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by Team Register on (#75ZS)
Microsoft offers Reg reader’s mobility enriched workshops and webinars Promo You can retreat into the server room all you like, but we all know that dealing with your users’ mobile devices is an essential part of keeping your company’s systems up and running these days.…
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Expand your brain for the summer… Reg Events If you’re the sort of Reg reader who likes to expand their mind as well as their tech arsenal, you’ll want to snap up tickets for our Summer series of Lectures.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#75X6)
Ansip told to remove his licensing tanks from Europe's patchy lawn If Europe’s new Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker thought he’d notch up an easy populist win last summer when he targeted copyright reform, he’s had a rude awakening. Instead, he’s walked into a firestorm.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#75X8)
'Think of it as Pinterest for security' IBM is putting its massive threat database up into the cloud for researchers, IT administrators, and anyone else to access in the hope of fundamentally changing how security companies defend against attackers.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#75TN)
Cloud security now ‘much stronger than on-premises’ AWS Summit Hybrid IT — systems that are part on-premises and part public cloud — is simply a path to the cloud, not a destination, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and told the 3,000 attendees at the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit in London yesterday.…
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by John Leyden on (#75SN)
Russian spooks are arming crooks, says Canadian ex-agent Infiltrate Russian intelligence has begun sharing advanced malware developed for cyber-espionage with cyber-criminals, a former Canadian spy boss warns.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#75PS)
Tells navigation business to get lost When Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft, one question which was asked was “why didn’t the mapping business go at the same time?†That echoes with the confirmation of rumours that a sale was in the offing.…
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by John Leyden on (#75NB)
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room Cyber-spy groups, whose numbers are growing with little constraint, have begun hacking each other.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#75MV)
Mass production in Sammy's foundries begins Samsung has tweaked its SM951 PCIe flash card to give it an NVMe interface as well as a low-power standby mode.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#75K6)
Give me your lightbulbs, your locks, your net-enabled forks yearning to be free A new software tool aimed at promoting Bluetooth development has been launched into Beta by the Bluetooth SIG.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#75HT)
'A little free net is better than nothing' says Zuck, but sites bail fearing neutrality fail Indian companies are bailing from Facebook's Internet.org initiative to supply free internet to under-served countries on the grounds the scheme is anti-competitive.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#75GG)
Is that a gun in your pocket or just a love truncheon? Two security strokers screeners at Denver airport got the boot after investigators were tipped off about gratuitous groin groping of certain male travellers, a police report reveals.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75EY)
But 3D-printed aircraft made at sea look interesting, especially bureaucrat-killers The secretary of the US Navy has said the F-35 Lightning II, the product of the Joint Strike Fighter program, “should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.â€â€¦
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75DV)
Scrawlware reads 82 languages, @s and "quotes" First Look Google has released Google Handwriting Input, a 'droid app that makes it possible to handwrite in any Android app.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#75CF)
You keep using that word 'security'. I do not think it means what you think it means Hacker Craig Heffner says D-Link has not only failed in its bid to patch its DIR-890L router but has managed to introduce a new vulnerability instead.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#75AZ)
Philae lander to come alive soon, says ESA, but has no magnetic field to contend with The Philae Lander should soon see enough sun to resume operations on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoduring April or May, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) lander manager Stephan Ulamec told the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this week.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#759H)
Collaborative mobile lawyers, Exchange Server 2016's for you Microsoft has let it be known that it has a preview of Exchange Server 2016 ready to see the sun at its May Ignite conference.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#757X)
You can do this their way, or run the legal gauntlet yourself US retailer Target's ongoing attempts to mop up after its colossal data breach have taken another step forward, after it settled with MasterCard.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#755S)
Patches cooked for five versions of Cisco's IOS Remote attackers can send some Cisco routers into a continuous denial of service funk by rebooting network processor chips with a crafted attack.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#754H)
Office 365 emails can now carry 150MB of baggage, but it may not fit in the overhead bins Microsoft has increased the maximum attachment size accessible to users of Outlook Web Access (OWA) under Office 365, with 150MB of digital baggage now able to hop aboard emails.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#752R)
Back pay on its way Dropbox has launched a no-limit bug bounty program, back-paying US$14,875 so far for previously and newly-reported vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#7526)
RAM and SSDs stuck down with Sir Jony's juice Pics Apple really doesn't want its customers to be able to repair or upgrade their own computers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#7512)
'Thousands' of customers now and plans to repeat Google deal to win more Exclusive VMware will add database-backup-as-a-service to its vCloud Air cloud in June, the company's veep and general manager of hybrid cloud Bill Fathers has told The Register.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#74ZY)
Mobe makers get lower patent fees in exchange for bloatware A new report claims Microsoft hasn't been offering Android device vendors any money to bundle its mobile apps on their phones and slabs; rather, it has offered to reduce the tolls it collects from the mobe-makers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#74XS)
Tech land needs to do more to distance itself from mass immigration debate, says CEO Cisco CEO John Chambers says the tech world has to win over the American public if it wants the US government to issue thousands more H-1B work visas to foreign nerds.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#74W2)
Extraordinary claims made by whistleblowers' lawyer after he asks for email archives A lawyer representing three police whistleblowers has claimed a hard drive sent to him with evidence for his case was deliberately infected with password-stealing malware.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#74S1)
