Marketing

Halfords slapped on wrist for breaching email marketing laws

Bike and car accessory slinger fined £30,000 for hitting send on more than 499k unsolicited emails

Security08 Sep 2022 | 39

India to upgrade mobile networks near Maoist insurgents to 4G

They're currently on 2G – a tactic the government uses to suppress communication

Networks28 Apr 2022 | 2

Accenture announces 'Accenture Song' – not a tune, but a rebrand

To deliver post-pandemic accelerated metaverse continuum experience consultancy. Or something

Offbeat28 Apr 2022 | 58

McAfee's and FireEye rename themselves ‘Trellix’

LogoWatch To evoke support for growing things, not the 1990s vendor of web-pages-made-easy-ware

Security20 Jan 2022 | 19

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

To compete against Salesforce, Oracle and co, software slinger needs to do more, says analyst

Software25 Sep 2020 | 2

Google Chrome 85 to block ads that hog power, CPUs, network: Web ads giant will black-hole 0.3% of web ads

So brave... but not so Brave

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 26

As Amazon's stock price soars and Bezos adds to his billions, affiliates face massive cuts in their commissions

Times are hard...for you at least

Personal Tech15 Apr 2020 | 22

Trashing privacy? That's our job! Facebook accuses analytics biz of harvesting people's info from software dev kit sold to app makers

Sueball lobbed at OneAudience

Software28 Feb 2020 | 14

Stop us if you've heard this one: Facebook and Twitter profiles silently slurped by shady code

Rogue SDKs covertly harvested personal info, it is claimed

Security26 Nov 2019 | 13

Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash

That was just an unfortunate accident that ended up padding Jack's bank account

Security09 Oct 2019 | 69

Clutching at its Perl 6, developer community ponders language name with less baggage

First Gim, er, Glimpse – now our web vultures' favorite coding lingo

Software30 Aug 2019 | 250

Two in five 'AI startups' essentially have no AI, mega-survey of nearly 3,000 upstarts finds

One pint of beer please, Mr Barman. I am 18 today, honest!

AI + ML05 Mar 2019 | 43

Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax

Networks04 Oct 2018 | 53

Everything DM gets direct message slap: Marketing biz cops £60k ICO fine

Sent 1.42 million mailers to unconsenting folk in a year

Security05 Sep 2018 | 6

The cybercriminal's cash cow and the marketer's machine: Inside the mad sad bad web ad world

Special report We peek behind the curtain of banners and gimmicks that go too far

Security29 Jun 2018 | 49

Twitter: Finally, there's an affordable way to pay us actual money

Premium Search API targets businesses on a budget

Devops14 Nov 2017 | 3

UK data watchdog swots automated marketing call pest with £260k fine

Easyleads applies to be struck off after investigation

Legal21 Sep 2017 | 21

Ad blocking basically doesn't exist on mobile

We have the technology, we just don't use it

Personal Tech25 Aug 2017 | 84

Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags

HI! OUR RECORDS INDICATE YOU'VE BEEN IN A RO- *click*

Legal09 Mar 2017 | 78

Florida Man jailed for 4 years after raking in a million bucks from spam

Miscreant used stolen email accounts to cram crap into inboxes

Security18 Feb 2017 | 44

Marketing... or how I lost my soul to Lagos

Radbot Life as a tech entrepreneur

On-Prem28 Oct 2016 | 12

Just a little FYI: Small town ISPs want out of FCC privacy rules

C'mon Marlene, we don't need opt-in consent, we're locals!

Networks24 Aug 2016 | 9

Not an Oracle user? You're probably in an Oracle database anyway

Big Red gets into the data business with 400m-strong business profile trove

On-Prem15 Aug 2016 | 5

Ofgem sets up database so energy companies can spam Brits

Capitalism, free markets, competition, whoop-de-doo

Legal04 Aug 2016 | 42

Must listen: We've found the real Bastard Operator From Hell

Ingenious IT boss banishes hapless callers to on-hold Hades with Extension 666

On-Prem29 Apr 2016 | 124

Blah Blah blah ... I don't care! To hell with your tech marketing bull

Sysadmin blog In tech, filtering signal from noise is a full-time job

Devops07 Mar 2016 | 64

Online pharmacy slapped with £130,000 fine for flogging customer data

Privacy group: Must be a ban on all marketing to patients

Security20 Oct 2015 | 36

Dry those eyes, ad blockers are unlikely to kill the internet

In fact, they might halve everyone's marketing budget

Legal14 Oct 2015 | 197

Cisco re-orgs marketing to hide the brand, EMPTY YOUR WALLET

Awareness? But everyone knows who we are!

