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• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  5G roaming spend to surpass 4G roaming by 2028

  Study warns operators to implement 5G standalone network cores to maximise roaming revenue as competing technologies become more popular with mobile subscribers

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Storage players ride the Nvidia bus at GTC 2025

  As artificial intelligence’s big beast holds its annual shindig, storage firms line up to launch everything from new array products to validations, certifications and vague ideas around data ecosystems

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  CityFibre acquires Connexin’s full-fibre infrastructure

  Strategic agreement enables the expansion of nationwide footprint of UK’s leading alternative and independent broadband provider by up to 185,000 premises

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchanges in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro

  DE-CIX opens two internet exchanges, partnering with datacentre operators Equinix, Elea and Ascenty to boost enterprise connectivity, and connect to 60 locations and over datacentres in 600 cities

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  VMO2 scores with 5G O-RAN to improve sports mobile experience

  Details published of major demonstration of UK government-backed and operator-led project to test the potential of open networks to manage high-density mobile traffic and boost user experience at mass events

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Why I am challenging Yvette Cooper’s ‘secret back door’ order against Apple’s encryption

  I took steps to lock down all personal data after I was named as an opponent of Russia. Now I am again worried about my family's safety after the home secretary issued a secret order against Apple

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  The Netherlands bets on brain-inspired computing for a greener future

  The Netherlands is building a neuromorphic computing ecosystem, harnessing brain-inspired tech for unprecedented energy efficiency

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  ‘Bankenstein’ and a cold calculation means banking crashes will continue

  Following a three-day crash at Barclays, UK banks were forced to explain to MPs when, how and why digital services became unavailable over past two years

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Neos expands BMC TV partnership to support UK live events broadcasting

  Media network services provider teams with leading business connectivity provider aiming to deliver high-capacity, low-latency connectivity, addressing increasing live broadcast demands

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  Oracle plants agentic AI flag in business process automation

  Oracle promotes its Agentic AI Studio, unveiled at OracleCloud World Tour London, as an avowed business process automation accelerant

• March 24, 2025 24 Mar'25

  APIs key to unlocking AI agent potential, says MuleSoft

  Most Asia-Pacific IT leaders have either implemented or intend to deploy agentic AI in the next two years, but success will hinge on the implementation of APIs that AI agents rely on

• March 23, 2025 23 Mar'25

  How Jetstar is tapping data analytics

  Low-cost carrier Jetstar is using the Snowflake data platform to optimise the number of meals to carry onboard and to generate flight schedules, among other data analytics initiatives to improve its operations

• March 21, 2025 21 Mar'25

  NCSC, DSIT enlist IBM to spearhead cyber diversity agenda

  IBM signs on to a partnership deal in support of the popular NCSC CyberFirst Girls scheme designed to foster gender diversity in the cyber security profession

• March 21, 2025 21 Mar'25

  UK government to make £45m connectivity investment in schools

  UK government says ‘no child left behind’ as it releases plans to narrow the digital divide in education through setting core digital standards for all schools focused on high-speed, reliable and secure connectivity

• March 21, 2025 21 Mar'25

  Dutch workforce faces radical transformation as AI adoption accelerates

  While the Netherlands leads Europe in AI adoption, a deeper analysis of the labour market reveals a more nuanced narrative than the apocalyptic predictions of job losses

• March 21, 2025 21 Mar'25

  Jaguar Land Rover goes live with large-scale retrofit private 5G manufacturing network

  Leading UK auto manufacturer goes live with installation of private 5G network at its Solihull plant in project that is part of UK government-backed 5G Innovation Regions programme

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Nokia enhances Wi-Fi 7-enabled FWA gateway portfolio

  Nokia’s 5G fixed wireless access gateway with Wi-Fi 7 is designed to deliver 5G speeds of up to 4Gbps for faster, more reliable connectivity

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Oxa taps Nvidia to accelerate industrial mobility automation

  Self-driving vehicle software provider announces deepened collaboration with AI processor leader to accelerate plans in IMA sector, through the support of physical AI, generating photoreal virtual world states to enhance its own training tools

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  NCSC proposes three-step plan to move to quantum-safe encryption

  The NCSC urges service providers, large organisations and critical sectors to start thinking today about how they will migrate to post-quantum cryptography over the next decade

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Hyperscale datacentre capacities continue to rise off back of AI boom

  Market data from Synergy Research Group confirms that artificial intelligence is fuelling growth of datacentres in both number and capacity terms

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Government considering redress scheme for families of Post Office scandal victims

  Campaign group brings together the children of subpostmasters to meet Post Office minister to discuss redress for their suffering

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  The datacentre energy deficit: How worried should operators be about power outages?

  The UK government’s plans to lower the barriers to new datacentre developments has left industry watchers querying how all these server farms will be powered. But are they worrying about nothing?

