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• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  BT sales increase 35% in 2016 Q2 with EE and broadband boosts

  BT Group reported a 35% increase in revenue as it benefits from its EE acquisition and a large share of the broadband market

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Smartphone sales boost Samsung’s second quarter

  Samsung has reported a 27% rise in operating profit for its mobile division in the second quarter, driven by strong demand for Galaxy smartphones, which the company expects to continue

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  UK’s top security judges struggle to assess privacy threats

  Technological advancements make it difficult for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to assess privacy threats, say the tribunal’s own judges

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Never lose track of customer journey, says Brussels Airlines CIO

  Brussels Airlines is transforming its IT, with customer experience the driving force.

• July 27, 2016 27 Jul'16

  Apple highlights services revenue and future bets as iPhone sales decline

  Apple share price up on strong performance in services and investments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, despite 27% year-on-year decline in quarterly profit

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Business unprepared for future ransomware, says Cisco report

  Next wave of ransomware expected to be more pervasive, resilient and capable of spreading quickly and effectively throughout networks by capitalising on vulnerabilities

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Cloud adoption still outpacing security capability, study finds

  Many companies are still not applying the best technologies, policies and procedures to ensure sensitive data is protected in the cloud

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Ofcom and BT set out separate plans to increase Openreach independence

  BT Group’s plans to give Openreach greater independence share some common ground with Ofcom’s recommendations, but will this be enough to ease its rivals’ anti-competitive concerns?

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  No barrier to trial in UK, Lauri Love extradition hearing told

  British hackers, including members of Anonymous, have been tried in the UK, despite causing serious damage to US computer systems, a court hears

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Date set for landmark hearing into EU-US data transfers

  Irish court hearing triggered by Austrian law student Max Schrems could have huge implications for EU-US trade and the data privacy rights of millions of EU citizens

• July 25, 2016 25 Jul'16

  Estonia seeks UK datacentre to protect citizens' personal data from hackers - report

  The Baltic state is reportedly in early stage talks with the UK and Luxembourg governments about setting up a backup site in either country to protect citizens’ data from risk of hackers

• July 22, 2016 22 Jul'16

  Jihadists’ digital tools revealed

  A report by dark web intelligence firm Flashpoint reveals how jihadist groups use common security and other tools to hide their digital communications from national security forces

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Almost half of UK's largest councils lack cloud strategy, Eduserv FOI study reveals

  Eduserv study into cloud take-up inside local authorities suggests council CIOs are still over-invested in on-premise technology

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Gartner offers insights into how cloud is disrupting traditional IT spending habits

  Market watcher shines a light on how the adoption of off-premise technologies is shaking up enterprise IT spending trends

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  MasterCard acquires VocaLink from UK banks

  Acquisition of payment systems company for £700m could increase innovation in the UK payments sector

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  IT outsourcing falls steeply in second quarter but IT as a service sees strong growth

  Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  BT broadband users hit by second UK-wide outage in two days

  Power supply issues at Docklands datacentre could be behind loss of internet access for more than 5,500 BT broadband users

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  Intel’s cloud and IoT-focused businesses deliver disappointing growth

  Intel says its transformation to focus on cloud and IoT is on track, but these key business areas fail to deliver as much growth as expected

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Reinventing Bahrain’s Kanoo Group through digital technology

  Kanoo Group IT director explains the company's IT transformation, including why implementing Office 365 across the business was his biggest career challenge

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Aster Group to implement ServiceNow

  Housing developer to use cloud-based service across multiple business functions following succesful implementation for IT service desk

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  UK falls behind most European countries in safe data storage rankings

  A report based on independent data ranks the UK behind most major European countries as a safe location for storing data

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Insurance firm frees itself from legacy shackles

  Insurance intermediary is moving its IT infrastructure into the cloud in a 12-month project that also sees it update its end-user computing technologies

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  BT broadband users hit by UK-wide outage

  Telecommunications giant incurs the wrath of BT broadband users after thousands struggle to get online, following power outage at third-party datacentre provider

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud

  Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  Australian prime minister appoints new tech leads

  Malcolm Turnbull has made key tech appointments following his narrow victory in the Australian election

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  Carbon Black bets on next-generation antivirus

  Carbon Black is betting on next-generation antivirus technology by acquiring Confer to extend the capability and appeal of its endpoint protection offerings

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  US government joins legal challenge of EU-US data transfers

  Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, is asking the European Court of Justice to rule on the legality of EU-US data transfers, post-Safe Harbour, in a landmark legal challenge

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  BT accused of under-investing in Openreach, prompting renewed calls for business split

  The Culture, Media and Sport Committee calls for operation and investment overhaul for Openreach, and claims failure to deliver on this should prompt Ofcom to order breakaway from BT

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  IBM’s growth in strategic areas helps beat revenue expectations

  IBM continues to bet on strategic businesses such as cloud, which delivered 30% growth in the second quarter despite an overall revenue decline for the period of 3% compared with 2015

