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IT management

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  IT leaders must address integration to support business ecosystem

  New survey finds that for most businesses, digitisation initiatives are hampered by legacy IT and integration issues

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  HMCTS suffers major IT issues

  HM Courts and Tribunals Service has been experiencing problems with several of its IT systems over the past few days, including secure email and network issues

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  Singapore releases Asia’s first AI governance framework

  The model framework will help businesses in Singapore tackle the ethical and governance challenges of AI implementations

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Mastercard fined over half a billion euros for unfair payment fees

  Mastercard has been heavily fined for having rules on interchange fees which distorted the EU single market

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Digital Catapult explores LPWAN and IoT for industry

  A Connected Factory Demonstrator managed by the Digital Catapult is seeking input from LPWAN and internet of things specialists

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Scottish Police Authority awards £21m mobile services deal to EE

  EE will oversee a three-year deal to transform police mobile capabilities in Scotland, alongside Motorola Solutions, Samsung and BlackBerry

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Dowden announces five new successful GovTech Catalyst challenges

  Five public sector projects will receive funding as part of the third round of the £20m GovTech Catalyst programme, says implementation minister

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Davos 2019: Why data sharing is key to AI in Industry 4.0

  Machines can learn from humans, but no one does the same job in the same way, so it makes sense to identify best practices

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Broadband divide persists across the UK, says Which?

  Latest statistics from Which? show the UK’s broadband divide persists, with many areas still missing out on high-speed services despite industry tub-thumping

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Facebook: US government does not engage in mass and indiscriminate surveillance

  Social media giant challenges a ruling by Dublin’s High Court over a judgment that it says made ‘extraordinary and incorrect’ findings about the US legal system

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  €50m GDPR fine for Google is a wake-up call for tech giants

  The French data protection authority has fined Google €50m for contravening EU data protection laws, which has been hailed as a warning for tech giants and other data handling firms

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Singapore to revise copyright law in data analytics boost

  Proposed exception in Copyright Act will allow copying of copyrighted materials for the purpose of data analysis

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Amazon shareholders demand halt in sales of image recognition tech to US government

  Amazon shareholders want its board of directors to halt sales of its image recognition service to US law enforcers unless it can independently verify it's not being misused

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  DCMS puts digital ID policy team on no-deal Brexit work

  Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s digital identity policy team shifts focus to prepare for the UK leaving the EU without a deal

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Home Office vetoes privacy campaigner from senior post in surveillance watchdog

  The Home Office refuses academic and privacy campaigner, Eric King, security clearance for a senior role at the intelligence services watchdog, despite high-level backing from officials

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  Thailand pushes for Industry 4.0 in ASEAN

  Nearly half of the kingdom’s deliverables as chair of ASEAN will be focused on spurring Industry 4.0 developments across the region

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Siemens connects to world’s largest UCC deployment

  German technology powerhouse Siemens AG reveals how it unified communications and collaboration for hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  HPE opens Geneva IoT innovation lab to capitalise on edge data

  Datacentre equipment provider sees an opportunity on the edge to provide data processing for the internet of things

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Prepare for no-deal Brexit, says ICO

  The UK data protection authority is urging businesses to prepare for a no-deal Brexit to ensure there is no interruption in data flows from Europe

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Vodafone and IBM prep user clouds for future network tech

  Companies expand existing collaboration to enable enterprise customers to prepare for the impact of advanced networking technologies

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Tech Talent Charter launches benchmark to keep tabs on gender in IT roles

  Industry collaborative Tech Talent Charter releases data on its signatory organisations to highlight the difference made by committing to shifting the dial on gender

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  Swedish state and industry back autonomous vehicle testing facility

  AstaZero facility will “road-test” next-generation 5G and digital innovations to support the development of self-driving cars and other vehicles

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  UK tech firms favour second referendum as next move in Brexit stalemate

  UK tech firms want to remain as close to the EU as possible and believe a second referendum on membership of the trading bloc would be the best way out of the current political stalemate

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Dutch pharma firm Centrient switches out MPLS for Cato SD-WAN

  Centrient Pharmaceuticals, a Netherlands-based drug company, has switched out its global MPLS service in favour of a high-performance software-defined WAN from Cato Networks

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Davos: World leaders need to grasp future technological risks

  Technological advancement is both a benefit and risk to society, but often the risks are not identified until they are exploited

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  CIO interview: David Jack, chief technology and product officer, Dunnhumby

  Analytics pioneer’s CTPO is working to accelerate and scale up the company’s platforms, introduce new products and migrate to the cloud

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  UK financial services regulator to link top banker bonuses to IT performance

  FCA head tells Commons Treasury committee: “We expect banks’ policies on variable remuneration to reflect operational resilience. They have to – if they don’t, we will act.”

