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‘Seasonally weak’ mobility business to blame Indian outsourcer Tech Mahindra, which bought disgraced rival Satyam in 2012, has issued a profit warning — the first sign of trouble in the buoyant market for some time.…

But former state monopoly claims Openreach split would harm UK market Blighty's communications watchdog declined this morning to comment on Sky's demands for an in-depth competition probe of BT's broadband biz.…

We’ll just have to make decisions based on ‘imperfect knowledge’ Despite the majority of Reg readers thinking that 5G can wait, there needs to be some planning as to how spectrum will be allocated if the same frequencies are to be made available globally.…

Microsoft's next phone OS looks to be in better shape than the PC version Microsoft has released Build 10149 of Windows 10 Mobile to members of the Windows Insider preview programme's Fast release ring.…

Getting the Redmond you need? Comment With bad things possibly in the post for Microsoft’s Windows phone business, its commander Stephen Elop has been shown the door by Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella. As a hardened Elop detractor I literally cheered at the news.…

'Significant issues already exist' with spybox tech, too Smart meters will cost as much as the Trident nuclear deterrent to implement, with the full cost of the scheme rising to £19bn, according to a government report.…

Trials conducted over a 1,000km long link Proximus and Huawei have successfully trialled a super-channel optical signal, flinging out information at up to one terabit per second (Tbps).…

Emacs' self-appointed heir heads out into the world Github's Atom text editor, which it announced back in February 2014, has reached version 1.0.…

It's do-or-die for Microsoft's new operating system on 29 July Analysis The release of Windows 10 is set for 29 July, just one month from now. It will be a significant moment, marking the first Windows 10 release in a wave that will eventually include Windows Mobile and Xbox, and is critically important to Microsoft following the poor reception for Windows 8.…

Web appliance update can't be rolled back, takes portal down for 48 hours A Sophos Web Appliance update has crashed users' PC fleets including knocking offline the Australian call centre of a global company for two days after support was quietly revoked for SSL 3.0 ciphers used in Citrix Receiver.…

Man shoots glittery seed indiscriminately on unsuspecting public for charity Under normal circumstances, creeping up on members of the public and emulating the sin of Onan upon their person would land you in jail. Unless its for charity – which apparently makes it OK.…

Free-to-download CAD file makes for better virtu-blinker goggles, insists Redmond Someone at Microsoft Research is apparently unimpressed with Oculus Rift's perspective on the world, so has corrected it with lenses that give you Microsoft's view of things.…

Devs told to move to Android Studio Google has decided Android Studio is all you need to make apps, and by the end of the year will no longer support the venerable but popular Eclipse IDE.…

Order for 9.6 per cent cut in wholesale prices is BAD NEWS according to comms minister A bunch of Australian fixed telephony and broadband users are about to suffer under a regime of lower prices.…

Virtzilla accuses Redmond of requiring silos and running a dicky calculator Microsoft's Exchange Server has a reputation as being hard to virtualise under hypervisors other than Redmond's own Hyper-V, a state of affairs that has led to more than occasional suggestions that Microsoft might just like it that way.…

AWS, Google and Azure in front, but archiving not core workloads are the sweet spot The cloud storage market is a three-way race with the trailing pack choosing to occupy niches rather than challenge the leaders, according to the market scryers of Gartner.…

CVE-2015-3113: Patch or pay. Attackers have added a recent dangerous Adobe vulnerability to the Magnitude exploit kit, according to respected independent malware researcher "Kafeine".…

Xen hypervisor v.4.5.1 offers over 100 fixes and improvements The Xen Project has released version 4.5.1 of its eponymous hypervisor and recommended that users upgrade, stat.…

eBay shop platform targeted Sucuri infosec researcher Peter Gramantik says carders are exploiting an unknown vulnerability to steal billing information from e-commerce sites that use eBay's Magento platform.…

We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make batteries better, stronger, faster LG Chem, the chemicals arm of the giant LG conglomerate, has revealed a hexagonal battery for smart watches.…

Attorney-general wants to be ultimate network admin - what could possibly go wrong? Australia's attorney-general has dropped some new telecommunications legislation designed to drag carrier networks into the orbit of the nation's top legal officer.…

Party like it's 2005 The ACCC has rubber-stamped the agreements needed to let nbn absorb Telstra's copper for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) broadband.…

Look, ma, no repeaters – but we can still decipher the info. Huzzah! A group of university researchers claim to have developed a method to increase the data bandwidth of fiber optic cables by eliminating a barrier that has limited the maximum power at which optical signals can be sent.…

