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by Paul Kunert on (#MM56)
Grabs hose en route to BPO biz Xchanging – he'll need it Former HP Enterprise Services UK chief Craig Wilson is to take control at London-listed software and BPO provider Xchanging from the start of next year.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#MM38)
'May allow unauthorized individuals access to sensitive data'. You don't say An Office of the Inspector General audit into the US Department of Homeland Security has identified a range of deficiencies across the agency, which is responsible for America's cybersecurity.…
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by Alun Taylor on (#MM1Q)
Giving the MacBook Air a run for its money What a difference a new operating system makes. Being a laptop without a touchscreen, the UX305 felt a little out of sorts when it was launched running touchy-feely Windows 8 earlier in the year.…
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by Lewis Page on (#MM0D)
And OMG! You can get ships through. As usual Good lord! This year's summer arctic ice extent minimum is the fourth lowest EVER recorded ... but wait, that's only since 1981. This year's figure is one of only 35 in the record, which means the fact that it's the fourth lowest pretty insignificant.…
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by Team Register on (#MKZ8)
Windy City cloud tax challenged, could be blown away
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MP also asks if company is practising predatory pricing to drive out competition London's iconic black cabs could disappear from the capital's streets in a few years due to an unfair playing field created by Uber, Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MKWN)
Good deal ... equates to a loss of £165m in just four years. Great work, everyone Scandal-hit Serco has finally resold its private-sector business process outsourcing (BPO) division to the previous private equity owner Blackstone for £250m, equating to a loss of £165m.…
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Air traffic body hopes move will cut delay time on next outage The National Air Traffic Service is shifting its software onto a bespoke cloud infrastructure, which it hopes will help reduce delays the next time it's hit by a systems outage similar to the one it suffered last year.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#MKQJ)
Audio adventures, growing pains, and pirates ahoy at Euro broadcasting show IBC 2015 The annual gathering of the broadcast clans takes place in Amsterdam each September. At this year's International Broadcasting Convention, just as at IFA a week before there was UHD everywhere. But here, the focus is on production and distribution, not watching.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#MKN0)
Launderer for phishing op has three months to return £630,000 or face another five years inside A woman who made £1.2m through cybercrime has been ordered to pay back almost £630,000 accumulated from the hundreds of British students she helped to defraud.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#MKH6)
Change is constant. Embrace it Worstall on Wednesday El Reg tells us that we journos are some of the least likely to have to worry about our jobs being eaten by the robots. Phew, gosh and that's lucky, eh?…
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by Simon Rockman on (#MKGA)
Don’t be a boob, admit tits good Chipzilla’s latest move into wearable tech embraces fashion, with a partnership that sees the company jumping into bed with sportswear brand Chromat.…
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Rise in VR mirrors rise in online adult viewing. An opportunity? Crystal ball gazers at Juniper have looked far into the future and seen that by 2020 some 30 million virtual reality headsets will be shifted globally.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MKBB)
Boffins check out 60 GHz radio around the home and find it's not yet fit for domestic duties “Millimetre-wave†wireless technologies (such as un 802.11ad) are seen by vendors as a key part of future in-home connectivity, but there's a lot of work to be done to actually make it work.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MKAB)
Muscle-bound LTO-7 smashes compressed data transfer target but misses on capacity LTO, the world’s most popular tape format, has a 15TB generation-7 Ultrium specification available for drive and media manufacturers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MK96)
The Social Network signs up as voting member Unicode Consortium Facebook as signed up as a full member of the Unicode Consortium, the body that universal character encoding standard for written characters and text.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MK74)
Dallas cops cuff hardware hacker for making 'movies bomb' Video It should come as no surprise in a paranoid world addicted to security theatre: a 14-year-old hacker – in the old sense of the word – has been arrested in Dallas for bringing a home-made clock to school.…
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by Lester Haines on (#MK52)
Department of the Bleedin' Obvious reports in after massive study Research by a crack team from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious indicates that the UK's growing fat crisis could be tackled by people stuffing less grub into their faces.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MK2Q)
Plan calls for games once Big in Japan to become small in Japan again A Japanese company named Beatrobo has revealed plans to revive games cartridges, for use in smartphones.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MK08)
Über, but without Über. Or drivers The company that in the 19 century helped put “horseless†in front of “carriage†wants to empty the driver's seat in the 21.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MJWM)
Broadcom's Tomahawk underpins high-speed low-cost iron Arista Networks has joined the race to get 25 Gbps Ethernet kit into hyperscale data centres.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MJSH)
Plutocrats look at Bitcoin technology as a distributed trade ledger Whether Bitcoin is an existential threat to the world of currency and banking probably depends on the style of tinfoil hat you wear, but the “Vampire Squid†- Rolling Stone's name for investment merchant bank Goldman Sachs - isn't taking any chances.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#MJR6)
There's an ocean there, says NASA, planning very close fly-by to check out the waves NASA's long-running Cassini mission to Saturn has proved there's an ocean on the moon Enceladus.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MJPP)
Vladimir Drinkman swallows medicine, awaits sentencing The US Department of Justice says a Russian national, Vladimir Drinkman, has just coughed to being part of a ring that compromised as many as 160 million credit cards two years ago.…
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by Chris Williams on (#MJP2)
Redmond unbuttons shirt to reveal more detail on hypervisor-based tech Microsoft has published a technical guide to its new Device Guard features in Windows 10 – including how to configure the anti-malware technology, and what hardware you'll need to use it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MJKH)
