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• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  NHS Wales shapes up ambitious plans for digital patient-facing app

  Computer Weekly looks at NHS Wales’ project to create a patient-facing app and a collaborative ecosystem for technology suppliers and NHS providers to deliver joined-up care

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Former Skyscanner COO will lead Scotland’s tech-led recovery programme

  Following his independent review of the Scottish tech sector, Mark Logan will oversee a programme to establish the country as a world-class technology hub

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Interview: Ivan McKee, Scottish innovation minister

  Scotland’s innovation minister talks to Computer Weekly about the country’s new digital strategy, the importance of inclusion, and why the strategy is underpinned by ethical thinking

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  $50m ransomware demand on Acer is highest ever

  Record-breaking double-extortion cyber attack saw REvil gang exfiltrate financial data from Taiwan-based PC manufacturer

• March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21

  Government bids final goodbye to Gov.uk Verify

  Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Julia Lopez confirms launch of “discrete” successor to Gov.uk Verify

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Reshaping the women-in-tech debate in Denmark, from the top down

  Tech Nordic Advocates adopts a different approach to closing the gap between women and men in the Danish tech startup sector

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  NHS will get shared care records by September 2021, says Matt Hancock

  The health secretary sets September 2021 target for shared care records roll-out, and wants to explore potential of moving patient data being held in proprietary systems to the cloud

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home

  Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Capita restructures to simplify its business

  Business services supplier creates two core units that focus on public sector and commercial enterprise customers and will sell off non-core assets

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Nordic healthcare digitisation drives medtech growth

  Nordic medtech is growing rapidly as the healthcare sector adopts technologies such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  One-fifth of all UK tech investment went to just 10 scaleup firms in 2020

  Annual Tech Nation report shows UK technology firms saw record levels of investment in 2020, but a significant proportion of it was concentrated in a small number of scaleup enterprises

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles

  Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: IPSE warns of UK contracting talent exodus unless start date delayed

  Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed research into what contractors plan to do once the IR35 reforms come into play highlights growing risk of talent shortages

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Government plans for fresh AI strategy

  The government wants to “unleash the power of AI” and be “the most pro-tech government ever”, according to digital secretary Oliver Dowden

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Potential miscarriages of justice of Scottish subpostmasters move to full review

  The Post Office Horizon scandal gets bigger as subpostmaster prosecutions in Scotland are reviewed

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Scottish farm subsidy body slashes dev time with Pure all-flash

  Rural directorate ditched hybrid flash EMC SAN for Pure all-flash storage and cut developer time in half, while beta testing Cloud Block Store and planning container project

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Met Police chooses Capgemini as strategic IT infrastructure services provider

  Capgemini has a history of providing the force with day-to-day technology services, and will now deliver its infrastructure services under the Pegasus programme

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Private equity house buys McAfee enterprise business

  Deal to sell off enterprise unit will see McAfee become a pure-play consumer organisation

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Cumbria and Nottinghamshire care homes pilot diagnostic telemedicine

  Two care homes trial telemedicine system that allows GPs to carry out detailed patient assessments without leaving the surgery

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Nordic innovators change emphasis on gender equality in society

  Female technology innovators in the Nordics take a different approach to trying to improve opportunities for women

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  UK contactless payment limit more than doubled

  UK increases the amount that can be spent in one go using a contactless payments card to £100

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement with unionised workers

  US software startup’s ‘milestone’ agreement with employees focuses on job security and labour rights rather than salaries and benefits

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  UK’s Arkivum up for €4.8m EU science data archive project

  CERN-led multi-petabyte scale research data archive bid will use Google cloud and compete with AWS-based and open source designs from other providers Libnova and Onedata

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Hays calls on Treasury to delay April 2021 start date by a year

  UK and Ireland managing director of recruitment giant Hays writes to HM Treasury to demand a delay and review of the government’s plans to roll out the IR35 reforms to the private sector from April 2021

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  SME backup: Card maker ditches tape-only for Nakivo 3-2-1 setup

  IG Design Group gains a modern backup regime with data held on disk, in the cloud and long-term on tape in a move that has helped it to slash backup and restore times

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  PGA Tour teams up with AWS to improve fan engagement during tournaments

