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• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  AET gets Ctera to smooth hybrid cloud access to big files

  Remote locations with unreliable WAN connections needed to share large files, which was a real headache until US engineering firm got Ctera edge filers with Azure cloud as a tier

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Europe provides growth for TCS despite year floored by pandemic

  Tata Consultancy Services grows its continental European business despite economic slowdown brought by Covid-19 restrictions

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  MP told to ditch official email over hacking fears

  MP Tom Tugendhat claims the intelligence services advised him to switch to the Gmail service due to concerns his parliamentary email could be hacked

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Hyperbat accelerates industry 4.0 with 5G virtual 3D engineering model

  Vehicle battery manufacturer uses the latest 5G-enabled technology to speed up the manufacturing process for hybrid and electric vehicle production in the UK

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  End of the road for Post Office IT system that destroyed lives

  The Post Office has revealed the end to its controversial Horizon IT system which, through its errors and the Post Office's denial of them, caused huge suffering for hundreds of subpostmasters

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Civil Service Data Challenge aims to improve use of data

  Business and government have partnered to launch a Dragon’s Den-style competition to encourage civil servants to come up with ideas on how to improve the use of data

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Millions of devices at risk from NAME:WRECK DNS bugs

  Newly disclosed set of nine DNS vulnerabilities puts over 100 million consumer, enterprise and industrial IoT devices at risk

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  EncroChat lawyers raise questions over use of PII secrecy orders on UK decryption capabilities

  Lawyers claim that public interest immunity certificates may have been used to withhold information on UK intelligence agencies’ ability to decrypt encrypted communications

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Microsoft enters the Dragon’s den with Nuance acquisition

  The $19bn acquisition of Nuance firmly plants Microsoft at the forefront of voice recognition. The stage is set to combine voice with artificial intelligence

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Nvidia targets datacentre memory bottleneck

  The graphics processing unit (GPU) chipmaker has introduced its first datacentre chip, named after computer pioneer, Grace Hopper

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Almost half of UK office workers fear return to offices

  Research shows 83% of UK office workers agree that flexible working is here to stay, but fears persist of catching Covid-19 from colleagues if they return to the office

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Another 27 Danish banks get access to open banking APIs

  Nordic banks gain access to open banking capabilities from Nordic API Gateway, with an agreement through their shared IT service provider

• April 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Vaccine passports and travel plans race up Covid threat charts

  With lockdown restrictions easing in the UK, cyber criminals are tailoring their phishing lures to new areas of interest

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  University students adapt to remote learning but question value for money

  New research outlines students’ fears around the impact of long-term remote education and lecturers’ skills to operate online

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Global demand for IT and business services highest ever for first quarter

  Global demand for IT and business services began the year strongly, with a record first quarter

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Egypt, Italy and US most affected in Facebook leak

  Researchers at VPN firm Surfshark have been analysing data on 533 million people leaked from Facebook

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  IT leaders get the green light to spend on digitisation

  According to Gartner, the pandemic has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda, and long-term IT integration is key to success

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Loan Charge Group MPs demand IR35 shake-up to stop contractors becoming ‘zero-rights employees’

  Inquiry by Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group calls on government to tweak IR35 legislation during passage of next Finance Bill

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  CIO interview: Nitin Chaturvedi, chief digital and technology officer, KFC Global

  The Covid-19 pandemic led to the digital element of KFC’s business becoming increasingly important, says the fast food retailer’s chief digital and technology officer

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Tech industry sees surge in remote working job postings

  Pandemic drives an increase in demand for “work anywhere” jobs and hybrid skills, research says

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Cring ransomware hits ICS through two-year-old bug

  A long-disclosed vulnerability in Fortinet’s Fortigate VPN servers is being exploited to distribute Cring ransomware

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Microsoft accused of stifling secondhand software market

  In 2012, UsedSoft won a case for second user software, which has enabled the market to grow across Europe. But it is now under threat

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Post Office Horizon contract extension is part of project to bring Fujitsu work in-house

  The Post Office is to move work done by Fujitsu in-house when its outsourcing contract ends, and is already recruiting IT experts

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Nation-state cyber attacks double in three years

  Cyber attacks backed by nation states are becoming more frequent and varied, moving the world closer to a point of ‘advanced cyber-conflict’, according to a University of Surrey research project

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Future working models at big banks begin to fall into place

  Banks traditionally lead the way in technology adoption, but what can businesses take from their post-Covid-19 remote-working strategies?

