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Finns reaffirm arms-length hardware plans Analysis Yes, Nokia will probably make Nokia-brand phones again. And other people will make them for Nokia. The company has just re-reaffirmed the strategy it announced at its Capital Markets Day last November - when nobody seemed to be paying close attention.…

No amount of scrubbing could shift UEFI BIOS nasty ‪Hacking Team RCS spyware came pre-loaded with an UEFI (‬Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) ‪BIOS rootkit to hide itself on infected systems, it has emerged following the recent hacking of the controversial surveillance firm.‬…

Cool it chaps, fed-dodger kit is hardly a major innovation Rhino Security has suddenly pulled the plug on its “ProxyHam” WiFi relay project and withdrawn from the upcoming DefCon conference.…

'Temporary pending a patch'. Until the next time Mozilla has blocked Flash in Firefox by default in response to newly unveiled Hacking Team exploits against Adobe's already Swiss-cheesey software.…

Whoops, sorry, did we not make that clear - Google Uninstalling the Google Photos app from your Android device will not safeguard your pictures from being slurped up by Google, it turns out.…

Justify your travel and supplies, Oompa-Loompas told Google is curbing staff recruitment and introducing a number of penny-pinching efficiency practices to try and gets its profit growth back on track, according to reports.…

Temporary measure to 'stress and validate' delivery system Microsoft’s closed the tap on fresh builds of Windows 10 in preparation for final launch.…

Uncle Sam may have something to say about that, though A WSJ report says a Chinese government owned chip-maker is bidding $23 billion to buy Micron, the USA's top DRAM and flash manufacturer.…

Waves against the machine Geek's Guide to Britain Last time London flooded was 1953. Three hundred lives were lost, 30,000 evacuated and the damage totalled a considerable £5bn in today’s money.…

Office 365 leads the way Microsoft’s enterprise customers are adopting its cloud software in droves, a survey of delegates at the vendor’s Ignite 2015 conference in Chicago reveals.…

You'll have to get your wallet out like some sort of Stone Age SAVAGE HSBC has denied it has been frozen out of Apple Pay, after its customers were surprised to learn they could not join in the mass British bonk-banking bonanza today.…

Boffins chuffed at chromosome activity breakthrough We all start out as a single cell, which divides into new cells which divide into new cells in their turn. Worn-out tissues get replaced, wounds heal, our ears - not especially usefully - keep on growing even once they're quite big enough thank you*.…

End of support today. Try not to get ill Exclusive One in every five public-sector health and emergency services organisations in the UK will still be running Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft ends extended support today.…

Not bad for a lad that masterminded monumental top line shrinkage Imation CEO Mark Lucas has bowed to the inevitable after losing an activist investor proxy war, and is set to exit the company he failed to turnaround.…

Update breathes new life into Reg man’s strap on Review It’s fair to say that sales of wristy wearables haven’t set the world on fire. Even Apple seems to be hard pushed to flog them in quantity. The reason is not hard to fathom. Watch the TV advertisements for either Android Wear or Apple Watch and I defy you not to ask yourself why the hell would you spend good money on either.…

Jut and CoreOS spend their cash differently Comment Startups Jut and CoreOS are each funded to the tune of twenty million dollars but spend their money differently, inhabiting different geographies in Silicon Valley's mental landscape.…

Yes, door software - like on the Heart of Gold, presumably Jaguar Land Rover is recalling no less than 65,000 of its SUVs due to a software problem that caused the cars' doors to unlock themselves - potentially while in motion.…

Dave Cartwright shares his war stories Everyone's had experiences where something just inexplicably didn't work. Or apparently inexplicably, anyhow.…

Great! Even your wallet will be dependent upon a battery you can't swap Behold! Fanbois of Britain, lift the flaps of your ironic deerstalker hats and listen! Apple Pay is launching in the UK!…

Gartner’s quadrant gives a timely seal of approval Database data virtualising startup Delphix has gained $75m in fourth round funding to scale sales, marketing, and operations across global geographies.…

Managers and marketers want the bad guys named. Security pros aren't sure they're right Imagine a security researcher has plucked your customer invoice database from a command and control server. You're nervous and angry. Your boss will soon be something worse and will probably want you to explain who pulled off the heist, and how.…

Read their Lips and get our tips Adobe insists it is taking the security of its Flash Player seriously.…

OpenStack? Didn't we have something to do with that once? Rackspace has announced it's now a reseller and support source for Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

€27m system has no idea where 72-yr-old facility is Ireland's Shannon Airport, up until a few days ago to be found in Shannon, County Clare, has seemingly up sticks and moved to County Limerick following the introduction of Ireland’s new postcode system, the Eircode.…

