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Born in the USA: German-speaking users fail to take up SAP's acquired business apps
They're still more popular in America... even 7 years after shopping spree Although proximal to the global application giant SAP, German-speaking users have yet to significantly take up its line-of-business applications, which arrived via acquisitions made during the nine-year tenure of former CEO Bill McDermott.…
Finally done with all those Patch Tuesday updates? Think again! Here's 33 Cisco bug fixes, with five criticals
And who's that in the background? Just Oracle and its *cough* 443 bugs Cisco has emitted 33 security bug fixes in its latest crop of software updates, five of those deemed critical.…
Company that contributes majority of LibreOffice code complains ecosystem is 'beyond utterly broken'
Major open-source projects need paid-for developers, but what is the business model? Interview The companies that do most to develop and evolve the LibreOffice productivity suite, both for desktop and cloud, say the project's business model is "beyond utterly broken" and that The Document Foundation (TDF), the charity that hosts the project, has to change its approach.…
UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table
Can't go worse than that time it bought 2.3 million Oracle licences. Right? The UK's Ministry of Justice has attempted to grab the interest of ERP software slingers by wafting around the prospect of a £100m deal.…
As internet governance meetings go virtual, compromise becomes harder to reach
Asia-Pacific internet address registry strategist says smaller nations get better access – when their broadband works The move to virtual meetings among internet governance bodies has had mixed results, according to Joyce Chen, a senior advisor for strategic engagement at the Asia-Pacific internet registry APNIC.…
Infosys reports better-than-expected results thanks in part to lower visa costs
Pipeline looks good as C-level crystal balls predict need for more tech Indian services company Infosys has said that lower-than-planned costs for visas have helped it to record better-than-expected results for the first quarter of its financial year.…
ReactOS hits a milestone – actually hiring a full-time developer. And we've got our talons on the latest build to see what needs fixing
Open-source Windows lookalike aims to fix its 'long neglected' storage stack The open-source ReactOS project has marked a "major milestone" by hiring a developer "full time at near-market rates."…
Softbank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong Arm some more money out of your customers?
Failing mega-group discovers again it didn’t buy the right biz Arm was pressured by its owner Softbank to jack up its processor core licensing fees for some of its customers in an effort to squeeze more money out of its $32bn buy of the British chip designer, sources say.…
Twitter says hack of key staff led to celebrity, politician, biz account hijack mega-spree
'Coordinated social engineering attack’ paved the way for miscreants to tweet out Bitcoin scam to millions Twitter has offered its initial analysis of the Wednesday mass hijacking of prominent twits' accounts – and suggested it all kicked off after its staff fell for social engineering.…
Yahoo! Japan! wants! to! be! side! hustle! for! 100! new! strategy! development! workers!
And lets the rest of its staff stay at home, because coronavirus Yahoo! Japan, the no-longer-a-joint-venture-with- Yahoo!- and still rather successful outpost of the web portal pioneer, has decided it will hire 100 strategic advisors and wants them to treat the company as a side hustle.…
Google promises another low-end Android effort as it buys into Indian mega-carrier Jio Platforms
$4.5bn splash turns out to be first installment in $10bn ‘Digitisation fund’ and development template for new products Google has revealed that $4.5bn of the $10bn “Indian digitisation fund” it revealed on Tuesday will go towards an investment in mobile carrier Jio Platforms.…
Motorbike ride-share app CEO taken to pieces in grisly New York dismemberment
Multimillionaire found dead in flash pad by sister Tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh was discovered dismembered at his New York City condo this week.…
Dell ‘exploring’ VMware spin-off, insists they must keep their special relationship
Financial bod suggests this will go nowhere, which is just what Dell's share price is doing, dammit! +Analysis Dell this week announced it is exploring a sale of the 81 percent chunk of VMware it owns and that is not publicly traded.…
Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials
Details start to emerge on real-world impact of Prez-signed secret memo The CIA is running a secret cyberwar including Russian-style hack-and-leak operations with little or no oversight, US officials have warned.…
US restricts visas for folks working at Huawei and other Chinese tech makers – seemingly over China's human-rights abuses
Staff face being turned away at the border for nation's treatment of Uyghurs The US government announced on Wednesday it will "restrict" the US visas of foreigners working for Huawei and certain other Chinese technology companies.…
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty again after cryptocurrency flop broke laws set up to stop him
All work and no play makes… you’re coming with us, you clown Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is heading back to jail after he pleaded guilty to defrauding several thousand people out of millions of dollars by pushing what he claimed was a new, better, Bitcoin.…
Twitter mass hacking: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, Biden, Obama, more hijacked to peddle Bitcoin scam