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  CIO interview: Gary Delooze, CIO, Nationwide

  Building society’s CIO talks about building a technology strategy, working with the rest of the business and the Covid-19 pandemic

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  The OVHCloud fire: Assessing the after-effects on datacentre operators and cloud users

  One month on from the OVHCloud datacentre fire, it is time to assess the lasting impact the event might have on the way server farm operators run their facilities, and cloud users approach disaster recovery

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Facebook ducks calls to apologise over huge data leak

  Facebook gives its side of the story as data on millions of its users leaks, but is yet to apologise for security lapses that put half a billion people at risk of compromise

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  A billion extra contactless payments in year since limit increase

  Visa said there was an extra one billion contactless payments made by its customers last year

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Digital Markets Unit starts work on codes of conduct for tech giants

  Digital markets regulator officially launched to ensure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Post Office gives controversial Fujitsu contract another year

  The Post Office's controversial contract with Fujitsu has been extended another year to help the organisation manage its exit

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Irish employees’ ‘right to disconnect’ enshrined in code of practice

  A code of practice giving employees the ‘right to disconnect’ from work and not engage in electronic communications outside of their normal hours has come into effect in Ireland

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Demands for changes to ‘barmy’ rules on digital evidence have government’s ear

  The government is listening to calls for changes in how digital evidence is considered in court, as Post Office IT scandal spells out current rule's inadequacy

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Facebook data leak could be outside scope of GDPR

  Regulators may be unable to do much about leaked data on 533 million Facebook users, as it seems to have been stolen before GDPR came into force

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  CDDO will assess delivery of government digital projects

  Government Digital Service boss Tom Read and the government’s Central Digital and Data Office executive director Joanna Davinson reveal next steps for digital, data and technology in government

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  US court issues Google API with Java ruling

  US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  IR35 reforms: Private sector start date prompts mixed picture of predictions for contracting market

  The IR35 tax avoidance reforms take hold in the private sector, prompting a mixed picture of predictions from stakeholders about what the future holds for contractors in the UK

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  GDS seeks director for identity assurance programme

  The new leader will be focused on efforts to deliver a single digital identity system for online public services

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Clearer service information could add 1.6 million full-fibre homes by 2025

  Report finds that the speed at which Britain could benefit from the economic and social impact of billions of pounds of full-fibre infrastructure investment could be improved by clear labelling and information on broadband services

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  EncroChat hearings delayed as lawyers seek disclosure on police hacking

  Court hearings precipitated by police cracking the EncroChat secure mobile phone network have been delayed after defence lawyers request further disclosures on police decryption capabilities

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  IR35 reforms: Loan charge and employers’ NI issues prompt calls for legislative revamp

  As the government prepares to extend the IR35 reforms to the private sector, contracting stakeholders say it is high time the ‘flawed’ legislation was scrapped entirely

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Project Monterey returns to haunt IBM and Red Hat

  A tech initiative from the late 1990s has become IBM’s nemesis, as the owner of UnixWare and OpenServer file a copyright complaint

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

  Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  IR35 reforms: HMRC denies ‘squandering’ datasets that could rid umbrella sector of rogue players

  Concerns grow about the number of IT contractors at risk of joining non-compliant umbrella firms ahead of the IR35 reforms taking hold in the private sector

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Commerzbank picks Google for cloud migration

  German bank expands its work with Google Cloud and plans to move 85% of applications to its platform

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  NHS is apparently closing security skills gap

  By the end of 2020, there were more than twice as many in-house security professionals at NHS trusts as there were two years before

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Cyber Security Council to champion UK security pros

  A new cyber security professional body has launched with the aim of developing and promoting UK cyber security excellence globally and growing the skills base

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Nordics run information sharing on digital vaccination passports

  Nordic countries advance plans for digital Covid-19 vaccination passports in a bid to kick-start their economies

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Strong company culture the basis of a successful hybrid work environment

  Study highlights how post-Covid working dynamics increase importance of communicative leadership with an inclusive organisational culture most important once logistics and technology are addressed