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Renewal chasing as-a-service is now a thing – and vendors love it

Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people

28 Oct 06:04 | 21

Canalys Forum 2021

Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January

Things not likely to improve until 2023

15 Oct 11:26 | 3

Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds

Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?

08 Oct 08:32 | 40

Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi

High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants

06 Oct 15:25 | 17

Japan's NTT Group to allow remote work for all 320,000 staff

Ditching central offices in favour of over 250 regional facilities for a workforce twice the size of Microsoft's

29 Sep 04:31 | 3

BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders

Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers

06 Sep 06:57 | 4

Busy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push and a bourse for startups

Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy band

03 Sep 04:15 | 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canalys Forum 2020

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

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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And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case

How to coordinate 16 Arms

Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire

Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage

What a bunch of bricks: Crooks knock hole in toyshop wall, flee with €35k Lego haul

Police still trying to piece everything together

How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?

Fix the printer, fix the phones

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens

Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!

Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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 | 5

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

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

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

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

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

'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

UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own

03 Mar 13:31 | 59

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

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

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

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

David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74

Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'

09 Dec 12:00 | 1

Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK

May we suggest a rebrand?

06 Dec 17:25 | 10

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

One of Blighty's most-loved charities hands £46m to one of Blighty's least-loved outsourcers

I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex

24 Oct 15:00 | 47

Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed

Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k

23 Oct 09:20 | 20

Canalys Channels Forum

Yay, Intel chip shortages should be over soon! Nope. Strap in, at least another quarter or two to go, say PC execs

Chipzilla's keeping mum ...

18 Oct 09:38 | 19

Getronics CEO on HMRC winding-up petition: An 'embarrassing' blip with cash in the wrong places

Corporate expansionism to blame for issues, claims bossman

15 Oct 09:09 | 22

John Lennon says hello. Hello, hello... as Cancom buys Novosco for £70m

You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller

14 Oct 15:55 | 4

Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange

If that floats your boat

14 Oct 12:31 | 1

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

Senior beak overrules Upper Tribunal judges' refusal

09 Oct 12:00 | 4

You only need to click once, fool: Gaming rig sales up as Trump presses continue on trade tariff tussle

God bless America panic buying

03 Oct 08:05 | 13

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's watch for tech sales VAT weirdness through the channel

Ignorance is no defence, just ask HMRC

01 Oct 09:10 | 18

Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!

El Reg brings you the hall of shame

28 Sep 10:04 | 211

HMRC slaps Getronics with winding-up petition: It'll be sorted out today, blurts tech services firm

Hurry up – nearly beer o' clock

25 Sep 15:10 | 24

Hm. Is it wise to assume 'no material disruption' from 'volatile' UK climate, Dixons Carphone?

Mobile biz is a mess, but we're sticking to revenue guidance

05 Sep 12:52 | 2

Arrow? More like Boomerang, amirite? Computacenter buys back tech disposal biz it disposed of

IT kit recycling arm that 'wasn't core' turns out to be important

13 Aug 13:53 | 5

Microsoft blocked TSO Host's email IPs from Hotmail, Outlook inboxes and no one seems to care

Apart from the poor sods paying for the service, that is

09 Aug 12:11 | 49

Microsoft tells resellers: 'We listened to you, and we have acted' (PS: Plz keep making us money)

Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans

12 Jul 16:30 | 44

Will you be inspired by Inspire? If Microsoft's Slack-for-suits Teams is your cup of tea, perhaps

Just in time for event kick-off: MS Teams overtakes Slack in daily active users

11 Jul 19:00 | 5

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Partner boss explains yanking of free licences

Cloud giant's blunt instrument clobbers loyal resellers too

11 Jul 18:00 | 41

Microsoft middlemen rebel against removal of free software licences

No more internal use rights for channel types – you'll have to pay for them yourselves

09 Jul 14:41 | 37

Who left a database of emails, credit cards, plain-text passwords, and more open to the web this week? Tech Data, come on down!

Business IT giant that services Apple, Cisco, and others, exposed 264GB of info

06 Jun 21:22 | 30

Ready with the 'welcome neighbour' fruitbasket, retailers? Amazon opens Manchester pop-up shop

High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again

03 Jun 14:25 | 17

Police ICT Company kills £500m procurement, no longer wants one box shifter to rule them all

Yep, THAT would-be siloed IT smasher, conceived in Theresa May's brainpan 8 years ago...

