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 | 101
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.
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 | 25
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 | 75
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 | 34
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
Microsoft among software titans under spotlight for restrictive licensing
US campaign group forms as customers complain of lock-in, unclear terms, problems using wares in cloud
Off-Prem28 Sep 2022 | 12
Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges
India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog
Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8
Arm hires former Splunk CFO Jason Child ahead of IPO
Adds new heads to boardroom too but still not word on destination of flotation
On-Prem27 Sep 2022 |
Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet
Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards
Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4
Microsoft highlights 'productivity paranoia' in remote work research
You know you're working, your colleagues know you're working, but the boss? Survey says: Paranoid
SaaS23 Sep 2022 | 38
BT's emergency call handlers will join pay strikes
Four fresh dates organized for industrial action as union puts the squeeze on biz
Networks23 Sep 2022 | 38
DXC Technology linked with private equity takeover talks
The cloud has forever changed infrastructure services landscape – just ask IBM, HPE, CSC and Atos
On-Prem22 Sep 2022 | 8
BT CEO orders staff: Back to the office or risk 'disciplinary action'
Exclusive '3 together, 2 wherever' policy incoming. 'We've lost that deep connection' says boss
Networks21 Sep 2022 | 164
UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London
Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets?
Systems16 Sep 2022 | 26
Former Reg vulture takes on Nominet – by running for board seat
After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside
Networks16 Sep 2022 | 27
Former Cisco boss launches upstart to rattle old employer's cage
John Chambers' Nile wants to remove humans from network management
Networks15 Sep 2022 | 17
Former Newport Wafer Fab owner linked to buyback from China's Nexperia
If you think customers were impatient before, this report won't soothe their worries
Systems15 Sep 2022 | 11
IBM to book $5.9b non-cash charge to transfer its pension liabilities
100k staffers and their beneficiaries to be looked after by Prudential Insurance, Metropolitan Life Insurance
On-Prem14 Sep 2022 | 16
HP pays $1.3m to settle dispute over printer security chip
Euroconsumers hail success, payments capped and only folks in 4 countries eligible so far
Personal Tech13 Sep 2022 | 25
SEC charges VMware with hiding slowing sales from investors
Virtualization giant pays $8m to settle claims it pushed revenue into later quarter... without admitting liability
Virtualization13 Sep 2022 | 10
SAP to increase support fees in January to offset inflation costs
Maintenance and software installation prices heading north for range of agreements
Applications12 Sep 2022 | 3
Atos investor says turnaround plan 'too ambitious and complicated'
Sycamore Asset Management: Outsourcer 'badly run' with 'profit margin,' growth 'below industry averages'
On-Prem12 Sep 2022 | 14
Supply chain normality returns for PCs but not servers, says Dell
Over at HP, CEO says a client price war is now looming
Personal Tech09 Sep 2022 | 3
Google tightens screw on staff expenses as economy slows
Will somebody think of the poor shareholders? They have kids too
Off-Prem08 Sep 2022 | 15
Biting the hand that feeds IT
