Channel
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies
Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals
25 Jan 03:01 | 11
Channel
Channel
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
Canalys Forums
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers
06 Sep 06:57 | 4
Channel
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
Channel
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 |
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Popular
Security
Linux distros haunted by Polkit-geist for 12+ years: Bug grants root access to any user
What happens when argc is zero and a SUID program doesn't care? Let's find out!
Storage
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
If you're unable to share documents, this may be why
Personal Tech
US President Joe Biden reminds the White House he is serious about repairability
Tech giants will voluntarily do the right thing because of course they always do
Security
Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days
Relatively small number of certs issued using a verification method that doesn't comply with policy
Security
Infosec chap: I found a way to hijack your web accounts, turn on your webcam from Safari – and Apple gave me $100k
Now you see a harmless PNG. Now it's a malicious payload. Look into my eyes
On-Prem
Nvidia reportedly prepares for un-Arm'd combat with rivals: $40bn takeover may be abandoned
Softbank, meanwhile, remains 'hopeful' it can offload Brit chip designer
Networks
Shut off 3G by 2033? How about 2023, asks Vodafone UK
Says it'll be 'asking customers' to make sure own phones support 4G, and to check on friends, family
On-Prem
IR35 is the biggest threat to the contractor working model, survey finds
Brexit, COVID-19 and tax rises all eclipsed by the omnipresent rule change, study of contractors finds
Security
Sophos: Log4Shell would have been a catastrophe without the Y2K-esque mobilisation of engineers
Anti-malware biz weighs in on one of the worst security flaws of recent times
On-Prem
Now that's wafer thin: Some manufacturers had less than five days of chip supplies, says Uncle Sam
Components fabbed using 40nm-plus process nodes hit hard
STORIES
Channel
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
Channel
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
Updated
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
'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
Channel
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
Updated
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
Channel
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 |
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
'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
Channel
UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
Calm down now
03 Mar 13:31 | 59
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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 |
Obit
David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74
Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'
09 Dec 12:00 | 1
Channel
Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK
May we suggest a rebrand?
06 Dec 17:25 | 10
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange
If that floats your boat
14 Oct 12:31 | 1
Channel
Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal
Senior beak overrules Upper Tribunal judges' refusal
09 Oct 12:00 | 4
Channel
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
Feature
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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 | 50
Channel
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
Inspire
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
Updated
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
Channel
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
Databases
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Updated
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
DXC Technology bids $2bn for Swiss big cheese Luxoft
Alles ist gut
07 Jan 16:23 | 16
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
SoftwareONE goes Comparex: When one Microsoft reseller giant buys another
Two Redmond wranglers sitting in a tree...
10 Oct 11:04 |
Channel
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
OSes
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
Channel
Euro reseller giant Computacenter gobbles US-based FusionStorm
Newbies to join CC staffers in the land of baseball
01 Oct 10:40 | 4
Updated
Dell EMC plucks Tech Data distie man Tomlin to run UK channels
Latest exec hired to make the direct sales conflict go away
03 Sep 13:22 |
Channel
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
Channel
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
Channel
Quantiq slurps asset of Profile Enterprise Solutions
Bit of M&A action in Microsoft Dynamics world
15 Aug 10:16 |
Channel
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
Channel
HP Ink splashes out on Brit print provider Apogee
Acquisition-happy services slinger to become inky tentacle of globocorp
02 Aug 11:29 | 12
Channel
Atos to hoover up US tech buzzword biz Syntel for $3.4bn
Buy bolsters firm's banking, finance and insurance bits
23 Jul 13:58 |
Channel
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
Channel
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
