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June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15
Nationwide quick off the mark with Apple Watch banking app

Nationwide claims to be the first high street finance firm to offer an Apple Watch app
June 10, 2015 10 Jun'15
Gartner: Smart machines are coming

CIOs will need to assess how smart machines, capable of making decisions without human intervention, will impact business processes
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Iomart builds out hybrid cloud play with £12.5m SystemsUp acquisition

Hosting company buys public cloud consultancy to capitalise on enterprise appetites for hybrid IT models
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Businesses face spike in ransomware attacks, reports McAfee Labs

Researchers at McAfee Labs say a spike in ransomware in the first quarter of 2015 was driven largely by the hard-to-detect CTB-Locker and Teslacrypt families

June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Apple confirms UK launch of Apple Pay iPhone payments service in July 2015

Apple confirms its Apple Pay contactless iPhone payments service will arrive in the UK in July 2015, when eight high street banks will support the service
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Renault latest to offer UK financial services through online account

Renault is offering a UK savings account, with more financial products set to follow
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
New rules to make switching broadband provider easier

New rules designed to make it easier for consumers and businesses to switch broadband provider are to come into force on 20 June
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Apple Pay to be available in the UK within months

Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users in the UK will soon be able to use Apple Pay
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Swedish mines to benefit from 5G technology

5G technology is helping the Swedish mining industry modernise
June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
Co-operation driving progress in fighting cyber crime, say law enforcers

Co-operation with business in the private sector is an increasingly important element in fighting crime, according to UK, US and EU law enforcement officers

June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
Potential Apple Pay security weakness revealed

Fraudsters could gain access to personal details of Apple Pay users, research reveals
June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
"Arrogant" datacentre operators blasted by users for poor customer service approach

Research from MigSolv suggests many customers are unhappy with the service they receive from their datacentre providers
June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
UK mobile payments to hit more than £1.2bn a week by 2020

Brits are spending more using their mobile phones, reveals Visa Europe research
June 05, 2015 05 Jun'15
Danske Bank and PowaTag team up to further mobile payments in Denmark

Danske Bank signs deal that could make mobile payments easier for millions of people in Denmark
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Peer demands action over ‘illegal’ Prism programme

US technology companies are operating illegally by accessing data on UK citizens, Lord Laird tells the House of Lords
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Get ready for Windows 10 upgrade

Windows 10 will be released on July 29. Computer Weekly looks at how the new operating system will impact enterprise IT
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Swedish hardware hub pairs big businesses with IT startups

Swedish hub pairs hardware-focused startups with businesses to tap into opportunities such as the internet of things
June 04, 2015 04 Jun'15
Pressure grows on enterprise datacentre operators to wind-down investments

Long-term investments in private datacentres could leave enterprises at a competitive disadvantage, warn experts
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
NHS Shared Business Services expands through acquisition

NHS Shared Business Services acquires to grow customer base and expand offering
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
Law enforcement officers weigh in on encryption at Infosecurity Europe

Law enforcement officers have called for greater co-operation with the tech industry and the public to enable access to electronic communications for targeted surveillance
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
Sourcing must adapt to digital business goals, says Gartner

Businesses need to change their sourcing strategies if they are to keep pace with the digital revolution, says analyst organisation Gartner
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
CIOs need to cut legacy IT to help the business digitise

While CEOs want to become more digital, CIOs will need to convince them that spending more on IT is the way to achieve this
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
London hospital trust delays IT project completion as issues frustrate staff

London hospital delays major IT project completion due to 'teething and birthing issues'
June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15
Energy UK trade body takes merger opportunity to outsource IT to Exec Sys

When three energy trade bodies merged to form Energy UK, the organisation outsourced its IT to Exec Sys to cut costs and modernise legacy systems
June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15
Nordic Startup Awards highlight region's next wave of innovation

Nordic startups celebrated at annual awards ceremony, but where next for the region's fledgling IT firms?
June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15
Microsoft seeks planning permission for another Dublin datacentre

