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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
January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22
Inside Kyndryl’s Southeast Asia playbook

Kyndryl will focus on building local partnerships and tapping opportunities in managed cloud services, among other areas, to stake a claim on the region’s managed services space
January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22
MPs call for fair compensation for excluded victims of Post Office scandal

Almost 100 MPs have backed a call for the government to reverse its decision to exclude 555 subpostmasters from fair compensation for their suffering and losses as a result of the Post Office Horizon scandal
January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22
Record amount invested in UK fintech last year, but female founders still overlooked

Last year the UK financial technology sector attracted the most investment ever following a slowdown in 2020
January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22
Thailand builds new supercomputer to boost research

The National Science and Technology Development Agency’s new supercomputer will boost research in pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and weather forecasting, among other areas
January 05, 2022 05 Jan'22
Melbourne’s InnerVision ups ante in smart parking

InnerVision Engineering’s smart parking solution uses machine vision and other technologies to deliver a frictionless parking experience for drivers in Australia
January 04, 2022 04 Jan'22
BlueJeans and Google join forces to unlock value for remote workforces

Leading US comms provider re-bundles flagship collaboration platform so it can be preloaded on Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition 2
January 04, 2022 04 Jan'22
Admins warned that Exchange date fix will take time to roll out

At the start of the New Year, Exchange 2016 and 2019 email servers started queuing email messages due to a date bug
December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21
Top 10 startup stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 startup stories of 2021
December 31, 2021 31 Dec'21
Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021

The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team began the year discussing the online fallout from the storming of the White House and finished it discussing IT and climate change, touching on bees and datacentres along the way
December 30, 2021 30 Dec'21
Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021
December 30, 2021 30 Dec'21
Top 10 Post Office Horizon stories of 2021

The past 12 months have seen some of the biggest landmarks in the unravelling of the Post Office Horizon scandal. Computer Weekly takes a look at a selection of key articles in 2021
December 30, 2021 30 Dec'21
Top 10 information management stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2021
December 29, 2021 29 Dec'21
Top 10 business applications stories of 2021

2021 saw enterprise software suppliers and users envisaging a nimbler future, beyond the Covid pandemic, with more loosely coupled ERP systems, more flexible business processes, and a renewed digital-first focus on customers
December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021
December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21
Avaya comms support Santa-as-a-service tracking

As sleigh bells ring, Avaya’s OneCloud contact centre services let you chart Father Christmas’s journey
December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21
Renault, Dassault Systèmes strengthen partnership to accelerate car manufacturing

Leading car manufacturer is adopting 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud globally to power the next phase of its mobility journey and develop programmes for new vehicles and mobility services
December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21
Marks & Spencer upskills internal talent with data science education

Retailer is building up a data science capability that includes a Master’s degree-level apprenticeship as well as making data literacy a common currency up and down the organisation
December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21
Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2021

Computer Weekly selects 10 key stories from the financial services IT sector over the past year
December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21
Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021

Office work has largely remained hybrid this year. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Oracle buys Cerner for nearly $30bn in major push into healthcare

Oracle has bought healthcare IT provider Cerner for $28.3bn, in a major push into healthcare. It is its largest acquisition since NetSuite for $9.3bn in 2016
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
UK tech startups raise almost £30bn in record year

The UK tech sector has achieved record growth in the past 12 months after the Covid pandemic paused investment
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
UK IT shapes up for hybrid new normal in 2022

The latest Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey shows that secure connectivity and cloud remain at the core of enterprises’ needs for the foreseeable future
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
Top 10 software development stories of 2021

Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021
December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21
IT Priorities 2022: Cloud-first mindset growing in India

Nearly half of organisations in India are expected to spend more on cloud services, underscoring the growing cloud-first mindset that is taking root in the subcontinent
December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21
Defra and MoJ hit with £120m IR35 tax bill despite using HMRC guidance

Government departments landed with tax bills totalling just over £120m over contractor IR35 status errors, despite receiving HMRC guidance and training
December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21
Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2021

This year, artificial intelligence has moved to operationalisation, explainability and regulatory frameworks. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 artificial intelligence stories for 2021
December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21
Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues
December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21
CDEI research pinpoints barriers to trustworthy AI exploitation

Survey of UK business by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has disclosed the patchiness of artificial intelligence and data-driven technology adoption across different economic sectors
December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21
Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

Building society’s tech teams work with consultancy Contino to implement new website using the chaos engineering method
December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21
Pressure on government to pay fair compensation to subpostmasters left out of current schemes

MPs demand that the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in court should be properly compensated for their losses and suffering
December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21
Gig economy algorithmic management tools ‘unfair and opaque’

Report published by Worker Info Exchange warns of algorithmically enabled rights abuses in the gig economy, noting the insufficient transparency of employers and the lacklustre nature of legal redress
December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21
Asda follows EG Group sibling in selection of Rise with SAP

Retailer is looking to improve the agility of its operations in the cloud with a move to Rise with SAP on Microsoft Azure, and to streamline its procurement with SAP Ariba
December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21
After Log4j, December Patch Tuesday piles on the pressure

December’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft contains several critical CVEs, but this month all attention is focused on the fall-out from Log4Shell, and burn-out is becoming a real issue
December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21
Digital Ethics Summit: Innovation needs regulation to be ethical

Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation