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August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
Footballers to take legal action over use of performance and tracking data

Planned lawsuit will argue that the use of players’ statistics by third-party companies is incompatible with footballers’ data rights
August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
Spurring digitalisation in Singapore’s tourism sector

The Singapore Tourism Board has developed a digital pass and an analytics service, among other initiatives, to digitalise the city-state’s embattled tourism industry
August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20
Home Office drops ‘racist’ visa algorithm

The Home Secretary has pledged to stop using an algorithmic decision-making system to assess visa applications after migrant welfare and technology justice groups challenged the tool for helping to create a hostile environment for migrants
August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20
Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science

The Nokia Centre of Excellence for Networked Robotics will explore the use of drones, advanced communications and artificial intelligence in agriculture and industrial automation, among other applications

August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20
Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years
July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20
ICO launches guidance on AI and data protection

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance aimed at rendering the application of machine learning to data compliant with data protection principles
July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20
IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

Business applications supplier’s chief executive tells Computer Weekly that business has been surprisingly good during the coronavirus crisis
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Why supply chain visibility is key to APAC retailers

Having complete visibility over the supply chain will enable retailers to tide over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and transform their businesses
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers
July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20
CIO interview: Hany Choueiri, chief data officer, Aldermore Bank

Digital transformation, cloud and data science are central to the specialist bank's response to the coronavirus pandemic

July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20
China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world
July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20
DCMS loses government data policy to the Cabinet Office

Prime minister Boris Johnson has taken away responsibility for the government use of data from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and given it to the Cabinet Office
July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20
Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions
July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20
CDEI calls for ‘step change’ in public sector data sharing

Public sector needs to change the way data is shared, clarify governance arrangements and work on building public trust and awareness, according to a Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation report
July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20
How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global study on Covid-19 patients in intensive care
July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20
Government gives £24m boost to agricultural tech

Nine agricultural technology projects are receiving government funding to create more efficient food production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
NHS to use forecasting tool to manage post-crisis Covid-19 spread

A forecasting tool based on machine learning is to be used by the NHS to identify Covid-19 hot spots and manage post-crisis spread
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
Banks face fairness challenges as they commit to AI technology

Banks working with artificial intelligence technology face governance challenges to ensure AI-based decisions are fair and ethical
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
Open Data Institute releases funding for ethical data sharing projects

Seven projects that explore different approaches to ethical and trustworthy data sharing are being funded by the Open Data Institute to help citizens and businesses make better decisions
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
NUS develops e-skin system in neuromorphic computing breakthrough

The National University of Singapore has developed an electronic skin system that could give robots and prosthetic devices a sense of touch
July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20
Majority of NHS trusts used analytics to track patient infection status during Covid-19 pandemic

Qlik research shows 84% of NHS trusts used data analytics to support patient care during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, and suggests they could use that expertise to improve public health in the round
July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20
Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres

Oracle has enhanced its Cloud@Customer service with capabilities derived from its recent raft of public cloud datacentres
July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20
Clearview AI faces ICO investigation over facial recognition

Controversial company that scraped data from the public internet to build its facial recognition algorithm faces a joint UK-Australian investigation into its practices
July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20
Tencent Cloud teams up with ADBC on banking services

Singapore’s Asia Digital Bank Corporation could leverage Tencent Cloud’s financial cloud platform to provide banking services to small businesses
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array

Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Swisscom taps Hitachi to improve network-based customer service

Pentaho product helps business customer service reps of Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company and leading IT services provider provide better, faster service through centralised hub
July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20
How Infor Nexus is helping to digitalise Asia’s supply chain

Infor’s Nexus unit has been supporting digitalisation efforts in Asia’s supply chain industry before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has accelerated adoption of cloud-based offerings in the region
July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20
Is digital art coming of age under Covid?

