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• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Cisco UK and Ireland CEO Phil Smith steps down after 22 years

  Phil Smith announces he is stepping down from the day-to-day running of Cisco’s UK and Ireland business to take up the role of chairman

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  McLaren-Honda rebuilds network platform on NTT foundations

  McLaren-Honda Formula 1 team embarks on three-year technology partnership with NTT Communications

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Anglian Water picks Arqiva to run smartmeter network

  Network supplier Arqiva is to build a fixed network in Newmarket to showcase a trial smartmeter project

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  The challenges facing social tech and what will tackle them

  As part of the Cast launch event, government, corporate and social tech representatives discussed some of the challenges facing social tech and how we can grow tech for good initiatives

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda

  Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Business has critical role in fighting cyber crime, says report

  The National Crime Agency is calling for a stronger collaboration between business and law enforcement to fight cyber crime in the light of a report produced with private sector partners

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Openreach starts duct and pole sharing trials for broadband delivery

  Openreach enlists five broadband services providers to take part in a trial of processes for sharing access to its duct and pole infrastructure

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  UK's Darktrace aims to lead the way to automatic cyber security

  Darktrace hopes to be a leader in the move to automated cyber security to free up security professionals to focus on business risk and innovation

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands

  IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Virtual reality finds fans at Reading University

  Professors at Reading University see virtual reality as an increasingly important research and teaching tool in science and arts subjects

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen

  IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Thailand’s TMB Bank modernises IT through the cloud

  Bank used a move to Office 365 as a starting point for its transformation into a cloud-first organisation

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Facilities firm ISS picks IBM Watson IoT to manage client sites

  Danish outsourcing and services firm signs new deal with IBM to use Watson’s internet of things capabilities to better manage its clients’ properties

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  Barclays banks on agile and DevOps to tackle competitive threats in fintech

  Barclays Bank opens up about how increasing competition in the financial services sector has fuelled its 18-month, company-wide campaign to increase its use of agile and DevOps methodologies

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  Five retail-based startups head for 2016 Jlab incubator

  Five of the 23 startups that pitched for a place on John Lewis’s 2016 startup programme will be spending the summer in the retailer’s Jlab accelerator

• June 30, 2016 30 Jun'16

  LizardStresser IoT botnet launches 400Gbps DDoS attack

  Attack groups using the LizardStresser botnet are exploiting IoT devices to mount massive DDoS attacks without using amplification techniques, say researchers

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Lauri Love using illness as a shield against extradition, claims prosecution

  Prosecution lawyer questions whether activist Lauri Love is not fit enough to stand trial in the US over hacking charges,as expert witnesses warn that US prisons are ill-equipped for people with mental health problems.

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Most cyber security strategies ignore the way attackers really work

  Cyber attackers use more legitimate software than malware, which means most organisations are incapable of detecting much of the malicious activity in their networks, a report reveals

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Brexit: Datacentre investments set to slow as economic stability concerns hit CIOs

  As the economic uncertainty around Brexit continues, CIOs may put new datacentre investments on hiatus, warns analyst

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Lauri Love may be faking mental illness claims lawyer for US

  Prosecution lawyer Peter Caldwell questions whether activist Lauri Love is exaggerating mental health problems to avoid extradition to face hacking charges in the US

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Lauri Love suicide risk if extradited to US over hacking allegations

  Westminster Magistrates’ Court hears evidence from medical experts that alleged hacker Lauri Love is at risk of suicide if extradited to the US

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Finland’s prisons move to a cashless world

  Inmates in Finland’s prisons will no longer need to use cash as a pre-paid card system is rolled out

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Banking IT community faces uncertain Brexit future

  The financial services IT community faces a period of uncertainty as finance firms reassess plans following the EU referendum result

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Cyber security industry mostly welcomes report on TalkTalk breach

  Most of the recommendations of a government committee inquiry into the TalkTalk breach have been welcomed, but pundits have expressed reservations about some, particularly proposed new fines

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Lower average cost of Australian data breaches is not a sign of comfort

