Cloud inquiry chair quits CMA over glacial pace of reform
PaaS + IaaS Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS…
Search
Microsoft to face CMA scrutiny over cloud software licensing
…The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the move today as one of several decisions following its investigation into the health of the cloud services marketplace last year. As well as preparing…
CMA dithers as Microsoft's cloud meter runs on your dime
…every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to…
Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market
Personal Tech Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction…
Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
…At the same time, buyers of sub-$500 computers are more sensitive to price fluctuations, and are therefore more likely to delay purchases or reduce the size of orders. Omdia expects the…
Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of AI chart
…first time now choose Anthropic about 70 percent of the time. Coincidentally, OpenAI is reportedly revising its strategy to focus on selling AI to businesses and software developers, the very markets in…
Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months
… The reaction from the analyst community is mixed, with several viewing the device as a successful marketing exercise and proof of concept. …
Amazon's smartphone would be ill-timed: IDC analyst
Personal Tech Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst The market is contracting Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be…
CMA warns AI agents may not be 'faithful servants'
…The pitch, at least from the tech industry, is that these agents could cut the time and effort required to navigate complex digital markets. But the regulator's paper reads more like…
Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved
…The company also considered reliability and found Windows users experience 3.1 times more forced shutdowns than Mac owners, 2.2 times more app crashes, and 7.5 times more app hangs…