Software giant will have to wait until August to see if the application for its latest Irish facility has been accepted
June 01, 2015 01 Jun'15
Telent deploys Unify Circuit to support public sector bid processes

Managed network services provider Telent deploys Unify’s Circuit unified communications system to manage a growing number of public sector bids
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Tim Berners-Lee concerned by expanded snoopers’ charter

Tim Berners-Lee calls on government to prove it can build an electronic communication monitoring system that is accountable to UK citizens
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Data classification key to IP protection, says Titus

Data classification can help organisations get more value out of encryption and data loss prevention systems
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
A tale of two boxes: Choosing between Box and Dropbox

Box and Dropbox are in the content and collaboration business, but the two cloud services have taken very different approaches
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Equinix to acquire datacentre rival TelecityGroup for £2.35bn

Equinix's bid to acquire rival wins backing of the board, beating Interxion to the crunch
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics

The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation
May 29, 2015 29 May'15
IT problems at Central and North West London NHS Trust affect medical staff

London Hospitals are reverting to manual processes due to IT systems failure
May 28, 2015 28 May'15
Yahoo to face US class action lawsuit over email spying allegations

US judge gives green light for lawsuit filed by non-Yahoo mail account holders, who say Yahoo is analysing emails sent to Yahoo Mail accounts
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
More responsive PSN security compliance regime goes live

Following a successful public beta of the updated Public Services Network compliance regime, the process has now gone live
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
Symantec still top security supplier by revenue, says Gartner

The security software market grew by 5.3% in 2014 to $21.4bn, with the top suppliers by revenue being Symantec, Intel and IBM
May 27, 2015 27 May'15
High-value personal data targeted in 100,000 US taxpayer data harvest

Hackers who harvested 100,000 US taxpayers’ personal data using data from previous breaches were targeting high-value personal data, say experts
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Denmark legislation another step towards a cashless Nordic region

Selected types of Danish retailer could soon be permitted to turn away customers who can’t pay electronically
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
HP CEO hails business split progress amid downbeat Q2 revenue slumps

Despite chalking up revenue declines in several business units, Meg Whitman is more convinced than ever of the need to breakup HP
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Fido Alliance launches authentication standards certification

The Fido Alliance, which seeks to eliminate the world’s dependency on password-based security, has launched a certification programme
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Worcestershire NHS Trust outsources to Computacenter

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is enabling its member organisations to share IT following a managed services deal with Computacenter
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Researchers raise privacy concerns about Bluetooth Low Energy devices

Researchers have raised privacy concerns about a growing number of devices using Bluetooth Low Energy technology
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Indian IT service providers grab a quarter of top 100 global deals

Indian IT services firms won almost a quarter of the 100 biggest global outsourcing deals in the world in 2014
May 22, 2015 22 May'15
Nordics well prepared for Industrial Internet of Things

In the race to reap the rewards of the industrial internet of things, Nordic countries are among the leading nations
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth talks about space, drones and smartphones

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, strives towards the vision of a converged handheld device
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Metro Bank and Zopa collaboration a sign of the future

Challenger financial services firm Metro Bank is offering loans through peer-to-peer lending platform Zopa
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Telstra Pacnet hack shows telcos are a prime target, say security experts

Cyber breach of Telstra’s Asian subsidiary, Pacnet, underlines the importance of cyber defences in the telecoms industry, say security commentators
May 21, 2015 21 May'15
Can OpenStack free up enterprise IT to support software-driven business?

