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LastPass owner brags about $1bn-a-year sales LogMeIn has effectively taken over Citrix's unwanted GoTo business.…

US peeps now get more control over tracking and remote wipes Some of the largest smartphone vendors and mobile carriers in the US say they have hit a milestone in the use of privacy-friendly anti-theft tools.…

Yahoo! is! going! to! love! it! here! Fresh from its $4.8bn acquisition of Yahoo!, Verizon says its sales dropped five per cent year-on-year in its latest quarter, the three months to the end of June.…

She's built like an E5 but handles like an E7 Just because Intel doesn’t make a lot of noise about a product does not mean that it is not important for the company. Rather, it is a gauge of relative importance, and with such a broad and deep portfolio of chips, not everything can be cause for rolling out the red carpet.…

Cisco cybersecurity report points to dangers ahead Organizations are unprepared for future strains of more sophisticated ransomware, a report by Cisco warns.…

While baking in extra security BlackBerry today took the wraps off its first phone of the year, the cryptically named DTEK50. As rumoured, BlackBerry has based its second Android phone on a reference design from TCL, which owns Alcatel, and "security hardened" it with BlackBerry's Android.…

KeySniffer – does what it says on the tin Millions of low-cost wireless keyboards are susceptible to a vulnerability that reveals private data to hackers in clear text.…

A million here, a couple of million there Commvault has sustained its recovery for a third quarter although it has recorded a loss after a much smaller income tax benefit was applied than a year ago.…

Nottingham's cloning success not usual, though Scientists working on a long-term study of the world’s first cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, have reported that cloned sheep age normally in a paper published today in Nature Communications.…

Plans for 2 million FTTP connections in next four years 'not enough' Sharon White, the boss of UK comms watchdog Ofcom, hopes plans to legally separate Openreach from BT will force it to increase its investment of two million fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) connections over the next four years.…

Does hyperconverger pass the say-it-5-times-fast test? Gridstore has gone ahead and bought DCHQ.…

Smithsonian on lookout for boozy history buff Had enough of tech? Sporting a big or any kind of unlikely looking beard or interestingly dyed hair? El Reg has found the perfect new job where you’ll get paid handsomely to espouse the wonders of trendy beer.…

Global compression and dedupe for faster transfer times File sync and sharer Panzura has announced its new SMARTSync tech, which it says will reduce the amount of info sent between sites in a sync-and-share network and speed sharing.…

Forget AWS (sort of): We've still got skin in the game EMC landed a punch on behalf of tech's old guard after it won a $75m deal to furnish Salesforce with shiny new on-premises storage hardware, sources have claimed.…

'Don't worry we never change your passwords.' Contact us! Startup tech news blogger TechCrunch appears to have suffered a security breach by online graffiti vandals.…

Disney subsidiary pleads guilty to criminal charges A subsidiary company of Disney has admitted criminal breaches of health and safety laws after a door of the Millennium Falcon almost crushed Harrison Ford to death in a Star Wars film.…

Are you a login-recycling gaming fan? Hackers have gained access to O2 customer data and put it up for sale on the dark web.…

Who needs Windows or an iPad anyway? An imminent update to Jide’s Remix OS, for Android, is the first to be based on Marshmallow 6.0 and a bunch of UI enhancements.…

Here in iCar, iCan only receive, iCan listen to you... A former senior executive at Apple has returned to the company to oversee its secretive but long-rumoured car project, according to reports.…

Ken Claffey clarifies ClusterStor after PR 'no comment' snafu Seagate's ClusterStor arrays do have a future, despite the company's PR side refusing to answer a direct question about them.…

'I cannot buy everything. Or manage everything' ... We need partners – Chen BlackBerry didn't drop any bombshells at its annual Security Summit last week. Unlike previous years, there were no surprise acquisitions or products. But it did conspicuously share the limelight with a number of partners, some of which may make jolly good new owners.…

Handle me with care There has been a slow but steady democratisation of business intelligence (BI) and data science over the years with Excel (and PowerPivot), through introduction of self-service BI and growth of R as the language of choice for statistics.…

Maybe Brits don't need GDPR Comment There are whispers circulating in the aether that if PrivacyShield is deemed adequate for transfers of personal data from the European Union(EU) to the USA, then in a post-Brexit Britain, something akin to PrivacyShield can allow for adequate transfers of personal data to the UK.…

Doubles capacity of its mini NMVe drive to 2TB Seagate has more than doubled the maximum capacity of its Nytro M.2 XM1440 flash card from 980GB to 2TB.…

Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros Stob Hurrah! Summer is at last well under way, so how better to pass the weekends than pulling the curtains on the rainscape, lolling on the sofa and inhaling a few dozen hours of downloaded TV? I am aware that such an introduction sets up certain expectations.…

...kind of (c'mon – you didn't think it would go all the way!) Ofcom has today said Openreach must become a legally separate company from BT – with its own independent board – under plans to reform the former state monopoly's infrastructure division.…

And fail anyway, as will you in 'the year of pointless blockchain projects' says analyst “This is the year of pointless blockchain projects” and anything you build with blockchain will need to be ripped out and replaced within 18 months, according to Gartner fellow Ray Valdes.…

Cross-pollination with boffins helps those who can't tell a daffodil from a daisy Botanists will be positively blooming thanks to Microsoft, which has worked with a team of scientists to create a system to help flower-fanciers identify species in a snap.…

Objective-C code-checker is Redmond's latest attempt to get app devs into WindowsLand Microsoft is pressing ahead with its desire to sweep iOS devs into its embrace, this time offering them a code-testing tool to help them use its Windows Bridge for iOS.…

Account takeover is a pushover Security researcher Scott Helme has turned up a dumb password reset bug in UK energy company Ecotricity's car charging app.…

Users of obscure Motorola-powered micro can finally see Thorin singing about gold 1982-vintage adventure game The Hobbit has been ported to the Dragon 64, 34 years after the program's release.…

European Data Protection Supervisor gives crypto-hawks a thumb in the eye Europe's privacy body has reiterated its pro-privacy, anti-backdoor stance.…

Poison pill filing sparks speculation about aggressive buy-out action A filing in the Securities Exchange Commission has set the hounds running on speculation that Micron Technology is the latest takeover target in the ongoing consolidation of the chip business.…

New Upgrade Analytics tool offers risk-based driver, app assessments Microsoft has offered free lubricant to ease the insertion of Windows 10 across PC fleets.…

Honeyed onions - mmmm .... honions - used to plug the HSDir privacy hole A pair of researchers from Northwestern University are working on a framework to let users identify misbehaving Tor nodes.…

Three years, and hundreds of deaths, after fraud uncovered So-called Advanced Detection Equipment (ADE) used by the Iraqi army to find explosives have been scrapped – more than three years after the devices were proved to be fakes.…

Miami ... Christ A money-laundering case in Florida has unraveled after a judge declared Bitcoins are not a valid form of money.…

'The court cannot help but be troubled by this whole dismal incident' A private investigator hired by Uber potentially broke the law while digging up dirt on someone suing the taxi app biz, a New York judge has ruled. Information gathered by the dodgy sleuth cannot be used in court by Uber, the beak added.…

'Most new customers in nine years' US telco Sprint says it is bringing in new customers by the boatload, despite another quarter in which its losses reached well into nine figures.…

No More Ransom campaign kicks off A joint operation by Europol, the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Intel, and Kaspersky has seized the command and control servers for the Shade ransomware strain and published code that allows anyone hit by the malware to decrypt their files.…

Vestberg pays price Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg has been unceremoniously dumped after another set of disappointing results.…

'We're unable to provide any other information at this time' Amid the looming closure of its Havant facility in the UK, Seagate has nothing to say about the future of ClusterStor, its HPC disk array product line that was engineered there.…

Anti-semitic, Trump-loving Russians battle with Bernie-hating Clinton acolytes It was devastating. Absolutely devastating. It's hard to imagine anyone surviving such a shocking revelation. But they probably will of course. Thanks to their connections, if you know what I mean.…

TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Upset Punters Beloved business-friendly ISP Zen has been suffering an outage for more than four hours today in the UK – and the carrier has no timetable for when service will be restored.…

ClusterStor-developing shop closing down as biz develops new disk tech Seagate is closing down its factory in Havant on the south coast of the UK and axing 327 jobs. The redundancies are part of a renewed focus by the Californian giant on its disk drive technology roadmap to boost revenues and profitability.…

Judgment to be delivered after the summer holidays Lauri Love will not find out whether he will be extradited to the US until September, District Judge Nina Tempia said today at Westminster Magistrates' Court.…

Chipzilla SSD revenues diving while it converts to 3D NAND Analysis Intel's non-volatile memory product revenues are diving as it converts to 3D NAND and waits for XPoint to deliver the goods.…

An embarrassment of all-flash array riches Comment A rumour from last week implied EMC was considering shutting down its XtremIO product line. How likely is it – and is there any basis to EMC taking this direction?…

Dig yourself out of this one, buddy Crooks on Tinder are using online safety as a lure to trick users into unwittingly paying for adult content.…