India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines
Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000
Channel05 May 2023 | 14
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Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies
Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah?
Channel07 Apr 2023 | 13
Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money
Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off
Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings
Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings
Channel17 Jan 2023 | 3
Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks
Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?
Channel14 Oct 2022 |
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'
It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts
Channel26 Sep 2022 | 1
Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all
Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing
Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4
Salesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for the inevitable fix
Who,Me? ‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistake
Channel05 Sep 2022 | 56
India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs
Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems
Channel25 Jul 2022 | 24
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger
Channel29 Jun 2022 | 8
Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW
Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines
Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2
Microsoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain
Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuring
Channel10 Jun 2022 | 37
European tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns
Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investment
Channel06 May 2022 | 13
Ericsson pulls out of Russia 'indefinitely' to protest war in Ukraine
Plus: AMD tells El Reg it stopped 'all technical, product support and marketing' in pariah state
Channel11 Apr 2022 | 18
Capita offloads Microsoft licensing biz Trustmarque to private equity for £110m
Remainder of Capita's Portfolio of unwanted businesses to be expunged by year end, says CEO
Channel28 Jan 2022 | 1
Pakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies
Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivals
Channel25 Jan 2022 | 11
Renewal chasing as-a-service is now a thing – and vendors love it
Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people
Channel28 Oct 2021 | 21
Who are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor forecasts tech price hikes from January
Canalys Forum 2021 Things not likely to improve until 2023
Channel15 Oct 2021 | 3
Windows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds
Canalys Forums Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?
Channel08 Oct 2021 | 40
Raspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini computer there as easy as Pi
High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitants
Channel06 Oct 2021 | 17
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T-Mobile US suffers second data theft within months
in brief Also, Capita's buckets are leaking, ransomware attackers deliver demands via emergency alert, and this week's critical vulns
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel
who, me? Sometimes legacy systems must be preserved to safeguard a vital function. This was not one of those times
WordPress plugin hole puts '2 million websites' at risk
XSS marks the spot
China lands mysterious reusable spacecraft after 276-day trek
Asia In Brief PLUS: Smartphone sales slump in India, China; Singapore's Temasek denies crypto investment; Dyson's new battery plant; and more
You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing
Desktop Tourism Big i7 performance, tiny, tiny size
Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS
Three power outages have hit NAIA in the past year. What was that about ramping up tourism?
Here's what the US Army picked for soldier-worn tactical USB hubs
That kit ain't for chargin' your iPhone, Private!
Modern Auth comes to on-prem Exchange Server gear
Guess this'll have to do while we wait for *checks notes* ES 2025
Uncle Sam mulls dumping monolithic software stacks for modular blocks
Anyone else heard of these microservices?
White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers
In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more
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Japan's NTT Group to allow remote work for all 320,000 staff
Ditching central offices in favour of over 250 regional facilities for a workforce twice the size of Microsoft's
Channel29 Sep 2021 | 3
BRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across borders
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcers
Channel06 Sep 2021 | 4
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
Channel03 Sep 2021 | 17
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
Channel30 Jul 2021 |
Lockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards – and repaid £73m of furlough wages
But mobile biz continues to wane
Channel30 Jun 2021 | 4
The great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos for £380m
It's the longest day of the year
Channel21 Jun 2021 | 5
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
Channel10 Jun 2021 | 5
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'
Channel09 Jun 2021 | 1
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
Channel03 Jun 2021 | 11
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
Channel02 Jun 2021 | 18
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
Channel28 Apr 2021 | 6
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
Channel19 Apr 2021 | 16
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
Channel05 Nov 2020 | 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
Channel30 Oct 2020 | 17
Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods
Canalys Forum 2020 Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'
Channel09 Oct 2020 | 82
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
Channel30 Sep 2020 | 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
Channel24 Sep 2020 | 11
Reseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the future-ture-ture-ture
Updated Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051
Channel18 Sep 2020 | 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
Channel09 Jun 2020 | 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
Channel18 May 2020 | 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
Channel18 May 2020 | 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
Channel12 May 2020 | 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
Channel23 Apr 2020 | 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
Channel07 Apr 2020 | 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
Channel03 Apr 2020 | 5
Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration
Updated AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer
Channel01 Apr 2020 | 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
Channel25 Mar 2020 |
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'
Channel20 Mar 2020 | 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'
Channel17 Mar 2020 | 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
Channel12 Mar 2020 | 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...
Channel11 Mar 2020 | 21
UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
Calm down now
Channel03 Mar 2020 | 59
Aria Technology loses Court of Appeal bid over £750k VAT dispute
Firm must pay HMRC's legal costs, rules judge
Channel27 Feb 2020 | 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
Channel21 Feb 2020 | 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
Channel19 Dec 2019 | 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
Channel13 Dec 2019 |
David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74
Obit Northamber founder passes after 'short illness'
Channel09 Dec 2019 | 1
Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK
May we suggest a rebrand?
Channel06 Dec 2019 | 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
Channel20 Nov 2019 | 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
Channel24 Oct 2019 | 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
Channel23 Oct 2019 | 20
Yay, Intel chip shortages should be over soon! Nope. Strap in, at least another quarter or two to go, say PC execs
Canalys Channels Forum Chipzilla's keeping mum ...
Channel18 Oct 2019 | 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
Channel15 Oct 2019 | 22
John Lennon says hello. Hello, hello... as Cancom buys Novosco for £70m
You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller
Channel14 Oct 2019 | 4
Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange
If that floats your boat
Channel14 Oct 2019 | 1
Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal
Senior beak overrules Upper Tribunal judges' refusal
Channel09 Oct 2019 | 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
Channel03 Oct 2019 | 13
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's watch for tech sales VAT weirdness through the channel
Feature Ignorance is no defence, just ask HMRC
Channel01 Oct 2019 | 18
Margin mugs: A bank paid how much for a 2m Ethernet cable? WTF!