With Walmart going public with its use of OpenStack, now could be the time for big organisations to take the technology seriously
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
IT system related to subpostmaster prosecutions under review by CCRC

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) receives 20 applications from subpostmasters related to prosecutions for account shortfalls
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
Fledgling bank Euro Pacific moves core system to cloud

Euro Pacific Bank has moved from multiple proprietary systems for its core banking to cloud-based software from Temenos
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
CSC prepares itself for sale to Indian supplier

CSC is splitting itself in two to make its sale easier, say sources, with Indian supplier Wipro touted as a potential buyer
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
BT and BDUK failed to make costs transparent, says report

A major report on BDUK commissioned by DCMS identifies a number of failures around the transparency of the scheme’s costs
May 20, 2015 20 May'15
US group calls to keep encryption strong as UK snoopers’ charter set to return

A coalition of top cryptologists and several large technology firms have sent a letter urging the US government to preserve strong encryption
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Cyber attackers show ingenuity in first quarter of 2015, report shows

A combination of newer and older threat variations defined the cyber security landscape in the first quarter of 2015, report shows
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
OpenStack establishes interoperability initiative to lower complexity

OpenStack-powered initiative aims to reduce the complexity involved in bridging private and public cloud services
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Premier Inn integrates Apple Watch with its customer app

Premier Inn joins Apple Watch bandwagon with app that lets customers use the smartwatch to control the heating, lighting and entertainment systems in showcase hotels
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
York businesses invited to register interest in UFO network

Sky and TalkTalk prepare to open up their ultrafast fibre-optic (UFO) network for business in York
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Canonical offers SaaS pricing for on-site VMs and storage

Open source supplier Canonical has introduced software as a service pricing for on-premise storage in a move that could change the way traditional software is licensed
May 18, 2015 18 May'15
Executive interview: Google's big data journey

A programming concept developed in 1958 inspired the seminal Google whitepaper that introduced the world to MapReduce
May 18, 2015 18 May'15
Barclays adds extra security through domain name switch

Barclays Bank and Barclaycard are moving away from using .com and .co.uk domain names in a move that will add extra security for customers
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
UK law enforcers support snoopers’ charter

Three of the UK’s law enforcement chiefs have come out in support of a revival of the so-called snoopers’ charter to monitor electronic communications
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
Why the tech savvy Nordics are failing in international e-commerce

In the borderless online world, Nordic online retailers must expand beyond their home markets to keep up with growing competition
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
IT service providers are pushing too hard to sell extra services

IT services firms are not prioritising the services they are contracted to provide because they are too busy trying to sell additional services on top
May 15, 2015 15 May'15
Fire services to keep Airwave Tetra radios until 2020

The Department for Communities and Local Government approves a major extension of the fire services' Firelink Tetra network to the end of 2019
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Digital age a turning point for policing, says commissioner Leppard

Policing in the digital age will face a turning point in the next two years, according to City of London Police commissioner Adrian Leppard
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Venom is serious, but no Heartbleed, say experts

Security researchers have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many virtualisation platforms
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
TalkTalk not buying Tesco Mobile

TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding tells the BBC she is not going to acquire mobile virtual network operator Tesco Mobile
May 14, 2015 14 May'15
Sweden’s Cerdo outsources savings and payments unit to Finland's Tieto

Swedish banking and finance services company Cerdo Bankpartner outsources close to home with fellow Nordic firm Tieto
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Standard Chartered moves 90,000 staff to Jive

Standard Chartered bank is using software from Jive to support collaboration between 90,000 employees in 70 countries
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
CIO interview: Hans-Petter Aanby, Scandinavian Airlines

The battle for the skies above Scandinavia took a twist in 2012 when Norwegian Air Shuttle CIO Hans-Petter Aanby moved to rival Scandinavian Airlines
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Kaspersky Lab advances expansion plans with London research centre

Kaspersky Lab launches research centre in London as part of plans to expand network of research hubs beyond Russia, China and the US
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Verizon boosts IoT ambitions with AOL acquisition

Verizon Communications signs $4.4bn deal to acquire AOL in bid to drive growth through digital, video and the internet of things
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
European education network launches search for IaaS providers

Pan-European education network is on the hunt for IaaS specialists to populate its Cloud Catalogue
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Global banking IT group completes standardised IT architecture

The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) has announced its standardised global IT architecture for banks
May 12, 2015 12 May'15
Microsoft bids for security edge with new browser

