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by Alexander J Martin on (#1ZD4Z)
Phone staff overwhelmed by middle-class complaints Customers of John Lewis Financial Services in the UK are still being forced to re-register for the service after a "recent website upgrade" accidentally downgraded the service.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1ZD3K)
Not-a-PC biz touts new PC and Windows 10 Creators Edition Microsoft today revealed the Surface Studio, a 28" drawing-board-like PC you can stick a hockey-puck-looking dial on to control software. The touchscreen super-fondleslab was announced alongside an updated Surface Book.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1ZD1Z)
Daisy-chaining for scale-up SATA SSDs Well, this is unfashionable: UK-based Integral Memory and Korean Flash storage provider Novachips have co-produced a SVR-PRO SATA III SSD suited for scale-up use.…
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by John Leyden on (#1ZCYY)
Campaign says #thinkrandom, but experts demand cyber-security rethink The UK government has renewed its efforts to persuade consumers to pick stronger passwords.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1ZCWC)
What will happen if this momentum continues? After 20 years, Workbench, the graphical file manager for AmigaOS, received its first update earlier this month, and it's only taken a fortnight to get its first bugfix too.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1ZCTE)
Modular Edge servers and augmented reality too IoT World Congress Beer-as-a-service at American football games is just one of the things Hewlett Packard Enterprise has brought to the Internet of Things playground, its chief IoT technologist, Colin I’Anson, told The Register this morning.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1ZCQZ)
Adds analytics + biz process automation as losses narrow Commvault has software-defined storage and business process automation in its future, as it announces a $600,000 net loss on revenues of $156.3m in its latest quarter. The firm is hoping this sets it up for a sustained turnaround.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1ZCNE)
Workers wait with Whitehall whiteout The website for the British government has suffered a little TITSUP, that is a total inability to support usual politicking.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1ZCHA)
New tech aims to boost security and range of quantum cryptography Physicists have produced "near-perfect" clones of quantum information that can be used to send and retrieve information securely over long distances through quantum cryptography.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1ZCFT)
Float prospect of federated alternative to AWS Openstack Summit OpenStackers have sought to alleviate concerns that applications on rival clouds are locked in and not portable.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1ZCCQ)
Czech 'em out IoT World Congress “Our customer base is growing very fast,†Huawei CTO Wu Chou told The Register at IoT World Congress in Barcelona yesterday. The firm is long on smart Czech streetlights but short, it seems, on customers.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#1ZC9J)
Six feet under or on your album shelf? The choice is yours... The Vatican has put itself on a collision course with the rock music industry, after banning the spreading of human ash-ley remains.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#1ZC6J)
Begloved Dijonaise Mac fan attacked Apple store with outsized metal ball A bellicose Burgundian has been served a six-month suspended sentence and a pile of damages after being driven to distraction by a glitchy iPhone and taking revenge on his local Apple store with a shiny metal ball.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1ZC54)
Ups Enterprise's capacity, speeds up data streams Seagate's sixth generation Enterprise Performance disk drive ups its capacity by 50 per cent to 900GB and increases data transfer speed past 300MB/sec.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1ZC3C)
What went wrong? Analysis Santa may have an empty sack this Christmas, crushing the dreams of fanbois (and fanfilles). Apple admitted yesterday it was unable to meet the demand for its iPhone 7.…
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by John Leyden on (#1ZBZN)
Pesky kids A senior US intelligence chief has said that "non-state actors" – bored kids or crooks* – are likely behind the high-profile attack on DNS provider Dyn last week.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1ZBYK)
Memos confirm Pallante was locked out of network and office The US’s top copyright expert since 2011 has been re-assigned to investigating new tills for the gift shop and brainstorming social media strategies on the orders of her new boss, US president Barack Obama appointee Carla Hayden, leaked memos reveal.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1ZBWJ)
NASA's spine-tingling experiments spell bad news for astronauts New research brings more bad news to astronauts thinking about long-haul space flights as spinal muscles shrink after months in space, scientists have found.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1ZBTB)
Strike out on your own instead of playing catch-up OpenStack Summit First came AWS, then Microsoft’s Azure – now Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft’s been playing feature catch-up to AWS since 2008 with the baton passing now to Google under Diane Greene.…
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by Team Register on (#1ZBR7)
Plus: Cockcroft jumps ship to AWS, Facebook threat to enterprise, and more
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1ZBNP)
Canalys says enterprise startup sales teams will flame out and land in channel Enterprise startups burning through cash while it's cheap will have to fire their sales teams to survive, according to channel analyst outfit Canalys' founder Steve Brazier.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1ZBKE)
Less blue-sky thinking, more 'is this profitable?' needed IoT World Congress What does the Internet of Things actually mean for business? "If a customer is spending $10m on maintenance, I say, 'Give us $8m and... I will bring you better availability of your equipment'," a confident Karthikeyan Natarajan of Tech Mahindra told The Register yesterday.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#1ZBJ9)
What? Software companies must enable customers that acquire an unlimited licence to use their product to download a copy of that software to replace originals that have been damaged, destroyed or lost, the EU's highest court has ruled.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1ZBGR)
Because Docker container security leaves something to be desired In order to remain tenable as the security market adjusts to software containers, Tenable Network Security, based in Columbia, Maryland, has acquired FlawCheck, a San Francisco-based company founded last year to make Docker containers more secure.…
