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• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Met Police cancels command and control system contract with Northrop Grumman

  The Met Police command and control system contract with Northrop Grumman has been cancelled as there is “no prospect of a finished product being delivered” in time

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Nationwide unifies business and public Wi-Fi in 700 branches

  Nationwide Building Society rolls out a unified Wi-Fi network across both its public and enterprise properties

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Dropbox invests in building out on-premise storage as user numbers soar

  Cloud-based file share and sync service reveals details of its hybrid cloud strategy, which has seen it invest large sums in building its own on-premise infrastructure

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Retailers are in the “dial up” stage of omni-channel

  A Retail Business Technology Expo panel likened the current omni-channel movement to the dial-up stage of internet connectivity

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Automated financial advice service causes RBS job losses

  RBS announces job cuts as it invests in automated services designed to give online financial advice

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  NHS England injects £55m to boost e-Referrals uptake

  NHS England will use £55m to reward GPs and hospitals using digital referrals by 2018 to increase uptake of its e-Referrals programme

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Predictive maintenance brings efficiency to Trenitalia

  New management system will help railway company reduce costs by applying predictive maintenance and data analytics to essential parts

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Royal Mail becomes eighth accredited Gov.uk Verify provider

  The Royal Mail is the latest provider to be accredited to support the government’s Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  $1bn cyber bank heist thwarted by spelling error

  Cyber thieves made 30 requests for the New York Federal Reserve to transfer nearly $1bn from the Bangladesh central bank’s account, but a typo and the volume of requests alerted banking officials

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Indian suppliers are mopping up Nordic business

  Indian IT suppliers are blazing a trail in the Nordic region with large deals and major local investments

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Startup trials autonomous delivery robots in Greenwich

  Estonian robotics startup Starship Technologies secures permission to trial self-driving delivery robots in Greenwich, south-east London

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Hilton hotel chain powers robot concierge with IBM Watson

  The Hilton Worldwide hospitality chain is trialling a robot concierge named Connie, backed by IBM's cognitive computing programme Watson

• March 09, 2016 09 Mar'16

  Lack of security knowledge limiting business initiatives, survey shows

  Security concerns are limiting the adoption of cloud and mobility throughout organisations, according to the first Dell Data Security Survey

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  RWE chief executive points to SAP billing system as cause of npower losses

  Npower has announced a radical restructuring plan, shedding 2,400 jobs on the back of losses of €137m. Its parent company’s CEO identified an SAP billing system as the source of the UK unit’s woes

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Broadband will reach 40% of Vietnam households by 2020, claims government

  The Vietnamese government announces plans to increase access to broadband networks for its citizens, proposing a figure of 40% in four years

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  DHL Asia-Pacific Innovation Centre incubates future logistics technology

  DHL's innovation centre in Singapore is trying out the future logistics technologies it plans to introduce across its Asian business

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  'Complacent' Home Office failed to take responsibility for e-Borders problems

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticises the Home Office for allowing the e-Borders programme to run eight years late and £500m over budget

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Why are big government IT projects still going wrong?

  The rural payments programme has again been in the spotlight over its failures, continuing the trend of government IT programmes being noted not for their success, but rather the opposite

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  RSAC16: RSA’s Amit Yoran comes out in support of strong encryption

  A policy of weakened encryption would harm US economic interests and undermine those trying to defend digital environments, according to RSA president Amit Yoran

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  GDS hindered delivery of rural payments programme, says PAC

  The rural payments programme was a “Whitehall fiasco” with too much focus on the digital front end, says the public accounts committee (PAC)

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

  Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  RSAC16: US works on data access agreement with UK

  The US is negotiating with the UK to establish a new framework that will permit UK authorities to access electronic communications directly from US companies

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Anders Candell, Stora Enso

  CIO at Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer shares advice for shouldering a new CIO position and guiding the business towards innovative technology

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  Norfolk County Council on the hunt for ICT boss

  The council is looking for a head of ICT and information management to drive its transformation programme, with a potential salary of up to £115,000

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Majority of Britons support government surveillance for national security

