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• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry’s expert IT witness ‘troubled’ by his findings

  Controversial Post Office Horizon system lacked the integrity required to trust accounting data and contained ‘joke’ coding akin to an ‘overly engineered mousetrap’, inquiry told

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Pioneer behind IT systems design dies

  Peter Hermon’s career spanned IT and management, including deploying LEO computers in industry and the integration of IT systems when BA was formed

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Scality Ring 9 brings Storage Accelerator enhanced flash tiers

  Scality upgrade to Ring 9 of its object (and file) storage software sees enhancements to tiering, the introduction of Prometheus-based monitoring and hooks into VMware vCloud Director

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Microsoft CEO outlines ‘digital imperatives’

  Organisations that want to do more with less will have to think deeply about digital imperatives such as the shift to cloud and artificial intelligence, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Team working on controversial Post Office Horizon EPOSS software was the ‘joke of the building’

  Former members of the ICL team developing software for the Post Office Horizon EPOSS system were unqualified and engaged in poor software development practices, public inquiry told

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Netherlands coalition aims to demystify artificial intelligence

  Dutch citizens need to learn about the impact of artificial intelligence on society and their lives, says the Netherlands AI Coalition

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading

  Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Post Office changed view of Horizon problems before roll-out, because of a ‘sunk cost fallacy’

  Insider tells public inquiry that the Post Office continued to roll out the controversial Horizon system despite a ‘considerable’ number of errors, because it was too committed

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers

  SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  A modern approach to enterprise software development

  Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

  Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board

  Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions

  AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Metaverse could add up to $1.4tn a year to Asia’s GDP

  The metaverse may still be in its infancy, but sustained investments in the technology over the next decade could have a significant impact on Asia’s economy

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Lenovo bolsters services play with PCCW Solutions

  Lenovo’s acquisition of PCCW Solutions brings sought-after capabilities in hybrid cloud and application modernisation as it expands its services footprint in Asia

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits

  Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  ODI fuel poverty survey shows young adults most hard up

  A fuel poverty data report and index from the Open Data Institute shows that young adults and people in multi-occupied accommodation are most at risk

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Microsoft serves smorgasbord of six zero-days

  November’s Patch Tuesday fixes significantly fewer vulnerabilities of late, but includes six actively-exploited zero-days, three of them of critical severity

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Gartner Symposium: Welcome to the age of force multipliers

  Tech has always been asked to do more with less. Gartner says that if applied correctly, smart IT decisions offer multiple benefits simultaneously

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Public sector IT projects need ethical data practices from start

  Data ethics needs to be integrated into public sector IT projects from the very start, and considered throughout every stage of the process, to be effective

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake

  The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Summit majors on ethics in data use, demonstrates diversity

  The Data Lab’s Data Summit majored on the ethical use of data, and featured Scottish government minister Tom Arthur, science broadcaster Hannah Fry, and Nasa chief science data officer Kevin Murphy

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Data Lab bolsters business execs data course in time with Data Summit

  Course focuses on the leadership skills needed to design, resource and implement a data strategy that will enable organisational change

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Aiven expands in APAC, builds new capabilities

  Managed service provider of open source databases and data platforms Aiven grew its business in Asia-Pacific by over 100% over the past year, and is now building new capabilities in data warehouses and other areas

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Microsoft pledges $100m in new IT support for Ukraine

  Microsoft will continue to offer free-of-charge technology support to Ukraine for the foreseeable future

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Russia risks shortage of PCs and software

  Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  All NHS staff should have basic AI training, says report

  A report by the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England calls for all health and care staff to receive training in artificial intelligence as the technology will be increasingly adopted in healthcare practice

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Why technology change is slow at larger firms

  Firms that commit to a single cloud provider and a lack of investment in improving developer productivity can drive up costs and slow down the pace of change, technology leaders say

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Shadow digital secretary outlines Labour’s tech priorities

  Labour’s digital and technology plans focus on reining in the power of the tech giants, boosting connectivity across the UK, and improving online safety

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  OpenSSL vulnerabilities ‘not as bad as feared’

  As previously trailed, OpenSSL patched two buffer overflow vulnerabilities, neither of them as impactful as had been feared

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud-powered laptop

  Alibaba Cloud launches a cloud-powered laptop that will enable mobile workers to crunch compute-intensive workloads without the need for more powerful machines

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Tech to drive collaboration and fend off recession at UK medium firms

  Report from Virgin Media O2 Business finds almost half of medium-sized businesses want more IT support to help drive their business ambition and with such firms’ employees only spending a quarter of their time in the office, cutting-edge tech is ...

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Game of ‘hardball’ in Horizon negotiations left subpostmasters exposed to tragedy

  ‘Hardball’ negotiations between the government, the Post Office and ICL meant subpostmasters were ignored and thrown into a tragedy that could have been averted

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus

  The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Scotland’s Data Lab CEO Brian Hills on its ambition to change lives

  Brian Hills, chief executive of The Data Lab in Scotland, on why he thinks the organisation’s mission is less about data and more about changing lives by giving people career opportunities

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  How Elastic is going beyond enterprise search

  Elastic has been doubling down on the security and observability capabilities of its open-source platform, going beyond its roots in enterprise search

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  UK hybrid workers feel the strain

  Survey reveals that UK homeworkers suffer most in Europe from a poor working experience, in turn leading to knock-on negative effect in customer experience due to lack of space

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  Prepare today for potentially high-impact OpenSSL bug

  OpenSSL trailed a critical vulnerability patch last week, which will be only the second such flaw ever found in the open source encryption project. Unfortunately, the first was Heartbleed

• October 31, 2022 31 Oct'22

  SoftIron’s HyperCloud to ease private cloud deployments

  SoftIron claims its technology stack fully automates the provisioning of storage, compute, networking and infrastructure services, providing a fully functioning, multi-tenant cloud

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Webex looks to enhance customer experiences for digital era

  Leading collaboration technology provider reveals what it claims is a unique functionality that can deliver a fully integrated UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS portfolio to improve customer experience

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Singapore’s met service to get new supercomputer

  The Meteorological Service Singapore is getting a new Cray supercomputer to improve weather forecasting and tropical climate research

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Webex claims ‘breakthrough’ advances for hybrid work with innovations, partnerships

  Collaboration tech provider announces major updates to the Webex Suite with new collaboration device and new partnerships to expand its footprint

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Meta tightens purse strings as it spends on Reality Labs

  Facebook’s parent company is betting the business on a long-term strategy to move social media into the metaverse

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  How to attract more women into software development

  Having role models, support systems and upskilling opportunities are just some of the ways to attract and retain more women coders in the industry, according to a panel of women tech leaders and professionals

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

  ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Google commits to cloud and AI

  Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has been negatively impacted by the currency market, but its CEO remains focused on artificial intelligence

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  Microsoft Cloud grows, but less than expected

  CEO Satya Nadella claims the public cloud is the best way to optimise business IT and address rising energy bills

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  When technology lets you sleep easy

  Indian mattress supplier Duroflex has taken a leaf out of mattress design in its technology implementation to double its growth in an industry dominated by unorganised players

• October 26, 2022 26 Oct'22

  SAP Q3 2022: revenue up 15%, Ukraine war impact €250m

  SAP has announced third-quarter 2022 revenue of more than €7.8bn, up 15% year on year, with cloud revenue at 42%

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance

  Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace