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November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20
Mixed blessings for robots in retail

Ocado has acquired two US firms to boost its robotics expertise, while Walmart has reverted to using staff for shelf inventory checks
November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20
NHSX launches second round of NHS AI competition

NHS is looking for artificial intelligence products to help with triage, screening, imaging and intelligent operational automation
November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20
Robot lawyer gets Sberbank role

Russia's largest state-owned bank creates a robot lawyer to reduce the time taken to process documents and make decisions based on them
November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20
Industrial IoT connections to reach 37 billion by 2025

Smart factory concept realised as research reveals smart manufacturing will represent three-fifths of global industrial internet of things connections over next five years

November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20
Subpostmasters’ complaint about government begins its journey to Parliamentary Ombudsman

Government faces scrutiny of its handling of the Post Office IT scandal that destroyed subpostmasters’ lives and livelihoods
November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20
HPE to build new Pawsey supercomputers

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has snagged a A$48m deal to deliver a supercomputer for Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20
Finnish government rolls out digital projects to support SMEs

Finland is set to create network of technology hubs that will support SMEs in the country, as well as create links across the EU
November 01, 2020 01 Nov'20
How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC

The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia
October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20
Nearly half of firms to increase investments in IoT despite the impact of Covid-19

Gartner research finds that a third of companies that have implemented IoT will likely have implemented AI in conjunction, with at least one IoT project with digital twins also a key driver, by 2033
October 30, 2020 30 Oct'20
Google third-quarter results highlight public cloud goals

Google is the third player in the public cloud market, but it sees multicloud support as a major differentiator

October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20
How Shell is fleshing out a digital-twin strategy

Digital twins are among the innovations that use AI, IoT and big data to help asset-intensive industries manage their operations
October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20
Microsoft to open cloud region in Taiwan

Microsoft’s cloud datacentre region in Taiwan will first provide access to Azure, followed by Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform later
October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20
Why Malaysia’s AmBank is embracing open source and DevOps

AmBank Group is tapping open source, DevOps and data science to improve customer service and develop bespoke services for a broader market
October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20
VMware: Management practices need to adapt to manage remote working

Study finds distributed working practices – office, home, on the move or hybrid – have proven business and employee engagement benefits, but leadership and business culture need updating
October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20
NetApp boosts NVMe, QLC and container hybrid cloud offer

Storage giant NetApp unveils new AFF, FAS and E-series arrays with NVMe and QLC flash capability, plus object storage in Ontap and Spot cloud container resource management in Cloud Manager
October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20
Microsoft CEO predicts 80% growth opportunity for tech

Company’s first quarter 2020 results shows strong demand for cloud services and CEO Satya Nadella believes IT modernisation will drive tech spending
October 28, 2020 28 Oct'20
Avalon Airport deploys touchless kiosks, CT screening

Australia’s Avalon Airport has rolled out touchless check-in and bag drop systems that passengers can control using speech, head gestures and eye gaze
October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20
Commvault launches Metallic backup service in Europe

Backup giant adds backup as a service, with cloud-to-cloud backup and e-discovery functionality that can work across on-site datacentres and the AWS and Azure clouds
October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20
Ericsson looks to the cloud for increased RAN flexibility

Cloud-based radio access network for communications service providers regarded as offering more versatility to network buildouts as a complement to existing purpose-built 5G networks and addressing a variety of 5G use cases
October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20
SAP Q3 2020 results: revenue down 4%, cloud silver lining hailed

SAP’s third quarter 2020 results stated a 4% year-on-year reduction in revenue, with an 11% increase in cloud revenue lightening the gloom
October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20
BT brings out RCS business messaging to UK customers

Telco announces that platform based on next generation of rich mobile messaging is now through early-stage pilots and is available for businesses to enhance customer experience
October 26, 2020 26 Oct'20
Chatbots will not replace call centre agents

Chatbots have not lived up to their promises and are better poised to support call centre agents in the blended realm of customer service and employee collaboration, says a regional Avaya executive
October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20
NHS trust takes another look at its appointment of IT scandal CEO

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has asked for external review of its process when appointing controversial executive
October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20
Saudi Arabian authorities work with Chinese IT giants on digital goals

Saudi Arabia has signed two agreements with Chinese IT suppliers as it strives to deliver its ambitious programme to diversify its economy
October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20
Nordic CIO Interview: Teemu Salmi, Stora Enso

