Re: Hmmm.....
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What's losing steam at Apple? Pretty much everything
Did the Russians really hack the DNC or is this another Sony Pictures moment? You decide
Osram's Lightify smart bulbs blow a security fuse – isn't anything code audited anymore?
Wednesday 27th July 2016 07:35 GMT 
Re: "what kind of security review the products go through"
There needs to be something like MISRA for IoT and it needs to be now.
Not that that would stop cheap Chinese imports, but look, hey, here's a reason to buy our expensive Internet-of-Tat lightbulb... it won't look through network drives or proxy your entire LAN traffic to the dark web if someone sneezes at it.
BlackBerry's new best pals: Microsoft, Google, Samsung
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs
BlackBerry's licensing strategy looks smart – and a lot like Nokia's
Microsoft offers admins free Win 10 upgrade lube
BBC will ‘retain your viewing history’
Monday 25th July 2016 12:28 GMT
Re: What if...?
However if you look a the FAQ, as soon as you charge your phone or tablet somewhere outside your own household while watching iPlayer it magically changes from legal reception to illegal reception.
BBC iPlayer and the TV Licence
Will I be covered to use BBC iPlayer when I’m on the go or abroad?
If you already have a TV Licence for your address, you will be covered to download or watch iPlayer when you’re on the go, provided the device you’re using to watch or download programmes isn’t plugged into the electricity mains at a separate address. If the device is plugged in at a separate address, you will need to be covered by a licence at that address.
Is digital fraud big in UK? British abacus-botherers finally have some answers
Monday 25th July 2016 14:19 GMT
Re: Rethink time
I would respectfully disagree that it's just a user problem, when it comes to certificate management, browsers and OSes are currently at Windows Paint's level.
You should be able to use certificates to designate certain devices as yours, denying logins from other devices as they don't have them, and it should happen automagically.
No, the VCR is not about to die. It died years ago. Now it's VHS/DVD combo boxes' turn
What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23
Monday 25th July 2016 11:27 GMT
Re: This is the nub of it . .
Stuff I've read this weekend makes me think the EU will offer the 7-year emergency break that they offered before the referendum and in return the UK will move to the EEA, pay a similar amount each year, and not get a voice at the table because it was very naughty and rocked the boat.
The UK may use that emergency break time to negotiate trade deals before leaving the EEA or it may try to carry on just like that (probably politically unsustainable).
Monday 25th July 2016 08:54 GMT
Re: Bull!
At Itcher, Daniel Rovira employs two Britons, one New Zealander and four non-UK Europeans including himself... He hopes for a Norwegian-style deal that retains freedom of movement and is waiting to see what happens. But although he has lived in London for 13 years and sees the UK as a good place for entrepreneurs, if immigration was curtailed he would consider Barcelona as an alternative. “Certainly it’s much easier to recruit someone than in London, where there is fierce competition, especially for developers,” he says.
That's in Barcelona, where there's 50% youth unemployment. Sounds like a similar reason to the one you picked out.
Difficult to get start-up funding in Spain unless you're a construction company though.
I don't like Mondays, Pokemon, Twitter or Facebook – Sir Bob Geldof
Nintendo to investors: Pokémon Go won't make money come
Monday 25th July 2016 07:21 GMT
Re: This clearly goes to show you...
There's no chance to look at Nintendo and Pokemon and what their plan is, you see it's going up so you have to buy and you see it's going down so you have to sell.
If we fill stock exchanges worldwide with herds of rampaging wildebeest they'd probably make more rational decisions.
Yay the market.
MS warns of ..WSF file worm
Cyanogen Inc 'axes 20%' staff
Sunday 24th July 2016 08:14 GMT
Re: Well shit - teacup?
No, that's Cyanogen MOD which means there are special hooks in CyanogenOS which allow apps on their app store to be more integrated into the OS than the usual app. It's got nothing to do with CyanogenMod... really, they couldn't have thought up of a more confusing name for it.
