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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Manutan claws back 25% of storage admin time in switch to Pure

  Industrial and office supply giant needed to replace 3Par arrays then made a rapid switch to Pure Storage FlashArray flash storage when the ageing HPE hardware crashed during POC

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Gulf hospitals flock to digital health to manage lifestyle diseases

  The Middle East is accelerating its take-up of digital healthcare technologies following lessons learned in the Covid-19 pandemic

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Nordic fintech could lead the world

  Will the Nordics become the fintech and open banking innovation capital of the world?

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  REvil crew wants $70m in Kaseya ransomware heist

  Two days after one of the largest ransomware attacks in history by the REvil/Sodinokibi gang, the security community is assessing its next moves, while over 1,000 victims remain in limbo

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Klarna’s alumni thrive with new ventures after witnessing path to success

  Former Klarna employees are using their experiences with the fintech giant to create the next wave of Swedish tech startups

• July 03, 2021 03 Jul'21

  Berlin court finds EncroChat intercept evidence cannot be used in criminal trials

  In a major setback for police hacking operations, Berlin’s regional court has decided that intercepted data from the EncroChat phone network should not be used in criminal prosecutions

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  Nordic mobile wallets to merge onto single tech platform

  Plans underway to merge the mobile wallets of various Nordic banks into a single public cloud-based technology platform

• June 28, 2021 28 Jun'21

  German merger to fuel savings fintech expansion

  German savings fintechs merge and plan European and US expansion

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud

  France Télévisions Publicité couldn’t always get to critical data, so decided to repatriate backup and archiving from the cloud to on-site locations, with help from a managed service

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Visa to acquire Swedish open banking fintech for €1.8bn

  Payments giant Visa agrees to pay €1.8bn to acquire Tink, a specialist open banking fintech

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  European Union to set up new cyber response unit

  Proposed Joint Cyber Unit will tackle a rising number of serious incidents impacting public services, businesses and citizens of the EU

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Bahrain university uses Alexa on campus

  University in Bahrain is using Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant to support users of its campus

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  Openness can protect Dutch companies against ransomware

  Dutch businesses that suffer ransomware attacks need to be more open about it, if this growing problem is to be brought under control

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Green Mountain signs datacentre waste heat reuse agreement with Norwegian lobster farm

  Norway-based datacentre operator signs a waste heat reuse agreement with the world’s first land-based lobster farm

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Innova and RISE drive node development in Sweden

  Swedish cyber security project, National Node, opens its doors to the country’s security firms

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  UK SMEs lack capacity to fend off cyber attacks

  Three-quarters of UK SME leaders would not have sufficient capacity or expertise to deal with a cyber attack, according to a report

• June 18, 2021 18 Jun'21

  Telenor, Telia tap Nokia for 5G joint network roll-out in Denmark

  Nokia to work with leading Danish mobile operators via their joint network to accelerate the delivery of 5G services across Denmark following the availability of 3.5GHz spectrum

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Increasing numbers of Dutch women opt for career in ICT

  There’s a shortage of IT professionals in the Netherlands, but the skills gap can be bridged by attracting further women to the sector

• June 15, 2021 15 Jun'21

  Nokia and Ooredoo initiate 4G and 5G fixed wireless access deployment across Oman

  Leading comms tech provider and local Oman operator begin 4G and 5G fixed wireless access deployment for services covering homes and businesses throughout the country

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Benelux CIO interview: Benoît Dewaele, Vandemoortele

  CIO of Ghent-headquartered food group says the IT department’s main challenges are improving digital customer experiences, helping implement automation in plants and strengthening cyber security

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

  Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  FBI arrests distributors accused of selling An0m encrypted phones to crime groups

  Working with overseas law enforcement, the FBI has arrested eight people and named a further 13 accused of distributing An0m phones to organised crime groups

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  BBVA to cut 3,000 jobs in Spain as digital technology transforms industry

  Spanish bank is the latest to announce swingeing branch and job cuts amid increased digital competition

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  Klarna takes on UK credit card providers with feature that breaks up online payments

  Fintech unicorn introduces feature to its app in the UK which will challenge traditional credit card providers

