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• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  ICO launches guidance on AI and data protection

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance aimed at rendering the application of machine learning to data compliant with data protection principles

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

  Business applications supplier’s chief executive tells Computer Weekly that business has been surprisingly good during the coronavirus crisis

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Labour Party is latest victim of Blackbaud ransomware attack

  Widening Blackbaud data breach ensnares the Labour Party as the cloud software firm continues to duck questions about its behaviour

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  Amazon reports Q2 profit and revenue surge as Covid-19-induced uptick in online sales continues

  Amazon sees profit and revenue surge in the wake of the coronavirus, but growth of its cloud business slows as IT buyers re-prioritise investments because of pandemic

• July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20

  US lawmakers grill big tech chiefs over market power

  Sixth antitrust hearing sees CEOs of major technology companies face combative questioning from members of Congress over their market power and dominance

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  BASF partnership develops AI-powered smart mining

  A collaboration with IntelliSense.io is being used to power AI-based optimisation of mining processes

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

  Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Agile adoption still in early stages

  Less than a quarter of organisations made it past the step of defining their agile approach while more than half are just getting started, study finds

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Serious BootHole vulnerability puts millions of systems at risk

  BootHole is a GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability and puts millions of PCs, servers and other devices at risk of compromise

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  How analogue film will be the future of digital history

  The pandemic meant GitHub had to wait until July to store a 21TB snapshot of its code repositories, on special film that can last a thousand years

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Amazon to create 1,000 skilled tech roles in Ireland

  Retail giant Amazon will be adding several skilled tech roles to its locations in Ireland over the next two years

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  IBM joins Google, Microsoft and Oracle in signing preferential cloud pricing deal with UK government

  Public sector organisations set to reap the benefits of CCS's latest preferential pricing deal, in support of its push to accelerate the adoption of cloud across central government and the NHS

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Enterprises experience ‘productivity tax’ as remote work environments set for long term

  Remote work productivity tracker shows employee productivity has dipped in certain regions and use cases since the advent of Covid-19, perhaps permanently

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

  Austrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old complaint against Facebook

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Firms face remote working challenges as IT teams express concern about infrastructure

  Post-lockdown survey finds UK-based IT leaders lack confidence in their organisation’s plan to withstand an unanticipated crisis as Covid-19 dramatically accelerates cloud adoption

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Coronavirus: How Trainline can tell if trains are safe to travel on

  With lockdown measures easing, Trainline recently introduced a Crowd Alerts feature to its app to help travellers feel safe using rail services

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Why supply chain visibility is key to APAC retailers

  Having complete visibility over the supply chain will enable retailers to tide over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and transform their businesses

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Backblaze takes aim at ‘costly and complex’ AWS cloud storage

  Backblaze offers free transfer to its S3-based cloud storage – which it claims costs a fraction of AWS et al – as long as it’s more than 50TB and you commit to at least 12 months

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  O2 gains KPMG mandate to meet new demand for remote working

  O2 will provide connectivity tools to help support professional services provider’s operational activity

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Google Cloud announces Grace Hopper subsea cable

  IT giant connects up first new undersea cable of its kind since 2003 to connect UK, US and Spain

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  UK government aims fintech industry at Africa

  UK government is building fintech relationships with developing countries, beginning with a pilot programme in Africa

• July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20

  Vector and AWS team up on ‘new energy platform’

  New Zealand-based energy supplier Vector partners AWS to develop an IoT and analytics platform to speed up processing of smart meter data and to tailor products and pricing for customers

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Hany Choueiri, chief data officer, Aldermore Bank

  Digital transformation, cloud and data science are central to the specialist bank's response to the coronavirus pandemic

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  SAP Q2 2020 results: SAP partially divests Qualtrics as positive results posted against Covid crisis

  SAP has announced a positive set of second-quarter 2020 results, hot on the heels of a declaration that it will spin out online survey business unit Qualtrics by way of an initial public offering in the US

