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China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile

Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6

Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes

Channel20 Oct 2023 | 11

Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst

One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech

Channel12 Oct 2023 | 17

Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'

Updated Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now

Channel05 Oct 2023 | 11

Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU

Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy

Channel06 Sep 2023 | 17

Two top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped

CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightens

Channel06 Jul 2023 | 3

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout'

Channel16 Jun 2023 | 70

Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late

Dell World Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster

Channel23 May 2023 |

India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines

Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000

Channel05 May 2023 | 15

Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies

Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah?

Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13

Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money

Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off

Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2

India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings

Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings

Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3

Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks

Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?

Channel14 Oct 2022 |

Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'

It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts

Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1

Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all

Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing

Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4

Salesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for the inevitable fix

Who,Me? ‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake

Channel05 Sep 2022 | 56

India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs

Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems

Channel25 Jul 2022 | 24

Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions

The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger

Channel29 Jun 2022 | 8

Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW

Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines

Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2

Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain

Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring

Channel10 Jun 2022 | 37

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Australia declares 'nationally significant cyber incident' after port attack

Asia in brief PLUS: Citrix quits China; Cambodia deports Japanese scammers; Chinese tech CEO disappears; and more

Bright spark techie knew the drill and used it to install a power line, but couldn't outsmart an odd electrician

Who, Me? Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up

Royal Mail cybersecurity still a bit of a mess, infosec bods claim

Infosec in brief Also: Most Mainers are MOVEit victims, NY radiology firm fined for not updating kit, and some critical vulnerabilities

Introducing the tech that keeps the lights on

Opinion Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT – this superhero is ready to make a real difference

Foxconn launches its first satellites on a SpaceX rideshare, to advance Microsoft space plan

Musky launch outfit teases possible Friday fling for its colossal Starship

RIP: Frank Borman, NASA commander of first Moon mission

Obit Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in space - dies aged 95

Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks

Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector’s worst cybersecurity event on record

China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile

48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax

Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes

Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies

AI in brief Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more

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European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns

Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment

Channel06 May 2022 | 13

Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine

Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state

Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18

Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m

Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO

Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1

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

Channel25 Jan 2022 | 11

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

Channel28 Oct 2021 | 21

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

Canalys Forum 2021 Things not likely to improve until 2023

Channel15 Oct 2021 | 3

Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds

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

Channel08 Oct 2021 | 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

Channel06 Oct 2021 | 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

Channel29 Sep 2021 | 3

BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders

Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers

Channel06 Sep 2021 | 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

Channel03 Sep 2021 | 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

Channel30 Jul 2021 |

Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages

But mobile biz continues to wane

Channel30 Jun 2021 | 4

The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m

It's the longest day of the year

Channel21 Jun 2021 | 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

Channel10 Jun 2021 | 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'

Channel09 Jun 2021 | 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

Channel03 Jun 2021 | 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

Channel02 Jun 2021 | 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

Channel28 Apr 2021 | 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

Channel19 Apr 2021 | 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

Channel05 Nov 2020 | 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

Channel30 Oct 2020 | 17

Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods

Canalys Forum 2020 Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'

Channel09 Oct 2020 | 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

Channel30 Sep 2020 | 3

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

Channel24 Sep 2020 | 11

Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture

Updated Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051

Channel18 Sep 2020 | 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

Channel09 Jun 2020 | 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

Channel18 May 2020 | 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

Channel18 May 2020 | 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

Channel12 May 2020 | 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

Channel23 Apr 2020 | 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

Channel07 Apr 2020 | 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

Channel03 Apr 2020 | 5

Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration

Updated AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer

Channel01 Apr 2020 | 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

Channel25 Mar 2020 |

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'

Channel20 Mar 2020 | 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'

Channel17 Mar 2020 | 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

Channel12 Mar 2020 | 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...

Channel11 Mar 2020 | 21

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

Channel03 Mar 2020 | 59

Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute

Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge

Channel27 Feb 2020 | 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

Channel21 Feb 2020 | 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

Channel19 Dec 2019 | 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

Channel13 Dec 2019 |

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

Obit Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'

Channel09 Dec 2019 | 1

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

May we suggest a rebrand?

Channel06 Dec 2019 | 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

Channel20 Nov 2019 | 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

Channel24 Oct 2019 | 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

Channel23 Oct 2019 | 20

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

Canalys Channels Forum Chipzilla's keeping mum ...

Channel18 Oct 2019 | 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

Channel15 Oct 2019 | 22

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

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

Channel14 Oct 2019 | 4

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

If that floats your boat

Channel14 Oct 2019 | 1

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

Senior beak overrules Upper Tribunal judges' refusal

Channel09 Oct 2019 | 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

Channel03 Oct 2019 | 13

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

Feature Ignorance is no defence, just ask HMRC

Channel01 Oct 2019 | 18

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

El Reg brings you the hall of shame

Channel28 Sep 2019 | 211

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

Hurry up – nearly beer o' clock

Channel25 Sep 2019 | 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

Channel05 Sep 2019 | 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

Channel13 Aug 2019 | 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

Channel09 Aug 2019 | 50

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

Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans

Channel12 Jul 2019 | 44

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

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

Channel11 Jul 2019 | 5

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

Updated Cloud giant's blunt instrument clobbers loyal resellers too

Channel11 Jul 2019 | 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

Channel09 Jul 2019 | 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

Databases06 Jun 2019 | 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

Channel03 Jun 2019 | 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...

Channel16 May 2019 | 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

Channel16 Apr 2019 | 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

Channel10 Apr 2019 | 12

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

Community work order slapped on infosec biz MD Paul Cox

Channel01 Apr 2019 | 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

Channel19 Mar 2019 | 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

Channel13 Mar 2019 | 51

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

Windows 10 workplace and data centre refreshes come good

Channel12 Mar 2019 | 1

Apple reseller Solutions Inc pulls down shutters, calls in administrators

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

Channel20 Feb 2019 | 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

Channel01 Feb 2019 | 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

Channel31 Jan 2019 | 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

Channel23 Jan 2019 | 5

DXC Technology bids $2bn for Swiss big cheese Luxoft

Channel07 Jan 2019 | 16

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

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

Channel12 Dec 2018 | 54

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