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Back-from-the-brink X-IO has a new, bright & shiny all-flash array

Slap your apps on this Dell-flavoured testing server before tossing them on Azure Stack

UK third worst in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises – report

WDC's My Cloud Home Duo is a natty piece of kit but beware iContent

So. Should I upgrade to macOS High Sierra?

DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds

SAP flings out one-hub-to-rule-and-crunch all the data. Yes, a hub

The power JavaScript: 'Gandalf of JS' Wirfs-Brock on ECMAscript 2017

Equifax CEO falls on his sword weeks after credit biz admits mega-breach

Mobile stock trading apps riddled with security holes

Docs ran a simulation of what would happen if really nasty malware hit a city's hospitals. RIP :(

Boffins take biometric logins to heart, literally: Cardiac radar IDs users to unlock their PCs

HMRC scoops up Microsoft veep for CIO role

So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth

A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it

Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license

Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned

Puppet plays puppet master, gobbles up automation firm Distelli

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

Small businesses: GDPR affects you, too

UK Home Office re-bans cheap call gateways because 'terrorism'

Toshiba: The memory saga is nearly behind us! Apple: NOT SO FAST

Why Uber isn't the poster child for capitalism you wanted

My name is Bill Gates and I am an Android user

HP denies rumours Elite x3 is for the axe, admits coveting neighbour's OS

Bing fling sting: Apple dumps Microsoft search engine for Google

Fresh chips from Intel (yay?) at 14nm (awww)

Geek's Guide

Japanese boffins try 'token passing' to scale quantum calculations

Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Don't panic, but.. ALIEN galaxies are slamming Earth with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Hurricane Maria leaves Arecibo radio telescope damaged and dark

Need to get up to speed on machine learning, AI?

Splunk goes native with machine learning, aims to speed up monitoring

Baidu puts open source deep learning into smartphones

Alexa and her kind let the disabled or illiterate make the web work

Verity Stob

Twitter reckons Trump's Nork-baiting tweet was 'newsworthy'

Limp Weiner to get 21 months in the hole

Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman

You forgot that you hired me and now you're saying it's MY fault?

Data Centre > Networks

Funny pic of "British" woman in tiara posing with cup of tea, crown and ... jewels. Photo by Shutterstock

UK third worst in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises – report

The UK has been ranked the third-worst country in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage, according to a comprehensive study of speeds from 28 countries across the continent.

Kat Hall, 26 Sep 2017

Shuterstock Man in Fog

Fog lifts as standards bodies agree on fog compute interoperability

Telcos looking at “fog computing” will have fewer standards to contemplate if a cooperation between the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the OpenFog Consortium delivers on its promise.

Richard Chirgwin, 26 Sep 2017

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The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Two other big brands, Sky and BT, also in the naughty corner

The route of the MAREA submarine cable funded by Microsoft and Facebook

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

In 2018 'MAREA' will move ads and Azure from USA to Spain at 160 terabits per second

Nothing to see here, folks, literally... Citrix mysteriously pulls NetScaler downloads

Builds yanked offline for a week in bug riddle

Chief digital officer and sales director leave O2 amid ongoing shake-up

Roles yet to be filled

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Also wants to extend consumer protection to cover more broadband services

Now EE's challenging UK regulator's mobile spectrum proposals

Joins Three in telling Ofcom: See you in court

Cisco's John Chambers to quit as exec chair

Southern drawler to fly off into sunset on back of a drone

Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

IN ALL CAPS, no less

How to stop Facebook and Apple taking over the mobile phone industry

Cloudflare Internet SummitStreaming operating systems, virtualizing base stations

123-Reg customers outraged at automatic .UK domain registration

www.howaboutno.co.uk, .uk, ... nope

Chirpy, chirpy, cheap, cheap: Printable IoT radios for 10 cents each

Backscatter boffins get Things talking over kilometres

Boffins' satcomms rig uses earthly LEDs to talk to orbiting PV panels

Lasers are too pricy, so we're using BLINKENLIGHTS instead

Chill out about net neutrality, says FCC head, because mobile phones are great

Mobile World CongressAll just part of a broader strategy

Gov claws back £645m in BT broadband from subsidy

What councils spend it on is another matter

Arista describes Cisco's IP defence in antitrust case as 'insane'

Judge mulls whether to dismiss suit after ITC ruling

Angry old man

Scottish pensioners rage at Virgin cabinet blocking their view

Who needs sunlight when you've got Netflix?

TalkTalk plans to bail on mobile in major shake-up for beleaguered biz

Three reported to be 'interested' in a deal

BT Tower photo via Shutterstock

Indian call centre scammers are targeting BT customers

In some cases fraudsters knew their mark's personal details

Opinion

News

Australia-to-Asia traffic slows as typhoons cut submarine cables

I've been to Bali, via California

Three challenges UK watchdog to a duel over mobile spectrum rules

Networking vendors are good for free lunches, hopeless for networks

Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins

UK.gov unveils six areas to pilot full-fat fibre, and London ain't on the list

Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot

nbn™ adds premises to FTTC, HFC, slims down FTTN build

Build will end in 2020, stay in the financial envelope.
We promise, really, truly

DC court says Dish skirted rules in US airwave auction

No bid credits for sockpuppets, rules judge

EE!? The sound customers make when the interwebz don't work

Broadband's out nationwide, say frustrated Twitter folk

India responds to internet shutdown criticism... by codifying rules to make it legal

Bureaucracy embraces removing communications for millions of people

Telcos waive bills during Houston hurricane recovery

Carriers say they're holding up – more flooding is likely

Google routing blunder sent Japan's Internet dark on Friday

Another big BGP blunder

A LANnister always pays his subnets: Cisco hires Game of Thrones' Tyrion

Peter Dinklage takes Switchzilla's coin

Dell, BT alchemists turn bog-standard HW/SW to flexible, open networks

AnalysisPlaying the disaggregation game

British broadband is confusing and speeds are crap, says survey

See, it's not just Grant Shapps who gets it mixed up

White box

D-Link in Pluribus-powered white box play to target enterprise sales

Netvisor gets a crack at the consumer and SME channel in new 54-port switch

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

The DNS signing keys are changing for the first time

Cage fighter in a choke hold

Verizon kicks out hot new Unlimited* plans

*By 'unlimited' they mean 'significantly limited'

Skeptical hipster. photo by shutterstock

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

UpdatedNot looking good for cheesed off customers

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Trio squeezes a bit more life out of current-gen broadband standard

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