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Multi-level marketing corporation that sells weightloss products sues ex-exec over 'fraudulent' Dell deal
Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller
21 Jan 2022 17:29 | 10
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On-Prem
Fire in Berlin factory won't 'significantly' impact output, says ASML
Dutch semiconductor lithography bigwig reports net sales up by a third
19 Jan 2022 14:45 | 2
Updated
Chip manufacturing equipment vendor ASML reports fire at Berlin factory
'Too early to make any statement on the damage'
04 Jan 2022 16:29 | 9
Networks
The data must flow: America's 'Team Telecom' backs switch-on of Google and Meta's US-APAC undersea cable
Who's TT when it's at home? The DoJ, Defense dept, and Homeland Security
20 Dec 2021 23:30 | 32
Security
Popular password manager LastPass to be spun out from LogMeIn
Private equity owners play pass the parcel
14 Dec 2021 17:11 | 34
Bootnotes
OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA
Most bizarre names chosen by UK drivers included ZZ Top and The Beast
09 Dec 2021 15:13 | 94
Analysis
European carriers push for more OpenRAN support... but it might not end in a win
'Many appear to placing huge bets on it as a replacement for Huawei'
24 Nov 2021 11:44 | 3
Updated
Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email
January cutoff postponed... for now cardholders can keep buying things they can't afford
17 Nov 2021 16:15 | 302
On-Prem
I know, REIT? Two massive US data centre real estate investment trusts taken over in $10bn, $15bn deals
Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill
16 Nov 2021 16:52 | 2
Legal
Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites
Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week
10 Nov 2021 14:45 | 37
Personal Tech
Yahoo! shuts! down! last! China! operations! as! doing! business! becomes! 'increasingly challenging'!
惊叹号
02 Nov 2021 15:30 | 30
Updated
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe
That rebrand can't come soon enough
20 Oct 2021 13:49 | 41
Software
Emerson merges software units with 'industrial AI' for oilfields firm AspenTech in $11bn deal
Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat
12 Oct 2021 13:46 |
Offbeat
Every Little Helps: Former Tesco boss Dave Lewis to advise UK govt on supply chains
Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway
12 Oct 2021 07:45 | 37
Legal
Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to $4.9bn to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege
A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs
23 Sep 2021 18:15 | 21
Personal Tech
'Totally driven by supply': Dell, HP talk of backlogs and shortages as big PC-makers turn in their numbers
Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain
27 Aug 2021 19:05 | 5
Applications
South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs
Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert
26 Aug 2021 18:23 | 8
Updated
Zoom incompatible with GDPR, claims data protection watchdog for the German city of Hamburg
Takes aim at US videoconferencing software as tech world+dog calls lawyer for a quick chat
17 Aug 2021 13:44 | 80
Legal
Blackbaud – firm that paid off crooks after 2020 ransomware attack – fails to get California privacy law claim dropped
Suit could net $750 a pop under GDPR-ish rule for complainants who allege info 'unencrypted'
17 Aug 2021 11:34 | 4
Personal Tech
GOP lawmakers ask for former Huawei handset biz Honor to be placed the Entity List
Potentially putting the squeeze on already constrained supply chains
11 Aug 2021 12:49 | 36
Personal Tech
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement
Anyone fancy applying?
10 Aug 2021 15:03 | 59
Personal Tech
The sideloader weeps tonight: Unsealed court docs claim Google said 'install friction' would ‘drastically limit' Epic's reach
Plus: Google 'contemplated buying some or all of Epic'
09 Aug 2021 14:47 | 12
On-Prem
Intel: 'Another one to two years before the industry is able to completely catch up with demand'
CEO reassures punters that $40bn foundry spending will pay off
23 Jul 2021 14:30 | 14
Updated
Facial recog firm Clearview hit with complaints in France, Austria, Italy, Greece and the UK
Privacy groups claim images are stored 'indefinitely', even after deletion, in GDPR breach
27 May 2021 10:46 | 52
Bootnotes
Be careful, 007. It’s just had a new coat of paint: Today is D-day for would-be Qs to apply to MI6
What do I do for a living? I'm a marketing exec. Yeah, didn't think you'd have any questions
26 May 2021 10:47 | 21
Bootnotes
Traffic lights, who needs 'em? Lucky Kentucky residents up in arms over first roundabout
Is it yield to the left or just ram my way through any which way?
27 Apr 2021 13:45 | 216
Updated
We need to talk about criminal adversaries who want you to eat undercooked onion rings
Cisco Talos discovers flaws in air fryer, connected chip cooker firm fails to fix
20 Apr 2021 11:37 | 59
Bootnotes
Pigeon fanciers in a flap over Brexit quarantine flock-up, seek exemption from EU laws
It won't fly. 'We are collateral damage'
15 Apr 2021 16:33 | 179
Security
Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks
Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised
01 Apr 2021 16:12 | 23
Updated
Clothes retailer Fatface: Someone's broken in and accessed your personal data, including partial card payment details... Don't tell anyone
'Strictly private and confidential'? SERIOUSLY?
