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Who exactly can you let into your system? SAP’s complex and “opaque” licensing conditions means the majority of its users think they are exposed to “incalculable” financial risks when third parties dip into their systems.…

Imagine the trauma of smartphone 'time-to-content delay' It's said that the most stressful situations a human being can suffer are the death of a loved one, divorce, moving house, a major illness and losing your job.…

The nauseating alternative to Pilates While checking out some exercise options in inner London, as you do, we stumbled across a class devoted to resistance stretching, and whatever on God's green earth that is, its website URL suggests you'd be well advised to have a bucket handy.…

May the Force Touch be with you Microsoft could have brought a Lumia phone that responded to Jedi-like hand gestures to market a year before Apple brought out its 3D Touch feature.…

You have 11 days left to save money on finding out...early bird expires soon Reg Events We’re crossing off the days until the early bird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle London closes, so if you want to hear from the likes of Etsy’s Katherine Daniels, and save hundreds into the bargain, you should really click now.…

Months into campaign to get everyone else to upgrade UK banking organisation Bacs is running a cryptographically obsolete website despite telling everyone else to upgrade before a June deadline.…

60 cents to run OCR on 1,000 images. Not bad Google has released a beta of its Cloud Vision API, allowing developers to submit images to its machine learning models for automated content analysis.…

Vendor lock-in be damned, thunders Boyan Ivanov Interview We interviewed Storpool CEO Boyan Ivanov, who thinks all-flash arrays are missing the point these days. Storage is broken and needs a new concept to fix it.…

What side are you on, anyway? Something for the Weekend, Sir? A report has arrived in my email inbox, claiming to provide information on “the paperless office”. Instinctively, I check the calendar. No, it isn’t 1985. Perhaps I misread the subject line? Nope. There it is: “the paperless office”.…

Reg man talks digital economy, creeping existential unease Andrew at Large At the Battle of Ideas Festival at the Barbican last year, Claire Fox chaired a panel titled: “Is Technology Limiting Our Humanity?”, and invited me to take part. Panelists could give a seven-minute introduction.…

Massive data processing deserves a spot of warpaint SAP has bought a data presentation specialist to paint its data feeds in a shade more like Salesforce.…

AirDroid grounded. Get patching, fanbois Flaws in a widely used Android device manager app leave users at risk of phone data hijacking and malicious code execution unless they update their smartphones, security researchers warn.…

Plus you need new metrics. Chin up, let's get this sorted If you want a brief summary of DevOps, it goes like this: a lot of those who claim to be implementing DevOps aren't getting it right. And British companies are doing worse than their peers abroad.…

What's worse: Text editors? Or a colossal carnivore outside the office? On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' recollections of romps through the delights of help desk and on-site work.…

Corrections Minister won't ask guards to don gloves and go where he won't to retrieve it An inmate of an Australian jail is on hunger strike in order to retain possession of a mobile phone he's kept inside his anus for up to a week.…

Seriously, this is how NASA is explaining canyons on Pluto's moon Charon NASA is now pretty confident its theory that Pluto's moon Charon split apart because of an internal ocean is right.…

Android gaming service moves to its own ID scheme, but privacy policy looks the same Google's failed social network Google+ has received another vote of no-confidence, this time from Google.…

Online court would allow better access to litigants, says expert An ambitious new report proposes digitising all court processes in England and Wales within four years - but this, as the report itself recognises, will require significant behavioural changes from practitioners if it is to come to fruition.…

Does anyone in the tech industry think the FBI's iPhone crack request is sensible? Silicon Valley heavyweights Facebook and Twitter have rallied behind Apple in its privacy dispute with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).…

Current makes polymer change shape POW! See the vid BLAM! Scientists at the University of Southampton and Imperial College London have developed a wing made from polymers that flex when current is supplied, which could seriously increase the flight time of small drones by mimicking nature.…

Hey, Mike D! How does this sit with VxRack, EVO:SDDC, Vscale and your own G5? EMC spent the early part of this week fleshing out its converged systems range. And Dell will spend next week doing the same.…

100Gbps of network-grooming power advanced as enough for thrusting LTE operators Citrix thinks carriers like the idea of network function virtualisation (NFV) but aren't ready to go there in one giant leap, so is offering its own wares as able to deliver a comparable experience.…

They won't be giants, despite being They Might Be Giant's music-as-a-service provider Music distribution service Drip.fm is closing.…

PCI DSS version 3.2 will land in March or April and be 2016's only update The PCI Security Standards Council is inching towards a “March/April timeframe” release of version 3.2 of the PCI DSS standard and says it will…

Demand for 'programmable cloud' gear amid legal battle with Netzilla Arista Networks has topped analyst expectations by posting a 40 per cent revenue jump in its latest quarterly returns.…

