October 2018

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Percentage of women appointed to tech boards stays stagnant for 20 years

  The percentage of women on the boards of technology firms has not changed for the last 20 years, with the gap between men and women on boards growing  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Triumph Motorcycles kick-starts changes with high-tech HR

  The Leicestershire-based motorcycle company is deploying IT systems to give customers and its own staff a ‘premium brand experience’  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding

  A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups

  At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Hyperoptic full-fibre network hits public housing milestone

  More than 150,000 publicly owned homes have now been connected to Hyperoptic’s ultrafast fibre broadband network  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  GDPR driving data protection maturity

  The EU data protection laws are helping to drive data protection maturity internationally, but five months after enforcement many companies are still playing catch-up, says consultant  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Only 10% of firms have started upskilling employees as automation comes in

  As automation begins to change the way people work, only a small percentage of firms have begun full-scale projects to give their existing staff new skills  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Digital services tax weakens the case for tech startups to choose the UK

  The UK government’s plan for a tax specifically targeting big digital firms risks undermining international efforts to reform corporate taxation for the digital age  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Ofcom releases BT from 2005 Openreach undertakings

  Following the legal split of the two organisations, telecoms regulator Ofcom has formally ‘released’ BT from the 2005 undertakings set up to manage the Openreach infrastructure business  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  The fintech interview: Part 8 InvestCloud

  InvestCloud is a fintech with a few miles on the clock. It was even around when businesses didn't understand cloud services.  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Facebook emphasises security drive during third-quarter earnings call

  Social media giant admits it has a lot of work to do to keep on top of security as it looks to extend payment option to Messenger  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  UK Post Office looks to enable reusable digital ID

  The UK Post Office is investigating the possibility of enabling UK citizens to re-use their passport data for other applications where digital identity is a key component  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Think Tank: Application layer attack mitigation needs to start with risk analysis

  What should organisations be doing to address application layer attacks and reduce the likelihood of a breach through this type of attack?  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Inside Schneider Electric’s Batam smart factory

  The French energy management and automation firm has nearly halved material wastage by applying smart manufacturing technologies at its Indonesia plant  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Future Decoded 2018: Adopt AI or get left behind, Microsoft warns

  Research shows business leaders see artificial intelligence and machine learning as key to enabling them to adapt to market disruption  Continue Reading

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IBM buys Red Hat, the open source backlash begins

  Unless you were hiding under a rock holding a sign reading ‘don’t tell me about any big corporate technology news’ all week, you’ll know that IBM agreed to buy Red Hat for a total enterprise value ...  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Australia’s data breaches are a ‘sign of naiveté’

  McAfee executive attributes Australia’s poor cloud security record to the lack of data protection measures amid “new and confusing” cloud configurations  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Hyper-converged backup appliances bring flexibility benefits

  Backup appliances in scale-out format allow data protection to be scaled easily by simply adding extra nodes. But is it an idea that’s ready for the enterprise?  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Budget 2018: A mixed bag

  Computer Weekly looks at some of the detail in the tech-laden 2018 Budget and can’t get away from the big elephant in the room: the impact of a potential No Deal Brexit  Continue Reading

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Are SAP’s indirect use charges legal?

  The German legal system is examining whether SAP can legitimately charge for indirect access to its software from a third-party application  Continue Reading