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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Let freedom RING! Americans can now legally liberate phones from axis of network evil

USA! USA! USA! USA!

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.…

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FCC Commissioner slams net neutrality rules

Pai joins partisan back-and-forth

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.…

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VMware creates network function virtualisation team

Acquisitions-wrangler to take Virtzilla into conflict with Cisco, again

VMware will create a new team dedicated to what it calls “networks functions virtualisation” (NFV).…

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NZ regulator okays cable to Oz

Tasman Global Access to go ahead

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.…

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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

AWS Config now available in US East (N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)

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.

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All API calls to AWS Config now available in AWS CloudTrail

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.

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Run Amazon CloudSearch on higher performance M3 instances

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.

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Secondary Index Scan – A simpler way to scan DynamoDB table

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.

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Announcing Tagging for Amazon ElastiCache

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.

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Telstra's rivals eye point-to-point frequencies for country mobile

1800 MHz bands slated for auction

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.…

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EE 'best' of the UK mobile network bunch, but how good is that?

10% of the country doesn't even have proper coverage

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.…

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DevOps, Docker, Security, Continuous Delivery. That's some of the hottest buzzwords out of the way! I'll be attending the first London DevOps meetup of 2015 tonight - Looking forward to seeing a good mix of familiar and new faces there.

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Monday, 9 February 2015

Alibaba splurges $590m on mobile-maker Meizu. Xiaomi the money?

Megacorp moves towards making own Android mobes

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.…

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What time do you call this, BT? Late, state-funded broadband rollout plods on

Ministry of Fun celebrates 80% network coverage. Whoop!

Readers may recall a time when the Tory-led UK government trumpeted plans to have the best broadband connections in Europe by, well, now.…

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UK mobile networks LOSE to France and Germany on data speeds

Crowdsourced study doesn't agree with anyone else, though

Mobile internet speeds are slower in the UK than in France and Germany, says yet another mobe coverage survey.…

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Microsoft: Even cheapo Lumias to get slimmed down Windows 10

New chapter for a sad story

The “next chapter” in Windows is coming to Microsoft's cheapo, mass-market Lumia phones.…

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TalkTalk may begin making 'Three style' low-cost mobile moves

UK mobe biz is reshaping around quadplay

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.…

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Looking forward to London DevOps meetup #6 tomorrow evening!