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• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Lancashire police integrate body-worn video into digital policing app

  Body-worn video integration will transform Lancashire police’s time-consuming and manual procedures into an efficient digital workflow, but claims that BMV will increase transparency and accountability are not backed by the evidence

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Networking infrastructure issues peg back firms adapting to Covid-19 new normal

  Survey shows inadequate infrastructure is preventing businesses from meeting challenges around remote working and omni-channel customer demand and holding them back from embracing more innovative technologies

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Number of students taking computer science degrees up 7.6% in 2020

  The number of students choosing to study computer science at degree level rose year-on-year in 2020, according to BCS

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  UK offering relatively poor value for broadband services

  Low absolute pricing is among the region’s best, but lower average speeds compared with much of Europe makes the UK one of the continent’s laggards when it comes to broadband value for money

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Digital patient engagement tops NHS IT chiefs' priorities for 2021

  Most leaders do not feel like they have sufficient funding to deliver new digital capabilities, despite engagement topping priorities for the NHS in 2021, finds study

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• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Singapore employees want more support for remote working

  Singapore workers faced challenges in accessing internal company resources, spotty connections and had to use their personal devices for business while working remotely

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  DWP completes migration to hybrid cloud

  The milestone is part of a major insourcing exercise that saw the department move away from monolithic contracts

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  UK government unveils details of upcoming online harms rules

  Online Harms Bill due early 2021 will introduce GDPR-style fines for technology companies that breach online duty of care rules

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  SolarWinds cyber attack: How worried should I be, and what do I do now?

  Security teams across the world are on high alert as more details emerge of the widespread SolarWinds ‘Sunburst’ attack. What do defenders need to do next?

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Cyber crime victims in the Netherlands not reporting offences

  Dutch victims of online crime rarely report it to the police and when they do, they are often dissatisfied

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Covid-19 sparks boom in Middle East digital payments sector

  Stubborn cash use could fall in the Middle East after an acceleration in the take-up of digital payments amid the coronavirus pandemic

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Interview: Sudaman Thoppan Mohanchandralal, chief data and analytics officer, Allianz Benelux

  The financial services firm is demonstrating the value of the chief data officer role

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Finland examines wider use of AI video camera technology

  Authorities in Helsinki will use artificial intelligence and video technologies to help them automate monitoring of crowds

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Air purifier manufacturer creates IoT service in the cloud

  Sweden’s Blueair introduces new functionality for customers through a cloud-based internet of things platform

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  How Slack helped to support Re:Act’s Covid-19 relief effort

  Collaboration platform helped get volunteers on board as the relief agency began a coordinated effort to support the NHS and communities

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Ericsson sets sail with enhanced maritime connectivity

  Swedish tech provider aims to rectify lack of options for at-sea communications where traditional satellite comms have seen high prices, high latency and low throughput

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Optus teams up with VMware on SD-WAN

  Australia’s second biggest telco, Optus, will offer VMware’s SD-WAN solution to enterprises in a highly fragmented market

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  CIO interview: Why IATA is banking on cloud to help the airline industry weather the Covid-19 crisis

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the International Air Transport Association to re-evaluate its IT investment priorities as the aviation industry shifts its focus away from business growth to business survival

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Standards alliance adds to membership as NEC opens new Open RAN lab

  Japanese tech giant establishes Open RAN laboratory in India to complement centre of excellence in the UK, where Southampton University spin-off joins O-RAN Alliance

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Google services outage: Gmail, YouTube and Docs temporarily down

  Google’s services suffered unexpected downtime on 14 December 2020. Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, the Android Play Store and its maps service all affected

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Giffgaff goes AWS to drive operational transformation

  UK mobile virtual network operator selects Amazon cloud as part of plan to accelerate innovation and enhance new services

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Post-pandemic: Looking at the long-term legacy of Covid-19 on enterprise cloud adoption rates

  The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 is known to have had a big impact on the pace and scale of enterprise cloud adoption this year, but will the effect be temporary or permanent?

