Paul Kunert

1 week ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

With fewer than four months before Microsoft pulls the plug on standard support for Windows 10, businesses are replacing dusty – but in some cases perfectly working – desktop PCs in preparation for the migration to the little loved next generation of the Windows OS. Fresh stats from channel watcher Context this week show that in the first two months of calendar Q2 (April and May), distributors and resellers across Europe shipped 22 percent more desktops to enterprise customers.

1 week ago | devclass.com | Paul Kunert

SQL has slid down the TIOBE Index of computer languages, as developers switch their focus to NoSQL databases. The TIOBE Index measures the popularity of almost 100 languages. It readmitted SQL to its listing in 2018 because although it is data specific, it is Turing complete. It has always been in the top 10 of the index – until recently.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Barclays Bank is wrestling with some digital gremlins affecting its corporate banking services this Friday the 13th of June – the final day of the working week for many of us, but perhaps not the poor techies beavering away to restore normal play. According to online outage overseer Down Detector, reports of wobbly web services began to flood in just before 8am UTC, though fewer customers are now complaining.

2 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

Emotions are running high at BT over the Brit telco's refusal to "improve their derisory and insulting" pay offer to manager grade staff, according to John Ferrett, national secretary at union Prospect. As revealed by The Register at the end of last month, the union criticized the former state owned network operator for giving nearly two-thirds of the managers at BT – understood to be some 15,000 + employees – a 1.28 percent hike in compensation from April, something that was rejected.

3 weeks ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.