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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

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 | 80

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

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 | 4

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 | 19

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

03 Mar 13:31 | 59

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They said it'd never happen, but here we are in the year of our Lord 2021 and Microsoft has its own OpenJDK flavour

Timing is everything

No, no, let's hear this out, says judge waving away Apple's attempt to kill MacBook Pro Flexgate lawsuit

Surely this back light problem would have come up in testing, court mulls

Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead

Not to worry, zombies with a gambling addiction probably won't eat your enterprise brains

Facebook says dump of 533m accounts is old news. But my date of birth, name, etc haven't changed in years, Zuck

Account info swiped in 2019, sold online, now given away for free

Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened

WebNX facility falls offline in blaze, takes customers down with it

Their 'next job could be in cyber': UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own

Shouting cyber cyber cyber, mega mega fail thing

Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

America's top judges decide copied code in Android is fair use

'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week

Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists

Yahoo! Answers! will! be! wiped! from! the! internet! next! month!

Now we'll never know how babby is formed

SAP: It takes exploit devs about 72 hours to turn one of our security patches into a weapon against customers

So please don't delay in applying updates, says, well, everyone

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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

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

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