Thrills! Spills! Rectangles! Pic Meg Whitman, who will take the reins as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise later this year, has unveiled the branding system for the soon-to-be-created company, and it's just as bland and lifeless as anyone could have anticipated.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#74NT)
Java, Fusion Middleware, Database and MySQL and more affected Oracle has patched nearly 100 security flaws in Java, Fusion Middleware, Database, MySQL and other products.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#74JJ)
NASA craft flies three billion miles – and someone forgot to hit autofocus Pic NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken the first true color photograph of Pluto and its largest moon Charon – all while speeding toward the dwarf planet at four kilometres a second (8,950 miles per hour).…
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by Neil McAllister on (#74HS)
Digitally signed firmware makes hardware acceleration with free software a no-go The Linux community's on-again, off-again relationship with Nvidia appears to have soured once more, amid reports that the GPU maker is back to its old tricks – and worse – when it comes to open source hardware drivers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#74GJ)
What do we want? 25GbitE. When do we want it? NOW An alliance called 2550100 has been announced by QLogic and others to deliver faster Ethernet faster – starting with 25GbitE to deliver better-than-10gig speed without jumping all the way to 40gig.…
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DJI set to be most valuable biz in RC aerial gizmos Chinese drone company DJI could become the world's most valuable unmanned aerial vehicle biz, following a round of fundraising said to place the manufacturer's worth at a cool $10bn (£6.7bn), according to reports.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#74DK)
It's acquisition or IPO – but do it quickly, as the alternatives aren't pretty Comment The mass of storage start-ups is threatening to overwhelm the exit routes into the great, wide post-start-up world, dooming many to lingering deaths or outright failure.…
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by Adrian Bridgwater on (#74BZ)
Better insights with fewer disruptions, promises head honcho Goodness, doesn’t everyone want to show they're a "cloud developer’ company these days? If it’s not migration tools to the cloud for the data centre, then it’s native cloud tools that exist in the cloud, for the cloud and of the cloud.…
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by Chris Williams on (#749X)
As Uncle Sam builds another nuke test number-cruncher In November, the US government announced it will build Summit, a $325m supercomputer capable of performing 300 quadrillion calculations per second if you redline it.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#7483)
Flies two new fancy filers for filer fetishists DDN has launched two new filers: the MEDIAScaler for media workflows and a refreshed GRIDScaler for HPC-style workloads.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#7461)
Problems often related to ‘poorly patched devices’ Security software company Symantec is being drenched in calls from breached health organisations that have lost devices or suffered an information security snafu.…
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It's like the zombie nightmare future of spam just came to life Google is in talks to allow advertisers to target ads in search results using existing customers' email addresses, according to reports.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#742D)
How to do you solve a problem like ICANN – in one easy diagram Infogasm The organization that oversees the top level of the internet, ICANN, will be restructured into a true membership-controlled organization under plans drafted this week. That's important because ICANN, right now, has the keys to the web, and the more that can be done to hold it to account, the better.…
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by Martin Wolf on (#7408)
Roll up, roll up, get your exclusive market insights Beginning this month, The Channel and martinwolf M&A Advisors are forming an editorial partnership to feature martinwolf’s commentary and analysis concerning the challenges and opportunities facing the IT industry. The organisation, exclusively focused on the IT industry, has completed more than 130 transactions and sold seven divisions of Fortune 500 companies across 19 different countries.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#73ZA)
OEMs Samsung tech, announces new flash-equipped workstations HP has been flashing at the National Association of Broadcasters' event in Las Vegas, announcing desktop PCIe SSDs for media mavens to manipulate their massive files.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#73WZ)
The Chocolate Factory just wanted to make the world a Lovelier Place Analysis Google made the internet a bit more crappy and considerably less diverse, breaking its own vows along the way. That’s what the EU’s competition division declared earlier today, in a formal Statement of Objections. So what’s their beef?…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#73X1)
More data than stars in the sky, claims starry-eyed CTO AWS Summit Amazon’s Redshift data warehouse is the fastest-growing service in AWS’s nine-year history, according to Amazon.com chief technology officer Werner Vogels, who told the AWS Summit in London that the old metric of measuring AWS size by raw objects is now outdated.…
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by Lester Haines on (#73V6)
With a soupçon of rocket propellant, naturally Those who live by the motto Ad Astra Tabernamque ("To The Stars And The Pub") – with the possible addition of "...and then home for a bacon sarnie"* – should proceed forthwith to El Reg's merchandising tentacle Cash'n'Carrion to feast their eyes on our limited edition "SPB Equation" t-shirt.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#73SY)
Chinese firm uses Xiaomi backing to Gingerly move into American markets Ninebot, the company Segway recently tried to sue, has bought Segway thanks to a cash injection from mobile and media company Xiaomi.…
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Promises from Clegg? (oi, stop laughing) Election 2015 The Liberal Democrats published their election manifesto today, promising stronger protections for freedom of speech and claiming to be the party pushing back against mass state surveillance.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#73NW)
Command and control of a robot army vital Google has been awarded a patent related to systems and methods for "allocating tasks to a plurality of robotic devices".…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#73KS)
Meetings cancelled as volunteer experts burn out from conference calls The internet's backstage community is crying for mercy over the work schedule for deciding the fate of IANA – the crucial body that allocates IP addresses and runs the world's DNS for domain-name overseer ICANN.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#73K0)
Horse-trading between ad giant and Brussels begins Google now has 10 weeks to respond to Brussels' preliminary finding that the world's largest ad broker abused its dominant position in the search market in Europe.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#73J3)
NCR hurls Google's Linux at Windows XP walls Banks have a new option for finally unhitching from Windows XP on tens of thousands of ATMs – Google’s Android.…
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