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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EV4P)
Get clean from your data sins Data privacy addicts are being urged to take a 12-step programme – by no less than the UK's Information Commissioner's Office.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3EVDB)
Power plant sensors to continue squeaking at engineers Data-over-sound chaps Chirp and energy company EDF have been given £100,000 in funding by the UK government to advance their trials in sound-based sensors for nuclear power stations.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3EV1Z)
Power plant sensors to continue squeaking at engineers Data-over-sound chaps Chirp and energy company EDF have been given £100,000 in funding by the UK government to advance their trials in sound-based sensors for nuclear power stations.…
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by Steven Rogers on (#3EV21)
Pricing out the IOPS What really matters in choosing an all-flash array is a wider view of performance and price than a simple look at I/Os per second (IOPS). Handily, this information is available in the Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmarks, which provide solid guidance on choosing a flash array vendor.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EVA7)
Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions A Liverpudlian business was today slapped with a £300,000 fine for making 8.7 million nuisance calls.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ETYE)
Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions A Liverpudlian business was today slapped with a £300,000 fine for making 8.7 million nuisance calls.…
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Contingency plans in place at Barnet after £1bn wiped off troubled outsourcer's value The UK government faced an urgent question in Parliament today over its reliance on troubled outsourcing firm Capita following a serious profit warning by the public sector provider – just weeks after Brit construction firm Carillion went bust.…
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Contingency plans in place at Barnet after £1bn wiped off troubled outsourcer's value The government faced an urgent question in Parliament today over its reliance on troubled outsourcing firm Capita following a serious profit warning by the public sector provider – just weeks after Carillion went bust.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3ETS2)
It's a pointer – not a cast-iron legal precedent Comment Yesterday's county court ruling that Indiegogo's Ts&Cs weren’t wholly relevant to the question "does a crowdfunding-backed company form a contract of sale with its customers?" won't quite open the floodgates for people who feel they've been ripped off.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ETJZ)
Digital secretary ups ante, but users say it's riddled with bugs Move over, Zuckerberg, there's a new social media overlord in town: grime aficionado and Tory MP Matt Hancock.…
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Dutch spin-off to Liberty Global also singled out as party pooper Vodafone posted a fall in sales of 3.6 per cent to €11.8bn (£10.3bn) in its third quarter results – with the UK market representing the biggest revenue drag.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3ETFG)
Storage 'n' servers flat, PCs & tabs OK but mobes, base stations fall Fujitsu's revenues have been hit by weak mobile phones and base station sales. Servers and storage were flat while PC sales rose a little.…
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MPs give Disclosure and Barring Service a lashing MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resulting in a "missed opportunity" to save the taxpayer millions.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3ETCH)
Department of Business splashing cash for YASA An Oxford-based electric motor company is opening a new factory it claims is capable of making 100,000 units a year.…
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Beginning of the end for copper? BT's Openreach has unveiled plans to connect three million premises to full fibre by 2020, up 50 per cent on its previous goal.…
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by John E Dunn on (#3ET94)
Now Oracle and others are wading in, like a BaaS As far as database giant Oracle is concerned, the October announcement of its Blockchain Cloud Service (BCS) was timed perfectly.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3ET7T)
Pledges simple workflow creation tools as next act after grand Q4 and FY 2017 ServiceNow has put up a fine set of quarterly and annual numbers and offered guidance suggesting its best is yet to come as the company moves beyond its IT roots and prepares to let non-developer business professionals start to program its platform.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3ET6T)
Enters the dockless bike business, which is – ahem – not without its critics Uber has entered the bicycle-sharing business.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ET3P)
Out of the phone booth comes the IETF in lycra - with the power of STANDARDS! The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has emitted another small advance in its program to protect as much of the Internet as it can, with a request that email systems finish encrypting all their connections.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3ET3Q)
...and they have also found one of its first stars Astrophysicists have found evidence that the Milky Way has gobbled up neighbouring massive dwarf galaxies over its 13 billion year lifetime.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ET2D)
More than ever, YOU are Facebook's product as it trashes cat vids Facebook's announced revenue of $US12.97bn for Q42017, plus profit from of $4.23bn, even though it also owned up that tweaks to its news feed prompted a fall in time spent on the site.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3ET0X)
Fossil find expands evidence from Cretaceous period NASA is mostly known for exploring space, but it can also uncover wonders closer to home.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3ESZ8)
Says cloud plan is working better than expected but predicts very modest growth Citrix has posted a strong fourth quarter, claimed its turnaround plan is working better than expected and asked the world to measure its health by looking at the number of subscribers it secures.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ESY6)
Bonus space news: wanna salvage a SpaceX Falcon 9? Demonstrating again that anti-missile missiles work best under carefully controlled circumstances, a test of such a weapon fired from Hawaii has missed its target.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ESV2)
Investors give shares a bumpy ride... and settle on no change in after-hours trading US chip designer Qualcomm on Wednesday reported $6.1bn flat-growth revenues for its first fiscal quarter of 2018, which ended on December 24, 2017.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3ESRD)
