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Third time's a charm, maybe: Bankers suing Oracle over claims of exaggerated cloud sales have another go at convincing skeptical judge

Managed services slinger Ensono waves goodbye to staff on both sides of the pond

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

Breaking bad... browser use: New Mexico accuses Google of illegally slurping kids' private data via G Suite

Windows Dressing: Psst... Fast Ring folks, whispers Microsoft. You're in this for the cool icons, right?

Your McDonald's demo has expired. For full functionality, please purchase a licence or try another fast-food joint

Oracle plays its Trump card: Blushing Big Red gushes over US govt support in Java API battle... just as Larry Ellison holds Donald fundraiser

Appy days? Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one roof on mobile – but look out for Office 365 popups

Duped into running bogus virus scans at Office Depot? Dry your eyes with a small check from $35m settlement

'Don't tell anyone but I have a secret.' There, that's my security sorted

Google exiles 600 apps from Play Store for 'disruptive advertising' amid push to clean up Android souk's image

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

Are we having fund yet, npm? CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled

Google Cloud embraces GitOps with new Application Manager for Kubernetes

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors to deliver keynote at our fabulous Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Californian man served with restraining order for allegedly 'stalking' Apple CEO Tim Cook

Decent, legal, honest and searchable: C'mon, Ofcom. Let us check up on the ad-slingers ourselves

AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen

'An issue of survival': Why Mozilla welcomes EU attempts to regulate the internet giants

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

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If you're struggling to keep new year resolutions, try NGTS-10b, a mere 1,000 LY away. One year is just 18 hrs

Worried about future planet-cleansing superbugs? But distrust AI? Guess you're not interested in these antibiotics

Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'

Private equity ponies up £2m to help launch satellites from sunny Shetland by next year

London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition

Researchers trick Tesla into massively breaking the speed limit by sticking a 2-inch piece of electrical tape on a sign

How's this for a crossover? Scumbag scammed victims with fake gem mines – then pivoted to fake crypto-mines

VCs warn: Pumping millions into an AI startup? You mean, pumping millions into Azure, AWS or Google Cloud...

Verity Stob

Come on baby light me on fire: McDonald's to sell 'Quarter Pounder' scented candles

Life in plastic, with a classic: Polymer £20 notes released into wild sporting Turner art

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

Reddit gets downvoted as site takes a Wednesday tumble

Personal Tech

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Photocopier goliath hits back at PC giant's attempt to scupper takeover

21 Feb 19:18 | 4

Personal Tech

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

Register readers around the globe shared in worldwide oddity

21 Feb 16:20 | 14

Personal Tech

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

Resistance no longer futile?

21 Feb 13:50 | 15

Personal Tech

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

It's looking rather ominous to us

20 Feb 13:07 | 39

Personal Tech

Smartwatch owners love their calorie-counting gadgets, but they are verrry expensive

Xiaomi the way to the sale rack, would you?

20 Feb 09:08 | 35

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Facebook tells US tax bods: Swear to God, we were only worth $6.5bn in 2010 because we were menaced by... MySpace and smartphones

IRS wants Zuckerberg's empire to cough up $9bn in back taxes

19 Feb 22:18 | 25

Personal Tech

Glue's clues: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip dissection reveals a pholdable mired in adhesive

Yeah, don't break this one either

19 Feb 14:24 | 14

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Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

ReviewA comfortable, pleasant non-mechanical keyboard

19 Feb 11:33 | 87

Personal Tech

Is it OPPOsites day? Chinese smartphone giant expected to develop its own silicon

OPPOrtunity knocks etc

18 Feb 15:45 | 10

Personal Tech

Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass

As in, it's easy to damage despite spiel

17 Feb 17:00 | 63

Personal Tech

Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories

Chaebol switching even more production out of Middle Kingdom

17 Feb 13:15 | 5

Personal Tech

Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras

Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West

14 Feb 13:47 | 24

Personal Tech

Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches

California Supreme Court skewers iGiant for stiffing loyal drones

13 Feb 23:10 | 101

Personal Tech

Don't break your swanky new Motorola Razr, you probably won't be able to get it fixed

Repairs require complete disassembly

13 Feb 16:45 | 32

Personal Tech

After just one phone, Essential Products ascends to the great venture capitalist in the sky

Misnomer of the century

13 Feb 14:30 | 13

Personal Tech

Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge

That's enough time for all Nickelback's albums in one sitting!

