October 2021

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  Mastercard acquisition of Aiia is a further sign of open banking’s big future

  Mastercard’s acquisition of Denmark-based open banking fintech Aiia follows rival’s takeover of Sweden’s Tink  Continue Reading

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  Blackpool transport meets tourism boom with digital network

  Transport services authority of Blackpool looks to benefit from digital radio system being designed and installed by TES Communication Solutions  Continue Reading

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  Security Think Tank: Embracing vulnerability management for the greater good

  When it comes to vulnerability management, CISOs should define a responsible disclosure policy so that they can receive and manage identified vulnerabilities transparently, practically and collaboratively, says Paul Watts of the ISF  Continue Reading

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  A post-pandemic recipe for developing customer experience

  Covid-19 has led to many people reassessing their priorities so customer experience needs to adapt to meet new expectations  Continue Reading

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts

  The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team  Continue Reading

• October 03, 2021 03 Oct'21

  Huawei drives wider operating system (OS) plans 

  Chinese telecommunications, data and cloud company Huawei also makes software. Logically, its smartphones, tablets and other devices carry a degree of home-baked goods, with its Emotion User ...  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Met Police purchase new retrospective facial-recognition system

  Retrospective facial-recognition software purchased for £3m by the Met Police will be deployed in coming months amid continuing controversy around the use of biometric technologies by law enforcement bodies  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  BEIS urged to prioritise funding to protect umbrella workers in government Spending Review

  In an open letter to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, umbrella regulation draft policymakers Rebecca Seeley Harris and James Poyser urge the government to prioritise funding for a single enforcement body  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Ericsson Cloud Connect simplifies connecting cellular IoT devices to AWS

  New service makes it easier for enterprises to securely connect cellular devices to public cloud internet-of-things endpoints  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Norway and IoT: A match made in heaven

  Norway is becoming a centre of internet of things innovation as tech developers look for answers to some of the country's unique challenges  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  First suppliers achieve key Wi-Fi benchmark recognition to boost service quality

  First Broadband Forum BBF.398 Grade Wi-Fi products set for service providers in bid to save costs while improving customer experience  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  KDDI taps Samsung to enable mid-band 5G net spectrum

  Latest part of technology partnership between Japanese operator and Korean comms tech firm sees advances in RAN technology to support accelerated 5G network roll-out in key spectrum range  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Amnesty International exploited in malware campaign

  According to new intelligence from Cisco Talos, Amnesty International’s branding and profile is being used as part of a new malware campaign that exploits people’s fears of the notorious Pegasus spyware app  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Local Digital Capital Index: A framework for levelling up

  How can the tech sector ensure digital equality across the UK in support of the government's levelling-up agenda? TechUK is trying to set the benchmarks  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Linode Rise ‘lifts’ startups onto open cloud ladder

  It’s like a London bus or a TechEd, you wait for ages and then - suddenly - several come along at once. Microsoft and SAP haven’t been the only firms to use the TechEd label to name their developer ...  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  JVCKenwood hit by Conti ransomware attack

  Nearly 2TB of data was stolen from Japanese electronics firm in a Conti ransomware hit  Continue Reading

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  IR35: Giant Group cyber attack prompts renewed calls for statutory regulation of umbrella companies

  As details about the fallout from the cyber attack on the Giant Group umbrella company emerge, stakeholders say the incident should prompt the government to expedite regulating contractor payroll processing firms  Continue Reading