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BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on e-commerce and selling services across borders
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers
06 Sep 06:57 | 4
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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
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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
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
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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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HashiCorp runs low on staff, calls a halt to Terraform pull requests
A pause on community-submitted PRs
Software
Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors
'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened
In-depth
A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down
Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'
Software
Updated Python support in VS Code brings browser editing and ditches open-source language server for Pylance
Proprietary code creep?
Security
Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft
ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders
Storage
If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted
Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support
Security
Can WhatsApp moderators really read your encrypted texts? Yes ... if you forward them to the abuse dept
Where did people think spam and harassment reports were going?
Security
British data watchdog brings cookies to G7 meeting – pop-up consent requests, not the delicious baked treats
Why are they asking G7 to do their job for them, muses critic
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Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999
Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?
Bootnotes
Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU
Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work
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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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'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
