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Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it

FCC: Oh no, deary me. What a shame. Too bad, so sad we can't do net neutrality appeal during the US govt shutdown

Oxford University reportedly turns off its Huawei money tap

Oh snap: AWS has only gone and brought out its own Backup

Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

Twitter. Android. Private tweets. Pick two... Account bug unlocked padlocked accounts

Top GP: Medical app Your.MD's data security wasn't my remit

Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach

South Korea says mystery hackers cracked advanced weapons servers

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Non-profit? Into DevOps, CI/CD, Containers? There’s a CLL ticket with your name on it

Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Crap app tapped to trap mishaps: Demo insecure software built to school devs on secure coding

Tech giant to spend $500m dealing with housing crisis caused by tech giants

Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data

Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo

Diplomat warns that tech industry has become a pawn as politicos fight dirty

Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong

FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

Geek's Guide

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

McKinsey’s blockchain warning irks crypto hipsters

Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law

Ahem, Amazon, Google, Microsoft... Selling face-snooping tech to the Feds is bad, mmm'kay?

Verity Stob

Oracle boss prevented from Brexit Britain trip due to US shutdown

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church

Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob

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Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it

Amazing how a big cash payout focuses the mind

17 Jan 23:10 | 9

FCC: Oh no, deary me. What a shame. Too bad, so sad we can't do net neutrality appeal during the US govt shutdown

Not so fast, there, Ajit...

17 Jan 22:02 | 3

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Oxford University reportedly turns off its Huawei money tap

No more Chinese tech vendor grants for at least three to six months, compsci students told

17 Jan 20:01 | 7

Huawei’s elusive Mr Ren: We’re just a 'sesame seed' in a superpower spat

Trump, communism and 5G - a rare glimpse into the founder's past and present

16 Jan 16:15 | 27

If at first, second, third... fourth time you don't succeed, you're Apple: Another appeal lost in $440m net patent war

Yes, it plans to appeal again

15 Jan 23:27 | 32

Huawei's horror show 2019 continues as Taiwanese research institute joins banhammer club

Also: US Commerce Dept blocks export of tech developed by Silicon Valley subsidiary

15 Jan 10:50 | 44

A few short packets: Cisco still Switchzilla, a neat Wi-Fi hack and more

Networks roundupAlso: AT&T inks open source pact with Nokia, ZTE 5G pass, Equinix expands

14 Jan 10:36 | 1

Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP

ExclusiveIt was still going?

11 Jan 11:00 | 187

Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe

Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives

10 Jan 06:04 | 83

Flyswat

We're two weeks into 2019, and an email can potentially knacker your Cisco message box – plus other bugs to fix

Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart...

10 Jan 00:25 | 4

surprised looking woman - hair flying in the air

Big cable trolls big mobile with '10G' trademark application

CES 2019It stands for 10 gigabits per second connections, so at least it means something

08 Jan 10:58 | 13

Patent files

Forget your $145m Apple patent payout, WiLAN told – it's $10m or gamble on a new trial

Judge quashes hopes of big comm tech payday

08 Jan 00:47 | 9

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Huawei's 5G security scrutiny pain could be Cisco's gain – analysts

Have enterprise networking portfolio, will travel

07 Jan 13:43 | 18

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Huawei or the highway: Chinese giant whacks marketing drones for tweeting from iPhone

Ooo, that pesky firewall!

04 Jan 14:07 | 22

Huawei CEO defiant on security claims, vows to be so good, 'no market can keep us away'

Company 'will never present a threat', claims letter to staff

03 Jan 11:59 | 17

US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system

TITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets)

02 Jan 21:19 | 15

Another greybeard has left us: Packet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81

ObitARPANET handler helped lay foundations of the internet

02 Jan 12:28 | 29

'Year-long' delay to UK 5G if we spike Huawei deals, say telcos

O2 presses on with Chinese supplier

21 Dec 16:48 | 68

Ready for Glasto-net? Cheap, local low-power networks up for grabs in the UK

Ofcom proposes shakeup of spectrum bidding process

21 Dec 09:22 | 13

What's this under the Christmas tree? A gift-wrapped Mellanox, for Microsoft? Say it ain't so

