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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14RJN)
So are 'real' modular mobes just for hipsters? MWC16 People want a cool product more than they want a bunch of Lego bricks in their pocket. That’s why Alphabet’s intriguing modular project, Project Ara has gone nowhere. But can LG’s expansion slot initiative fare better?…
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by Paul Kunert on (#14RFK)
Arma Partners appointed to find new private equity backer App hosting, co-lo and managed service provider Attenda is coming onto the market for sale in what is already shaping up to be another year of frenzied M&A activity in the UK tech industry.…
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by John Leyden on (#14RDQ)
Backdoored downloads not full extent of problem A hack against Linux Mint over the weekend that meant surfers were invited to download a copy of the open source distro that came contaminated with a backdoor has also affected the organisation’s forums.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#14RBF)
We fondle the expandable smartie MWC16 Hands On LG has announced the G5 smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, attempting to stand out with a modular approach alongside the inevitable VR support.…
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by Lester Haines on (#14R8J)
Record number of applicants for 2017 class NASA has received a record 18,300 applications for its 2017 astronaut class, "almost three times the number of applications received in 2012 for the most recent astronaut class, and far surpassing the previous record of 8,000 in 1978".…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14R77)
ROBO hyer-converged gear music from SimpliVity SimpliVity has an updated hyper-converged OmniStack system, using Cisco UCS servers, for remote sites.…
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by Team Register on (#14R5T)
The highlights and lowlights from Barcelona MWC16 Refresh this page for breaking news from Mobile World Congress 2016.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#14R5W)
Bashton Ltd becomes latest notch on Claranet bedpost Managed services and hosting player Claranet has hoovered up small but perfectly formed AWS channel partner Bashton Ltd for an undisclosed sum.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14R35)
What other wonders will the modern world give to us? SanDisk has introduced an SD flash card for cars, toughening up its standard product to withstand life in the jerky mobile micro data centre hell that is the road warrior's chariot.…
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by Michelle Donegan on (#14R1X)
EE is onside and even admits it's 'too slow' MWC16 Facebook is adding more telco friends as the social media giant launches another initiative, this time called the Telecom Infra Project. It is a collaborative effort to come up with new ways to design and build telecom network infrastructure.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#14R0G)
VR-acebook is social too says Facebook founder MWC16 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg appeared on stage at Samsung's launch for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, proclaiming VR the new social platform; but is that enough to make S7 more than just this year's slightly faster Galaxy?…
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by John Oates on (#14QZA)
Brit diplomats: We support this probe by external bods Exclusive UN investigators have delivered their report into allegations of illegal behaviour at the World Intellectual Property Organisation.…
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by Wireless Watch on (#14QVQ)
Will coexist with device’s existing battery Fuel cell specialist Intelligent Energy has announced that it has signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with “an emerging smartphone OEM†to develop an embedded hydrogen fuel cell for powering smartphones for up to a week.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#14QTH)
Junior clerks' relief as 3 million document reading list trimmed A UK court has approved for the first time the use of predictive coding as a basis for determining which electronic documents are relevant to a dispute.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14QRP)
New API, policies and open source manager added to ward off future stolen creds attacks Hosting outfit Linode has announced a slew of changes to its user procedures after a long analysis of the attack that led to a system-wide password reset in January. It's also determined that the breach was the result of customer credential theft.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14QNG)
But only $50, after you cast Spell of Unbinding and place pages upon Glass of Scanning The owner of venerable role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is offering US$50 for high-quality scans of game documents that have so far rolled saving throws against Spells of Digitisation.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#14QKC)
Reg man Darren Pauli hangs with happy hackers-for-hire Feature Nathan Wakefield made US$250,000 last year. In his second job, finding and reporting bugs to bug bounty programs.…
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by Chris Williams on (#14QGK)
Brit GPU designers place bet on what you'll be buying next year MWC16 Imagination – the Brit chip design house whose GPUs power Apple iPhones and iPads – has come up with another graphics processor: the 8XE. This could well be the brains inside your next telly or car dashboard.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14QEA)
'Admedia' campaign decides the world of WordPress is not enough. Bwaha. Bwahahahaha! The Internet Storm Center (ISC) has spotted 'admedia attacks' breaking out of their original WordPress vectors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14QAN)
Auto-maker recalls cars that might take a nano-nap on the Motorväg Volvo has issued a recall for cars that have buggy software.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14Q3S)
Once the Chinese government OKs the love-in, of course Qualcomm and Lenovo have finished renegotiating their Chinese patent licensing agreement and sent the new document off to the government to be rubber-stamped.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#14PYB)
Absolves cops of blame for fumble-fingered probe, repeats call for Apple to help The United State Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has absolved San Bernardino police of responsibility for changing passwords on the iPhone once used by suspected terror suspect, Syed Rizwan Farook.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14PVZ)
End-of-life is the fifty-first way to leave your lover It looks like Cisco and Citrix are sorting through their respective record collections, with The Borg putting the Citrix-derived NetScaler 1000V products on its end-of-life list.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14PSH)
