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It's a Pivotal moment: Dell's cloudy soft limb hits the stock market
And so it begins: Veritas lays off UK workers, R&D bods hit hardest
BOFH
: We know where the bodies are buried
Google kills off domain fronting – and so secure comms just got tougher
Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...
Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...
Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Chinese web giant finds Windows zero-day, stays shtum on specifics
Cloud-surfing orgs under attack, Microsoft antivirus for Chrome, Windows 10 S bypass, non-RSA gigs, and more
Oh, baby! Newborn-care website leaves database of medics wide open
No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure
Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project
Kubernetes? Just automate it….
Build a serverless framework at home: Go on, bit of open sourcey hijinx won't hurt
Docker enterprise kit gets cozy with Kubernetes
Policy
The Channel
Facebook privacy audit by auditors finds everything is awesome!
Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money
Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs
Government demands for people's personal info from Microsoft reach all-time low
Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit
Two's company, Three's unbowed: You Brits will pay more for MMS snaps
LESTER gets ready to trundle:
The Register
's beer-bot has a name
Motorola Z
2
Force: This one's for the butterfingered Android lovers
Geek's Guide
Here's another headline where NASA is dragged through the mud for cheap Mars wise cracks
Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times
Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloons
SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbit
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?
Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient
Samsung-backed gizmo may soon juice up your smartphone over the air
Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error
Verity Stob
Drama brews on high seas as Playmobil ship running out of steam
Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?
There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick
Size does matter, chaps: Oversized todgers an evolutionary handicap
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Apple boosts Bluetooth – Bluetooth boosts Apple
Apple has updated its operating system to include support for Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and peripherals.
Andrew Orlowski
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11 Apr 2003
Windows comes to AMD Opteron
Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff tells us that Microsoft informed developers to expect x86-64 support with the first Service Pack for Windows .NET server.
Andrew Orlowski
,
11 Apr 2003
PwC unveils VAT help site for e-tailers
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)has set up a new Web site at www.pwcebiztoolkit.comto help e-tailers comply with new European Union regulations that come into force in July.
ElectricNews.net
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11 Apr 2003
UK ebiz owners are bird brains
UK Internet firms lack "business brains", according to first national IQ test of small business entrepreneurs.
Tim Richardson
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11 Apr 2003
Administrators called in to Brightview
Brightview Ltd - the independent outfit that owns ISPs including callnet, ic24, madasafish and Totalise - has gone into administration.
Tim Richardson
,
11 Apr 2003
Juniper returns to profit
Juniper Networks has met analyst expectations for Q`.
John Leyden
,
11 Apr 2003
Jobs hope for IT contractors
If you're an IT contractor "in between jobs" here's a crumb of hope for a Friday.
Tim Richardson
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11 Apr 2003
Novell goes a bundle on small biz networking
Novell is giving away a small business networking starter pack to small businesses free of any licensing costs. The move is designed to court sales from smaller businesses as they grow.
John Leyden
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11 Apr 2003
Apple in talks to buy Universal Music Group — report
Apple CEO Steve Jobs may once have dated Joan Baez, but is he really itching to become a music industry player? If the LA Times is correct, that could well be what he achieves.
Tony Smith
,
11 Apr 2003
Acequote shuts doors to new subs
Acequote.com, the veteran UK e-marketplace, is shutting its doors to new subscribers, following the decision of German parent, DCI, to withdraw from the sector.
Drew Cullen
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11 Apr 2003
Why we love the Iraqi information minister
Updated
One unfortunate side effect of Gulf War II has been the complete disappearance of affable Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
Lester Haines
,
11 Apr 2003
Re
g Kit Watch
Tony Smith
,
11 Apr 2003
Vibrating Nokia self-pleasure – yours for £1.50
Girls, are you tired of spending your evening staring at your mobile, waiting for a man to call?
Lester Haines
,
11 Apr 2003
Smart credit on UK cards. Will it cut fraud?
UK banks, building societies and retailers are to introduce a more secure method of authorising credit card payments.
John Leyden
,
11 Apr 2003
HP wins $3bn P&G outsourcing mega deal
HP has won a 10-year IT outsourcing deal with Procter & Gamble, worth an estimated $3bn.
Drew Cullen
,
11 Apr 2003
NZ ISP is content monster
Net users in New Zealand are threatening to cut their ties with the country's biggest ISP, Xtra, after it introduced sweeping new terms of service (ToS) that effectively hands it ownership of all content passing through its system.
Tim Richardson
,
11 Apr 2003
HP signs IT outsourcing MOU with Ericsson
Ericsson is planning to outsource its IT infrastructure operations to HP, and the pair have signed a memorandum of understanding today setting out how they will work together. A final agreement should be in place before the "end of Q2, 2003, Ericsson says.
Drew Cullen
,
11 Apr 2003
BT helps ADSL campaigners
BT Wholesale is trying to make life easier for its unpaid army of volunteers who are trying to muster enough support to get their local exchange converted to ADSL.
Tim Richardson
,
11 Apr 2003
Sunderland FC and the Iraqi minister of information
News of another of Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's blinding predictions comes to us via www.nufc.com, a non-official website dedicated to UK footie outfit Newcastle United.
Lester Haines
,
11 Apr 2003
Sanera ready to beta SAN switch
Sanera Systems has been touting its switch of enormous proportions for a long time now, but come next week beta product will be on hand.
Ashlee Vance
,
11 Apr 2003
Grifter jailed for Mac auction fraud
A conniving conwoman who ripped off an estimated $880,000 from almost 350 victims through online auction fraud was sent to jail for four years and nine months this week.
John Leyden
,
11 Apr 2003
Greece stunned by ADSL charges
Spare a thought for Net users in Greece. First the Government banned (temporarily) all computer games. Now, they've finally found out that they're about to get ADSL after waiting two years or so for incumbent telco, OTE, to complete its trial.
Tim Richardson
,
11 Apr 2003
DNS inventor calls for security overhaul
Web site impersonation could become as great a risk as ID theft, Paul Mockapetris, the co-inventor of DNS warns.
John Leyden
,
11 Apr 2003
WorldCom to adopt MCI name
WorldCom will rebrand itself as MCI possibly as early as next week in an attempt to move away from its tainted past.
Ashlee Vance
,
11 Apr 2003
The self-healing, self-hopping landmine
Only the well-funded geniuses at DARPA would describe their creation of hopping, networked explosives as "Self-Healing Mines."
Ashlee Vance
,
11 Apr 2003
Sparks over US power grid cybersecurity
A new measure aims to protect the networks that control electric power distribution throughout North America. But not everyone is juiced over plans to hold utilities accountable to tight security practices, says Kevin Poulsen, of SecurityFocus.
Kevin Poulsen
,
11 Apr 2003
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Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good
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