Networks22 Jul 2015 | 6

The Happiness Industry, Seveneves and Confessions of a Tinderella

Page File Myth and mischief-making in fact and fiction

Bootnotes23 May 2015 | 7

Roll up, roll up for Oracle database flash tune-up – Violin

Comment Faster DBs to be won

Storage11 Dec 2014 | 8

How HAPPY am I on a scale of 1 to 10? Where do I click PISSED OFF?

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Our survey says: whuh-waah

Bootnotes06 Dec 2014 | 129

ICO to fine UNBIDDEN MARKETEERS who cause 'ANXIETY'

Inconvenience, annoyance also pass the watchdog's stress test

Legal28 Oct 2014 | 34

Top Gear Tigers and Bingo Boilers: Farewell then, Phones4U

Phones for the drinking classes

Bootnotes18 Sep 2014 | 74

Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day

Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice

Security25 Jul 2014 | 9

LinkedIn slurps B2B marketing bods Bizo for $175m

Mini shopping spree! Network buys 2 companies in 2 weeks

On-Prem23 Jul 2014 | 3

Oracle's $5 BEEELLION acquisition zeppelin looms over Micros Systems

Report: Database giant in 'exclusive talks' with hotel and retail thingummy vendor

Channel17 Jun 2014 | 4

Still using e-mail? Marketers say you're part of DARK SOCIAL

You can't make this stuff up

Networks28 May 2014 | 129

Your personal data is worth a measly eight bucks a month

Post-broker dangles cash for right to sniff social emissions and spending habits

On-Prem14 Feb 2014 | 13

Snowden saga scares Oracle away from spy-flick sponsorship

Company said to have backed out of Jack Ryan placements

Legal07 Feb 2014 | 14

IBM predicts glorious tech future made possible by $IBMmarketing

Analysis Poor track record of scrying muddies optimistic pronouncements

SaaS18 Dec 2013 | 8

Tech today: Popular kids, geeks, bitchfests... Welcome back to HIGH SCHOOL, nerds

Sysadmin blog Don't be fooled. Following the herd STILL gets you nowhere

On-Prem05 Nov 2013 | 17

Guinness: Have a quick bonk over the bar and receive FREE BEER

Irish stout kings offer gratis pints to mobe-touting punters

Networks26 Jul 2013 | 20

Adobe marketing cloud now to rain spam following Neolane slurp

We're struggling to rid ourselves of that image too

SaaS28 Jun 2013 | 7

Gartner magicians conjure technological TUBE MAP

Quadrants are too square for marketroids

On-Prem21 Jun 2013 | 26

Salesforce: Internet of Things is 'third wave of computing'

Benioff & Co dive into social networks, connected devices

On-Prem23 Apr 2013 | 16

Revealed: Vendors’ worst sales fluff

Gartner's ‘Non-differentiators rarely substantiated with credible evidence’

On-Prem27 Mar 2013 | 29

PR people 'put duty to the public ahead of employers' interests'

Says press release based on what PRs said in interviews

Legal18 Jan 2013 | 34

Storage for 'Enterprise': What does that even MEAN?

Storagebod For biz, for large deployments, backup memory for the Star Trek starship?

Storage17 Jan 2013 | 7

Social media and the channel marketing Fear Factor

Around half of resellers swerve Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Campaigns

Channel04 Jan 2013 |

Apple 'hasn't really run out of iPhone 5s AT ALL'

'They're in there playing Jenga with them', whispers mole

Bootnotes17 Sep 2012 | 111

Capita bungs staff £250 if they cheer up, smile for ad snaps

PFYs asked to wash smelly Metallica T-shirts

Channel20 Aug 2012 | 17

Product-led campaigns just don't work for vendors or resellers

What would you like in your marketing menu?

Channel30 Jul 2012 | 1

Microsoft hires former Hillary Clinton adviser as top strategist

His mission: Put lipstick on Bing

On-Prem19 Jul 2012 | 23

Oracle acquisition gets Larry more Involver(ed) with Facebook

Bags tools to help marketeers become your BFFs

Software11 Jul 2012 | 3

Oracle gobbles upstart Facebook, Instagram biz tout

Social networking marketer Vitrue joins Larry's cloud

SaaS23 May 2012 | 6