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Wolverhampton to pilot app that rewards healthy behaviours

Tool is aimed at helping local residents eat better and exercise more
Neos Networks completes latest leg in infrastructure expansion

UK business connectivity provider hits target of 550 unbundled BT exchanges and confirms plans to continue expansion and boost local access networks
Goldman Sachs debuts AWS-powered cloud for financial services

Goldman Sachs is building on its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services to launch a cloud-based environment that other financial services firms can use for data analytics and processing purposes
Global satellite broadband market to grow to 330 million by 2026

Research warns that even with the proliferation of mobile and fixed broadband access globally, there is still a significant portion of the population that suffers from poor coverage, offering a huge opportunity for satellite comms
Redwood becomes latest challenger bank to make a profit

Cloud-based business bank becomes the latest of the new wave of challengers to achieve profit
HPE results boosted by new orders rush

A rush on new orders to avoid HPE price hike, along with some help from Oracle, has helped to boost revenue

Swedish researchers are patiently developing a useful quantum computer

By 2028, the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology in Sweden expects to have a useful quantum computer
How advanced comms can gain an edge in the post-pandemic world

Advanced communications not only connects the real world to the digital world, but also enables a hybrid and more environmentally friendly world of work
Ensuring hybrid work works in the new normal

The hybrid business is becoming a reality, but how can firms ensure a positive employee experience and learn how to identify and manage risks?

AWS re:Invent - Hycu previews Protégé app-aware data protection- CW Developer Network

Cloud data backup and recovery as-a-service (Ed: is that DBRaaS?) company Hycu has joined the AWS 2021 partner news throng by announcing a preview of its Protégé for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Continue Reading
LEO: Office automation is still going strong- Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Seventy years ago Lyons & Co ran the world’s first business computer program, marking the a start of business automation. This is a theme of computing that is still very relevant today. The ... Continue Reading
Towards UK Skills and Employment Policies for a Post-Pandemic World- When IT Meets Politics

Covid has already precipitated the biggest challenge to UK education structures since the dissolution of the monasteries and chantries led to the creation of the grammar schools which educated ... Continue Reading
AWS re:Invent 2021: Keynote live - heroes bowed, clouds endowed & crowds allowed- CW Developer Network

AWS re:Invent 2021 is big… but actually it’s not, this event has about a third of its normal number of attendees with somewhere around 20,000 people on-site, which (in the continuing Covid-19 era) ... Continue Reading

A ‘whole of society’ approach to cyber may be on the horizon

Nominet Cyber managing director David Carroll reflects on the NCSC’s latest annual review amid 2021’s fast-evolving threat landscape
The way we talk about tech is crucial to solving skills shortages

Companies are looking to short-term fixes to find IT specialists, but there is still a need for long-term solutions
In the cloud, anti-human approaches set us up to fail

Security learning is a career-long process, so as 2021 draws to a close, participants in the Computer Weekly Security Think Tank sum up the most important cyber lessons they’ve taken away from the past 12 months