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June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
UK comms regulator to probe BT emergency number failure

Investigation to assess source and extent of 25 June technical issue causing lack of access to key first response services, including Metropolitan Police, Bedfordshire Police, Suffolk Police, and Cheshire Fire and Rescue
June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round

The Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues
June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
Zoom brings together in-office, remote employees with Intelligent Director

Collaboration provider expands portfolio and capability with launch of Intelligent Director, which uses AI and multiple cameras to provide optimal images and angles of participants in conference room
June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23
GDPR tax reclaim scheme preys on fears of SMEs

IT suppliers are a target of companies offering a tax reclaim scheme that preys on small businesses’ fears around General Data Protection Regulation compliance

June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
Oracle shifts database support goalpost

Oracle has updated its maintenance and support across its relational database family – we explore the implications
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
Alkira introduces extranet as a service

Provider of cloud networking as a service unveils infrastructure designed to enable third parties to securely connect to critical business applications
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
Why an ecosystem helps IT projects move forward

It used to be the case that IT departments would build or buy, but now there’s an alternative to help organisations integrate different data sources
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
UK AI plans offer ‘inadequate’ human rights protection, says EHRC

The UK’s equality watchdog says the government must properly consider human rights when implementing rules to regulate artificial intelligence, as current plan offers little protection
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
WithSecure forges ahead with green coding initiative

WithSecure’s W/Sustainability programme kickstarts a number of initiatives, including a commitment to green coding the security supplier hopes will set an example for others to follow
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
3,600 potential cyber security experts apply to government scheme

The UK government’s Upskill in Cyber programme is reporting great success just a month after launch, with almost half of applicants women

June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
ANZ IT pros get salary bump this year

Over half of IT professionals in Australia and New Zealand received a higher salary this year, underscoring the tight IT labour market
June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23
Johnson Controls opts for container-based app delivery with Portworx

Buildings management giant built a suite of customer-facing products using containers and opted for Pure Storage Portworx for hybrid cloud container management and data protection
June 26, 2023 26 Jun'23
How Ikea is driving digital customer experience

Ikea franchisee in four Southeast Asian markets and Mexico taps chatbots, conversational commerce and remote planning, among other capabilities, to drive digital customer experience
June 26, 2023 26 Jun'23
HSBC leaving Canary Wharf headquarters

HSBC is to leave its current Canary Wharf headquarters by 2027 as hybrid-working policies reduce demand for office space
June 26, 2023 26 Jun'23
Office workers feel AI is better than a human boss

UK and US workers are quitting their jobs due to frustrations with how they are being managed – and some feel AI can be a better boss
June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23
ICO under fire for taking limited action over serious data breaches

The ICO has come under fire from lawyers and data protection specialists for just issuing written warnings to two public bodies over serious data breaches that placed people’s lives at risk
June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23
Webex widens US government portfolio with contact centre, calling

Webex Contact Center Enterprise for Government expanded to include Webex Calling, providing a single offer for calling, messaging and meetings that complies with key US government standard
June 23, 2023 23 Jun'23
Investment in employee experience, cloud, AI drives greater customer experience

Study from global IT infrastructure and services company finds employee experience and customer experience gaining rapid recognition of their importance at board level, and as many as 95% of organisations see cloud enablement as vital in enabling ...
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
Health and care staff have three months to move to latest NHS patient record service

NHS England has told health and care workers they have until the end of September to switch to the latest patient record system
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
Lancaster University launches trailblazing cyber MBA

MBA programme at Lancaster University designed to deliver security leadership education to business leaders has received NCSC backing
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
Manchester University students threatened by ransomware gang

Students and staff members at the University of Manchester are being pressurised by an unnamed ransomware gang
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
UK pension scheme expands relationship with IT services giant TCS

Tata Consultancy Services retains contract with UK pension scheme for another decade after extending a contract that was first signed in 2011
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
Lloyds Bank to open tech centre in India

UK bank taps into Hyderabad tech ecosystem by opening a tech centre focused on improving digital experiences for customers
June 22, 2023 22 Jun'23
How Vedanta is harnessing tech in aluminium production

India’s largest aluminium producer Vedanta Aluminium is using industrial internet of things devices to improve emissions control and robotic process automation to improve efficiency, among other digitisation efforts
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
CIO interview: Stuart Hughes, chief digital information officer, Rolls-Royce

