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• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Lorca security scaleups to get Splunk data expertise

  Lorca inducts Splunk onto its co-marketing programme, giving security scaleups access to new data expertise

• September 16, 2020 16 Sep'20

  Singapore partners Apple on LumiHealth

  Singapore’s Health Promotion Board has developed a programme with Apple to encourage healthy living following a similar partnership with Fitbit last year

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  UK’s ‘historic’ trade deal with Japan promises advantages to tech industry, says TechUK

  TechUK was among the organisations that have welcome the ‘historic’ trade deal between the UK and Japan that is expected to boost trade by £15bn a year

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  NTT taps data analytics and cloud for Tour de France

  NTT’s analytics and cloud capabilities stood up to the test amid crashes and poor weather conditions during the first stage of this year’s Tour de France

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Coronavirus: APAC organisations speed up innovation

  Innovation has become easier than before, with the most innovative organisations expecting to recover from the impact of the pandemic in less than six months, new Microsoft-commissioned study finds

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Government publishes long-promised national data strategy

  The government has published a national data strategy aimed at fostering innovation and increasing economic growth. It will also appoint 10 data fellows each year to work in the orbit of Number 10, and create 500 analyst jobs by 2021

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  HotelBeds uses API management platform to reduce cost

  HotelBeds has switched from its legacy suppler to a licensed service in an effort to reduce API management costs after traffic doubles

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  Weta Digital goes all-in on AWS

  New Zealand visual effects studio plans to migrate most of its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services and tap machine learning and analytics to deliver projects more quickly

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  How Bank Mandiri is driving the use of big data analytics

  Indonesia’s largest bank has built a big data platform to track transactions and monitor the health of its workforce, among other big data analytics initiatives

• August 31, 2020 31 Aug'20

  How India’s Tata Capital is expanding its digital footprint

  Tata Group’s financial services arm has been migrating branch walk-ins and voice calls to self-service digital channels staffed by chatbots as it expands its digital footprint

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  NHS gets £50m in AI funding for digital pathology

  Government funding package focuses on earlier diagnosis of cancer in the West Midlands, north of England and London

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  Office for National Statistics defines better cross-government data linkage

  ONS review of data-linking practices across government is consistent with Cummings and Johnson drive to put data in command of government

• August 28, 2020 28 Aug'20

  How Citi is democratising access to data

  Global financial institution Citi puts people at the centre of its data analytics initiatives and collaborates with users to drive adoption and success

• August 27, 2020 27 Aug'20

  Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT

  This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  Salesforce Q2 2020: Benioff says crisis will speed growth

  Salesforce announces 29% year-on-year revenue growth for the second quarter, and grieves for Dreamforce 2020

• August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20

  CIO interview: Steve Otto, chief technology officer, The R&A

  When the coronavirus pandemic caused The Open to be cancelled, The R&A’s tech team took the UK’s flagship golf tournament online

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Intel’s DAOS tops the IO500 speed challenge for HPC storage

  Following on from Lustre, Intel’s DAOS is an object storage-based system with that is designed specifically for use with Optane for metadata and SSD for bulk storage in HPC environments

• August 24, 2020 24 Aug'20

  How big data is solving future health challenges

  An Australian paediatric research institute has started a big data initiative to facilitate early intervention in childhood conditions that may pose problems to people later in life

• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  Social media data leak highlights murky world of data scraping

  A data brokerage left its database of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube profiles exposed to anybody who cared to access it

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  How Dell is leveraging data to reopen its offices

  Dell Technologies has created a real-time dashboard to make sense of data about the Covid-19 coronavirus and safely guide its employees’ return to the workplace

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Vodafone builds smart enterprise on SAP S/4 Hana

  Holger Grewe, group head of corporate transformation, and Ignacio Garcia, CIO corporate systems, at Vodafone, convey how SAP S/4 Hana has been purposely implemented as part of an ongoing smart enterprise transformation

• 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