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February 08, 2022
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Feb'22
Tiger offers lightweight file access for hybrid cloud
Roar data, anyone? Tiger offers local access to cloud data, with only parts of the file being worked on downloaded and file locking in cloud buckets to ensure integrity
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February 08, 2022
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Feb'22
Right to disconnect and less monitoring key to better remote work
The World Health Organisation and International Labour Organisation warn against invasive workplace surveillance and promote right to disconnect in joint briefing on how to promote healthy and safe remote working
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February 08, 2022
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Feb'22
UK fintech investment sees sevenfold increase in a year
UK fintech investment rose from $5.2bn in 2020 to $37.3bn in 2021, with 603 private equity, venture capital and merger and acquisition deals
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February 08, 2022
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Feb'22
Nvidia’s Arm deal is dead
‘Significant regulatory challenges’ have prevented Nvidia in its $31bn attempt to purchase chipmaker Arm
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February 07, 2022
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Feb'22
Met police deploy facial recognition in Westminster
Police facial recognition deployment resulted in four arrests, but questions remain about the necessity, proportionality and legality of the technology’s use
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February 04, 2022
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Feb'22
Vodafone Business teams with RingCentral to deliver cloud communications
New cloud-based comms platform set to enable UK operator’s mobility and 5G capabilities to give customers more choice, flexibility and simplicity in workforce collaboration and remote working
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February 04, 2022
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Feb'22
Cisco pitches into private 5G, reveals hybrid work technology slate
Comms and collaboration technology services giant introduces new technologies to help businesses rapidly scale networks and digitise operations
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
EC proposes new directive to improve gig economy work conditions
Gig economy workers in Europe could be entitled to more rights and better workplace protections under a directive proposed by the European Commission
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
Cack-handed government compensation scheme prolongs suffering of Horizon scandal victims
Victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal are being denied the millions of pounds they are owed as the government delays compensation resolution
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
UAE chooses Accenture to develop national payments platform
Consortium led by Accenture to build new payments infrastructure in the United Arab Emirates
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
Singtel adds Azure Edge Zones to MEC platform
Azure customers will be able to leverage existing Azure subscriptions in Singtel’s new MEC offering and use the Azure portal to deploy 5G applications at the edge
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
Danish researchers develop a socially aware robot
A new breed of robots gracefully interacts with humans in an autonomous fashion
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
French Supreme Court raises constitutional questions over EncroChat hacking secrecy
Conseil Constitutionnel to decide whether ‘defence secrecy’ over state EncroChat cryptophone hacking breaches French constitution
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February 03, 2022
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Feb'22
Australia’s cloud market tipped to surpass $14bn in 2025
The growth will be led by growing demand for software-as-a-service offerings as Aussie firms look to tap cloud services in their digital transformation efforts
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February 02, 2022
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Feb'22
Nationwide Building Society streamlines digital onboarding through API
Building society is improving its digital onboarding process through application programming interface-based technology from a US startup
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February 01, 2022
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Feb'22
Check Point buys Spectral to safeguard cloud development
Check Point’s latest acquisition of Israel-based startup Spectral expands its developer-centric security toolset
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February 01, 2022
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Feb'22
Met Police faces legal action over Gangs Matrix
Campaign group Liberty is taking legal action against the Met over its use of the Gangs Matrix, claiming it is driven by racial stereotypes and disproportionately affects people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds
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February 01, 2022
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Feb'22
Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding
Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research
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February 01, 2022
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Feb'22
Citrix joins Tibco in Vista enterprise IT portfolio
Vista, the investment firm backing enterprise software business, has acquired Citrix to flesh out its hybrid work portfolio
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January 31, 2022
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Jan'22
Nebulon SmartInfrastructure brings cloud-defined storage to datacentre
Cloud-defined storage allows customers to build private clouds on-site, with pools of storage built from commodity hardware, Nebulon PCIe cards and its browser-based console
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January 31, 2022
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Jan'22
Google inks $1bn deal with Bharti Airtel
The wide-ranging deal covers Google’s equity investment in Airtel, as well as efforts to spur cloud adoption and lower barriers to smartphone ownership
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January 28, 2022
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Jan'22
Microsoft gives Nasa a lesson in timeshare optimisation
A quantum-inspired algorithm has been used to help Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab schedule its Deep Space Network comms system
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January 28, 2022
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Jan'22
British court rules in HP’s favour in Mike Lynch fraud case
What next for Mike Lynch as judge rules that HP has ‘substantially succeeded’ in its complaint against him
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January 28, 2022
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Jan'22
Smart connectivity to transform world experience within a decade
Brain-controlled smart assistants, disease-detecting mirrors and digitally connected trees to become mainstream by 2030, by when the average person will interact with smart devices 4,800 times a day, claims study
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January 27, 2022
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Jan'22
SAP full-year 2021: Revenue nudges up 1%, cloud growth up 17%
