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Cloud vendors can't resist the lucrative smell of gaming dollars – and they're all in it to win it
It makes sense to provide infrastructure for the biggest biz in entertainment
06 Aug 2019 09:02 | 24
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Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China
Settle in because we are here for the long haul
02 Aug 2019 14:55 | 81
On-Prem
Who's for another trade war? Japan hits South Korea, Seoul survivor promises to retaliate
Movement of LEDs and chipmaking gubbins to be slowed
02 Aug 2019 13:16 | 15
Software
IBM ships software portfolio into containers thanks to Red Hat providing the packaging
Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks
01 Aug 2019 18:00 | 7
Personal Tech
You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers
Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg
01 Aug 2019 15:41 | 9
Storage
To get a sense of Samsung's Q2 profits, picture a Galaxy Fold closing to half the size
NAND if you think it's bad now, wait 'till Japan's trade sanctions bite
31 Jul 2019 17:09 | 12
On-Prem
Bit barn raising Arizona: Thirsty Microsoft mounts blazing saddle, plants 3 solar-powered server farms
What, under its actual name?
31 Jul 2019 16:26 | 23
Networks
Meet ELIoT – the EU project that wants to commercialize Internet-over-lightbulb
The tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it?
31 Jul 2019 08:16 | 105
SaaS
Google becomes third major cloud vendor to tie the knot with VMware
More cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla
30 Jul 2019 15:35 | 5
On-Prem
US sanctions fail to get in Huawei as embattled Chinese vendor reports 23% revenue growth
It may be a 'plane riddled with bullet holes' – but it's still flying
30 Jul 2019 12:58 | 19
On-Prem
Rambus gobbles tasty chip slinger Northwest Logic in a move away from patent litigation
Turns out the PHYS not the limit
30 Jul 2019 05:02 | 5
HPC
Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year
HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November
29 Jul 2019 23:56 | 15
Legal
It's official: Deploying Facebook's 'Like' button on your website makes you a joint data slurper
Using widgets probably not worth the GDPR minefield
29 Jul 2019 23:00 | 88
Networks
Juniper Networks struggles with service providers as US-China trade war continues to suck
One thing is certain: it's not China paying for the new round of tariffs
26 Jul 2019 20:56 | 7
SaaS
The democratisation of IT: Amazon and Microsoft own half the cloud infrastructure market
Choice? Yes, we've heard of it too
26 Jul 2019 15:00 | 8
On-Prem
Somebody is working on a $600m data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, could rhyme with schmoogle
'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito'
25 Jul 2019 18:54 | 11
On-Prem
SK Hynix to cut DRAM production, investment as profit declines 89%
When the chips are down: trade tussle with Japan yet another reason for pessimism
25 Jul 2019 15:30 |
Servers
Huawei is planning to inject $436m into Arm-based server silicon
With its eye mostly on the domestic market
25 Jul 2019 13:30 | 25
Legal
German patent hoarder IPCom fires sueball at Vodafone over 4G
A FRAND in need is a FRAND indeed, pair square up for infringement battle
25 Jul 2019 08:20 | 9
On-Prem
The silicon market is in such a dark place, Texas Instruments' revenue decline was rewarded
Profits down, shares up
24 Jul 2019 18:31 | 5
Networks
Hark at that! Arrcus bags $30m venture capital, confirms it's pulling up Broadcom’s shiny new SoC
Now how to use that mini cash pile? R&D, more staff and wider support services
24 Jul 2019 13:30 |
Software
BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout
Canonical drags the telco into the 21st century
24 Jul 2019 08:15 | 36
Networks
Google pays out $13m to make Wi-Spy scandal go away: Bung goes to peeps and privacy orgs
Not a 'rogue engineer,' nor was the harvested wireless network data 'fragmented, despite Google denials'
23 Jul 2019 17:47 | 38
Software
I don't know but I've been told: IBM slurps AU$95.5m ERP delivery contract from Aussie DoD
The software itself is from SAP though
23 Jul 2019 11:25 | 12
On-Prem
Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK
The EU goes to war against refrigerants – so the German upstart designed a system that uses tap water
23 Jul 2019 06:02 | 86
Software
SUSE taps SAP exec Melissa Di Donato to become open-source biz's first female CEO
Taking the reins after Nils Brauckmann retires in August
22 Jul 2019 19:00 | 5
Networks
British telco Onecom grabs £100m in private equity dosh
With former Easynet CEO in charge of the board
22 Jul 2019 15:33 | 1
Security
Cisco 'in talks' to borg with web app protector Signal Sciences for its web app firewall tech
It is but WAF-er thin... – report
22 Jul 2019 12:20 | 1
Personal Tech
British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings
What a waste of time and money that was
20 Jul 2019 07:41 | 146
On-Prem
Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland
Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project
19 Jul 2019 15:00 | 10
AI + ML
You totally need VMs to do AI, nods VMware as Bitfusion dissolves in its vSphere of influence
Virty GPU upstart joins the fold
19 Jul 2019 13:15 | 4
On-Prem
Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County
'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak
18 Jul 2019 16:33 | 14
On-Prem
DRAM, is it cold in here? Semiconductor market expected to shrink 12% in 2019
Device numbers growing, but manufacturers are using fewer/cheaper chips per device
18 Jul 2019 15:52 | 8
Legal
Qualcomm fined €242m over 'predatory pricing' that helped to knock off British competitor Icera
Too late for chip flinger, but a win for the EU taxpayer
18 Jul 2019 12:45 | 18
Networks
Having flogged off its data centers, AT&T cozies up to Microsoft, IBM to keep it running
In a cloud war, the US telco opts for the Swiss model, stays neutral
17 Jul 2019 19:29 | 8
Security
Email scammers extract over $300m a month from American suits' pockets
FinCEN has recovered more than $500m to date
17 Jul 2019 14:13 | 7
Networks
Oh look. Vodafone has extended its ultrafast 5G network to deliver... Wi-Fi?
