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• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Alibaba Cloud debuts cloud computer in Singapore

  The Chinese cloud supplier unveils cloud computer powered by Alibaba’s Elastic Desktop Service for the first time outside China

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  UK businesses struggling to support flexible work

  Research reveals that as hybrid becomes the norm, a clear majority of firms say the pandemic caused them to re-evaluate what they value in the workplace

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  First female business computer programmer dies

  Mary Coombs, the first woman to write programs for Lyons Electronic Office, has died at the age of 93

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  ‘Technical issues’ leave Post Office branches with ATM cash discrepancies

  Discrepancies of up to £2,000 reported after an ‘IT change’ impacted more than 200 Post Office branches

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards

  Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Majority of UK adults support legal right to disconnect

  The introduction of ‘right to disconnect’ legislation to stop employees having to engage in work-related electronic communications outside their normal hours remains popular in the UK

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  AWS launches its first UK healthtech accelerator

  A cohort of 12 startups will use AWS resources to accelerate their technology and business development, with opportunities to sell to public sector healthcare organisations at the end

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Volvo Cars recruiting 700 tech professionals for Stockholm hub

  Software is increasingly becoming a differentiator for car manufacturers, says the Swedish giant

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Police EncroChat cryptophone hacking implant did not work properly and frequently failed

  Surveillance operation against EncroChat encrypted phone network had repeated technical failures

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Weikfield bags analytics rewards

  The success of Weikfield Food’s analytics initiative is underpinned by small successive deployments to overcome resistance from users and ensure requirements are met

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Open banking’s next big thing could replace direct debits

  Variable recurring payments could fuel the next stage of open banking take-up in the UK

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Hybrid cements place in working life as employees choose flexibility

  Research from automation platform advises that focusing on technologies that improve employee and IT experiences is critical for future of work success and retaining talent in the hybrid world

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  How Kofax is tapping the groundswell in automation

  Kofax is counting on its pedigree in optical character recognition and other capabilities to tap the growing market for automation technologies

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Strategic Review of Policing: Police tech needs better ethical scrutiny

  The Strategic Review of Policing confirms the central role that tech will be playing going forward, but warns of the need for greater ethical scrutiny to ensure public trust

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Microsoft serves up three zero-days on March Patch Tuesday

  Three zero-days pop up in Microsoft’s March update, along with a number of other noteworthy concerns for defenders

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Glide connects Proximity Edge 8 datacentre to Birmingham dark fibre ring

  Second-city initiative with infrastructure and utilities business designed to bring increased diversity and additional low-latency connectivity options to edge colocation customers

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Amazon resists independent audit of warehouse working conditions

  Two shareholder proposals pushing for an independent audit of working conditions at Amazon are being challenged by the ecommerce giant, which claims it is a matter for management rather than shareholders

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Horizon inquiry hearing sheds light on subpostmaster federation’s role in hushing up IT problems

  A National Federation for Subpostmasters official had huge unexplained loss written off by Post Office despite many in the same position being convicted for crimes they didn't commit

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Limelight gains large CDN scale with Edgecast acquisition

  Leading CDN provider gains extra scale with strategic purchase, claiming to have created global leader in edge-enabled software services with diversified revenue across products, clients, geographies and channels

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  NHS AI framework offers decision support for stroke diagnosis

  Procurement framework aims to help hospitals gain access to pioneering AI-powered image analysis for stroke detection

• March 07, 2022 07 Mar'22

  India’s Mahindra Group makes cloud move

  The Indian conglomerate will migrate SAP S/4 Hana and its data warehouse to Google Cloud and build up its DevOps capabilities

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Microsoft stops sales of products and services to Russia

  Citing sanctions and cyber security concerns, Microsoft has become the latest company to withdraw from the Russian market

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SAP and Oracle express solidarity with Ukraine against Russia

  SAP and Oracle suspend operations in the Russian Federation after expressing solidarity with Ukraine in the face of the war against it being conducted by Russia

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Post Office warned of software flaw in 2006, but failed to alert subpostmaster network

  The Post Office and Fujitsu failed to alert subpostmasters to a software error that caused them to be wrongly blamed for accounting shortfalls

• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  SingHealth researchers to get new supercomputer

  Healthcare researchers at SingHealth can look forward to a new supercomputer to support their work

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  MWC 2022: AT&T looks to the cloud to gain edge in 5G

  Leading US network provider reaches out to communications industry ecosystem to strengthen next-generation infrastructure offer, encompassing edge and private networking, cloud and 5G massive MIMO technology

