Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure
Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers
Public Sector04 Oct 2024 | 2
SaaS
Fresh court filing accuses Oracle of creating 'maze' of options 'hidden' in 'contract'
Big Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out
SaaS02 Oct 2024 | 33
China's tech giants buy into Indonesia - just like US tech giants did in India
GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake
SaaS18 Sep 2024 |
Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead
Insert coin to continue
Applications12 Sep 2024 | 9
Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats
Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains
SaaS29 Aug 2024 | 5
Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025
Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future
SaaS28 Aug 2024 | 30
Choose Your Own Adventure with Microsoft 365
You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet
SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 39
Walmart clears out its shares of Chinese e-tailer JD.com
That’s one way to mark the end of an eight-year partnership
SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 1
China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage
WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits
SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21
Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for 'worker surveillance'
Insight Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs probe
SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 36
Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry
Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares
SaaS31 Jul 2024 | 9
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage
Shut the Front Door!
PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble
Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?
Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66
Oracle's Java pricing brews bitter taste, subscribers spill over to OpenJDK
Following licensing changes, 86% of users head for the door. Coincidence?
SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 113
ServiceNow president leaves after policy breach related to public sector boss hire
But the books look good, because of real AI
SaaS25 Jul 2024 | 2
Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged
Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response
SaaS19 Jul 2024 | 8
Yandex sells off Russian ops, remaining Euro-biz now Putin itself about as Nebius Group
Two-year legal saga ends with Netherlands-based entity ready to bring diverse AI interests to the world
Legal16 Jul 2024 | 21
Microsoft ad subsidiary Xandr accused of violating GDPR
Updated Access, deletion requests go ignored, and consumer profiles contradict themselves, complaint alleges
SaaS09 Jul 2024 | 8
BT bets big on AI with ServiceNow to cut legacy baggage
Promises no pink slips despite service desk in crosshairs
SaaS03 Jul 2024 | 19
Salesforce investors reject plan to add extra $20M to Benioff's total pay
Board to take non-binding vote at mega SaaS haus into consideration
SaaS02 Jul 2024 | 8
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Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver
The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time
Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'
AI model safety only goes so far
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster
Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine
Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around
Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space
Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen?
Who, Me? The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
STORIES
EU accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations for bundling Teams with O365
Statement of Objections sent to Redmond HQ following probe that began July 2023
SaaS25 Jun 2024 | 23
Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside
Plus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws
SaaS24 Jun 2024 | 13
Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots
Video Fast, funny, visionary, sure ... anything that knocks OpenAI down a peg will do
AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 11
After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira
Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license
SaaS19 Jun 2024 | 12
Google DeepMind's latest model promises realistic audio for your AI-generated vids
Video Launch comes as Runway, Pika, Kling push the boundaries of machine-imagined video
AI + ML18 Jun 2024 | 2
SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now
User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA
SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10
Salesforce expects lowest quarterly growth in two decades
Allure of AI fails to inspire customers to increase software spending with CRM giant
SaaS30 May 2024 | 5
EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday
Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits
SaaS24 May 2024 | 3
HMRC must grow 'intelligent client' function to sort out post-Brexit tech issues – watchdog
Already delayed, IBM and Deloitte's 'Single Trade Window' presents SaaSy challenge's to tax collector
Public Sector20 May 2024 | 36
AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm
Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see
SaaS14 May 2024 | 2
AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security
RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out'
AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5
Dropbox dropped the ball on security, haemorrhaging customer and third-party info
Only from its digital doc-signing service, which is isolated from its cloudy storage
Security02 May 2024 | 20
Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project
Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead
SaaS27 Apr 2024 | 12
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so
Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders
SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 5
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more
First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason
SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts
Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive
AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
SAP transformation program a 'euphemism' for job cuts, claims European Works Council
8,000 roles affected worldwide, but Germany will bear heaviest losses
SaaS10 Apr 2024 | 7
Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal
Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts
SaaS04 Apr 2024 | 54
EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services
Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing
SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
ServiceNow goes to Washington DC, with a suitcase full of AI
Claims the tech has brought 38 percent improvement to its own dev cycle time
Software21 Mar 2024 | 3
Microsoft hits Inflection point, peels off top personnel to form AI division
FYI, FTC: Karén Simonyan, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman absorbed rather than acquired
AI + ML19 Mar 2024 | 12
Don't be like these 900+ websites and expose millions of passwords via Firebase
Warning: Poorly configured Google Cloud databases spill billing info, plaintext credentials
CSO18 Mar 2024 | 11
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term
Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues
AI + ML18 Mar 2024 | 57
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases
But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there?
AI + ML14 Mar 2024 | 2
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower
Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges
SaaS14 Mar 2024 | 10
Sunak's defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs
Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised
SaaS13 Mar 2024 | 26
European Commission broke its own data privacy law with Microsoft 365 use
Euro folk have until December to put house in order
Public Sector11 Mar 2024 | 29
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance
Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly
AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal
Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely
SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
NHS in Wales bets big on Microsoft with deal worth nearly half a billion
Forget historic cloud downtime, latest contract with reseller to offer 'agile and flexible' approach
SaaS13 Feb 2024 | 28
Twitter spinout Bluesky ends invite-only phase and opens its doors to all comers
Dorsey-backed federated social media alternative promises custom feed algos, and more
SaaS06 Feb 2024 | 21
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage
Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem
SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra
SaaS18 Jan 2024 | 45
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs
We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views
SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Microsoft's Swiss army knife app hopes to cut through cloud clutter
Ignite A 'win' for Windows or just another pane in the glass?
SaaS16 Nov 2023 | 6
Microsoft 365 Copilot 'generally available' – if you can afford 300 seats
Updated Small businesses need not apply
SaaS03 Nov 2023 | 15
Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite
Over a million licenses for office software to be used by corporate and frontline workers
SaaS18 Oct 2023 | 19
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off
Epic redundancies all round
SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion
Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation
SaaS13 Oct 2023 | 25
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust
You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy
SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today
Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA
SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months
Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says
SaaS15 Sep 2023 | 27
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API
One more reason to keep them short and sweet
SaaS04 Sep 2023 | 23
Official: Microsoft unbundles Teams in Europe
Breaking up is hard to do: Redmond reluctantly lets EU play matchmaker for software suite flings
SaaS31 Aug 2023 | 19
Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform
Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape'
SaaS09 Aug 2023 | 26
Google launches $99 a night Hotel Mountain View for hybrid workers
And pandemic video conferencing poster child Zoom ushers staff back into the office for two days a week
SaaS07 Aug 2023 | 68
It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365
Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 42
Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues
Come back Teams, all is forgiven
SaaS27 Jul 2023 | 14
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes
Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3
SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office
Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app
SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 44
Investors give Salesforce a 4% slap on back for raising prices
Just think of the margins
SaaS12 Jul 2023 | 1
Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT
Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?
SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22
Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud
Updated Fight! Fight! Fight!
SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 24
Suit alleges Oracle oversold and under-delivered on NetSuite software
Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims
SaaS21 Jun 2023 | 4
Tech vendors have been hiking prices by up to 24% amid inflation
Customers also warned to look out for audits following M&As
SaaS16 Jun 2023 | 14
Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office
Promo runs from June 12 and 24 as company promises it's not tracking which workers participate
SaaS07 Jun 2023 | 14
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day
Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it
SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip
After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle
SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
Get ready, Snowflakes: Azure AI is coming for you with one click
Ingest, integrate... and imprison
SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 6
Salesforce boss Benioff scores payday of nearly $30m amid cost cutting
Average employee got $199k, changes afoot to exec compensation
SaaS28 Apr 2023 | 4
Microsoft tackles SaaSy URL sprawl, dumping its dotcom in favor of cloud.microsoft
Promises more cross-product links, better security, and easier admin – for you and Redmond’s own crew
SaaS27 Apr 2023 | 23
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage
Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook
SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage
Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching
SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Microsoft switches gears, keeps Exchange Online's CARs around until Sept 2024
At least Redmond listens to some customers
SaaS10 Apr 2023 | 1
Activist investor Elliott holds off board-level influence at Salesforce
Benioff gets a pat on the head and an undefined reprieve
SaaS27 Mar 2023 | 3
Microsoft dips Teams in the metaverse vat with avatars ahead
Can't be bothered with cam? Replace yourself with a 3D diligent worker
SaaS15 Mar 2023 | 29
Salesforce latest to sprinkle ChatGPT on itself, will ask language models to write code
Collaboration with OpenAI tech also threatens AI-generated sales emails, Slack messages, customer Q&As
SaaS07 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year
Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs
SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
Salesforce under investor pressure to dump more staff
Promised 10,000 cull unlikely to be enough to satisfy gaggle of activist investors
SaaS27 Feb 2023 | 6
Google staff asked to share desk space in latest cost purge
From free massage therapy and on-site gyms to alternating desk days with fellow Googlers
SaaS23 Feb 2023 | 57
Salesforce woes continue as Twitter slashes spending with SaaS supermonster
Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing
SaaS15 Feb 2023 | 9
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad
Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp
SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Microsoft injects AI into Teams so no one will ever forget what the meeting decided
In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide
SaaS02 Feb 2023 | 61
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle
Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn
SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice
It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it
SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
IBM top brass accused again of using mainframes to prop up Watson, cloud sales
Special report Securities fraud lawsuit reloaded
SaaS18 Jan 2023 | 38
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows
CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund
SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut
Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped
SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint
CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry
SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
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