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The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

This is a guest blog post by Tom Dailey, chief international legal, policy and regulatory officer at Verizon The regulatory and policy landscape is a really important topic for all businesses given ...

In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a "moral vacuum" by ...

All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, ...

This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ...

Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...

The government recently announced plans that – despite facing delays and setbacks – a new Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be phased in from the beginning of 2019. It will replace the legacy ...

This is a guest blog post by Brendan O’Rourke, head of design at BriteBill, an Amdocs company. It’s no secret that today’s customers are more demanding than previous generations. They share their ...

After yet another set of lacklustre earnings and with over 10,000 staff facing the axe, embattled BT CEO Gavin Patterson needed a quick win. Today's launch of new consumer offerings from both BT ...

I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...

In this guest blog, Anthony Sutton from Cobham Wireless discusses how venue owners can maximise visitor satisfaction by improving mobile network availability. It’s match day! You’ve managed to get ...

The recent announcement that UK regulator Ofcom plans to make additional spectrum available for Wi-Fi is great news for consumers, writes DeviceScape's Dave Fraser. Because Wi-Fi operates in ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT.

The science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers volunteer organisation has launched an application helping girls through their Stem journey. The Stemettes application, entitled ...

As part of the NRF Big Show 2016 in New York, e-commerce platform provider Demandware took me on a tour of some of the retailers in the Big Apple using its technology. The level of technology usage ...

Founder of development community platform Gitter explains why developer forums could help out other industries in the future. Open source software communities such as GitHub are designed to allow ...

In early November 2015, insurance giant Aviva held its internal hackathon designed to allow the firm's employees to test out ideas for solutions that could potentially benefit Aviva's customers. ...

A common sited problem in teaching kids about technology is the difficulty in helping them make the connection between the tech they use and the code they're learning - something story character ...

Manufacturers of touch-screen technology explain why the luxury market is buying into interactive in-store equipment. Elo Touch solutions is a touch-screen manufacturer that often finds itself ...

How the digital team at Sainsbury's uses creative thinking and agile methodologies to build software that solves consumer problems. In September 2015 the Sainsbury's digital lab ran a hackathon, ...

Retailers are struggling with the online and physical divide, but retailer The Dandy Lab has implemented a store to combine retail and technology in the physical space. Spitalfields used to be a ...

There are healthcare monitors designed to track everything about your body and habits - but what about those who aren't digitally savvy? Look at all of the health trackers on the market at the ...

At this year's Expo Milano, a six month universal exhibition of world-changing concepts, Accenture and Coop partnered to show exhibit-goers the future of supermarket technology. Every few years a ...

This is a guest post by Sean McGrath senior reporter at Microscope. Striking a balance between mobility and security is something of a Holy Grail in the enterprise world. How do you enable ...

Retailer Argos has partnered with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to offer an "instant redemption" service for old unwanted gadgets. The trade-in service will be available in its ...

Back in October 2014 I was running through the pouring rain towards Imperial College London to meet one of the entrepreneurs of a startup called Surreal Vision. Moments later I was sitting in the ...

Many retailers are still unaware that polymer bank notes are on their way to the UK, so how will they identify a real one during the purchasing process?

These days it seems like every new phone that hits the market has to have a gimmick. For example the new curved Samsung Galaxy S6 or the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with its fancy 'AnyPen' technology. ...

With all the hype surrounding the Apple Watch, it is easy to forget that health and fitness watches are not a new thing. Runners, cyclists and triathletes have been using smart wearables for years, ...