Saturday, 30 May 2020

You're not getting Huawei that easily: Canadian judge rules CFO's extradition proceedings to US can continue

Sorry, fraud is a crime in both our countries

Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has suffered a fresh setback in her fight to avoid extradition to the US after a Canadian judge ruled her case could continue.…


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EU General Court tears up ban on Three slurping O2. Good thing the latter's not set to merge with Virgin Media, eh?

Oh wait

You can file this one under: "Better late than never." The General Court of the European Union has annulled an earlier European Commission ruling blocking a merger between O2 and Three on competition grounds, following an appeal from the latter.…


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5G mast set aflame in leafy Liverpool district, half an hour's walk from Penny Lane

You know sick people call ambulances using mobile phones, right?

Another 5G mast has gone up in flames in Liverpool in the UK, in this case mere days after it was erected.…


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Not going Huawei just yet: UK ministers reportedly rethinking pledge to kick Chinese firm out of telco networks by 2023

Reality intrudes into politics and tech once again

Updated  Cleansing Britain's phone networks of Huawei equipment by 2023 might not be possible, ministers are said to have realised after UK policy changes on the Chinese company in the last few weeks.…


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Highways England plumps up contract for National Traffic Information Service by £12m after brief chat with vendors

If you're anything like us, you dream of reorganising your country's highways. This is a new system they want to tighten up data streams, but still

Updated  Highways England is shopping for a new £62m National Traffic Information Service to help collect, process and disseminate real-time data and information about traffic on 4,300 miles (6,920km) of road.…


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Frontier: Yes, yes, we've filed for bankruptcy protection, but that's not stopping us giving key staff $38m in bonuses

Judge tells US ISP: OK, seems fair

Despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, US ISP Frontier Communications has insisted on giving key staff $38m in bonuses and other incentives – and an American judge has agreed.…


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So how are your remote working tools shaping up?

Breaking free from the office – without breaking the office

Comment  By now you’ve got this working-at-home business covered. Even if you find you’re occasionally eating your own weight in biscuits, you’ve bought a lighting kit to look professional on video calls, and you’ve won the fight for bandwidth by bribing the kids to stay off Houseparty.…


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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/05/26/remote_working_tools/

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month

Webcast  While moving into cloud working environments often meets a fair degree of push-back, the other side of the coin is that businesses believe throwing everything into the cloud makes them suddenly immune to any of the previous, established occupational hazards of networking technology.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/05/29/cloud_data_protection_myths/

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Collaboration, speed, customer satisfaction, surviving and thriving

Sponsored  The traditional banking industry is in a perilous position. The speed at which it can change to rapidly unfolding situations, perform tasks and the way it handles relationships with customers are under close scrutiny.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/05/29/update_content_management_strategies/

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

Indian giant's center of power moves from Texas to Paris

Wipro has named its new CEO: 25-year Capgemini veteran Thierry Delaporte will take the big chair as of July 6th.…



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Workday chops up to $85m off subscription forecast for fiscal 2021 in response to pandemic

Thows arms around Salesforce and Microsoft in cloudy cuddle

Workday, purveyor of in-memory cloud-native HR and finance tools, has lowered its subscription revenue estimates by up to $85m for fiscal 2021 in response to the COVID-19 crisis.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/05/28/workday_cuts_subscription_expectations/

Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh?

More than dozen services down, customers left unable to work

Adobe technicians scrambled on Wednesday to restore multiple cloud services after a severe outage left customers stranded.…



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IBM resurrects Netezza data warehousing kit in the cloud, which will delight clients midway through migrating

Surprise!

IBM has brought Netezza back from the dead in a move likely to sow further confusion among customers of Big Blue's enterprise data products.…



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Work unleashed: How to work smoothly and securely, wherever you are

You're working at home, but who’s got the remote control?

Promo  The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has propelled the trend for flexible and remote working into the stratosphere. Millions of people worldwide are cocooned at home and bent over all manner of devices and apps as they carry on working. But remote working on a giant scale also means the threat attack surface just got much, much bigger.…



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IBM's sacking spree reaches Australia – and as staff wait to exit, they're offered AU$4k to find new workers

Axed employees given chance to write almost-certainly futile letters to defend their jobs after the pink slip arrives

IBM's new round of "resource actions" – Big Blue speak for sackings – has reached Australia, The Register has learned, and will result in the creation of new cross-disciplinary teams to serve clients.…



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China's clouds have hyperscale parents and global ambition – but are they contenders for your apps?

Yes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don't expect a comfortable ride

The cloud is dominated by American companies. AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle all win more revenue than Alibaba, China's current leader.…



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Alibaba Cloud revenue grows 62% – but it's still just a sixth the size of AWS

But company reckons things are just getting started in China

Alibaba has revealed that its cloudy revenue grew 62 per cent in the year to 30 March 2020 for an annual run rate of US$5.6 billion.…



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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/05/25/alibaba_q4_2020/

Friday, 29 May 2020

The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted

SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month

Webcast  While moving into cloud working environments often meets a fair degree of push-back, the other side of the coin is that businesses believe throwing everything into the cloud makes them suddenly immune to any of the previous, established occupational hazards of networking technology.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/29/cloud_data_protection_myths/

Why it is crucial for banks to update their content management strategies

Collaboration, speed, customer satisfaction, surviving and thriving

Sponsored  The traditional banking industry is in a perilous position. The speed at which it can change to rapidly unfolding situations, perform tasks and the way it handles relationships with customers are under close scrutiny.…



via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/29/update_content_management_strategies/

Wipro names new CEO: Former Capgemini COO Thierry Delaporte

Indian giant's center of power moves from Texas to Paris

Wipro has named its new CEO: 25-year Capgemini veteran Thierry Delaporte will take the big chair as of July 6th.…



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https://go.theregister.co.uk/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/29/new_wipro_ceo_thierry_delaporte/