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Cognitive computing is a thing, thinks Intel Intel's slung some spare silver at Saffron, a cognitive computing business with customers in aerospace, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing.…

IoT ops will need a network command centre, new thinking and old-school paranoia When the boss comes and asks you if you're ready to do something with the Internet of Things thing she or he read about in an airline magazine, prepare to give them a very, very long list of things you'll need to do in order to get ready for the magical new world of measuring everything everywhere all the time.…

Not really, says the document he was launching Blood will flow in the streets, human entrails will adorn our flagpoles, and zombies are on the way to eat our brains, according to one of the architects of fortress Australia.…

Nine Xen fixes due to land, but don't panic: cloudy users have them already The Xen Project will release nine patches on Thursday.…

Yes, we made money. No, you can't know why Broadcom has pleased investors, turning in Q3 financials that saw its profit rise in the face of falling revenue.…

Borg borgs Borg-backed startup Cisco-backed database and analytics newcomer ParStream is being re-assimilated, with the Borg announcing it's going to buy the "big data analytics" company (as it describes itself).…

Military-grade electronics shipped to the Motherland, breaking export rules Two men and a woman have been found guilty in the US of illegally peddling electronics to Russian military and spies.…

FAA gets another license to delay until too late Mega-retailer Walmart has reportedly asked America's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for permission to test out the use of drones for picking up and dropping off goods.…

Four loopholes spark alarm Netflix, Reddit, Tumblr, Kickstarter and other tech companies, as well as the creator of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, are urging European politicians not to vote in favor of net neutrality regulations on Tuesday.…

Cassini craft will buzz natural satellite to sample polar liquid jets Vid NASA is just days away from a flyby in which its Cassini space probe will fly through liquid plumes on Saturn's moon Enceladus.…

1.8Gbps over copper trials show Turnbull's multi-technology-mix is sensible Last week, BT and Alcatel Lucent let it be know that their experimental broadband-over-copper technology XG.fast had achieved 1.8 gigabits per second over a 100m copper strand.…

Rest of the world: not so much US watchdog the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has signed an agreement with seven countries to share cross-border information relating to privacy.…

Long-range weather report cloudy for enterprise Two companies will own 80 per cent of the software-as-a-service market by 2025 and one of them will be Oracle, the firm's co-CEO Mark Hurd has predicted.…

Police swoop on home in Northern Ireland following 'sophisticated cyberattack' A 15-year-old boy has been arrested by police probing the hacking of Brit ISP TalkTalk.…

We'll make a fair bit of it this weekend on a charity bike ride What would you give to create Vulture sweat? We're hoping you'll give a few dollars because this is a very good cause.…

Alarm bells going off after sensitive financial info stored in plaintext Lawyers have taken issue with claims by TalkTalk boss Dido Harding that the telco was under no legal obligation to encrypt customers' sensitive data.…

Default-on Wi-Fi Assist accused of burning through people's monthly download limits Apple is being sued over an iOS 9 feature that allegedly gobbled its way through people's monthly mobile data plans.…

Lenovo has a plan It sounds like a Facebook tribute, but “Zuk” is one of the more significant smartphone ventures to launch this year. It's another sign that Chinese manufacturers are threatening to leave high-priced big-brand flagships stranded.…

Citizen analysts and Excel junkies please take note IBM has made its planned Apache Spark service available on its Bluemix cloud platform.…

No CEO and no new strategy yet at headless company With three straight quarters of revenue declines QLogic still has to articulate a product strategy and start searching for a new CEO, leading to thoughts that the board is looking to sell the business.…

Telco confirms past and present SMBs hit by breach TalkTalk has confirmed that its business customers may also have been affected by the attack on its systems last week.…

So many cases have a common theme. It's the name 'Google' Google's parent company Alphabet could face more competition charges in Brussels, antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager has signalled.…

Aggressive pricing masks consolidation of UK airwaves Comment Ofcom has announced its plans for the promised auction of 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz spectrum. And it’s “steady as she goes”.…

Erm, we think you mean SQL injection, Dido TalkTalk is continuing to confuse experts with its latest assessment of the root cause of a high profile breach on its systems last week, which may have exposed the bank details including bank information of up to four million customers.…

Not for the big boys or small Hyperconvergence is a term that's being bandied about all over the place. Whatis.com tells us that it's “a type of infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies from scratch in a commodity hardware box supported by a single vendor”.…

Processed meat added to WHO's 'carcinogenic to humans' list As predicted last week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans".…

