Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?
Parallels desktop upgrade enables nested virtualization and adds a dash of automation
12 Aug 2020 | 14
Simon is The Register's APAC editor, and is based in Australia. He covers the region's news as well as virtualization, data center infrastructure, software, cloud platforms, and more.
Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television
And smartphone that shows you its innards if required
12 Aug 2020 | 23
Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website
Plans to ‘disengage from the corrupt social platform’ that ‘is screwing with our election’
12 Aug 2020 | 19
India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections
Verifying wandering voters in the world’s largest and most complex elections is the aim
12 Aug 2020 | 5
Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore
Which would leave it about four percent of neighboring India’s exports
12 Aug 2020 | 1
Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home
Expect Citrix Endpoint Management gear to come under attack soon
12 Aug 2020 | 2
Cluster-struck Nutanix bares all for new AWS alliance
Catching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers
11 Aug 2020 | 1
Equinix enters India by purchasing pair of Mumbai bit barns
Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks
11 Aug 2020 |
Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax
And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come
11 Aug 2020 | 4
India connects submarine cable to islands where some still live in the stone age
But others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces
11 Aug 2020 | 12
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
10 Aug 2020 | 22
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 2020 | 170
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
No new orders, limited support options and a very sketchy roadmap
10 Aug 2020 | 9
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
10 Aug 2020 | 11
VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools
And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds
07 Aug 2020 | 2
Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars
Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn
07 Aug 2020 | 24
Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge
The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases
07 Aug 2020 | 8
Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp
07 Aug 2020 | 42
Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both
On grounds that they can track users, conduct corporate espionage and oppress Chinese-Americans
07 Aug 2020 | 71
China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden
'Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology' says Chinese foreign minister
07 Aug 2020 | 51
Arm, Vodafone flex their muscles to show Cisco they’re fighting fit on the edge
Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes
06 Aug 2020 | 4
TikTok to splurge €420m on Ireland data centre to get Euro-data into Europe by 2022
Nothing but love for regulators, but nothing for hyperscalers despite previous Google Cloud entanglement
06 Aug 2020 | 12
Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones
Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?
06 Aug 2020 | 10
We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard
Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun
06 Aug 2020 | 23
