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• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  Automation and CSR are driving reskilling process for UK plc, says Cisco

  UK business leaders are planning to make dramatic changes to their organisations between now and 2020, according to a new report from Cisco

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Openreach launches Fibre First programme in Belfast and Nottingham

  Openreach has named Belfast and Nottingham as the latest cities to benefit from a full-fibre broadband roll-out

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  PAC has ‘serious concerns’ over UK border and new customs IT system

  Public Accounts Committee remains concerned about the Customs Declaration Service and the country’s borders post Brexit

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  NHS to use predictive tech to prevent illnesses

  Health secretary Matt Hancock wants to use technology to predict disease and stop people falling ill, with AI and genomics having the ‘potential to change everything’

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  UKtech50 2018: Vote for the most influential person in UK IT

  Tell us who you think should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for 2018 by submitting your vote now

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Government is open for business, says SME Crown Representative

  The government’s Crown Representative for SMEs, Emma Jones, sheds light on her three-pronged approach to increase spend with smaller businesses

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Government fails in first attempt to hire chief security officer

  The government’s initial recruitment campaign for the UK’s "biggest and most important security job” has been unsuccessful, Cabinet Office admits

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Departing DWP IT boss Mayank Prakash to take on digitisation role at Centrica

  DWP’s outgoing chief digital and information officer will begin new role in charge of digitalisation of Centrica’s consumer business in the New Year

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding

  A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Hyperoptic full-fibre network hits public housing milestone

  More than 150,000 publicly owned homes have now been connected to Hyperoptic’s ultrafast fibre broadband network

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  UK Post Office looks to enable reusable digital ID

  The UK Post Office is investigating the possibility of enabling UK citizens to re-use their passport data for other applications where digital identity is a key component

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Budget 2018: A mixed bag

  Computer Weekly looks at some of the detail in the tech-laden 2018 Budget and can’t get away from the big elephant in the room: the impact of a potential No Deal Brexit

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Budget 2018: No great leap forward for broadband, but no need to panic

  The chancellor set aside £1.6bn for digital technology in the Budget, but broadband services did not draw much attention. Is this a surprise, or a reflection of growing commercial investment in full-fibre, and what should the role of government be?

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IR35 reforms: Private sector extension confirmed for April 2020 in Autumn Budget

  As the government confirms the IR35 reforms will be extended to large and medium-sized businesses in the private sector from April 2020, campaigners claim the move risks destabilising the UK's flexible workforce

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  UK government taskforce commits to distributed ledger technologies

  Report says distributed ledger technology “has the potential to deliver significant benefits in financial services and other sectors in the future”