16 May 14:19 | 21

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

UK personal sales drop whopping 17.6%, Windows saves day for biz

16 Apr 17:34 | 34

No Court of Appeal for you! Judges uphold Aria PC firm VAT fraud ruling

Plus: A year ago today El Reg changed the law

10 Apr 13:15 | 12

Quadsys exec who hacked rival firm's database in 2016 convicted of assault

Community work order slapped on infosec biz MD Paul Cox

01 Apr 09:16 | 4

Look what the Softcat dragged in: Revenues grow 21% as UK reseller refuses to blink at Brexit

'We remain confident that we are well prepared for different scenarios,' reckons boss man

19 Mar 16:42 | 7

Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it

Smartphone retailer at centre of very own PPI scandal after FCA probe

13 Mar 11:31 | 51

Product. Reselling. Lives. Computacenter sales fly due to product, not services

Windows 10 workplace and data centre refreshes come good

12 Mar 12:39 | 1

Apple reseller Solutions Inc pulls down shutters, calls in administrators

Staff told: 'Do not come to work tomorrow. Do not attempt to re-enter the store for any reason'

20 Feb 12:28 | 46

Brit security services firm SecureData sold to France's Orange for an undisclosed sum

UK biz sells to non-UK one that exploits sh!tty exchange rate

01 Feb 14:30 | 13

Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, deal or no deal: Doesn't matter – all integrator CGI sees is dollar signs

It's just one big opportunity to make money

31 Jan 15:09 | 7

Brexit? Now that it's raining more than ever, know we're OK at Computacenter

We are just a very humble reseller, eller, eller, eh, eh, eh

23 Jan 14:13 | 5

DXC Technology bids $2bn for Swiss big cheese Luxoft

07 Jan 16:23 | 16

Dixons Carphone smarting from £440m loss as it writes down goodwill on mobile biz

No one's buying new friggin' handsets, says retailer

12 Dec 12:17 | 54

UKFast mulls putting IPO on ice due to six little letters: BREXIT

'Highly unlikely' amid 'so much uncertainty', says boss

29 Nov 09:20 | 32

Black Friday? Yes, tech vendors might be feeling a bit glum looking at numbers for the UK

2018: The year the US-imported shopping promo bonanza goes pffft?

22 Nov 09:50 | 82

Brit tech buys frozen, but CGI can't wait to get integrating all those post-Brexit systems

Oh, and Gartner publishes spending prognosis for life after the EU

08 Nov 15:10 | 3

UK computer dealer Aria PC loses £750k VAT fraud appeal attempt in THAT case

Yes, the one where El Reg won the open justice verdict...

07 Nov 11:18 | 20

Computacenter shares crash by a fifth as sales shrink... Nope, it's not Brexit

That screeching sound might be the wheels coming off tech reselling in Q3

31 Oct 13:07 | 3

Softcat warns of Brexit cloud forming over UK tech, vows: If prices rise, we'll pass them on...

...ahem, as is 'normal in our industry'

17 Oct 14:41 | 51

Canalys Channels Forum 2018

The march of Amazon Business has resellers quaking in their booties

'To team up with Amazon is like to team up with the devil'

15 Oct 09:29 | 50

Canalys Channels Forum 2018

HP Ink CEO: That $550m Apogee buy was to stop rivals slurping it

Oh, and we need A3 sales skillz

12 Oct 11:57 | 6

The good news: PC sales went up a little worldwide, say Gartner crystal-ball-gazers

The bad news: PC sales went down a little, says IDC

11 Oct 02:36 | 4

Canalys Channels Forum 2018

Phew! Digital ad revenues to save Amazon's business model – analyst

Finally, Jeff Bezos can sleep easy on his cash pillow

10 Oct 18:03 | 1

SoftwareONE goes Comparex: When one Microsoft reseller giant buys another

Two Redmond wranglers sitting in a tree...

Brit outfit IT Lab snaps up Office 365 and SharePoint pro Content and Code

Tech services firm swallows Microsoft's favoured partner

04 Oct 12:34 | 2

Windows 10 transition props up business box revenues in Western Europe

Intel's Grinch that stole Christmas might make for a softer end to the year

02 Oct 12:14 | 2

Euro reseller giant Computacenter gobbles US-based FusionStorm

Newbies to join CC staffers in the land of baseball

01 Oct 10:40 | 4

Dell EMC plucks Tech Data distie man Tomlin to run UK channels

Latest exec hired to make the direct sales conflict go away

Computacenter goes Dutch, picks up Misco's Netherlands biz

Reseller boss wants in on large Euro companies HQ'd there

03 Sep 10:39 | 3

There is still gold to be had in the world of Microsoft resellers

Profits up but margins down as Byte Software Services cast a wary eye to the future

23 Aug 08:13 | 2

Quantiq slurps asset of Profile Enterprise Solutions

Bit of M&A action in Microsoft Dynamics world

Can, can, can you buy it, CANCOM? Brexit's made it cheap(er), man: Firm inks OCSL deal

Pre-Brexit bargain to be used as UK hub

10 Aug 12:24 | 8

HP Ink splashes out on Brit print provider Apogee

Acquisition-happy services slinger to become inky tentacle of globocorp

02 Aug 11:29 | 12

Atos to hoover up US tech buzzword biz Syntel for $3.4bn

Buy bolsters firm's banking, finance and insurance bits

Distie bosses tuck 7-figure settlement into Cisco's top pocket

No sir, you CANNOT import this stuff from outside the EEA again

05 Jul 12:06 | 18

CEO of comms tech biz Daisy splits as sale and IPO talks off the table

Neil Muller leaves corner office, chairman takes controls again

25 Jun 12:25 | 3

HMRC: Aria PC's £2m MSN Messenger deals bonanza was VAT fraud

UK taxman urges tribunal to throw out reseller's appeal

25 Jun 11:20 | 9

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