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  FireEye identifies flaw in networking monitoring software as US agencies attacked

  Cyber security company says investigations have revealed security breach occurred because of a flaw in a network monitoring software

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Zoom, Google Meet, TikTok dominate mobile app downloads in 2020

  Study from leading analytics firm reveals how 2020’s mobile app arena has been transformed through Covid-19, and how the app providers are setting up for 2021

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Digital Ethics Summit 2020: governance key to inclusive post-Covid economic recovery

  Pluralism key to developing and deploying technologies for an inclusive post-Covid economic recovery, according to a panel at Digital Ethics Summit 2020

• December 14, 2020 14 Dec'20

  Appointment of disgraced former Post Office executive at Welsh FA questioned by MP

  The appointment of a former Post Office executive, who tried to mislead a judge, in the Football Association of Wales has been questioned by an MP

• December 13, 2020 13 Dec'20

  Singapore trials beacons to bolster police operations

  Police beacons equipped with video cameras, sirens, floodlights and speakers are being deployed at two parks to improve public safety in a year-long trial

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  The week in ransomware: Foxconn and Randstad are high-profile victims

  Foxconn and Randstad are laid low by cyber criminals, while Sophos spills on Egregor, and prognosticators turn to their crystal balls to divine how ransomware will develop in the next 12 months

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  HMRC data shows online IR35 status check tool does not return a result in nearly 20% of cases

  Figures released by HMRC to show how many times its online IR35 tax status checker tool has been used reveal shortcomings in its ability to reach a conclusion in nearly 20% of cases

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Disputed PostgreSQL bug exploited in cryptomining botnet

  PGMiner cryptomining botnet remained unnoticed by exploiting a disputed CVE in PostgreSQL

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Three UK gears up for 2021 business expansion

  UK mobile network operator sets out plans to enhance business proposition over next 12 months, improving connectivity, how it operates and how it interacts with customers

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Surge in Covid-19 vaccine phishing scams reported

  Check Point and KnowBe4 share details of a growing number of phishing campaigns using the prospect of a Covid-19 vaccine as a lure

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  History made as subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted in Horizon IT scandal have convictions quashed

  Six subpostmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for accounting shortfalls caused by computer errors have their convictions quashed after years of campaigning

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Aryaka offers hybrid workplaces “risk-free on-ramp” to SASE

  New managed secure private access solution claimed to be able to make remote employees “first-class citizens” for corporate applications

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Cisco accelerates collaboration with ‘wave’ of Webex enhancements and plans

  Reacting to the new normal ahead of all organisations and as part of a major overhaul of its conferencing and collaboration options, network technology and solutions giant unveils Webex portfolio overhaul and intent to buy audience interaction ...

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Agility key to pandemic recovery, say APAC CFOs

  Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region call for financial transformation to bring about the agility that their organisations need to tide over the pandemic

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  French regulators fine Google and Amazon over cookie policies

  Google and Amazon rapped over their use of advertising cookies by the French data protection authorities

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Challenger banks hindered by lack of customer confidence

  Despite an acceleration in the use of digital banking services, challenger banks face the obstacle of winning customer trust

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Amazon goes public with record-breaking renewable energy generation plans

  Online retail giant Amazon has followed up earlier pledges to do more as a global organisation to tackle climate change by going public with plans to add a further 26 solar and wind farms to its portfolio

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Cyber Helpline awarded lottery funding to support victims

  The Cyber Helpline, a UK charity that provides emergency support to victims of cyber crime and online stalking, is to receive funding from the National Lottery

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  After critical year, Vodafone trains security sights on CNI market

  Vodafone’s security head Steve Knibbs explains how he plans to bring the lessons of a transformative few years in cyber security to bear on new markets

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Arm to downsize global datacentre footprint through AWS cloud collaboration

  British semi-conductor maker Arm has committed to shrinking the size of its global datacentre estate by 45%, and plans to do so by moving some of its core chip design workloads to the AWS cloud

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Cato boosts network management with SASE cloud API

  GraphQL-based API designed to extract security and networking information globally with a single request allows enterprises to automate provisioning and management of SASE deployments from third-party platforms

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Data on Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine stolen in cyber attack

  The European Medicines Agency has launched a full investigation into an apparent security incident that has seen documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine stolen

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Alan Turing Institute appoints global advisory board to aid digital identity schemes project

  The Alan Turing Institute announces an international advisory board for a project investigating digital identity schemes, with a view to building the technology and organisational infrastructure to sustain them as trustworthy

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Deloitte: Cloud, intelligent edge and telemedicine set to accelerate in 2021

  Global market for intelligent edge computing will expand to $12bn in 2021, with more than 400 million video visits to doctors worldwide across the year

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  DCMS’s Whittingdale: National Data Strategy enters post-consultation phase

  Minister for media and data tells TechUK’s Digital Ethics summit that the long-awaited national data strategy has entered a new, post-consultation phase, and that the UK is set to show international leadership on digital and data in 2021

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust embarks on Cisco and Cohesity-based datacentre revamp

  NHS Foundation Trust opens up about the work its done to streamline and centralise its server estate with the help of Cisco's hyperconverged technologies

