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• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Post Office ends working group for IT system investigation day before potentially damaging report

  The Post Office closed a working group involved in an investigation into claims against allegedly faulty accounting software used by subpostmasters

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  Tieto’s Taneli Tikka brings startup drive to industrial internet business

  Taneli Tikka has an unusual job description as the head of industrial internet at Tieto Corporation

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Prepare for two modes of business intelligence, says Gartner

  IT needs to open up business intelligence to the broader business to support its consumerisation

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  HSBC names replacement CIO for investment bank

  HSBC has named the replacement for the departing CIO of its global banking and markets division, with an internal promotion filling the gap

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  US cyber crime indictment prompts calls for zero tolerance

  A newly-revealed US indictment of three suspected cyber criminals has prompted a call for zero tolerance for cyber intrusions

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Group claiming links to Isis hacks small business websites

  The FBI is investigating the hacking of a number of SME websites in the US and Europe by people claiming affiliation with Islamic State

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  How to ensure your hot-desking colleagues keep their data secure

  Once hot-desking is implemented, data security suddenly demands greater attention

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses

  New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Procurement guidelines saved government £91m in 2014, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

  The government made £91m savings in 2014 with “militant” guidelines around procurement, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  HSBC seeks new investment banking CIO as Sumeet Chabria leaves

  HSBC is looking for a new IT head in its investment banking arm after Sumeet Chabria decided to leave after 21 years at the bank

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  China and US cross swords over software backdoors

  Barack Obama criticises Chinese plans to force tech firms trading in China to share encryption keys and put backdoors in software

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Case study: How National Grid uses analytics to keeps the lights on

  National Grid has started a project to supplement its existing asset maintenance system with predictive analytics

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Connected cars set CIO agenda at Volvo

  IT has always tried to align with the business, but for Klas Bendrik, group CIO at Volvo Cars, it seems business has aligned with IT

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Strong future for enterprise IT in Nordic countries

  From attracting the world to its ice-cool datacentres to the digitisation of the public sector, there is plenty going on in the Nordic region

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Latest new UK bank launches virtually

  Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Google to launch Android Pay

  Google is expected to launch a payments application programming interface at its I/O conference in May

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Microsoft to cut 9,000 jobs at Nokia plants in China

  Microsoft plans to shut down two former Nokia manufacturing plants in China, which means 9,000 jobs will be lost in the latest round of cuts

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  Bank of England considers issuing digital currency

  The Bank of England could issue its own digital currency in the future, in the same way that it does with bank notes

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  Cloud security still needs a lot more work, say European experts

  Security and privacy remain a stumbling block for cloud computing, according to information experts at the Trust in the Digital World conference

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  Austin, San Francisco and Tel Aviv revealed as top tech cities

  Austin, San Francisco and Tel Aviv have been ranked as top cities for tech companies, Savills report reveals

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  SMEs seek legal advice over controversial Capita contracts with government

  SMEs that claim to have lost significant revenue through two government contracts are seeking legal advice over alleged breaches of competition law

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  £700m spent on Universal Credit yet to deliver value for money, say MPs

  The Department for Work and Pensions has spent £700m on Universal Credit so far, but has yet to convince MPs it is value for money

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  UK consumers lack confidence in data protection, study finds

  UK consumers do not believe businesses or governments do enough to protect their data, according to to Symantec’s State of Privacy report

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  London’s Air Ambulance swaps A-Z maps for mobile apps

  London’s Air Ambulance has halved emergency dispatch times through an incident information and routing app from Mubaloo

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  PrivDog SSL compromise potentially worse than Superfish

  Some versions of PrivDog software designed to block online ads compromise internet security in a similar way to Superfish

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Apple invests in European datacentres as EU investigates tax break

  Apple is investing €1.7bn in two European datacentres to support iTunes, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Security fears stop small firms using cloud computing

  Although 60% of small businesses are using cloud computing services, the remaining 40% are put off by security fears

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  CIO interview: Paul Coby, IT director, John Lewis Partnership

  Technology is an essential ingredient to the success of John Lewis, and the retailer is ploughing £100m into IT initiatives in 2015

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Intel Security warns of six social engineering techniques targeting businesses

  An Intel Security report encourages businesses to address and educate employees on “six levers of influence” used by hackers

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Home Office wins appeal against £224m Raytheon payment over e-Borders cancellation

  The Home Office has won an appeal against a tribunal decision to award £224m to supplier Raytheon over the cancellation of its e-Borders contract

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  IBM and Oracle named as potential Monitise buyers

  IBM and Oracle have emerged as potential candidates to take over British mobile software company Monitise

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  International spyware operation linked to NSA

  The US National Security Agency has reportedly hidden surveillance software in the hard drives of several top computer makers

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  DWP starts national Universal Credit IT rollout

  The next phase of the national IT rollout for the controversial Universal Credit programme has started

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

  Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  MasterCard to pilot facial, voice and fingerprint authentication

  MasterCard will pilot a biometric authentication and verification tool this year as part of cyber security technology investment

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  $1bn cyber heist underlines need for detection, say security experts

  The theft of up to $1bn from financial institutions in a daring cyber crime operation underlines the need for monitoring, say security experts

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Lloyds Bank launches smartwatch service

  Lloyds Bank will send offers to its mobile banking customers direct to their smartwatches

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Damballa report highlights the limitations of prevention-centric security

  Anti-virus (AV) suppliers can take more than six months to create signatures for malware, according to a report from security firm Damballa

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Airwave's Tetra emergency services radio "costly and inflexible"

  Incumbent Airwave failed to advance to the next stage of the Emergency Services Network procurement because its Tetra radio technology was too inflexible for current needs, according to reports

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Baidu Chinese search engine share price falls on disappointing results

  China’s Baidu search engine share price fell by more than 8% in after-hours trade after quarterly revenue came in $11m below expectations

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  General election 2015: Major parties focus on tech agenda

  With advancements around data protection and state surveillance of internet traffic, the UK is heading into its first tech-aware general election

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Lloyds Bank accepts ID documents uploaded on social media

  Lloyds Bank group customers can upload identification documents on technology used in social media, reducing the need to visit a branch

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Former Lloyds bank and Barclays CIO Darryl West joins HSBC

  HSBC has appointed Darryl West, who left Barclays in December, as CIO

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  National Police ICT Company finally set to start operations

  A national Police ICT Company is set to begin operations after finally being approved by the UK’s police and crime commissioners

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sony data breach claims first scalp as co-chair steps down

  Amy Pascal, co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment, steps down in wake of data breach that exposed "inappropriate" comments in emails

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK