Legal
Resellers spar in GDPR debate
Does GDPR represent a chance for resellers to build sales and cement their trusted advisor status, or will it merely benefit 'blood-sucking lawyers'? Four resellers and MSPs came together at the recent CRN European Channel Leadership Forum to discuss...
See you in court: Top legal spats involving resellers
Whether it's illegal importing, breach of contract, bribery, or hacking a competitor's email, the channel has thrown up some interesting courtroom confrontations. We've ranked the biggest of recent years here
Consultancy firm shut down for 'pretending to be Google'
Manchester-based outfit posed as Google to make over £500,000 selling a service that internet giant offers for free
Is government taking credit for GDPR with new bill?
New Data Protection Bill welcomed by tech community, but analyst argues that the government is wrong to present it as a UK law when it is merely GDPR by another name
Police seize 1,000 counterfeit Cisco products following raid
Joint investigation with Cisco saw 'hundreds of thousands of pounds' of fake hardware obtained
Former Enta boss Jason Tsai jailed for 18 months
Tsai was found to have hidden a number of assets during the Changtel insolvency
Currys PC World ordered to remove 'misleading' cloud backup advert
ASA reprimands retailer after customer is hit by ransomware
GDPR set to be hot topic at brand new CRN event
With a panel of VAR bosses from across the UK and Europe, everyone should be tuning into this debate
Resellers need to lawyer up for GDPR, says CAE boss
Justin Harling says channel firms need to be more careful when selling solutions ahead of GDPR's implementation
Counterfeit goods account for 6.5 per cent of total ICT trade, finds OECD
Share of fake goods in ICT imports well above 2.5 per cent industry average, report finds
Reseller raises alarm over bogus NHS purchase order
CCL contacts CRN after receiving suspicious £12,000 purchase order purporting to be from Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Plantronics settles with Stockport dealer
Headset vendor settles out of court with Headset Solutions Limited as it reiterates commitment to authorised channel
Changtel liquidator pursuing Microsoft, Fujitsu and others for £50m tab - sources
Begbies Traynor is looking to claw back any payments made to suppliers in lead-up to Changtel being wound up, arguing they are void, sources tell CRN
Snap general election will cause uncertainty for business - channel reacts to May's election surprise
Short-term uncertainty could prevent customers making key buying decisions until after the outcome of snap election, tech industry onlookers claim
Whistle-blowers offered £100,000 in cartel crackdown
Competition and Markets Authority launches first advertising campaign aimed at stamping out illegal cartels in every sector
Plantronics settles with telecoms VAR over imports drama
Manchester telecoms reseller is the latest firm to settle out of court with the headset vendor
Silicon Valley giants round on Trump over travel ban
Ninety-seven firms file court document opposing Trump's controversial US immigration ban
BT's shares dive amid Italian accounting imbroglio
BT's market valuation nosedives by over £7bn as it admits fall out from 'inappropriate behaviour' in Italy will lead to a far greater write-down than first thought
Will grey market get Brexit boost?
Bond Dickinson's Patrick Cantrill and Rose Smalley argue that a 'hard Brexit' could spell a sea change for parallel importers in the UK
IT supplier jailed for paying £80,000 in kickbacks
NHS executive took bribes in exchange for £950,000 A&E software deal
AlienVault in legal spat with EMEA boss over alleged health and safety issues
Catherine Kelly claims to have been dismissed after reporting sewage leaks in Cork office and staff being locked in toilets for hours
Intel Security follows suit and drops Quadsys
Intel Security joins Kaspersky, Sophos and Barracuda in confirming reseller axe
Rimini Street's Oracle payments continue to stack up
US judge orders $27.7m payment of prejudgement interest, but Rimini Street set to continue appeals
Apple vs Samsung heats up ahead of Supreme Court clash
Apple was awarded $120m in damages from Samsung last week in a separate battle
