Existing leadership to continue while majority shareholder exits stake Dutch business application biz Unit4 has been bought by private equity group TA Associates in a deal said to be in the region of $2bn.…
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Lees meerTry, try, try to understand, it's a Magic WAN Network infrastructure biz Cloudflare on Monday plans to launch a service called Magic WAN to allow companies to bring geographically dispersed data centers, offices, devices, and cloud services under a …
Lees meer'Some of you will be happy at this, and some might be disappointed' Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), announced at the organisation's LibrePlanet virtual event that he has rejoined the board and …
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Lees meerOn the plus side: Can't laser-cut that Live Laugh Love slogan into chipboard without software Column It takes a lot to stir the peaceable men and women of Makerhood into angry revolt, but 2D robo-snippers Cricut did it last week. Cricut makes deskt…
Lees meerWhat's wrong with Dynamics 365, huh? Meanwhile, SAP is on ServiceNow Sometimes vendors struggle to see the world as it really is – complex, messy, and for the most part filled with technology that so often falls short of its initial promise.…
Lees meerWhen fixing legacy bugs turns out to be a career-limiting move Who, Me? The weekend is no more so start your working week with a Who, Me? tale about the hazards of simply trying to do the right thing.…
Lees meerNot quite, says peer-reviewed journal, but with prices well below rivals the 80 percent of hearing impaired people with no helpful tech will be listening Samsung says a study of Samsung's Galaxy Buds Pro, conducted by the Samsung Medical Center, sug…
Lees meeriPad doodle offered as a ‘cryptic currency’ non-fungible token, natch Comedian John Cleese has jumped aboard the non-fungible token bandwagon, with an offer to sell a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge for $69,346,250.50 using the newfangled blockchain-…
Lees meerPirate papers site is best blocked on grounds it threatens university security The City of London Police, which responsibility for intellectual property crime across the UK, has warned universities and scientists not to use “open science” site Sci-H…
Lees meerCustomers surface 2017 posts describing power outage, confession to sub-par design OVH has written off a second data centre because of the March 10th fire that destroyed its SBG2 facility.…
Lees meerEven though its Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking, the storm behind it will probably live on Terrifying winds rip across Jupiter’s poles reaching speeds of up to 400 metres per second, or 900 miles an hour, three times faster than the most powe…
Lees meerAt last, after a year, my PhD is finally complee- bzzt! Think you're having a bad day? Spare a thought for the IT team at New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington who accidentally managed to wipe files stored on desktop computers last week.…
Lees meerIt's keeping a low profile (ahem), but yes, it's an actual clickety laptop A keyboard can make or break a computer -- just ask Apple. On that note, Dell has partnered with German outfit Cherry to bring its mechanical Cherry MX keyswitches to its Ali…
Lees meerSocial ad biz is working to restore service, for better or worse On Friday, shortly after 1700 UTC, users of Facebook and its WhatApp and Instagram subsidiaries began reporting difficulties connecting to the respective services.…
Lees meerYou have less than a week left to bid on the offending document The world is close to discovering how much a person is willing to pay for a brush with the Jesus phone's Maker - a job application penned by heroic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is about …
Lees meerAre we at the tipping point? Does anyone care? Six out of every 10 servers sold worldwide in 2020 were placed in the racks of data centres owned or rented by the world’s purveyors of fluffy white services, signifying a tipping for business clouds.…
Lees meerTough luck if you're in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales To quote the Mancunian philosopher Stephen Patrick Morrissey: "Stop me if you've heard this one before." The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has promised a fresh …
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