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O2: Float or flog. What's it going to be, Telefonica?

Forced to find funds for €50bn deficit
12 Comments
05 Sep 10:34

Parliament's back for Snoopers' Charter. Former head of GCHQ talks to El Reg

IPBill Terror law review project turned in at the holidays... and now we wait
22 Comments
05 Sep 10:03

Telstra wins AU$39 million for data retention costs as grants revealed

AU$128.4 million about to flow, to 180 companies we now know will have our data
05 Sep 07:21

Brexit must not break the cloud, Japan tells UK and EU

Japanese companies want to know what they – and their regional HQs – are in for
71 Comments
05 Sep 06:00

McAfee-the-man wants McAfee-the-brand, Chipzilla says no

Sueballs loaded; take ten paces, turn and fire
19 Comments
05 Sep 02:00

'Hey, Elon? You broke it, you bought it' says owner of SpaceX's satellite cinder

Hand over $50m in compo or at least a free flight, says Israel's Spacecom
36 Comments
05 Sep 00:02

Australia's mobile black spot program was a partisan money hole

Vodafone and Telstra paid to consolidate - not extend - coverage
04 Sep 23:42

Australian telecoms regulator watching over Telstra HFC/NBN deal

ACCC tells Telstra's right hand to pay no attention to left hand
04 Sep 23:10

When Irish eyes are filing: Ireland to appeal Europe's $15bn Apple tax claw-back

Get your hand out of the Cooky jar, says Cabinet
70 Comments
02 Sep 17:51

EMC-Pure Storage patent sueball circus sent back to square one

Old Sun Microsystems patent prompts judge to order retrial
02 Sep 15:54

We want GCHQ-style spy powers to hack cybercrims, say police

Why catch crooks when you can DDoS them from the nick?
44 Comments
02 Sep 14:02

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in talks to offload software, asking for '$8bn to $10bn'

Nearly as much as we paid for Autonomy... badoom tish
25 Comments
02 Sep 12:02
Grand Theft Auto Lindsay Lohan lookalike

Lindsay Lohan's Grand Theft Auto V cartoon case kicked out of court

Soz love, it's called satire
41 Comments
02 Sep 10:58

A plumber with a blowtorch is the enemy of data centre

On-Call The safety training trailer turned out to offer lessons in the opposite
73 Comments
02 Sep 06:58
Nerd fail photo via Shutterstock

Census fail to get Oz Senate probe; NDIS fix promised this year

Who's in charge of gummint IT anyway?
13 Comments
02 Sep 00:13

Opinion

Police officers in bodu armour mill around in field

UK IT consultant subject to insane sex ban order mounts legal challenge

+Comment Homeless Yorkshire man must tell plod in advance if he wants to have a flirty text chat
Mickey Mouse

Turnbull's Transformers intend to test single sign-on to Gov.au on the offshore, public cloud

Because after #CensusFail we're all up for biometrics guarded by unicorn worshippers
11 Comments
15 Aug 22:56

London cops waste £2.1m on thought crime unit – and they want volunteer informers

+ Comment Hurt by a cutting put-down? Now you can get the perp jailed
82 Comments
15 Aug 12:01
F-35

What next for the F-35 after Turkey's threats to turn its back on NATO?

Comment West's lovebombing of Erdogan doesn't disguise tech transfer threat
87 Comments
12 Aug 08:03

News

Surge pricing? How about surge fines: Pennsylvania orders Uber to cough up $11.4m

Super Cali goes ballistic, wait, sorry, wrong state
46 Comments
01 Sep 23:58

Cooky crumbles: Apple mulls yanking profits out of Europe and into US

Wonder if it has anything to do with that $14.5bn tax bill
64 Comments
01 Sep 20:39

Deal delays and exchange rate woes batter Salesforce

Going soft in the USA
01 Sep 11:20

Tim Cook: EU lied about Apple taxes. Watch out Ireland, this is a coup!

The EU's coming for your government, froths tech titan
137 Comments
01 Sep 10:13

Will the real builders of IoT please stand up?

CFP Your attention please – speakers sought for super new tech event
11 Comments
01 Sep 08:56

TalkTalk's appeal against paltry ICO data breach fine thrown out

Penalty amounted to roughly one hour of CEO's billable time
24 Comments
01 Sep 07:55

IBM swings axe through staff, humming contently about cloud and AI

Long-serving workers in US, UK and beyond lose their jobs amid ongoing months-long shakeup
52 Comments
01 Sep 07:02

Nest developers become Oompa-Loompas in Google shake-up

Alphabet soups up Android with more IoT
12 Comments
01 Sep 06:06

Now the Olympics is over, Theranos is withdrawing its Zika test application

Medical unicorn spins FDA concerns as a 'positive interaction'
13 Comments
01 Sep 04:55

Good job, Oz feds: Conroy wants you investigated for privilege and contempt

Inspector Cluseau called: he wants his bumbling schtick back
11 Comments
31 Aug 22:56

Fake Twitter accounts, coup plots ... Wacky Hyperloop One lawsuit turns it up to 11

Amended complaint outlines alleged takeover attempt
31 Aug 21:08

EU 'net neutrality' may stop ISPs from blocking child abuse material

Analysis Voluntary blocklists will be, er, blocked themselves
52 Comments
31 Aug 14:56

Got to dash out for some rubber johnnies? Amazon has a button for that

God help humanity if Wi-Fi goes down
94 Comments
31 Aug 14:14
speaking_in_tech Greg Knieriemen podcast enterprise

Speaking in Tech: Fancy a 30 hour work week? Ask Amazon

Podcast Plus: Uber, your burning-cash-as-a-service startup
31 Aug 10:06

Cisco is the new container for ContainerX

Upstart start-up assimilated into cloud biz
31 Aug 06:05

Lawyers! win! millions! in! bonkers! Yahoo! email! snooping! case!

Privacy, who needs it?
20 Comments
31 Aug 02:05
Workers car pooling

Waze to go, Google: New dial-a-ride Uber, Lyft rival 'won't vet drivers'... What could go wrong?

Chocolate Factory also settles up cookie complaints
29 Comments
31 Aug 00:56

Making us pay tax will DESTROY EUROPE, roars Apple's Tim Cook

Apparently everyone could pay 0.005 per cent tax if they only asked
208 Comments
30 Aug 19:39

Super Cali goes ballistic, IT school is hopeless: Tech boot camp ITT frozen by edu officials

Doubts linger over for-profit US-wide college's finances

Holy friggin' Dell! $67bn EMC mega-gobble to complete on Sept 7

祝你好运，戴尔先生
30 Aug 18:54
Grinning man in suit points at a calculator meaningfully. Pic via Shutterstock

Ireland taxman: Apple got NO favours from us, at all, at all

Yes, we squeezed just 0.005% corp tax from Apple. That was what it owed
57 Comments
30 Aug 12:06
vestager_648

EU verdict: Apple received €13bn in illegal tax benefits from Ireland

Updated 'State aid' will be recovered, plus interest
126 Comments
30 Aug 10:01
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