Working with startup communities helps to drive digital transformation at one of the world’s largest forest industry companies, Stora Enso
October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20
ANZ Bank moves digital banking services to container platform

Australia’s largest bank now runs 30% of its internet banking services on Red Hat OpenShift in a move that has energised developers and paved the way for more automation
October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20
Trump and Biden campaign apps easy targets for cyber criminals

You don’t need a stellar IQ to exploit the dangerous StrandHogg Android vulnerability, and users of both Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s mobile apps are at risk of falling victim to it
October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20
Financial services staff want work-from-home policies to continue after Covid

About half of workers in the finance sector want their employers to retain remote working policies brought in during the pandemic
October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20
UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts

Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs
October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20
How Malaysia’s Selangor state is tapping cloud

Malaysian state has built a cloud-based payment services platform for citizens and is looking to tap cloud-based analytics to upgrade its surveillance cameras, among other cloud computing initiatives
October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20
Pace of digital transformation accelerates

As businesses strive to return to profitability, business leaders are relying on tech innovation to drive economic recovery
October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20
Labour shares concerns over ‘whitewash’ Horizon IT inquiry

Labour MPs write to postal affairs minister expressing fears that the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal does not guarantee cooperation from the Post Office, Fujitsu and government
October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20
Rackspace expands Singapore office, eyes ASEAN market

Managed cloud services supplier expands regional office to develop deeper relationships with local customers as demand for its services grows
October 20, 2020 20 Oct'20
Study finds AI can teach humans new tricks

Artificial intelligence tends to rely on supervised learning, but making the most of AI requires people to take on board what these systems learn autonomously
October 19, 2020 19 Oct'20
London’s fintechs continue to attract investment

The capital’s fintechs continue to attract large volumes of venture capital funds despite the global economic slowdown
October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20
Serco and Sitel contact-tracing contracts agreed to be penalty-free for underperformance

Penalties for underperformance were not included in NHS contact-tracing contracts with Serco and Sitel, it has emerged from questions to the Department of Health by Conservative MP David Davis
October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20
CIO interview: Generali’s Yanna Winter on the power of data integration

Yanna Winter, CIO and head of IT at insurance firm Generali, discusses how to slice up the legacy IT elephant in the room to enable data-driven applications
October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20
Small businesses’ remote working frustrations threaten exodus of best talent

While large firms mull massive investment to return to offices, over a quarter of European small business workers would switch jobs to somewhere better equipped for remote working
October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20
Services Australia taps AI in document processing

Services Australia and Capgemini have developed an AI engine to classify and extract information from claim documents in a pilot project
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
Emerging tech can improve regulatory processes, says BEIS report

Regulators should take a best-practice approach to the use of emerging technologies but need to be aware of the challenges, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
Employees demand greater ownership and choice in the ‘new normal’ of work

Cisco survey shows flexible future for work, with three-quarters of UK office workers wanting to choose whether to work from home or office, and manage their hours
October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20
Post Office races to solve IT error under gaze of public and banks

The Post Office is focusing urgently on fixing an IT error suffered by a subpostmaster amid the ongoing IT scandal
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
Employees demand office redesign for new hybrid work environment

Global study by visualisation and collaboration technology provider says employees worldwide are desperate to get back to the office and want their employers to invest in a tech-driven environment
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
NHS England issues integrated cloud ERP procurement advice call

NHS England is calling on software suppliers for advice concerning the feasibility of moving and integrating its ERP systems in cloud infrastructure
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
Public data should not be held by US tech giants

One-off evidence sessions to follow up on the recommendations of the House of Lords AI Committee revisit the data and ethics debate
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
Microsoft fixes 87 bugs in October 2020 Patch Tuesday

Smaller October Patch Tuesday update includes fixes for critical bugs in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
ServiceNow to roll out Now platform on Azure

ServiceNow introduces Azure-linked offering to cater to the needs of organisations in regulated industries that have strict data sovereignty and security requirements
October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20
Rémy Cointreau migrates SAP to S/4 Hana on Google Cloud

Cloud-based deployment speeds up scalability and provides integration with Salesforce and e-commerce systems
October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20
Government minister’s plea for subpostmasters to take part in review of IT scandal rejected

Government minister met with former subpostmaster online in an attempt to get victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal involved in government review
October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20
DBS to deploy IBM z15 mainframes

Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to run and modernise mission-critical applications on z15 mainframes