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Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up

'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech' expert tells El Reg

22 Jan 07:30 | 14

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away

20 Jan 02:11 | 93

Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m

Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail

20 Dec 17:07 | 5

West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle

Project hits the buffers after 'increased understanding' of the product

14 Dec 10:27 | 22

Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk

Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies

03 Dec 16:56 | 11

Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour

Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now

03 Dec 02:20 | 11

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

01 Dec 20:01 | 23

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years

01 Dec 16:19 | 1

Device-as-a-service is the next pandemic-accelerated trend

This is a good thing. Lenovo explains why

Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition

19 Nov 18:59 | 8

CIOs across Europe add their VOICE to chorus of calls to regulate cloud gatekeepers

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere!

18 Nov 10:15 | 4

AWS still growing like a weed but Amazon's retail empire hit by soaring labour, supply chain costs

CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter

29 Oct 12:29 | 2

Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form

In-browser editing previewed for Photoshop and Illustrator

26 Oct 14:33 | 22

Surrey County Council faces £700k additional SAP support fees as £30m Unit4 ERP set to miss go-live target

Which doesn't help when there's a £47.1m hole in the budget

07 Oct 08:33 | 14

Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor

'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors

06 Oct 09:28 | 32

Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous

Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie

22 Sep 22:02 | 7

Register Debate

Still divided on whether teachers, parents or politicians are to blame

Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards

17 Sep 10:45 | 15

What have the Romans ever done for us? In ServiceNow's new Rome release, replaced intranets, for one

Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk

16 Sep 13:01 | 1

Register Debate

Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that

And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders

16 Sep 10:45 | 52

Register Debate

Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect

The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria

15 Sep 10:45 | 29

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For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'

Why should I pay for that security option? Hijacking only happens to planes

But if I give him my bank details, I'll be rich!

Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion

Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will

BOFH: What a beautiful classic car. Shame if anything were to happen to it

And look, your COVID pass is all melted...

NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space

'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government

Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?

Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken

Japan's Supreme Court rules cryptojacking scripts are not malware

Coinhive-slinger wins on appeal

Multi-level marketing corporation that sells weightloss products sues ex-exec over 'fraudulent' Dell deal

Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller

'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)

Freshly overhauled, several careful owners

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Intuit branches out into email marketing by splashing $12bn on Mailchimp acquisition

Part of a planned assault on the 'small business mid-market'

14 Sep 12:14 | 14

Register Debate

Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential

Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor

14 Sep 10:45 | 38

Register Debate

Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic

Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall

13 Sep 10:45 | 105

Element's latest bridge for Matrix: 'All the good stuff from WhatsApp, without the less good Facebook stuff'

For when it's time to kick that shadow IT habit

09 Sep 08:30 | 3

Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager

Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report

08 Sep 03:45 | 6

COVID Logfile III

'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories

Some refined their CVs relentlessly. Others studied. Many wept, more than once. But most see an upside to their changed circumstances

07 Sep 08:01 | 24

Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files

Workaround available for problem which started a week ago

01 Sep 19:33 | 26

Minnow Freshworks nips at tails of SaaS giants Salesforce and Servicenow with IPO plans

Bach to basics: The well-funded IPO-er

31 Aug 11:52 | 1

In Microsoft's world, cloud email still often requires on-premises Exchange. Why?

Use third-party tools 'at your own risk' – but what of the risk of Exchange itself?

31 Aug 09:32 | 29

In 2006, Amazon debuted EC2. 15 years on, HashiCorp says firms blowing their cloud budgets is all part of the fun

Altered priorities ahead

24 Aug 11:27 | 15

Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses

Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March

20 Aug 00:15 | 56

Zoom incompatible with GDPR, claims data protection watchdog for the German city of Hamburg

Takes aim at US videoconferencing software as tech world+dog calls lawyer for a quick chat

17 Aug 13:44 | 80

El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances

Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'

11 Aug 09:11 | 10

RingCentral shouts revenue growth from the rooftops while shareholders can't help but notice deepening losses

Isn't that work-at-home-workforce eyeing a return to the office?

