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• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Watch out for digital legacy in manufacturing

  Digital twins are the next innovation in manufacturing, but will the file formats and hardware be around for as long as the assets being modelled?

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Digital for rural areas worth up to £26bn to UK economy

  A study commissioned by Amazon has posited that greater use of digital tools and services could be worth between £12bn and £26bn per annum to the UK economy

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Proof of concept shows blockchain could save lives in pharmaceutical logistics

  DHL and Accenture pilot tracks pharmaceutical products from manufacture to prescription, showing potential to clamp down on counterfeit medicines

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Fileless attacks surge as hackers exploit PowerShell scripts

  Malicious scripting through Microsoft’s PowerShell IT admin tool is being used to take control of Windows machines and Apple Macs

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Security researchers demonstrate ransomware attack on robots

  Researchers have carried out a ransomware attack on robots to show that such attacks are possible and should be guarded against

• March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18

  Amazon bank could have 70 million customers in five years

  Amazon could have more banking customers in the US than the UK has citizens within five years

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  EC reveals plan to make Europe global fintech hub

  The European Commission has unveiled proposals to boost the EU’s financial technology sector

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Tech experts want government to help workers prepare for AI disruption

  The tech brains working with artificial intelligence think governments have an important role to play in preparing workers for change

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Kiwi airport testing avatar service to ease staff workload

  Auckland Airport is testing an AI-powered avatar at the arrivals area to answer biosecurity questions from travellers

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience

  The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  VMware Cloud for AWS goes live in Amazon’s UK datacentres as hybrid cloud demand grows

  Technology tie-up between VMware and AWS continues to go from strength to strength as the pair confirm a European expansion of their combined hybrid cloud-enabling service

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Click and collect comes to desk-side IT support

  Velocity Smart is a new company hoping to revolutionise desk-side support by removing the need for IT staff to physically visit employees’ desks

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  World Economic Forum creates fintech focus group for cyber security

  WEF consortium of companies will focus on protecting financial technology firms from cyber threats

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Infosys hires thousands more US staff as part of recruitment pledge

  Indian company opens new tech centre in the US to help fulfil its promise to hire more American workers while adapting to changing IT services trends

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Druva maintains cloud course with AWS cloud-to-cloud backup plans

  Backup product supplier Druva plans cloud-to-cloud backup to Amazon Web Services and other public cloud services as demand arises, in a future firmly fixed on hybrid operations

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Microsoft courts US government cloud users with Azure Stack integration promise

  Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to get the US government using its cloud in anger, with the promise of a forthcoming Azure Stack integration and new datacentre regions to house “secret” classified data

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Bitcoin burglaries: Icelandic police count cost of cryptocurrency kit thefts from datacentres

  Police in Iceland are investigating a spate of datacentre thefts, after thieves lifted 600 cryptocurrency-mining servers worth around $2m

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Most healthcare organisations have been breached, report shows

   Less than a third of global healthcare organisations remain untouched, as data breaches rise across the industry, a report reveals

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Spring Break flaw shows cross-industry collaboration

  A flaw that was discovered in Pivotal’s Spring Framework in September 2017 has only come to light now that users have had a chance to update

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

  Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Scality Zenko 'multi-cloud controller' offers hybrid cloud boost

  S3-based software control layer will support Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds to bring hybrid cloud operations, with object storage across private and public clouds

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  People at risk of psychological side-effects of screen addiction

  Many Brits spend more than 10 hours a day attached to a screen and 60% look at two at once, research shows

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Wearables join mobiles as high-growth payment methods

  Banks must develop broad contactless payment strategies if they are to keep pace with consumer demand

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  New privacy fears as IT challenges delay surveillance oversight body by a year

  IT challenges have delayed government plans for an independent body to authorise requests to access the public’s internet and phone records by nearly a year, raising new legal and privacy concerns

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Case study: How the Moonlite Project will use green energy to power bitcoin-mining datacentres

  As the energy consumption habits of the cryptocurrency mining community continue to attract attention, we speak to the The Moonlite Project about how it is embracing renewable energy to clean up the industry’s image

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Are mobile wallets about to make contactless cards look outdated?

  Mobile wallets look set to take root as consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  It’s the year of the cloud, says backup giant Veeam

  Veeam roadmap adds cloud to virtual and physical backup with acquisitions that bring cloud and hybrid functionality. Object archives, CDP and NAS backup are also planned

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  ANZ organisations grappling with cloud outages

  A majority of organisations from Australia and New Zealand admitted in a survey that they had not fully evaluated the impact of cloud outages which were longer than they had expected

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: 5G collaboration dominates agenda at annual mobile fair

  At Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, 5G mobile networks were the talk of the show, and a number of operators announced new collaborations around the emerging network standard with their technology partners

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Chances of success with SAP are only 50-50

  Companies can spend millions, but half of SAP projects fail because there is no connection between the implementation and the original business case

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Virgin Money launches digital bank

  Virgin Money is setting up a digital bank to expand into the current account and SME business account markets

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told

  A court has been asked to give ministers until July 2018 to rewrite powers to require phone and internet companies to retain data on the population. The government acknowledges parts of surveillance regime are unlawful

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Alibaba teams up with Singapore university on AI

  Chinese tech giant has set up a joint research facility at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University to develop artificial intelligence-based technologies in retail, transportation and healthcare

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  AI must develop for the greater good and cut government admin

  A group of experts explored the issues of UK policy and funding in artificial intelligence at a recent seminar in London. We report on the discussion

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  ASEAN firms upbeat on Industry 4.0

  Southeast Asian countries are generally optimistic about the use of emerging technologies, such as advanced analytics in manufacturing industries, but the positive sentiment has not led to action

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  Finnish government’s bridge to Asia drives IT deals

  The Finnish government has increased links with Asian countries with its innovative tech sector a selling point

• February 27, 2018 27 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Data, not connectivity, now core to IoT, says Cisco Jasper

  At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco Jasper has been exploring the growing criticality of data management to the internet of things, and unveiled new NB-IoT customers in Asia

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  NatWest opens four UK fintech hubs

  NatWest has expanded its financial technology support programme at a time when entrepreneurs are more apprehensive than ever

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Surveillance watchdog investigates security risks of GCHQ IT contractors

  The investigatory powers commissioner is reviewing the security arrangements for IT contractors that have access to live computer systems at GCHQ holding highly sensitive records on the UK population

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Ideal Standard standardises in Emea with Nakivo virtual backup

  Bathroom multinational strips out country-based systems to virtualise across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nakivo beats Veeam on cost to provide VMware disk-based backup and slashes restore times

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 launch kicks off annual mobile festival

  Samsung has raised the curtain on Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona with the launch of a new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone device

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Legacy lock-in and lack of skills hamper public sector cloud adoption

  Migrating from legacy lock-in and the ability to manage workloads in cloud infrastructure are among the major challenges that are slowing down public sector cloud adoption

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  RBS’s first profit in a decade accompanied by major first for mobile channel

  News of its first profit in 10 years might overshadow a major first for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s mobile channel

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Hana and S/4 users more sophisticated but beset by licensing doubts

  Research sponsored by SAP consultancy Centiq finds SAP customers maturing their use of SAP Hana and S/4 Hana, but hindered by licensing concerns and dearth of skills

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  MPs run the rule over digital currency to identify risks and opportunities

  MPs are taking a close look at the potential opportunities and risks associated with the UK adoption of cryptocurrencies and the technology that underpins them

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  First Direct pilots open banking platform

  HSBC's internet banking platform is testing out its service that enables customers to put all their bank accounts, from multiple providers, in one place