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• January 28, 2022 28 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

• January 28, 2022 28 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

• January 28, 2022 28 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

• January 27, 2022 27 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

• January 27, 2022 27 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

• January 27, 2022 27 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

• January 27, 2022 27 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

• January 27, 2022 27 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 26, 2022 26 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

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Icelandic research could revolutionise AI

  Icelandic team is researching potential artificial intelligence that will not choke when faced with the unknown

• January 25, 2022 25 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

• January 25, 2022 25 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

• January 25, 2022 25 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

• January 25, 2022 25 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

• January 24, 2022 24 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

• January 24, 2022 24 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

• January 21, 2022 21 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

• January 21, 2022 21 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

• January 21, 2022 21 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

• January 21, 2022 21 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

• January 20, 2022 20 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

• January 20, 2022 20 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

• January 20, 2022 20 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

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Twelve million jobs to be lost to automation in Europe by 2040

  Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Aldi launches grab-and-go test store in London

  Discount supermarket brand Aldi has launched a checkout-free concept store in London to test contact-free shopping

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Arizona State University taps Verizon for 5G Innovation Hub

  Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute services enable researchers to develop and test real-world solutions to enhance immersive education, remote learning, virtual reality and data analytics

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  IT teams blind to Kubernetes observability

  The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Amazon puts UK Visa ban on hold

  Online retail giant Amazon continues to allow UK Visa credit card payments as negotiations over fees with the card provider continue

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Government widens subpostmaster miscarriage of justice compensation

  Government changes its position in billion-pound Horizon scandal compensation

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Test police algorithms in court rather than legislate, Lords told

  Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  ‘Russian-backed’ hackers defaced Ukrainian websites as cover for dangerous malware attack

  Kiev claims that a hacking group in Belarus – a close ally of Russia – was responsible for hacking Ukrainian government websites amid threats of military action

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Sluggish adoption of Windows 11 with more devices on unsupported OSes

  With Windows 11, existing Windows 10 users have until October 2025 to update. Until they do, they will only get one OS update a year

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Twinings selects Rise with SAP to simplify its business brew

  Tea company Twinings Ovaltine has chosen SAP’s Rise subscription service to simplify its relationship with the supplier and focus on future growth

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Post Office received £1bn taxpayer subsidy last year as part of IT scandal compensation

  The Post Office has received over £1bn in taxpayer subsidies for its Horizon scandal compensation scheme

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  M1 rolls out voice bot for customer hotlines

  The Singapore telco has rolled out a voice bot for a number of customer hotlines to improve customer experience and the productivity of call agents

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  Councillors refuse public release of IT audit of Hackney Psya ransomware attack

  Hackney councillors claim an IT audit report is exempt for disclosure as it relates to action taken in relation to the prevention, investigation or prosecution of crime

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  Ikano Bank’s team of robots exceeds 2021 targets

  How the Swedish bank’s robotic automation project reached its time-saving target with time to spare, automating 168 processes, creating an in-house RPA team and embedding automation in every department’s thinking

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  2021 a blockbuster year for mobile apps

  Research from App Annie reveals most mobile-first environment ever seen, with more time than ever before spent in mobile apps, reaching 4.8 hours a day in the top mobile-first markets

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  RBL Bank taps Google Cloud to drive digital agenda

  The private lender will tap Google Cloud to power its customer acquisition engine and improve customer data management and analytics, among other areas

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  Government backs Turing Institute in bid to set global AI technical standards

  The DCMS has announced an AI Standards Hub, comprising The Alan Turing Institute, the National Physical Laboratory and the British Standards Institution to set a global bar for AI technical standards

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  IT teams give remote tech the thumbs up, but worry about extra work

  With people continuing to work from home, remote access technologies have become key tools in supporting a hybrid workforce

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  Microsoft fixes six zero-days in January Patch Tuesday update

  A larger than of late Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft comes as defenders continue to grapple with Log4Shell

• January 11, 2022 11 Jan'22

  Post Office can’t access records of all money paid to it by victims of the Horizon scandal

  A parliamentary select committee was told that the Post Office is unable to access information to accurately calculate compensation for some Horizon scandal victims

• January 11, 2022 11 Jan'22

  Companies propose scanning content pre-encryption to fight CSAM

  Firms working on the UK government’s Safety Tech Challenge have suggested that scanning content before encryption will help prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material – but privacy concerns remain