AC: Are you saying Cyanogen, Inc didn't contribute bugfixes back to CyanogenMod or that some CyanogenOS developers weren't hired because of their work on CyanogenMod?
Free Windows 10 upgrade: Time is running out – should you do it?
Scality CEO says French startup scene is booming
Friday 22nd July 2016 08:23 GMT
Re: "The French startup ecosystem is booming"
how can advising people to move their companies to Silicon Valley, which is already stuffed to the gills with startups, be consistent with recognizing that the French startup situation is roaring ahead ?
I thought he said why he had to move... go where the money is, and the ideas. But most of all the money. And after you get the money you can get bought up by Google or Facebook or someone.
This is probably why tech in Europe is not as strong as elsewhere, it fails because it doesn't work out if it doesn't burn money at the start or gets bought up by someone bigger or goes to the US to get bought up.
I'm still in mourning for ARM which was supposedly the UK's 600lb tech gorilla. The CPU that reaches the parts that Intel doesn't reach and is in practically every bloody device that isn't a PC and we let it go because we have a civil service and a government full of politicians who studied PPE and history of art.
Microsoft delays Azure updates so you can catch up with the cloud
Microsoft to rip up P2P Skype, killing native Mac, Linux apps
Thursday 21st July 2016 07:21 GMT
I don't know what the last few paragraphs are about
Skype isn't P2P any more, everything's been going through MS' supernodes for a few years, and messages can blocked (e.g. you type a link to a phishing website that's on their list) so they know the contents of messages too. They're not going to change that with the move to web clients.
Thursday 21st July 2016 07:14 GMT
Wire (wire.com) has Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and web clients. It doesn't have Windows Phone but Windows Phone is deader than Skype. Microsoft can fragment Skype until it only works with Windows Desktop and Windows Phone and then they'll be utterly surprised to find that nobody is using it.
There's also appear.in which is web only, but it has the advantage of not having a crappy broken UI, unlike Skype.
Tesla's Model S autonomous mode may have saved a life
HMRC research finds 'resistance' to proposals to shift contractor tax compliance burden
Thursday 21st July 2016 14:22 GMT
Re: Whatever happened to the promise that...
2000: IR35 came into force.
2007: Philip Hammond as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury said Tories will abolish IR35. link
2011: Recommendation by Office of Tax Simplification to suspend IR35 or compel HM Revenue & Customs to make changes to its implementation. link
2016: Now. Philip Hammond in charge of Treasury.
UK councils refuse to push data into the cloud
BT customers hit by broadband outage ... again
Alleged skipper of pirate site KickAss Torrents keel-hauled in Poland
Reg readers head to pub to hear about the digital home
Web meltdown: BT feels heat from angry punters
WhatsApp gets another Brazilian whack as magistrate blocks it again
Wednesday 20th July 2016 09:22 GMT
Re: I love how
It's both, probably a little more 2) than 1). She's not particularly interested in how it works or why they can't give her the messages, she just wants them and she'll block WhatsApp till she gets them.
"This is what happens in several investigations. Operators comply. Google complies. Why can't WhatsApp comply? Brazilian criminals see a shield in WhatsApp, a safe haven to commit crimes and plans executions." link
So she'd like them to remove E2E encryption and store messages.
UK South East Coast Ambulance slammed for creaking emergency dispatch IT
Top IT bod Sally Howes leaves the UK's National Audit Office
Governments Googling Google about you more than ever says Google
UK's climate change dept abolished, but 'smart meters and all our policies strong as ever'
Tuesday 19th July 2016 11:58 GMT
Re: smart meter
I don't think it's an EU directive, it just is more technically unreliable to make a washing machine mix 50-60ºC water from a combi boiler with cold water to get a 30-40ºC wash, plus you run the risk of ending up with shrunken doll's clothes. Many hot fill washing machines never take hot water in for the colder washes anyway, they heat up cold water.
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