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Nine NB-IoT deployments across the UK? Be still, our fluttering hearts LPWAN Forum The head of the GSMA’s Internet of Things division was not happy to hear IoT networking technology described as “vapourware” this afternoon at LPWAN Forum London.…

Israel startup shows novel approach to data management Analysis Reduxio's array is a hybrid one with clever dedupe, and is restricted to an iSCSI interface, so let's move on. Actually let's not. Because under the covers something remarkable is going on.…

Besides, we've got more partners, scripting pioneer crows Microsoft's rival to IFTTT, Flow, formally emerged last week – after some months in beta – but the scripting outfit has no intention of giving up its lead.…

Vodafone chips in: 'We'll soon do IoT networks too!' LPWAN Forum Transmitting medical data over an unsecured network? No problem, we can build security around it. This was the suggestion of Arqiva’s Ian Stewart at the LPWAN Forum in London this morning.…

Could they marry? Should they marry? Will they marry? Are they marrying? Meg Whitman’s big storage play could soon be realised with sources claiming Hewlett Packard Enterprise is to bid between $3.8bn to $3.9bn for Simplivity.…

Cyber-security firm expects growth to continue Losses at London Stock Exchange-listed Sophos have gone up despite increasing sales.…

Relaunched anti-piracy body to focus on games, music and leisure British IP crimefighter FACT has "pivoted" after the Motion Picture Association cut half of the UK body's funding.…

Disk array leaders' box crowded in latest Magic Quadrant The quick and dirty CIO array supplier shortlist, otherwise known as Gartner's Magic Quadrant for general-purpose disk arrays, has Huawei, Quantum and Infinidat all making big progress since last year.…

Here's the lowdown Promo On 1 December at 11am GMT we're exploring the security concerns of Office 365 in a live one-hour broadcast – and you can join us with your questions from the comfort of your desk.…

Nippon continues to dominate world's weirdness charts A man from Kyoto in Japan has been arrested for nibbling a young woman's foot.…

The software you want, the price you pay now. What's not to like? Comment Toblerone's decision to keep its post-Brexit price stable by just selling less chocolate for the same price is a tactic the software industry should copy.…

Loss-making company continues to be, well, loss-making Shrunken Imation's revenues have started edging ahead in its third 2016 quarter as pared-back Nexsan grows, but losses continue.…

Plus: KubeCon, Azure, World Series blues, snake-dodging iguanas, and more

Dummkopf crims mocked by German police "Not very clever" bank thieves have blown up an automated statement printer in Berlin instead of the ATM they were hoping to empty.…

Why Stephen Fry never needs to open his mouth again Recorded voice evidence will never quite be the same again. It might not even be "evidence".…

Key states swing behind the Donald, California votes for Clinton and legalises pot With mop-haired politico octopus Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton to the White House, the Canadian Immigration website has crashed under the weight of US citizens seeking an escape.…

Giants grab growing share of services market If customer spending on cloudy infrastructure and platform services in Q3 was a tin of beans, then a full-bellied AWS might have used the resulting wind to power its bit barns.…

'BearSSL' strips crypto back to the bare metal Into a world already crowded with big name alternatives to OpenSSL, an indy project could look like “yet another SSL implementation,” but Vulture South suspects there are good reasons to take a close look at the just-launched BearSSL.…

Don't get too worried, devs, this is only for some dynamic optimisation algos ... for now Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Stony Brook University reckon they've found a way to automatically adapt dynamic optimisation code for multi-core CPUs, potentially removing the need for hand-coding of some tricky problems.…

Apple, media, 400-pound hackers, look to be in trouble The United States Presidential Election has been run and at the time of writing looks almost certainly to have been won by Donald Trump.…

€13 BEELLION at stake in appeal The Republic of Ireland has signalled its intention to push back against the European Union (EU) over accusations that it's offering a tax haven to Apple.…

Portuguese-speaking retro-gamers, your time is now Brazilian outfit Tectoy has won the right to manufacture new versions of Sega's 16-bit MegaDrive console and is taking pre-orders for the venerable gaming machines.…

Newton-busting space drive might get us to Mars, very slowly An unpublished scientific paper by NASA engineers has been leaked. It appears to show that the EM Drive – a form of space drive that appears to produce thrust by electricity alone, in violation of Newton's Third Law of physics – may actually works.…

If call quality is even worse than usual, this could be the reason Microsoft has kicked off a Skype Insiders program for people “interested in providing feedback to shape and enhance the Skype experience!”…