24 Mar 2021 13:02 | 42
Updated
Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder
Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants
10 Mar 2021 17:31 | 63
Updated
'Screen access technology has existed for decades': Visually impaired man sues Dell over 'inaccessible' website
Suit says he couldn't tell 'old' price from 'new', nor perceive pop-up window
05 Mar 2021 14:05 | 44
Networks
O2 UK overcharged exiting customers by £40.7m over 7+ years: Ofcom slams senior managers, fines it £10.5m
Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it
12 Feb 2021 11:44 | 20
On-Prem
Atos shares rebound briefly as biz decides acquiring DXC is probably not worth the bother
HPE cut off its own arm to escape infrastructure services
02 Feb 2021 14:08 | 10
Networks
'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits
Alternative networks have Ofcom on speed-dial
03 Dec 2020 14:30 | 81
Updated
What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases
All amid a second wave of the bio-nasty
05 Oct 2020 16:25 | 286
Updated
Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture
Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051
18 Sep 2020 13:30 | 4
Updated
Microsoft forks out $3m in back pay settlement to make Feds' hiring discrimination probe go away
Agreement puts a stop to the audit, but isn't an admission of wrongdoing
17 Sep 2020 12:44 | 22
On-Prem
Fighting an insurer over lockdown payout? UK policyholders just won an important COVID-19 test case
After wrangling the small print over countless Skype for Business meetings (yes really)
16 Sep 2020 10:43 | 9
SaaS
Stop asking for Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud with 'no justification': US Library of Congress told to drop its 'brand-name'-tastic RFP
Oracle wins protest after agency failed to get it kicked out for not being a reseller
11 Sep 2020 17:00 | 23
Legal
Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked
Yes, Cupertino appealed last time. It has been 7 years now
03 Sep 2020 14:00 | 60
Updated
What a time for a TITSUP*: Santander down and out on pre-Bank Holiday payday
What happened? No info. *Total Inability To Support Users with the Particulars
28 Aug 2020 12:34 | 30
Storage
NetApp reorg: Plans to 'scale public cloud', grow storage systems biz as company sheds hundreds of staffers
Q1 beat analysts' expectations
27 Aug 2020 17:46 | 3
Software
Epic move: Judge says Apple can't revoke Unreal Engine dev tools, asks 'Where does the 30 per cent come from?'
But no, Fortnite can't come back to the App Store for now either
25 Aug 2020 12:38 | 62
SaaS
Oh dear, what a pity! It seems you can't join the directors at the Zoom meeting today
Not great news for students going back to school, however
24 Aug 2020 14:34 | 8
Updated
Worldwide Google services – from GCP to G Suite – hit with the outage stick
Not all users affected, but it's not a great start. Oh and Slack's out too. Good morning everyone
20 Aug 2020 09:18 | 18
Reader research
50%+ of our office seats are going remote, say majority of surveyed Register readers. Hi security, bye on-prem
We asked hundreds of IT decision makers where their priorities lie – here are the results
20 Aug 2020 08:06 | 49
On-Prem
UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE
'The world is hybrid,' the enterprise tech goliath keeps saying
18 Aug 2020 09:32 | 8
Networks
Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents
Famed IP holder pops champers as Cupertino plots appeal
12 Aug 2020 15:42 | 30
Legal
Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit
This is not a matter for the San Diego court, says digital family history service
07 Aug 2020 17:38 | 34
Security
Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'
These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats)
07 Aug 2020 12:23 | 41
Updated
Working from home on Virgin Media's broadband? Too bad. Outage hits English capital
ISP and London users are both TITSUP* (Too Irritated To Smile at Usual Platitudes)
25 Jun 2020 11:32 | 38
Personal Tech
Speaker for yourself: Looks like 5 patents are table stakes as Google countersues Sonos
You copied our technology! No, YOU copied our technology!
12 Jun 2020 20:00 | 18
Networks
Openreach boss denies BT selling stake in UK's national broadband plumber
KCOM owner Macquarie was said to be among suitors
15 May 2020 14:01 | 20
SaaS
US judge puts Amazon's challenge to Pentagon JEDI deal into force stasis
Giving military time to look at aspects of decision
20 Apr 2020 13:16 | 20
Exclusive
Capita inks deal with NHS to 'bring back staff': Workers get an hour of training to recruit and vet retired doctors, nurses
Asked to verify the identity of medics using video chat apps Zoom and Facetime
07 Apr 2020 10:30 | 52
On-Prem
Education tech supplier RM smacked by UK schools closure
How do you model for 'closed' indefinitely?
19 Mar 2020 14:34 | 18
Legal
California man served with restraining order for allegedly 'stalking' Apple CEO Tim Cook
Also slapped with court request not to contact security staffers
21 Feb 2020 14:20 | 13
Software
Oracle tells Supremes: Fair use? Pah! There's nothing fair about 'Google's copying'
Should they be allowed to grab our stuff just cos it's 'popular' and it works?
13 Feb 2020 12:32 | 51
Personal Tech
Latest battery bruiser Android from budget Moto G range appears ahead of MWC after an Amazon whoopsie
Leaks, damn leaks and £219 phones
07 Feb 2020 19:07 | 33
