Best Adidas backpacks: 5 great options to consider
Adidas has managed to bridge the gap between sports and fashion with its range of clothes and accessories that are incredibly functional and on-trend – which is exactly the qualities...
Comcast lost 477,000 cable-TV customers in Q2 amid 12% drop in revenue
Enlarge / A Comcast sign at the Comcast offices in Philadelphia. Comcast lost 477,000 cable-TV subscribers in Q2 2020 amid a company-wide drop in revenue caused by the pandemic. The net-customer...
Costs incurred by ‘major’ datacentre outages continue to rise, Uptime Institute research shows
The financial fallout from datacentre outages is continuing to grow year on year (YoY), despite operators admitting that most downtime incidents could be avoided if they were to invest more...
Argos gone! The catalogue that made me love tech will soon cease to exist
News that British retailer Argos will stop printing its iconic catalogue was trending on Twitter earlier today, with a number of different publications professing their sadness. The Guardian even did...
Weighing up the responses of the public cloud giants to Covid-19
As governments worldwide introduced lockdown measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Alibaba began readying their operations to ensure the millions...
Pichai, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Cook at antitrust hearing: The key takeaways
The hugely ballyhooed antitrust hearing where the chief executives of America’s largest tech firms testified in front of US lawmakers was a typical affair of thrust and parry. It was...
Charter’s donations to charities and lawmakers may help it impose data caps
Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum van in West Lake Hills, Texas in April 2019. Nonprofits and local politicians are lining up to support a Charter Communications petition that would let...
New flaw neuters Secure Boot, but there’s no reason to panic. Here’s why
GRUB2, one of the world’s most-widely used programs for booting up computers, has a vulnerability that can make it easier for attackers to run malicious firmware during startup, researchers said...
Virgin has the top fibre broadband deal with cheap bills, vouchers and super-fast speeds
There are a lot of broadband deals currently available, so it can be hard to decipher which offers the best value. But for anyone requiring the upgraded speeds of fibre,...
IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government
IBM has become the latest public cloud giant to sign a three-year preferential pricing deal with the UK government’s procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS). The memorandum of understanding...