04 Aug 18:56 | 2

Get ready to make processes fit the software when shifting to SAP's cloud, users told

Business teams might want to look at their operating models post-pandemic, user groups suggest

04 Aug 09:32 | 23

Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds

Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit

28 Jul 17:30 | 1

Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system

Some customers have a 'unique set of needs' SaaSy vendor says

28 Jul 12:13 | 29

Microsoft made $167m a day in profit, every day, over the past 12 months

Robust cloud, business not enough to overcome concerns about decline in Windows hardware maker revenue

27 Jul 22:16 | 34

'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls

Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills

27 Jul 13:54 | 32

Financial Ombudsman Service to ditch tech heads as it open arms to Workday and outside service provider

Not just the legacy HR and finance systems being booted

22 Jul 13:00 | 10

IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years

Maybe keep the email systems down a little longer if it helps this much?

20 Jul 01:23 | 10

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting

20 Jul 00:17 | 171

It had to happen: Microsoft's cloudy Windows 365 desktops are due to land next month

The good: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud. The bad: It's a Windows PC running in the cloud

14 Jul 15:00 | 83

Informatica bids to become Switzerland of data with SaaSy governance and catalogue tool

Stakes claim for neutral territory after Databricks and cloud vendors make play to manage your data

14 Jul 13:29 | 1

Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere

UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss

08 Jul 10:47 | 12

Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract

Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military

06 Jul 17:02 | 66

Singapore's migration to cloud continues, and expect more SaaS once we secure it, says GovTech

Shifts strategy to work more closely with industry on digital projects

SFX house Weta goes into the SaaS business with cloudy pipeline and its in-house animation tools

Code behind LoTR, Planet of the Apes and other flicks wrapped around Autodesk Maya

22 Jun 06:31 | 2

Google opens Workspace to anyone with a Google account, but you'll need to cough up for the good stuff

Chocolate Factory presses home its advantage in web-based collaboration

14 Jun 16:47 | 12

Flush with cash: UK utility Southern Water names 13 winners who'll drink up £50m application deal

Firm provides fresh water and wastewater to millions of Brits

14 Jun 13:15 | 3

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 | 11

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 | 30

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 | 132

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

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

SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses

Python still welcome, though

18 Mar 04:58 | 33

Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API

Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you

17 Mar 23:58 | 9

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

Redmond says gremlin identified tho rollback is taking longer than expected

15 Mar 21:19 | 77

Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie

Weapons-grade hypocrisy on one side, opportunistic hand-wringing about the press on the other

13 Mar 01:04 | 39

Dropbox absorbs DocSend to add analytics, secure links to document sharing

Cloud biz pays $165m to create full file workflow system

09 Mar 20:52 | 3

Spotted in the wild: Rare Microsoft 365 price cut for frontline workers

There are caveats but deal perfect for the ten Surface Go users out there

09 Mar 20:01 | 3

State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns

Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon

09 Mar 16:36 | 14

Customer comment and contributions no more as Microsoft pulls the plug on Office 365 UserVoice forum

No obvious replacement yet either

08 Mar 17:02 | 35

Remember that day in 2020 when you were asked to get the business working from home – by tomorrow?

IT pros from orgs large and small tell The Reg the tech delivered, mostly, tho couriers, home Wi-Fi suddenly became their problem

08 Mar 11:46 | 85

SAP tells investors it plans to make €5bn RISE up into its clouds with lift and shift push

You may be interested in tech, but backers want to know about revenue 'multipliers'

02 Mar 15:32 | 4

Chin up, weary key workers: Google's pushing out a Workspace for frontliners

But the Chocolate Factory has workers' privacy at heart. No, really

01 Mar 19:15 | 8

Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market

Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better

26 Feb 16:18 | 7

Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook

Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup

25 Feb 22:10 | 16

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Microsoft to lure users with industry-specific solutions in the cloud

Redmond taking a leaf out of the enterprise app makers' book

25 Feb 19:24 | 6

Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you

More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use

25 Feb 17:30 | 30

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