SAP has announced a 2% rise in full-year 2021 revenue, to just under €28bn, while S/4 Hana customer base increased by 18% to 18,800
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January 27, 2022
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Jan'22
Microsoft uses Q2 2022 earnings to delve into metaverse
Company’s CEO sees a role for Microsoft that takes the metaverse beyond gaming and into the business sphere
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January 27, 2022
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Jan'22
Nightmare Log4Shell scenario averted by prompt, professional action
Prompt and professional community response to the Log4Shell disclosure means the dangerous and widespread vulnerability has not been exploited to the extent many had feared
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January 27, 2022
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Jan'22
Bank account switching accelerates as consumers choose digital services
Surge in UK consumers changing current account providers is a sign that digital banking services are eating into the traditional sector
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January 27, 2022
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Jan'22
Ocado showcases 3D printing innovation
Having delivered its first orders 20 years ago, Ocado is now reinventing the business process for online grocery delivery
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
CORT deploys IoT to monitor indoor air quality
New Zealand community housing provider is rolling out sensors and analytics software to track the air quality of its premises
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
PwnKit bug endangers Linux distributions worldwide
Qualys researchers share intel on a memory corruption vulnerability in a program installed by default on every major Linux distribution
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
Space junk revealed by University of Texas graph database
Aerospace engineers, led by space environmentalist Moriba Jah, at The University of Texas at Austin have built a graph database, AstriaGraph, to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
Dutch education anticipates quantum technology
Dutch academic talks about the Netherlands’ role in a pan-European quantum computing project as university investigates the technology’s possibilities
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
Demands on Fujitsu to contribute to £1bn Horizon scandal compensation costs
Fujitsu cannot hide away as taxpayers pick up the bill for the Post Office scandal triggered by its IT system, say peers
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
TigerGraph roars into APAC
The graph database technology supplier is approaching the region with a solution-based strategy and partnering with universities to grow local capabilities
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January 26, 2022
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Jan'22
IBM fourth-quarter results show hybrid refocus
Big Blue continues its journey to rebuild its business around hybrid cloud platforms, software infrastructure and consulting services
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January 25, 2022
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Jan'22
Icelandic research could revolutionise AI
Icelandic team is researching potential artificial intelligence that will not choke when faced with the unknown
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January 25, 2022
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Jan'22
Twitter to expand Singapore engineering hub
Twitter will double its engineering workforce in Singapore by 2023, as part of its regional expansion plans
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January 25, 2022
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Jan'22
Subpostmaster campaign group to meet government over unfair compensation settlement
A group of subpostmasters excluded from fair compensation in the Horizon scandal is to meet government department to discuss their demands
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January 25, 2022
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Jan'22
CIO interview: Michael Cole, CTO, European Tour and Ryder Cup
The highly traditional sport of golf is proving to be an innovator in its field, with internet of things technology and cloud adoption transforming tournaments after Covid
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January 25, 2022
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Jan'22
Retailers mired by manual data integration
Retail relies on third-party data sources to drive business decisions and competitive pricing, but many struggle to pull in this data
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January 24, 2022
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Jan'22
CIO interview: Sheri Rhodes, CIO, Workday
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital change for many businesses – and even for cloud software leader Workday, there are always new things to learn and introduce
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January 24, 2022
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Jan'22
Heathrow Airport takes to the cloud with Oracle Fusion Applications
Airport has implemented a full spread of Oracle Cloud Applications, including ERP and HCM, as it looks to recover from the pandemic
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January 21, 2022
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Jan'22
Tinder algorithm charging users more based on age
Popular dating app Tinder could have broken data protection and equality laws by using personal data about people’s age to set different prices
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January 21, 2022
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Jan'22
CTO interview: James Donkin, Ocado Technology
Ocado is a cloud-first business and develops its own software cloud-natively, but some things need to be processed on-premise or at the edge
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January 21, 2022
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Jan'22
Majority of UK employees prefer hybrid work
Survey reveals the importance of hybrid working and shows a degree of WFH fatigue following Omicron, with firms assessing when it will be possible to return to in-person work
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January 21, 2022
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Jan'22
New normal sees SASE, SD-WAN surge as MPLS is phased out
Research confirms that MPLS is ‘out’ and SD-WAN and SASE systems are the clear winners in enterprise networking as more and more European organisations are eliminating all on-prem datacentres, with cloud adoption steaming ahead
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January 20, 2022
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Jan'22
Government ‘has nothing against’ paying 555 subpostmasters fair compensation
Government officials are open to finding a way to properly compensate victims of the Horizon scandal without setting a dangerous legal precedent
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January 20, 2022
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Jan'22
Zopa Bank hits £1bn deposits in just 18 months
Bank has seen rapid growth since its launch and has set ambitious targets for the next 12 months
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January 20, 2022
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Jan'22
UK SMEs to receive tech skills and software boost
A new government scheme aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and sales online has opened for applications