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It's an IP world now Analysis BlackBerry didn’t show a new phone in New York City at its annual Security Summit last week, and CEO John Chen sounded a bit fed up that the assembled press corps kept asking about phones. But there was enough in his comments to glean how BlackBerry’s device strategy has evolved - and it’s following a familiar path taken by once-mighty Western electronics brands.…

Marissa Meyer says she's proud of what she's done Verizon has today confirmed it will splash out $4.83bn (£3.7bn) buying Yahoo, with the deal expected to close in the first financial quarter of next year.…

Looking for a job on the QT? Well now everybody knows Jobs site Glassdoor accidentally outed hundreds of users seeking employment in pastures new when it despatched an email and failed to use the bcc button.…

Seems to be doing a roaring trade Cable-layer CityFibre has booked a six-fold increase in contracts during its first half of 2016, with £53.8m in the pipeline compared with £8.1m for the same period last year.…

Find the right provider, yes, but before that... ISDN is fast becoming a technology of the past. Today's telcos have networks that bypass traditional telephony signalling technologies for IP networks: the hardest thing they do is present a “legacy” connection such as an analogue line or an ISDN connection to a customer, as layering a non-IP service on an IP network is non-trivial at a technical level.…

Hacking, malware: the numbers Reports of fraud have doubled, according to official statistics – because the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is now including cyber crimes in its figures.…

All well and good but what's with the CFO slot? CA spinout and private equity-owned Arcserve is growing revenues at double digits, and has hired four new execs to sharpen its finance side, spin out more and better products and keep its channel business growing.…

Imagine an Auntie who never forgets Last week the BBC launched a mobile app, called BBC+, delivering “customisable content collections” to your phone or tablet. It’s a personalised service which requires an email address.…

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'Aiming for mediocre speeds is such a British attitude' Tomorrow Ofcom will announce its plans for strengthening Openreach’s independence from BT and creating a more competitive broadband market.…

EU workers, new markets: post-Brexit pressure on May & Co Leaders of many British tech firms were less than thrilled to hear that the UK had voted to leave the European Union. “I was shocked and horrified,” says Kate Craig-Wood, managing director of hosting firm Memset, who we spoke before the June 23 vote. Her comments were echoed by others.…

Script kiddies are doing a terrible job of encryption Two new ransomware efforts have been destroyed by meddling white hats.…

Don't hunt digital animals, hunt Trump's idiocy with hacker-proof Nokia 3100 RSA Asia Activist pop star Sir Bob Geldof hates Pokemon Go, Facebook and Twitter, has never bought anything online, and uses a Nokia 3100 which he says avoids the need for mobile security.…

But the Internet of Things is only working in Fjordland The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released the 2016 edition of its Facts and Figures (PDF) on technology adoption, and among the many data points it contains is an odd concentration of connected “things” in countries with Fjords.…

And then pipe in virtual network functions from all the big bit-movers Verizon has launched the next piece of its seven-year strategy to virtualise its enterprise services, announcing a bunch of multi-vendor virtual security, WAN optimisation, and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) services.…

Give you our Docker image? Sure! No, wait … A bounty-hunter has gone public with a complete howler made by Vine, the six-second-video-loop app Twitter acquired in 2012.…

Million-Euro bug-hunt starts The Apache HTTP server and KeePass password manager are to get a free code audit, courtesy of a pilot European Commission project.…

Facts whack share price, taking the shine off Tokyo launch Investors who bid up Nintendo have punished the company for pointing out the Pokémon Go app is not going to create a cash deluge.…

Carrier becoming the place where 90s media empires go to be recycled into targeted ads Markets are bracing for a Monday puzzle: why on earth does Verizon think it is worth spending US$5bn on Yahoo!?…

So says the semiconductor industry's last ever communal roadmap Without much fanfare, the Semiconductor Industry Association earlier this month published a somewhat-bleak assessment of the future of Moore's Law – and at the same time, called “last drinks” on its decades-old International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).…

Japan's Funai sold 750,000 units last year, but parts are hard to come by so it's quitting Japanese company Funai will stop making VHS devices this month, marking the end of the road for the venerable video tape standard.…

Kate McKenzie 'retires' from Telstra Telstra's chief of operations, Kate McKenzie, has “retired” from the carrier.…

