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HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector
Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good'
24 Sep 13:02 | 13
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Remember when UK watchdog spent a bunch of cash with Google warning people about ad scams ... on Google?
Mountain View still ducking questions over whether it'll reimburse that
23 Sep 16:06 | 6
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Eclipse Data Connector arrives for GAIA-X, Europe's plan to protect its cloud data from foreign tech firms
But local providers slip in favour of US tech - even at home
23 Sep 14:29 | 1
Interview
How many Android containers can you fit on your VM?
The Register speaks to Canonical about running the OS in the cloud
23 Sep 08:30 | 1
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AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand
Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies
23 Sep 02:54 | 9
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Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous
Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie
22 Sep 22:02 | 7
PROMO
Your apps are heading to the cloud. So why leave your files on that creaking NAS system?
Break free from the silos at Nasuni CloudBound21
22 Sep 19:00 |
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UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing
Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
22 Sep 10:00 | 2
Edge + IoT
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones
Project wins £50k from government
22 Sep 07:45 | 23
PaaS + IaaS
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
21 Sep 15:13 | 14
Edge + IoT
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
21 Sep 09:15 | 10
PaaS + IaaS
Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills
Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval
21 Sep 01:38 | 1
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Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes
4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*
20 Sep 13:46 | 50
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Amazon UK business swelled by 50%+ in 2020, and taxes soared. Lol, no, it means those paid by its staff
Jeff Bezos founded biz at the 'apex of the Big Tech tax avoiders'
17 Sep 12:15 | 30
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Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame
Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards
17 Sep 10:45 | 15
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Korea's NAVER Cloud outlines global ambitions, aim to become Asia's third-biggest provider
Alibaba is number two in much of the region, but is a bit on the nose right now
17 Sep 07:03 |
PaaS + IaaS
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory – but there are caveats
General availability of Azure AD-joined VMs
16 Sep 22:16 |
SaaS
What have the Romans ever done for us? In ServiceNow's new Rome release, replaced intranets, for one
Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk
16 Sep 13:01 | 1
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Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that
And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders
16 Sep 10:45 | 52
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Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect
The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria
15 Sep 10:45 | 29
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Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after six-month wait
Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises'
Boatnotes II
'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport
Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing
Legal
Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on
High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon
Security
Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited on Macs
Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too
Updated
One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it
Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'
Review
CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)
Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though
On Call
Check your bits: What to do when Unix decides to make a hash of your bill printouts
Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems
Episode 17
BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine
Flame purifies all
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Dell bids adieu to the era of big acquisitions, concentrates on paying down debt and Michael's new book
Partnerships are our future, says tycoon
Networks
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
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Edge + IoT
Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown
Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man
15 Sep 10:01 | 81
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India, Singapore harmonise their rapid payment schemes
Smartphone-driven instant money transfer across borders to come online in 2022
15 Sep 04:58 | 1
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Intuit branches out into email marketing by splashing $12bn on Mailchimp acquisition
Part of a planned assault on the 'small business mid-market'
14 Sep 12:14 | 14
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Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential
Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor
14 Sep 10:45 | 38
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ASEAN bloc agrees to work on digital trade pact that might get real by 2025
South Korea wants to play, too, and has just the model it thinks will do the trick
14 Sep 02:58 | 1
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Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic
Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall
13 Sep 10:45 | 105
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South Korea to sign up for Digital Economic Partnership Agreement
NZ, Singapore, and Chile are other - and smaller - current signatories to pact that's hoped to set regional agendas, so this is a fillip
13 Sep 03:55 | 1
Edge + IoT
RAF chief: Our Reaper drones (sorry, SkyGuardians) stand ready to help British councils
There's no council tax infringement a Brimstone missile can't punish
10 Sep 16:26 | 69
PaaS + IaaS
T-Systems and Google Cloud building 'sovereign cloud services' for Germany
Sovereign according to Google's definition, that is
10 Sep 13:01 | 11
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Improve your business resiliency with disaster recovery in a hybrid cloud infrastructure
No need to be so DRaaStic?
09 Sep 17:00 |
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Microsoft adds hybrid meeting features to Teams, including interruption-detecting AI
Companion mode? We've got that too says Google
09 Sep 15:15 | 18
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Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'
For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit
09 Sep 08:30 | 2
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Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI
CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft
08 Sep 07:58 | 2
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Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants
22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan
08 Sep 04:46 | 3
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Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager
Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report
08 Sep 03:45 | 6
PaaS + IaaS
Canonical scales down Anbox Cloud to an appliance on AWS
How many Android apps can you fit on an EC2 instance?
07 Sep 16:10 |
