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• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Banks face fairness challenges as they commit to AI technology

  Banks working with artificial intelligence technology face governance challenges to ensure AI-based decisions are fair and ethical

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Covid-19 accelerates UK digital transformation efforts by over five years

  Over a third of UK business decision-makers believe changes in operations since Covid-19 have increased digital transformation budgets “dramatically”

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Ocado hired 300 tech workers over past six months

  Online supermarket Ocado has hired a significant number of technology workers over the past six months to cope with coronavirus demand, it announced in its half-year results

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  NUS develops e-skin system in neuromorphic computing breakthrough

  The National University of Singapore has developed an electronic skin system that could give robots and prosthetic devices a sense of touch

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 123 bugs in July 2020 update

  The bugs start coming and they don’t stop coming; Microsoft has issued yet another bumper Patch Tuesday update

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  London boroughs say Covid-19 shows digital and innovation ‘more important than ever’

  An association of councils in the greater London area notes that local government’s capacity to adopt technology and innovate is essential in coping with the post-pandemic world

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  University graduates to Nutanix Files hyper-converged NAS

  The University of Reading had already deployed Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure so it made sense to add Nutanix Files when its ageing NAS boxes bit the dust

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Singapore’s Project Ubin hits commercialisation milestone

  A blockchain payments network prototype spearheaded by Singapore’s central bank and its partners could speed up and lower the cost of cross-border payments

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Check Point unearths critical SigRed bug in Windows DNS

  SigRed vulnerability is highly dangerous, but is being fixed as part of the July 2020 Patch Tuesday update

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  European court to decide legality of EU-US data sharing in dispute between Schrems and Facebook

  A ruling by the European Court of Justice will have ramifications for hundreds of thousands of companies that share data with the US. The case aims to balance US surveillance laws with the rights of EU citizens to keep their data private

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Subpostmasters hit funding target to prevent government from burying IT scandal

  The government is set to face scrutiny over its involvement in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in modern UK history

• July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20

  Recon vulnerability puts thousands of SAP customers at risk

  Users of multiple SAP products including S4/HANA should apply the security update as soon as possible to protect their systems

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  Half of UK organisations question the relevance of SD-WAN in Covid-driven remote workplace

  Research reveals confusion among UK organisations concerning SD-WAN, with optimised WAN covering many bases already and over half of firms leaning towards SASE solutions to meet their requirements

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  How SingEx is bracing itself for disruption

  Singapore’s SingEx started its digital transformation journey a few years ago and has already pivoted its approach to cope with new challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20

  Majority of NHS trusts used analytics to track patient infection status during Covid-19 pandemic

  Qlik research shows 84% of NHS trusts used data analytics to support patient care during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, and suggests they could use that expertise to improve public health in the round

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Executive interview: Toyota’s Melody Ayeli on the significant role of ITAM

  Melody Ayeli recently took on the post of chair of the newly formed ITAM Forum. She believes ITAM is crucial for successful IT operations

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Aryaka, 8x8 enhance enterprise communications across managed SD-WAN

  Cloud-first WAN company and integrated cloud communications platform forge partnership to accelerate digital transformation for organisations across global workplaces

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Facebook iOS SDK flaw linked to onset of Spotify app outage blighting Apple device users

  Apple device users are reporting usability issues with the Spotify app, which coincides with the onset of a partial outage affecting the Facebook iOS SDK

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Nearly half of employed in UK worked remotely in April 2020

  Covid-19 drives upsurge in home working in UK, and of those who did some work remotely, around a third worked fewer hours than usual and the same percentage worked longer hours

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Majority of security pros fed up with alert fatigue

  A vast majority of security professionals say they experience alert fatigue, and 88% are facing challenges with their current SIEM setup, according to a report

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Locked-down Nationwide staff make 2.5 million video calls in June

  Home-working technologies are no longer just a contingency for large companies, with future working practices set to change

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Zoom Cloud Meetings grabs mobile market as mobile app usage soars in second quarter

  April 2020 sees a monthly all-time high of over 200 billion hours spent using mobile apps worldwide, with video-conferencing continuing its impressive run

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Oracle fleshes out Cloud@Customer with public cloud services for use in customer datacentres

  Oracle has enhanced its Cloud@Customer service with capabilities derived from its recent raft of public cloud datacentres

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Executive interview: Ford’s Graham Hoare on manufacturing ventilators

  The executive director for business transformation at Ford of Britain discusses how augmented reality supported the VentilatorChallengeUK effort

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Clearview AI faces ICO investigation over facial recognition

