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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)
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October 16, 2015
16
Oct'15
CIO interview: Olivier Smith, head of IT at Sweden's Hi3G Access
The IT department at Swedish telco Hi3G is on a mission to a utopian planet, with Olivier Smith at the controls
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October 16, 2015
16
Oct'15
CIO interview: Martin Thell, Scandic Hotels
The CIO of major Nordic hotel chain Scandic Hotels wants to learn more about customers through technology, without being overbearing
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October 09, 2015
09
Oct'15
Finnair selects IBM for cloud transformation
Finnish airline outsources IT transformation to IBM as it moves to introduce digital services to customers
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October 08, 2015
08
Oct'15
Estonian government IT initiative increases virtual population
Estonia is leading the way when it comes to providing easy and secure access to government services for citizens and foreigners alike
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October 08, 2015
08
Oct'15
Ford uses space robot communications to serve connected cars
Ford collaborates with St Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia to develop car communications using technology designed for space robotics
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October 06, 2015
06
Oct'15
Amsterdam aims to become a top European startup hub
Amsterdam is selling itself to the startup community as a nice place to live with a high standard of living, and one that opens doors to the continent
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October 06, 2015
06
Oct'15
Hundreds of Evry staff in the Nordics to move to IBM in billion-dollar IT outsourcing deal
Around 600 Evry staff in the Nordics are to move to IBM in $1bn IT outsourcing deal that sees the firm hand over its IT infrastructure for the next 10 years
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October 05, 2015
05
Oct'15
Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe
Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics
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September 30, 2015
30
Sep'15
Accenture spends €25m on European centre in Dublin
Accenture will open a European technology hub in Dublin that will recruit 200 people and focus on modern technologies
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September 29, 2015
29
Sep'15
US diplomats warn of economic dangers of scrapping Safe Harbour Agreement
European Court of Justice confirms judgement on the future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement will be made public on 6 October
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September 28, 2015
28
Sep'15
CIO interview: Daniel Marion, head of ICT at Uefa
Football might be Uefa's core business, but without IT and the cloud that underpins it, the company's commercial activities would not function
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September 24, 2015
24
Sep'15
Nordea Bank signs Temenos and Accenture for core banking transformation
Nordea Bank AB has chosen the core banking system it wants to build its digital future on, signing Temenos and Accenture as technology partners
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September 18, 2015
18
Sep'15
Fidor bank launches in the UK
Fidor bank launches its social media bank in the UK as the number of challenger financial services companies obtaining banking licences continues to rise
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September 18, 2015
18
Sep'15
Public-private co-operation in the Nordics tackles growing cyber crime threat
Nordic governments and businesses are putting cyber security at the centre of their planning as threats increase
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September 11, 2015
11
Sep'15
Case study: French delivery company Chronopost looks to NoSQL for big data challenge
French delivery company Chronopost is using open-source NoSQL systems to improve services and customer retention
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September 08, 2015
08
Sep'15
German villages to take the lead in €2.7bn superfast broadband programme
The German government is aiming for universal 50Mbps broadband coverage by 2018 through a major community-led programme
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August 26, 2015
26
Aug'15
CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket
When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation
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August 20, 2015
20
Aug'15
CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia
Svevia CIO Emil Dahlin transformed the IT of a former Swedish government organisation as it became an independent company
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July 14, 2015
14
Jul'15
CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget
Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain
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July 09, 2015
09
Jul'15
CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution
The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work
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July 03, 2015
03
Jul'15
Nordic retailers get physical to combat international digital giants
Nordic retails must evolve if they are to prosper in a sector where competition from international online giants is fierce
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July 03, 2015
03
Jul'15
Wi-Fi enhances guest experience and profitability for Belgian theme park
Bobbejaanland, one of the largest theme parks in Belgium, is using a Fortinet Wi-Fi network to offer visitors access on the go, and improve its management capabilities
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July 02, 2015
02
Jul'15
How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud
German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game
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July 01, 2015
01
Jul'15
Finland's Tieto buys Norwegian enterprise software company
Tieto acqures Software Innovation to boost its business in Norway
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June 29, 2015
29
Jun'15
Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities
Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments
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June 26, 2015
26
Jun'15
Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed
The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots
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June 26, 2015
26
Jun'15
Norway’s DNB was inspired by Danish bank for new app
DNB in Norway has taken inspiration from Danske Bank in Denmark when creating its latest payment app.
