UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement
Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says
Databases01 Jun 2023 | 1
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UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck
As much as 30% increase for some jobs
Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 26
Individual data platforms for all health providers under controversial NHS plans
Procurement under threat of legal action imagines trusts will tailor systems for their own use cases
PaaS + IaaS31 May 2023 | 10
Meta promises UK it won't pilfer rivals' ad data to build Facebook Marketplace
Once it knows how to stop, anyway
Personal Tech26 May 2023 | 15
IR35 costs UK Research and Innovation £36M – the same it spent funding tech projects
Quango tax blunder follows similar payments from Defra and MoJ
Science26 May 2023 | 26
Microsoft appeals UK's block on Activision deal
CMA: European Commission accepted proposals that would let Redmond set terms in market 'for the next 10 years'
Off-Prem25 May 2023 | 7
NARROWER TOPICS
UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing
Nation's overwhelmingly dominant broadband plumber can run copper migration promo, despite rivals' pleas
Networks24 May 2023 | 19
Billionaire BT stalker Patrick Drahi increases stake to 24.5%
Just a shade under the 25% threshold that would spark investigation, but he still doesn't want to take over, honest
Networks23 May 2023 | 8
Keir Starmer's techno-fix for the NHS: Déjà vu disaster or brave new blunder?
Opinion Beware over promising benefits and underestimating complexity
Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 138
UK told it must double low carbon investment to meet net zero targets
Complexity also a problem across 115 funding streams, watchdog says
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week23 May 2023 | 41
UK government prays that size doesn't matter as it chips in £1B for semiconductor sector
Domestic industry 'will never be wholly sovereign' say critics as Blighty hooks up with Japan
Systems19 May 2023 | 36
UK and Japan ink agreement for semiconductor and security cooperation
Hiroshima Accord promises 'ambitious joint research and development collaboration'
On-Prem19 May 2023 | 8
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Opinion Brexit-supporting offshore merchant wonders what has happened to all the investment
Science15 May 2023 | 417
Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based
Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org
Applications12 May 2023 | 31
Activists gatecrash Capita's AGM to protest GPS tracking contract
Outsourcer asked to take 'principled stance'
Security12 May 2023 | 23
Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die
iGiant now battles to kill off $2B UK class-action suit
Personal Tech03 May 2023 | 45
Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them
Opinion Brit regulator is merely heeding the Call of Duty
Software02 May 2023 | 80
UK emergency services take DIY approach amid 12-year wait for comms upgrade
Motorola's contract departure draws question mark over future of ESN
Networks28 Apr 2023 | 77
UK PM Sunak plans to allocate just £1bn to semiconductor industry
That's right – we're going to hold the world ransom for... ONE BILLION POUNDS!
Systems27 Apr 2023 | 86
That's cute. UK.gov gathers up £100M for AI super-models
Figure not a typo, tho it will be paired with £900M 'BritGPT' supercomputer, which is a bit more like it
AI + ML25 Apr 2023 | 25
Fujitsu bags £142M UK government work since Horizon probe announced
Latest £16.5M Post Office contract among many deals awarded despite MPs' calls and ongoing investigation
On-Prem18 Apr 2023 | 34
Brits start 'em young with 20% of tots 'owning' a smartphone
And what are they doing with them? YouTube, lots of YouTube
Personal Tech17 Apr 2023 | 41
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration
Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2023 | 28
UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target
Instead tech department working on 'range of measures' to foster investment
Networks12 Apr 2023 | 105
Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog
Report says code has improved – and thousands could still end up falsely ID'd, argue privacy advocates
AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 39
Royal Mail wins worst April Fools' joke 2023
Promises 11% pay rise after almost a year of negotiations and strikes over salary and conditions
Offbeat06 Apr 2023 | 61
Tech giants looking for ways to wriggle out of UK digital tax, watchdog warns
Delays to OECD plan means interim fix could be found wanting
Off-Prem05 Apr 2023 | 49
UK data watchdog fines TikTok £12.7M for failing to protect kids
Some 1.4 million under-13s used the app in 2020 by the ICO's estimates
Security04 Apr 2023 | 10
Why UK watchdog abandoned its Apple monopoly probe
Analysis You win this round, Cook – but Europe has already lined up changes Britain fluffed
Personal Tech04 Apr 2023 | 31
Nexperia claims Newport Wafer may close if sale goes ahead
Staff may head for exit, followed by customers, it would 'decimate' ops, says CEO
Systems28 Mar 2023 | 7
British Prime Minister Sunak’s plans for UK NFT on ice
Consultation with the Treasury puts non-fungible token proposals under review
Offbeat28 Mar 2023 | 32
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog
NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation
Software20 Mar 2023 | 9
UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears
Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait
Security16 Mar 2023 | 45
Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure
Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors
HPC16 Mar 2023 | 36
Tough luck, Brits: Binance suspends UK deposits and withdrawals
Perfect timing – we could use another bank run
Legal15 Mar 2023 | 52
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
Brit chipmaker issues warning about inventory glut
IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 7
UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron
Analysis The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer.