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  EC launches digital identity framework

  The European digital identity will be available to citizens, residents and businesses across the EU, and member states will offer digital identity wallets on a national level

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  Updated standard contractual clauses will provide ‘legal certainty’ for transfer of data

  Organisations have 18 months to update data transfer agreements, known as standard contractual clauses, or SCCs, to continue sharing data outside the European Union

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Secrecy around EncroChat cryptophone hack breaches French constitution, court hears

  French lawyers claim that investigators are unlawfully withholding details of a cryptophone hacking operation in a case that could impact UK prosecutions

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Reports raise alarm over Huawei access to Dutch networks

  Espionage accusations raise security questions for Netherlands organisations using Chinese supplier’s equipment and services

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Norway’s auditor general lifts lid on energy industry’s cyber security risks

  Auditor General’s Office questions the security posture of Norway’s energy industry

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Swedish university is behind quantum computing breakthrough

  Chalmers University of Technology simplifies the process of measuring the temperatures of quantum computers during complex calculations

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  TCS opens its first European innovation centre in Amsterdam

  Netherlands capital hosts TCS’s latest innovation hub, which will bring together an ecosystem to address the challenge of sustainability

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  How the pandemic accelerated the Gulf’s edtech revolution

  The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital learning technologies in the Gulf region’s education sector

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  NGOs file complaints against Clearview AI in five countries

  Privacy and human rights organisations have asked data protection regulators in the UK, France, Austria, Italy and Greece to investigate controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Nordic CIO interview: Tommi Tuovila, Neste

  Former Olympian talks to Computer Weekly about the challenges facing CIOs in a rapidly changing world

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Stockholm’s startup scene seeks more diversity

  Swedish capital has created a world-leading tech startup environment, but it still lacks the diversity of people needed to move it to the next level

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Dutch researchers build security software to mimic human immune system

  Software could help IT systems develop immunity to some cyber attacks in a similar way to how the body fights infection

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  MEPs urge European Commission to revise UK adequacy decisions

  Members of the European Parliament are calling for the European Commission to ensure EU citizens have greater privacy rights

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Dutch police used deep learning model to predict threats to life

  Dutch police developed a deep learning model in their EncroChat investigation to predict which messages contain serious threats to life

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  Financial and technical obstacles hit Danish datacentre heat recycling plan

  A datacentre project in Denmark is grappling with the challenges of reusing waste heat in local central heating systems

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  Business Finland rolls out 5G industrial initiative

  Finland is incentivising technology businesses to invest in 5G research and development to create export opportunities

• 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 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Nordic real estate industry moves digital

  The Nordic real estate is investing in technologies like IoT to prepare the sector for the changing demands from customers post-Covid

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Netherlands to build new national supercomputer

  The Netherlands has laid out plans for its next national supercomputer, to be known as Snellius

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Delivering international talent to Helsinki’s tech ecosystem

  Finland’s capital is the envy of the world as a tech hub, but it still faces challenges in attracting skills in a highly competitive global market

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  EncroChat: Top lawyer warned CPS of risk that phone hacking warrants could be unlawful

  Lord David Anderson QC warned prosecutors that there were formidable arguments against the lawfulness of a police operation to infiltrate the encrypted phone network, EncroChat

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Norway’s agritech innovators are ready to expand to pastures new

  A tech startup industry aimed at modernising farming is making hay in Norway and laying down roots in other countries

• April 26, 2021 26 Apr'21

  French legal challenge over EncroChat cryptophone hack could hit UK prosecutions

  Lawyers are challenging the legality of a French police operation to harvest tens of thousands of messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network in a move that could overturn criminal prosecutions in the UK

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Anti-food-waste app Karma taps up Google Cloud to power global expansion plans

  Swedish startup Karma is on a mission to help consumers and businesses across the globe fight food waste, and it has enlisted the Google Cloud Platform to help it achieve its goal

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Banco Santander moving more than 200 servers to cloud per day

  Banco Santander has migrated about 60% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud and is reaping the benefits

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Transatlantic relationship strengthens Sweden’s startup sustainability

  Nordic startup network is taking lessons from Canada in getting women into the IT industry