Renews security contract with Redmond Microsoft has renewed its 12-year-old agreement with NATO which, among other things, lets the organisation check for bugs, vulnerabilities, and backdoors in Redmond's products.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MJJS)
PCs-and-printing side of IT giant also shedding workers, talks up 3D printers HP Inc – the bit of HP that makes printers and PC – will shed 3,300 jobs, it was revealed on Tuesday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#MJHX)
Patch if you can, or use a PIN or pattern unlock code If you've got an Android 5 smartphone with anything but the very latest version of Lollipop on it, it's best to use a PIN or pattern to secure your lock-screen – because there's a trivial bypass for its password protection.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MJFF)
Bloke still can't tell you what info Feds wanted. So we will A Federal Court in New York has struck down an FBI gagging order that has been in place for 11 years.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#MJDV)
Campaign to encrypt all the web chalks up another success Let's Encrypt, a free automated open-source certificate authority (CA), has signed its first certificate – leading the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to celebrate "an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web."…
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by John Leyden on (#MJCX)
Malwarebytes illuminates Angler Exploit Kit strikes Security firm Malwarebytes has published a comprehensive analysis of a recently detected malvertising attack that affected many ad networks and ran uninterrupted for almost three weeks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MJ8V)
Will wonders never cease in Silicon Valley? Snapchat is about to get a bit less self-destructive with the introduction of a new pay-to-replay option on received pics.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MJ5C)
On top of 55,000 or so people already thrown out the door from troubled IT goliath HP will cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs amid its restructuring overhaul.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MJ44)
Link redirects are equivalent to eavesdropping, says lawsuit Twitter is being sued for invading users' privacy over its practice of replacing hyperlinks in direct messages with its own "t.co" short links.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#MHZ9)
"Advanced mapping technology." So not Apple Maps then? Apple is secretly expanding a research and development plant in Sweden that develops 3D mapping technologies.…
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by John Leyden on (#MHWF)
Many partially doxed but who’s been pwned? Not us, says Kaspersky Lab Mystery surrounds the origin of a leak on Pastebin containing what looked like the full contact details on tech personnel at hundreds of UK organizations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MHTV)
IoT crawler reveals map of at-risk devices and computers More than a year after its introduction, the notorious HeartBleed security flaw remains a threat to more than 200,000 internet-connected devices.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#MHR6)
Amazon billionaire will pony up $200m to become Florida Man Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has chosen Cape Canaveral, Florida as the new home for his Blue Origin spaceflight project.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MHPZ)
It's a game changer, a paradigm shift, we've reached 'tipping point,' says chief BS officer Bloated integrator-cum-consultancy Accenture has gulped down cloud advisory and tech services outfit Cloud Sherpas for an undisclosed fee, signalling the start of major consolidation in this part of the market.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#MHMB)
Google and the Washington Post lead the charge against the ad blocker blitz The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post has become the largest newspaper to refuse to serve readers who filter out advertisments.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#MHK3)
Signs of flexibility as company says changes are 'not final' Developer tools vendor JetBrains has run into a storm of protest over its announcement of subscription pricing from 2 November 2015.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#MHHA)
What the hell do you want us to install now? Microsoft has been criticised for dumbing down the information on updates to Windows 10 it provides to IT pros.…
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by John Leyden on (#MHE5)
Diseased boxen lassoed in four countries as malicious actors find their way into systems More then a dozen compromised router infections have been found in the wild, all targeting Cisco kit as part of sophisticated attempts to hack into corporate and government networks.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#MHB5)
Plus it'll also do LTE support for 4x4 MIMO Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820 will support carrier aggregation with unlicensed spectrum – LTE-U, part of the new X12 LTE modem – which allows operators to combine unrestricted spectrum with their own licensed holdings to get more bandwidth.…
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by Lewis Page on (#MH7T)
Hardcore warmist's amazing admission One of the world's most firmly global-warmist scientists has put his name to a scientific paper which says that even if humanity deliberately sets out to burn all the fossil fuels it can find, as fast as it can, there will be no troublesome sea level rise due to melting Antarctic ice this century.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#MH4C)
It's a lot of Hybris and open-source PaaS middleware for HANA fans SAP has become the latest enterprise giant to promise real-time “insight†into customers, via the cloud.…
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by John Leyden on (#MH2S)
IT teams able to deploy patches without damaging underlying systems, apparently Flexera Software has acquired vulnerability management tools firm Secunia, although terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, are undisclosed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#MGXV)
Marching to commoditised scale-up/scale-out object storage glory Japan-based object storage startup Cloudian has marched into the scale-up and scale-out storage space in a big way with Samurai – its internal name for NFS/S3-accessed HyperStore software running on seriously chunky hardware building blocks.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#MGT6)
Cars, conference rooms and tractors would like to play too, please The Internet of Things (IoT) has given us watches that talk to our phones, phones that talk to our cars, and robot spies that talk to Amazon. But can it revolutionise industries with lots of unstructured information that hasn’t yet been collected?…
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by Paul Kunert on (#MGRD)
Faulkner steps down to care for sick husband AMD has bid farewell to EMEA channel chief Fiona Faulkner, who has left for “personal reasonsâ€.…