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Telefónica's cloud limb slurps Cancom's UK&I biz to cash in on Brit enterprise tech market
There's a tasty NHS contract in there
30 Jul 13:30 |
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Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages
But mobile biz continues to wane
30 Jun 15:00 | 4
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The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m
It's the longest day of the year
21 Jun 13:04 | 5
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UK.gov finally proposes to police rogue umbrella companies but leaves questions unanswered
Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practices
10 Jun 15:30 | 5
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Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave? Not quite
From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers'
09 Jun 19:24 | 1
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Massive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education buyers prep £140m agreement
It is Thursday and it's framework-tastic
03 Jun 09:16 | 11
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It's the UK contractor tax factor: IR35 outsiders gaining leverage in skills market, survey finds
New tax rules see a hike in use of umbrella companies - another can of worms
02 Jun 10:03 | 18
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33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered affecting 400 staff
Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business
28 Apr 15:19 | 6
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UK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects. Yes, you read that correctly
Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt
19 Apr 10:14 | 16
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Microsoft sues Florida reseller it alleges sold 'black market access devices' allowing unlocking of Office 365
Copyright and trademark infringements alleged by Redmond's legal eagles
05 Nov 10:30 | 15
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Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tablets
30 Oct 15:30 | 17
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Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods
Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'
09 Oct 10:05 | 82
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Brit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to spend the annual £900m IT budget
Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closed
30 Sep 13:45 | 3
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Remember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason Tsai's assets
High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing orders
24 Sep 09:16 | 11
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Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture
Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051
18 Sep 13:30 | 4
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Ex-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four directors have been sentenced to prison in the UK
18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of court
09 Jun 13:00 | 47
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Brit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains – and even Amazon accounts
Wide-ranging powers come into force in June
18 May 15:14 | 26
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Capita, Fujitsu and pals tuck into slices of £3bn London NHS framework
What lots are in the public sector pork barrel? Hardware, software, cloud services, security... plus chatbots and blockchain
18 May 10:44 | 17
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Post-pandemic hard-sell under way: Resellers leaned on to convert free trial users into fully paid-up customers
Eight weeks to turn ‘helping you enable remote work with Office 365 at this difficult time’ into cash
12 May 05:02 | 6
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Brit IT infrastructure giant Computacenter hits pause on shareholder dividends after furloughing 10% of staff
Engineers, consultants can't visit client sites so home they go
23 Apr 13:47 | 4
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Servers
Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server
Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind
Comment
AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush
You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
Devops
About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues, boffins say
Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, though
Security
Here's a list of the flaws Russia, China, Iran and pals exploit most often, say Five Eyes infosec agencies
And you've patched them all, haven't you, diligent readers?
Virtualization
Red Hat buddies up with Nutanix to provide an escape route from VMware
'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?'
Servers
The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay
We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story
Analysis
Hard drives at Autonomy offices were destroyed the same month CEO Lynch quit, extradition trial was told
Court finally hands down written ruling – and it's very bad news for UK exec
Databases
Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is
Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls
Security
We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools
You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror
Security
Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Reason for probe unknown, but CEO claims it will vindicate company's claims
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'Anything' related to remote working is a winner for Euro disties, but classic enterprise hardware? That's another story
Official stats reach Vulture Towers
07 Apr 08:16 | 19
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Tech services biz Allvotec furloughing staff, asking remainder – including top brass – to take pay cut
CEO talks of measures to combat expected sales slide due to pandemic
03 Apr 09:10 | 4
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Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration
AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer
01 Apr 13:30 | 6
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Softcat MD stepping down at reseller months after flogging £1.5m worth of stock
Slips out door with 620,000 shares to enjoy a life less ordinary
25 Mar 13:59 |
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Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves
Eventually, 'customers will stop buying and start preserving capital'
20 Mar 13:30 | 118
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UK Carphone Warehouse shops set to sling their last phones, 2.9k redundancies hit high street, as Dixons closes all 531 'standalone' sites
CW to live on as a counter in a Curry's, as CEO says: Mobile is 'currently holding back the whole business'
17 Mar 13:20 | 22
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Resellers facing 'months' of delays for orders to be fulfilled. IT gathers dust on docks as coronavirus-stricken China goes back to work
SSDs, laptops, servers all hit in the struggle for stock
12 Mar 10:04 | 52
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'Up to 300' UK heads to roll at Brit IT services firm Allvotec, with 200 jobs offshored to Bulgaria in cost-cutting drive
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do...
11 Mar 15:56 | 21
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UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
Calm down now
03 Mar 13:31 | 59
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Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute
Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge
27 Feb 10:00 | 17
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AMD takes a bite out of Intel's PC market share across Europe amid microprocessor shortages, rising Ryzen
Mmmm, these scraps are pretty darn meaty
21 Feb 10:45 | 57
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Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?
Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative
19 Dec 10:45 | 52
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Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at
Will no one think of the SMEs? Oh, actually some have made the grade
13 Dec 09:04 |
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David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74
Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'
09 Dec 12:00 | 1
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Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK
May we suggest a rebrand?
06 Dec 17:25 | 10
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Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle
Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm
20 Nov 10:10 | 6