  PGA Tour selects Amazon Web Services as its official cloud service partner as it sets about revamping tournament viewing experience for golf fans

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  HSBC offers to help customers transitioning to digital banking as branch closures continue

  HSBC is offering its customers training in how to bank digitally in a safe and effective way as it, like many banks, moves customers out of branches and towards using online services

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Reading Borough Council to overhaul IT infrastructure

  Council and its children’s services partner award contracts worth £13.2m for shared IT infrastructure

• March 01, 2021 01 Mar'21

  Digital secretary Dowden outlines UK post-Brexit data approach

  The UK government is searching for a new information commissioner with an updated remit to use data to support growth and innovation, and plans on reaching new international data partnerships

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  It’s now or never for UK fintech, government told

  The UK government faces a ‘now or never’ moment if it wants financial technology to play a central role in the economy for years to come

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Nordic startups strive to fuel international e-commerce transformation

  Nordic startups are developing technology for retailers that want to improve the customer experience when buying online

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  UKtech50 2021: The most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 11th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Contractors call for further delays to April 2021 start date

  Research by the online tax consultancy arm of Ernst & Young reveals lack of preparedness among contractors for the onset of the IR35 tax avoidance reforms in the private sector

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  Tech-enabled hybrid working enables HSBC to cut 40% of its global office space

  Bank is making huge reductions in the amount of office space it uses through a global hybrid-working policy

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: What IT contractors need to know

  Computer Weekly asks contracting experts to answer questions about PSC bans, compliant umbrella companies and challenging status determinations, with the latest IR35 reforms coming into place

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Arcserve and StorageCraft merger aims for ‘single pane of glass’

  Arcserve and StorageCraft bring a lot of similarities but enough differences for their backers to bet on with their merger, with unifying management between product sets the only priority currently stated

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Veeam v11 adds continuous data protection and cloud archive

  Backup specialist’s annual upgrade brings continuous data protection to offer better RPOs and RTOs than existing snapshot functionality and without impact on running processes

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  BBVA teams up with Google Cloud for IT security strategy revamp

  Spanish bank banking giant BBVA is forging even closer ties with long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to bolster the security posture of its IT infrastructure

• February 22, 2021 22 Feb'21

  Startup founders worried about proposed capital gains tax changes

  British technology startups are concerned about proposed changes to widen the UK’s capital gains tax, with just over four in five saying they would consider moving their enterprise abroad

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  European Commission proposes UK data adequacy agreement

  The publication of two draft data adequacy decisions brings the UK closer to a final positive decision, which will enable the continued free flow of data between the EU and the UK if green-lit by member states

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Fingerprints will help payment cards retain relevance

  Biometric payment cards using fingerprint technology could add billions to global banking revenues, says UBS

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Finnish IT sector demand increases after months of decline

  IT sector in Finland sees small signs of recovery as demand increases after months of Covid-19-related decline

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  HMRC denies misleading House of Lords over IT contractors’ use of tax avoidance schemes

  MPs from Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group write to HMRC CEO Jim Harra to demand the department be investigated for breaching the civil service code

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Defra to lead creation of cloud-focused IT sustainability standard for use across government

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs continues its work to help government departments clean up their IT supply chains by creating a ‘cloud sustainability’ workstream

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  TransferGo to harness Google-inspired tech capability

  Payments fintech TransferGo chooses cloud-native core banking platform to build a digital wallet and expand its services

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  C40, C60 R3, go! Pure adds to FlashArray//C QLC flash range

  Hybrid storage killers: Pure Storage adds entry-level FlashArray//C40 R3 QLC array plus re-CPUed C60 R3 that will scale to 5PB or more

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: HMRC reminds firms to use ‘reasonable care’ when applying new tax rules

  As the countdown to the IR35 reforms being rolled out to the private sector continues apace, HM Revenue and Customs issues compliance guidance for firms in-scope of the new rules

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  Digital investments will add £232bn to UK economy by 2040

  The UK economy could grow by £232bn over the next two decades if investments in digital technologies continue

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  University benefited from early virtual desktop investments when pandemic struck

  Edinburgh Napier University was able to react quickly to some of the main challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Goldman Sachs reopens UK digital savings account

  US banking giant resumes online account for UK savers after temporarily withdrawing it in response to high demand