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June 22, 2015
22
Jun'15
Icelandic startups beat the odds
Iceland is punching above its weight in IT and the technology sector is becoming a more important element of the country's economy
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June 16, 2015
16
Jun'15
CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked
Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together
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June 08, 2015
08
Jun'15
Europe’s startups should collaborate like Silicon Valley firms
Europe should take a leaf out of Silicon Valley’s book on openness and collaboration, according to speakers at Startup Village 2015
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June 02, 2015
02
Jun'15
Vodafone adds Caribbean 4G roaming for summer holidays
Vodafone extends its 4G services to a number of destinations – including Caribbean holiday hotspots – for UK customers travelling abroad
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May 29, 2015
29
May'15
Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics
The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation
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May 07, 2015
07
May'15
Huawei opens European Research Institute
Huawei opens doors of European Research Institute in Leuven, Belgium
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April 29, 2015
29
Apr'15
Nordea Bank announces digital hire and Apple Watch app
Nordea Bank hires expertise to strengthen its digital banking team and promotes its digital ambitions with an app for the Apple Watch
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April 27, 2015
27
Apr'15
Captive IT centre boosts competitiveness at Danske Bank in Denmark
In 2014, Denmark's Danske Bank announced plans for its own captive centre in Bangalore and is now finalising the move to in-house IT delivery
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April 24, 2015
24
Apr'15
Changing IT trends power banking in Norway
Norway's banking system is undergoing a seismic shift in technology as the country aims for a fully digitised society
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April 20, 2015
20
Apr'15
Finland is the place to be for ICT
Finland stands out as the top country in ICT, according to the European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index
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April 17, 2015
17
Apr'15
Hutchison Whampoa launches Hue wholesaling for mobile virtual network operators
Hutchison Whampoa launches mobile wholesaling business Hue to help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) expand internationally
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April 16, 2015
16
Apr'15
Retailers should think of consumers as “omni-customers”, says OVS Spa
Retailers should refocus their strategy to treat consumers as “omni-customers”, according to the director of e-commerce for Italian brand OVS Spa
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April 09, 2015
09
Apr'15
Indian outsourcing is booming in the Nordic countries
Headlines about Indian IT service providers securing high-profile outsourcing deals in the Nordics have become commonplace
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April 09, 2015
09
Apr'15
InfoVista buys Ipanema to boost application performance offer
Network management supplier InfoVista buys application and network performance firm Ipanema to realise software-defined WAN ambitions
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April 09, 2015
09
Apr'15
Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise
The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud
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April 08, 2015
08
Apr'15
Alleged White House hack highlights typical security failings, say experts
The alleged penetration of sensitive White House computer networks highlights typical security failings, say information security experts
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March 31, 2015
31
Mar'15
AWS gets EU approval for data replication outside of Europe
The European Union Data Protection Authorities has approved Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement
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March 31, 2015
31
Mar'15
Vodafone adds banking capability to mobile wallet
Mobile operator Vodafone is enabling its customers to add banking functionality to their Vodafone Wallets
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March 30, 2015
30
Mar'15
Sky Italia looks to the cloud for better customer experience
Sky Italia “remakes” its customer acquisition, customer service and change order management processes using cloud
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March 27, 2015
27
Mar'15
Nordics' Glenna research cloud project underway
Researchers in the Nordics will soon enjoy a new cloud infrastructure from which to share systems and resources
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March 26, 2015
26
Mar'15
Photo editing app firm BeFunky transforms into female-weighted team
Photo editing app company BeFunky set out to recruit the best talent it could find and unintentionally landed a team largely comprising women
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March 24, 2015
24
Mar'15
Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud
Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands
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March 23, 2015
23
Mar'15
IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers
Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015