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• August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20

  First computers that led to a career in IT

  The UK’s GCSE results show a strong pass rate in STEM subjects, which is good news for the IT industry. We find out how Computer Weekly readers got into 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

  Linux Foundation showcases the greater good of open source

  Open source is more than something indulged in by techies who love to program – it offers collaboration that transcends cultures to solve real-world problems

• 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 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Veeam to add CDP, plus Google cloud as a target

  Backup giant set to add continuous data protection for the most critical workloads, plus Google cloud as a target – all on the back of a storming quarter during the pandemic

• August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20

  Zoom dials into Southeast Asia with Singapore datacentre

  Zoom’s new Singapore datacentre is expected to shore up the performance of its conferencing tool and phone service in the city-state

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Department for Transport seeks industry views on autonomous vehicle technology

  The government wants industry’s views on plans to use automation technology to take control of cars travelling at speeds of up to 70mph, keeping them safely in the lane on motorways

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Reports Oracle to enter TikTok bidding war

  Oracle may be about to make a bid to acquire the US operations of TikTok from its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to the FT

• August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20

  Oracle takes aim at hyperscalers, eyes VMware workloads

  Oracle claims it is addressing the limitations of competing services by offering better security controls, consolidated billing and global availability

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  Comms startup Element helps support secure communications during pandemic

  With the huge increase in remote working, Element is using an open, decentralised network to give organisations more control over their communications

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  DBS Bank teams up with AWS on AI skills

  Singapore’s DBS Bank is organising an AWS DeepRacer League to equip thousands of employees with skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  ICO acknowledges GDPR concerns over A-level results scandal

  Information Commissioner’s Office says it has engaged with exams regulator Ofqual after its use of an algorithm to calculate A-level grades backfired

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  UK government investigates AI labour market

  Survey will seek to discover new requirements and issues posed by artificial intelligence technology

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Bayer taps Verizon for global network infrastructure

  Pharmaceutical giant chooses Verizon to provide software-defined infrastructure to support its future cloud-based business needs

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Russia’s Fancy Bear targets Linux environments with Drovorub malware

  The Russian intelligence-linked Fancy Bear group is deploying a new malware called Drovorub against Linux environments as part of a cyber espionage operation, according to US warnings

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal

  Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs

  Almost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic process automation

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  EU and US start discussions on ‘enhanced’ Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement

  Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores

  Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits

  Microsoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court

  In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Citrix users urged to patch five XenMobile CVEs

  Patches are available for CVEs 2020-8208 through 8212 and should be installed as soon as possible

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  PCCW Global and Sure Universal team up for home-based medical IoT

  Leading IoT software and platform developer teams with Hong Kong telco to offer global network of connected solutions for medical care from home, providing a customisable platform and interface to deliver global connectivity, simplify device ...

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure

  HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Hospitality sector is failing on contact-tracing obligations

  Cyber security experts urge the government to do more to help small hospitality businesses improve their contact-tracing data-handling practices

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  UK lags in AI skills and AI project success

  Global study by Microsoft shows that UK organisations have more artificial intelligence projects that deliver zero value than other countries

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix Clusters on AWS debuts in 20 cloud regions

  In technical preview since 2019, Nutanix Clusters on AWS will enable unified operations across private and public clouds

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Gartner flags continued growth in global IaaS spend as enterprise demand for public cloud soars

  Global spend on IaaS continues to surge, with a growing competitive threat posed by Chinese providers

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  CIO interview: DFS’s Russell Harte on the Google ecosystem

  The furniture retailer has standardised on G Suite and has bought into the Google Cloud Platform and Chrome OS devices

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Poor connectivity sees home workers lose over half an hour of work a day

  Business leaders reveal pressure of new normal with research revealing four-fifths of home workers experiencing unreliable internet connection while working from home, and nearly half having slow and/or unreliable internet connection

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Cyber attack combined with Covid-19 puts Travelex into administration

  Foreign exchange firm Travelex has cut UK staff by 1,300 and physical outlets will remain closed

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Challenger bank sees huge growth during pandemic

  Starling Bank has seen a big increase in its business amid the Covid-19 slowdown

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  ‘Inadequate’ broadband impacts bottom line for London’s SMEs

  Research reveals as many as 85% of small businesses in UK capital do not know how fast their broadband speed needs to be for their business to thrive, and only two-fifths were able to transition to a fully online business model after Covid-19 hit

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  TikTok to be banned in US in 45 days

  Trump says his Executive Orders against Chinese mobile apps are in the interests of dealing with a national emergency

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  India’s software industry calls for cuts to red tape

  Software industry lobby group iSpirt has called on the Indian government to ease the administrative burden of complying with rules related to taxes and trade

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Bandwidth Inc wraps up Ribbon deal to boost home network capacity for AWS

  Session border controller software edition deployed on AWS to enable enterprise communications company’s customers to improve home working with no disruptions to network performance

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Samsung and Microsoft extend Windows and Office 365 integration

  Samsung fleshes out OneDrive, Outlook and OneNote integration. Microsoft offers Link to Windows, to extend phones to Windows 10 PCs

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Five tips to lower S/4 Hana costs

  With budgets being squeezed, how can organisations on SAP ECC reduce the cost of switching to S/4 Hana?

• 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

  Brits, terrified of impact of second Covid-19 wave on finances, turn to money management apps

  People are using apps to help them manage their money amid fears of a second coronavirus lockdown in the UK

• 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

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Police require radical reform to deal with 21st century challenges

  Early findings from a major review of policing reveal forces are struggling to keep pace with the changing nature of crime

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Google links with eight US banks for current accounts

  Tech giant works with banks to layer digital services on top of secure and regulated banking infrastructures

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Tata Communications unveils new secure digital experience

  Global digital ecosystem enabler Tata aims to allow businesses to adapt to the realities of enterprise transformation, workforce mobility and consumer experience in the new digital-first environment

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  New foundation to bolster security of open source software

  The Open Source Security Foundation will bring together key open source security initiatives across the industry to improve and support the security of open source software

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Private equity leads Nordic IT sector consolidation

  Private equity firms and industrial giants are triggering mergers and acquisitions in the Nordic tech sector as investment slows amid the Covid-19 pandemic

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Edge server shipments set to double by 2024

  As business gets close to the edge, analyst predicts a ‘supercharged’ edge server market over the next five years driven by an associated boom in cloud services

• 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