Israeli startup Niio is advancing a digital art platform comparable with Spotify. Is the digital medium for high art coming of age in these Covid times?
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
Telco edge to accompany 5G roll-outs in APAC

Pilot projects are underway in the Asia-Pacific to deploy telco edge infrastructure to support high-bandwidth, low-latency applications
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
Lenovo, top-of-the-world Chinese supercomputer supplier, sweeps all markets

Supercomputers are not just about computing power, they are a symbol of political ambition. Chinese supercomputer supplier Lenovo is now the dominant supplier across the world
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
How Propre eases its database management woes

Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint
June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20
Australia to invest a record A$1.35bn in cyber security

The Australian government is making its largest ever investment in cyber security over the next decade to identify cyber threats, disrupt foreign cyber criminals and build new capabilities
June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong

The UK’s three main political parties are collecting personal data on voters, but much of it is wrong and its use may fall foul of data protection laws
June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
Google opens Jakarta cloud region amid Indonesia’s booming digital economy

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai lends weight to online launch event, underscoring cloud supplier’s resolve to carve out a bigger slice of the country’s fast-growing public cloud market
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
Huawei to invest S$5m in Singapore to boost tech ecosystem

Huawei is pumping in S$5m this year to develop joint partner offerings in Singapore with a focus on artificial intelligence
June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20
Immigrants’ rights campaigners take Home Office to court over visa algorithm

Campaigners claim built-in algorithmic bias makes processing of visa applications ‘discriminatory’
June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20
Inside Lenovo’s transition to a solutions provider

Lenovo’s long-term transformation from a primarily hardware supplier to an IT solutions provider is progressing, but the journey isn’t over yet
June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20
Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

Oracle sees 1% decline in full year-on-year 2019-20 revenue, and a 6% drop in its fourth quarter, but takes comfort from OCI Zoom win in pandemic crisis
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
Government publishes geospatial data strategy to capitalise on location data

National Geospatial Strategy will develop the country’s location data framework over the next five years
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

Christian Klein used his first Sapphire keynote as CEO of SAP to underline the supplier’s support for supply chain resiliency and automation against Covid-19 pandemic and climate change backcloths
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
How Informa Markets cohered customer data as it absorbed UBM merger

Trade show organiser Informa Markets turned to Collibra software as it sought to improve data quality while making marketing communications more targeted and precise
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
How Tableau is riding on its Salesforce synergy

Tableau has bolstered its presence in Asia-Pacific following its acquisition by Salesforce and is combining its analytics capabilities with Einstein Analytics to deliver AI-powered insights
June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20
Dowden: AI and data science conversion path open and diverse

DCMS says 2,500 places on university artificial intelligence and data science conversion courses – 1,000 targeted to produce more diversity in tech – are now open for application
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Covid-19 global co-ordination is off the mark, Tony Blair tells CogX

Former UK prime minister, now head of a global institute that advises governments, tells CogX attendees that global co-ordination to combat Covid-19 is far from where it needs to be
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise

Italian football club will get variable-price ticketing using artificial intelligence expertise to develop systems. It has also deployed Acronis cloud backup
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
Australia’s AGL to move most systems to Azure cloud

Energy supplier is moving more than 200 applications and most systems to Azure in a three-year deal with Microsoft
June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20
NHS Covid-19 datastore contracts published under pressure from privacy groups

The government has published the contracts with Palantir, Faculty, Microsoft and Google for the controversial NHS datastore ahead of court proceedings initiated by civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy
June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20
Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus
June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20
Why GovTech is building its own robotics stack

Singapore’s Government Technology Agency has developed a robotics technology stack that will power robots using capabilities from commercial suppliers and the open source community
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
Hull supercomputer helps fight Covid-19

University’s Viper supercomputer team join forces with Sheffield-based HPC specialist in global distributed computing project focused on the coronavirus
June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20
Employees must be consulted on technologies monitoring the return to work

Experts say the workforce must be ‘in the room’ and given a meaningful say about technologies introduced to monitor their return to work following the Covid-19 pandemic
June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20
HSBC platform uses AI to analyse trading data thousands of times faster

HSBC is offering its US share trading customers artificial intelligence-powered insights into public information about listed companies
May 29, 2020 29 May'20
Salesforce Q1 2020: 30% growth, Benioff sees ‘new normal’ by 2021

Salesforce announces 30% year-on-year revenue growth for the first quarter, and displays Covid-19 crisis alleviation activities
May 28, 2020 28 May'20
How AI can improve food safety

Fujitsu has developed a computer vision model that recognises hand washing gestures to ease the enforcement of stricter food handling rules in Japan
May 27, 2020 27 May'20
BCS calls for computer coding in scientific research to be more professional

