Microsoft's bricks-and-mortar retail operation set to return from the grave?...
From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers'Microsoft is set to reopen some of its stores for sales to the general public.…
View ArticleUK.gov finally proposes to police rogue umbrella companies but leaves...
Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practicesAt the eleventh hour, UK government has detailed plans to regulate umbrella companies, some of which stand accused of dodgy...
View ArticleThe great fire sale continues as Capita sells government joint venture Axelos...
It's the longest day of the yearIts work with the UK government has once again proven a boon to troubled outsourcer Capita. The business said today it would sell Axelos – the joint venture set up with...
View ArticleLockdown-induced gadgetry rush sent Dixons Carphone's online sales skywards –...
But mobile biz continues to waneThe boss of Dixons Carphone has delivered a bullish assessment of the UK retailer's performance in a year when online tech sales spiked and revenues from its ebbing...
View ArticleTelefónica's cloud limb slurps Cancom's UK&I biz to cash in on Brit...
There's a tasty NHS contract in thereTelefónica Tech – the cybersecurity and cloud wing of the Spanish-owned telecoms giant – has forked out €398m (£340m) to German outfit Cancom Group's UK and Ireland...
View ArticleBusy day in China: Xi Jinping announces tech-sharing, services export push...
Also banned telly shows from featuring men with an 'abnormal aesthetic' – basically the kind of chap you'd find in a boy bandChina's President Xi Jinping has signaled a push to export services and...
View ArticleBRICS bloc deepens collaboration on ecommerce and selling services across...
Good news for consumers, exporters, and outsourcersThe BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – have agreed to smooth the path for ecommerce and trade in services.…
View ArticleJapan'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'sJapanese tech giant NTT Group will allow its 320,000 staff to work remotely.…
View ArticleRaspberry Pi looks to set up African retail channel to make buying a mini...
High shipping costs barrier to access for many of continent’s inhabitantsRaspberry Pi said yesterday it would be pushing to get its miniature computers into more shops across Africa, admitting that its...
View ArticleWindows what? PC makers have bigger things on their minds
Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all?Canalys Forums With minds fixed on PC shortages and the next looming round of price hikes, there was nary a mention of Microsoft's freshly laid...
View ArticleWho are shortages good for? The channel! World's biggest distributor...
Things not likely to improve until 2023Canalys Forum 2021 Technology price rises are about as welcome Windows 11's needy hardware specs but one part of the industry is quietly happy about the...
View ArticleRenewal 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 peopleThe next time your vendor or reseller sends a mail reminding you it's...
View ArticlePakistan considers ten-year tax holiday for freelance techies
Could clean up dispute over who collects tax and when, but unlikely to worry outsourcing rivalsPakistan’s minister for IT and Telecom, Syed Aminul Haque, has floated the idea of a ten-year tax holiday...
View ArticleCapita 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 CEOCapita is again clearing out another of the previous CEO’s past conquests with confirmation this morning that...
View ArticleEricsson 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 stateSwedish network system maker Ericsson has confirmed it has "indefinitely" halted all shipments to clients...
View ArticleEuropean tech businesses cool on China due to coronavirus lockdowns
Oops. Beijing wants zero COVID, not zero foreign investmentSupply chain issues and other disruptions in China caused by strict COVID-19 lockdown measures have seen 23 percent of European businesses...
View ArticleMicrosoft forgot to renew the certificate for its Windows Insider subdomain
Visitors to insider.windows.com met with safety warning - how reassuringMicrosoft has forgotten to renew the certificate for the web page of its Windows Insider software testing program.…
View ArticleLenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW
Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and PhilippinesLenovo has struck an agreement with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW to create a jointly owned services company, advancing its strategy of...
View ArticleMicrosoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting strongerMicrosoft has indefinitely postponed the date on which its Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) will be required to sell software and...
View ArticleIndia'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 problemsIndia's big four outsourcers are worried about rising labor costs and their impact on profits,...
View ArticleSalesperson's tech dream delivered by ill-equipped consultant who charged for...
‘I had a sharp new suit and a misplaced sense of confidence’ – and made a costly mistakeWho,Me? Before you shell out big bucks to engage the services of consultants, perhaps consider this week’s...
View ArticlePhilippines 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 flowingThe Philippines last week decided to extend incentives offered...
View ArticleAlibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade'
It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outpostsAlibaba Cloud last week staged its annual gabfest and revealed some tasty new cloud services, as well as a billion dollar "ecosystem...
View ArticleMicrosoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security...
Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?Microsoft's campaign to improve the security of its customers and partners – by letting the latter set roles in...
View ArticleIndia’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings
Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savingsIndia’s top four IT outsourcers, Wipro, HCL Technologies Infosys, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) all reported...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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 offMicrosoft's delayed effort to ensure its partners don't enjoy unduly privileged access to their clients'...
View ArticleMicrosoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no...
Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah?Microsoft will pay more than $3.3 million to settle allegations it busted US sanctions by selling software and services to blacklisted...
View ArticleIndia'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 82,000Having spent 2022 struggling to retain workers in the face of high staff attrition rates, India's top four IT outsourcers...
View ArticleDell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late
Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monsterDell World It took a little over a year, but Dell has followed through (to an extent) on promises it made in 2022 with the introduction of Project Alpine – an...
View ArticleBad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan
All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout'JP Morgan has predicted tough times are around the corner for India's big IT services outfits.…
View ArticleTwo top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped
CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightensTwo senior execs have quit Indian tech services giant Infosys, with head of HR, Richard Lobo, and chief information security officer Vishal Salvi...
View ArticleMicrosoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU
Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policyMicrosoft has told its partner community that unbundling Teams from its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites was...
View ArticleMicrosoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system...
Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash nowUpdated Microsoft has quietly delayed the delivery of a security service it hoped to add to the E5 license of its...
View ArticleGulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst
One has the talent, one has the money – both want more techThe gulf states and former Soviet nations of central Asia are set to become a new hub of tech activity, according to Anatoly Motkin, president...
View ArticleSorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment
India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successesInfosys and Wipro have decided to skip hiring graduates this year as part of their "utilization...
View ArticleChina’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government,...
5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pileAlibaba and JD.com have forged a new holiday tradition by discussing anything but the revenue...
View ArticleInfosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago
PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab openingAsia In Brief Infosys has lost a ten-year, $1.5 billion deal it...
View ArticleBroadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own...
Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, tooBroadcom has told VMware partners the virtualization champion’s channel program will end in early 2024.…
View ArticleIndia's big four services giants soar on demand for AI
Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowedIndian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced...
View ArticleAs Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix
A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addictionAs the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization giant have...
View ArticleFoxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group
Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductorsUpdated Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with...
View ArticleAWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services
Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one billAmazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on...
View ArticleeBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered
9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemicTat bazaar eBay is laying off 1,000 employees, or 9 percent of the workforce, claiming that general hiring and overhead costs are...
View ArticleBoss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals
London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resignsNeil Murphy, the boss of Bytes Technology Group – one of Microsoft’s largest cloud and software...
View ArticleVMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training contentExclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of...
View ArticleClaims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses
Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief'Citrix has allegedly made major changes to its partner program, and one of the consultancies briefed on the new arrangements...
View ArticleMicrosoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked...
Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filingOne of Micrsoft's largest cloud and tech licensing resellers, Bytes Technology Group (BTG), today gave the London Stock...
View ArticleWipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia...
Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?ASIA IN BRIEF Wipro on Friday named Srini Pallia as its leader, effective immediately,...
View ArticleCloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition
Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AICloud Software Group (CSG) and Microsoft have renewed their alliance for another eight years, this time with a $1.65 billion...
View ArticleOracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud
But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seemsOracle has had a big win in Japan that could turn into something enormous, and also revealed plans to score more success in the land of...
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