It would take a 'catastrophic' recession to stop tech spend growth, says IBM boss
Tells Economic Club of New York no one he knows is trimming IT budgets
Off-Prem18 Nov 2022 | 21
Paul Kunert is the UK editor at The Register. In addition to running the London office, areas of coverage include the technology supply chain, IT outsourcing, cloud services and more.
US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20b Figma buy
Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer
Software18 Nov 2022 | 4
Multi-tasker Musk expects to reduce time at Twitter, seek another leader
Comment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay
Personal Tech17 Nov 2022 | 133
Cisco starts 'talent movement options', and restructuring amid real estate cuts
Profit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised
Networks17 Nov 2022 | 4
Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much
Also wants Alphabet to slash losses in Waymo division, buy back shares, lots of them
Off-Prem16 Nov 2022 | 65
Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune
Comment Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home
Offbeat15 Nov 2022 | 38
Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock
There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so
Systems15 Nov 2022 | 6
Micro Focus prepares for private ownership, turnaround still WIP
Russia and strong dollar weigh heavy on 2022, but OpenText is ready for COBOL expert
Software14 Nov 2022 | 1
Arm reports record royalties but total revenues slide
Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago
Systems11 Nov 2022 | 3
BT preparing to offer financial support to inflation struck staff
CEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes
Networks11 Nov 2022 | 2
Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action lawsuit
Alleges agreement choked resellers using Amazon Marketplace, eliminated 98% of competition
Legal10 Nov 2022 | 11
Musk sells $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, paid eleven times more for Twitter
Meanwhile, more advertisers pause spending on loss-making social media platform and user base said to be declining
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 62
Unlucky for some: Meta chops 13% of global workforce
Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand
Personal Tech09 Nov 2022 | 87
Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses
Updated CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field
Off-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 26
Swiss drone-busting eagle squadron grounded permanently
Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds
Offbeat08 Nov 2022 | 40
Parody Elon Musk Twitter accounts will be suspended immediately, says Elon Musk
This is no laughing matter, says very stable genius, as Kathy Griffin forced to tweet from dead mom's account
Offbeat07 Nov 2022 | 127
BT re-enters pay talks to prevent further strikes, says union
What forced the change in attitude? The impact on 40,000 broadband connections possibly
Networks04 Nov 2022 | 6
Kyndryl loses $281m in the quarter as modernization agenda continues
How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era
On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 5
BT CEO ups cost-cutting plan amid rising inflation and soaring energy costs
National telecom giant admits strike action is impacting customer broadband connections
Networks03 Nov 2022 | 30
Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs
Statcounter says Number 10 is still Number 1 in the Windows world
OSes02 Nov 2022 | 100
Former Apple worker pleads guilty to $17m mail and wire fraud charges
Nefarious schemes included harvesting motherboard components and selling them back to Apple
Cyber-crime02 Nov 2022 | 12
Tablet, Chromebook shipments come crashing down
Device sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs
Personal Tech02 Nov 2022 | 11
Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'
Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown
Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5
Macs still growing as Apple sidesteps dark clouds over big tech
Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last
Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 3
Microsoft boss Nadella's compensation pack swells 10% to $55m
Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma, the median? Ratio to Redmond's average employee pay is 289 to 1
Off-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 21
Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits
Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money
Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 45
Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation
Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts
Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 39
Logitech, that canary in PC coal mine, just fell off its perch
Pandemic gold rush for hardware slingers is over?
Personal Tech26 Oct 2022 | 35
Gone phishing: UK data watchdog fines construction biz £4.4m for poor infosec hygiene
Staff member bit on lure, ultimately exposed up to 113,000 colleagues' personal information
Cyber-crime25 Oct 2022 | 11
Philips axes thousands amid financial loss
Warns of class action lawsuits and personal injury claims in wake of health product recall
Personal Tech25 Oct 2022 | 20
Don't believe the hype: HP CEO says 3D printing hasn't met early hopes
Canalys Channels Forum Now, who talked up that market to begin with?
Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 24
Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025
Canalys Channels Forum McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree
Personal Tech24 Oct 2022 | 71
Union meeting BT shareholders today to discuss strikes, pay rises
Exclusive CWU also planning to re-ballot entire workforce, claims stoppages are delaying fiber and network builds
Networks24 Oct 2022 | 9
Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason
Canalys Channels Forum Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 62
Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs
Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 57
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure
Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10
Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards
Canalys Channels Forum Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 20
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year
CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
Global smartphone sales come tumbling down as reality bites
Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 17
Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved
Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK
Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 14
Microsoft makes another round of jobs cuts amid slowing economy
Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire
Off-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 4
Huawei rolls dice, adds exec heads to enterprise and carrier divisions amid troubled times
Wang and Li appointed following death of Ryan Ding
Networks18 Oct 2022 | 3
Musk says Starlink will keep providing free service to Ukraine
'Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $'
Networks17 Oct 2022 | 25
LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites
Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack
Cyber-crime14 Oct 2022 | 2
Insurer Medibank hit by targeted cyberattack
Hot on heels of Optus and Dialog breaches, criminals turn sights to insurance sector
Cyber-crime13 Oct 2022 | 1
Musky scent? Billionaire launches fragrance: Burnt Hair
'The Essence of Repugnant Desire', selling via Boring Company website for $100, will accept Dogecoin
Offbeat12 Oct 2022 | 33
Cost of living crisis less of problem for tech pro retirees than others
Global tech recruiter Robert Walters says pay scale too high to feel tight grip of inflation, etc
Offbeat12 Oct 2022 | 32
PC shipments fall at fastest rate ever as businesses slam wallets shut
More analysts emerge to talk up hefty double digit shrink in unit volumes
Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 25
More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11
Research by Lansweeper shows Microsoft's stringent hardware requirements still at play
OSes10 Oct 2022 | 141
Singtel confirms digital burglary at Dialog subsidiary
Second of Singapore telco's Australian businesses to be prised open by criminals in weeks
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2022 |
Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns
The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?
Networks07 Oct 2022 | 6
People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis
The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work
On-Prem07 Oct 2022 | 185
Australian Federal Police arrest man suspected of exploiting Optus cyberattack
Customers were allegedly sent texts demanding $1,300 or face having ID used in financial crime
Security06 Oct 2022 | 1
BT will back down in face of non-stop protests, says union
CWU: Just like UK government did a reverse-ferret on tax, so will national telecom titan on staff pay
Networks06 Oct 2022 | 8
IT management giant DXC confirms takeover interest
No formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house
On-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 5
Arm job cuts hit UK harder than global rationalization
Anyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain?
Personal Tech05 Oct 2022 | 10
Cult leader meets the Pope: Apple CEO chats to Francis
Vatican City sovereign still not keen on seeing cellphones in the basilica
Offbeat04 Oct 2022 | 16
Vodafone and Three's UK arms locked in merger talks
Regulators might have thing or two to say. And analysts warn of post consolidation price rises
Networks03 Oct 2022 | 33
Atos rejects bid from rival for digital, big data, security units
Despite having €4.2b reasons from Onepoint to ditch Evidian strategy and sell up
On-Prem30 Sep 2022 | 2
AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending
Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants
Off-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 5
Biting the hand that feeds IT
