Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades
It's too long a retention period, say digital rights campaigners
01 Jun 2020 | 14
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.
Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications
Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria
01 Jun 2020 | 21
High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new
29 May 2020 | 2
Workday chops up to $85m off subscription forecast for fiscal 2021 in response to pandemic
Thows arms around Salesforce and Microsoft in cloudy cuddle
28 May 2020 |
Laughing UK health secretary launches COVID-19 Test and Trace programme with glitchy website and no phone app
Hilarious
28 May 2020 | 101
Highways England waves around £62m contract for National Traffic Information Service after brief chat with vendors
UpdatedIf you're anything like us, you dream of reorganising your country's highways. This is a new system they want to tighten up data streams, but still
27 May 2020 | 25
IBM resurrects Netezza data warehousing kit in the cloud, which will delight clients midway through migrating
Surprise!
27 May 2020 | 3
Consumer hardware shipments forecast to drop 14% for 2020, but hey, it could be worse, says Gartner
Thank heavens everyone had to start working from home, right?
26 May 2020 | 4
Live analytics without vendor lock-in? It's more likely than you think, says Redis Labs
'AI serving platform' runs in database but isn't tied to specific cloud service
26 May 2020 | 2
Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig
Only the beast of Redmond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says UK.gov department
22 May 2020 | 26
SAP shareholders not happy about chopping and changing CEO model
We 'cannot afford a construction site in top management while in crisis mode' moans savings bank rep
21 May 2020 | 1
Campaign groups warn GCHQ can re-identify UK's phones from COVID-19 contact-tracing app data
UpdatedYes, the app that's not quite working yet
21 May 2020 | 66
Bionic eyes to be a thing in the next decade? Possibly. Boffins mark sensor-density breakthrough
Paper released on proof-of-concept of 100 pixels, each with three nanowires
21 May 2020 | 23
The software bots are coming, the software bots are coming: Microsoft swallows UK automation minnow while dreaming of low-code apps
Now about that ageing software estate and those lucrative licences...
20 May 2020 | 7
UK MPs to off-payroll workers: Delay IR35 reforms until 2023? You wish
And we will change your tax forever, no need to delay ya... nothing's gonna stop us now
20 May 2020 | 53
ITAM Forum opens: 'People just want to talk to other managers about how to defend against software audits'
IT asset management group aims to help users negotiate service deals, navigate software licensing
20 May 2020 | 7
DB or not DB: Open-sourcer Percona pushes out plethora of SQL and NoSQL tweaks in bid to win over suits
Hopes to lure business types to shiny platform
19 May 2020 |
Open letter from digital rights groups to UK health secretary questions big tech's role in NHS COVID-19 data store
Promises of transparency about handling of citizens' health data haven't been fulfilled – campaigners
19 May 2020 | 15
Latest NHS IT revolution is failing to learn lessons from the last £10bn car crash
Spending watchdog says UK health service lacks oversight, can't trace responsibilities
18 May 2020 | 42
Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework
What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain
18 May 2020 | 14
It's Azure thing: Software AG hoists application integration platform into Microsoft's cloud
Google's next, warns chief product officer
15 May 2020 |
UK, Ireland users call on SAP to extend indirect licensing deadline again as COVID-19 ravages project plans
'People are going to lose a lot of time this year'
15 May 2020 | 6
UK housing association Places for People hands £21m to Salesforce to look after CRM and job scheduling
Tender loving care
15 May 2020 | 6
Let's slip into something a bit more relational: SQL database crowd strikes back with brace of cloudy releases
And you thought this was purely a NoSQL release this week?
14 May 2020 | 1
