Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things...
Equinix confirms review under way into UPS failure at Docklands datacentre
Equinix is conducting a review into the resiliency of its power supplies after an outage at one of its London-based datacentres blighted the operations of hundreds of clients on 18...
New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world
Aurich Lawson Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world. The botnet uses...
The Golden Age of computer user groups
Enlarge / Programmer power, indeed. (Here's a Tufts computer group sometime in the mid to late 1970. Getty caption explicitly states, "Note equipment and 1970s fashions.")Spencer Grant/Getty Images The Homebrew...
Instagram launches new feature that you and your local businesses will love
Social media platform Instagram has announced it will roll out a new QR code system worldwide, allowing users to access account profiles and uncover information more easily.Originally trialled in Japan,...
Reliance acquires Netmeds, as battle with Amazon gets intense | TechRadar
Just as was widely expected, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) has acquired a majority equity stake in Vitalic Health and its subsidiaries (collectively...
Kogan dishes up the cheapest NBN1000 plan for under AU$135 a month
Kogan Internet is the latest ISP to offer blisteringly-fast broadband with the launch of its NBN1000 plan, and it’s making its presence known by offering the new 1Gbps service for...
UK government needs a joined-up internet policy
To tie in with the UK government working on a new digital strategy, the Internet Association has called on policymakers and regulators to ensure they take into account the cumulative...
Booze and cruise providers are the latest to be hit by ransomware scourge
Ransomware operators are continuing their blitz on corporations with deep pockets, with Jack Daniel’s distiller Brown-Forman and cruise line behemoth Carnival being two of the latest to be hit. In...
FCC asks for more public input on whether to let Charter impose data caps
The Federal Communications Commission is taking another round of public comments on Charter's petition seeking permission to impose data caps on broadband users and charge network-interconnection fees to online-video providers,...