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
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.
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
Google HR hounds threaten 'next steps' for slackers not coming in 3 days a week
'There's just no substitute for coming together in person'
Off-Prem08 Jun 2023 | 84
BT boss Jansen agrees to 'waive' future salary bumps
Says nothing about juicy share awards, as another major organizational reorg kicks off
Networks08 Jun 2023 | 7
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office
Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate
SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week
'Engineers perform better in person' says Zuckerberg. Hang on, aren't you the defender of the Metaverse?
On-Prem02 Jun 2023 | 61
Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos
Have you considered taking up cycling?
Applications02 Jun 2023 | 35
Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner
Pay a bill or buy new phone? That lovely question facing some of us in 2023
Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 40
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax'
Exclusive Watchdogs are 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg
Off-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 53
Aggressive PC discounts might not be here for long, says HP
After challenging Q2, CEO reckons channel inventory starting to finally clear
Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 12
Top cloud players reject Microsoft's attempt to settle EU licensing complaint
Exclusive Offer described by trade group as 'pretty paltry' – it wants more before negotiations begin
PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 17
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak
Forget AWS buckets, bags of medical and personal info on inmates and their guards left in 'unsecured' area of prison
Offbeat25 May 2023 | 2
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive
Bottom line weight driven by job cut costs
Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 10
More UK councils caught by Capita's open AWS bucket blunder
As for March megabreach? M&S and Guinness maker Diageo warn pension members about data risks
Cyber-crime22 May 2023 | 35
Phones' facial recog tech 'fooled' by low-res 2D photo
Someone who looks a lot like you could also unlock it, says Which?
Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 39
BT is ditching workers faster than your internet connection with 55,000 for chop by 2030
FTTP build to be done by then, network will be more 'efficient,' AI to take over in customer services
Networks18 May 2023 | 112
Another security calamity for Capita: An unsecured AWS bucket
Colchester City Council says it and others caught up in new incident, reckons benefits data of local citizens exposed
Security17 May 2023 | 31
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure
Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2023 | 13
Tech companies cut jobs to chase growth, but watch out for those shareholder returns
Beancounters underestimate financial and cultural cost of mega redundancy programs
On-Prem15 May 2023 | 10
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