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• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  BCS demands reform to rules on computer evidence following Post Office Horizon scandal revelations

  Professional IT body wants changes to how computer evidence is used in court in the wake of the Post Office case

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Oxbotica and TRL pilot safety framework for off-road autonomous vehicles

  Autonomous vehicle technology companies develop code of practice to deploy autonomy safely, efficiently and at scale across a range of environments, in particular off-road settings such as mines, farms and ports where there are no pre-defined or ...

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Build 2021: Microsoft targets multicloud developers

  Company has previewed new capabilities to Azure application services, giving developers greater freedom of where to deploy workloads

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  How supply chain digitisation is paving the way to gene therapy

  Big pharma has been on the frontline to vaccinate the world against Covid-19. Digitising supply chains sets them up to personalise patient care

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Singapore deploys drones to monitor reservoir water quality

  Singapore’s national water agency PUB is deploying autonomous drones at six reservoirs to monitor water quality and other activities to improve operational efficiency

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Nokia, Microsoft team to offer public cloud AI use-case library for telcos

  Nokia’s AVA AI use-case library now delivered as a service on Azure public cloud, claiming to combine telco-grade security and instant web scale architecture scalability

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Veeam bolsters portfolio to cover emerging workloads

  The groundswell in containerisation and open-source hypervisors is behind Veeam’s recent move to enable backup and recovery of emerging workloads

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Databricks unveils data sharing protocol as part of data lakehouse

  Databricks announces launch of open source project called Delta Sharing at Data + AI Summit, with backing of data providers and business intelligence tool suppliers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Build 2021: Code abstraction and automatic code generation

  Microsoft’s annual software developers’ event, Build, opened up with the company’s CEO painting a picture of opportunity for software developers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Disabled travellers promised better train journeys by Passenger Assistance app

  An app developed by UK startup Transreport for the Rail Delivery Group aims to improve train travel for disabled passengers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  ‘It's a good day when we refer a case,’ CCRC tells MPs during review of Post Office prosecutions

  Criminal Cases Review Commission will not allow pressure on its resources to prevent subpostmasters seeking a review of their criminal convictions

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Valence brings storage virtualisation for the cloud era

  Startup 22dot6 launches Valence, software-defined storage that throws a virtualisation layer over any backend storage via multiple nodes that split metadata and storage services

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Edge computing drives business innovation

  Intel research identifies edge computing as a critical factor that businesses must harness to navigate and understand data now and into the future

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Oil and gas firm halves backup licence cost with Hycu move

  Summit E&P made a strategic move to Nutanix hyper-converged and away from NetApp and VMware and wanted backup that could handle virtual machines and physical servers

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Amdocs expands telco cloud strategic collaboration with Microsoft

  Software provider boosts collaboration that will enable service providers to transform to the cloud with cloud-native systems and cloud transformation services

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Think 2021: AI and automation dominate IBM’s growth strategy

  Think 2021 was an opportunity for IBM to showcase its progress in a vision for hybrid cloud operations and artificial intelligence

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  BSO draws on Arc to deliver on-demand connectivity in Middle East

  Joint venture will interconnect companies’ network footprints in the Middle East, connecting digital hubs and providing inter-regional connectivity

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion

  University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  How Virgin Atlantic used Workplace from Facebook to great advantage during the pandemic

  Virgin Atlantic was an early adopter of Workplace from Facebook. We find out how the collaboration tool has supported the airline throughout the pandemic

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Megaport claims transformation of networking at the edge with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

  Megaport Virtual Edge technology enables network managers to modernise their SD-WAN connectivity, optimise network performance and cut provisioning time

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Lack of developer attention to cloud security prompts alerts

  The personal data of over 100 million Android users may have been put at risk through a variety of cloud service misconfigurations

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Zoom launches Events platform for virtual experiences

  Breakout conferencing platform makes next evolutionary step with platform for producing and monetising interactive virtual events and conferences

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Alibaba taps machine learning to digitise Chinese classics

  Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy has developed a machine learning model to convert scanned pages of ancient Chinese classics into text

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Subpostmaster campaign group to meet Post Office scandal inquiry chair

  The subpostmaster campaign group JFSA refused to cooperate with initial inquiry because it ‘lacked teeth’, but is now willing to talk after it was put on a statutory footing

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Amdocs beefs up BT business continuity for mobile customers

  Expansion to existing multiyear managed services agreement sees Amdocs and Lightico joint solution deployed to enable telco’s mobile customers to complete sales journeys remotely and securely, without the need for physical paperwork or store visits

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  UK government publishes framework on automated decision-making

  The framework focuses on making the use of algorithms and automated decision-making systems within the public sector more ethical, transparent and accountable