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  AWS eyes mainframe workloads

  Amazon Web Services is doubling down on efforts to help its partners address the growing demand for capabilities to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Calls for Facebook break up as US issues lawsuits for anti-competitive behaviour

  Antitrust lawsuits issued by the US Federal Trade Commission and 48 attorneys general call for the breakup of Facebook following 10 years of anti-competitive behaviour

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Global media brand ViacomCBS makes AWS preferred cloud partner

  Amazon Web Services is continuing to build its customer base in the media and entertainment sector, with ViacomCBS declaring the firm to be its preferred cloud provider partner

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Amnesia:33 IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts

  The disclosure of multiple flaws by Forescout has raised big questions for the developers of connected products, and for their users

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Thomson Reuters completes large-scale migration of mission-critical workloads to the AWS cloud

  Thomson Reuters confirms completion of large-scale AWS migration, and outlines the work it is doing to ramp up its use of machine learning within its organisation

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Gousto uses PagerDuty to cope with lockdown business boom

  The recipe box startup has seen a huge growth in demand for its products as people shop for online dinners, which put a strain on its helpdesk

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Patch Tuesday: Microsoft presents just 58 CVEs for Christmas

  The final Patch Tuesday of 2020 contains 58 fixes, a minnow compared to some recent drops, but many are still of high importance

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  HPE offers on-demand high-performance computing managed service via GreenLake

  HPE claims its preconfigured HPC service can speed up the deployment of high-performance computing projects and reduce capital expenditure

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  FireEye’s ethical hacking tools stolen in state-backed attack

  Hacking tools used to conduct red team penetration testing were stolen in the state-backed attack on security firm FireEye

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  There’s no going back to pre-pandemic security approaches

  The cyber security world will probably never return to its pre-pandemic state, and different approaches to security will come to the fore in 2021

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

  The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Home Office digital border programme has failed to deliver, says NAO

  The Home Office’s digital border programme has so far not achieved value for money, has suffered delays, lacks clear objectives and will cost taxpayers an additional £173m, according to the National Audit Office

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  CMA sets out plan to regulate technology giants

  With its new Digital Markets Unit, the CMA is hoping to curb the excesses of the internet, improve competition and give more choice to consumers

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  SMEs need to acknowledge remote working lessons to prosper post-Covid

  Research from integrated cloud communications platform provider finds that over two-fifths of SME employees believe that, with effective communication tools, productivity would be the most improved business challenge in the “new normal”

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Societe Generale latest banking giant to cut costs and increase digital investment

  French bank Societe Generale is merging two retail brands and increasing investment in its digital offering to meet its ambitious customer acquisition plans

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Remote working issues block path to success for medium-sized businesses

  Nearly a third of European workers at mid-sized organisations feel disengaged and unmotivated due to issues with technology while working remotely

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Multiple D-Link routers found vulnerable to attack

  Digital Defense discloses a remotely exploitable root command injection flaw in a number of D-Link wireless router devices

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Russian state actors exploiting VMware bug to hijack data, users warned

  Russian APT groups are actively exploiting a vulnerability in VMware products to access protected data, according to latest warnings

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Tesco uses Netcall to speed up insurance claims process

  An in-house team has used a low-code platform from Netcall to develop an application for Tesco Underwriting

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  BMW Group embarks on data-driven supply chain revamp with AWS

  BMW Group is forging even closer ties with AWS by enlisting its help to refine its supply chain and manufacturing processes, as well as train up its staff in cloud technologies

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  The National Institute for Health Research on connecting through cloud to fight Covid-19

  As the research arm for the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research has played a key role in coordinating efforts to find treatments, diagnostics and vaccines for Covid-19 during the pandemic, with the help of Google Cloud

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  CIO interview: David Plumb, chief innovation officer, University of Warwick

  The innovation leader is developing ecosystems of partners from industry, public sector and academia to not only help Warwick students, but also to support them as entrepreneurs and benefit the regional economy

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  AWS to open Melbourne cloud region in 2022

  Amazon Web Services’ second Australian cloud region is part of its growing infrastructure investments in the maturing cloud market

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Met Police failed to clear backlog of subject access requests

  Metropolitan Police failed to comply fully with an enforcement notice issued by the Information Commissioner, and despite hundreds of overdue subject access requests the regulator did not take further action

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Cisco aims for enhanced engagement with IMImobile acquisition

  Network technology and solutions giant makes strategic acquisition of cloud communications software and services provider to embed omnichannel engagement into customer experience-as-a-service

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Stockport Council launches digital training initiative

  Local authority Stockport Council has launched a programme aimed at training young people in digital skills to give them a better chance at entering digital roles