BCS position paper finds the software coding practices of non-computer-science scientists to be insufficiently professional
May 27, 2020 27 May'20
PropertyGuru touts 3D virtual viewings with StoryTeller

Southeast Asian property portal PropertyGuru rolls out new capability in its FastKey platform that lets developers showcase properties to prospective buyers through 3D visualisation
May 20, 2020 20 May'20
SAS seizes World Bee Day to promote analytics

Data analytics supplier SAS took the opportunity of World Bee Day to say it is decoding bee communication through machine learning, and generally promoting bee health
May 19, 2020 19 May'20
Doubts mount over effectiveness of UK contact-tracing app

Studies from BCS and Anomali reveal that a significant proportion of the UK population is not prepared to download the Covid-19 contact-tracing app
May 18, 2020 18 May'20
Flagship digital investment at Abu Dhabi’s Adnoc pays off

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company sees flagship digital project in high demand after proving its value in responding to the Covid-19 crisis
May 12, 2020 12 May'20
Police failing to consult public on new technologies

A freedom of information campaign has revealed that UK police are largely failing to consult the public on their use of new technologies, with the potential to undermine the principle of policing by consent
May 11, 2020 11 May'20
Four in 10 Australians will share GPS data for alerting

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, 40% of Australians are likely to share GPS data with the government to facilitate alerting, new study finds
May 11, 2020 11 May'20
Micro Focus sees growth in mainframe migration business

Lifting and shifting Cobol code from mainframes to public cloud has been a growth driver for Micro Focus in the Asia-Pacific region, even as the software supplier continues to diversify its business
May 07, 2020 07 May'20
Privacy International to Palantir: We are watching you

Privacy International expresses a qualified welcome for Palantir’s responses to questions about its data integration role in the NHS Covid-19 data store, but continues to raise concerns
May 06, 2020 06 May'20
Pure Storage FlashBlade OS v3.0 brings protected snapshots

Pure also adds remote replication and aims at storage use cases for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads in its all-flash NAS and object nodes
May 06, 2020 06 May'20
CIO interview: Andrew Lennon, CIO, Barings, on Covid-19, data science and mergers

Forget rogue traders, Barings is still going strong, and the investment bank's CIO is leading the way with data science and other enabling technologies
May 05, 2020 05 May'20
Singapore to test 5G in Industry 4.0 trial

Trial, spearheaded by IMDA, IBM, Samsung and M1, will test the use of 5G, along with AI and IoT technologies, in manufacturing
May 05, 2020 05 May'20
Pizza Hut optimises pizza delivery platform during lockdown with data analytics

Pizza Hut Digital Ventures has been improving the company’s e-commerce performance before and during the coronavirus crisis
May 05, 2020 05 May'20
Building security and privacy into contact-tracing apps

Governance and data decentralisation are among measures that organisations can take to allay security and privacy concerns over contact-tracing apps, according to RSA
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
SAP S/4 Hana projects seem set to repeat security missteps

Management consultancy Turnkey’s managing director, Richard Hunt, cautions SAP customers not to repeat errors of the past by making security an expensive afterthought
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
Coronavirus: Using computer simulation to minimise cross-infection

The architects behind China’s largest makeshift hospital turned to computer simulation to model the airflow regulated by ventilation systems in a bid to minimise cross-infection
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
Can maths plot a path for policy-makers through the UK coronavirus lockdown?

Initial findings from a new study suggests that working from home could enable the UK to manage the coronavirus infection rate
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Privacy International puts Palantir in the dock for NHS data analysis work

Civil liberties campaigner questions role of US data analytics specialist in health service’s data work in battle against Covid-19
April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20
Australian researchers tap cloud to save the Tasmanian devil

Researchers at the University of Sydney are using Amazon Web Services to speed up genomics research in one of Australia’s wildlife conservation programmes
April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20
APAC edge computing market set to grow

China and Japan will account for the lion’s share of Asia-Pacific’s edge computing market as more organisations in the region look to streamline processes and improve productivity
April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20
Dark data is contributing to carbon emissions

Almost six million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be pumped into the atmosphere this year as a result of dark data, Veritas research finds
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Nasdaq gives customers real-time data through cloud platform

US stock exchange uses public cloud and APIs to provide investment companies with real-time data on trading activity
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Keeping coral reefs healthy with AI

