofcom has shied away from recommending spinning off BT's Openreach, instead saying Ofcom must open up its network to competitors and reform Openreach.…

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San Francisco* to get Google Fiber

* Probably not you, though

Google has announced that its Fiber gigabit internet service will finally be arriving in San Francisco.…

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Simplified User Experience for Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

Auto Scaling now emits an event using Amazon CloudWatch Events when an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance is ready to execute a launch or termination lifecycle hook.

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Come join our mobile industry 5G club. You don't even have to be a telco, says NGMN

That means you, internet biz folk

MWC16  The Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) group of mobile operators wants companies from other industries to join its club and help design 5G networks.…

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Can Qualcomm broker a peace deal between LTE and Wi-Fi in unlicensed spectrum?

5GHz band: Who will make room for mobile firms?

MWC16  Here’s something you wouldn’t expect to see at Mobile World Congress: LTE and Wi-Fi service providers and vendors together in a room, clinking champagne glasses to celebrate a new technology that will allow the two wireless standards to use the same band of unlicensed spectrum. So it was at the MulteFire Alliance launch on Tuesday.…

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Got Oracle? Got VMware? Going cloud? You could be stung for huge licensing fees

$500m for the lot?! Inside Oracle's tough VM rules

Oracle has been telling a number of organisations running its database software that they are breaking the company's licensing rules – and therefore owe it millions of dollars in unpaid licence fees.…

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Speaking in Tech: IPO freeze, less capital for risks... job cuts. Time to get out of the Valley

Tech happens outside of NY and California

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Spotify hits the G-Spot, moves from AWS to Google's cloud

'It's the way they handled our data that turned us on' croons music streamer

Google's cloud has scored big: music streaming service Spotify, the subject of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) case study, has gone all in with The Chocolate Factory's cloud.…

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Canberra passes USO review to Productivity Commission, tells the economists to hasten slowly

Mostly muted response to the Regional Telecommunications Review

Australia's federal government re-ignited debate about rural telecommunications with the suggestion that today's Universal Service Obligation (USO) scheme be abandoned and replaced.…

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DigitalOcean to splash down Bangalore bit barn

Hosting outfit also working on new cloud storage and monitoring services

DigitalOcean has announced it plans to bring a bit barn to Bangalore, India.…

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Between you, EE and the lamppost ... this UK cell network is knackered

Mobile data, calls TITSUP for over half the day – total inability to support usual PDP

UK cellphone network EE has struggled to provide a decent service to Brits for most of today.…

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Feds spank Asus with 20-year audit probe for router security blunder

One crappy vendor down, who's next?

Asus has settled its case with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after hackers pwned nearly 13,000 home routers via an unpatched security flaw.…

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Amazon Route 53 Adds SNI Support for HTTPS Health Checks

We are excited to announce that Amazon Route 53 health checks now support Server Name Indication (SNI) for health checks over HTTPS. With SNI and HTTPS support, you can now create health checks for secure websites that rely on SNI to serve the correct website and certificate to requests for a particular domain name.

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Interception clouds Deutsche Telekom's pan-Euro network utopia

Kerstin Günther, DT Pan-Net MD, talks to El Reg

MWC16  As Deutsche Telekom ramps up its virtualized all-IP pan-European network, dubbed Pan-Net, Europe’s fragmented set of privacy and legal interception laws could thwart the operator’s plans for a delivering cross-border services, according to a senior operator executive.…

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Let's talk over Wi-Fi, says Oracle to folks who don't know Skype exists

Big Red's Barcelona broadsides aimed at carriers with congested cores

MWC 2016  Oracle's parked its yacht near Barcelona and fired off the usual broadsides of product announcements that accompanies a major conference like Mobile World Congress.…

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Oracle acquires Ravello, will bake it into Big Red Cloud

Cloud hypervisor tech should make vaporous voyages to Uncle Larry's bit barns easier

Oracle has acquired Ravello, purveyor of a cloud-spanning hypervisor.…

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Is DNSSEC causing more problems than it solves?