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Nokia to be technology lead for EU 6G project

  Finnish comms tech provider is the project leader for European Commission’s flagship initiative for research into the next generation of wireless networks

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Media giant MGM signs multi-year deal with AWS to revamp its supply chain processes

  AWS lands multi-year cloud deal with US media giant MGM that will see it assist the firm with revamping its supply chain and content distribution processes

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Ericsson, TIM, Qualcomm, claim 5G FWA speed milestone

  Although fixed wireless access has not yet gained as much publicity as other use cases for the next-generation infrastructure, its potential in connecting those in remote areas to 5G is vast and a consortium of technology vendors and leading Italian...

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  GSMA launches digital access guidelines to help disabled people

  Industry organisation GSMA has launched a framework of guidelines aimed at making mobile technology more accessible for people with disabilities

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  CCS to launch £750m pan-government cloud computing services framework

  The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) aims for the framework agreement to make it easier for public sector to buy scalable cloud hosting

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  UK Space Agency awards £7m for space innovation projects

  A range of ‘high risk, high reward’ projects have been awarded a total of £7m from the Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, aiming to make the UK a world leader in space technology

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide feature list 2021

  Here is our 2021 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  HMRC referred 11 data security incidents to ICO in 2019-20

  HM Revenue & Customs shares details of a number of data security incidents that occurred during the 2019-20 financial year in its annual report

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Grindr and others patch critical Android bug

  Fixes for CVE-2020-8913 deployed as app developers shore up their defences against a disclosed Google Play vulnerability

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Post Office IT scandal CEO Paula Vennells jumps NHS ship as pressure mounts

  CEO at the centre of the scandal that saw innocent people bankrupted and some sent to prison steps down from NHS role as pressure for her resignation grows

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  Singapore government to boost blockchain adoption

  Singapore government unveils S$12m programme to promote development and adoption of blockchain applications beyond financial services

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  A trillion dollars lost to cyber crime every year

  Data collated by McAfee and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies highlights the growing impact of cyber crime

• December 06, 2020 06 Dec'20

  China lags US in computer vision

  China trails the US in the field of computer vision despite making inroads in computing and research, new report finds

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Government data quality framework geared to overcome poorly organised data

  The Office for National Statistics has published guidelines aimed at improving “disorganised” public sector data

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Atos develops Q-Score benchmark for quantum computing

  HPC will outpace quantum computer performance for a few years, but Atos believes businesses need a quantum computing strategy

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  FTTH Council Europe slams misleading advertising for fibre networks

  Fibre broadband trade body study shows consumers are confused about marketing and performance of broadband-access technologies, recommending a ‘fibre-ready’ label should be introduced for new buildings and major renovations

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Kent and Medway to launch shared health and social care record

  The Kent and Medway Care Record (KMCR) aims to create a single view of each patient’s record, and will hold automated data feeds from acute hospitals, community providers, mental health services, GPs and social care

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Opportunistic Egregor ransomware is an emerging and active threat

  Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group highlight links between the emerging Egregor ransomware and other strains, and offer guidance on defending against it

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  What next for the now-profitable app-based Starling Bank?

  Starling bank is the first of the new breed of UK digital banks to make a profit, so where next?

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Avast and Borsetta to support Intel’s AI security project

  Security firm Avast and AI security specialist Borsetta have signed up to support an Intel-led artificial intelligence security research project

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Cyber Aware campaign to help safeguard Christmas shoppers

  New government campaign sets out to raise awareness of online shopping fraud in the run-up to Christmas

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Nova casts light on streaming network issues as energy demands soar

  So-called industry-first solution brings new revenue opportunities, reduces churn and differentiates offer for video providers as they struggle to cope with energy surge in providing services

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Dreamforce 2020: Hyperforce shifts Salesforce to public cloud

  Salesforce COO Bret Taylor announced “Hyperforce” during Marc Benioff’s opening keynote at the virtual version of the supplier’s 2020 Dreamforce event in San Francisco

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  S/4 Hana projects come off back burner, but skills shortage impedes progress

  UK and Ireland SAP User Group members set to ramp up S/4 ERP migration projects, but skills shortage and retirement of SAP managers in user organisations are a concern

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Openreach claims UK first as it moves from copper to full-fibre in Salisbury

  Salisbury takes a step closer to becoming the UK’s first ‘fully digital’ city with full-fibre deployment

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Allied Irish Bank prioritises digital services as it cuts workforce

  Bank is cutting its operating costs by 10% with job cuts and facility closures, but will continue to invest heavily in technology