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• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Harrison Drury elevates its employee, customer experience with Avaya OneCloud UCaaS

  Solicitor’s transition to cloud-based unified communications-as-a-service platform modernises communications and sets up platform to support business’s strategy of providing a hybrid workplace

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Tories to replace GDPR

  IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Next phase of open banking already gathering pace

  Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  HMCTS continues roll-out of Common Platform despite calls to halt deployment

  Controversial roll-out of digital case management system continues amid planned strike action by Public and Commercial Services Union because of issues with the system

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  France extradites Spanish EncroChat cryptophone distributors for complicity with organised crime

  Three phone sellers have been extradited from Spain to France to face charges that they were complicit in the activities of criminal EncroChat phone users  

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• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Vodafone confirms Three UK merger talks

  UK’s mid-sized operators begin negotiations on consolidation to gain the scale to accelerate roll-out of 5G in the UK, expand broadband connectivity to rural communities and small businesses, and offer stronger competition

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital right to work checks officially go live

  Under the new government guidance, employers can choose between 16 certified identity service providers to digitally check their employees legal right to work in the UK

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push

  The Natural History Museum is teaming up with public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its biodiversity research capabilities

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  BT Group sees network gains through AI Accelerator

  Telco announces new platform to orchestrate, accelerate and monitor artificial intelligence model deployments developed by its data community and to drive efficiencies

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Three-quarters of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse

  Study from networking systems, services and software company reveals business professionals’ interest in metaverse pointing to utilising more immersive and connected digital applications in the workplace

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Security regulation cuts online payment fraud at 73% of retailers

  New online payments security standard, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), sees immediate fall in fraudulent payments to retailers

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken

  In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  CIO interview: James Fleming, Francis Crick Institute

  Francis Crick Institute CIO discusses how Europe’s largest biomedical research institute has co-developed a framework for data sharing

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  A new take on an old relationship: Nordic startups lure UK investors to their front doors

  When startup worlds collide: investment and entrepreneurship partnerships form across the Nordics and UK

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses

  Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Interview: Rachel Hilliam, chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals

  Rachel Hilliam talks about the origins, mission and future plans for the Alliance for Data Science Professionals

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Hyperoptic, Community Fibre take gigabit highway to Islington

  Inner London local authority signs deal so that more than 90% of homes and businesses will be connected to gigabit by August 2025, including 50 community hubs

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  City of Las Vegas bets on NTT for largest private 5G network in US

  Sin City sees no gamble in placing its chips on private 5G networks in new infrastructure designed to create opportunities for businesses, government and educational institutions

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices

  The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  UK government rolls out Project Gigabit to rural Teesdale

  £6.6m contract granted in north-east England as part of national programme to upgrade broadband for hard-to-reach premises, with GoFibre engaged as principal contractor for build out

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  CDO interview: Danny Gonzalez, chief digital and innovation officer, London North Eastern Railway

  The rail franchise is driving a wide-ranging digital transformation, encompassing back-office improvements and enhancing passenger experience

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption

  The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Five startups to join NCSC for Startups initiative

  The NCSC has invited five startups to join its NCSC for Startups programme to help the government with pressing cyber challenges facing the UK

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Failure of Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine is most important lesson for NCSC

  Russia has so far failed in its attempts to destabilise Ukraine through cyber attacks due to strength of Ukrainian, security industry and international efforts

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Business software aims for the NetSuite spot

  In a time of turmoil, Oracle’s business software division unveils innovation and updates to give customers insight and control to increase productivity, enhance profitability and drive growth

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Du, Nokia, MediaTek combine three 5G TDD carriers to claim ‘highest throughput ever’

  Comms tech provider and mobile chip company team with Middle East operator in first carrier aggregation of its kind, combining high-speed 5G bands to aggregate 300MHz of spectrum for throughput of up to 4.520 Gbps

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  BSH Home Appliances takes on Twilio to revamp digital customer engagement

  Customer engagement platform partners with Deloitte Consulting to support plan by home appliances firm to revamp its entire digital infrastructure within customer service organisation

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?

  New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Optus breach casts spotlight on cyber resilience

  The massive data breach that affected more than 10 million Optus customers has cast the spotlight on API security and other factors that contribute to the cyber resilience of organisations in Australia

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally

  Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Whistleblower Peter Duffy calls for oversight of NHS records to prevent evidence tampering

  A whistleblower has called for greater oversight in the handling of ‘safety-critical digital information’ across the NHS, in light of a number of cases that raise questions about data governance and record-keeping within the health service

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Data protection in Finland, four years after GDPR came into force

  Data privacy has always been a big concern in Finland, so the country naturally has a lot to say about the General Data Protection Regulation four years on

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Russia ready for complete switch to domestic IT infrastructure

  In a bid to counter sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government is implementing a policy of import substitution in the country’s domestic IT sector

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC

  The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Online Safety Bill needs complete overhaul, say rights groups

  Civil society groups write to new digital minister to challenge various aspects of the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which they say threatens rights to privacy and freedom of expression

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access

  Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  IoT success fuelling further expansion

  Survey reveals profound change around the benefits derived from internet of things over past 12 months, with senior decision-makers focused on operational efficiencies, reducing costs, and increasing revenue and profit

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Neos Networks to connect Viking Wind Farm to SSE Renewables HQ

  Business connectivity provider constructs communications links between wind farm being built on Scottish island and headquarters on mainland more than 300 miles away with machine-to-machine network to control and monitor performance of wind turbines...

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Zain Kuwait taps Accedian, Cisco for ‘unparalleled’ network performance monitoring and analytics

  Middle East mobile voice and data services operator deploys automated assurance network technology to boost customer experience of performance and availability

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Fraudsters adapt phishing scams to exploit cost-of-living crisis

  Around 80,000 Brits a month are falling victim to phishing attacks as fraudsters switch up tactics to take advantage of cost-of-living crisis and behavioural changes prompted by pandemic

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  DeepMind aims to close STEM skills gap with new programme

  AI-led business will develop resources and boost support for programmes aimed at teaching STEM subjects

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Robo investment platform adopts open banking-based payments

  Nordic consumer investment fintech simplifies customer experience through open banking software from Mastercard-owned Aiia

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Guy’s Cancer collaborates with healthtech provider to digitise patient care

  Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has begun working with digital healthcare platform provider Carology to build capacity, drive efficiencies and improve patient experience

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  American football giants jet into digital age with HCLTech

  US football clubs the New York Jets and New York Giants outsource their digital transformations to Indian service provider as they target improved fan engagement

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Specsavers clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

  At Big Data London, Specsavers’ global data officer related how clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Broadcasters treat data science as niche and sporadic in use

  Data science specialists at UK broadcasters conveyed a similar picture of niche use cases at Big Data London 2022

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Telefónica, Qualcomm collaborate to build XR, metaverse systems

  Partnership designed to grow metaverse and extended reality ecosystem using Snapdragon Spaces as well as upskilling Telefónica’s internal teams and external innovation programmes in XR hardware and applications

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Nokia, Speedcast deploy private wireless connectivity for Origem Energia in Brazil

  Private wireless solution will deliver critical network operations to 600 gas production wells at Brazilian sustainable energy firm