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Microsoft reveals 775 percent Azure surge, quotas on some resources and ‘significant new capacity’ coming ASAP

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

Google polishes platinum Cloud Foundry membership badge as foundation takes KubeCF under its wing

India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019!

Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

Hey, China. Maybe you should have held your hackers off for a bit while COVID-19 ravaged the planet. Just a suggestion

SANS is offering fully certified cybersecurity training – without leaving your bunker

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked ‘let’s hold hands and share coronavirus’

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

Interested in Busting a Move? Mmmm? IBM UK: We couldn't get to GTS redundo numbers we need by voluntary means

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

Huawei P40 Pro: Camera setup really captures the misery of an empty world foods aisle

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Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans

Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites

Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'

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Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Networks

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

UK volumes quieter than mix of Call of Duty and Merseyside derby streamers, says Openreach

27 Mar 17:21 | 21

Networks

India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019!

The nation is already well and truly routed, and telcos have new taxes to pay

27 Mar 04:58 |

Networks

Microsoft buys Affirmed Networks to provide cloudy services for 5G network operators

Vodafone, Orange, AT&T, and Softbank are already users, will soon have Azure option

27 Mar 03:48 |

Analysis

ISP Monkeybrains cries foul over coronavirus fees after requesting more bandwidth. Zayo says it was all a mistake

Presumed pandemic profiteering may be just confused staff

26 Mar 23:31 | 7

Switch this: Multi-gigabit for the enterprise generation

Taking it from the core to the edge

26 Mar 22:00 |

Networks

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

Special reportAlternative headline: Jun Murai remembers he has a /8 under the fridge

26 Mar 00:06 | 63

Networks

BT Openreach prepares to declare UK MBORCed* as all new phone line installations halted over coronavirus

Updated*Not a new backcronym, but 'Matters Beyond Our Reasonable Control'

25 Mar 13:24 | 25

Networks

Well, Zuckerberg did promise India it hadn't seen the last of Facebook. How do you say they're BAAACK in Hindi?

Social network reportedly looking to buy a slice of country's biggest mobile provider

25 Mar 12:23 | 4

Networks

Hypochondriacs – are your eyes all blurry? It's just YouTube trying to cut video-stream quality worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic

You can still watch in HD, but, please, maybe not?

25 Mar 00:14 | 17

Networks

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

UK lacks formal emergency messaging system, so Big 4 carriers helped out

24 Mar 17:02 | 84

Networks

Computacenter looking to buy a nice little place in France, by which we mean most of BT's French network real estate

Brit telco and reseller giant in talks... presumably over a very long desk

24 Mar 16:28 |

Networks

Freed from the office, home workers roam sunlit uplands of IPv6... 2 metres apart

Clouds, silver linings etc.

23 Mar 22:20 | 33

Networks

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Pair join Netflix to turn it down for what? Connectivity stability

20 Mar 19:57 | 64

Networks

Netflix starts 30-day video data diet at EU's request to ensure network availability during coronavirus crisis

Looks like you'll have to stream Derry Girls in lower resolution for a bit

20 Mar 07:09 | 110

Networks

BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work

UpdatedAd watchdog puts telco on the naughty step over range extender promotion

18 Mar 09:15 | 109

Networks

You get fibre, you get fibre, you all get fibre: UK Ministry of Fun promises new rules to make all new homes gigabit capable

Come on, builders - who doesn't like subsidies?

17 Mar 09:15 | 21

Networks

Data surge as more Brits work from home? Not as hard on the network as their nightly Netflix binges, claims BT

We'll be OK, says former incumbent telco

16 Mar 17:31 | 24

Networks

BT CEO tests positive for coronavirus, goes into self-isolation after meeting fellow bosses from Vodafone UK, Three, O2 plus govt officials

We can't even go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over

13 Mar 06:02 | 56

Networks

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

What could go wrong?

11 Mar 16:23 | 45

Networks

US telcos tossed yet another extension to keep going with Huawei kit despite America's 'security threat' concerns

It's clearly not a pressing issue – this is the fourth time now

11 Mar 10:54 | 21

Microsoft reveals 775 percent Azure surge, quotas on some resources and ‘significant new capacity’ coming ASAP

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

Google polishes platinum Cloud Foundry membership badge as foundation takes KubeCF under its wing

India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019!

Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

Hey, China. Maybe you should have held your hackers off for a bit while COVID-19 ravaged the planet. Just a suggestion

SANS is offering fully certified cybersecurity training – without leaving your bunker

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked ‘let’s hold hands and share coronavirus’

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

Interested in Busting a Move? Mmmm? IBM UK: We couldn't get to GTS redundo numbers we need by voluntary means

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

Huawei P40 Pro: Camera setup really captures the misery of an empty world foods aisle

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans

Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites

Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Networks

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019!

Microsoft buys Affirmed Networks to provide cloudy services for 5G network operators

ISP Monkeybrains cries foul over coronavirus fees after requesting more bandwidth. Zayo says it was all a mistake

Switch this: Multi-gigabit for the enterprise generation

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

BT Openreach prepares to declare UK MBORCed* as all new phone line installations halted over coronavirus

Well, Zuckerberg did promise India it hadn't seen the last of Facebook. How do you say they're BAAACK in Hindi?

Hypochondriacs – are your eyes all blurry? It's just YouTube trying to cut video-stream quality worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

Computacenter looking to buy a nice little place in France, by which we mean most of BT's French network real estate

Freed from the office, home workers roam sunlit uplands of IPv6... 2 metres apart

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Netflix starts 30-day video data diet at EU's request to ensure network availability during coronavirus crisis

BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work

You get fibre, you get fibre, you all get fibre: UK Ministry of Fun promises new rules to make all new homes gigabit capable

Data surge as more Brits work from home? Not as hard on the network as their nightly Netflix binges, claims BT

BT CEO tests positive for coronavirus, goes into self-isolation after meeting fellow bosses from Vodafone UK, Three, O2 plus govt officials

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

US telcos tossed yet another extension to keep going with Huawei kit despite America's 'security threat' concerns

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Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, health secretary Matt Hancock both test positive for COVID-19 coronavirus

Dell, VMware withdraw fiscal 2021 guidance amid humming global supply chain and remote work boom

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Core blimey, that's edgy: HPE makes a play for next-gen 5G market

UK.gov tells rebel MPs to go Huawei – but 5G Telecoms Security Bill was the price

Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it

Four months, $1bn... and ICANN still hasn’t decided whether to approve .org sale with just 11 days left to go

UK.gov sits down with mobile big four to formalise plans for rural shared 4G network

Hackers? Leap day? Nope, just plain old internet hysteria took down stock-trading-for-noobs app RobinHood

Brit MPs, US senators ramp up pressure on UK.gov to switch off that green-light for Huawei 5G gear

You. Drop and give me 20... per cent IPv6 by 2023, 80% by 2025, Uncle Sam tells its IT admins after years of slacking

New Jersey beats New York – and then the rest of America – on broadband access. How does your state fare?

Broadband providers can now flog Openreach's new IP voice network in bid to ditch UK's copper phone lines by 2025

Mirantis gros fromage quits to start new 'private LTE' biz on open-access spectrum

We're Finnished: Nokia replaces CEO Rajeev Suri in industry Lundmark decision