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Ofcom outlines plans to take UK full-fibre roll-out into ‘final phase’

  UK communications regulator sets out plans that will help full-fibre gigabit broadband reach almost all UK homes and businesses over the next two years

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  NAS storage: TrueNAS aims to make it big in Europe

  Aimed at the SME market, but with NAS systems that go to tens of petabytes, iXsystems brings dual controllers, NVMe and hybrid flash, AI-capable storage, and container support

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  IDC: global edge computing spending to approach $380bn by 2028

  Leading analyst predicts robust spending on edge computing services to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 13.8% over next three years, with AI workloads fuelling massive hardware investments, particularly in AI-accelerated processors

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Snowflake founders reveal ‘cuckoo cloud’ vision that disrupted big data

  Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes reveal the journey that led to their data platform, their bet against Hadoop and why they still code on weekends to stay connected to their creation

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal

  The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  EE makes 5G standalone upgrade for more than 28 million people

  UK’s leading mobile provider claims major milestone in its mission to deliver standalone mobile connectivity across the UK for smoother video calls, better video streaming and improved browsing experiences

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Interview: Cynthia Stoddard, CIO, Adobe

  After nearly 10 years in post, Adobe’s CIO is still driving digital transformation and looking to deliver lasting change through technology

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Clop resurgence drives ransomware attacks in February

  The exploitation of two new vulnerabilities in a popular file transfer service saw the Clop ransomware gang soar in February, according to NCC

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Nokia unveils 25G PON fibre modems

  In first of a series of launches of optical technologies, Nokia aims to make large-scale multi-gig and 10G+ modems viable and affordable

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Zoom debuts new agentic AI skills and agents for Zoom AI Companion

  AI-first work platform provider expands agentic skills across the entire portfolio using reasoning and memory to take action and orchestrate task execution, conversational self-service and custom agent creation

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  HPE teams up with Nvidia for enterprise AI solutions

  Leading networking tech firm latest to get on board agentic AI road in partnership with GPU leader focusing on customer transformation with new enterprise AI solutions and enhancements encompassing data management and storage.

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  DeepMind founder warns of compounding AI agent errors

  Artificial general intelligence may be years away, but in the meantime, organisations are being urged to adopt agent technology

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  How Telefónica avoided VMware price hike

  While some some organisations look for alternatives to VMware, Telefónica Germany has taken a different approach based on third-party support

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Former subpostmaster to sue Post Office and Fujitsu for judgment ‘obtained by fraud’

  Lee Castleton, one of a group of seven former subpostmasters who began the fight against the Post Office in 2009, triggers ‘seismic’ shift in Post Office scandal

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Digital Realty enters Indonesia through joint venture

  New joint venture, Digital Realty Bersama, will develop and operate datacentres across Indonesia to meet the increasing demand for digital infrastructure in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Local digital government needs overhaul, says Future Governance Forum report

  Future Governance Forum calls for a new blueprint to modernise and digitise local government

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Largest ever cyber deal reflects Google’s CNAPP ambitions

  In a signal of its future ambitions, Google lays down $32bn to acquire cloud-native application protection platform Wiz, reflecting the increasing need to secure multicloud environments

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Formula 1 accelerates decision response with team content delivery

  AI services and digital transformation specialist claims to have halved crucial response times in Formula 1, redefining how teams analyse race data in real time

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  EXA Infrastructure, Ultranet build fibre route across key Italian cities

  Dedicated digital infrastructure provider and independent carrier-to-carrier operator and fibre infrastructure owner team to enhance diversity on a key corridor for subsea cable data traffic

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  IR35: Research highlights rise in outside IR35 engagements among contractors

  Qdos research shows 'tide is turning' on company attitudes towards hiring outside IR35 contractors

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Novel encryption technology tests add value to Finland’s quantum computer project

  Tests carried out at Telia will support the building of a secure quantum network

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Everywoman announces 2025 Women in Technology Awards winners

  Network for women in business, Everywoman, has announced the winners of this year’s technology awards, in partnership with Bupa

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Cisco unveils Webex agentic AI systems to automate CX, EX

  Mission to transform contact centres into customer experience centres sees systems for core collaboration platform designed to predict and automate customer and employee experiences

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Interconnect infrastructure set for sixfold increase in bandwidth demand

  Global survey explores networking needs for artificial intelligence era as more than half of IT professional believe AI workloads will place the biggest demand on datacentre interconnect infrastructure over the next three years

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  AI pushes data storage need but UK firms struggle to manage it

  The rise of AI means potentially almost any corporate data could be useful, but has led to ballooning data volumes and organisations spending more on storage and energy

• March 18, 2025 18 Mar'25

  Seaco charts course for unified security strategy

  Shipping container leasing giant consolidates security tools onto a single platform, leveraging AI and extended detection and response to improve security operations

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  PSNI’s ‘ridiculous’ withholding of evidence in spying operation delayed court hearings 

  Landmark ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal will decide whether the surveillance court can award costs against government bodies accused of unreasonable behaviour 

• March 17, 2025 17 Mar'25

  Online Safety Act measures come into effect

  Regulator Ofcom is now able to take enforcement action against platforms under the Online Safety Act if they fail to proactively safeguard against content such as terrorist or child sexual abuse material