Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores
Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'
On-Prem21 Jan 2025 |
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long, and Whispering Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian, and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm.
He joined The Register in February 2020 to cover database software and other enterprise IT technologies.
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Databases20 Jan 2025 |
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door
With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
Networks17 Jan 2025 | 57
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog
NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects
Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 68
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages
Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case
Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M
Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 7
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares
38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger
Databases14 Jan 2025 | 4
It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
Analysis That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do
Security14 Jan 2025 | 148
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?
CxO09 Jan 2025 | 74
£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC
Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement
Software09 Jan 2025 | 10
UK government pledges law against sexually explicit deepfakes
Not just making them, but sharing them too
Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 29
UK digital markets watchdog expects to launch investigations within the month using new powers
Regulator will see a 'participative' approach before imposing fines
Public Sector08 Jan 2025 | 13
Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics
Opinion Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'
Offbeat07 Jan 2025 | 340
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate'
System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says
Applications03 Jan 2025 | 8
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget
South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements
Databases03 Jan 2025 | 6
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever
Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition
Databases02 Jan 2025 | 19
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes
Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg
SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines
Databases02 Jan 2025 |
Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion
Exclusive Amid plans to convert smaller stores, retailer opted to stall December shift as Walmart tech divorce continues
On-Prem19 Dec 2024 | 52
We told Post Office about system problems at the highest level, Fujitsu tells Horizon Inquiry
State-owned retail company was not subordinate to Japanese multinational in technical matters, legal rep says
Software18 Dec 2024 | 125
London's Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal
Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join
Databases17 Dec 2024 | 9
Doing business in US? Don't wait for state ruling on AI to act, warns former Senate chief of staff
Workday policy expert suggests NIST framework will save you trouble later
AI + ML13 Dec 2024 | 4
Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress
Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 4
SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage
As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less
Databases10 Dec 2024 | 15
Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate
Schools taken out of scope, but £108M plan still dwarfs initial £20M
Public Sector06 Dec 2024 | 46
SAP legacy ERP users wise to ignore offer of single leap to the cloud
Multi-stage journey preferred in high-risk switch, says user group chair
PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2024 | 3
Gelsinger departs Intel with $9.7M handshake
CEO's severance pales in comparison to Musk's billion-dollar Tesla battle
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 7
UK government spends another £1B on cloud migration and services
New framework set to help public sector orgs move on amid lock-in fears
PaaS + IaaS03 Dec 2024 | 24
Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco
Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce
On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 33
Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company
Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 17
Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies
Users could save 50% with open source alternatives, says expert
Software02 Dec 2024 | 43
Claims of 'open' AIs are often open lies, research argues
'When policy is being shaped, definitions matter'
AI + ML02 Dec 2024 | 10
Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off
BCS calls for digital literacy GCSE alongside Computer Science
Personal Tech28 Nov 2024 | 150
Swedish authorities probe Oracle Cerner health record rollout
$190 million project under scrutiny after reported failures
PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2024 | 11
UK financial regulator slammed for failed tech transformation
Poor software projects among efforts to overhaul FCA that came up short, MPs find
Public Sector27 Nov 2024 | 7
UK council still hadn't fully costed troubled Oracle project 2 years in
Updated Meanwhile, budget clambered from £2.6M to nearly £40M, says report
Databases26 Nov 2024 | 54
Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech
Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy
Software25 Nov 2024 | 71
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest
Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal'
Networks21 Nov 2024 | 47
Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?
Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness
AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 35
Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'
Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used
Cyber-crime21 Nov 2024 | 56
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service
Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet
Databases19 Nov 2024 | 6
Europe glances Russia's way after Baltic Sea data cables severed
Updated Probe continues into disruption affecting Germany, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania
Networks19 Nov 2024 | 58
Northern Ireland schools ditch £485M Fujitsu deal after less than a year
Updated 'Mutual agreement' sees end of contract
Public Sector19 Nov 2024 | 30
UK tax collector inks £366M in ERP deals to get systems into cloud
SAP and Deloitte winners in transition from legacy software to SaaS, which includes housing and transport ministries
Databases18 Nov 2024 |
AI poetry 'out-humans' humans as readers prefer bots to bards
Updated But, but what about the 'staggering banality of the poems that ChatGPT has produced' NYU prof sighs
AI + ML17 Nov 2024 | 53
Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI
House of GPT says suit is 'baseless and overreaching'
AI + ML15 Nov 2024 | 21
UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge
Regulator finds poor planning and overuse of consultants added to costs in ailing rollout
Networks15 Nov 2024 | 174
Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce
British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors
On-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 18
Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data
Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources
Databases13 Nov 2024 |
UK's Darpa clone faces tough test next spring as government considers future funding
With plant platforms and neural circuits on the program, Aria's leadership hope cross-party concensus continues
Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 11
Fujitsu does not trust Post Office in use of Horizon data in future third-party prosecutions
Europe boss also speaks of 'nervousness' in any extension to the use of the controversial, aging system
Software12 Nov 2024 | 66
Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI
Raw Story and AltNet allowed to amend complaint
AI + ML08 Nov 2024 | 25
Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever
Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation
Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73
Watchdog finds AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender
UK data regulator says some devs and providers are operating without a 'lawful basis'
AI + ML08 Nov 2024 | 45
Astroboffins tune into the wild origins of fast radio bursts
Enigmatic cosmic signals from outside this galaxy could come from collapsed binary stars
Science07 Nov 2024 | 8
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management
Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner
Databases07 Nov 2024 | 3
Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud
From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst
Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8
UK immigration seeks tech support, development partner for border crossing systems
After years of delay, new systems with 'diverse tech stacks' need a hand in £195M deal
On-Prem29 Oct 2024 | 17
Biting the hand that feeds IT
