Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations
Though that might be the least of their worries, according to this reportDespite the specter of IT layoffs, top talent has no difficulty switching employers, according to new research by integrator...
View ArticleTelco giants show it's tough selling 5G kit right now
Ericsson straps in for rough year, while Nokia bets on recovery in second halfTelecom giants Nokia and Ericsson both saw sales drop for the final quarter of 2023, blaming tough economic conditions for...
View ArticleThe EU-US Trade and Tech Council sounds fancy but, really, what's the point?
Nothing like an informal talking shop dressed up as formal transatlantic cooperationThe next meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) will take place in Washington DC next week to...
View ArticleStandards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin
When a rack sits on a metal plate, that’s so not an invitation to move itOn Call The Register loves standards – we have our very own Standards Bureau. Another standard we observe rigorously is that...
View ArticleVirgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints
Clean sweep across broadband, landline, and pay TVIt may be only a few years since the two were combined, but Virgin Media O2 is topping UK comms regulator Ofcom's customer complaints chart.…
View ArticleUK merger of Vodafone and Three in competition watchdog's crosshairs
Union claims corporate greed behind alliance, firms claim it is about helping customersThe UK’s competition watchdog is today kicking off Phase 1 of its probe into proposed merger between Vodafone and...
View ArticleIntel warns of Q1 nosedive... and its shares follow suit
Pat's gonna need to sell a lotta AI PCs if he wants to make a profit this quarterIntel execs this week painted a grim picture of early 2024, forecasting steep declines ahead for the company's core...
View ArticleAs NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock...
If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be greatUS Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US...
View ArticleTSMC finds its green chips are highly sought after... the edible ones
Crunchy, tasty, coconut flavoured... and hopefully thicker than a few nanometersTSMC is known for making advanced semiconductors, but it seems the company is now driving up the price of chips made with...
View ArticleCompetition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber...
Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emergeComment HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example of...
View ArticleICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x
The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranetThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has...
View ArticleOne person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Clever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidityWho, Me? Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh...
View ArticleThat runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century
We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want itOpinion Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising...
View ArticleThe real significance of Apple's Macintosh
40 years on, it's still widely misunderstoodApple launched the original 128 kB Macintosh around 40 years ago, and in so doing changed the computer industry, in ways that a lot of people still don't...
View ArticleGPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry
You're wrong to think that jammin' was a thing of the pastEurope's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals - now seen as a...
View ArticleAmazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators
Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a jobAmazon's $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos's business faces a termination fee, almost a...
View ArticleX hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety
Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh?Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media...
View ArticleJapanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk
Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agenciesJapan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to...
View ArticleThings are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close
Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anywayComment With 3nm production reaching maturity and 2nm on the way, TSMC is reportedly laying the groundwork for the next...
View ArticleFairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone
Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printerHardware hacker's non-trivial project to weld a Blackberry keyboard to an Android fondleslab is being updated with an off-the-shelf PCB.…
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