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Indian Finance Minister throws Infosys under the bus as new e-tax portal fails on first day

Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours

09 Jun 04:58 | 10

Learn how to explore the solar system ... or just your own data lake

AWS Innovation Day promises to accelerate your business into the cloud and beyond

In-person Dreamforce returns: Real people, real lanyards, real sandwich platters... and no James Corden

Not the first plane trip you wanted to do post-lockdown, but there you are

Fortunate Son: Softbank chief took 50 per cent pay cut in 2020, but that's not the worst of his worries

He remains fabulously wealthy, for now

27 May 20:47 | 5

Back to the office: Workday hiring 20% more Workdayers in anticipation of postponed projects opening up

The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters

27 May 15:01 | 2

Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment

If only there were an AI to do what Microsoft's engineers don't seem to be able to

26 May 15:23 | 8

What you need to know from today's Google IO: Chatty AI, collab tools, TPU v4 chips, quantum computing

Great, another tech thing that sounds like 'lambda'

18 May 21:40 | 7

Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS

12 May 02:10 | 29

Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest

The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"

05 May 11:42 | 11

Covid Logfile II

Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways

Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic

05 May 07:01 | 28

Philippines national ID registration portal opens, glitches out in first hour

2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture

04 May 03:32 | 3

Feel like you've been sucked through your vendors' pipes? ServiceNow's marketing has you in mind

Violet, you're turning ... to our digital workflows!

Not as many $1m customers as last quarter? Sorry, we're out: ServiceNow shares fall despite soaring revenues

Not a good look for company 'at the epicentre of the workflow revolution'

29 Apr 14:30 | 4

Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision

Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal

28 Apr 22:53 | 22

State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system

Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project

27 Apr 19:35 | 27

Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading

Another month, another Teams TITSUP*

27 Apr 11:36 | 26

Salesforce beats banks to top UK exec salary survey while Microsoft drops out of league

Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash

23 Apr 15:01 | 3

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Something went wrong but we won't tell you what it is. Now, would you like to take out a premium subscription?

Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool

23 Apr 09:13 | 131

Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise

Once again, the cloud makes it rain

22 Apr 17:00 | 7

Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller

Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021

21 Apr 10:30 | 7

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FBI paid renegade developer $180k for backdoored AN0M chat app that brought down drug underworld

From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all

It's completely unsupportable. Yes, we mean your brand new system

The problem started when those ridiculous users ... oh, hang on. It started in the IT department

Extra urgency in June's Patch Tuesday: Microsoft warns six more bugs are being exploited

Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

OK, we see where this is going

Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints – and typos, too

Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs

Door-opening insect mega-swarm emerges in Eastern US, descends on Washington DC

We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper

That thing you were utterly sure would never happen? Yeah, well, guess what …

Never. Test. In. Production.

Intel's latest patch set plugs some serious holes in CPU, Bluetooth, server, and – ironically – security lines

Reports through Chipzilla's bug bounty scheme growing, but still in the minority

China's ISCAS to build 2,000 RISC-V laptops by the end of 2022 as nation seeks to cut reliance on Arm, Intel chips

Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time

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Element rolls out bridge for Microsoft Teams to cross into Matrix's encrypted comms land

For a small fee, of course – and no video or voice yet

14 Apr 11:30 | 2

State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade

It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor

14 Apr 10:49 | 22

Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors

Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California offices

13 Apr 12:32 | 12

State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied

Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system

09 Apr 19:52 | 5

Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU

Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce

09 Apr 02:54 | 16

Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'

'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising

08 Apr 15:09 | 30

UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running

Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'

08 Apr 08:29 | 9

AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines

Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming

07 Apr 19:06 | 9

Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US

'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government

06 Apr 18:58 | 36

If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage

It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS

01 Apr 22:58 | 37

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'

31 Mar 14:05 | 40

Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'

Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it

26 Mar 21:46 | 19

Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered

Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers

26 Mar 03:58 | 64

Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that

Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back

24 Mar 19:58 | 19

Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings

This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time'

24 Mar 13:47 | 18

Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services

Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond

23 Mar 10:15 | 4

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