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• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Ofcom satisfied with progress on BT Openreach split

  Ofcom has published its first annual report on the legal separation of BT and Openreach, and said it is broadly satisfied with progress to date, despite hiccups relating to the BT pension scheme

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city

  At London Tech Week, mayor Sadiq Khan launched a city-wide initiative to harness the capital’s technology talent to address London’s most pressing problems

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  CityFibre wins key decision in fake fibre case

  CityFibre has been granted permission to proceed with a judicial review of the ASA’s November 2017 decision about the use of the term fibre in broadband ads

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Privacy Shield under threat by US non-compliance

  The Privacy Shield framework that replaced the Safe Harbour agreement for personal data transfers between the EU and the US is under threat due to non-compliance by US firms

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  BT announces “unhackable” quantum-secured network

  In the face of the threat that quantum computers could crack many of the encryption methods used to protect highly sensitive data, BT has developed a “quantum-secured” network

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  BT’s Gavin Patterson quits under shareholder pressure

  Patterson’s resignation comes just weeks after he announced 13,000 redundancies across BT

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  IT spending reaches 10-year high as CIOs struggle with digital technology strategy

  IT leaders have seen their budgets and headcounts rise for the first time in 10 years, but face challenges implementing their digital strategies

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Newcastle Council to show off smartest street in Britain

  The Great Exhibition of the North will see Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne transformed into Britain’s smartest street as part of a demonstration of IoT technology

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  5G transformative for UK plc, but potential impacts still vague

  5G mobile technology looks set to transform the UK economy for the better, but the immaturity of the technology and lack of standards makes its true impact harder to judge, according to a report by Deloitte

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Business not learning from past cyber security incidents

  Businesses are still not getting the basics right and they are not learning from past security incidents, according to world-renowned security blogger and trainer

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  We need to design for security and privacy, says Martha Lane Fox

  The digital future is bright, but only if society works through a gear change in its relationship with technology, and demands products and services that are secure and private by design, says internet service pioneer

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Cyber attacks not sophisticated, says Just Eat CISO

  The chief information security officer of Just Eat has challenged the perception that all cyber attacks are sophisticated and that it is impossible to fill cyber security jobs

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Boards not asking right security questions, says Dido Harding

  Former TalkTalk CEO says boards are still not asking the right cyber security questions, do not understand that they should be making cyber risk decisions, and are not communicating with engineers

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Technology key to new UK counter-terrorism strategy

  Technologies such as machine learning and data analytics are key to the UK government’s updated counter-terrorism strategy

• May 30, 2018 30 May'18

  US jails Canadian resident who helped Russia hack Yahoo emails

  A US court has jailed a hacker on charges of computer fraud for hacking Yahoo email accounts on behalf of the Russian government