Windows giant mulls gobbling up network kit maker, according to anon insiders

20 Dec 05:29 | 6

Sticking with one mobile provider gets you... Oh. Price rises, big exit fees, and lovely, lovely lock-in

UK competition bods threaten action against 'loyalty penalty'

19 Dec 11:31 | 45

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RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

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Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean

two women look disgusted at what they see on a phone screen

Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach

Death

IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

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Ofcom: More spectrum for all the good boys and girls. Except you, EE. You've had your fill

UK mobile networks had better open their wallets

18 Dec 17:40 | 6

BT: Soz about that £1.3m CEO bonus vote, shareholders. Friends?

We're listening, insists company right before new chief exec takes post

18 Dec 15:58 | 9

O little town of Bethlehem, Georgia. How still we see your internet lie... US govt throws another $600m at rural broadband

AnalysisMoney in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted?

17 Dec 23:13 | 12

business meeting, debate over data. Photo by shutterstock

One year on after US repealed net neutrality, policymakers reflect soberly on the future

AnalysisDon't be daft, of course they haven't, we're still in Crazytown USA

14 Dec 21:29 | 35

Ofcom asks networks, ISPs: Hey, wouldn't it be nice if you let customers know the best deal once their contract's up?

You know, they've paid for the phone a few times over now...

14 Dec 13:00 | 23

Stephane Richard, Orange CEO

If most punters are unlikely to pay more for 5G, why all the rush?

Analysis5G is like 3G, except this time they mean it

14 Dec 11:00 | 39

Base station antenna for mobile communication, made in the form of a 5G symbol, on the roof of the building. 3d illustration.

Qualcomm all ye faithful: 5G's soon triumphant... like 2020 soon. Really

We just modem down with that headline (OK maybe not)

12 Dec 09:15 | 8

Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC

AnalysisIt's just not fair on profit-making companies otherwise

11 Dec 21:47 | 136

The internet is going to hell and its creators want your help fixing it

Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other identify lots of problems, few solutions

11 Dec 02:16 | 115

This ain't over, Viasat snarls as tribunal rules in satellite rival's favour

EU Aviation Network wrangle set to continue

10 Dec 19:00 | 5

The curious tale of ICANN, Verisign, claims of subterfuge, and the $135m .Web dot-word

AnalysisDNS overseer faces probe over decision to award TLD to dot-com giant

07 Dec 22:46 | 24

It's a, it's a, it's a SYN flood: Quick, ditch that packet

Networks roundupNetworking nuggets from the week that was

07 Dec 18:30 | 9

Pulling the plug

Expired cert... Really? #O2down meltdown shows we should fear bungles and bugs more than hackers

CommentIncompetence is a kind of malware

07 Dec 09:42 | 165

Meng Wanzhou of Huawei

Funnily enough, China fuming, senator cheering after Huawei CFO cuffed by Canadian cops at Uncle Sam's request

Beijing demands US 'correct' Meng detainment pronto

06 Dec 21:33 | 62

rage

Why millions of Brits' mobile phones were knackered on Thursday: An expired Ericsson software certificate

06 Dec 20:20 | 146

Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits

'Global' network issue pinned on supplier – Ericsson 'working' on solution

06 Dec 11:06 | 184

Huawei CFO poutine cuffs by Canadian cops after allegedly busting sanctions on Iran

Exec could face trial in the US for 'cutting deals' with White House's Middle East bête noire

06 Dec 01:34 | 71

UK's BT: It's not unusual to pull Huawei from our core mobile networks

It came with the package when we swallowed EE

05 Dec 18:04 | 36

After all that! Ofcom proposes BT as only broadband universal services provider for whole of UK (except Hull)

Just 8 telcos applied, most didn't meet critera

05 Dec 11:53 | 21

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