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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1X7SH)
$49 headphones. $79 sensor. $199 controller ... Bankrolling Trump trolls costs a lot, yo Excited gamers are going to have to dig even deeper if they want to use the new Oculus Rift virtual reality system.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X7R1)
Chocolate Factory hit with class-action suit over hiring and firing of older Googlers Google has been hit with a class-action lawsuit accusing the ad giant of discriminating against older employees.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1X73N)
Step 1: Set up a PO box in Dubai, Step 2: Send empty boxes, Step 3: Reclaim VAT A businessman from Essex, UK, has been jailed for six years for claiming back sales tax on computer memory sold overseas in a deception also known at carousel fraud.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X73P)
Warning from AWS and Unisys folk IPExpo “Picking a secure cloud partner is not as trivial as it may seem. Don't assume that because the cloud is secure, your business within the cloud is secure,†Unisys’ chief trust officer Tom Patterson said today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X71J)
Plus: Raft of product updates including HyperFlex support Commvault’s data protection and management software has been enhanced and is going to support HyperFlex, Cisco’s hyper-converged infrastructure appliance built with OEM’d Springpath software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X6WD)
Says man peddling DC cooling tech - but he has a point IPExpo The Internet of Things will put more demand upon mid-range and co-lo data centres, according to the marketing manager of data centre kit firm Minkels.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X6T6)
Tom Patterson talks the white and fluffy stuff IPExpo Everyone’s starting to believe in public cloud but security remains an uphill battle, Unisys’ chief trust officer Tom Patterson told The Register this morning.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X6MC)
Promises end-to-end crypto Internet service provide GMX claims to have overcome the notorious usability problems of PGP with the launch of a new email service that offers end-to-end encryption.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X6J3)
Infindat, unsurprisingly, says its shoe fits and you should wear it Case study If the shoe fits then wear it; it’s the motto you'd expect a footwear retailer to do business by. Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW), a 400-outlet US shoe chain, applied that advice when its main storage array, a VMAX we are told, failed to deliver data fast enough and began costing too much. It bought an InfiniBox instead and the array problems went away.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1X6EF)
Group cultivating Bitcoin's serious cousin LinuxCon, Berlin Jim Zemlin raises an eyebrow when I say Hyperledger is rather outside Linux Foundation's usual domain, being a bit, er, consumery.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X6CT)
Anti-doping body WADA says it ain't so Hackers may have doctored athletes’ data prior to leaking it, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X6B2)
Einstein AI features could be long-term prospect Salesforce.com Marc Benioff took to the stage in San Francisco yesterday, using his Dreamforce 2016 keynote address to tout the benefits of his company's Einstein campaign.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#1X673)
Kid thought he'd buy mansion with revenue from his YouTube vids A child in Spain has received a bill of €100,000 from Google after confusing its AdWords and AdSense services.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X675)
All change in the object storage world Cloudian has appointed a new chief marketing officer - Jon Toor. Paul Turner, who was Cloudian’s CMO and recently became chief product officer, is moving on.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1X642)
Not so 'super committed' now? Fujitsu has become the latest sub-scale PC maker to consider exiting the client market amid ongoing talks with potential buyers including Lenovo.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X643)
Blinkenlights won't save you, user, piggyback is going for broke Mac malware could piggy-back on your legitimate webcam sessions - yep, the ones you've initiated - to locally record you without detection, a leading security researcher warns.…
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Pity, as Digital Economy Bill means it's about to get hold of even more.. UK citizens have little faith in the government's ability to securely handle their private data - according to a wide-ranging survey which echoes findings by the National Audit Office.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X602)
Sales are up, CA. Sure you made the right decision? Private equity-owned backup and DR house Arcserve has got itself a second generation UDP 8000 appliance sitting above the existing UDP 7000 series with more performance and capacity.…
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by John Leyden on (#1X5WQ)
At least according to (indie) experts Independent security experts have downplayed concerns about a reported flaw in iOS 10 private browsing.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#1X5VB)
Don't just accept the defaults and hope for the best Wherever you look there's yet another SME or enterprise migrating to Office 365. This says a lot for the attractiveness of cloud-based office suites, and perhaps it also says something about the attractiveness of letting someone else look after one's SharePoint and Exchange servers rather than having to fight with their maintenance and upkeep internally.…
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Quick, the taxman is outside, wire us $60k! US victims targeted, possibly UK too More than 500 call centre staff have been detained by police in India, after allegedly threatening US citizens and siphoning off their money.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1X5P4)
US cities see major crash in data speeds. But that's not the whole story... US cities have seen a massive crash in LTE data speeds this year - but consumers haven’t noticed as latencies are getting lower.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#1X5JS)
Not clear which UK goods and service will benefit from prospective new trade deal The UK will trigger Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, triggering the formal two-year Brexit negotiation process, by the end of March 2017, the prime minister has announced.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#1X5GW)
Oh and the cool parts of the PCI-DSS standard are on pages 117-118... Security-related certifications such as ISO 27001 and, more particularly, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), have stringent requirements regarding the controls on infrastructure, how data is routed and stored around it, and so on.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X5D6)