That's 18,750 grumble flicks spaffed across your preferred ocean each second Get ready for more confusion about optical fibre speed and distance records: Alcatel-Lucent has announced a 300 Gbps, 10,000 km transmission on a submarine cable test-bed.…

Chinese giant joins Europe's 5G-PPP Huawei has formalised its cooperation with Europe's 5G-PPP (public-private partnership), announcing the projects it will be working on under the project.…

'Someone from East Asia is pissed' say admins, but our cyborgs are fighting back Popular messaging platform Telegram has been hit with a 200Gbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.…

Was it even a real mine, or a Ponzi scheme, ponder former users Hackers appear to have stolen the entire user database of cloud-based Bitcoin mining outfit Cloudminr.io and are offering to sell 79,267 accounts including passwords for a single Bitcoin.…

A WAN with a plan can make SaaS look like it's on-prem, suggests Equinix Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been spruiked as all about you, an internet connection, and software running in a super-secure bit barn somewhere.…

Still too small to be a planet, even though Eris was measured in error As astro-boffins prepare themselves for the arrival of data from New Horizons' nearest approach in its Pluto fly-by, the little probe has already revised opinion about how big/small the planet/dwarf planet really is.…

Better plan on downloading it ... or just skip it The big picture of how Microsoft plans to debut Windows 10 for its customers remains murky, but more details are starting to emerge, courtesy of the software giant's hardware partners.…

Flash is bad, but not so bad devs will bother with HTML5, so send in the killbits Newly-minted Facebook security chief Alex Stamos has called for Adobe Flash to be taken out behind the shed by a shotgun-wielding world.…

Lots of important tools get no developer love, which makes Linux a bit more risky The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative has completed its first-pass survey of the Linux toolset, and is highlighting which tools are most at risk.…

Not a prince among ‘em The US Department of Justice has successfully extradited six Nigerians from South Africa to face charges of running a series of scams against gullible Americans over the past 14 years.…

Shocker: Games company not so big on piracy Nintendo has demanded GitHub take down a JavaScript-powered Game Boy Advance emulator. An outrage against perfectly legal software? No. The emulator was apparently bundled with more than three dozen copies of copyright-protected game titles.…

Plus $1,000 in installation and activation fees, plus TV costs Google's stated aim of bringing some competition into the US broadband market has led to an interesting offer from Comcast – it'll double the Chocolate Factory's connection speed for more than four times the monthly cost.…

Meanwhile countries sue for the right to snoop Hacked snoopware maker Hacking Team says it will continue its operations as soon as possible – and claims the huge source-code leak it suffered didn’t get all of the company's crown jewels.…

Fibre passes more than a million homes, just before it's killed off Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has jumped the gun on nbn's annual report, trumpeting that the company has exceeded its June 2015 performance targets.…

'Clear exemptions' sought for researchers caught in crypto export net One hundred and eighty-four angry cryptologists have signed a letter appealing for Australia's Department of Defence to grant researchers and teachers specific exemption to the country's amended laws that crack-down on crypto and exploit trading.…

Guidance to carriers says crypto's a must, but storage and physical security details scanty Service providers caught up in Australia's data retention scheme will have to encrypt customer information, but that's about as much guidance as the Attorney-General's Department offers.…

Pretty much all the paydirt goes to Cupertino these days, says analyst Apple single-handedly accounted for nine-tenths of smartphone profits in the first months of 2015, beancounters claim.…

iGiant expands control-freak tendencies into smarthomes, forcing hardware redesigns Wondering where all the Apple HomeKit products are? Well, here's an explanation: Apple is forcing internet-of-things companies to fit Apple-certified chips and firmware in their gadgets if they are to work with the HomeKit platform.…

Rules they didn't actually own their shares after all Dell has successfully whittled away at a lawsuit brought against it by major shareholders who think Michael Dell's 2013 buyout of the firm came with too small a price tag.…

Pokemon co-programmer dies of cancer, aged 55 Obit Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata died late last week after a battle with cancer.…

September 1 ship date is off, no new date in sight Microsoft has run into a few hurdles in its manufacturing process for its Surface Hub wall-mounted touchscreen and as a result, it now says it won't be able to ship them when it initially thought it could.…

Because the fun won’t start until the evening On Tuesday morning at 0449 PDT (1149 UTC), the New Horizons space probe will make mankind’s first visit to Pluto, and there will be much rejoicing; but we won’t actually know if the mission is a success until much later in the day.…

Firm remains silent on future of 1.2 million Chinese employees Apple manufacturer Foxconn reckons it will create one million jobs in India by 2020 – nearly the entire number of its current Chinese workforce – according to reports.…