Redmond looks like it's scared the horses with its PC hardware support changes Microsoft's issued an interesting post in which it says it is making no changes to hardware support for Windows Server.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14PPR)
COMIC SANS has infiltrated the http daemon. Thank Cthulu a patch has been delivered Someone has offered* OpenBSD's maintainers an important peace-of-mind patch for the operating system's HTTP daemon.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14PKB)
Alcatel Submarine sends Lodbrog south from Taiwan to fix PPC-1 Alcatel Submarine Networks has dispatched the cable ship Lodbrog to service the damaged PPC-1 cable that's currently the source of a bandwidth crimp for Australia.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#14PEX)
VR headset in a box MWC 2016 Just ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Alcatel has announced the Idol 4 and 4S smartphones, complete with VR headset in the box, and a Windows 10 2-in-1 tablet/laptop.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#14NWZ)
HP returns to the handheld market HP Inc has unveiled a big bet re-entry into the handheld device market, banking on enterprise’s attachment to the Windows ecosystem to blur the memory of its previous forays and retreats into the space.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#14NGG)
Downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th? Check for infection NOW If you downloaded and installed Linux Mint from the distribution's website over the weekend, your machine has been compromised.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14K5R)
Putting the sales cat among the storage pigeons Happy weekend guys and let us in, or else it's proxy war. On Friday the Clinton Group and Imation, both stockholders of Violin Memory, sent a forceful letter to Violin's Board about the ongoing sale process and a need for dialogue.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14K1M)
Now it just has to convince the other IoT foundations A new non-profit foundation dedicated to creating open standards for the Internet of Things (IoT) has launched.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14JGF)
I was just researching BDSM/Punishment Porn/German sluts, claims randy official A German mayor has been left red faced after he posted online a screenshot of his browser without noticing open window tabs with adult material.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14JBF)
Dinky little number – but you will find better value Review We've held off reviewing the third OnePlus phone, the OnePlus X, until you could actually buy it without an elusive invitation.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14HX1)
Glibc bug – dubbed Skeleton Key – could persist in caches Exclusive Dan Kaminsky, the man who could have broken DNS but fixed it instead, is warning that the glibc bug found by Red Hat and Google could be much worse than anyone has predicted.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14HGP)
Study finds men get higher prices in cyber-auctions It's no secret that women tend to be paid less than men across many professions, and now researchers say the pay gap even extends to goods sold online.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14HFW)
We'll open the bidding with three dollars and a packet of chips Yahoo! has officially called in the bankers to explore "strategic alternatives" for the company; in other words trying to find someone to buy up the non-Alibaba side of the business.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14HA4)
Don't let crooks plunder your paycheck … that's our job, says IRS The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has put Americans on red alert following a massive increase in reports of phishing and malware attacks targeting taxpayers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14H5A)
FBI: It's a small, small world (after all) A man sought by the FBI for his alleged involvement in an Anonymous hacking campaign has been arrested after being rescued at sea.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14H1J)
The Hawk promises to take flight into space Updated Virgin Galactic is set to unveil its new space plane on Friday, 16 months after the last one crashed in the Mojave Desert.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14H0G)
CLEANR rides the augmented reality gravy train Satire A radical augmented reality (AR) solution to the appalling problem of tech bros having to see people less fortunate than themselves on the streets of San Francisco has been launched.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14GYX)
Dial-a-ride upstart says its main rival is using courts to plunder trade secrets Lyft has asked a judge to block taxi app rival Uber from using the courts to cunningly extract information about its operations.…
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by Chris Williams on (#14GS5)
Uncle Sam says Cupertino is only thinking about its marketing and PR strategy PDF The US Department of Justice has today filed a motion compelling Apple to comply with a court order to help the FBI break into a killer's iPhone.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14G8T)
Fifty per cent speed booster adds IOPS X-IO has upgraded its iglu blaze products from the 700 to the 800 series and introduced a 50 per cent faster iglu blaze fx controller.…
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by John Leyden on (#14G7C)
A Swiss Army knife for mobile ne'er do wells Miscreants have crafted a new attack designed to steal banking credentials and credit card information via phishing pages crafted to mimic Google Play’s payment interface.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14G2T)
Official: app developers ensnared in network blocks Analysis It’s WAR.…
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by Lester Haines on (#14G0M)
Rousing soundtrack for Red Planet jaunt Every proper space mission deserves a full orchestral soundtrack, so we're pleased to report that the European Space Agency (ESA) has delivered in spades for its short vid overview of the forthcoming ExoMars mission.…
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by Lester Haines on (#14FWQ)
A: 463, according to the BBC The BBC has made an audacious if flawed bid to establish the "coachload of terrorists" as a standard for quantifying arms caches.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14FV6)
Whoops. Bang goes that convenient greenie myth Myth-busting archaeologist Carl Lipo has dealt another blow to the idea that indigenous Easter Islanders committed "ecocide" in the 19th Century.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#14FQA)
Google shield for millions? Three UK and Three Italia are to offer network-level ad-blocking software from startup Shine Technologies to their customers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14FNC)
No, not for Sony notebooks. VMware application IO filtering PrimaryIO, once known as CacheBox, has the first VAIO-integrated caching software to the market to speed database apps in vSphere 6.…
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