  Controversial company that scraped data from the public internet to build its facial recognition algorithm faces a joint UK-Australian investigation into its practices

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Most finance firms are multicloud, but many are unprepared for public cloud cyber attacks

  Financial services firms are moving to the cloud at pace, but many are uncertain whether they could cope with an attack on an application based in the public cloud

• July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20

  Tencent Cloud teams up with ADBC on banking services

  Singapore’s Asia Digital Bank Corporation could leverage Tencent Cloud’s financial cloud platform to provide banking services to small businesses

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Oracle ups ante in cloud wars with dedicated customer regions

  Oracle’s Dedicated Region Cloud at Customer will let enterprises run an entire cloud region in their own datacentres in a potentially game-changing move

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Google commits to protecting open source projects

  Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Interview: Mayank Prakash, global consumer CIO, and Daljit Rehal, CDO, Centrica

  Two of energy giant Centrica’s tech bosses talk to Computer Weekly about the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown and the importance of company culture, innovation and using technology to make life easier for customers

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Post Office scandal victims have days to raise thousands of pounds or perpetrators go scot-free

  Victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal need to raise thousands of pounds in a week or those responsible for their suffering will avoid scrutiny

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Swisscom taps Hitachi to improve network-based customer service

  Pentaho product helps business customer service reps of Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company and leading IT services provider provide better, faster service through centralised hub

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Succeeding with hybrid cloud deployments

  Where IT complexity is a given, a policy-driven approach and effective monitoring are vital for success

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  UK contact-tracing app development leaders fail to reveal launch date

  Described as not being a silver bullet on its own, the UK’s contact-tracing app is also a silver bullet that won’t be fired any time soon, as leaders of development project struggle to convince Lords committee of progress to date

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Fujifilm software allows S3 access to LTO tape libraries

  Fujifilm Software Defined Tape allows tape libraries to act as an S3-based object storage archive accessible as a tier of storage on-premise or in the cloud

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Radius aims to get ahead of the curve with new telecoms division

  Converged technology, mobile and fixed line telecoms provider’s new division aims to help companies get the ‘smartest approach’ to their operations

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  CIO interview: David Allison, global head of IT, First Quantum Minerals

  For his first global CIO role, the IT chief had to tackle unusual challenges such as reliable networking and IT use in inhospitable mining environments in developing countries

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  How Infor Nexus is helping to digitalise Asia’s supply chain

  Infor’s Nexus unit has been supporting digitalisation efforts in Asia’s supply chain industry before the Covid-19 pandemic, which has accelerated adoption of cloud-based offerings in the region

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Three counts on Amdocs to support enterprise business expansion

  UK telco taps comms platforms and services technology provider to create modern solutions to challenge rivals and meet the evolving needs of UK businesses

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Is digital art coming of age under Covid?

  Israeli startup Niio is advancing a digital art platform comparable with Spotify. Is the digital medium for high art coming of age in these Covid times?

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  Bergen’s tech hub seeking to scale after positive start

  Norway's second largest city is building a tech ecosystem that is beginning its development with a focus on the city's industrial heritage

• July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Nick Burton, chief information and digital officer, Avon International

  The international beauty brand faced a major problem when the UK went into lockdown – how could its door-to-door sales model adapt to a socially distanced world?

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Remote workforce demands ‘hybrid working’, not the end of the office in the ‘better normal’

  As lockdowns end, research shows businesses will gradually have to start shifting their focus from purely surviving, yet employees think their desire for hybrid working is out of step with that of their employer

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  New normal of remote working sees more than half of innovation budgets cut

  Nearly one-fifth of tech executives have seen significant reductions in their innovation budgets because of the Covid-19 pandemic, says report

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  Telco edge to accompany 5G roll-outs in APAC

  Pilot projects are underway in the Asia-Pacific to deploy telco edge infrastructure to support high-bandwidth, low-latency applications

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO interview: Richard Gifford, CIO, Wincanton

  Transforming legacy systems, making use of real-time data and exploring emerging technologies are high on the agenda for the logistics giant’s IT team

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Qumulo hybrid cloud NAS provides special effects for Cinesite

  Hybrid cloud scale-out NAS from Qumulo used to offload Active Directory lookups and other workloads to the AWS cloud that had suffered in peak times when on Isilon

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Mysterious EvilQuest macOS ransomware spreads through torrents

  A new strain of ransomware, dubbed EvilQuest, is threatening Apple Mac environments, and seems to behave quite oddly

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  CIO Interview: Amex Global Business Travel CTO on incident response

  American Express Global Business Travel adapted an existing incident response service to support staff and clients during the lockdown