El Reg brings you the hall of shame
Channel28 Sep 2019 | 211
HMRC slaps Getronics with winding-up petition: It'll be sorted out today, blurts tech services firm
Hurry up – nearly beer o' clock
Channel25 Sep 2019 | 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
Channel05 Sep 2019 | 2
Arrow? More like Boomerang, amirite? Computacenter buys back tech disposal biz it disposed of
IT kit recycling arm that 'wasn't core' turns out to be important
Channel13 Aug 2019 | 5
Microsoft blocked TSO Host's email IPs from Hotmail, Outlook inboxes and no one seems to care
Apart from the poor sods paying for the service, that is
Channel09 Aug 2019 | 50
Microsoft tells resellers: 'We listened to you, and we have acted' (PS: Plz keep making us money)
Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans
Channel12 Jul 2019 | 44
Will you be inspired by Inspire? If Microsoft's Slack-for-suits Teams is your cup of tea, perhaps
Inspire Just in time for event kick-off: MS Teams overtakes Slack in daily active users
Channel11 Jul 2019 | 5
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Partner boss explains yanking of free licences
Updated Cloud giant's blunt instrument clobbers loyal resellers too
Channel11 Jul 2019 | 41
Microsoft middlemen rebel against removal of free software licences
No more internal use rights for channel types – you'll have to pay for them yourselves
Channel09 Jul 2019 | 37
Who left a database of emails, credit cards, plain-text passwords, and more open to the web this week? Tech Data, come on down!
Business IT giant that services Apple, Cisco, and others, exposed 264GB of info
Databases06 Jun 2019 | 30
Ready with the 'welcome neighbour' fruitbasket, retailers? Amazon opens Manchester pop-up shop
High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again
Channel03 Jun 2019 | 17
Police ICT Company kills £500m procurement, no longer wants one box shifter to rule them all
Yep, THAT would-be siloed IT smasher, conceived in Theresa May's brainpan 8 years ago...
Channel16 May 2019 | 21
Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?
UK personal sales drop whopping 17.6%, Windows saves day for biz
Channel16 Apr 2019 | 34
No Court of Appeal for you! Judges uphold Aria PC firm VAT fraud ruling
Plus: A year ago today El Reg changed the law
Channel10 Apr 2019 | 12
Quadsys exec who hacked rival firm's database in 2016 convicted of assault
Community work order slapped on infosec biz MD Paul Cox
Channel01 Apr 2019 | 4
Look what the Softcat dragged in: Revenues grow 21% as UK reseller refuses to blink at Brexit
'We remain confident that we are well prepared for different scenarios,' reckons boss man
Channel19 Mar 2019 | 7
Carphone Warehouse fined £29m for mis-selling mobile insurance to punters who didn't need it
Smartphone retailer at centre of very own PPI scandal after FCA probe
Channel13 Mar 2019 | 51
Product. Reselling. Lives. Computacenter sales fly due to product, not services
Windows 10 workplace and data centre refreshes come good
Channel12 Mar 2019 | 1
Apple reseller Solutions Inc pulls down shutters, calls in administrators
Updated Staff told: 'Do not come to work tomorrow. Do not attempt to re-enter the store for any reason'
Channel20 Feb 2019 | 46
Brit security services firm SecureData sold to France's Orange for an undisclosed sum
UK biz sells to non-UK one that exploits sh!tty exchange rate
Channel01 Feb 2019 | 13
Hard Brexit, soft Brexit, deal or no deal: Doesn't matter – all integrator CGI sees is dollar signs
It's just one big opportunity to make money
Channel31 Jan 2019 | 7
Brexit? Now that it's raining more than ever, know we're OK at Computacenter
We are just a very humble reseller, eller, eller, eh, eh, eh
Channel23 Jan 2019 | 5
DXC Technology bids $2bn for Swiss big cheese Luxoft
Alles ist gut
Channel07 Jan 2019 | 16
Dixons Carphone smarting from £440m loss as it writes down goodwill on mobile biz
No one's buying new friggin' handsets, says retailer
Channel12 Dec 2018 | 54
UKFast mulls putting IPO on ice due to six little letters: BREXIT
'Highly unlikely' amid 'so much uncertainty', says boss
Channel29 Nov 2018 | 32
Black Friday? Yes, tech vendors might be feeling a bit glum looking at numbers for the UK
2018: The year the US-imported shopping promo bonanza goes pffft?
Channel22 Nov 2018 | 82
Brit tech buys frozen, but CGI can't wait to get integrating all those post-Brexit systems
Oh, and Gartner publishes spending prognosis for life after the EU
Channel08 Nov 2018 | 3
UK computer dealer Aria PC loses £750k VAT fraud appeal attempt in THAT case
Yes, the one where El Reg won the open justice verdict...
Channel07 Nov 2018 | 20
Computacenter shares crash by a fifth as sales shrink... Nope, it's not Brexit
That screeching sound might be the wheels coming off tech reselling in Q3
Channel31 Oct 2018 | 3
Softcat warns of Brexit cloud forming over UK tech, vows: If prices rise, we'll pass them on...
...ahem, as is 'normal in our industry'
Channel17 Oct 2018 | 51
The march of Amazon Business has resellers quaking in their booties
Canalys Channels Forum 2018 'To team up with Amazon is like to team up with the devil'
Channel15 Oct 2018 | 50
HP Ink CEO: That $550m Apogee buy was to stop rivals slurping it
Canalys Channels Forum 2018 Oh, and we need A3 sales skillz
Channel12 Oct 2018 | 6
Biting the hand that feeds IT
