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Major industries expected to splash $2.69trn in 2015, down 3.5% IT spending across every major vertical industry is set to shrink in 2015 and it’s largely down to the relatively robust US dollar.…

No news on people beaming around via excitable Scots Boffins at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), collaborating with Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), have quadrupled the farthest distance quantum information has been "teleported".…

ECJ could upset the whole dang apple cart The top advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said the current agreement between the EU and US is not worth the paper it’s written on .…

Fanbois fit for FBI fixation if they fail to forgive as Feds find who's fingering Francis Pope Francis – who landed in the US on Tuesday to bring salvation to those suffering through Cupertino's malefic advertising – is the subject of considerable cybersecurity concern. We cannot say whether this is a coincidence or not.…

Flogging L-band to someone who might use it is A Good Thing As expected, Ofcom has now rubber-stamped the L-band deal which saw Qualcomm sell a portion of its spectrum to Vodafone and Three, publishing a statement on the matter.…

Mythical (yet important) conversations with The Finance Guy I dislike the term “private cloud". As far as I'm concerned, there's really no difference between what I'd call a “traditional” homespun virtualised infrastructure and what they call “private cloud” these days.…

Into the deep freeze you go, BB10 BlackBerry’s phone ambitions are diminishing more than ever as the former smartphone giant prepares to launch its first pure Android phone.…

Join the discussion at QEII Centre London, Oct 13-15 Promo Need to know more about the role of biometrics in identity management? Make sure you sign up for Biometrics 2015, three days of interactive discussion and debate in the heart of London [13-15 October 2015].…

Tomorrow we ride for hyper-converged patent infringement justice Hyper-converged startup SimpliVity is suing hyper-converged startup Springpath for allegedly wrongfully using its patented technology.…

And possibly Africa's only real source of economic growth Worstall on Wednesday I have mentioned before around here that the mobile phone seems to be, in terms of reducing poverty, the finest invention humanity has ever come up with.…

At least Volkswagen isn't trying to hide their DoJ grilling

Data loss prevention doesn't work – you need data transfer visibility Comment For Code42, the answer to the universe and everything is getting more interesting as it moves from protecting business users’ PCs and notebooks to providing data access security and monitoring tools.…

Happy to take the money, but what's in it for the Big Boys? Four internet giants – Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm – have cosied up to join CloudFlare's most recent funding round, which raised $110m.…

Switch off Countdown and protect yourselves, and us The UK government is putting up a £500,000 fund to develop cyber security skills within universities and colleges, essentially helping them construct innovative teaching methods to provide the skills needed to protect the UK from hackers, malware and other information security threats.…

Horrid marketing outfit roots user phones, exposes devices to malware hell A Chinese advertising company has infected and 'completely' hijacked likely hundreds of thousands of Android handsets with an attack so careless it exposes a global botnet to easy hijacking and opens handsets to total compromise by any malware.…

Initial analysis way off, researchers find The number of XCodeGhost-infected iOS apps, initially pegged at 39, has ballooned to more than 4,000.…

Data leaked because Marsh was hacked, says lawyer The Morgan Stanley staffer fired in January over a massive data breach has now entered a guilty plea in the Federal Court in Manhattan.…

Pledges allegiance to the Vulkan Nintendo has become the latest big name to join the Khronos Group, the standards group that manages graphics APIs like WebGL, OpenGL, and Vulkan.…

He, or possibly his diabolical sibling, acted as his own attorney. Or did he? A robber who attempted to use the defence of blaming his "evil twin" has failed to convince a jury, and has been sentenced this week to more than 60 years in prison.…

Chocolate Factory turns Pied Piper to Deflate expectations Google wants to bring to life the HBO series Silicon Valley: it's pitching a new open source compression algorithm into the world, with the hope that it can eventually end-of-life the venerable Deflate.…

Productivity Commission angers emergency services: 'Just get a Telstra plan' Australia’s Productivity Commission says emergency services should drop the idea of building a dedicated mobile broadband network and use commercial services instead.…

EMC shrunk rather than collapsed IDC has copped to misplacing the beads on its abacus in the backup appliance market statistics it released last week.…

High hopes for rust-belt revival Driverless cars could soon be running on South Australian roads alongside normal traffic, with the state about to look at legislation letting autonomous vehicles out of their cage.…