  The average cost of a data breach to Australian organisations dropped in 2015, according to research

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  GDS drafts new technology code of practice

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) plans to update its technology code of practice and asks stakeholders for feedback

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  How MI5 and MI6 gather your personal data for surveillance

  Publicly released documents shed light on the many databases and sources used by the intelligence services to gather bulk personal data about UK citizens

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Euro Championship network traffic spike highlights OTT boom

  The BBC and EE both reported massive spikes in network traffic during the England versus Wales clash at Euro 2016

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Hays Recruitment service desk project is all gain and no pain

  The firm was attracted by the many benefits of a cloud-based service desk, but chief among them was the low risk involved in implementation

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Bluetooth 5 standard brings range, speed and capacity boost for IoT

  The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced the forthcoming Bluetooth 5 standard, promising significant improvements to support an accessible and interoperable internet of things

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Openreach announces SME FTTP service roll-out

  A number of cities are to receive a fibre-to-the-premises broadband service specifically designed for small to medium-sized enterprises

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Salesforce gears up for e-commerce with Demandware deal

  CRM and cloud platform software company Salesforce is set to acquire Demandware -- taking its cloud-commerce software offering with it

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Hancock sets out key principles for digital transformation

  Data should be a public service in its own right and the civil service need to add digital to their skillset, says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Tesco Bank partners with MasterCard to develop digital payments

  Tesco’s retail bank has partnered with payment provider MasterCard to give customers more innovative digital payment methods

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Singapore banks adopt voice biometrics for user authentication

  Banks in Singapore are rolling out biometric technology to improve customer services by speeding up the authentication process

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  EU firms slow in detecting cyber attacks, study shows

  European firms take an average of 469 days to discover a compromise, compared with an average of 146 days globally, according to Mandiant

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johnny Bröms, Swedish fast-food chain Max Burger

  The CIO of Swedish fast-food chain tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is increasing sales and supporting expansion

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Digital skills gap costs UK economy £63bn a year

  The Science and Technology Committee says the UK is facing a digital skills crisis and calls on government to publish its Digital Strategy “without further delay”

• June 12, 2016 12 Jun'16

  Philippines government data breach is a warning to Asean region

  Security is a rising concern in the Asean region, with fears fuelled by incidents such as the recent hacking incident in Manila

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  IoT security: Lack of expertise will hurt, says Bruce Schneier

  Government action at national and international levels is essential for addressing IoT security issues, but the relevant expertise is lacking, according to security expert Bruce Schneier

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Small businesses bearing the brunt of cyber crime, says FSB

  The Federation of Small Businesses is calling for more government support for its members in defending against cyber threats

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Edge datacentres hailed as answer to latency concerns in IoT era

  With user demand for low-latency, high-performing applications, delegates at Datacloud Europe 2016 hail edge datacentres as the answer

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Citrix expands in Middle East with first Saudi Arabia office

  Citrix is increasing its presence in the Middle East, opening its first office in Saudi Arabia with plans to expand into Qatar and Egypt

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Internet traffic to triple by 2020, says Cisco

  The latest edition of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index predicts a near tripling of internet traffic during the coming years as more than a billion people come online

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Unlicensed software rife among Asean computer users, says BSA

  The Asean region has the highest levels of unlicensed software use, according to the 2016 Global Software Survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA)

• June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16

  Millions of sensitive IT services exposed to the internet, study finds

  Encryption should become the default as study reveals millions of sensitive services are exposed to the internet, says Rapid7

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  How emails sent to and from Parliament are monitored

  Government officials deny that emails sent by MPs are open to surveillance by GCHQ and NSA - we examine the evidence

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  ‘Considerable risk’ if Post Office replaced Horizon system, says chairman

  Post Office chairman Tim Parker says there would be ‘considerable risk’ associated with changing its Horizon computer system

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  Government reaches accord over ESN in National Parks England

  The Home Office reaches an agreement with National Parks England over the provision of mobile coverage for the emergency services