On-Prem09 Mar 2023 | 97
Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects
Very world-beating funding
Science08 Mar 2023 | 65
Arm swans off to Nasdaq despite UK gov pleas to IPO in London
Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now
Systems03 Mar 2023 | 69
Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved
Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away
Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators
Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 189
Chipmakers threaten to defect to US, EU if UK doesn't get its semiconductor plans sorted
Where's the Brexit bonus?
On-Prem14 Feb 2023 | 131
Subsidies? All UK chip industry needs is tax, rule tweaks, claims rightwing thinktank
Margaret Thatcher-founded body thinks it's solved the problem US and China couldn't
Systems10 Feb 2023 | 47
Glasgow staff form UK's first Apple union after historic vote
Hey, Glaswegians, care to share those negotiating secrets with your counterparts in the US?
Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 27
Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor
STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime
Science06 Feb 2023 | 35
British government torched over lack of chips strategy
When you say it's gonna happen now... when exactly do you mean?
Systems03 Feb 2023 | 40
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs
Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold
Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 140
UK Cyber Security Centre's scary new story: One phish, two phish, Russia phish, Iran phish
Nice people on LinkedIn want to harvest logins from politicians, boffins, and defense types
Cyber-crime27 Jan 2023 | 10
Defra 'confident' it has 'handle' on risk for 30% of apps out of support
UK government applies 'hypercare' to applications to try to avoid security and stability risks
Government Tech Week25 Jan 2023 | 9
City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret
New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October
Government Tech Week23 Jan 2023 | 23
UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail
Two years in the clink proposed for not thinking of the children
Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 85
Questions asked about Chinese takeover of UK tech company
Are flow sensors such a big deal? In any case, MP invokes National Security and Investment Act
Systems12 Jan 2023 | 15
Royal Mail, cops probe 'cyber incident' that's knackered international mail
Final update Don't go postal and call it a cyberattack because nobody knows (yet) what knocked out key system
Cyber-crime11 Jan 2023 | 57
Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu
We wish you a very merry chemo and a happy new year
Personal Tech03 Jan 2023 | 57
Nexperia calls in the lawyers to save Welsh chip fab deal
Oh, Shapps
Security30 Dec 2022 | 49
Financial authorities fine UK bank nearly $60m for platform migration disaster
Doesn't it make your current migration at work look like a walk in the park though
Systems20 Dec 2022 | 18
Brit MPs pour cold water on hydrogen as mass replacement for fossil fuels
But gas likely to find a 'big niche' in rail, aviation, shipping, and industry
Science20 Dec 2022 | 151
Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros
As for Twitter, politicians need to grow thick skins and stop mistaking it for advertisement
Software02 Dec 2022 | 107
UK to test Starlink satellite broadband for those hard to reach areas
But why Elon Musk's satellite broadband biz and not govt-funded OneWeb?
Networks01 Dec 2022 | 26
Britain has likely missed the boat for having a semiconductor industry
Report concludes government needs to implement a chips strategy now – like the rest of the world
Systems30 Nov 2022 | 102
UK's Online Safety Bill drops rules forcing social media to remove 'legal but harmful' content
Governments directly policing online content will put free speech at risk
Personal Tech30 Nov 2022 | 89
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