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Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired

Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month

02 Mar 07:27 | 66

After spending $45bn on 5G licences, Verizon tells customers to turn off 5G to save battery life

You've just got to have 5G... except when you don't

01 Mar 14:24 | 28

Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site

It seems people are OK with paying more for faster internet, though

25 Feb 16:46 | 90

FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn

AT&T and T-Mobile also have to write enormous cheques before March 24

25 Feb 14:12 | 17

Singapore, Dell do a pandemic-era elbow bump, open IT giant's first-of-its-kind 'innovation hub' outside US

Island nation may become tech goliath's destination for 5G and edge research

Is 5G truly 'green'? How can operators ensure greater network efficiency?

5G technologies aimed at significant energy efficiency improvements

California’s net neutrality rules good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit

Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal

24 Feb 22:57 | 14

HPE dips toe into OpenRAN 5G with a software platform and new iron to run it

Should be with carriers in the second quarter

SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities

Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?

23 Feb 14:55 | 140

Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC

Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane

23 Feb 14:00 | 4

Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO

Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged

23 Feb 08:56 | 54

House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US

Doomed bill seems to forget municipal broadband exists due to failures of private sector

19 Feb 22:57 | 84

Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court

Worth a try, eh, chums?

19 Feb 13:31 | 53

Dubai International Finance Centre accelerates its digital transformation to become the region's most advanced financial hub

Huawei's CloudCampus helps to quickly roll out super capacity, intelligent, self-correcting network

Cisco reveals a probe of 'self-enrichment scheme' involving ex-employees in China

Also lifts lid on allegations former workers paid staffers of 'state-owned enterprises'

18 Feb 19:07 | 3

3 is the magic number? Openreach repayment project engineers add extra consecutive strike dates

18 months of dispute over new grading structure and counting...

18 Feb 16:30 | 2

Want your broadband fixed? Best write to your MP, UK's Zen Internet tells customer

Well, that's a new one

18 Feb 09:30 | 65

Mobile World Congress to run this year's Barcelona event in June with 50,000 attendees. We're speechless

And the COVID-19 precaution? A negative test 72 hours before

18 Feb 08:48 | 55

Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national 'Internet Gateway'

De facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall

18 Feb 05:58 | 15

India splashes cash to lure telecoms and network kit-makers in need of manufacturing muscle

Wants big players to build locally for locals, then build export capability

18 Feb 05:07 | 3

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Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version

Pitches pro-privacy platform with customizable results filter dubbed Goggles

Flagship Chinese chipmaker collapses before it makes a single chip or opens a factory

Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor’s 7nm ambitions are dust

Netflix reveals massive migration to new mix of microservices, asynchronous workflows and serverless functions

Goes deep on Docker and adopts ‘strangler fig’ pattern to replace legacy platform

'Incorrect software parameter' sends Formula E's Edoardo Mortara to hospital: Brakes' fail-safe system failed

Bug keeps Mercedes, Venturi teams out of qualifying race

Microsoft previews Windows Server 2022: Someone took a spanner to core plumbing features

New Windows Server ahoy - but the company would rather talk about Azure

Pressure builds on Nominet as members demand to know leadership's contingency plans for when they’re fired

Special vote to sack UK internet registry's CEO and chairman coming later this month

Perl.com theft blamed on social engineering attack: Registrar 'convinced' to alter DNS records by miscreants

Network Solutions hasn't confirmed what happened, though

Excel-lent: Microsoft debuts low-code Power Fx language... but it is not really new

Citizen development platform where everything looks like Excel

Chinese businessman plotted with GE insider to steal transistor secrets, say Feds

Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim

Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon – and future version may insist on some updates

It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team

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New FCC boss leaps into action by… creating three committees to look at longstanding problems and come back at some point

Nothing says urgency like non-binding future reports

17 Feb 23:56 | 14

Nominet claims effort to replace its board with 'safe hands' is invalid, refuses to put it to member vote

Having apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit

17 Feb 07:30 | 69

Can multi-tenant data centres keep up with leaps in link speeds and the edge data deluge?

Flexible, scalable, easy-to-manage infrastructure eases high-speed migration

Virgin Media adds 200% to its new broadband contracts in 2020, slips back in black (just)

But the growth can't last forever...

16 Feb 17:10 | 19

Huawei invokes 140-year-old law at England's High Court in latest bid to thwart CFO's US-Canada extradition

Lawyers say they need HSBC UK Powerpoint slides to undo Uncle Sam's case against Meng Wanzhou

12 Feb 20:34 | 46

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 11:44 | 20

Myanmar Junta delivers harsh cyber law and more IP blocking orders

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry

12 Feb 06:54 | 25

HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 slips off the shelf – and off the planet: Boxen heading to ISS

Just don't hit that big, red button

11 Feb 18:02 | 12

48-hour strike action: Openreach repayment project engineers confirm it's on

18 months after dispute emerged, techies say enough is enough

11 Feb 15:22 | 13

British owners of .eu domains given an extra three months to find a European address

Brexit bonus for EU, it's losing millions after endless rule changes

11 Feb 12:27 | 96

Nominet vows to freeze wages and prices, boost donations, and be more open. For many members, it’s too little, too late

Board of dot-UK registry operator scrambles to save itself

11 Feb 08:26 | 76

Cisco predicts sunlit uplands after COVID-19. For now, though, sales are flat

Reckons the world is going to re-wire and revisit security

10 Feb 08:01 | 5

There's no Huawei on Earth we're a national security threat, Chinese giant tells US appeals court

FCC says it will defend Pai-era decision to cut off mega-corp from American business

10 Feb 00:54 | 32

Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond: Oracle launches rugged edge-of-network box for hostile environments

Call me what you will – but don't drop me more than 26 times

09 Feb 19:30 | 39

Openreach engineers vote to strike amid changes to job grading structure

Overwhelming majority stand up to down tools, BT has days to meet with Communication Workers Union

09 Feb 10:30 | 19

Faced with the sack, Nominet CEO half-apologizes for taking the 'wrong tone,' asks angry members to hear him out

Campaign to oust him and 'carpetbagger' board picks up speed

09 Feb 08:28 | 64

US govt drops challenge to California’s net neutrality law, signals shift to once again safeguard connections

New FCC boss Rosenworcel makes it plain she will bring back protections

09 Feb 02:28 | 9

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

We’re blinded by our trust of the Search box and its inscrutability

08 Feb 07:48 | 158

Myanmar orders blocks of Twitter and Instagram on top of Facebook ban

Internet traffic dips markedly as protestors take to the streets

07 Feb 23:55 | 16

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