Friday, 31 May 2019

Marvell: So, looks like Chinese buyers were cautious about networking kit...

Plus market's slow to swallow gear, especially storage. Hmmf. At least Huawei 'ban' won't hurt too much

Storage and semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group played down the impact of the effective ban on selling chips to Huawei as it filed losses of $21m for the quarter ended 4 May.…


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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Chinese bogeyman gets Huawei with featuring in EE's 5G network launch thanks to bumbling BBC

Which then deleted all evidence – except this article

Pics  Today marked the launch of Britain's first 5G network – and also, as the BBC joyously informed us, the first telly broadcast made over 5G. But guess which company made the antenna that the Beeb used to beam its tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones into your bedroom this morning?…


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Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Truth, Justice, and the American Huawei: Chinese tech giant tries to convince US court ban is unconstitutional

They think it's a level playing field. How sweet

Huawei is trying to have a key part of American lawfare against the Chinese company thrown out by a US court – on the grounds it breaks the United States constitution.…


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Azurely not! OpenVPN support and NetApp Files among new toys for Microsoft's cloud

Now you can VPN from a cheap router – but only to a premium Azure Gateway

Microsoft has announced the general availability of OpenVPN support in Azure point-to-site VPN gateways, used to enable client PCs and devices to connect to an Azure network via a secure tunnel.…



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Tuesday, 28 May 2019

That's a hell of a Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America

Shipping biz so very sorry for 'inadvertently misrouting' technical docs from Japan to China through US

In addition to mistrusting foreign technology companies because of the risk of IP packet diversion, nation-states may also have to shy away from foreign shipping firms for fear of package diversion.…


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Nvidia pulls sheets off EGX, an edgy machine learning platform based on Kubernetes

Built with help from Red Hat

All kinds of software is moving into lightweight application containers, and the fact hasn't been lost on Nvidia – the GPU supremo has launched a platform for machine learning at the edge of the network, based on Kubernetes.…


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Yeah, you're not having a GSM gateway, Ofcom tells hopeful operators

UK.gov hasn't appealed High Court ruling yet – but regulator upholds ban anyway

UK comms regulator Ofcom has told people wanting to set up a GSM gateway that it will not be authorising them to do so, pending a planned government appeal against a recent High Court judgment.…


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IPO sez me: Alibaba looking to raise a cool $20bn for second listing on Hong Kong exchange

Chinese giant wants insurance policy in Trumpulent times

Alibaba is mulling a massive secondary share offer in Hong Kong, according to reports.…



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Monday, 27 May 2019

Uh-oh .io: Question mark hands over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover

The Chagos Islands situation, already a shameful episode of UK history, just got worse

Special report  The future of internet addresses ending in '.io' – popular with tech startups – may be in doubt after the United Nations condemned the UK's continued ownership over islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.…


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Friday, 24 May 2019

That's just Huawei it goes, shrugs founder as analysts forecast sales slump for embattled biz

Don't worry, they have Plan Bs and spare tyres apparently

Analysts are predicting a big slump in sales for Huawei thanks to the US Department of Commerce and the ongoing trade wars.…


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Coverage concerns dog UK Emergency Services Network as boss admits scheme too ambitious

Civil servants hauled before spending watchdog again

The UK Home Office has had to once again explain the ongoing Emergency Services Network farrago as part of an inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…


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Ofcom to Openreach: Thou shalt prise open thy network for firms targeting biz customers

Comms regulator demands BT sub lets more fibre cable layers access its poles and ducts

Ofcom has ordered BT's Openreach to open its telegraph poles and underground ducts to more companies wishing to lay their own fibre networks aimed at business customers.…


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Gain clear visibility into your network with app intelligence from Gigamon: We chat to the biz about its tech

A new way to ease your path to a digital transformation

Sponsored webcast  As applications grow increasingly numerous and complex, it becomes ever harder for organisations to maintain service delivery and ensure good security.…


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Thursday, 23 May 2019

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

No cybersecurity rules means networks are destined to be balkanized

Analysis  Chinese telecom giant Huawei – the most prominent target of the Trump administration's decision to declare a national emergency to protect American IT infrastructure by banning technology provided by foreign adversaries – on Monday received a reprieve that allows it to do business with US suppliers.…


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Wednesday, 22 May 2019

EE's 5G rollout: Oi, where are your Mates? Yes, we mean the Huawei phones

NSA services switched on next Thursday. No not THAT NSA

EE unveiled a lineup of launch devices this morning for when it flicks the switch on 5G services in six cities, with one notable absence: Huawei.…


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Tuesday, 21 May 2019

Oh 4G, I'm speechless: EE network outage smacks rare breed of customer that talks into their mobile phones

Scottish Virgin Media users also down and out after lunch

UK mobile operator EE has been struggling to get its VoLTE services back on their feet, after a seven-hour flood of angry complaints from customers unable to place voice calls over the 4G network.…


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Backup your files with CrashPlan! Except this file type. No, not that one either. Try again...

Customers shocked to find swathes of data deleted

CrashPlan has banned a bunch of file formats from its online backup system aimed at small businesses.…



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Where there's a will, there's Huawei: US govt already eases trade ban with 90-day reprieve

Temporary General License buys time for Chinese tech giant, customers, suppliers

The US government on Monday gave Huawei permission to obtain technology from American organizations so that the Chinese giant can continue to maintain existing deployments of its products around the world, and push US-sourced software updates to people's phones.…


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Monday, 20 May 2019

Salesforce's Freaky Friday turns into Misery Monday: DB blunder outage enters day three

El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize

Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…



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UK mobile companies score £220m cashback from Ofcom over spectrum fee dispute

Court rules regulator should cough for 'wrongful' increase

Vodafone, O2, Three and EE have won a case against Ofcom claiming that the UK comms regulator's increase in spectrum fees was unfair.…


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