Cloud revenue equation: One AWS equals Azure + Google + Alibaba
Pandemic makes for huge growth, but one customer remains elusive: Facebook plans $23bn new infrastructure spend
30 Oct 2020 | 3
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Japan testing sandwiches that discount themselves as they age
Snacks will ID themselves using RFID and an app will tell punters when there's cheap chow to be chomped
30 Oct 2020 | 27
Microsoft makes cloudy Linux licensing less labyrinthine
Tickles the Azure Hybrid Benefit so that RHEL and SUSE users get the same deal as Windows buyers
30 Oct 2020 | 8
China sets itself 2035 goal for technology self-sufficiency and covets title as the world’s top innovator
State of local software industry also revealed: 7 million workers, $36bn of exports
30 Oct 2020 | 19
A cloud server with no network, no persistent storage, and no user access – what is AWS thinking?
Security, that's what, for those of you who like your clouds very isolated
29 Oct 2020 | 17
Samsung profits surge as the world starts buying smartphones again
Huawei stockpiling components helps too, but server memory sales go soft
29 Oct 2020 | 1
French services outfit Atos told to pay $855m in trade secret pinching case
Challenges jury verdict immediately and offers to pay one percent of damages
29 Oct 2020 | 6
Cambodia launches blockchain-powered peer-to-peer payments, hopes it crushes cash
Kind-of digital currency can shift US Dollars or the Cambodian Riel
29 Oct 2020 | 16
Indian government labels itself ‘evasive’ over privacy details of national COVID-19 contact-tracing app
Smacks down Information Commission by pointing to policy and data revealing the app has probably helped quite a lot
29 Oct 2020 | 1
Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first
Scheme to encourage hiring pricey brainiacs instead of cheap footsloggers
29 Oct 2020 | 68
One of the world's most prominent distributed ledger projects has been pushed back by a year
Another 12 months on Itanium and COBOL for the Australian Stock Exchange
28 Oct 2020 | 23
Equinix joins Arm enthusiasts by pumping out bare metal in not-quite-IaaS offering
Ampere CPUs available for automated deployments as data centre giant takes on public clouds
28 Oct 2020 |
Flash haters, rejoice! Microsoft releases tool to let you nuke Adobe's security horror before support ends
Why not get in early before official 31 December demise?
28 Oct 2020 | 38
Cisco penta-gone from Pentagon as Aruba rolls in a new net
3,000 Wi-Fi access points and 150,000 wired ethernet ports
28 Oct 2020 | 25
India and USA to share high-quality satellite imagery and more under new pact
To get a better view of regional hotspots in case things get kinetic
28 Oct 2020 | 3
Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner
Analyst firm asserts coordinated action without central brain is the way to cope with turmoil
27 Oct 2020 | 32
WeChat wins right to stay in US app stores for at least a couple more months as court denies US govt appeal
Injunction against Trump ban upheld, case to return in January 2021
27 Oct 2020 | 8
Alibaba’s Ant Group aims to carry away $34 billion with imminent listing
Alipay operator prices itself as most expensive IPO of all time
27 Oct 2020 | 2
Microsoft brings Azure to Taiwan, therefore steps into a geopolitical cauldron
Taiwanese president says this is about ‘strengthening Taiwan-US cooperation’
27 Oct 2020 | 3
QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process
26 Oct 2020 | 13
NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop
Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan
26 Oct 2020 | 23
Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown
As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone
26 Oct 2020 | 48
Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artefact
Memory-handling oddity from the age of the 286 has been around since 'pretty much the original release of Linux'
25 Oct 2020 | 62
Ed Snowden doesn’t need to worry about being turfed out of Russia any more
Immigration reforms allowing more skilled workers to stay seem to have resulted in permanent residency
23 Oct 2020 | 52