13 Feb 10:45 | 60

Personal Tech

The virus curing the mobile industry's chronic addiction... and sparking an impressive algorithmic price experiment

ColumnI'll miss the MWC muggers, not the marketeers

13 Feb 10:00 | 30

Personal Tech

Mobile World Congress now none of those things as 2020 industry megashow axed over coronavirus fears

MWCMass drop-outs prove too costly for European comms conference

12 Feb 20:21 | 27

Personal Tech

Razr sharp foldable: Samsung whips out Galaxy Z Flip – and, oh snap, it's £1,300

Barring a blip, still set for Valentine's ship date

12 Feb 17:00 | 23

Personal Tech

MWC now means 'Mostly Without Companies', as Nokia, HMD Global, Facebook, and BT drop out

Samsung and Huawei still in, for now

12 Feb 14:43 | 7

Third time's a charm, maybe: Bankers suing Oracle over claims of exaggerated cloud sales have another go at convincing skeptical judge

Managed services slinger Ensono waves goodbye to staff on both sides of the pond

Ofcom measured UK's 5G radiation and found that, no, it won't give you cancer

Breaking bad... browser use: New Mexico accuses Google of illegally slurping kids' private data via G Suite

Windows Dressing: Psst... Fast Ring folks, whispers Microsoft. You're in this for the cool icons, right?

Your McDonald's demo has expired. For full functionality, please purchase a licence or try another fast-food joint

Oracle plays its Trump card: Blushing Big Red gushes over US govt support in Java API battle... just as Larry Ellison holds Donald fundraiser

Appy days? Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint now live under one roof on mobile – but look out for Office 365 popups

Duped into running bogus virus scans at Office Depot? Dry your eyes with a small check from $35m settlement

'Don't tell anyone but I have a secret.' There, that's my security sorted

Google exiles 600 apps from Play Store for 'disruptive advertising' amid push to clean up Android souk's image

Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months

Are we having fund yet, npm? CTO calls for patience after devs complain promised donations platform has stalled

Google Cloud embraces GitOps with new Application Manager for Kubernetes

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors to deliver keynote at our fabulous Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Californian man served with restraining order for allegedly 'stalking' Apple CEO Tim Cook

Decent, legal, honest and searchable: C'mon, Ofcom. Let us check up on the ad-slingers ourselves

AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen

'An issue of survival': Why Mozilla welcomes EU attempts to regulate the internet giants

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

If you're struggling to keep new year resolutions, try NGTS-10b, a mere 1,000 LY away. One year is just 18 hrs

Worried about future planet-cleansing superbugs? But distrust AI? Guess you're not interested in these antibiotics

Galileo got it wrong – official: Jupiter actually wet, not super-dry: 'No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet'

Private equity ponies up £2m to help launch satellites from sunny Shetland by next year

London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition

Researchers trick Tesla into massively breaking the speed limit by sticking a 2-inch piece of electrical tape on a sign

How's this for a crossover? Scumbag scammed victims with fake gem mines – then pivoted to fake crypto-mines

VCs warn: Pumping millions into an AI startup? You mean, pumping millions into Azure, AWS or Google Cloud...

Come on baby light me on fire: McDonald's to sell 'Quarter Pounder' scented candles

Life in plastic, with a classic: Polymer £20 notes released into wild sporting Turner art

Yo, Imma let you finish, but for the 6,000 people still using that app on a daily basis ... we have a question: why?

Reddit gets downvoted as site takes a Wednesday tumble

Personal Tech

This is your last chance, HP. There's no turning back. You take blue poison pill, the story ends. You take the red Xerox pill, you stay in Wonderland

Why so shy, Samsung? Weird Find my Phone push notification did not only affect Galaxy mobes

Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design's silent arrival

All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details

Smartwatch owners love their calorie-counting gadgets, but they are verrry expensive

Facebook tells US tax bods: Swear to God, we were only worth $6.5bn in 2010 because we were menaced by... MySpace and smartphones

Glue's clues: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip dissection reveals a pholdable mired in adhesive

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

Is it OPPOsites day? Chinese smartphone giant expected to develop its own silicon

Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass

Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories

Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras

Not a Genius move after all: Apple must cough up $$$ in back pay for store staff forced to wait for bag searches

Don't break your swanky new Motorola Razr, you probably won't be able to get it fixed

After just one phone, Essential Products ascends to the great venture capitalist in the sky

Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge

The virus curing the mobile industry's chronic addiction... and sparking an impressive algorithmic price experiment

Mobile World Congress now none of those things as 2020 industry megashow axed over coronavirus fears

Razr sharp foldable: Samsung whips out Galaxy Z Flip – and, oh snap, it's £1,300

MWC now means 'Mostly Without Companies', as Nokia, HMD Global, Facebook, and BT drop out

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