Miscreants have already obtained more than $110K from the credulous Updated The Twitter accounts of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and other celebrities were briefly taken over on Wednesday, along with the accounts of various cryptocurrency businesses and affiliated executives, to promote a Bitcoin scam.…
Bad news: Your Cisco switch is a fake and an update borked it. Good news: It wasn't designed to spy on you
Autopsy finds rip-off gear is mainly about making coin, not bugging your network Two types of fake Cisco switches – discovered after a software upgrade hobbled counterfeit gear at an unidentified IT firm – appear to have been designed for profit rather than espionage.…
Is it Patch Blues-day for Outlook? Microsoft's email client breaks worldwide, leaves everyone stumped
Admins sent scrambling after software mysteriously starts crashing Updated Microsoft's desktop email client Outlook has stopped working worldwide for countless users, whether they are using it with an on-premises Exchange server or with the Office 365 cloud.…
We asked. You spoke. Now it's time to reveal how Register IT pros pick and choose their network security gear
What are the upstarts doing right and the market incumbents doing wrong? Reader survey With network security increasingly positioned as an enabler of future business success, making the right purchasing decision in this area is more important than ever.…
Trump gloats, telcos weep, and China is furious: How things stand following UK's decision to rip out Huawei
'Retaliation should be public and painful' says Beijing-approved rag The ink has scarcely dried on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport's speech to the House of Commons that confirmed Huawei would be banned from the UK.…
Downwardly mobile? Well, things aren't looking up for Dixons Carphone's phone biz
Sales crash by 20% and that break-even period has just been pushed out by up to another year Brit retailer Dixons Carphone has cautioned that the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking havoc on its already struggling Mobile division as sales continue to plunge and the prospect of breaking even is extended further.…
€13bn wings its way back to Apple after Euro court rules Irish tax deal wasn't 'state aid'
Vestager vexed Apple has had a €13bn (£11.6bn) tax bill overturned after the EU's General Court ruled that the iGiant was not the recipient of unlawful state aid from the Republic of Ireland.…
SAP on the back for Michiel Verhoeven who has been handed the keys to ERP giant's UK and Ireland biz
Ex-MD Jens Amail returns to Germany, and we can't blame him Former Microsoft veep Michiel Verhoeven has been appointed as the new managing director of SAP UK & Ireland to replace Jens Amail who is returning to Germany after two-and-a-half years in the role.…
VMware on AWS just got cheaper and gruntier. But you can only choose one
Yet Virtzilla still won't say how many paying punters are actually using its Amazonian cloud VMware has made some notable tweaks to its AWS-powered cloud service.…
Mozilla unveils $4.99/month subscription-based VPN, says it won't hang onto user logs
Sling some dollars Moz's way for that special WireGuard experience Those wondering how Mozilla plans to plug the holes in its finances were given a clue today in the form of a subscription-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) bearing the company's stamp.…
The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest
What a shame Something wicked has befallen San Bernardino National Forest, if signs posted around the protected woodland in Southern California are to be believed.…
Apple and Google, take note: Newly enacted EU law aims to protect developers from arbitrary decisions of tech giants
'At least 30 days' notice of a suspension required – but there are plenty of get-outs Have you found your apps suspended or removed from the Play Store or App Store for no apparent good reason? A new EU law that came into force this week may help.…
Don't want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It's now easier to opt out of the slurp
And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah? Did you know if you upload pictures, text, audio, code, and other content to some Amazon Web Services' AI systems for processing, the internet giant may quietly keep your data to retrain and improve its current and future technology?…
With another NHS overhaul in the offing, £200m up for grabs in northern England for pretty much anything related to IT
Whatever it is they're doing, consultants will be kept busy North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC), a buyers' group of NHS trusts, has dished out a juicy tender for an IT services and consultancy framework agreement worth up to £200m.…
Cornwall councillor suggests authority paid £2m for Oracle licences that no one used on contract originally worth £4m
These things are noticed when you have an IT pro in local government The local government of England's westernmost county, Cornwall, has become embroiled in a row about an apparent overpayment of licences to the tune of £2m on an Oracle Cloud ERP migration worth around £4m to the vendor when the contract was signed in 2017.…
Chinese mobile giant OPPO claims new 125W fast-charging spec will fully fuel your phone in 20 minutes
But competitors concerned about hits to battery capacity and longevity The "charging wars" are in full swing, with vendors and chipmakers alike competing to replenish your phone's battery the fastest. Taking the lead is OPPO, which today touted 125W wired charging.…
Brit retailer John Lewis to catapult 111 tech bods over to Capgemini weeks after dumping 244 on Wipro
80 among newly TUPE'd workforce may face redundancy, say insiders UK retailer the John Lewis Partnership continued its "digital transformation" this week by confirming another batch of staff are to be ejected into the arms of outsourcing giant Capgemini.…
Cambridge student rebuilds Polish Enigma-code-breaking box that paved the way for Turing ... and Victory!
