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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.…

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.…