Underwater video cameras equipped with artificial intelligence smarts have been deployed in the waters off Pangatalan island in the Philippines to track the barometers of coral reef health
April 22, 2020 22 Apr'20
How DBS is reaping the dividends of digital transformation

At DBS Bank, the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the value of technology and the investments it made over the past decade to modernise its technology stack
April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20
Klein takes sole command of SAP as Q1 results show Covid impact

As Christian Klein becomes sole chief executive officer, SAP announces total revenue of €6.521bn for the first quarter, up 7% on Q1 2019
April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20
CIO interview: Theo Blackwell, CDO for London

Digital and data are transforming the way London runs – from transport to public services. The first ever chief digital officer for London explains how his team are going about it
April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20
Microsoft aims to build Planetary Computer system for sustainability

Microsoft’s Planetary Computer platform will combine global datasets to help organisations manage biodiversity and reduce climate change
April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20
Rolls-Royce alliance focuses on Coronavirus economic recovery

The Rolls-Royce industry alliance aims to bring together data teams across industries and academia to help governments and businesses get back to work
April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20
SAP preliminary Q1 2020 results: Covid-19 takes a bite as in-person events cancelled

The coronavirus public health crisis has hit SAP’s first quarter, according to its preliminary financial results statement
April 13, 2020 13 Apr'20
How Singapore’s Niometrics is changing network analytics

By extracting granular data and emphasising privacy protection, Niometrics’ network analytics technology is being put through its paces in a variety of use cases
April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20
German diabetes institute uses graph database to connect coronavirus research

DZD, the German Federal Diabetes Research Centre, is using a Neo4j graph database to link up Covid-19 scientific research and scientists
April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20
Mobile operator community and academics use smartphone power to fight Covid-19

Vodafone Foundation and scientists at Imperial College London are using a smartphone app to aid coronavirus research
April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20
Business data science teams need to be multi-disciplined, says Trainline

Sam Taylor, head of data science at Trainline, says four years of team building points to a need to be multi-disciplinary in pursuit of delivering value for customers
April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20
Singapore researchers get priority access to HPC resources

Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre is fast-tracking access to its high-performance computing resources for researchers working on Covid-19-related projects
April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20
Covid-19 crisis shows fragility of food supply system

Food system is “incredibly interdependent, but also incredibly disconnected”, says Richard Tiffin, chief scientific officer at early-stage agricultural data company Agrimetrics
March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20
Hackathon launched to help fight coronavirus pandemic

Virtual hackathon seeks to develop a suite of applications to help people during the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak through ethically built technology
March 30, 2020 30 Mar'20
Coronavirus: NHS corrals Microsoft, Palantir and Google to hone data analysis

The NHS has confirmed it is working with Microsoft, Palantir and Google to improve data analysis to make its anti-coronavirus effort more efficient and effective
March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20
Coronavirus: How data visualisation could build resilience against future pandemics

Qlik.org has been working as part of a collaborative private sector effort to better analyse epidemic information. This could help build resilience against Covid-19, and similar viruses
March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20
Coronavirus: Mobilising data science

Policy-makers are calling on the global data science community to develop data models that can can help them better understand the Covid-19 transmission rate
March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20
Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app
March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20
Singapore’s JTC taps GIS platform in Punggol Digital District

The planners behind Singapore’s Punggol Digital District are using a geographic information system to make better planning decisions and improve day-to-day operations
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Microsoft and Google join forces on Covid-19 dataset

Data scientists and researchers are being encouraged to use data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain insights into the coronavirus pandemic
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
How Malaysia’s Affin Hwang is harnessing data analytics

The Malaysian financial institution has been tapping data analytics to better profile its customers, increase sales leads and identify new customer segments
March 16, 2020 16 Mar'20
CIO interview: Malcolm Lowe, head of IT, Transport for Greater Manchester

Data analytics, agile working and contactless technology are helping to improve transport services across the Manchester area
March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20
China ahead of Australia and Japan in data maturity

Chinese firms are ahead of their peers in the Asia-Pacific region in tapping the potential of data, study finds
March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20
DCMS seeks outside experts to review government data sharing ahead of spending review

The DCMS is seeking consultants to undertake a short-term but strategic project to figure out how to improve data sharing across government ahead of the comprehensive spending review, rolled over from 2019 to 2020