  A survey reveals that a majority of UK citizens support government surveillance for national security as Apple attempts to rally public support in its row with the FBI over encryption

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Nissan acts on Leaf car app security flaw after researcher goes public

  Nissan suspends its electric car app after a researcher went public about a security flaw that could enable attackers to take control of heating systems

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Tech Nordic Advocates partners with Nordic Startup Conference

  Tech Nordic Advocates, sister organisation of startup group Tech London Advocates, is partnering with the Nordic Startup Conference show in Copenhagen in March

• February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

  Payments regulator wants banks to sell stakes in Vocalink

  The UK payments regulator wants banks to loosen their grip on the payments infrastructure by selling off some of their stake in it

• February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

  Cyber crime is fastest growing economic crime, says PwC report

  More than half of UK organisations say they expect to be the victim of cyber crime in the next two years, suggesting it will become the UK’s largest economic crime, says a PwC report

• February 25, 2016 25 Feb'16

  Openreach reformed, but remains part of BT as Ofcom aims to open up fibre broadband market

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom wants to stimulate building of fibre broadband direct to homes and premises, but will not split up BT - yet

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Great Ormond Street NHS hunts for EPR and research platform worth up to £50m

  Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is looking for an electronic patient record system and a clinical research platform worth £50m

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Mapping technology turning Depok in Indonesia into smart city

  Depok in Indonesia is using mapping technology to support its smart city ambitions

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Social engineering confirmed as top information security threat

  Cyber attackers shifted away from automated exploits in 2015 and instead tricked people into doing the dirty work, Proofpoint researchers found

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Dutch water wants to move beyond dipping its toes into big data pool

  Dutch water company Brabant Water wants to use data to improve the service it provides to customers, as well as identify problems on its distribution network

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Internet of things helps track endangered dugongs in the Philippines

  Fishermen in the Philippines are using smartphones and apps to help conservationists protect an endangered species

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  HR technology heads to cloud in Finland

  Computer Weekly talked to Finnish experts about Finnish enterprises moving to cloud-based HR IT systems

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Catherine Doran, Royal Mail

  Royal Mail CIO talks about replacing legacy systems, new contracts and moving to a platform-based model

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  HSBC launches biometric security for mobile banking in the UK

  Bank claims UK’s largest planned roll-out of voice biometric security technology, with more than 15 million customers in line for voice and fingerprint authentication services

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Media and marketing industries on the lookout for digital skills

  Creative industries such as media, marketing, advertising and sales place more value on digital skills than IT and telecoms sector does

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Nick Hopkinson, Devon Partnership NHS Trust

  NHS trust’s CIO aims to deliver digital technology that helps clinicians spend more time with patients

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Middle East telecoms operators face up to IoT smart city challenges

  As smart city initiatives spring up in the Middle East, telecoms operators contend with the strain of the internet of things (IoT) on networks

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Case study: SEO startup uses Elastichosts’ containers to solve cloud app scalability issues

  Search engine optimisation startup talks about the challenges of running unpredictable, resource-hungry applications in the cloud

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  BBC Three moves online-only as broadcaster embraces digital audience

  The BBC channel aimed at younger viewers, BBC Three, broadcast its last night as a TV channel before moving to online-only viewing

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Electronics supplier RS Components outsources business process systems in online push

  Electronics manufacturer RS Components outsources its corporate software development to Atos in a bid to modernise its customer services

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Judge orders Apple to unlock San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

  A US judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI bypass the auto-erase function on the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone to find the passcode and access data, but the company says it will contest the order

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  HMRC shares details of IT transformation plans

  HM Revenue & Customs has published its IT strategy outlining how it plans to transform its IT estate by taking a platform approach, moving to virtual infrastructure and cloud-based services

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Mobile apps could put an end to ‘hated’ staff appraisals

  Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  EU managers need to up cyber security collaboration, study finds

  There is still much work to be done in the area of collaboration and sharing responsibility when it comes to preventing data breaches, a study has found

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Vodafone and Liberty Global to merge in Netherlands

  Vodafone and Liberty Global confirm that they are to merge their Dutch businesses