• July 19, 2016 19 Jul'16

  Middle East airlines must continue to invest in IT

  Airlines in the Middle East are investing heavily in IT as the industry faces increasing demand for more efficient services

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Japanese tech firm to acquire UK chipmaker ARM

  Japanese technology firm SoftBank Group is to acquire Cambridge-based ARM Holdings to capitalise on the UK firm's IP in chipsets for smartphones and IoT devices

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Oracle targets cloud sales at Asia Pacific’s mid-sized firms

  Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Australia’s new government under pressure to hit broadband targets

  Newly elected conservative coalition government will see Australia’s National Broadband Network plan become a higher priority

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Siem fastest growing security market segment, reveals Gartner

  IBM was the only top security supplier to show growth in 2015, bouyed by the rapid growth in the Siem market, says Gartner

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  DevOps skills shortages hit enterprise digital transformation efforts

  Enterprises face challenges when recruiting and retaining experienced DevOps practitioners as demand for agile experts soars

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  EC gives Google extension in Android case but adds charges

  The European Commission has given Google an extension to respond to charges relating to Android, but has added fresh charges concerning its advertising business

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  DevOps a black hole for security

  Venafi extends its security platform to help security teams support DevOps in using secure TLS keys and certificates quickly and easily

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  ISP calls on Theresa May to eject Ed Vaizey from broadband role

  Wholesale internet service provider Entanet calls on Theresa May to replace digital economy minister Ed Vaizey at the helm of the UK’s broadband roll-out

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  UK retail banks could get Google-like legacy IT replacement

  Former Google engineers apply their experience to solving the huge handicap that core legacy systems place on the banking industry

• July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16

  Salford and Liverpool join forces on digital transformation

  Liverpool and Salford councils have signed a joint contract with SAP to deliver a technology platform, aiming to reduce costs and improve efficiencies

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  IBM sets up security centre in Canberra

  IBM leads the charge as large private businesses invest heavily in security resources across Australia in an attempt to close the security gap

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  Gulf-based Rotana Hotels centralises IT security

  Hotel group implements centralised security management to proactively protect endpoints and achieve accurate security information

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  UK cloud firm majors on Tintri hybrid flash for virtualisation

  Wokingham-based We Are Cloud rejects EMC and hyper-converged options as it deploys Tintri VM-native hybrid flash storage to support rollout of cloud services

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Visa’s Dubai innovation centre to focus on digital payments

  Visa has opened a technology innovation centre in Dubai to focus on cashless payments

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Broadband certification attracts business tenants to Old Street offices

  Property developer Derwent London pre-lets over 100,000 sq ft of office space after securing highest level of broadband connectivity accreditation from rating body WiredScore

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Datadog calls for password reset after cyber breach

  Monitoring and analytics firm detected unauthorised activity associated with production servers and database of user credentials

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Security industry largely welcomes NCA cyber crime report

  Most information security professionals support the National Crime Agency's call for help from businesses in pursuing cyber criminals

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  Irish data challenge could cost businesses billions, claims Facebook

  Facebook and Irish business groups say a legal challenge to Standard Contractual Clauses, used to permit data transfers between Europe and the UK, could cut 1% from Europe's GDP if it succeeds

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  EU-US Privacy Shield wins EU backing to proceed

  The US data-transfer agreement wins the backing of the European Union, paving the way for it to come into force

• 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

  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 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Australian real estate company goes all in on public cloud

  Australian real estate marketing company moves systems into the cloud to help it compete during a property boom

• 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

  Iceland tops list of low-risk datacentre locations

  Europe nabs six out of the top 10 spots in Cushman & Wakefield's list of low-risk locations to build or buy up datacentre capacity

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  IDC predicts slowdown in public cloud infrastructure spend will be short-lived

  IDC claims prospect of overseas datacentre builds and growing enterprise demand for off-premise services should ensure sales of IT infrastructure increase through 2016

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Is Singapore ready for a Paym-style platform?

  City state is considering developing a payments system similar to the UK’s Paym, which allows people to send money using just a mobile number

• 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

  Scottish police and Accenture terminate IT systems contract

  Scottish Police Authority, Accenture and Police Scotland have mutually agreed to abandon the £40m contract for new operational policing system after project ran into problems

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  CityFibre and Gigaclear partner to close rural broadband gap

  Backhaul supplier and ultrafast ISP form strategic partnership to boost broadband speeds in rural areas

• 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

  CCS extends controversial temporary staff sourcing framework

  The Crown Commercial Service extends the Contingent Labour One framework, now due to expire in June 2017

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  First fatality for self-drive cars as Tesla driver killed in crash

  US authorities have launched an investigation after the driver of a Tesla Model S was killed in what is believed to be the first fatality involving an self-drive vehicle

• July 01, 2016 01 Jul'16

  HPE wins $3bn in damages from Oracle

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has won $3bn in damages after a five-year legal battle with Oracle over its decision to stop supporting its database on Itanium-based servers

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust goes live with Allscripts EPR

  The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust has deployed the Sunrise electronic patient record system from US supplier Allscripts

• 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

  IT services sector faces freeze amid Brexit wrangling

  The IT services sector across the globe will be hit by the uncertainty around the UK's future relationship with the EU, but a spending freeze will eventually thaw

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Facebook data case raises US national security issues

  Dublin court case on the legality of Facebook’s data transfers to the US raises issues that affect US national security, claims US Department of Justice

• 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

  Post-Brexit price hikes hit cloud and datacentre community, as currency fluctuations bite

  Cloud and datacentre analysts claim IT buyers are already feeling the pinch from the outcome of the EU referendum, but past performance suggests demand for colocation space will rise in the event of recession

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Uncertainty ahead for government IT following Brexit

  Uncertainty, funding issues and potential changes to procurement lie ahead as the UK prepares to negotiate its Brexit deal, but suppliers remain cautiously optimistic

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Hospitals targeted using camouflaged old malware

  Specialised devices running older versions of operating systems are becoming critical points of cyber attack vulnerability, warns TrapX Security

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Intel considers sale of security business

  Intel is reportedly considering the sale of its security business to generate capital as the company restructures

• June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16

  Micro-segmentation key to new approach to infosec, says Unisys

  Micro-segmentation enables organisations to improve data security at reasonable cost without compromising agility, governance, risk and compliance, says Unisys

• June 23, 2016 23 Jun'16

  Think like attackers, says HPE cyber security strategist

  Organisations need to think of cyber attackers as adversaries and competitors focused on stealing data, maximising their profit and minimising their risk, says HPE security strategist Tim Grieveson

• June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16

  Australian government entices UK tech startups

  Australia is trying to entice UK technology firms to open operations in the country, with benefits including a stepping stone to Asia and a skilled workforce

• 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 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Brexit will make UK more vulnerable to cyber attack, say security pros

  A third of security professionals are concerned that a Brexit vote will hamper cyber threat intelligence sharing with EU states

• 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

  French Resistance uses satellite broadband for anniversary event

  A satellite broadband service was used to connect veteran secret agents for an historic commemoration of the work of MI6 in Nazi-occupied France

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Memset laments ‘pitiful return’ on G-Cloud datacentre investments

  Memset managing director Kate Craig-Wood claims public sector buyers are too entrenched in old procurement practices to make the most of G-Cloud

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Builders kill Virgin broadband service to thousands of Londoners

  Builders working in Brixton, south London, have severed a crucial link in Virgin Media’s trunk network, cutting broadband and cable TV services to thousands

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  BDUK finds more cash for rural broadband

  BDUK has uncovered and hopes to recover £150m of underspend from Phase 1 of the rural broadband roll-out project

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Enfield council to deploy customer service robot

  The London Borough of Enfield is starting to use a software robot, known as Amelia, to process citizen requests

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Australian datacentre investments rocket due to latest enterprise IT trends

  The increased use of big data, analytics, cloud and mobile technologies in Australian enterprises is driving spending in datacentre services

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Nearly all datacentres have flash storage, reveals 451 survey

  Nine out of 10 enterprises have flash somewhere in the datacentre, according to research

• 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

  UK industry asked to help youth avoid career in cyber crime

  Crest and the NCA call on UK industry to help support initiatives aimed at recruiting technically talent people into IT and IT security as an alternative to cyber crime

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Health and care IT industry join forces to create action group to champion interoperability

  29 health and social care IT suppliers launch an action group to accelerate the development of open standards in the sector

• June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16

  Openreach CEO Selley emphasises broadband delivery technology

  Joe Garner’s replacement at Openreach, technologist and engineer Clive Selley, discusses VDSL, G.fast and pure fibre as elements of the future for UK broadband

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Interoute launches virtual datacentre zone in Singapore

  Interoute’s second Asian cloud zone, after Hong Kong, increases its networked cloud coverage to 16 zones globally

• 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

  Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26bn

  Microsoft is taking over LinkedIn, with boosts to its Dynamics and Office 365 businesses expected

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Queen’s Birthday Honours list recognises more women in IT

  The 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours list recognised a number of IT and digital entrepreneurs, and been hailed as the most diverse ever

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Middle East virtualisation strategies mature

  CIOs in the Middle East are formulating their virtualisation strategies as the region warms to the benefits of cloud computing

• June 10, 2016 10 Jun'16

  Australia knows it has a cyber security problem, but not the scale

  The Australian government is aware it has a cyber security challenge, but might not understand the size of the issue, according to experts

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Bahrain IT hub could increase choice for Middle East organisations

  The Bahrain government is trying to create an IT industry with global ambitions that could increase options for CIOs in the wider Middle East region

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Cloud firm adds Cloudian object storage to satisfy S3 demand

  Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

• June 09, 2016 09 Jun'16

  Datacentre operators should evaluate emerging markets before jumping in

  Indian telco CEO claims datacentre operators are risking business failure by not investing time in getting to know the nuances of emerging markets before expanding into them