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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7MM8)
Shipments expected H2 2015 Freescale has looked at the software-defined network market and decided it likes what it sees: the company is launching into the white box market in partnership with Advantech.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7MJZ)
New POPs expand network for retiring brand Australia's dominant telco Telstra is about to try and make itself a global brand for those considering intercontinental software-defined networks (SDN).…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7MJ1)
Sorry I haven't coded lately, says Lee Hsien Loong, but when I retire I'll learn Haskell Lots of politicians talk about the importance of wielding technology, but Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has just put his money where his mouth is by revealing he's upset that he doesn't have time to code stuff any more.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7MG7)
Redmond broadens its bug bounty program to harden up Windows 10 Redmond will expand its bug-bounty program ahead of the launch of Windows 10, including a two-month hunt for vulnerabilities in its Project Spartan browser.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#7MFP)
If you can't stand the heat, turn down the temperature Printing transistors is nothing new – silicon fabrication is, after all, essentially a print process – but printing silicon ink onto flexible substrates is usually too a problem because there's too much heat for the medium to handle.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#7MC8)
At least Visual Studio doesn't crash anymore Microsoft has released a new build of Windows 10 for PCs to the Windows Insider program, but the software giant is only recommending it for particularly eager testers for now.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7MB3)
Zofgren, Wyden and Paul back changes to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act The so-called "Aaron's Law," named after the late activist Aaron Swartz, is back before US Congress having been reintroduced on Wednesday in both houses.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#7MA8)
Exec chairman thinks everything is hunky-dory now BoxDEV In an interview at the BoxDEV developer event in San Francisco today, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said end-to-end encryption for services like Google's is the solution to mass online government surveillance.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7M8N)
As Zuck's profits drop 20 per cent from this time last year Facebook has released a smartphone app called Hello that matches the numbers of incoming calls to friends and businesses on the social network, giving you a slightly better idea of who's calling if you can't recognize the digits.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7M7R)
Advertising network library runs any old code it's given, conf audience told RSA 2015 Two security bods reckon a software library used by popular apps exposes up to 100 million people to smartphone-hijacking hackers.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#7M5V)
4K is just the beginning: Virtual Reality's second coming will need even more bandwidth Last month I had a disorienting and quite frankly unnerving experience: I saw myself from behind.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#7M5X)
Why your personal information isn't as important as you think Data Pair – Part 2 Multitudes are getting very excited about what all of this data flowing around the system is worth. If we can know lots and lots about lots and lots of things then obviously that's really valuable, yes?…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7M4N)
Beacon for Zuck & Co, not hard to guess Google's RSA 2015 Facebook, Google and Microsoft spent a few minutes today discussing at this year's RSA conference in San Francisco how they attempt to protect your privacy.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#7M3V)
Antitrust claims settled, but rough seas ahead Qualcomm showed encouraging signs of growth in the second quarter of its fiscal 2015, even as a hefty payout to China bit deeply into its bottom line.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7M1X)
One guy made a joke? OK, this just got real – keep your eyes peeled, everyone The FBI is warning airlines to keep an eye out for miscreants hacking airplane computer networks mid-flight.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#7KZK)
Joint effort with T-Mobile US, Sprint to charge downloads by the gigabyte Google has confirmed it will take on the mobile carrier world with its own service – Project Fi – although for the time being it'll be a limited pilot program.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7KXA)
Now ICANN has to decide how to spend its cut The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7KWB)
Meanwhile, the web's other currency Bitcoin stands at 1 BTC for $237 GoDaddy has bought the entire domain-name portfolio of mobile advertising company Marchex for $28.1m (£18.67m).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7KVE)
And why the US DoJ may not be best pleased Comcast allegedly talked its fellow Hulu investors out of selling the TV streaming upstart to DirecTV or AT&T by insisting it could steer the web biz to financial triumph.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7KQP)
Bill to keep mass snooping alive bypasses traditional committee oversight The US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has introduced a bill to reauthorize Section 215 of the Patriot Act to allow mass surveillance of innocent American citizens until December 31, 2020.…
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by John Leyden on (#7KM3)
Russian speakers offer up spoofed emails, ZIPs and malware A newly discovered group of cyber-spies are closely targeting high profile US targets, possibly including both the White House and the State Department.…
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by Team Register on (#7KJX)
The TSA really doesn’t have a sense of humor
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You'll never be late for that special restaurant date The world's most accurate clock has been invented, and is ideal for anyone who doesn't want to be a second late over billions and billions of years.…
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UK government biz buoys otherwise flat sales French outsourcer Atos posted bumper profits int its first quarter, mainly buoyed by the UK public sector deals. Revenue rose 17.6 per cent to €2.4bn (£1.7bn), compared with the same quarter last year.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#7KCV)
Wrist job and Macbook online only sales a ‘unique' situation Fear not fanbois, online only sales of Apple’s jazz bangle wrist job and shiny 12-inch MacBook do not signal the end of “iconic blockbuster launches†inside its retail temples stores, an exec has proclaimed.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#7K91)
Neutrino mass search takes another big step A particle detector created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can detect the movements of individual electrons in a radioactive gas. The machine is designed to measure the mass of the neutrino, which is considered to be tiny even by the standards of subatomic particles.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#7K80)
