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• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Restaurant group pays staff almost £1m early through fintech app

  Wagestream app enables Casual Dining Group employees to receive salary payments in advance for a small fee

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Australian firm to debut smart cricket ball

  With the cloud-connected ball and machine learning, amateur cricket players will soon be able to analyse their bowls and improve their game

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Startup unveils trillion-transistor AI accelerator chip

  The AI chip has 10,000 times more bandwidth to accelerate artificial intelligence training

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  US extends temporary stay on Huawei ban

  American network operators given extra wiggle room to wean themselves off Huawei’s hardware

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  Blue Prism gives Nordics the personal touch

  UK automation software company has opened and staffed a Nordic office to give customers in the region a better service

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  First government organisation in Bahrain migrates to Amazon Web Services

  Sovereign wealth fund’s internal IT team handled migration process, which has slashed the organisation’s technology operational costs

• August 19, 2019 19 Aug'19

  How EDR is moving beyond the endpoint

  An emerging breed of detection and response offerings is going beyond endpoints to collect and decipher telemetry data from across the enterprise

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Latest Post Office Horizon problems fixed with software update to blame

  The Post Office has fixed the latest problems with its Horizon system, affecting hundreds of branches

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Nvidia takes chatbots a step closer to conversational AI

  New graphics processing unit platform, running on Azure, is set to make Bing a little bit cleverer

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  European fintech investment continues to grow as global investment falls

  European countries are continuing to see significant growth in financial technology investment as total global investment decreases

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Dutch province pioneers no-code platform

  Software development platform removes the need for expert programmers when adding functionality to applications

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Google vs Microsoft: Digging into the public cloud email market duopoly

  The public cloud email sector is a veritable two-horse race, with Microsoft and Google being the ones to beat, but it is unlikely ever to become a “winner takes all” market, says Gartner

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  UK finance regulator gives extra time for companies to meet payment security rules

  Financial Conduct Authority gives companies under its watch an extra 18 months to meet an EU payments security standard

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  Cloud Paks on Red Hat OpenShift a ‘bold step’ for IBM

  A top APAC executive at IBM says the move to containerise and run its software on Red Hat OpenShift is a big step forward for the company

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Cray to support US Department of Energy El Capitan exascale programme

  Shasta platform will be used to expand traditional supercomputing to support complex workflows

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  IBM Cloud: No shift, Sherlock

  OpenShift is a key ingredient in the latest shift in IBM’s long-running cloud strategy. We look at what it means

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Microsoft teams up with India’s Jio in cloud push

  Microsoft and Indian telecoms giant Jio will deliver cloud infrastructure services through two new datacentres being built in Gujarat and Maharashtra

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Malaysian transport ministry calls for use of technology to solve traffic challenges

  The Malaysian government wants to tap telematics, IoT and other nascent technologies to improve road safety and ease traffic congestion

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Liberty Steel forges future growth with Infor

  Steelmaker is using cloud-delivered software from Infor to stoke its growth, replacing SAP systems provided by its former parent, Tata Steel Europe

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  South Wales Police starts facial recognition trial despite opposition

  The use of the facial recognition app by South Wales Police marks the latest deployment of controversial facial recognition technology by police forces in the UK

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Hundreds of Post Office branches hit by new Horizon problem

  Subpostmasters suffering slow running and frozen terminals while Post Office searches for a fix to issues apparently caused by a software update

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Huawei mobile IoT OS ready to plug Android gap

  Huawei is positioning its microkernel-based, distributed HarmonyOS mobile operating system as a true competitor to both Android and iOS

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Whistleblowers: James Glenn’s battle with Cisco opens new front on cyber security

  James Glenn, a 42-year-old security specialist, fought a 10-year legal battle with Cisco after blowing the whistle on serious security flaws. He lost his job, but has no regrets

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Rackspace Service Blocks has its roots in APAC

  Rackspace’s new managed services model that lets enterprises choose services based on where they are in their cloud adoption journey was conceived in the Asia-Pacific region

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  MapR collapse into HPE harbinger of big data tech trough of despair?

  The collapse of big data pioneer MapR into HPE could be the fate of an also-ran. But might it also be a sign of the crash of a Hadoop-related meteor shower that included Hortonworks and Cloudera?

