The Channel logo

Articles about Surplus

PEAK APPLE: Fondleslab giant no longer world's biggest biz

Share price shenanigans nudges ExxonMobil ahead

Software Box banks double-digit profit spike in fiscal 2012

Who said there's no money in the channel?

EMC loses half a BEEELLION on VCE ... but it's NOT what it seems

Comment #consolidatedgrossmargins - 'nuf said

Intel chip surplus drives up industry inventory

It'll take some time to shift, warns market watcher

Feeling poor? WHO took all your money? NOT capitalist bastards?

Lies, damned lies and statistics: we all know the saying, but you'd be surprised just how many of these “facts” manage to enter the national consciousness, emerging as Guardian headlines and stories on Radio 4's Today. Allow me to tiptoe through the process as to how this happens. Let's start with this lovely little chart: A …
channel

Two more big hitters leave Azlan

Another pair of industry vets are splitting with Azlan, The Register can reveal. The enterprise arm of IT broadliner Computer 2000 underwent a restructure last year following the arrival of new broom Colin McGregor, aligning business units to IBM, HP and Cisco rather than vertical markets. As part of this overhaul, marketing …
cloud

PC sales forecast slashed on back of disk drive crisis

Global economy and fondleslab fever also to blame

Forget value-added broker jokes: Could YOU shift nuclear plant scrap?

The stock doctors: What they actually DO (besides talk)
Garbage dump (pic from US National archive)
channel

Some go gracefully in the Channel - and some go messily

Liquidators of defunct reseller Skye IT have confirmed to El Reg that the firm ran up massive debts of £1.9m. As revealed last month, the Chelmsford-based dealer decided to call it a day after encountering insurmountable cash flow difficulties and laid off all 40 staff. A meeting of creditors was held at the London offices of …
channel

People don't want tablets, they want iPads

The phenomenal sales success of Apple's iPad shows no sign of abating, but sales for all other tablets competitors are stagnating and channel inventories are building. US tech titan HP is the latest to correct its prices, trimming £50 off the cost of a TouchPad in an effort to get them shifting, with the 16GB and 32GB versions …

Northamber hit by industry-wide slowdown in April

Just a blip or a big dark cloud?

Who will rid me of these obsolete PCs?

Reuse it or lose it

IT salaries down and out

Our survey says...

Northamber announces £2.94m cash return

Surplus to requirements

Morgan Computers: Your memories

Cheap PC flogger of all our hearts

DEC: The best of systems, the worst of systems

Opinion Digital Equipment Corp's hits and misses

Wanna buy an old PC factory?

Mothballed IBM plant for sale - models, balls, the lot

Evesham left debts of £6.8m

No surplus funds for unsecured creditors

Silly season starts early as IT goes strictly business

This week was awash with silly stories - UFOs over Guernsey, dogs defecating on eBay, police charging a stripagram for wearing a police uniform in the street (maybe he should have whipped it off there and then), people being duped into buying sheep thinking they were poodles - you name it, it was there. No wonder there was so …

Opinion

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
cubicle_farm_computers_channel

Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
money trap conceptual illustration

Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

Features

Vendors struggling to reinflate the bubble
Hellawell on being 'tight' - and his part in Thatcher's downfall
Square Group new premises
Whitman: A scythe-wielding Canute on a sinking ship