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Raspberry Pi at 10: Cheaper than chips

  We speak to the founder of Raspberry Pi about the power of a low-cost device and its appeal as an educational tool and for space-age projects

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Ban predictive policing systems in EU AI Act, says civil society

  A coalition of civil society groups has called on European lawmakers to use the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act as an opportunity to ban predictive policing systems

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Workplace surveillance ‘spiralling out of control’, says TUC

  Trade union body pushes for workers to be consulted on the implementation of new technologies at work, warning that invasive surveillance practices are getting out of hand

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  MWC 2022: Telefónica boosts cloud cover with AWS, Microsoft

  Hot on the heels of the operator inking a cloud sourcing deal with arch rival AWS, leading Spain-based telco Telefónica has signed a deal with Microsoft to expand their global collaboration

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Zopa Bank to sponsor 50 Ukrainian tech professionals with visa offer

  IT companies are reaching out to IT professionals in the Ukraine with offers of support for those looking to work in the UK

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Forrester: Boom in IT spending to drive economic recovery

  Global IT spending is increasing as countries start to recover from the economic downturn caused by Covid-19 lockdown restrictions

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Cloud suppliers eye APAC space industry

  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are working with local governments and supplying cloud technologies to support the region’s growing space industry

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Online Safety Bill updated to deal with anonymous abuse

  Social media companies will be forced to deal with anonymous abuse online by the introduction of new measures in the Online Safety Bill

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  AT&T teams with Microsoft to gain private 5G edge

  US operator collaborates with cloud giant to integrate 5G network with Azure private mobile edge computing and builds on existing edge work between the two companies

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Government set to backtrack on untenable position on subpostmaster compensation

  The government looks set to backtrack on its previous stance and outline a means of providing fair compensation to a group of Post Office Horizon scandal victims so far left out of compensation schemes

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Irish data watchdog calls for ‘objective metrics’ for big tech regulation

  Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, says EU regulators must agree on metrics to measure the effectiveness of data protection regulation

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  Darktrace buys attack surface management firm Cybersprint

  Emergent AI cyber specialist Darktrace is to pay £39.7m for Netherlands-based Cybersprint

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Workers demand universal high-performance broadband to succeed with hybrid work

  Cisco Broadband Index finds just more than two-fifths of UK workers now rely on their home internet to work from home or run their own business, but almost three-quarters think broadband services need to dramatically improve to enable them to work ...

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Benu teams with AWS for SASE-based cloud-native networks

  Network edge service provider teams with global cloud giant on first use of public cloud for wireline broadband and security services with secure access service edge infrastructure

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  European Commission opens path to a Data Act to stoke digital economy

  The European Commission has published a proposal for a Data Act that it hopes will stoke a digital economy, in part by unlocking IoT and other ‘industrial data’

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Salesforce pays out over £2m in bug bounties

  Salesforce says it received more than 4,000 vulnerability reports in 2021 alone as it delivers a rare public update on its bug bounty programme

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  IT leaders primed to drive innovation and hybrid work

  As organisations move beyond the pandemic, survey shows IT leaders are being given greater levels of responsibility

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Tech acquisition to be major priority for UK police

  Policing minister cites technology as major focus for future of UK police, in comments made ahead of the publication of the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Gartner: Public sector must target disjointed IT strategy

  The pandemic showed how quickly public sector IT can deliver technology to support essential services – now it is time to fix scalability

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Software AG executives trumpet progress on Helix growth plan

  Software AG’s executive team has confirmed progress on a cloud-oriented growth strategy named Helix, launched in 2019 and bolstered by 2021 investment by US technology firm Silver Lake

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Horizon inquiry questioning raises hopes of fair compensation for victims so far left out

  Post Office Horizon scandal victims left out of current compensation schemes have had their hopes raised that the statutory public inquiry is seriously addressing their demands for fair financial redress

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Hammerspace offers follow-the-sun access to on-prem and cloud storage

  Startup aims to succeed where others have failed and present file, block and object storage data from any and multiple locations as if it were local to the user

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Mondelēz moves global operations to digital workspace with Orange Business Services

  Snack giant transforms legacy infrastructure to digital platform, enabling communication and collaboration on a global scale, with analytics and AI used to improve customer experience and personalise service for employee workplace needs

• February 21, 2022 21 Feb'22

  Union pushes for collective bargaining around technology and data

  Prospect union releases guidance on how workers and unions can engage employers over the use of technology at work, with particular emphasis on the need to include technology provisions in collective bargaining agreements