Dell CTO shares his hottest trends for 2021: Four interesting technologies, one of which is still borderline sci-fi for now -- Spoiler: It's quantum. And who knew? 5G isn't for the peasants

3 hours ago

Infosys follows flag-waving US hiring spree with quieter Canadian and Mexican hiring spree -- Record low onshore work as pandemic teaches clients they need not fear off-site workers

8 hours ago

Cor, get a load of moneybags Northamptonshire: Eight resellers win places on £5bn police framework -- Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that

1 day ago

Gloucestershire IT pro faces court over £30k Amazon voucher theft allegations -- Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim

1 day ago

Offshoring is kind of over, says Wipro, as financials surge thanks to offshoring -- Working from home means lots of us might as well be offshore now, suggests CEO

1 day ago

Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination -- IT consultancy favors male and Indian workers, watchdog told in complaint

1 day ago

Boss behind 'reset' of delayed, overbudget Emergency Services Network shifts to new 'digital' Cabinet Office role -- Three years at ESN would have been three years too many for most

2 days ago

Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down to be replaced by VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger -- Someone with technical nous could be good for Chipzilla – the markets certainly think so

2 days ago

Trump tries one more time to limit H-1B work visas with new minimum salary requirements -- With just a week left of the administration, here we go again

2 days ago

Paperless what? Pah! UK government looks to ink £900m in printer deals -- Crown Commercal Services must be rubbing hands together

4 days ago

Dusty passports, smart tops and tracksuit bottoms: Are virtual events better or worse than the real thing? -- Event sponsors: 'They got rinsed' in 2020, says analyst

4 days ago

Policy - Social network Parler dumped by AWS, says it prepared for this by only using bare metal - Says it'll rebuild in a week, but evidence of DR plan is scant - |

4 days ago

US backs down from slapping import taxes on French goods over Macron's web giant tax -- Officials instead probe similar levies mulled by UK, India, Europe

7 days ago

UK competition watchdog calls for views on Nvidia's prospective $40bn acquisition of Brit chip designer Arm -- Ahead of a formal probe, CMA want to ascertain risks to licensing, price gouging, and product cancellations

9 days ago

Consultants bag £375m for their role in developing the UK's faltering COVID-19 Test and Trace system -- Nice work if you can get it...

9 days ago

Business - Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf retiring, sceptre passes to president Cristiano Amon - So long, and thanks for all the fish - |

10 days ago

Business -- Trump pushes anti-immigrant policy into Biden term with extended freeze on H-1B and other work visas -- Applicants will need to hold off until March at the earliest

10 days ago

12BoC -- It's just a pair of arrows. What could be more innocent than that? -- Crossing the LogoWatch and Borkage streams: A Bork averted

11 days ago

Policy -- New York Stock Exchange bins China's three biggest telcos -- As China launches Alibaba antitrust probe, warns Tencent, and the clock keeps TikTok-ing for Oracle

11 days ago

Something for the Weekend, Sir? -- What can the 1944 OSS manual teach us before we all return to sabotage the office? -- Tell you what, let's have a meeting about it

14 days ago

DevOps -- It's been a day or so and nope, we still can't wrap our head around why GitHub would fire someone for saying Nazis were storming the US Capitol -- Questions go unanswered as CEO, COO launch probe

20 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Flash in the pan: Raspberry Pi OS is the latest platform to carve out vulnerable tech -- Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers?

19 hours ago

Cloud -- Dropbox basically decimates workforce, COO logs off: Cloud biz promises to be 'more efficient and nimble' -- CEO says he is 'truly sorry for painful but necessary' cuts

1 day ago

Cloud -- Pirate Bay co-founder criticises Parler for its lack of resilience -- Torrent search engine is still up after years of whack-a-mole with copyright cops

11 hours ago

Bootnotes -- Attack of the cryptidiots: One wants Bitcoin-flush hard drive he threw out in 2013 back, the other lost USB stick password -- A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting

5 hours ago

On Call -- The Novell NetWare box keeps rebooting over and over again yet no one has touched it? We're going on a stakeout -- IT staff can be so... spiky sometimes

2 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Trump ban means the service has failed -- 'I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump' says @Jack

5 hours ago

Personal Tech -- Beagleboard peeps tease dual-core 64-bit RISC-V computer with GPU, AI acceleration, more for under 100 quid -- UnArmed to the teeth: Early versions to ship in April, more to follow in September

8 hours ago

Exclusive -- Fujitsu opens door, invites '200 to 250' staff from UK Delivery team to walk out -- Juicier payoff for those who do, but employees fear process will become compulsory if numbers aren't met

8 hours ago

Brexit trade deal advises governments to use Netscape Communicator and SHA-1. Why? It's all in the DNA -- A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases

15 days ago

Hong Kong's Hutchison Group, which runs mobile carrier '3', protests as USA puts it on new China ban list -- Trump administration is behind the times: used old name for Chinese company Hutchison sold ages ago

23 days ago

North of England NHS buyers name IT consultants who got in on £200m framework deal -- Hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of consultancy work farmed out

24 days ago

Australia wants Google to jump higher and sweat before it can buy Fitbit -- Ad giant's promise to play nice with other exercise gadgets accepted in Brussels, deferred down under

24 days ago

Taiwan's Wistron says iPhone factory riot won't cause significant impact to its business -- Dodges reports alleging Apple has put it on probation

24 days ago

NHS awards £23m two-year deal to controversial Peter Thiel AI firm Palantir -- Legal challenges? Scrutiny? Ah, never mind those

25 days ago

'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules -- Also: Would have been great if they'd chatted to an epidemiologist about Eat Out to Help Out project

24 days ago

Chinese chipmaker SMIC says US sanctions mean it will struggle to develop 10nm products -- As India shouts out to world+dog: Anyone fancy building a fab here?

25 days ago

Let the chips fall where they may: US Commerce dept whacks Middle Kingdom firm SMIC on naughty list -- At the SMIC of a flitch, biggest China semi foundry's on the entity list

28 days ago

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28 days ago

Just let this sink in: Capita wins 12-year £1bn contract to provide training services to the Royal Navy and Marines -- Who remembers that Army recruitment calamity? Not the salty sea dogs running the naval forces

28 days ago

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna needs new business cards already after appointment as board chair -- Ginni Rometty's retirement confirmed tho Big Blue's keeping her on as a part-time $20k/day consultant

29 days ago

Googlers will be working from home until September 2021, says Sundar Pichai, followed by 'flexible' work weeks -- Chocolate Factory hopes it will 'lead to greater productivity, collaboration and well-being' for staffers

1 month ago

What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract -- Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live

1 month ago

Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m -- Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates

1 month ago

New t-shirt slogan: 'My job was outsourced to an Indian company that moved it to Vietnam' -- HCL heads to Hanoi in search for 3,000 new workers, which is just two percent of headcount and one quarter's usual hiring rate, but a vote of confidence

1 month ago

Exonerated: First subpostmasters cleared of criminal convictions in Post Office Horizon scandal -- It only took 16 years in some cases but we're getting there

1 month ago

UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010 -- 'Fragile and ageing legacy systems' need to be replaced – now

1 month ago

CEST la vie: HMRC admits controversial IR35 status checker returns undecided verdict in nearly 20% of cases -- What a useless tool, say folk in freelance community, with months to go before tax reforms introduced to private sector

1 month ago