In a bid to end years of Internet Explorer security woes, Microsoft is betting that its still-to-be-released Edge browser will meet the challenges of increasingly sophisticated online hacker attacks
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Santander launches 'Boris bike' app

Santander has released an app that allows people to book a 'Boris bike' via their mobile phone
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
PSNGB rebrands to drive information sharing across PSN

PSNGB, the trade association set up to promote the Public Services Network, rebrands itself as Innopsis and says its work is far from over
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
UK Oracle User Group votes in Linda Barker as president

The UK Oracle User Group votes in former ERP director at engineering firm Atkins, Linda Barker, as its new president
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Theresa May signals Tory majority could revive snoopers’ charter

Theresa May has indicated the party could revive the so-called "snoopers’ charter" to monitor electronic communications
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Barclaycard moving to next-generation wearable

Barclaycard is ending its trial of payment wristband bPay by replacing it with a more permanent version
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
CIO interview: Mikael Ludvigsen, DLG Group

It is not an easy job to be the CIO of DLG Group, the ninth largest company in Denmark and the second largest agricultural firm in Europe
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Identity is key to meeting IoT security challenges, says NetIQ

The IoT will not necessarily introduce new cyber threats, but it will amplify those we are already facing, says NetIQ solutions consulting director
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Equinix gatecrashes Interxion takeover by making play for TelecityGroup

Doubts cast over Interxion takeover, after Equinix disrupts merger talks by making separate play for TelecityGroup
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
The IoT industry needs to do more to secure data, says Beecham Research

There are key areas where the industry supporting the internet of things (IoT) needs to provide better security, according to Beecham Research
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Software critical in Norwegian oil & gas risk management

Crude oil price cuts meant thousands of jobs lost in Norway. It’s now more critical than ever for operators to make better use of IT
May 07, 2015 07 May'15
Mike Lynch names Vatican and Kraft as Autonomy case goes public

Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has responded to HP’s formal litigation against him and former CFO Sushovan Hussain, highlighting major user contracts
May 07, 2015 07 May'15
Ed Miliband most tweeted about as UK goes to polls

Labour leader Ed Miliband has been the most tweeted about politician in the week leading up to election day
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
Cloud collaboration company Box expands datacentre footprint outside US

Cloud collaboration provider Box is set to build datacentres outside the US to expand the firm's global operations over the next 12 to 18 months
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
American Express joint venture puts finances on Netsuite

American Express Global Business Travel puts its financial operations on a cloud based platform from Netsuite to support its growth
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
EU revamp of payment services draws nearer

The EU cannot afford to continue with costly payment services if it wants to be globally competitive, says MEP
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
Finnish banking startup Holvi speeds up online identity verification

Finnish startup Holvi's online-only banking service has been growing customers and reputation – and now wants to accelerate its services
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
Google provides search engine database for big data analytics

Google has introduced a cloud-based big data service, which it claims is twice as fast as competitors
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Alcatel-Lucent to target enterprise UC market

Alcatel-Lucent signs collaboration agreement with OTT unified comms firm Counterpath to target enterprise and operator customers
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Sportlobster uses PubNub network for data streaming in real time

Sport social network Sportlobster uses data stream network from PubNub to avoid months of development work and to cut infrastructure costs
May 01, 2015 01 May'15
Memset blasts BT over PSN Protected deployment delays at Surrey datacentre

IaaS provider turns attention to closing down more public sector deals now PSN Protected network is finally in place
April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15
IoT benefits and privacy not mutually exclusive, says industry expert

It is possible to mitigate the privacy and security risks of the internet of things (IoT) without losing its benefits, according to an industry expert
April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15
Windows 10: Why you should work around PC price hike

IT departments planning a PC refresh to tie in with Windows 10 can expect to pay more due to the strong US dollar
April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15
Microsoft tempts cross-platform developers with free Visual Studio

Microsoft has extended Visual Studio to Mac and Linux developers
April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15
Fewer IT firms going bust in 2015, shows Exaro Insolvency Index

Collapses among information and communications firms decreased in first quarter of 2015, according to Exaro Insolvency Index