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Information technology (IT) in Benelux

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Retail banking regulations hit UK with the potential of a ‘Big Bang’ moment

  The UK retail banking sector is at the beginning of a journey towards to a more competitive future as new regulation hits them

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Max Schrems champions NGO to fight for GDPR rights

  Privacy activist whose legal challenge of Facebook led to the scrapping of the Safe Harbour Agreement says crowdfunding a new type of non-government organisation is essential to deliver privacy rights

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Dutch bank tests wearable technology payments

  ABN Amro is testing out wearable payment devices with 500 customers as part of a four-month pilot

• January 04, 2018 04 Jan'18

  Nordic banks face digitisation decisions over PSD2

  With the latest version of the EU payment services directive coming into force, traditional Nordic banks can’t afford to slow their digital transformations

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Dutch digital coin miners offered datacentre space to reduce costs

  The Netherlands’ Datacenter Group is providing digital coin miners with space in a professional datacentre

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Fintech is increasing operational risk to banks

  European Banking Association report reveals fear of greater operational risk because of increased take-up of fintech in financial services sector

• November 26, 2017 26 Nov'17

  UK only average in terms of digital public services

  UK government has the innovation skills to become a digital public services leader, but needs to improve the ID and authentication that sits underneath it to reach this goal

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Europe not ready for imminent cyber strikes, say infosec professionals

  Information security leaders in Europe believe a major breach of critical infrastructure is coming and that data breaches in their own organisations are imminent – yet most are not ready

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  Go beyond GDPR for a competitive edge

  By exceeding the bare minimum requirements set by privacy regulations, businesses can win customers by offering greater assurances, says a business adviser

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Dutch government agreement increasingly focuses on IT security

  The coalition government in the Netherlands has agreed its plan for the next four years, with IT security prominent

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Belgian telco Proximus picks Cloudify to support NFV roll-out

  Belgium’s largest telecoms operator Proximus will deploy a cloud-native orchestration platform to support its adoption of NFV services in the business

• October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17

  All EU countries sign up to implement digital-by-default services

  Declaration reaffirms commitment to bring public sector services into the digital age and improve citizens’ interaction with government

• October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17

  Hard Brexit would see UK tech exports fall by £1.7bn

  UK manufacturers including those in the technology sector will lose billions of pounds of export revenue if the government completes a hard Brexit

• September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17

  UK-EU talks have failed to raise confidence of IT leaders

  IT decision-makers are no more confident about how Brexit will affect them despite this year’s general election and talks between the EU and the UK

• September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17

  Banks across Europe cut thousands of staff and branches as IT replaces them

  Banks across Europe cut jobs and close thousands of branches as IT shakes the industry

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  European Union states question copyright law proposal

  European states are questioning legality of a new copyright law proposed by the EU

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Open source helps Schiphol fly to multi-clouds

  Amsterdam airport Schiphol is utilising open source software to create and use a multi-cloud platform with an open API

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  Dutch e-voting is waiting for an opportunity

  Despite years of opposition and distrust in voting machines, a small Dutch initiative is aiming for a new form of e-voting

• August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17

  CIO interview: Daniel Gebler, chief technology officer, Picnic

  The Netherlands has the highest supermarket density in the world, yet a technology company has been able to gain market share from the established order

• July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17

  Europe takes measured approach to 5G, driven by ROI concerns

  European operators may be more concerned with getting the maximum value for money from their 3G and 4G networks than rushing to roll out 5G

• May 22, 2017 22 May'17

  Dutch railway uses IoT to reduce people jams

  Railway stations in The Netherlands are monitoring the movement of travellers to manage traffic flow and reduce people jams

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Dutch university quickly connected thousands of students to new learning management system

  Dutch university TU Delft is replacing its legacy learning management system after 17 years

• April 07, 2017 07 Apr'17

  MEPs call for European Commission to reassess Privacy Shield

  European parliamentarians have called for an immediate review of the Privacy Shield EU-US data transfer framework due to concerns about privacy protections being undermined in the US

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Dutch IT companies introduce unlimited staff holidays

  IT firms in The Netherlands are leading the way with strategies to give employees control of how much time they take off work

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut gets sweet on cloud

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut is increasingly using cloud-based apps to improve productivity and reduce costs

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  AI and robots will 'create political instability' until humans find new occupations

  The belief that advances in technology will create more jobs than they replace may no longer hold true

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

  International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year

• March 20, 2017 20 Mar'17

  Global business leaders hail UK tech sector’s innovation potential

  KPMG report reveals global confidence in UK tech sector’s ability to create innovative products and services that are keenly adopted across the world

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

  IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  3D printing gets serious in the Netherlands

  3D projects abound in the Netherlands, with the technology being applied to canal bridges, bicycles, ship components and buildings

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

  The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  How a Dublin court case could derail EU-US data privacy agreements

  The Irish Commercial Court will consider whether privacy protection offered by standard contractual clauses for data transfers to the US from Europe is legally valid

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  European Union reaches final agreement on mobile roaming charges

  Mobile roaming charges in the European Union will end by 15 June 2017 after final agreement was reached on the regulation of wholesale prices

• January 29, 2017 29 Jan'17

  Artificial intelligence will increase productivity by sharpening human mind

  The combination of AI and humans will triple productivity if businesses get the balance right for different roles

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Human-centric technologies will dominate next three years

  Accenture says businesses will develop technology and services to match human behaviour in the next few years

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs

  CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

  CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Dutch IT ministry needed to take digital lead

  Whenever the media covers a failed Dutch government IT project, the question is always asked whether the government should have a ministry of IT

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  IT startups suffer from strict, out-of-date Dutch laws

  The Netherlands government needs to ensure that legislation enables disruptive technology to flourish

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Dutch government uses Microsoft Dynamics to improve recruitment

  Government recruitment and career management of senior civil servants in the Netherlands has been improved through a Microsoft Dynamics implementation

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  German digital bank Fidor acquired by French banking giant

  Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion

• 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 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Benelux CIO interview: Paul Elich, CIO at KLM

  Paul Elich, CIO at Dutch airline KLM, tells Computer Weekly about building innovation into IT departments and the ongoing de-duplication of internal systems since its merger with Air France

• 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 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Banking IT community faces uncertain Brexit future

  The financial services IT community faces a period of uncertainty as finance firms reassess plans following the EU referendum result

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  EU firms slow in detecting cyber attacks, study shows

  European firms take an average of 469 days to discover a compromise, compared with an average of 146 days globally, according to Mandiant

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data