'Many of us may be paying for one thing, and getting another,' says Big Apple's AG An investigation has been launched by New York's attorney general to determine whether giant ISPs Time Warner Cable, Verizon and Cablevision have misled customers on broadband speeds.…

Solutions remain immature, but well worth a look We usually think about primary storage as something close to compute resources (no matter if they're on-premises or on the cloud) while cloud storage is something that we can access, more or less, from everywhere ... but things are becoming a little fuzzy.…

Staff to be relocated as prime contractor Fujitsu favours HGS Capita has been booted off a £500m deal with Fujitsu to supply a broadband network to the Post Office, following reports of underperformance by the outsourcer.…

Gaze upon this extra hot aluminium action Vid In case you've been wondering, like you do, just what happens if you pour bromine on an iPhone 6S, the Daily Telegraph reports on a vid which shows the Jesus mobe "bursting into flames" when doused in the malodorous element.…

Entering the end-point protection game Dell is radically strengthening its AppAssure product with expanded functionality, rebranding, and an expansion into the end-point protection arena.…

First bankers to use Zuck biz platform RBS has inked a deal with Facebook to allow its 100,000 bank employees to use the free content ad network's Facebook at Work product.…

He's not part of new cloudy venture with EMC VMware enterprise veep, board member and cloud czar Bill Fathers will not be part of the management family running the recently announced Cloud Services Business joint venture with EMC.…

Triumphal icing or desperate measure to boost the quarter? Pure Storage is offering a free flash array to new customers who take out a support contract.…

Maybe little sense duking it out in the budget volume segment Analysis Despite focusing exclusively on budget phones in 2015, Microsoft's Lumia revenues fell ... a lot. Year-on-year revenue declined 54 per cent in full year Q1 2015.…

It's a tall order Analysis “Android Security” sounds like an oxymoron, perhaps the biggest since “friendly fire”. So what’s BlackBerry, which has forged a reputation on enterprise security, thinking with the new Priv device?…

Cool Texas dude is just your average billionaire Profile This is the way of it: you're sitting there, at a table in a general meeting room at the Dell World event in Austin, talking to a distant colleague about what happened to Don, did I know Liem had moved to such and such an office, when an ordinary-looking guy comes over and sits down at the same table, saying: "How's it going Chris?"…

Meanwhile things heat up between Vodafone and Virgin Media UK daddy A simple statement this week leaked to Bloomberg that T-Mobile Netherlands is about to be put up for sale, uncovers a wealth of potential intent from all quarters. Immediately everyone is guessing who might buy it; our question is what does this allow to happen after that sale has gone through?…

Morality? We've heard of it! Comment On Sunday morning, embattled TalkTalk boss Dido Harding crassly stated that her company was under no legal obligation to encrypt customers' sensitive data.…

Mobe-makers just can't be bothered keeping Google-spawn up to date Good, but not good enough: that's the verdict of a bunch of researchers who checked out the security model that Google's applied to Android since the Lollipop 5.0 release.…

We fixed all those cloudy containers, says Google, twice! Containers are so hot right now. So hot that they've just copped their very own cloud outage. And not just an outage but an imperfectly fixed outage.…

Two steps forward, one step 0-day hack Ruxcon Accomplished Google hacker James Forshaw has given Windows 10 a slight security tick of approval, badging the platform as two-steps-forward, one-step-back affair when compared to version 8.1.…

Accounting company Xero spreads fear-o with password warning SNAFU Online accounting enfant terrible Xero has apologised for telling too many people to change their passwords, when they didn't need to change their passwords even though it wouldn't hurt them to change their passwords.…

Our 'fishing trawler' dropped that 'anchor' right on your internet backbone? So soz! In what sounds like a return to the Cold War Era, United States defense types are warily watching Russian submarines cruising around its own – and other countries' – submarine cables.…

Cisco, Intel, IBM and HP are bridging virtualisation and the software-defined data centre “Composable infrastructure” is a term you're about to start hearing a lot more, and the good news is that while it is marketing jargon behind the shiny is pleasing advances in server design that will advance server virtualisation and private clouds.…

Lord Larry says AWS, not Big Blue, is his real competition now Larry Ellison has dismissed his two historic competitors, IBM and SAP as "nowhere in the cloud," and used Sunday night's OpenWorld keynote to show off products and services designed to bury Big Blue and the HANA heroes.…

Home lab admins, this one's for you, by the hour Nutanix will shortly make its Community Edition software available in the cloud.…

Software licences that leave vendors in control cited as fine reason to hand over evidence Apple's battle to avoid handing over user data to the US government has taken an unwelcome turn, with the Feds claiming in court that Cupertino's license agreement gives it the right to do what the government tells it.…