Tool tells companies where to spend insurance bucks A company spun out of MIT's research labs says it has developed analytics software that pores over employees' health insurance claims and tells bosses how to adjust their plans.…

iPhone unlock-gate: Day 2 Analysis Public opinion over the judicial demand that Apple create a version of its mobile operating system for the FBI – dubbed FBiOS – appears to have landed firmly against the Feds.…

Modern antivirus: Easily crackable password, lets malware gain admin privileges Google's Project Zero has found yet another blunder in Comodo's internet "security" software – a VNC server enabled by default with a predictable password.…

Cap'n Carney plays the waiting game Flat is as flat does ... Brocade is motoring steadily along while hoping for a gear shift from 5G mobile broadband.…

And everyone in the world agrees … oh wait, not everyone US broadband watchdog the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has approved a proposal Thursday to put an end to the closed cable box rental – aka the biggest rip-off in America.…

But rig builder will avoid coughing up full settlement Butterfly Labs has been told to cough up $38.6m after it was accused of taking orders for Bitcoin mining machines and – rather than shipping the equipment – using the gear to generate piles of cyber-currency for itself.…

No, not the FBI thing – this is a fix for 'Error 53' bricked mobes Apple has issued a new build of iOS that restores iPhones bricked after having third-party repairs.…

Infinit does for file boxes what virtual SANs do for SANs (Say that after a couple of martinis) Startup Infinit has software running in servers that can aggregate local storage and public cloud storage into a virtual filer.…

Into the wild Azure yonder Ansible has celebrated its integration into Red Hat by outlining ambitious plans for integration into Windows environments.…

Software defined storage folk: No more hiving off migrated data Software-defined storage firm Caringo has improved its search and file system integration with the eighth release of its Swarm object storage software.…

Take that, Ubuntu Red Hat’s ramping up the pressure on Ubuntu by going deep on another cloud provider’s platform.…

Acquisition brings its creepy 'patient lives' total to 300 million IBM is to shell out big again, this time on Truven Health Analytics, a health data firm, for a whopping $2.6bn. According to its canned statement, this brings the number of, er, "patient lives" represented in its health cloud to 300 million.…

Threat information as visual story lines Lessons from building the threat intelligence platform for the Israeli Defence Force form the technical foundations of a new security startup called Siemplify.…

Everything else still goes Voting for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest has undergone its biggest overhaul in nearly 40 years.…

Which one is right? It’s all about secondary storage these days. We are talking about a market that is estimated to grab 80 to 90 per cent of the overall capacity installed and 40/50 per cent of the total storage expenditure in a few years from now. Tellingly, their $/GB is much lower than for primary storage).…

But where's Huawei? Ansible claimed to cast its wings over the entire systems landscape today, as it brought automation of network infrastructure into its core platform.…

Imation reaches into storage product history Nexsan, the sole remaining real storage business inside the shell remnants of Imation, has resurrected its SATABeast array with a 4U shelf containing sixty 8TB 7,200rpm disk drives – 480TB in total.…

£160k raised in three days for ZX Spectrum Vega+ console Sir Clive Sinclair has in just three days tin-rattled his way to over £160,000 towards production of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+, described breathlessly as "the world’s only hand-held LCD games console with 1,000 licensed games inside that can also connect to your TV!!".…

The truth is...it's complicated Comment VMware virtual machines need storage and VVOLs (Virtual Volumes) are a way of automating this process, avoiding delay as VMware admins talk to storage admins to get storage provisioned. Virtually all storage array vendors support VVOLs yet the facility has not been taken up by users’ data centres in any large scale. This poses the obvious question; why not?…

Money out of the marketing budget? And so IBM Watson's massive marketing push continues: this time with the launch of a $5m (£3.4m) prize in an artificial intelligence competition that will run until 2020. Contenders – or perhaps their 'bots – will have to battle it out at a mainstage event at IBM's annual conference before the winner pockets their prize at the annual TED talk-fest.…

Reg man gives talk on displacement anxiety Andrew at Large At the Battle of Ideas Festival at the Barbican last year, Claire Fox chaired a panel titled "Is Technology Limiting Our Humanity?", and invited me to take part. Panelists could give a seven-minute introduction.…

Say it with us: 'transformation' NetApp earned profits of $153m in its latest quarter, good, but revenues of only $1.39bn, bad; its mid-point estimate a quarter ago was $1.45bn, making it quite an undershoot.…

Tumbleweed invasion engulfs rural Wangaratta The good burghers of Wangaratta in rural Victoria are battling to reclaim their town from a nasty "hairy panic" attack which has seen their homes engulfed by an invading army of massed tumbleweed.…

The Riversimple Rasa - 250 mpg, but sadly unable to fly A UK startup is banking on a hydrogen-powered automotive future with its "Rasa" - a "revolutionary" vehicle whose production prototype hit the streets earlier this week.…

Patch adds warning label nobody reads More than 26,000 WordPress sites have been enslaved and used in a recent distributed denial-of-service attack campaign using a vulnerability first described in March 2014.…