Marian Rejewski's cyclometer recreated in hardware for first time in decades A Cambridge post-graduate student has recreated the “cyclometer”, the decryption device devised by Polish mathematicians that informed Alan Turing’s later code-breaking efforts.…
Pokémon Go players fined for breaking down-under COVID-19 lockdown rules
As were the morons whose illegal party was rumbled when they made a colossal KFC order Police in the Australian state of Victoria have fined Pokémon Go players for venturing out during COVID-19 quarantine.…
You're testing them wrong: Whiteboard coding interviews are 'anti-women psychological stress examinations'
Boffins find flaws in the way software engineering hopefuls are sifted People applying for software engineering positions at companies are often asked to solve problems on a whiteboard, under the watchful eye of an interviewer, as a way to assess technical problem solving skills.…
AMD pushes 64-core, 4.3GHz Ryzen Threadripper Pro workstation processors
New family can wrangle 2TB of RAM, has bandwidth to burn, makes single-socket beefy PCs sing AMD has revealed a new range of microprocessors intended for use in workstations.…
Up your remote-working game with application modernisation and delivery – and more: Watch these virtual sessions
Reduce your mean time-to-resolution with efficient troubleshooting Promo There’s still plenty of talk of businesses pivoting to digital-centric approaches as the vast majority of us continue to work from home. If this shift to the "new normal" is on your radar, where should you go for in-depth technical information and discussion on the subject? Answer: Micro Focus’ Virtual Realize event.…
Citrix denies dark web claim of network compromise and ransomware attack
Says third party holding some business contact information has had trouble but its own infrastructure remains safe Citrix has taken the unusual step of rebutting dark web discourse that alleges its networks have been compromised.…
Wipro’s new CEO plans ‘obsession for growth’ as plague slowed it in Q1
Contractors look to have copped it as offshore utilisation rates grew Wipro’s new CEO Thierry Delaporte has offered some initial insights into his plans for the services giant.…
USA ends Hong Kong's special treatment, crimping flow of tech to territory
Seeing as finance is Hong Kong's thing and that industry needs lots of security kit, this could be scary US President Trump has signed an order to end Hong Kong's special status, meaning that restrictions on high-tech exports to mainland China now apply to the Special Administrative Region as well.…
As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are
Spoiler alert: Cable companies are ripping Americans off Proposed changes to the way the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) measures broadband availability across America can’t come soon enough – as the state of Georgia has made plain.…
Old-school security hole perfect for worms and remote hijackings found lurking in Windows Server DNS code
You'll want to patch that – and all these other bugs fixed by Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, VMware, SAP, Google Mega Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday patched a wormable hole in its Windows Server software that can be exploited remotely to completely commandeer the machine without any authorization. It was one of hundreds of security bugs squashed today by Redmond along with Oracle, Adobe, VMware, SAP and Google.…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a charred white dwarf star blasted across our galaxy by an ancient semi-supernova
When two don't become one A rogue white dwarf star hurtling through the Milky Way may have freed itself from a binary system after it partially exploded as a supernova more than 40 million years ago.…
Google: OK, OK, we pinky promise not to suck Fitbit health data into the borg. Now will you approve the sale?
EU antitrust folks give themselves two weeks to think about it Google has pinky-promised not to pull user health data from Fitbit devices into its monster ad empire if the European Union approves its planned $2.1bn acquisition.…
Trump U-turns on foreign student crackdown: F-1, M-1 visa holders allowed to study online mid-pandemic in the US
Funnily enough, triggering a brain drain and denting the economy isn't such a great vote winner The Trump administration today scrapped its new rule that would have forced up to a million foreign students to leave the United States if their universities didn’t offer at least some in-person tuition mid-pandemic.…
So kind of SAP NetWeaver to hand out admin accounts to anyone who can reach it. You'll want to patch this
10 out of 10: Great in a test score, less good when it's for the severity of a flaw SAP customers should update their installations to close a security vulnerability that can be exploited to commandeer the software by anyone who can reach it.…
If you have Microsoft 365 and Windows Virtual Desktop, do you need Citrix? Apparently
Redmond's Azure-based system pals up with virty dinosaur Microsoft has agreed to make Citrix a "a preferred digital workspace solution" for its Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), part of its Microsoft 365 suite.…
Modular edutech PC crew opens fresh Kano beans with expanded kit and accessories
Brit firm inks deal with Best Buy in US as it eyes government tenders abroad UK modular PC flinger Kano has cast its ambitions overseas as well as at home for its updated edutech-flavoured Kano Windows 10 PC, out today along with a pile of new buildable accessories.…
With a wave of Nokia's wand, behold as your 4G network magically becomes... 5G
Finnish comms biz says it's ready to go on a million radios already, despite what outgoing CEO said previously Nokia will allow telcos to repurpose existing 4G/LTE radios to support 5G, via an easily-deployed software update. Should we get our hopes up for near-ubiquitous fast mobile internet? Not if previous comments by the company's outgoing CEO are to be believed.…
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