New paper points to security protocol as vector for DDoS attacks

The complex security protocol for the domain name system – DNSSEC – has another black mark against it: it is being used as a way to carry out denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…

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Unity support in the AWS SDK for .NET is Generally Available

We are concluding the Developer Preview for Unity in the AWS SDK for .NET and making it Generally Available (GA). The Unity support in the .NET SDK makes it easier for you to build Unity games by letting you take advantage of AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL database, Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon Cognito for user identity management and data synchronization, and Amazon Mobile Analytics for tracking user and device based analytics. We recommend that you upgrade to the new version of the SDK to take advantage of the recent improvements.

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AWS IoT Now Supported in AWS Mobile SDK for Android

Support for the AWS IoT API is now available in the AWS Mobile SDK for Android. Now, you can use the mobile SDK to publish and subscribe to device data via MQTT with X.509 certificates, and access device shadows so that applications or other devices can read messages and interact with devices, even when they aren’t connected. To learn more about the AWS Mobile SDK for Android, read the release notes.

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Austinites outraged as Google Fiber tears up Texas capital

Not so smug about that gigabit pipeline now, are we?

Residents of Austin, TX may be regretting the decision to bring Google Fiber to the city. The Austin American Statesman says that last year, 254 complaints were filed with the city over problems related to construction of the network.…

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Now Run Your AWS Data Pipeline On-demand

AWS Data Pipeline now offers an on-demand schedule type, providing you the option to run your pipeline immediately on activation instead of on a time-based schedule. With on-demand scheduling, your pipeline will run once every time it is activated. This allows you to run your pipelines on an ad-hoc basis. For example, you can now activate a pipeline from an AWS Lambda function based on an external event.  

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IBM tailors Swift for cloud, gets into bed with VMware, Github

'Cause the haters gonna hate, hate, hate

Big Blue has used its IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas to announce cooperative deals with Apple, VMware and GitHub, as the venerable commuting giant seeks to suck in more cloudy business.…

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Amazon RDS now supports MySQL 5.7

You can now launch MySQL 5.7 instances on Amazon RDS. MySQL 5.7 is the latest major version release and offers a number of enhancements for better performance, scalability, and security. Some of the key new features in MySQL 5.7 are:

• Native support for JSON data type and built-in JSON functions to efficiently store, search, and update documents.
• Performance Schema for new and improved performance metrics with the new SYS Schema.
• Optimizer improvements for better EXPLAINing, parsing, and query performance.
• GIS with native InnoDB spatial indexes and Boost.Geometry integration.
  
• Improved parallel replication using logical clock mode.
• Improved InnoDB scalability and temporary table performance, improved tablespace discovery during crash recovery, and dynamic buffer pool resizing.

 

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CloudFlare will launch its own 'high security' web domain registrar

Are you afraid of hijackers and are spending >$60k anually with CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is setting up its own internet domain registrar for wealthy customers who don't want their websites hijacked.…

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Intel, Verizon et al loom over 5G, tapping their feet, coughing politely

Ready or not, here comes new wireless broadband push

Intel, Verizon and Facebook are among the big names trying to advance 5G wireless broadband networks this year.…

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Internet readies plan for final transition of power to dun-dun-derr... ICANN

Progress made, but bad compromises bake in dysfunctional org

A final transition plan for the top level of the internet away from the US government to non-profit California corporation ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be published next month.…

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Huntsville, Alabama, has NASA, US Missile Command ... and now gigabit Google Fiber

Rocket City will lease out its new network to ad giant

Add Huntsville, Alabama, to the ranks of cities with the Google Fiber broadband service.…

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Zuck: Facebook won't retry Free Basics in India

But will in other countries – can't let those frickin' drones and lasers go to waste, huh?

MWC16  Mark Zuckerberg says he'll find other ways to deliver connectivity to rural Indians, after his Free Basics program was rebuffed in India. But the program will press on in the other 37 countries.…

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Black Monday: Office 365 down and out in Europe

Microsoft says 'limited' number had 'intermittent access' to email. That's just tickety boo

The exact cause of today’s periodic Office 365 blackout remains a mystery some eight hours after the service in EMEA first fell over.…

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