You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing
Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements
04 Aug 2020 | 44
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, the then gong-collecting staple of IT’s senior managers. 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.
Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking
This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say
03 Aug 2020 | 5
An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day
Don't worry if one's loitering in your garden, it'll buzz off in a while
31 Jul 2020 | 22
Firefighters to UK Home Office: Yeah, maybe don't turn off emergency comms network before replacement is ready
Prospects of cursed ESN project still murky for customers-to-be
30 Jul 2020 | 39
How Bude: Google's sole-financed private undersea pipe to make a landing in Cornwall
Cable named for compsci legend Grace Hopper to link US, UK, Spain
28 Jul 2020 | 19
UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)
'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops
28 Jul 2020 | 7
It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle
Propositions database land with a 'real-time' system
28 Jul 2020 | 4
SAP takes a punch to its software licensing revenue but Ellison's promise of customer exodus to Oracle seemingly fails to materialise
Nothing to say, Larry? Makes a change
27 Jul 2020 | 1
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice
27 Jul 2020 | 13
Cabinet Office takes over control of UK government data: Mundane machinery or Machiavellian manoeuvrings?
Argh! Dominic Cummings' department! Everybody panic!
24 Jul 2020 | 56
UK weather watcher will make it rain to the tune of $30m for support on new data platform
Met Office has taken a shine to data science
24 Jul 2020 | 4
NoSQL Cassandra developer community sets sights on JDK 11 as sped-up 4.0 beta finally hits the streets
'Most stable' release yet boosts scaling speed, data observability
23 Jul 2020 | 6
UK tech spending in 2020 will be hit harder than in France or Germany with little prospect of growth next year – analysts
That's what a sluggish pandemic response and 'world-beating' testing programme gets you
23 Jul 2020 | 9
Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than thought
Immigrants crossing Bering land bridge would have found folk already there
22 Jul 2020 | 20
About ready to POP3: Day 6 of email wobbles at UK2 after services provider Tucows suffers 'service failure'
Updated15% of customers affected as Canadian partner promises 'full mailbox services' today
22 Jul 2020 | 9
UK intel committee on Russia: Social media firms should remove state disinformation. What was that, MI5? ████████?
Also (yikes): A 'complicated wiring diagram of responsibilities amongst ministers' in the event of cyber attack
21 Jul 2020 | 56
Apple was the only Fortune 50 company to foresee COVID-19 pandemic risk and properly insure against it – Forrester
Nugget nestled in report on how outbreak will change the tech biz
21 Jul 2020 | 27
Worldpay stops turning in the UK, leaving trail of thoroughly miffed retailers and customers
Payments provider cops to 'processing issues' caused by 'equipment change'
20 Jul 2020 | 12
UK.gov admits it has not performed legally required data protection checks for COVID-19 tracing system
No evidence of data being used unlawfully, says health department
20 Jul 2020 | 99
Southern Water to splash £50m on IT services to purify systems of planning, governance and internal controls
We'll raise a glass of the good stuff to that
20 Jul 2020 | 3
Twitter admits 130 A-lister accounts compromised to promote Bitcoin scam after 'social engineering' attack
UpdatedWhich, let's be real, is a fancy way to say 'we got phished'
17 Jul 2020 | 27
Oh deer! Scotland needs some tech smarts to help monitor its rampant herbivore populations
Drones and satellite imagery probably better than sending out four helicopters at a time – or counting poop
17 Jul 2020 | 41
Born in the USA: German-speaking users fail to take up SAP's acquired business apps
They're still more popular in America... even 7 years after shopping spree
16 Jul 2020 | 7
UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table
Can't go worse than that time it bought 2.3 million Oracle licences. Right?
16 Jul 2020 | 3