Twin zero days could have seen pr0n users personal stuff sprayed all over the web A trio of hackers have gained remote code execution powers on servers used by adult entertainment outlet Pornhub, using a complex hack that revealed twin zero day flaws in PHP.…

And with Pauline Hanson on the stage, it's a debate the technology industry must lead Australia's newly-elected senator Pauline Hanson has called for a ban on muslim immigration on national security grounds. But her position is ignorant and bigoted because it takes an idea to turn someone to terror and it's now impossible to stop the flow of ideas.…

National Institute for Standards and Technology says tokens, apps should replace TXT America's National Institute for Standards and Technology has advised abandonment of SMS-based two-factor authentication.…

Everything's bigger in Texas … including the fraud, allegedly A former lead systems engineer with a US software development company has been accused of laundering $2.4m (£1.8m) in an IT consulting scheme.…

South Korean electronics giant countersues in patent spat Samsung has filed a countersuit against Huawei in China over allegations of patent infringement.…

If you contributed to the Democrats Jan–May, get identity theft protection now WikiLeaks prides itself on taking on The Man by finding and publishing information that the world's most powerful organizations want to keep hidden.…

Before you buy that Tesla though… The White House has said the US federal government will underwrite loans totaling $4.5bn to expand the use of electric cars.…

Ambitious finance plan looks to bring big bucks World exclusive Dell's ingenious strategy for financing its audacious $67bn acquisition of EMC is a secret no more.…

Peter Thiel – the great contrarian Analysis If ever there was any doubt that billionaire Peter Thiel was a contrarian, he put it to bed last night in a short speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, US.…

Ambitious but doomed UX experiment, I see A never-released Microsoft phone has surfaced, providing a glimpse of how Redmond's designers proposed to evolve touch-based user interfaces.…

Up to fourfold two-socket server memory space boost Diablo Tech's Memory1 128GB DDR4 system memory module is now available, and is claimed to be the highest-capacity system memory on the market.…

We'll start the NVMe over Fabrics FC slaughter, claims firm +Comment Kazan Networks just got $4.5m A-round funding from Intel, Samsung Ventures and Western Digital Corp for its storage array access acceleration technology. So what?…

More tax, no extra benefits. Ta, HMRC IT contractors could bear the brunt of government plans to clamp down on self-employed workers not paying the correct employment taxes - with HMRC targeting 20,000 public sector contractors.…

Volunteers, walk this way Hewlett Packard Enterprise is wielding the jobs axe yet again at Enterprise Services (ES)staff, who are subject to the third round of redundancies in less than a year.…

Some downsides, but most Windows users will be surprised Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer runs out on 29 July 2016, one year after the initial release, and a few days before the Anniversary Update.…

Worried masses cross-check Revelations, Pokedex, take out insurance Pokemon’s potential for precipitating the end of civilization has been starkly highlighted as the world’s major religions begin to take up positions on the game which sees grownups wandering the planet in pursuit of non-existent entities.…

NVMe Fabric adaptor chatter overheard in earnings call InfiniBand and Ethernet adaptor biz Mellanox has storage acceleration SoCs coming to provide faster external array access across NVMe fabrics.…

Blames shonky billing migration Sales at Vodafone in the UK dropped 3.2 per cent in the first quarter of its financial year to €1.84bn (£1.5bn) - with the biz pointing to issues with its new billing system.…

Those backup passwords aren’t for everyone Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Give it to me pleeeese!” she begs, staring longingly into my eyes. “I’m desperate and will do anything.”…

'Half focus is no focus' Oracle has shaken up its sales force to drive cloud business, multiple sources have told The Register.…

Even social studies graduates have better job prospects Computer science graduates continue to top the UK's higher education unemployment rankings, according to the latest figures compiled by Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).…

Reader carried servers onto boats and wrangled dodgy cable to escape Thailand's 2011 floods On-Call If it's Friday morning it must once again be time for On-Call, El Reg's end-of-week meander down memory lane to explore readers' reminiscences of jobs that went bump in the night.…

Startup bosses should move to US when they have viable product Interview A Register story on DDN opening a Paris, France, research centre mentioned difficulties startups face in Europe, and France specifically.…

Why Salesforce needs this stuff when it's outsourced to AWS is anyone's guess Salesforce.com has acquired a startup called Coolan that builds tools “to track and analyze infrastructure reliability for increased uptime and optimized efficiency.”…