Who didn't see that one coming? The European Commission has U-turned again on its plans to tear of roaming fees for customers abroad, going back to its original proposal that all charges should be abolished.…
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Lees meerThis is the end, beautiful friend, the end Could BlackBerry be any less involved in the phone business that it is today? A year ago it designed its own phones that ran its own, home-grown platform. Today it rebadges other people’s designs and the ph…
Lees meerMight be easier just to get a bunch of plastic surgeons in MI6 is set to hire another 1,000 staffers because of the internet, apparently.…
Lees meerIn the phablet, the silent phablet, the LiOn sleeps tonight Explainer It has been a bad month for Samsung. Following the release of the dual-curved, 5.7 inch-screen, water-resistant Galaxy Note 7 phablet, the number of fires have increased thanks t…
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Lees meerHybrid cloud for those who dithered, like Big Red OpenWorld Throughout this year's Oracle OpenWorld conference, the company's message has been fairly simple – the database firm is moving to cloud but can offer buyers either on-prem kit, full public…
Lees meerHaven't hardened? You're still gunna get hacked, says CISO The chief information security officer for global money transfer network SWIFT says banks are still under attack from fraudsters hoping to cash in on identified security gaps to steal millio…
Lees meerEnjoy the light flavor and crisp notes of everything that is wrong with this city With the cost of living in San Francisco soaring higher than ever, some people are stepping forward to find innovative solutions to create affordable housing and assis…
Lees meerWould-be LTE-U carriers told to take these tests, or just leave off The Wi-Fi Alliance's long-awaited – and controversial – LTE-U Coexistence Test plan has landed.…
Lees meerThe man who gave us our first Robotic Overlords ROTM Victor Scheinman, whose 1960s work in robotics created the “robot factory” we see today, has died in California aged 73.…
Lees meerWindows Update silently did the deed, added a few security fixes for .Net Framework too Microsoft has quietly excised Windows 10 free upgrade offers from Windows 7 and 8, aka the GWX.exe .…
Lees meerChipzilla updates dev environment for Thing connectivity Intel has quietly released Version 2.0 of its IoT Services Orchestration Layer toolkit on the world.…
Lees meerAnalyst says Galaxy Note 7 will fire up the mobile biometrics market ABI Research analyst Marina Lu has picked iris scanning as "one of the safest" means to secure user identities on smartphones.…
Lees meer310,000 network links: that's how big your Interwebs grew. Mapping them is very useful We know what you're thinking, “when did a label on a diagram rate a news story?” but bear with us: the 'net-boffins at CAIDA have added labels to the vast dataset…
Lees meerThe *nix desktop quit being awful in March, and reckons it's on the road to 'good' Gnome's developers have let version 3.22 “GUADEC” (the name of its primary European conference) loose on the world.…
Lees meerTells devs: 'errors are a feature, not a bug'. Google has refined the security controls available to enterprise Gmail users by automatically killing OAuth 2.0 tokens for Apps when users change passwords.…
Lees meerIndia's decided the Andaman Islands need proper internet India's government has decided to build a submarine cable between the city of Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.…
Lees meerSoftware that detects government tests, where have we heard that before? The idiot box is smarter than it seems: a spat has broken out between America's Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Consumer Technology Association about the energ…
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