Friday, 28 February 2020

Take it Huawei, Pai: Senate passes bill to rip 'dodgy' kit from rural telcos

Now one Donald-shaped signature away from dishing out $1bn to fund the big switch

President Trump is expected to sign a bill that would allocate $1bn to US carriers to replace existing Huawei-built infrastructure after it was unanimously passed by the Senate yesterday.…


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Switchzilla? More like Ditch-your-staff-zilla: Cisco back at the layoffs as revenues shrink

Hardware is hard

Cisco has begun a new round of job cuts as the networking giant's traditional hardware business faces slowing sales.…


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Thursday, 27 February 2020

Total Inability To Service User Pulls: GitHub wobbles with a good old Thursday TITSUP

Hey - there's always Visual SourceSafe, right?

Source shack GitHub has taken a tumble today with many users finding pretty much all of its services either degraded or borked beyond belief.…



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Nokia said to be considering sale or merger as profits tank

That US investment would sound pretty good right about now

Nokia is reportedly exploring the possibility of a merger or acquisition in the face of intense pressures on profitability.…


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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Salesforce's revolving door spins amid shopping spree: Co-CEO out, BT alumnus G-Patz up, Vlocity slurped

Plus: World Tour Sydney event goes online only over coronavirus

Lose a chief executive officer, promote a chairman and buy a company: that's how they roll at cloud-based CRM monster Salesforce.com.…



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Admins beware! Microsoft gives heads-up for 'disruptive' changes to authentication in Office 365 email service

Basic authentication will be OFF for Exchange Online email and other services from October 2020

Microsoft has doled out more details on forthcoming changes to the way mail clients authenticate to Exchange Online, the email service used by Office 365.…



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SecureX gon give it to ya: Cisco muscles into the integrated security game

Push to get punters inhaling one cloudy product

Cisco has belatedly crashed the integrated security party with SecureX - a platform that slaps together Switchzilla's network, endpoint cloud and application security stuff.…


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Webinar: How AWS encryption services keep data in transit safe

Wrap your assets up well before you send them on their journey

Promo  Like those in most organisations, you are probably savvy enough by now to have put in place strong security measures that keep your data safe from thieves and prying eyes wherever it is stored.…



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Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet

Probe raises serious questions about private v public web management

A bug in software pushed out by Cloudflare resulted in failures at the heart of the web's infrastructure, according to a report published this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).…


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Tuesday, 25 February 2020

MWC now stands for Mighty Wallet Crusher? Smaller firms counting the cost after mobile industry event scrapped

It's going to be hard for the GSMA to come back from this

The cancellation of Mobile World Congress over the coronavirus outbreak has had dramatic repercussions – for Barcelona, where the event was supposed to take place; for larger phone brands, which had to radically re-evaluate their launch strategies; and for smaller brands, for whom exhibiting or attending MWC represents a significant chunk of their marketing capital.…


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Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive

Private equity outfit makes concessions, key questions still remain

The little-known private equity firm trying to buy the .org internet registry for $1.1bn has made a last-ditch effort to keep the deal alive, promising a series of commitments over pricing and control.…


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US corp Afilias disappears from battle to run Colombia's trendy .co after The Register, industry probe technical docs

Afil-alas, we hardly knew ye

Afilias has vanished from a controversial race to run Colombia’s trendy .co top-level domain – just days after fresh accusations emerged that the tendering process had been rigged in the American corp's favor.…


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Monday, 24 February 2020

World Wide Web's Sir Tim swells his let's-remake-the-internet startup with Bruce Schneier, fellow tech experts

Inrupt promises a pro-privacy solution to managing, protecting personal data

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has staffed up his startup, dubbed Inrupt, with a handful of notable hires that make its internet salvation mission a bit more plausible.…


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Afrinic's new CEO promises change of culture at org laid low by allegations of corruption and dysfunction

Eddy Kayihura hopes to fix troubled regional internet registry

Interview  In November, Rwandan IT expert Eddy Kayihura took over as CEO of Afrinic – Africa’s troubled regional internet registry, which is responsible for allocating the continent's IP addresses among other resources. This month he spoke to The Register about his plans for the future, including the overhaul of the registry.…


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Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud

With public cloud vendors now offering on-prem, why OpenStack? Cost and avoiding lock-in – Red Hat

Interview  OpenStack allows you to say "I am the Jeff Bezos of my cloud," Red Hat's Sean Cohen, senior manager product management, told The Reg at the launch of OpenStack's Platform 16, its enterprise cloud platform, which has just become generally available.…



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All your base station are belong to us: Intel joins spec race with new 5G chips

Plus: Looking for a 'deep learning boost'? Chipzilla's your man

Intel will sling out fresh silicon aimed at hardware across the nascent 5G market: including new second-generation Xeon processors and a low-latency Atom P5900 for next-gen mobile base stations.…


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Friday, 21 February 2020

Third time's a charm, maybe: Bankers suing Oracle over claims of exaggerated cloud sales have another go at convincing skeptical judge

Anecdotes of bullying customers fall short of legal standard to establish fraudulent intent

The financial group suing Oracle for allegedly deceiving investors by inflating its cloud revenue this week took a third stab at articulating its claim against the database giant.…



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Managed services slinger Ensono waves goodbye to staff on both sides of the pond

Says a big hello to low-cost services land, aka India

Managed services pusher Ensono is to chop 137 employees across its UK and US global support desk and technology teams to reduce costs, and has said that hiring in India is a key element of delivering services.…



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Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

Dangerous levels of EMF: Evidence-based Measurement Findings

UK comms regulator Ofcom today published the results of its latest spectrum measurement tests, which tracked electromagnetic field emissions at 16 of the busiest 5G sites.…


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Breaking bad... browser use: New Mexico accuses Google of illegally slurping kids' private data via G Suite

Web giant hits back, says allegations are 'factually wrong'

New Mexico has sued Google, claiming the ad-slinging web titan broke its promises – and the law – by covertly collecting personal information and the browsing habits of children.…



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