February 2022

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  UK Treasury publishes consultation on online sales tax

  Online sales tax debate focuses on assessing options to “rebalance” taxation of the retail sector  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  EU big tech laws put in context by Russian invasion of Ukraine

  Pressure is mounting on EU institutions to cut back regulations they are preparing to impose on US big tech firms while forming laws to create a single digital market  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Why little-known, but widely used, Robotics Process Automation is key to levelling up productivity

  This is a guest blogpost by Oded Karev, general manager of Robotics Process Automation, NICE The UK is suffering from a productivity crisis. Since the 2008 global financial crash, output per hour ...  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Ukraine cyber attacks seen spiking, but no destructive cyber war yet

  While cyber attacks linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine are taking place, they are having little impact beyond the region  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Online Safety Bill updated to deal with anonymous abuse

  Social media companies will be forced to deal with anonymous abuse online by the introduction of new measures in the Online Safety Bill  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Cradlepoint offers pathway for simplified LTE, 5G wireless WAN deployments

  Cloud LTE and 5G wireless network edge services provider unveils business-grade wireless WANs, with management capabilities that are claimed to exceed entry-level cellular offerings  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Sajid Javid outlines NHS tech targets

  Health and social care secretary Sajid Javid announces priorities around digital transformation in the health service  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  British Airways outage: Airline cancels weekend short-haul flights due to ‘technical issues’

  Passengers due to fly with British Airways on Saturday 26 February were faced with flight cancellations and baggage handling issues because of unspecified ‘technical issues’  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  AT&T teams with Microsoft to gain private 5G edge

  US operator collaborates with cloud giant to integrate 5G network with Azure private mobile edge computing and builds on existing edge work between the two companies  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Government set to backtrack on untenable position on subpostmaster compensation

  The government looks set to backtrack on its previous stance and outline a means of providing fair compensation to a group of Post Office Horizon scandal victims so far left out of compensation schemes  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  A plan for technical and security training

  An array of options is available to help IT leaders refresh security skills or update tech skills. We look at how to decide what is best  Continue Reading

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Cloudflare: Our network is our product

  Cloudflare’s chief product officer explains why its network is its product and how it protects organisations against cyber threats  Continue Reading

• February 27, 2022 27 Feb'22

  MWC 2022: Huawei hones hybrid offer with fibre to the room

  Aiming to address the new world of work, tech giant Huawei has launched a fibre-to-the-room gigabit all-optical room offering  Continue Reading

• February 26, 2022 26 Feb'22

  Time to act on "Authorised Payment" Fraud

  In 2014 a working group hosted by the DPA (Digital Policy Alliance) working with faster payment data from six banks established that 75% of fraudulent payments could have been stopped in real time ...  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Mass phishing attacks against Ukrainian citizens reported

  The Ukrainian cyber authorities are alerting people located in the country to be alert to phishing attacks  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Information in the metaverse is A Tale of Two Cities

  The metaverse will make it easier to access an increasing wealth of information, but it also will make it more difficult to distinguish real from fake, accurate from wrong – and that goes for information as well as the information sources themselves  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Irish data watchdog calls for ‘objective metrics’ for big tech regulation

  Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, says EU regulators must agree on metrics to measure the effectiveness of data protection regulation  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  H&M scheme looks to tackle issues affecting D&I in STEM

  Retailer H&M launches its first ever STEM programme in the UK in a move to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation – and to tap into future tech talent  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Mavenir expands Open RAN ecosystem

  Network software provider ups its ante in the field of open radio access networks, with a new suite of O-RAN-compliant radios for deployments ranging from macro, mmWave and mMIMO  Continue Reading

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Darktrace buys attack surface management firm Cybersprint

  Emergent AI cyber specialist Darktrace is to pay £39.7m for Netherlands-based Cybersprint  Continue Reading