Will apply local sales taxes to cloud services from now on The world's ongoing efforts to get multinational technology companies paying and collecting the proper amount of tax has claimed another win, with Adobe advising it will add Australia's Goods and Services Tax (GST - think VAT, British readers and sales tax in North America) to the cost of its Creative Cloud.…

Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you're attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…

The GSMA is on the case, and carriers are listening An analyst outfit is warning that the Internet of Insecure Junk Things industry's enthusiasm for proprietary protocols will come to an abrupt halt once standards bodies get their acts together.…

Mystery surrounds bugs that delayed voting in crunch North Carolina battleground Polling stations in the swing US state of North Carolina will stay open late after mystery glitches stopped electronic voting systems from working.…

Corporate HQ raided by South Korea's corruption busters Police in South Korea have raided the corporate offices of Samsung in connection with a high-profile government corruption probe.…

Lord & Taylor axes scores people from corporate tech HQ Retail chain Lord & Taylor is closing down its US tech headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, and axing 77 IT jobs in the process.…

Ministerial oversight of telecoms networks and the kit they buy is back on the agenda Australia's attempt to make its attorney-general Netadmin-in-chief is back on the legislative agenda.…

Don't worry, just a few more hours until it's over (for now) A judge in Nevada has thrown out a lawsuit from a lawyer representing Donald Trump, arguing that she would not order the release of election poll worker information due to "Twitter trolls."…

New Backpack gear shifts tons of data for VR future It’s odd thinking of Facebook as an infrastructure company rather than a purveyor of cat pictures and fake news. However, the web giant is rapidly becoming one of the key leaders in telecommunications design – as demonstrated with the firm’s latest release.…

Internet Architecture Board grabs stake, eyes coffin: 'Still not dead? Let's fix that' Well, that took a while. Eighteen years after the IETF brought us IPv6 as an answer to then-looming-now-upon-us IPv4 address exhaustion, the Internet Architecture Board says: no more.…

Plus: 'Dirty COW' remains unfixed in Google OS Today is the second Tuesday of the month, and that means a fresh round of security updates from the likes of Microsoft, Adobe and Google.…

Ross Callon provides departing KISS (keep it simple, stupid) A retiring veteran of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has left the organization with a departing piece of advice: stop creating so many protocols.…

Epic failures compromise safety at Minnesota facility XtremIO storage is reportedly failing at Fairview Health Services in Minnesota, hindering patient operations.…

We have database engines, too Sandwiched between its third-quarter results and re:Invent conference, Amazon's been pitching AWS as production-ready.…

Mayor says Big Mac with fries is not traditional Tuscany fare McDonald's is suing the city of Florence for $20m after its left-wing mayor rejected Maccy D's application to open a burger joint on the historic Piazza del Duomo.…

Revamped version speeds junk mail attacks A revamped version of the Torte botnet malware is turning insecure CMS servers into spam-spewing zombies.…

But how will it stand up to the market leaders? Over a year after it was first announced, the UK music startup described as "the most ridiculous digital music launch in history" will finally be available to punters tomorrow.…

Purchase will add "complementary products" Synopsys has acquired Cigital, the software security services provider, and Codiscope, a 2015 Cigital spinoff and provider of complementary security tools.…

Spin up to Seagate's HPC User Forum at SC16 Promo You can crunch all the data you want, but you need somewhere to keep it before, during, and after.…

Monty Widenius chats with El Reg at the Big Data London conference Interview Monty Widenius, the Finnish author of MySQL and now the chief technology officer at MariaDB — a fork of MySQL — told The Register how laziness and hate drove him to create the concept for ColumnStore, MariaDB's columnar storage engine.…

We gave it a spin Review HP is making a hugely ambitious return to smartphones, billing the Elite x3 as “one device that’s every device”.…

Undetectable ghost in the controller Black Hat EU Security researchers have come up with another way to hack Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) at industrial plants.…

Tech vendors line up the Christmas cheer on 1 December. Lineker's lot get in earlier A second wave of double-digit price hikes are coming to a reseller or retailer near you from the start of next month, both Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo have confirmed.…

Taxi for the taxi app, please Uber rival Karhoo has confirmed it is pulling the plug on its taxi app following reports that it had burned through the best part of $250m in venture capital dosh.…

Israeli firm wants to kick serious file system ass Analysis Liran Zvibel is a Jew in Israel and sits across the table from me in a Tel Aviv restaurant eating pork chops. This is a man who doesn't mind going against the grain. He's co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Weka.IO, a stealthy startup that is swimming against two perceived tides.…

Discovers marketing, grows 70 per cent Almost two years ago The Register predicted that Huawei would become Samsung and Apple's "worst nightmare" and the claim earned plenty of derision*. But it's happening – and faster than anyone expected.…