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Biz apologises and blames issues with its IT system Vodafone has been fined £4.6m for failing customers for mis-selling to customers, inaccurate billing and poor complaints handling.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1ZBDW)
Audio: Aussie hacker shows even NSA hacks haven't schooled some telcos Ruxcon They've been warned for years, but scores of telcos are still making bone-headed configuration mistakes in their GPRS Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) networks, leaving mail and FTP servers vulnerable.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZBCJ)
Report says supply chain is ramping up for refurb and electronics upgrade “Uglier things have been spotted in the sky, but not by reliable witnesses†– and, in the case of the A10 “Warthogâ€, it'll be the ugliest thing in the sky for a lot longer than the US Air Force wanted.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1ZBAA)
Liverpool John Moores University thinks crop-munching pests deserve light relief, not poison. Or Brexit, presumably The European Commission (EC) has found €1,777,985 for research on rat-repelling laser fences.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZB9F)
Spectral modulation looks like 233 coincidences too many As any followers of the “Tabbi's Star†controversy will tell you, put “aliens†in a media release and you're bound to get the clicks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1ZB6D)
It's goodbye Artik 1 and hello Artik 7 Samsung has expanded and updated its IoT hardware with the release of the low-end Artik 0 and high-end Artik 7 modules – both of which support the Thread protocol for the first time.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1ZB2Q)
'Researcher' sells spamming, trojan wares Malware has been spotted using the freemium model more than 30 years after it was introduced.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1ZAZ1)
Not a lot of difference and we support the one, so let's support the other Atlantis is integrating its virtual workspace (desktop) into the Citrix management suite and is also providing a software product to manage and provision compute, networking, storage and data services for containers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZAYA)
Access CEO asks Google Maps for nearest exit Google's taken another step in winding back its fibre rollouts, and Craig Barratt, CEO of the operation, is showing himself the door.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1ZAW0)
Keen hackers at Mobile Pwn2Own The Nexus 6P appears to have been hacked with attackers at the Mobile Pwn2Own contest installing malware without user interaction in less than five minutes.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1ZAV5)
Spy agency faced 'incredible growth' in spies in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, book reveals The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has publicly admitted for the first time it was infiltrated by Soviet spies during the Cold War.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZARD)
A cloudy forecast points towards a flattish Q4 Juniper's turned in a Q3 2016 quarter revenue of US$1.285 billion, up 3 per cent on the same period last year, but with GAAP profits down by 13 per cent to $172.4 million.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZAPQ)
Security biz up, content distribution down Cloud computing security has driven a 6 per cent year-on-year revenue growth for Akamai, up from $US551 million last year to $584 million for Q3 2016.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZAMS)
IT Crowd jokes aside, who okayed this mess? If Vulture South wasn't running short-staffed yesterday, we'd have stayed with the Senate Committee hearings inquiring into Australia's Census outage on August 9, and caught this gem:…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1ZAKH)
Salesforce CEO talks diversity, investments and, yes, making the world a better place Marc Benioff is many things. But a whiner is not one of them.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1ZAGP)
'Holy s**t, Tim!' - profits have slipped to a mere 'bonkers' Apple once again saw revenues drop, as 45.5 million iPhone 7 sales were not enough to boost its fourth-quarter earnings.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZADD)
475,000 Americans will get trade-in value plus $5k to $10k compensation Volkswagen's proposed US “Dieselgate†remedies can go into effect, a US judge said, approving the disgraced auto-maker's US$14.7 billion settlement.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1ZAB3)
Overlap dialling lets attacker shut down system Asterisk users need to get busy with a patch.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1ZA7C)
Cambridge researchers envision electronics that thrive on a starvation diet Since 1965, transistors have followed a path predicted by Gordon Moore, becoming more densely packed year after year. The result has been a steady improvement in CPU performance. Batteries, however, haven't advanced at the same pace.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1ZA69)
Intel CEO talks teamwork, not reading books and white privilege Intel CEO Brian Krzanich doesn't read books.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1ZA55)
Not first-gen Purley in 2017 as we were sorta promised Intel will fab Xeon processors that support 3D XPoint DIMMs in two years, its CEO signaled to analysts on a conference call this month.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1Z9ZK)
Hidden image of product unearthed in latest Sierra Apple has stashed what looks like a photo of its new MacBook Pro – due to be announced this week – in the very latest macOS Sierra update.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1Z9XY)
Sides settle beef over the cost of that DVD player you never use HP says that Panasonic will no longer be a target in its optical drives lawsuit – after the two sides reached a settlement deal.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1Z9S3)
Chocolate Factory has acquired Eyefluence to watch you watch VR Not content to track people's activities online, Google plans to read their minds.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1Z9MV)
Next time, ask for your pint in 'minute straw shapes' A team of researchers has ventured deep into the physics of spilling to uncover why pints of beer splash everywhere but liquid in straws do not when positioned horizontally.…
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by John Leyden on (#1Z9HS)
Phone-sync'd widgets open folks to stalker risk Tracking widgets that you stick on your keys and wallet so you don't lose them are riddled with security vulnerabilities, we're told.…
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