Report says VMware and Amazon will announce alliance next week VMware and Amazon Web Services are reportedly about to stage a public display of affection.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X5C8)
Chandra spies orphan X-ray source Boffins analysing old Chandra x-ray telescope data have spotted a rarity indeed: an X-ray source that seems to be a black hole, but without a galaxy to surround it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X590)
Plans own European data centre for cloudy VM failover from new all-flash rack-mount NAS Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) vendor Synology is about to pick fights with several far larger competitors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X585)
Not by much and we know mass enterprise adoption is still to come Microsoft may have used its Ignite conference to trumpet Windows 10 now running on 400 million devices, but the operating system's market share went backwards in September according to two of three traffic-watchers we track each month.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1X54Q)
Established enterprise players are coining it, with hardly a white-box vendor in sight World spent US$7.7b on cloud in Q2, and that was during a soon-to-end lull in construction of hyperscale data centres.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X51R)
In theory this should mean two-day waits for sat snaps are a thing of the past Geo-geeks rejoice (and, if you're in a country that has such things, pray for your download allowance): Google is now hosting Landsat and Sentinel-2 data on its public cloud.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X4Y3)
White box is putting too much of the market in merchant silicon hands (and not enough in ours) Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim has looked at where the world of “white box†merchant silicon is going, and doesn't seem to like it much.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X4VS)
Two year consultation ditched Look out, Australia: the government wants to turn the Triple-Zero emergency call service into a fully-agile, IP-enabled multimedia extravaganza.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X4TY)
Nexus switch owners, pay attention Cisco's ongoing fix-all-the-things effort has emitted its regular weekly round of patches – and some, like in the NS-OX operating system that powers a bunch of its switches, deserve your attention.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X4RV)
Filing tells NSA exactly where to send cable-sniffing divers The Hawaiki Cable, which would create trans-Pacific competition for those shipping bits across the ocean to Australia and New Zealand, plans to get its Australian landing in place by August 2017.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X4Q8)
Traffic-stopping hack could mean six years inside under Indonesian 'Immoral act' law Indonesian police have arrested an “IT expert†in South Jakarta after he reconfigured a giant LED video screen to show porn.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1X4MN)
Fine, go ahead, cyber-crook – cyber-steal my muffin cyber-recipe Online security for the general public is just too much bother. According to a study released on Tuesday by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and published in IEEE's IT Professional, people are overwhelmed with messages about online perils and have just given up.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1X4JB)
Successful escape capsule test and dual landing Vid + pic The fifth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket saw a successful blast-off for the crew capsule, as the company simulated an emergency escape for future crews.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#1X4HE)
Cupertino's stingy communications strategy stops anyone from being sure Comment For over a year, Apple's software has been the subject of more derision than might be expected for a company of its size.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1X4CZ)
Hey Cortana: It's all about the syllables Analysis One of the oddest things about this week's Google hardware launch was to constantly hear the same phrase over and over again from everyone in the same room: "OK Google."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1X45E)
Finally, something that crosses the political divide Australia's famous two-party divide doesn't apply to our attitude towards the Internet: nearly everybody thinks the Internet is an essential service.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1X43A)
When smart things go wrong Hands-on "I thought it was supposed to talk and tell us when the battery was low," my wife said. In retrospect, that was the first sign that all was not well with the Nest Protect smoke and CO detector.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1X421)
Flammable Sammy could bring about another recall A replacement – and supposedly non-exploding – Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire on a crowded aircraft today, we're told.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1X3ZC)
Pixel emerges as the One True 'Droid Comment This year’s bid by Google to fill your home with its tat collapsed like a soufflé yesterday – but at least one part will have a huge impact. In the phone world, the impact of its Pixel brand on its partners will be huge.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1X3Y3)
Bloke, 51, worked at Snowden's old haunt Booz Allen An American who worked at the same intelligence contractor as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been charged with the theft of classified documents.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1X3QR)
Purple Palace twists words to wriggle out of its surveillance hell Updated Almost 24 hours after refusing to deny allegations that it allowed US intelligence free reign on its email systems, Yahoo! has issued a carefully worded non-denial.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X3MR)
Another set of terrifyingly Orwellian use cases IPExpo Siloed databases will be the downfall of your Internet of Things venture, warned Avaya’s chief technologist Jean Turgeon on stage at IPExpo Europe today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#1X34Y)
For when you really fancy poring through that 'hidden' folder IPExpo Yorkshire-based "IT solutions" firm Oriium was hawking its CX:inSync spy-on-your-employees platform at ITExpo Europe today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1X313)
Performance analytics make this fast array go even faster Big iron array vendor Infinidat has made its third major software release, adding compression, baked-in iSCSI support and enhanced array analytics.…
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'Yes, but what does that actually mean?' ask alt-nets UK Prime Minister Theresa May has suggested her government could intervene in failing markets, such as rural broadband.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1X2T6)
New light on licensing plans Interview BlackBerry says it won’t license its brand and security hardened Android “to any Tom Dick and Harry†as it tries to maintain the value of its brand.…
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