The aerospace giant uses internet of things and sensor technology to create a personalised digital twin for the airlines that fly its engines, but the benefits of further data science and analytics could be even bigger
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
Nearly quarter of a million malicious websites reported and removed through NCSC service

A suspicious email and text message reporting service in the UK has directly led to a quarter of a million malicious websites being removed
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
Co-op Group adds nearshore engineering resources

Manchester headquartered Co-op group adds additional engineering resources as competition for talent in the UK ramps up
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
The security interviews: Exploiting AI for good and for bad

The chief product officer of AI security firm Darktrace explains how large language AI models are making it harder for people to spot email attacks
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
Belgian researchers build energy-efficient AI frameworks

Researchers in Belgium are working on a new generation of platforms to support artificial intelligence applications in an energy-efficient manner
June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23
CDO interview: Mary O’Callaghan, director of technology engagement, British Heart Foundation

Implementing a new data strategy sits at the heart of the charity’s digital transformation as it looks to build on its status as the UK’s largest charity retailer and the highest-grossing charity on eBay globally
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Data sovereignty and security driving hybrid IT adoption in Australia

Over half of Australian organisations plan to repatriate some applications from public cloud to on-premise datacentres due to data sovereignty concerns, Nutanix study finds
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Mizuho Financial Group trials generative AI for development and maintenance

Japanese bank is working with Fujitsu to explore potential for using generative artificial intelligence technology in system development and maintenance
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’

Bill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Post Office will not oppose potential Horizon conviction appellants

Post Office CEO told MPs that the organisation is telling some subpostmasters it won't oppose them if they appeal
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive

The energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
More than 50% of care providers have adopted digital records

The adoption of digital social care records has reached more than 50%, but the sector still has a way to go to reach the government’s target of 80% by March 2024
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth to chair AI Foundation Model Taskforce

The government has hired tech investor Ian Hogarth to lead its taskforce on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, aiming to tackle the safety challenges presented by AI and build public confidence in the use of the technology
June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23
Union chief calls for outsourced services to be brought in-house

Unison general secretary calls on Labour to bring outsourced public sector contracts in-house if they fail to meet certain tests
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Huawei slams EU high-risk supplier claims as against principles of free trade

Comms tech giant comes out swinging against being singled out by EC commissioner as having high-risk supplier status in 5G mobile infrastructures
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit

Investigations into recent outages on Microsoft Azure and Outlook services have turned up evidence of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Jordan’s Ahli Bank launches app on cloud-native platform

Middle East bank launches app on latest cloud-native banking platform from Google-inspired company
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
UK to contribute up to £25m to Ukraine cyber defences

Prime minister Rishi Sunak announces an expansion to the Ukraine Cyber Programme, with a cash boost of up to £25m over the next two years
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Visa takeover means economic turmoil won’t slow Tink’s progress

Tink is one of the pioneers of the open banking sector, and under Visa’s light-touch ownership is continuing to think like a startup
June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23
Dutch government puts up €123m to address shortage of ICT workers

Financial injection aimed at improving cooperation between vocational education and business in the Netherlands, and making the tech professions more attractive
June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23
Collaboration in finance sector develops prototype API for digital currency

The Bank for International Settlements and the Bank of England worked with private sector on central bank digital currency experiment
June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23
BBVA uses AI and analytics services from AWS

BBVA invests in Amazon Web Services cloud platforms to help transform itself into an organisation driven by AI and data
June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23
Latest ONS data shows that 10% of UK businesses plan to adopt AI

The Office for National Statistics has found that UK adults are aware they have been using AI-based chatbots, and approximately one in six businesses are implementing AI applications
June 16, 2023 16 Jun'23
Lenovo ups ante on AI infrastructure investments

Lenovo is investing $1bn over three years to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure offerings, including services to help organisations deploy and tap AI capabilities in a responsible manner
June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23
Enterprise software price hikes risk derailing digital transformation

Buying software and cloud services for strategic initiatives is all very well as long as the price is stable. But costs are escalating, which is impacting value
June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23
Exploitation of Barracuda ESG appliances linked to Chinese spies

Intelligence from Mandiant links exploitation of a flaw in a subset of Barracuda ESG appliances to a previously untracked China-nexus threat actor