• August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19

  Rolls-Royce uses IFS to provide real-time operational data

  Aero engine maker is using IFS Maintenix to gather engine data and push out software updates

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Oracle Generation 2 cloud service to debut in Australia

  The Sydney Generation 2 cloud region will be delivered from a new datacentre to meet demand for Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and autonomous database services in Australia

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  African bank foils suspected North Korean cyber attack

  An African bank is among the financial institutions to be targeted by North Korea’s multi-billion dollar cyber theft campaign to support its weapons programmes

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Scottish government launches £30m Cloud Services Framework with a 50% SME supplier list

  Framework has gone live with 14 suppliers making the cut, who will be on hand to provide public sector organisations in Scotland with access to public, private and hybrid cloud services, as well as colocation capacity

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  Tech purchasers should choose high-end handsets for better data rates

  Choice of handset modem and network technology will improve 4G network performance, which can be an important consideration in company mobiles

• August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19

  ICO joins international call for transparency around Facebook’s Libra currency

  Data protection regulators from around the world have signed a statement raising privacy concerns about Libra

• August 05, 2019 05 Aug'19

  CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group

  Brought in after a catastrophic IT failure that affected 6.5 million customers, the IT chief at Royal Bank of Scotland Group says the bank is now a leader in innovation

• August 05, 2019 05 Aug'19

  Nordic startups take international expansion as a starting point

  Two startups from the Nordic region are among those targeting international expansion even before they have established themselves on their home turf

• August 05, 2019 05 Aug'19

  Microsoft teams up with Singapore government in training push

  Microsoft is partnering SkillsFuture Singapore in a training programme that aims to build a ‘digitally confident’ population

• August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19

  Nationwide plans 750 tech roles at new digital hub in London

  Building society is setting up its first major tech presence in London to help it access deep skills pool

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  Cisco pays $8.6m after whistleblower discloses security flaws in video surveillance system

  James Glenn, a video surveillance expert working for a Cisco reseller in Denmark, alerted Cisco to security faults and stands to gain a share of a multimillion-dollar settlement with the US government

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  How Singapore’s NTUC Enterprise is embracing digital transformation

  NTUC Enterprise is starting to look more like a technology company, employing DevOps to speed up software development and developing new digital business models even as cultural barriers to transformation remain

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  Huawei and Apple struggle, while Samsung extends smartphone lead

  Demand for smartphones has slowed down dramatically – Apple is struggling to shift iPhones, while the US ban has affected Huawei

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  Middle East businesses welcome Amazon Web Services region launch

  Bahrain AWS region, with three datacentres, links Middle East to AWS's global network and will help to accelerate digital transformation

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Six Nordic banks form alliance to offer KYC as a service

  Nordic Know Your Customer joint venture will create a common Nordic platform based on advanced data management technologies

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Why CIOs should focus on trimming their internal email footprint

  Better internal collaboration should be part of a CIO’s digitisation arsenal. But there is resistance to change, especially as email is so dominant

• July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19

  Global IaaS market grew by 31% in 2018 as enterprise demand for public cloud continues to soar

  Global IaaS market shows no sign of slowing growth, as its largest participants continue to increase their share at the expense of smaller, more niche competitors

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  AWS growth rate slows in Q2, as Amazon retail's run of quarterly record profit growth ends

  Amazon's latest set of results suggest the law of big numbers might be kicking in for its cloud division, while its retail arm grapples with spiralling costs pertaining to the roll-out of its one-day delivery service

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Microsoft-owned LinkedIn commits to multi-year, all-in move to Azure public cloud

  Professional social networking site reveals plans to move all its workloads to the Microsoft public cloud over the next few years

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Salesforce teams up with Alibaba in foray into China

  The cloud applications giant is tapping Alibaba’s footprint in e-commerce and cloud in an effort to expand its business in the Greater China region

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Australian organisations gain A$9bn in productivity benefits from cloud

  Australian organisations have become more productive by using cloud but some are still grappling with migration woes, a survey finds

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  US Department of Justice launches antitrust probe into dominance of online platform providers

  The US Department of Justice has called for an antitrust investigation into how “market-leading” online platform operators in the search, social media and retail space operate

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  UK CIOs bottom of digital workflow league

  Leading CIOs shift from tech to leadership focus, but a new survey from ServiceNow has found that UK CIOs have not increased workflow budget

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  AI to advance Swedish military systems

  Swedish report into use of artificial intelligence in military systems reveals opportunities and concerns

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  HPE reiterates focus on edge computing

  Enterprise technology bigwig HPE is trumpeting its ability to help companies better manage edge workloads, claiming that its purchase of Aruba has been its most successful acquisition