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Edging closer to composable business

  Covid-19 forced organisations to try radical new things. Building apps from pre-built functions is one that Mulesoft believes has longevity

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Post Office Horizon inquiry set to be given statutory status with wider powers

  The government inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal is set to be made statutory with the power to call witnesses under oath and compel provision of evidence

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Shift to digital remittances helps sector retain transaction value

  Global remittance volumes and value was more resilient than expected over the past year, partly as a result of the take-up of fintech services

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Government response to National Data Strategy consultation depicts data as ‘asset, not threat’

  Government responds to consultation with a promise of delivery, putting an emphasis on data as an asset, not a threat, and finding respondents keen on levelling up

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Irish High Court dismisses legal bid by Facebook over EU-US data transfers

  Latest twist in long-running legal battle sees Facebook lose legal bid to prevent the Irish Data Protection Commissioner suspending its transfer of data about European citizens to the US

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Australian budget lends support to digital economy

  Australia’s A$1.2bn Digital Economy Strategy ticks most of the right boxes, but some industry experts say areas such as broadband infrastructure and artificial intelligence are still underfunded

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  Oxford University uses Oracle Cloud to speed up analysis of Covid-19 variants

  The University of Oxford is availing itself of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the genomic sequencing and analysis of SARS-CoV-2, in part to identify new Covid-19 variants

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  More former subpostmasters have criminal convictions quashed

  Two former subpostmasters pushed to the brink of suicide after being convicted for financial crimes finally have their names cleared

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Google Cloud gets into orbit with SpaceX for data, cloud services

  Elon Musk’s low Earth orbit satellite constellation to locate ground stations in IT giant’s data centre properties, providing businesses with access to leading cloud infrastructure

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Employers rethinking office space, collaboration and technology in new hybrid workplace

  As the pandemic eases, many business leaders are engaged with effectively offering remote working flexibility and are creating and communicating plans to their employees, setting expectations and guidelines moving forward

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  NHSX data strategy due in ‘a few weeks’

  NHSX director of policy and strategy Simon Madden says the long-awaited strategy is expected to “trigger huge debates” on issues such as access, choice and transparency, and will be published in draft form shortly to allow for consultation

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Mars expands Microsoft strategy to drive business agenda

  Mars plans to drive new data insights and AI across its supply chains to optimise production and lower its carbon footprint

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Portworx gets container-native array management for Pure hardware

  Container storage player Portworx builds in container-native functionality to allow discovery, provisioning and management from inside Kubernetes cluster, but only on Pure arrays so far

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Cisco indicates intent to buy Socio Labs, Sedona Systems

  Network giant aims to purchase developer of technology to deliver automation for routed optical networking, and modern event technology platform provider

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  IBM demonstrates ‘120x speedup’ in target quantum application

  A simulation of the molecule lithium hydride, which even on a quantum computer takes 45 days, can now be run in just nine hours, researchers claim

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Fujitsu bags £3bn in public sector contracts while software errors wreck the lives of subpostmasters

  The supplier at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal has so far escaped the ramifications of its role in the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Engineering firm Briggs of Burton maps global expansion with SAP’s Rise service

  Briggs of Burton, an engineering firm that makes hygienic equipment for drinks, food and pharmaceutical companies, has chosen SAP’s Rise service to guide its global expansion, initially in China

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Microsoft fixes four critical bugs on lighter Patch Tuesday

  Four critical RCE vulnerabilities put users of various Microsoft products at risk, and should be patched right away

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Running a bees and spirits business on low-code

  We look at how a small honey and gin producer has adapted and grown its business without requiring external software development expertise

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  How OAG has adapted data services for return to airline travel

  Covid-19 led to radical changes across the travel sector. Despite lower passenger flows, global travel data provider OAG reworked its data offerings to prepare for a return to normal

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  New normal of remote, hybrid working sees two-thirds of European businesses increase IT spend

  Remote IT support, cloud-based systems and cyber security infrastructure are among top IT investment priorities across all sectors as firms reassess priorities and practices in post-Covid working environment

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Swedish court finds ambiguities in hacked EncroChat cryptophone evidence

  Defence lawyer claims evidence obtained by hacking the EncroChat encrypted phone network has ‘no legal’ value following Swedish appeal court ruling

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  UK lagging in post-Covid AI-driven business recovery

  Senior IT decision-makers across Europe see artificial intelligence adoption accelerating, but the UK is in the slow lane

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  IBM doubles down on AI and hybrid cloud

  IBM is beefing up its core technology capabilities in artificial intelligence and hybrid cloud to speed up application modernisation and improve AI adoption