Oracle's $130M plus payday still looms on horizon for Larry and Safra
And shareholders – presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% – are still not happy about it
Databases26 Sep 2023 | 3
Paul Kunert is EMEA region editor at The Register. In addition to overseeing our output in that part of the world, his areas of coverage include the global technology supply chain, IT outsourcing, and cloud services. Paul was previously editor of Channel Register. In a career spanning more than 25 years, he has held various positions including chief reporter.
Intel aims to patch semiconductor skills gap with one-year cert program
New fabs won't achieve much without specialized staff to fill them
Systems25 Sep 2023 | 4
Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec
Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival
Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 8
Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls
Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS
Security21 Sep 2023 | 30
As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet
Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research
On-Prem20 Sep 2023 | 59
Unity talks of price cap and fees for only largest games developers
That sound? It's the screeching noise of a massive U-turn as games engine biz admits mistakes
Software19 Sep 2023 | 16
The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption'
Back to 'manual' order processing for $7B household cleaning biz, financial impact will be 'material'
Cyber-crime19 Sep 2023 | 7
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure
At least it was the weekend
PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'
If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery
Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 38
Activist investor to GoDaddy: Cut costs, improve sales, or sell
Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed'
Off-Prem14 Sep 2023 | 26
Capita class action: 2,000 folks affected by data theft sign up
Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure
Cyber-crime13 Sep 2023 | 12
Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO
Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected
Cloud Infrastructure Week11 Sep 2023 | 1
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
Managers warn company goals can't be achieved unless coders get more face time and less FaceTime
AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 156
22 million Brits suffer broadband outage blues and are paying a premium for it
Southampton top for connectivity flops, says Uswitch research
Networks08 Sep 2023 | 70
Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files
Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it
Cyber-crime06 Sep 2023 | 3
Newport Wafer Fab blames UK government over 100 redundancies plan
Forced sale of Britian's biggest semiconductor component maker creating uncertainty over its future
Systems06 Sep 2023 | 15
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps
Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out
PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
CEO Zooms through the bad news on Q2 earnings call
Alienating FOSS community and some employees? Web-based collaboration biz delights shareholders
Off-Prem22 Aug 2023 | 5
Misfiring Lenovo hires Ford director to help with revamp
Hold onto your hats people, Lenovo to invest $1B in AI as hardware sales falter
On-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 10
Meta to use work badge and Status Tool to snoop on staff
Not in office three days a week? Repeated 'violations' could lead to termination
On-Prem18 Aug 2023 | 42
Hands up who wants a PC? Lenovo reports declining returns
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Profit down 66% as execs try to clear inventory decks
Personal Tech17 Aug 2023 | 23
Former DEC employees to rally against stagnant pensions post-HP
What do we want? Discretionary increases. When do we want them? Since 2002
On-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 24
Rising labor and component costs lead to UK product and service price hike at IBM
Big Blue looks back at 2022 in Britain, one of the world's economies 'hit hardest' by pandemic
Off-Prem17 Aug 2023 | 5
You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses
Security15 Aug 2023 | 59
Zoom's new London hub – where 'remote work' meets 'we need you back in the office'
Collaboration, cohesion, and irony all under one roof
On-Prem11 Aug 2023 | 120
Rapid7 prepares to toss 18% of workforce to cut costs
Operating expenses almost as high as actual turnover in latest quarterly numbers
Security09 Aug 2023 | 5
4 in 5 Chromebooks sold to US students in Q2 as demand rises
Education buyers ignore campaign group's intense criticism of device's lifespan, 'expect expiration dates for milk, not tech'
Personal Tech08 Aug 2023 | 41
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers
And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week
SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
Qualcomm's great vanishing act: $2.48B of Q3 profit disappears
Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach
Systems03 Aug 2023 | 1
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'
Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers
PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary
Sleeping giant says no sign yet personal info was stolen
Cyber-crime01 Aug 2023 | 9
BT hires chartered management accountant and telco veteran as next CEO
Got to keep up with those FTTP builds and the tens of thousands of staff that will leave
Networks31 Jul 2023 | 6
Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI
CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024
AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365
Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call
Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide
AI + ML26 Jul 2023 | 2
Logitech reports broad declines as pre-pandemic buying cycles return
Inventory holding reduced in Q1, hunt for new CEO continues
Personal Tech25 Jul 2023 | 9
Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission, lawsuit claims
Lawyers look to scale the walled garden
Applications25 Jul 2023 | 21
Twitter name and blue bird logo to be 'blowtorched' off company branding
X marks the rot: It's Elon's fave letter and way forward for the 'everything app'
Personal Tech24 Jul 2023 | 204
Lawyer sees almost 1,000 complainants sign up to Capita breach class action
95% pertain to pension schemes administered by outsourcing giant, says Barings Law
Cyber-crime21 Jul 2023 | 12
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business
Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies
Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack'
Says baddies launched attack at weekend, isolates parts of tech infrastructure to contain spread
Cyber-crime18 Jul 2023 | 7
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps
Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop
Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app
SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel
Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work
AI + ML17 Jul 2023 | 44
Adobe's $20B Figma deal hit by in-depth probe in the UK
Updated Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator
Software13 Jul 2023 | 3
Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change
Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause
Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130
Should leaders place bets on new PCs or generative AI?
Here's a hint: Leaders are putting laptop orders on ice
Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 17
BT CEO Jansen confirms he's quitting within 12 months
FTTP builds? 25M homes target on track. 68% coverage of 5G in UK. Mega redundancies programme initiated. He's off
Networks10 Jul 2023 | 15
Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services
AWS now biggest supplier in Britain, according to TechMarketView
PaaS + IaaS06 Jul 2023 | 8
Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan
Here come the taishoku daiko to tell your boss to do one... in a polite but unequivocal way
Offbeat05 Jul 2023 | 56
EU antitrust team closer to full-blown Microsoft probe, say sources
Despite Redmond's best efforts to convince competition regulators that product bundles are OK
Software04 Jul 2023 | 22
Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo
Will someone please think of the poor shareholders? Oh, they already have
Software03 Jul 2023 | 89
UK competition watchdog threatens deeper probe of Adobe's $20B Figma deal
Vendors have days to answer cost and innovation concerns, may face potential delay to merger... or worse
Software30 Jun 2023 | 1
Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls
Police reported backlog of 999 calls after unspecified technical error
Networks28 Jun 2023 | 48
Capita faces first legal Letter of Claim over mega breach
Barings Law claims 250 people that 'suspect' data theft signed up to class action
Cyber-crime16 Jun 2023 | 15
Despite declines, DXC Technology boss awarded $20.3m in 2023
Revenues shrank and net profit evaporated but progress made in other areas, says board
Software15 Jun 2023 | 10
Capita wins £50M fraud reporting contract with City of London cops
No, the irony isn't lost on us either
Security14 Jun 2023 | 26
Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure
Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report
PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation
Opportunistic Atlassian highlights problems in wake of move by Meta, Dell, Google and others
Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 64
Brit data watchdog fines sleazy sales ops £250K for 'bombarding' folk with calls
Crown Glazing and Maxen Power Supply fall foul of PECR
Security09 Jun 2023 | 25
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