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Digital transformation is real, say ASEAN CIOs

  ASEAN CIOs are embracing digital transformation but face barriers in getting employees to adopt an agile mindset

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  NHS England chief digital officer Juliet Bauer leaves to work for a supplier

  NHS England’s chief digital officer is jumping ship, just as the NHS begins implementing its long-term plan, to join Swedish GP video consultation provider Livi

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Thousands of known errors on controversial Post Office computer system to be revealed

  Known errors log concerning Horizon IT system set to be announced during second High Court trial in subpostmasters’ long-running dispute with Post Office over financial losses

• January 15, 2019 15 Jan'19

  Less than half of firms able to detect IoT breaches, study shows

  UK firms have one of the lowest internet-of-things device breach detection capabilities in Europe, a study reveals

• January 14, 2019 14 Jan'19

  Why CIOs need to reshape desktop IT for Windows 7 end of support

  With a year to go before Windows 7 reaches end of life, IT departments have more than just the operating system upgrade to consider

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change

  They probably didn't see that coming... MongoDB's switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  CIO interview: Darren Curry, CDO, NHS Business Services Authority

  NHS Business Services Authority chief digital officer Darren Curry talks about using technology to change people’s lives, developing accessible services and transforming the health service

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Microsoft takes community approach to artificial intelligence in Sweden

  Microsoft is making increasing use of artificial intelligence in Sweden as it shares experiences with the development community

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Singapore companies gearing up for hybrid cloud

  Traditional datacentres are making way for hybrid cloud adoption among Singapore companies, a study finds

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Right to be forgotten is not global, says EU court adviser

  The right to be forgotten should apply only in the European Union, according to the chief adviser to the European Court of Justice

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  RSC and Science Museum to lead future audience AR/VR demos

  Organisations including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum will take part in a series of government-backed demonstrators creating immersive experiences for audiences of the future

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  UK firms say £6.6bn annual security testing cost too high

  Avord launches platform to reduce the multibillion-pound annual cyber security testing cost that most UK firms say is too high

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Enterprises are increasing the human workforce while deploying AI

  Artificial intelligence is creating more jobs than it replaces, according to a study of businesses using the technology

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  BT faces tussle to keep EU contracts after Brexit

  The European Union will likely re-evaluate its telecoms contracts with BT following Brexit, and cancelling them altogether is a real risk in a no-deal scenario, according to leaked documents

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Mercedes-Benz collaborates with Nvidia on in-car supercomputer

  Partners plan to work on an in-car computer for autonomous driving, and to replace existing in-car systems

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Banking apps overtake online banking

  Mobile apps are the most popular channel for banking as consumers swap online platforms for smartphone software

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Government SME spend going down, MPs told

  Government spending with SMEs has reduced rather than increased, some government procurement markets are dominated by oligopolies and the research community needs to be brought into the mix, according to evidence given to the Science and Technology ...

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  AWS ‘does not dominate’ cloud market, claims Amazon’s UK public policy chief

  Amazon’s UK director of public policy, Lesley Smith, has told the House of Lords Communications Committee that Amazon is a “prevalent”, rather than “dominant” force in the cloud market

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  NHS Digital chief information security officer resigns

  Robert Coles, who joined NHS Digital as its chief information and security officer in October 2018, is stepping down from the role for personal reasons

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Second Lorca cohort to focus on supply chain security

  The second cohort of companies to benefit from the new London cyber innovation centre will focus on user-centric security and securing supply chains

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  Smart speakers set to own the consumer ecosystem

  Consumers prefer to buy gadgets that are compatible with the digital voice assistants they already have in their homes

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  IT professionals in London could see roles shipped to EU as result of Brexit

  The UK and London in particular could see IT jobs in financial services move to hubs across the European Union as a result of Brexit.

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  A very digital plan for the NHS

  The NHS Long Term Plan aims to empower people through the use of technology and create a digital-first NHS, offering virtual outpatient appointments, digital GP consultations and improved cyber security. But how and when will the government achieve ...