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  Hybrid working becomes the new collaboration imperative

  New report reveals that ‘astutely’ navigating work practices, spaces and culture will help respond to crisis, redefine the purpose and reinvent the future of work

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  CTO interview: TransferGo’s Edgardo Savoy discusses skills and product innovation

  Improved user experience has opened up tech to many people, but ease of use distances young people from the tech going on under the hood

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Courts to trial digital case management system from September 2020

  The Common Platform digital system will eventually replace a series of existing software applications, and will be rolled out to criminal courts over the next year

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  China doubles up on ‘new infrastructure’ investments

  China is shoring up investments in cloud computing, datacentres and the internet of things, among other areas, to ready itself for the post-Covid-19 world

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  Microsoft results show impact of tech-driven business resilience

  While economies are set to shrink, businesses are leaning on tech to support operations, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Slack takes legal route against ‘weak, copycat’ Teams

  Microsoft could be set for another joust with the EU, as its rival, Slack, files an anti-competitive complaint

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  BNP Paribas joins IBM financial services cloud project

  IBM’s financial services cloud is gathering steam as more banks join its public cloud ecosystem of finance firms and developers

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

  Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European Court of Justice ruling

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  Manchester City Council deploys 8x8 to maintain remote services

  One of the UK’s largest local government authorities implements cloud-based communications system to keep critical services running while keeping agents safe during UK lockdown

• July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20

  Santander consumer arm to automate further after Nordic project

  Time and cost savings achieved by RPA pilot were high and customer experience improved, says bank

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Businesses underestimate negative impact of bot traffic

  Research from Netacea finds that although awareness of malicious bot activity is high, many are underestimating its true impact

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  US remote workers take significant productivity hit through IT disruption

  Analysis of remote employee experience and digital workplace post-Covid finds enterprise remote workers have encountered long wait times to address IT and other technical issues

• July 20, 2020 20 Jul'20

  Global business leaders comfortable if not fully prepared for large-scale shift to remote work

  Riverbed survey shows new technology investments are expected to enhance corporate performance and wellness as employees increasingly work from anywhere and employers adopt hybrid working models

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Three areas of remote working to consider

  A number of tech firms have used the shift to working from home, to develop new product offerings. We look at the IT impact

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  ‘Future-ready’ attributes key to business resiliency beyond Covid-19, says Vodafone

  Social responsibility, sustainability and purpose remain essential as consumers demand clearer commitments, with broadening employer diversity and increasing workplace flexibility key to address growing skill gaps

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Unified communications experiencing fastest growth ever in the midst of Covid-19

  Customer interest in UCaaS spikes 86% during the Covid-19 pandemic as firms across all industries modernise communications systems for the new normal

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

  Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global study on Covid-19 patients in intensive care

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Verizon tailors BlueJeans conferencing functionality, inks IBM 5G IoT deal

  Newly acquired video-conferencing suite gets feature enhancements as Verizon inks IBM partnership to focus on enabling industrial productivity in 5G-enabled IoT technologies

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Unesco launches global consultation on AI ethics

  The United Nations (UN) body opens up public consultation to help experts draft new global framework on artificial intelligence ethics

• July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20

  Government gives £24m boost to agricultural tech

  Nine agricultural technology projects are receiving government funding to create more efficient food production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  NHS to use forecasting tool to manage post-crisis Covid-19 spread

  A forecasting tool based on machine learning is to be used by the NHS to identify Covid-19 hot spots and manage post-crisis spread

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Schrems v Facebook: European court strikes down EU-US Privacy Shield agreement

  The European Court of Justice has struck down Privacy Shield, the EU-US data-sharing agreement, creating uncertainty for European countries that share data with the US and pressuring the US to reform surveillance laws

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Over four-fifths of companies will allow employees to work remotely after lockdown

  Study finds dynamics of the new work situation means organisations need to manage a more complex, hybrid workforce