Elon Musk's team investigates what went wrong Updated Elon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket exploded after liftoff today over the blue skies of Cape Canaveral, Florida – the catastrophic failure happened within minutes of the launch.…

Cupertino under pressure to finger finger pressure in '6S'? Apple has reportedly began using its so-called Force Touch tech in new models of its iPhone handsets, which have apparently now hit the production line.…

Plus: Capita has had enough of you moochers bringing in your own spoons QuoTW This week saw Microsoft sharpen the knives while GM showed off an incredibly ugly car and Samsung borked a few notebooks.…

Evolving e-books and the holy grail of colour e-paper Feature Reading on screen can be something of a chore. As computers have become smaller and more pocketable, so it's become more possible to carry around a device that not only has a reasonable quality display, but weighs little enough to be considered a replacement for a book.…

Rampant free marketeer 'not actually mad' Worstall @ the Weekend Given that I'm a Senior Fellow At the Adam Smith Institute and we pretty much invented – at least in the British political sense – the idea of privatisation, I've responded this week to an interesting request from the commentards as to why in the hell we did this.…

'Nah, they didn't even come close to each other' Delphi Automotive has contradicted a senior exec at the company by denying that one of its robo-cars had come close to being pranged by a Google self-driving vehicle.…

Latest diversity report shows little change at Menlo Park Facebook may be celebrating gay rights around the world today by encouraging its users to paint their profile pics with a rainbow-themed filter, but the firm will be less proud about its latest diversity report.…

Refined and capable, but useless for driving into walls Vulture at the Wheel Everyone I know who needs a full-sized, five-door road car that can also drive across fen, bog and hillside owns a Subaru. Not a Range Rover or Land Rover, as they're too expensive. Not a Land Cruiser, as they are too big.…

Gong for steering engineers through call crypto algos Charles Brookson – the man behind the encryption algorithms in GSM mobile networks – has collected his OBE from the Queen.…

Don’t get feudal with me, sunshine Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Who are you, again?”…

First shove the chiclet keyboard where the sun doesn't shine After Lenovo bought IBM's ThinkPad business, the Chinese giant has slowly but surely changed the iconic laptop design to look a bit more modern – but now that may be about to change.…

Has he thought about changing his name? A man called Rod has an unfortunately apt name, having now been struck by lightning twice.…

'We'll do that with an update for our software updater,' says Sammy Samsung has promised to release a patch for its computers so that they no longer kill off automatic Windows updates.…

SpaceX to supply ISS with rabbit food plus that science kit stuff Vid Weather permitting, SpaceX will imminently fire off its seventh resupply mission to the International Space Station, and NASA has detailed some of the science experiments the Dragon capsule will be carrying in its hold.…

It's all about focus Reports coming out of Taiwan claim that the iPhone 7 will have dual rear-facing cameras. It's a move which would see Apple join the ranks of Dell, HTC, Huawei, and Samsung in adding depth sensing technology to its mobes.…

Watchdog tuts at website hosting biz Network Solutions has been scolded by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for misleading consumers over a "30-day money back guarantee" that wasn't quite what it seemed.…

New unit will go beyond selling chips and standard components Comment Micron’s Storage Business Unit (SBU) wants to shake up the server status quo with a dynamic upstart duo: in-memory app accelerating data processing rockets and instant access, cold data flash vaults.…

“Perpetual global humiliation” is our business. Don’t get in our way. Comment Google appears to be "complying" with the so-called European "right to be forgotten" ruling in a way which has helped convicted criminals to give their reputations an unexpected boost.…

Windows 10 app to follow soon Microsoft has released Sway for Apple's iPad and iPhone, and will follow up with an app for Windows 10 "later this summer".…

Scaling up petabyte style Red Hat has ratcheted up its software defined storage portfolio, taking the wraps off Ceph Storage 1.3 and Gluster Storage 3.1 at its marquee customer event in Boston this week.…

'Only way to a positive scenario is innovation' Retired software kingpin and richest man in the world Bill Gates has given his opinion that today's renewable-energy technologies aren't a viable solution for reducing CO levels, and governments should divert their green subsidies into R&D aimed at better answers.…

Project is one of four so bad it's easier to flush the money down the toiilet The hated Care.data programme is one of four government IT projects progressing so poorly its delivery has been deemed "unachievable", according to a government watchdog report.…