US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal
15% tax minimum to hit tech firms
22 Oct 2021 | 6
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Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
UK government puts £5bn on the table in trawl for public sector networks services
I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers
21 Oct 2021 |
Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner
The future's bright, and expensive
20 Oct 2021 | 3
Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag
AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D
20 Oct 2021 | 2
UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead
Updated DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government
20 Oct 2021 | 17
Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government
Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register
20 Oct 2021 | 88
Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane
It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst
19 Oct 2021 | 1
WTF? Value of Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven jumps $1.2bn in 7 months
Cloud data market heats up as company lures $60m in Series C funding
19 Oct 2021 | 7
Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2
Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system
19 Oct 2021 | 4
Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children
Updated Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says
18 Oct 2021 | 127
There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon
UK Cabinet Office organises latest print hardware and supplies mega framework
18 Oct 2021 | 37
Keep expectations low and you won't be disappointed: OVH manages 6 per cent increase on its IPO debut
French cloud provider puts outage and fire behind it to focus on beating the big players
15 Oct 2021 | 2
Space boffins: Exoplanet survived hydrogen-death of its host star
Hope extended to gas giants across the universe... well, it is Friday
15 Oct 2021 | 31
Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface
Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019
15 Oct 2021 | 5
Nine floors underground, Oracle's Israel data centre can 'withstand a rocket, a missile or even a car bomb'
New cloud region able to hold out against attacks due to regional instability
14 Oct 2021 | 40
And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system
Award delayed nine months due to pandemic
13 Oct 2021 | 5
Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data
Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded
12 Oct 2021 | 30
Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace
Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says
12 Oct 2021 | 149
Housing consortium's £500m software deal expects winners to adapt to legislation brought in to avoid another Grenfell
Outsourcing giant Wipro secures a spot among others
12 Oct 2021 |
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data
Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare
11 Oct 2021 | 43
Learning app Duolingo sets its sights on the language of numbers
Aims to take kids from Instagram to integration with gamified approach
08 Oct 2021 | 7
Zoom-o-cracy: Wales MP misses vote, allowing COVID-passport rule change, blames the IT dept
Senedd Cymru ICT crowd have earned their Friday beers
08 Oct 2021 | 38
Outgoing UK Information Commissioner issues warning about the independence of her office
Blasts proposals for Secretary of State to approve ICO guidance
07 Oct 2021 | 9
Intel's €80bn European chip plant investment plan not bound for UK because Brexit
Promise to become 'a science and technology superpower' not cutting much ice with Chipzilla
07 Oct 2021 | 256
