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Telstra to hand T-box customers to Foxtel - Register
By Natalie Apostolou • Get more from this author Telstra is expected to shut down its aggressive IPTV ambitions and hand over its 300000 plus T-Box customers to Foxtel, once the merger of Foxtel and Austar is completed, sources close to the deal have ...
WD bigshots spin superfast disk roadmap - Register
We asked a person close to WD about this. He said that Intel thought a 20-24GB flash cache in a 5000GB drive could provide a 95 per cent cache hit rate. There would be 4GB for the operating system and 20GB for application files and a data cache.
Secret's out: Small 15K disk drive market is 'growing' - Register
At Western Digital's executive forum event in Vienna today, a person close to WD said: "In our business 15000rpm drives are not all dead. In the 2.5-inch, 15K enterprise disk drive area the market is growing." This view is diametrically opposed to the ...
Freedom-crushing govts close to ruling our web, fears FCC boss - Register
ITU reps, speaking off the record, are starting to fear some sort of conspiracy themselves: they've adamantly stated that they have neither the desire, nor the budget, nor the mandate, to interfere with governance of the internet, and yet the scare ...
Microsoft sharpening axe for marketing heads - report - Register
"They've been wiping out the VPs – flattening out," a former Microsoft exec gone within the last 12 months tells us on condition of anonymity. That cull is now being extended up to director level execs, he says.
Yahoo! Microsoft! merger! back! on! after! NDA! signed! - Register
A source close to the deal told the New York Times that Microsoft had signed the pledge, including provisions not to discuss terms with third parties, as part of negotiations to see if it could buy some, or all, of the fading internet legend. ...
Fancy buying Brocade – again? - Register
According to people familiar with the matter, Brocade is up for sale, with Qatalyst hawking it around the industry – again. Why? We know there's an activist investor, Elliot Associates, with an 8.5 per cent stake in the company, nibbling at Brocade's ...
Microsoft 'paid over £1m to silence UK exec over sexism' - Register
An anonymous source told The Daily Telegraph that Natalie Ayres had been passed over for the top job in 2006, despite her 15 years with the company and position as general manager of the UK small and medium enterprises and partners group. ...
HP to bring 6000 more TouchPads to UK - for staff only - Register
Indeed, previously HP maintained that any remaining fondleslab inventory was being set aside for US shoppers, but that was before it uncovered this latest load. One HP partner that asked to remain anonymous questioned how over subscribed HP's Touchpad ...
Dell in bid to woo rattled HP PC sales partners - Register
One of HP's largest PC resellers, which asked not to be named, said there had been a lot of talk from competitors, analysts and the press but "I have not heard one customer want to talk about it, this is not on the agenda of CIOs. ...
BlackBerry handsets will be able to run Android apps - Register
Bloomberg has been talking to people who asked not to be identified but confirmed that RIM's QNX-based handsets, scheduled for next year, will get the Android compatibility module allowing applications developed for Google's platform to be run on RIM's ...
Apple resellers squeezed out of volume licensing model - Register
"Apple has again launched a product without considering the channel," said an Apple Premium Reseller (APR) who asked to remain anonymous. "We have to buy it at retail pricing and make no margin, but Apple reckons we could charge a 'handling' fee. ...
Cray stuffs 46 mobile Intel chips into microserver - Register
But according to a source speaking with The Register on the condition of anonymity, the backplane for the data center blade server measures about 12-inches wide by 26-inches deep. With the blades installed, it is about four-inches high outside of the ...
Oracle woos dealers with cash to stem sliding server sales - Register
Despite the criticisms from sources that asked to remain anonymous, there was an outpouring of positive reactions from other services-based dealers. Peter Spreadbury, director for enterprise partners at SCC, said: "Oracle is finally getting its act ...
Play.com pummelled over purported piracy permissiveness - Register
Despite informing Play.com of the problem, it told the consultant - who asked to remain anonymous - to take up the issue with the vendor DirectSurplus. Six weeks later following a trail of emails, he lost the faint hope that the situation would be ...
HP engineering veep spills cloud plans onto LinkedIn - Register
According to a person familiar with the matter, who wished to remain anonymous, HP intends to reveal the specifics of its cloud strategy at VMware's VMworld conference in August. This could indicate that HP's technology will in some way use VMware ...
Free iPad content for Time, Fortune subribscribers - Register
When the People deal was announced, a "source close to the project who spoke off the record" told Fortune that similar deals would be offered through Time Inc.'s flagship mags within 30 days. It took a bit longer than that, as it turned out. ...
Flipboard joins bubble brigade with US$200M valuation - Register
According to Wall Street Journal blogger Kara Swisher, “sources close to” the fundraising effort – which could mean informed sources, wild guessers, or investment bankers on the make – the company is attracting a valuation of US$200 million. ...
Apple handcuffs 'open' web apps on iPhone home screen - Register
"Apple is basically using subtle defects to make web apps appear to be low quality – even when they claim HTML5 is a fully supported platform," says one mobile web app developer, who asked that his name not be used. Apple did not respond to multiple ...
Apple bans iPhone 3G patch omission talk from forum - Register
Our source, who wisely asked to remain anonymous, was referred to the forum's terms of use, which include "helpful information about using Apple Discussions". "We encourage you to continue using the Apple Discussions while abiding by our terms of use," ...
Microsoft 'paid Nokia $1bn' for WinPho 7 deal - Register
Looking at it another way, a source said, the choice of WinPho 7 will give Nokia the opportunity to "stand out" from the crowd of Android phones increasingly flooding the market. That assertion, when you think about it for a moment, is an odd bit of ...
Man caught w*nking over Alan Sugar's autobiography - Register
An anonymous source who witnessed the man masturbating told The Sun : "He spent about 20 minutes looking through the books in the business section before ...
Oracle enlists private dick to sniff out HP boss - Register
According to a Reuters report that cited an anonymous source, Oracle is hoping get former SAP chief Apotheker ...
Oracle: no license for Android's Harmony friend - Register
A source close to the JCP told us that at the meeting, Oracle unveiled still more weak reforms, including mandating that all Java Specification Request ...
Doctors' appointment system goes tits up - Register
A practice manager from a south London surgery who requested anonymity told us: "Our system has been down all day. "All the surgery appointments are on the ...