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Huawei's rise and rise may have been just the beginning China has decreed it will grow several more world-class, multinational enterprise technology vendors by 2025.…

Claims it has has tenants waiting to fill big slabs of bit barns, if lizards allow it Exclusive A startup data centre builder/operator called AirTrunk has applied to build a substantial data centre on the fringes of Melbourne.…

Stickers touted as solution to ban on customers seeing Cupertino's kit Exclusive Staff at EMC who go out into the world to meet customers have been told their Apple Macs aren't allowed to come with them.…

Cloudy with a chance of windfalls Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on a roll after closing a financial quarter in which its operating income more than doubled.…

Still totally reliant on advertising Alphabet, the holding company for Google and the Chocolate Factory's other concerns, has reported strong growth in the second quarter ending June 30, with revenues up 21 per cent from this time last year.…

GPU maker opens wallet to make class-action suit go away Graphics goliath Nvidia has agreed to a settlement that will see it pay $30 to American gamers who purchased its GTX 970 graphics cards and can file a valid claim.…

DNS overlord literally doubled its annual revenue in one day An unnamed organization just paid $135m for the rights to sell ".web" domain names. This is three times the previous record of $45m for .shop, and seven times the average auction price for top-level domains.…

Jury trial beckons as hyper upstart risks business disaster Hyperconverged software biz Springpath has lost an attempt to have SimpliVity's patent infringement case against it thrown out.…

Arab monarchy tries to slam door on privacy tools A royal edict from the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have effectively made it illegal for anyone in the country to use a VPN or secure proxy service.…

It's not even a real software rollout anyway The Ottawa data center housing Phoenix – the Canadian government's bungled payroll system for federal workers – was shut down on Wednesday after smoke was detected inside.…

100/40Mbps services available to 2,300 Perth homes nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has announced its first services delivered over the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) cables formerly owned by Australia's dominant carrier Telstra.…

The long and painful transition is getting there Accessing websites via IPv6 is not only comparable in speed to IPv4, but is actually faster when visiting one in five of the world's most popular sites, according to German researchers.…

You could be one of our brains in a bar After another cracking series of summer lectures, we’re planning our next run of talks, and we want you to help us put them together. So whether you want to take the mike, or know someone we simply must speak to, now’s your chance.…

Background to the embiggened XM1440 explained Seagate’s 2TB XM1440 M.2 NVMe flash drive doubled the previous 960GB maximum capacity and we asked Seagate how that was done.…

Mission aims to find little green men, no less The European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has successfully completed its engine burn and is on track to enter orbit around Mars on 19 October.…

So that $3.69 BEEEEEELION for more adult toys then Lazza? Database titan Larry Ellison’s Oracle is slurping NetSuite - a company he and his family already own a big slice of - for a cool $9.3bn (£7bn) to help him compete better with Salesforce, another firm he part owns.…

Barton Aqueduct – where heavy metal shifts HO Geek's Guide to Britain There are several fine examples of Victorian engineering still working in Blighty. Tower Bridge in London is one of my personal favourites. I was surprised to discover that another was on my doorstep. Well, 4.34km (2.7 miles) from my doorstep to be more accurate.…

Americans arrive late to spoil Swiss acquisition of Premier Farnell Avnet, the American technical component distributor, has come in at the 11th hour to outbid an existing offer for Premier Farnell, distributors of the Raspberry Pi.…

Readin', writin' and a-bit-matic QLC flash primer Quad-level cell (QLC) flash stores 4 bits per NAND cell and is very tricky stuff to use, far trickier than TLC (3 bits/cell) which is harder to user than 2 bits/cell MLC which, you guessed it, is more difficult to use than 1bit/cell SLC. Why is QLC the hardest of all to use?…

App level, OS level, VM level - we break it down for you So. Hybrid cloud. Let's start with a quick definition, courtesy in this case of TechTarget which describes it as: “a cloud computing environment which uses a mixture of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms”. I like this particular definition as it sums it up nicely: note that by “private cloud” we mean an on-premise virtualised server and storage setup.…

Targeting the 'underserved mid-market' pays off nicely Revenues at Sophos were buoyed by the growing threat of ransomware and the like to its target mid-market customer base.…

So cool we're even hosting them at RAF Brize Norton Vladimir Putin's air force is flying strategic reconnaissance missions over the UK. Not only is the Ministry of Defence relaxed about it, they're even hosting the Russians in Oxfordshire. What's this all about?…

Clever, huh? Google’s only major consumer mapping rival, HERE, has dropped Maps from its app name in a bold rebranding exercise. After many hours in the Strategy Boutique, the map apps is now named after the ancient British football chant... Here We Go.…

