Post-pandemic hard-sell under way: Resellers leaned on to convert free trial...
Eight weeks to turn ‘helping you enable remote work with Office 365 at this difficult time’ into cashOrganisations that took up Microsoft’s offer of a free six-month Office 365 trial to help them...
View ArticleCapita, 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 blockchainA group of London NHS trusts has awarded a gaggle of IT resellers,...
View ArticleBrit competition regulator will soon be able to seize rogue traders' domains...
Wide-ranging powers come into force in JuneThe UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will soon acquire new EU-derived powers allowing it to seize control of rogue traders' eBay and Amazon...
View ArticleEx-Dell distributor in Lebanon ignored ban on suing US tech giant. Now four...
18- and 9-month terms dished out for contempt of courtA group of Lebanese IT distributors have been handed prison sentences for contempt of court after running afoul of Dell and breaching an...
View ArticleReseller gives Brits Insight into value webcam shipments of the...
Pull on your gold hoodie and Darth Vader breathing apparatus and take a trip with us to 2051Updated Worried about the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on your supply chain? Wondering about the operating...
View ArticleRemember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason...
High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing ordersThe crumbling multinational empire of the distie once known as Entatech has come under scrutiny in the High Court again as liquidators...
View ArticleBrit tax collector HMRC wants fireside chat with suppliers to discuss ways to...
Prising open that pork barrel again? Nah, it's never been closedUK tax collector Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs wants to reboot its supply chain by opening up its entire £900m annual IT budget to...
View ArticleSelling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by...
Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'Canalys Forum 2020 Selling tech based on consumption is predicated on a "lie" and a "fallacy" created by the...
View ArticleFancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user...
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tabletsThe Bank of England has said it is looking for an IT supplier to support its extensive personal computer...
View ArticleMicrosoft sues Florida reseller it alleges sold 'black market access devices'...
Copyright and trademark infringements alleged by Redmond's legal eaglesMicrosoft has flung numerous accusations at a reseller based in Florida in the US ranging from copyright infringement to the use...
View ArticleUK Home Office tenders £5m for a supplier to help it greenlight IT projects....
Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govtThe UK's Home Office is tendering to recruit a supplier to help manage the selection of its IT projects, leading to...
View Article33 'unsustainably loss-making' Dixons Travel outlets set to be shuttered...
Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the businessDixons Carphone is to permanently ground its airport stores that employ 398 staff, amid mounting losses...
View ArticleIt's the UK contractor tax factor: IR35 outsiders gaining leverage in skills...
New tax rules see a hike in use of umbrella companies - another can of wormsContractors able to continue working outside the IR35 regulations are gaining leverage in the market and succeeding in...
View ArticleMassive tech-for-British-schoolkids cash pot up for grabs as UK education...
It is Thursday and it's framework-tasticPheonix Software, Deloitte and Computeam are among the 17 winners sticking their snouts into a £100m pork barrel framework for outsourcing in the UK’s education...
View ArticleMicrosoft'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...
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