Telco gives 5% to staff, 5% for capex, windfall for shareholders AT&T lobbied hard for tax cuts in the US – and that effort has rather paid off. Thanks to the President-Trump-championed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the telco revealed this week it rounded out 2017 with some stonking financial figures.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3ESNP)
We'll buy the J/V from you so you can use the cash to buy us, goddit? Fujifilm has announced a $US6.1 billion deal to take control of troubled Xerox.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ESNQ)
Redmond remains upbeat despite quarterly loss Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners are up in arms over what they claim is an ongoing epidemic of screen failures blighting their expensive fondleslabs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ESGT)
Even the bribery scandals are depressing in that city The boss of an IT services provider bribed a top Detroit city official to win lucrative contracts for his biz, prosecutors in the US have claimed.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#3ESFG)
Screw asking for digi-coins. Just craft 'em on victims' computers For the past few years, ransomware has been a bane of computer users. These software nasties infect PCs, scramble files, and demand payment in cryptocurrency to restore the documents.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3ESA3)
Hawaii's EMA – you’ve never seen crisis management quite like this Analysis It's a common enough scenario: you are in charge of a critical piece of your company's computing infrastructure, and you make a simple mistake with far-reaching implications.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3ES4X)
Doomed: Junkware claiming it can rid PCs of viruses, clean up the Registry, etc Microsoft will tighten the screws on scummy developers who use scare tactics to frighten people – particularly non-tech savvy folks – into paying for unnecessary software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3ES0J)
Partisan nonsense engulfs law enforcement Analysis The FBI has slammed a still-secret memo that claims the bureau was politically motivated when it requested a wiretap on a key advisor of Donald Trump during his presidential campaign.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3ERVG)
Auto-pwn code glues device search engine Shodan to Metasploit weapons cache Python code has emerged that automatically searches for vulnerable devices online using Shodan.io – and then uses Metasploit's database of exploits to potentially hijack the computers and gadgets.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3ERB1)
We leave huge digital paper trails, but biz can still do more Secure end-to-end encrypted comms is a desirable technology that governments should stop trying to break, especially as there's other information to slurp up on crims, UK politicians were told this week.…
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by John Leyden on (#3ERB3)
Yep, vulns of WannaCry infamy. Why haven't you patched yet? Hackers* have improved the reliability and potency of Server Message Block (SMB) exploits used to carry out the hard-hitting NotPetya ransomware attack last year.…
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Array with you! Biz still fixing failed drives A number of Heart Internet customers remain unable to get online for three days thanks to a hosting failure.…
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86 per cent leap attributed to memory chip biz Korean tech titan Samsung has posted bumper annual results on the back of high memory chip demand, with yearly operating profit up 83 per cent to 53.7 trillion won (£35.4bn).…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EQZ6)
Contract of sale formed between company and backer, not Indiegogo, rules judge A crowdfunding backer of Retro Computers Ltd has won his court claim for a refund against the Brit company for failing to deliver its promised product.…
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by Richard Priday on (#3EQT5)
MPs debate amendments, talk Schwarzenegger in bill's 3rd reading AEV Bill Britain's new network of charging points for battery operated cars should be "iconic and beautiful" just like the telephone box, according the ex-minister in charge of working out their place in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Bill.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EQP1)
Health committee calls for immediate ban on use of 'unacceptable' agreement NHS Digital must put an immediate stop to patient data-sharing deal with the UK Home Office for immigration enforcement, MPs have said.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3EQP3)
Angry bird: Artist's idea fails to take off An artist was left spitting feathers after United Airlines told her she couldn't board a plane with her "emotional support" peacock.…
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by John Leyden on (#3EQJG)
Please, Oracle. Seriously? A vulnerability has been unearthed in Oracle MICROS point-of-sale (POS) terminals that allowed hackers to read sensitive data from devices.…
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CEO says biz 'too complex' in self-flagellating statement Capita's stock plunged more than 40 per cent today after the firm issued another profit warning, suspended dividends and issued £700m in new shares.…
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Critical infrastructure and emergency services need a satellite back-up The UK must reduce the dependency of its critical infrastructure and emergency services on GPS technology to mitigate against the potentially disastrous impact of signal jamming, a government report has warned.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3EQF1)
BT and EE take it all the way to the top BT and EE have appealed to the Supreme Court of the UK against an earlier ruling that made ISPs liable for the costs of blocking copyright infringement websites.…
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by Andrew Cobley on (#3EQDP)
You better have both app dev and machine learning chops Late last year, Google announced a new mobile library for Tensorflow on mobile devices: Lite.…
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by John Leyden on (#3EQAS)
Security specialists to command 7% salary hikes, survey finds Cybersecurity specialists will enjoy the highest salary increases among IT professionals with rises of 7 per cent – compared to 2 per cent for devs and 3 per cent for infrastructure experts – according to a survey by recruitment consultancy Robert Walters.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EQAT)
Container Platform hooks Kubernetes to all the Borg's bits Cisco has decided to throw everything it has at containers by releasing its very own “Container Platformâ€.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3EQ9E)
Developers, developers, developers – sigh – 100,000 of them were booted too! Google has revealed that it booted “more than 700,000 apps†and 100,000 developers out of its Play digital tat bazaar during 2017.…
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