Come on, fanbois, help the Zuckerborg destroy mobe firms WhatsApp is now offering free voice calls to iPhones, less than a month after the feature debuted for Android. Version 2.12.1 of the telephony app for iSO will allow Apple smartmobe users to talk over their internet connections.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#7K46)
Change is in the air In the world of hyperconverged virtualisation, flash is important. It forms a big part of the hyperconvergence value proposition as vendors create distributed hybrid storage arrays from local resources.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#7K2N)
Wi-Fi, a little Sprint, and a little T-Mobile Google could uncloak plans for a mobile network in the US today, possibly running on two networks, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.…
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by Lester Haines on (#7K1A)
Pumps eight rounds into troublesome box A Colorado Springs man who decided he'd had just about enough of his cantankerous Dell PC took it into an alleyway and pumped eight 9mm rounds into its sorry case, according to the local Gazette.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#7K0A)
Zuck: Always looking for ways of eating a publisher's lunch Facebook has modified its News Feed algorithm and warned Facebook Page owners that "post reach and referral traffic" could plummet following the overhaul.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#7JZE)
Canonical claims first-to-market with LXD, OpenStack 'Kilo' Canonical says Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet," the latest version of its popular Linux distro, will ship this week, following a two-month beta period.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#7JYC)
What's Navinder Singh Sarao said to have done? Comment As I've mentioned around here I'm a bit of an aficionado of scams and scammettes: not because I partake in them but because the inventiveness of the human mind in hoovering up cash never ceases to amuse me. This morning we've a classic of the genre, as one bloke working out of his mother's basement* in Hounslow is alleged to have taken $40m off the financial markets and cost others billions in the process.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#7JXC)
Oyasumi nasai Vienna A first quarter earnings report from Yahoo! revealed the company had missed its revenue forecast again, prompting a share price fall for the once great tech company, and increased talk of stake sales.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#7JW4)
Does my server look big in this? Now that virtualisation is seen as a robust and mature technology, managers and administrators are looking to reduce server deployment and management costs further.…
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by Team Register on (#7JV7)
Microsoft will show you how to prep yesterday’s systems for tomorrow Promo You know where you want to get to: data on tap, instant analysis, and market-changing insights. But the first question is: are my systems up to it?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7JSG)
CEO really crowing about software upgrades. Calm down dude Harken to this, deduping back-up-to-disk system users: "ExaGrid’s largest system can take in a full backup that is 40 per cent larger and has an ingest rate that is six times faster than the EMC Data Domain 990, at half the price."…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#7JQA)
Someone's earning plenty. It just isn't you The UK's performing sights society PRS for Music recorded a slim profit of £1.4m last year on turnover of £73.9m.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#7JN9)
As the Chinese found out with those pesky rare earths Worstall on Wednesday So, the EU Commission is going to call Google in and give it a really hard talking to for offering what Google's users rather like to have. And if they decide that, well, Google has been giving the consumers what the consumers desire, good and hard, then they're going to fine the Chocolate Factory up to 10 per cent of global turnover. Which all just seems so fair, doesn't it?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7JM3)
Company prepares for new products, new president, wet ankles Teradata is widening the use of its data warehouse and analytics by orchestrating access to more data silos and logically combining them, joining data lakes to data warehouses, so to speak.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#7JJK)
Shop for your holidays AFTER July this year Booking.com has promised three European countries it will stop blocking other hotel and holiday deal sites, following an EU investigation.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7JHN)
Q1 results look rosy, other than for that pesky US dollar VMware's posted another set of good-looking numbers, with the company's first quarter results for 2015 exceeding expectations.…
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We don't HAVE to develop everything ourselves... ahem The Government Digital Service's (GDS) current monopoly position on providing Whitehall IT places it at high risk of repeating the same costly IT disasters of the past.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#7JF6)
Study shows tools and bragging rights key to beating criminals RSA 2015 The first academic study into the market for zero-day flaws has shown some surprising results, not least that throwing money at ever-larger bug bounty payouts might well be counterproductive.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7JEB)
Much ado about nothing much The biggest structure in the Universe has astro-boffins a-twitter because there's less stuff in it than there should be.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#7JDD)
Not necessarily a shoo-in yet Interest in SAP’s HANA in-memory database is slowly growing, but deployments are hampered by the age-old problems of time and money.…
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by Lester Haines on (#7JBJ)
11 on board for Live Below the Line challenge El Reg's participation next week in the 2015 Live Below the Line challenge – to survive for five days on one pound a day for food – is set to be more entertaining than ever as we've assembled a mighty Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse featuring no fewer than 11 brave souls.…
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by John Leyden on (#7JB1)
Middle managers are infosec's biggest problem, says study Middle management are increasingly becoming the focus of phishing attacks, according to a new study.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#7J92)
Loosing logical domains across the wide area network Getting SDN working across the WAN is becoming the hot topic of the month: white box SDN OS provider Pica8 is the latest to take a shot at the problem.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#7J8A)
Maglev train zooms into record books doing 603KPH For the second time in a week, Japan has smashed speed records, showcasing a really, really fast train outside Tokyo on Tuesday.…
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