Doctors call for greater scrutiny of bidders for platform that pools UK's health info
Supplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win'
PaaS + IaaS25 Nov 2022 | 58
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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.
Low code is no replacement for software development, say German-speaking SAP users
'It remains to be seen to what degree of process depth the offer will prove itself in practice'
SaaS25 Nov 2022 | 39
Bright light from black holes found to be caused by particle shock waves
NASA's IXPE space telescope pays off with 'dazzling' observation of intergalactic X-rays
Science24 Nov 2022 | 26
Foxconn workers protest over pay and lockdowns at iPhone factory in China
Updated Contractor apologizes for 'technical error occurred during the onboarding process'
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 28
University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster
Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures
PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 45
Someone has to say it: Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech
Comment Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed?
Personal Tech23 Nov 2022 | 220
Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust
'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly'
Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 30
Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs
Got the boot from Musk or Zuck? Automaker has 800 techie vacancies to fill
Devops22 Nov 2022 | 52
Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move
Plus: He ran a poll 51.8% in favor of overturning Donald Trump's ban... but some must be bots, right Elon?
Networks21 Nov 2022 | 134
UK's National Health Service will roll existing Palantir work into patient data platform
Does spy-tech supplier have a head start in bidding for the controversial deal it considers a 'must win'?
Databases21 Nov 2022 | 37
World's richest man posts memes as $44b Twitter acquisition veers off course
Staff locked out as hundreds appear to say no to Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum
Offbeat18 Nov 2022 | 210
SAP renames developer platform and bundles it with S/4HANA
TechEd But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems
Databases17 Nov 2022 |
MotherDuck scores $47.5m to prove scale-up databases are not quackers
Interview Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB
Databases17 Nov 2022 | 6
Elon Musk issues ultimatum to Twitter staff: Go hardcore or go home
Comment Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 383
NHS tech chief dismisses concerns over loss of statutory power to protect patient data
Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership
PaaS + IaaS16 Nov 2022 | 35
SAP injects more low code into ERP platform for non-coding biz types
Following AppGyver and Ruum, Build potentially takes pressure off devs’ create-this-feature-now list
Databases15 Nov 2022 | 2
IBM to fire Watson IoT Platform from its cloud
Exclusive Big Blue follows in footsteps of Google in pulling plug on services
Edge + IoT15 Nov 2022 | 18
Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move
Updated Bro do u even GraphQL?
Offbeat14 Nov 2022 | 347
University staff voice 'urgent, profound concern' as Oracle finance system delays payments
Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system
Databases14 Nov 2022 | 39
Musk tells of risk of Twitter bankruptcy as tweeters trash brands
Comment Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH
Personal Tech11 Nov 2022 | 201
Twitter CISO flies the coop
As social media giant grapples with Musk takeover, a safe pair of hands reaches for the door
Security10 Nov 2022 | 47
SAP's vision underplays complexity of S/4HANA cloud migration, says Gartner
Difficult decision did not end with RISE with SAP, analyst tells The Reg
Databases10 Nov 2022 | 1
CIOs in Europe warned: Be wary of tech price inflation
Weakness of local currencies vs the dollar will force US vendors to act and act again
On-Prem10 Nov 2022 | 4
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns
The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end
SaaS09 Nov 2022 | 2
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole
'Every major project' on the table, says government as Autumn Statement looms
Science07 Nov 2022 | 201
UK government set to extract hospital data to Palantir system without patient consent
'You'll be hearing from us,' say privacy campaigners who previously forced the government to back down
Databases04 Nov 2022 | 99
Redis swallows RESP.app biz that made its database easier on developers
Acquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache
Databases03 Nov 2022 |
University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles
Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments
Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36
Reducing partisan divide alone does not boost support for democracy, study finds
Ending anti-democratic attitudes not so easy stateside, researchers claim
Science02 Nov 2022 | 39
UK comms regulator rings death knell for fax machines
Much-loved but outdated hardware could be consigned to tech history
Offbeat02 Nov 2022 | 96
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse
Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary
AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
Government by Gmail catches up with UK minister... who is reappointed anyway
Home Secretary 'nominally in charge' of nation's security apologizes for breach of tech protocols
Security01 Nov 2022 | 156
Couchbase claims fourfold performance boost for DBaaS using a tenth of the memory
Improvements to storage engine follow DataStax update to API gateway
Databases01 Nov 2022 |
UK facing electricity supply woes after nuclear power stations shut, MPs told
Larger and smaller reactors carry risks, island nation failed to keep pace with nuclear fleet closure
Science01 Nov 2022 | 253
Elon Musk jettisons Twitter leadership, says takeover was 'to try to help humanity'
Comment Chief twit celebrates closing deal with characteristic humility
Offbeat28 Oct 2022 | 152
UK awards Fujitsu $60m contract amid calls to suspend it from government work
It may be in the dock over Horizon software scandal, but it's still on UK.gov gravy train
On-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 22
ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP
Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending
SaaS27 Oct 2022 |
'Chief Twit' Musk delivers bathroom furniture to Twitter HQ ... but not Tesla results
Purported real-world Iron Man sinks to lame prank
Offbeat27 Oct 2022 | 74
Db2 goes 'cloud-first' as IBM struggles to lift database dinosaur
One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s
Databases27 Oct 2022 | 6
Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts
Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies
Science26 Oct 2022 | 28
Finance watchdog warns of long-term risk Big Tech poses to competition
FAGA's interest in payments and lending services has UK's Financial Conduct Authority's attention
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 12
UK.gov finds billions in cash for big data contracts
Project two years in the making aims to improve public services... or what's left of them
Databases26 Oct 2022 | 20
SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled
Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses
Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5
What's up with WhatsApp? Messaging platform suffers outage in the UK
Updated Massive spike in user reports on DownDetector, no word on cause
Off-Prem25 Oct 2022 | 28
Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud
But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology
PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11
IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days
Big Blue now claims upsides to EU exit that others have failed to see
Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 45
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare
Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 39
Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health
Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit
Science21 Oct 2022 | 18
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce
What connects a decaying salad vegetable with something called 'the 1922 Committee'? Enter the wonderful and frightening world of British politics
Bootnotes20 Oct 2022 | 371
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'
Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO?
Networks20 Oct 2022 | 25
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps
Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first
PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession
Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending'
PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal
Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity
Science18 Oct 2022 | 41
Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform
Latest U-turn follows a series of clown-car maneuvers that spooked financial markets
Legal17 Oct 2022 | 191
Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud
Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff
Databases17 Oct 2022 | 18
UK regulator proposes price cap on Motorola as supplier of Airwave network
Home Office and emergency services appear to be locked in with monopoly provider, market watchdog says
Networks17 Oct 2022 | 16
Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner
But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO
On-Prem14 Oct 2022 | 28
Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong
Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers
Science14 Oct 2022 | 30
SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision
'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'
Databases14 Oct 2022 | 8
Financial watchdogs want to know what traders are talking about on WhatsApp
Keen interest in messaging platform follows $2 billion fines in US
Security13 Oct 2022 | 29
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