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• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Blockchain adoption hotting up in Australia

  The emerging technology is being tested in several industries in a country aspiring to be a global leader in blockchain development

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Geospatial Commission pumps £5m into unlocking value of location data

  Commission wants to unlock the value of location data held by its partners through the use of emerging technologies

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Telenor retrains 20,000 staff as it prepares for impact of digital tech

  Norway-based mobile phone company Telenor, which provides phone services in Scandinavia and Asia, is challenging its workforce to spend 40 hours a year learning digital skills as it prepares for the impact of digital technology

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Digital Catapult launches Ethics Framework for AI and machine learning

  Innovation centre hopes to foster responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  How Starbucks is using Splunk to automate mundane security tasks

  Coffee giant Starbucks is using Splunk to automate some of its more tedious security tasks to reduce the workload for its cyber staff

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  How Bank of England is using Splunk for proactive security

  Head of the Bank of England’s security operations centre talks about how Splunk is helping it to take a more proactive approach to preventing cyber attacks

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise

  Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Benioff calls for ‘inclusive capitalism’

  At Dreamforce 2018 in San Francisco, Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff argued for what he called “inclusive capitalism” and urged the technology industry to set the highest possible ethical standards

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  MI5 admits to ‘unlawful’ spying on Privacy International

  The UK's intelligence agencies acted unlawfully by intercepting communications data on NGO, Privacy International, the UK's most secret court ruled.

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Salesforce vaunts Apple partnership and 'Customer 360'

  As Dreamforce 2018 gets underway in San Francisco, Salesforce trumpets a partnership with Apple, a customer 360 service, and an upgrade to its MuleSoft “Anypoint” platform

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlights importance of sharing the wealth of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, the company CEO Satya Nadella talked up the importance of ensuring the spoils of digital transformation are spread far and wide in society

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  Oracle first-quarter 2018-19 results show weak growth

  Oracle’s first-quarter results for 2018-19 reveal $9.2bn revenue and 1% growth, with co-CEO Mark Hurd calling out “spectacular growth” for the NetSuite cloud ERP for SMEs business

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Cutting through the blockchain hype

  Blockchain adoption is still in its infancy, with security challenges standing in the way of more widespread deployment, according to a blockchain expert

• September 14, 2018 14 Sep'18

  How SAP is riding on Asia’s growth story

  The enterprise software behemoth’s Asia-Pacific business is growing and believes its latest C/4 Hana suite is uniquely geared to the scale of the region