Flash array company is far from flashy; solid even Comment The best situation for an all-flash array is to be built from commodity flash components and be at a WAN arms-length from servers; that’s SolidFire CEO Dave Wright’s view.…

Image board slings fix at JavaScript hole. A nasty vulnerability in Imgur was used by attackers to hide malicious code in images, commandeer visitors' browsers, and hose the 4Chan and 8Chan image boards.…

Vegetarian lizard waded through snow without freezing to death Dinosaurs are thought of as needing a warm environment to survive, but a new fossil find from frigid Alaska shows that the creatures roamed far into the chillier norther climes of early Earth.…

Senator backs crypto-currency fans' calls for inquiry Bitcoin traders in Australia reckon the country's banks are blanket-banning them in an effort to stave off possible competition from the crypto-currency.…

'All of me, why not take all of me?' sings virty vendor Citrix, under siege by activist fundster Elliott Management, is looking for a buyer, Reuters has reported.…

Lower online cloud storage bills than Glacier Backblaze, the disk reliability statistics-publishing cloud data-centre operator, says it has the world’s lowest-cost cloud storage, beating Amazon and others, with its B2 Cloud Storage offering.…

Pontif faulted for failed Friday fanboi fondlephone festivities Is Pope Francis a secret Android fan?…

Bitcoin Savings & Trust was neither The owner of Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCS&T) has admitted running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded people of millions of dollars in the crypto-currency.…

But it may bounce back soon India will rethink its hardline proposals to clampdown on encryption.…

Documents surrounding Kilton saga published PDF Librarians in New Hampshire, America, were warned that running a Tor exit relay on their network would assist child abusers, drug dealers, and terrorists.…

Surprise! Your private data for sale The majority of US presidential candidates' websites failed a basic privacy and security audit.…

Sets aside over US$7bn for fines and mass recalls Volkswagen is getting hammered on world stock exchanges after it was revealed the number of VW cars using software to cheat on pollution tests is far greater than first thought.…

Insurance biz registers disturbing domains Kaiser Permanente has embarked on a bizarre and macabre domain-name registration spree.…

4x better on speed and 40 per cent off the cost, helped by RAM cacher Comment IT biz Northern Backup has replaced Hitachi, Dell and HP SAN arrays with Nexenta storage, which it chose ahead of VMware VSA, Nutanix and SimpliVity alternatives because Nexenta storage was both cheaper and faster.…

Baby dog puts paw on trigger, barks 'not so fast' sucker A man attempting to shoot seven puppies got a taste of his own medicine when he was instead shot by one of the dogs.…

Deals site will axe 1,100 workers in $35m cull Online deals website Groupon will lay off 1,100 employees and shut down part of its international operations. The biz employs more than 10,000 people worldwide.…

Fiorina reaching out to the public, one cringe at a time Former HP boss and Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has tried a new tactic to reach out to the American public – singing about her pet dog on the telly.…

Digi Commissioner chewing the fat with Google, Facebook, Apple et al Europe’s gaffe-prone digi Commissioner Günther H-dot Oettinger is in the US this week to meet top tech companies, start-ups and policy makers, promising to ask those tricky regulation questions.…

Intelligence-testing app attack shows it isn't just dumb people who get caught Android malware bundled in an intelligence-testing game has been published to the official Google Play Store, not once but twice, claiming hundreds of thousands of victims in the process.…

Code that, Delors! Cloudsec Initial analysis of the European cybercrime scene shown to The Register suggests a growing concern about the threat from targeted attacks, with British enterprises significantly ahead of their European counterparts in terms of cybersecurity measures.…

There is a connected car and big data angle Hats off to Rainer Zeitlow and his team for driving his Volkswagen Touareg from South Africa to Norway in nine days, 4 hours to set a new Guinness World record.…

Giant chess with a Terminator? Bring it on Game Theory Who didn’t play at least one Games Workshop game growing up? I remember still being in my early twenties and having a full blown Space Marine versus Eldar battle playing out across the kitchen floor of my small apartment, above a cheese shop in Toronto.…

SATA's shunted sideways. Move over for NVMe M.2 A new, thinner and faster SSD from Samsung, using the M.2 form factor, is hitting the retail market next month.…

Reg reader compiles handy checklist for SMEs Readers' corner Dave Cartwright, an IT operations manager for a telecom company, recently compiled a list of dos and don’t for IT infrastructure buyers for El Reg.…