Weak pound affects sales reporting in Blighty Sales at O2 UK fell by 8.9 per cent to €3.46bn (£2.91bn) for the first half of the year, as customers opted to hang on to their old handsets rather than upgrade.…

Why people matter in open source Open source insider There's an old adage in the open source world – if you don't like it, fork it. This advice, often given in a flippant manner, makes it seem like forking a piece of software is not a big deal.…

Look Ofcom, we're reforming Openreach OK. No need for legal split Sales jumped by 35 per cent for BT's first quarter to £5.7bn, with profit before tax up 16 per cent to £802m - mainly due to its £12.5bn slurp of EE.…

Prefers to avoid legal limbo Hosting provider Skyscape is changing its name to UKCloud, following allegations from Sky that it has infringed the broadcaster's registered trademarks.…

Designing for hyperconvergence hyperconballsups Hyperconvergence is one of those relatively new names for something that many of us having been doing for years: consolidating sprawling infrastructures into tight, largely virtualized setups that vastly reduce the number of devices one has to manage (not to mention the number of things to spend maintenance fees on, and the number of things that can go wrong).…

Might pretend airports favoured by flight sim fans defeat nefarious intent theories? The Australian Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) overseeing the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has confirmed the plane's captain simulated a flight over remote southern reaches of the Indian Ocean.…

Academic licence-holders get new education versions whether they want it or not Microsoft has announced two new cuts of Windows 10, for schools.…

Pikachu, I spoof you! Well, that didn't take long: Pokémon Go players with sore feet and a case of sitzlust* are sending virtual robots out into virtual reality to catch virtual creatures and bring them home.…

Unix? It's got YEARS left in it HPE has told a news outlet in The Netherlands that it's pressing ahead with an Itanium refresh for 2017.…

Leaked voicemail trove includes names and phone numbers from random callers to DNC WikiLeaks has started to promote a subset of the documents retrieved from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as “The DNC recordings”, offering the world 29 MP3 files retrieved from the DNC voice mail system. The Register's crack forensics team can reveal that one of the voice mails may be what experts refer to as “an ass call” and was probably made at a zoological garden.…

Mobileye's new best friends are BMW and Intel, and Elon says he's not worried Automotive motion-sensor outfit Mobileye has announced that it's broken up with 'leccy car-maker Tesla.…

It's up and down like the Assyrian Empire! Or at least rather wobbly Salesforce.com's troubled NA14 instance has had another brownout, by our count the third in recent weeks.…

R: you ready for a top-ten spot? It's no surprise that C and Java share the top two spots in the IEEE Spectrum's latest Interactive Top Programming Languages survey, but R at number five? That's a surprise.…

Class action engineers ways to pull down glass ceiling Qualcomm has settled a gender discrimination lawsuit before it even made it to court.…

Australian governments' liking for data-matching needs more than promises of privacy Australia will conduct a census on August 9th and for the first time will retain name and address details in the data set created by the nationwide data dredge.…

Turns out a simple thing could have saved his life The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report into the Tesla crash that killed Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old Ohio man who was using the car's Autopilot function at the time of his death.…

Verizon to test gear to boost speeds to homes, businesses Verizon will soon test communications gear that can provide next-generation 40Gbps fiber broadband services in America.…

New security system downs sky spies from seven miles away Vid A new joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and California startup Dedrone is selling a security system that can spot drones miles away and knock them out of the sky.…

iPhones' NFC chips sought for own transaction tech, rather than ApplePay alone You can't make it up: the last industry in Australia to enjoy the privileged status of “protected and guaranteed by government”, the banks, want the country's competition regulator to rubber-stamp it acting as a cartel against Apple.…

The Earth moved for all of us but spatial wonks got out of bed and did something about it Geo-boffins are getting ready to nudge Australia to the north, so its national map data agrees with the new world of GPS.…

DoJ says pair exploited web tools to file fake returns Two people have been jailed for their involvement in a scam that exploited the US IRS "Get Transcript" website to defraud the American government.…

And now denies it. But hey: News cycle! In the latest of a series of implausibly appalling statements, Republican presidential nightmare Donald Trump encouraged the Russian government to hack into the servers of US government officials in order to provide him political ammunition against his Democratic rival.…

Device life measured in minutes Microsoft has admitted that the battery problems hitting some Surface Pro 3 owners aren't down to hardware failure, but rather a software issue.…

Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered A former employee of Citibank has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for crippling the bank's internal network.…

Anonymizing tool team concludes investigation and fires two others Web activist Jacob Appelbaum humiliated, intimidated, bullied and frightened numerous people in the internet community and subjected others to "unwanted sexually aggressive behavior."…

You can't get internet there, but Giant Red Spot is clue to 'energy crisis' Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be responsible for stirring an atmospheric hotspot into a frenzy, causing it to be hundreds of degrees warmer than anywhere else on the planet.…