Hey, that's a real use case, you at the back, stop your sniggering
17 Jul 2019 11:30 | 45
Science
Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book
There's a bit more to it than leaning down and fumbling for reset switch, though
17 Jul 2019 08:46 | 45
Security
Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk
And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector
16 Jul 2019 17:00 | 19
Networks
DDoS attack? Mad dash to file forms? No, errant network switch crashed Australian tax service
Strewth, mate!
15 Jul 2019 19:47 | 3
On-Prem
UK's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station takes an eye off the sky to strike out into data centre biz
Complete with an immersion-cooled machine learning cluster
15 Jul 2019 17:00 | 6
Bootnotes
Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note
Binary and blueprints: is this the nerdiest banknote ever?
15 Jul 2019 16:15 | 117
Pic
Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time
'Spooky action' caught on camera – see it for yourself
13 Jul 2019 05:47 | 129
Networks
X-ray specs: Signal whizz JMA Wireless claims to have solved indoor 5G, everyone
But how will it compare against Wi-Fi 6?
12 Jul 2019 23:28 | 12
Legal
Usenet file-swapping was acceptable in the '80s – but not so much now: Pirate pair sent down for 66 months
Yep, Usenet is still around
12 Jul 2019 17:03 | 44
On-Prem
Nvidia and friends: GPU giant's AI data centre network is going global
Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals
12 Jul 2019 09:20 | 1
SaaS
Rackspace cloudy 'mix and match' stacks now available for EMEA mortals
Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US
12 Jul 2019 08:40 | 2
Networks
RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6
Which means we're nearly there
11 Jul 2019 09:00 | 23
Networks
Brussels sprouts yet another 'transparency' centre: This time the honour is all ZTE's
Networks and phone builder joins compatriots Huawei in insisting it has nothing to hide
10 Jul 2019 15:44 | 3
Networks
Big Switch to Big Photon for Cisco: Switchzilla to splurge $2.6bn on Acacia
All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect'
10 Jul 2019 11:51 |
On-Prem
Who's been copying AMD's homework? Intel lifts the lid on its hip chip packaging to break up chips into chiplets
Interconnects, never sexy but very useful for Chipzilla's plans
10 Jul 2019 07:28 | 51
Software
Micro Focus pats itself on the back over SUSE jettison as licensing revenue shrinks
But the software museum model prevails
09 Jul 2019 17:32 | 8
Security
Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space
From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom
09 Jul 2019 13:00 | 30
Personal Tech
Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal
Alongside Navi GPUs, and a Ryzen 3 APU priced at just $99
08 Jul 2019 18:56 | 97
Networks
US giant GTT continues biz banquet by wolfing down Dutch telco KPN's networking unit for $50m
European fibre for American firm with global aspirations
08 Jul 2019 14:10 | 4
Legal
UK competition bods to stick probe into worrying lack of said competition in online advertising
Facebook, Google have a reason to be worried
05 Jul 2019 17:30 | 16
Security
Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach
It was a game of two halves
05 Jul 2019 15:44 | 10
On-Prem
Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing
It's one rule for Jeff Bezos' online empire, and another for everyone else
04 Jul 2019 17:00 | 82
Security
Get rekt: Two years in clink for game-busting DDoS brat DerpTrolling
It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison
04 Jul 2019 15:00 | 36
Science
Surrey Uni boffins take us a step closer to the cyberpunk future with cell-scanning nanotech
Scalable probe manufacturing process a boon for medicine, human-computer interfaces
04 Jul 2019 12:30 | 1
