Network overlord Cisco has had its own Victor Kiam moment and is set to slurp one of its suppliers, optical interconnect specialist Acacia Communications, for $2.6bn in cash.…
Low-rent UK ISP TalkTalk has been told to stop claiming its Wi-Fi signal "can't be beaten by any of the other big providers" after fellow telco BT whinged to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).…
Exclusive It's been an oft-heard refrain at tech conferences that IBM "doesn't know what it's bought" with regard to Red Hat. Usually meant positively, it seems it might be a bit closer to the truth than anyone thought; at least, for Big Blue's marketing department.…
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may well be the world's most controversial technology company. It's also probably one of the most well-known names on the US government's "entity list", where it was placed in May this year.…
A former IT administrator has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for accessing his employer's computers without authorization and deleting company files.…
IBM has officially completed the acquisition of Red Hat for around $34bn.…
American network operator GTT is to slurp Dutch telco KPN's networking biz - save for its domestic operations - for roughly €50m in cash.…
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is handing his now ex-wife Mackenzie $38bn in shares as part of the final settlement.…
An interior design tools startup called Mosss on Wednesday sued Google to get it to restore its data after someone at the startup accidentally deleted the firm's G Suite account.…
The 5G hype-wagon continued this week as Samsung sent a car up the UK's famous Goodwood Hillclimb that was being remotely controlled via a couple of Galaxy S10 handsets running on Vodafone's shiny new 5G network.…
Openreach has admitted that 50,000 premises covered by its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network can only get speeds of up to 330Mbps rather than the much-touted 1Gbps.…
Openreach still needs stronger independence since being not-quite cut from the BT fold, telecoms regulator Ofcom has found.…
An ongoing network issue with provider Cisco has caused all outpatient appointments and elective surgery to be cancelled at two North Midlands hospitals in the past 24 plus hours, The Register can confirm.…
Interview Internet services outfit Cloudflare took careful aim and unloaded both barrels at its feet yesterday, taking out a large chunk of the internet as it did so.…
Fiber-optic cables linking Google Cloud servers in its us-east1 region physically broke today, slowing down or effectively cutting off connectivity with the outside world.…
An Russian submarine, believed to be tasked with spying on foreign communications, has lost 14 crew members after a fire broke out aboard the nuclear-powered vessel.…
Last week, an internet routing screw-up propagated by Verizon for three hours sparked havoc online, leading to significant press attention and industry calls for greater network security.…
Cloudflare, the outfit noted for the slogan "helping build a better internet", had another wobble today as "network performance issues" rendered websites around the globe inaccessible.…
Ahead of its first day in Federal Claims Court in Washington, Oracle has made a filing outlining its position against the Pentagon's award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Amazon Web Services.…
Fed up mobile customers can finally dump their providers by text from today, under new rules from Blighty's comms regulator, Ofcom.…
