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FCC Commissioner blasts new TV standard as a 'household tax'

Americans will not only foot bill for implementation but will also need to buy another telly
138 Comments
13 Oct 20:56

GarageBanned: Apple's music app silenced in iOS 11 iCloud blunder

Cupertino iGiant scrambles to fix crash bug
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13 Oct 18:17

Co-op Bank's users moan over online wobbles

UpdatedRemember, folks, don't tweet your bank details
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13 Oct 11:48

Crappy upload speeds a thing of the past in fresh broadband 'net spec

Cable Labs goes full duplex for DOCSIS 3.1 – but can ISPs and modems keep up?
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12 Oct 20:51

Neglected Pure Connect speaker app silenced in iOS 11's war on 32-bit

Apple upgrade made my year-old wireless hi-fi 'useless', says Reg reader
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12 Oct 18:43

OnePlus privacy shock: So, the cool Chinese smartphones slurp an alarming amount of data

Are we shocked? *Cough* Google, Apple *Cough*
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12 Oct 12:28

Gartner says back-to-school PC sales failed. IDC says they worked

Whatever's going on, overall sales are down leaving HP Inc and Lenovo lords of a shrinking land
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12 Oct 07:30

Rejecting Sonos' private data slurp basically bricks bloke's boombox

El Reg comes to the rescue of reader unable to control gear from smartphone
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11 Oct 23:44

Apple's iPhone X won't experience the joy of 6...

...says analyst who reckons Cupertino's next big iThing will fall short of its last big iThing
55 Comments
10 Oct 22:59

Outage at EE wrecks voice calls across the UK

EE phone home
49 Comments
10 Oct 12:04

BlackBerry's new Motion will move you neither to tears of joy nor sadness

First FondleIt's an Android with a few frills and BBM. Fine
37 Comments
10 Oct 11:02

How many times can Microsoft kill Mobile?

Belfiore's done it again
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09 Oct 15:31

Shhh! There's a new BlackBerry and... no, we've said too much

Stealth launch in Gulf, no sign when to expect it in US/EU
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09 Oct 14:33

Microsoft's foray into phones was a bumbling, half-hearted fiasco, and Nadella always knew it

Why Redmond's CEO offloaded the business in an instant
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09 Oct 09:02

What shocked Verizon more: The Yahoo! mega-hack or that it runs AIM (for not much longer)?

AOL's instant chat app axed in time for Christmas
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06 Oct 20:50

Opinion

Neanderthal

Hipster disruptor? Never trust a well-groomed caveman with your clams

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Back to the primitive! F*** all your politics!
Apple iPhone X poo

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Sounds like a good idea but looks can be deceptive
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15 Sep 09:02

Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud

CommentSamsung has little to fear
165 Comments
13 Sep 10:53

Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV

Something for the Weekend, Sir?If someone filmed it, it must be real
61 Comments
08 Sep 08:11

News

Is that a bulge in your pocket or... do you have an iPhone 8+? Apple's batteries look swell

I fear big batts and I cannot lie. Y'all better duck and dive...
112 Comments
06 Oct 18:37

Hipster disruptor? Never trust a well-groomed caveman with your clams

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Back to the primitive! F*** all your politics!
70 Comments
06 Oct 09:06

Mattel's Internet-of-kiddies'-Things Aristotle canned before release

Philosopher, stoned
37 Comments
06 Oct 01:56

Lenovo spits out retro ThinkPads for iconic laptop's 25th birthday

A look into Big Blue and Lenovo's forays into beloved black boxes
116 Comments
05 Oct 23:59

Microsoft Edge shock: Browser opts for Apple WebKit, Google Blink

On iOS and Android, cough
41 Comments
05 Oct 19:06

Power, Sex, Platform Wars... Register Autumn Lectures tackle them all

LecturesOK, the sex part not so much... this time
05 Oct 11:01

Google touts Babel Fish-esque in-ear real-time translators. And the usual computer stuff

And a slightly creepy but well-intentioned robo-camera
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05 Oct 00:22

Snap, crackle ... patch! Apple kicks out iOS 11.0.2 to tackle crappy calls, fix email glitches

Mystery of disappearing photos solved, too
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04 Oct 19:23

HP Inc exec: Yes, we'll put a bullet in the X3 device

Canalys Channels ForumAnd it's all Microsoft's fault 'cos 'we aren't an OS company' – PC giant
26 Comments
04 Oct 14:41

Hollywood has savaged enough sci-fi classics – let's hope Dick would dig Blade Runner 2049

Early signs might be positive, but this is holy ground for some
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04 Oct 09:03

Commodore 64 makes a half-sized comeback

The keyboard's cosmetic in this 'retro-games-baked-onto ROM' with HDMI and USB caper
98 Comments
03 Oct 07:30

Microsoft may have its groove back but it's binned 'Groove'

Ghost-of-Zune music subscription service retired, users shunted to Spotify
28 Comments
03 Oct 02:02

Roku tweaks Apple's nose with telly-friendly vid-streaming boxes

Broadcast TV gets a big bear hug in upgraded operating system and gizmo line
14 Comments
02 Oct 22:37
Chinese revolutionary panda

China cools on Apple's high-priced iBling

What now?
28 Comments
02 Oct 12:39

At last, someone's taking Apple to task for, uh, not turning on iPhone FM radio chips

UpdatedBut what of criticism of FCC boss over hurricanes?
76 Comments
28 Sep 20:13

Nokia updates classic comeback mobe 3310

Now with 3G
42 Comments
28 Sep 10:04
Amazon Echo Spot

Out, damned Spot! Amazon emits Echo ball with screen, inevitable ever-listening mic

Latest lodging for Alexa has clock radio aspirations
45 Comments
28 Sep 00:44
The Essential Phone

Essentially invisible: Android big-daddy Andy Rubin's hypetastic mobe 'flops in first month'

Just 5,000 handsets have been shifted since release – pundits
34 Comments
28 Sep 00:05

FCC commish cites infamous porn ruling to slam shady US mobile competition report

How about we define the thing we're supposedly deciding on, queries Rosenworcel

Twitter's 280-char blog mode can be enabled client-side. Just sayin'

Here's some code and Curl commands to get you on the path of milliblogging
41 Comments
27 Sep 18:07

'Alexa, play Charlie Bit My Finger.' I can't do that, Dave. No, really

Google and Amazon clash over YouTube on the Echo Show
29 Comments
27 Sep 14:33
Galileo

Smartphone SatNavs to get centimetre-perfect GNSS receivers in 2018

Broadcom sampling chipset that should let navigation apps tell you which lane to drive in
53 Comments
27 Sep 07:30
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