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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
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January 12, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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January 11, 2022
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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
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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
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January 10, 2022
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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
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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
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January 06, 2022
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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
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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
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January 05, 2022
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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
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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
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January 04, 2022
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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
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December 31, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 startup stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 startup stories of 2021
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December 31, 2021
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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
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December 30, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021
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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
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December 30, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 information management stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2021
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December 29, 2021
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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
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December 23, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2021
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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
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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
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December 22, 2021
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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
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December 22, 2021
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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
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December 22, 2021
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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
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December 21, 2021
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Dec'21
Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021
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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
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December 21, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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December 20, 2021
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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
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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
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December 20, 2021
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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
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December 17, 2021
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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
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December 16, 2021
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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
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December 15, 2021
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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
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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
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December 15, 2021
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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
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December 15, 2021
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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
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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
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December 15, 2021
15
Dec'21
AIB signs up to z15-powered transformation
Irish bank has continued its investment in IBM z-series hardware and the Red Hat software portfolio to help it achieve its digital transformation goals
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December 15, 2021
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Dec'21
CMA wants Apple and Google to open up mobile ecosystem
Interim report from Competitions and Markets Authority finds Apple and Google exert too much control over the mobile device market
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December 15, 2021
15
Dec'21
Avaya enhances educational and logistics environments with UCaaS and cloud
Supply chain leader supports business expansion and supercharges agent retention with cloud comms platform, and enables ‘exceptional’ education experiences for thousands of students with unified comms as a service
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December 14, 2021
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Dec'21
Joint committee publishes report on improving Online Safety Bill
MPs and peers release report on Online Safety Bill following five-month inquiry into the draft legislation and make a number of recommendations on how it can be improved to deal with harmful content and abuse on the internet
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December 14, 2021
14
Dec'21
Government must go further after agreeing to pay compensation for wrongly convicted subpostmasters
The government has agreed to pay compensation to former subpostmasters wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, but continues to refuse to pay a significant group of victims
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December 14, 2021
14
Dec'21
How to scale up your AI initiatives
Executive sponsorship, a strong data foundation and having ‘analytics artists’ are among ways to scale up AI initiatives beyond the pilot stage
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December 13, 2021
13
Dec'21
Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development
How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?
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December 13, 2021
13
Dec'21
Scottish government announces support for right to disconnect
The Scottish government is the first in the UK to publicly support a right to disconnect, which would give people the ability not engage in digitally enabled work-related activities outside of their contracted hours