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• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  HMCTS researches the future of open justice

  A new report by Policy Lab into the threats and opportunities of technology is aimed to support new approaches to policy-making

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  5G to be first mobile generation to have bigger impact on enterprises than consumers

  GSMA Intelligence report says 5G could see private enterprise networks explode and become a competition battleground between telcos and cloud companies within five years

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Qualcomm eyes up slice of $13.2tn 5G sales enablement market

  At the end of its financial year, mobile chip giant Qualcomm sets its sights firmly on profiting from a 5G economy which it believes will generate more than $10tn in sales enablement by 2035

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  GoCardless and TransferWise create global network for direct debits

  Fintechs’ network will make it easier for small companies to expand their customer bases internationally

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Cisco promises CIO digital transformation gains with new collaboration suite

  Suite deploys artificial intelligence to create a personalised meetings experience

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Are you paying too much for application management services?

  Man-hours metrics may not give the best value for money. Rimini Street hopes to pivot the conversation towards incident reduction

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Singapore makes mark on AI with Apache Singa

  The Apache Singa distributed deep learning platform has been conferred top-level project status and is already being used by hospitals to model the progression of diseases

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Orange begins 5G services with roll-out in Romania

  Orange Group joins the 5G service provider roster, with offer in Romania said to be capable of delivering internet download speeds of up to 1.2Gbps and average download speeds of 600Mbps

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Zopa opens testing for its banking products to customers

  Zopa's move into the banking sector is gathering pace as customers test out its savings product

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Amazon Ring video doorbell flaw left users open to attack

  A vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring video doorbells left the internet-of-things devices open to a variety of attacks

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Executive interview: Towards the internet and beyond

  Fifty years ago, a computer at UCLA communicated with another at SRI International, laying the first stepping stone towards the global internet

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Co-operative Bank extends mortgage service deal with Capita

  Co-operative bank has extended a contract to outsource its mortgage platform in a deal with Capita

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Community Fibre lights up south London gigabit broadband

  Fibre-to-the-home provider Community Fibre has teamed with cloud and IT services provider Glemnet to bring unprecedented gigabit speed broadband to customers in south London

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Saudis recruited Twitter employees to spy on critics

  Court documents reveal how the Saudi Arabian government targeted Twitter employees as part of a coordinated effort to gather information on known dissidents

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Telcos take to commercial blockchain to seize new revenue streams

  GlobalData report finds blockchain usage among telcos increasing, with use cases such as roaming fraud management, wholesale fees settlement, mobile money payments and IoT management

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  HP Inc receives a $30bn takeover bid from rival Xerox

  It may be a third of the size, but Xerox has put in a bid for rival HP Inc, four years after HP Inc's separation from HP

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  O2 5G gears up to power driverless cars in London

  UK telco reveals 5G network support for trials of driverless vehicles and smart transport systems on the streets of London

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Nokia and Microsoft announce tech partnership

  IT behemoth Microsoft and comms technology provider Nokia forge first joint solutions, to enable communications service providers and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Abu Dhabi AI university is key to UAE’s future as the oil dries up

  Abu Dhabi’s fledgling artificial intelligence university is part of a highly ambitious 30-year plan to transform the UAE’s economy and culture

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud

  Workday’s vice-chairman explains how machine learning can help employees become more effective, and hints at the company’s moves beyond finance and HR software

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Gigabit broadband to transform working lives across Europe

  Report from economist Oxera predicts that many social and economic benefits will result from the widespread roll-out of gigabit broadband, as increased connectivity changes the way people interact with each other

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Trend Micro insider breach exposes need for data-centric protection

  Simple measures could have saved consumer security product supplier from insider breach

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Marks & Spencer profits drop as digital push ramps up

  Clothing, home and luxury food retailer Marks & Spencer has been pushing to make its business more digital, but its half-year profits have seen a hit

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  How Facebook’s ‘Switcheroo’ plan concealed scheme to kill popular apps

  Leaked documents reveal how Facebook used and abused app developers, cut off data to competitors, gave privileged access to its friends and used privacy as a cover story

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Global security workforce must more than double to meet demand

  There are about 2.8 million cyber security professionals working today, and the world needs four million more

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Professional cyber criminals command $75k per annum

  An ill-advised career in cyber crime is potentially almost as well-paying as a job as a threat researcher in the industry, according to Tenable researchers

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Sage brings cloud-based Intacct to UK market

  Sage is bringing its cloud-based accountancy software acquired with US-based Intacct to the UK, and publishes research advancing a digital CFO concept

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Virgin disconnects BT for Vodafone for future mobile services

  From 2021, Virgin Media will have full access to all of Vodafone’s current services and future technologies, such as its 5G network, after ending supply deal with BT

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  General Election affects National Data Strategy

  A series of workshops, including the public’s involvement to guide the plan’s vision, have been postponed

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public today

  Computer Weekly publishes cache of leaked documents disclosed to Congress

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Jonathan Oxley appointed interim Ofcom chief executive

  Ofcom group director for competition and board member fills in as regulator expects to make permanent appointment after General Election

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Initiative offers £1.5m for 15 projects to reduce digital exclusion across UK

  Initiative spearheaded by Good Things Foundation and JP Morgan awards funding to 15 projects with the aim of closing the digital divide

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  EU digital sovereignty at risk if global tech giants can’t respect IP rights

  MEP warns that digital sovereignty will remain a mirage if European digital champions do not have the same rights to enter foreign markets as those attempting to enter the EU

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Scality APIs connect Azure Stack to Ring object storage on-site

  Object storage specialist continues its cloud integration journey by adding Microsoft Azure Blob API connectors to allow use of Ring as bulk storage for Azure edge data

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Huawei: 5G growth will be maintained with or without US tech supply

  Huawei dismisses US tech sabre-rattling and claims it will continue robust business growth in 5G with or without US suppliers

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Cloud native core banking enables consumers to personalise what they buy

  Google inspired core banking platform could help banks offer personalised products to millions of people.

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Ransomware authors seeking new ways to avoid being spotted

  Sector analysis from Sophos has revealed some insight into how malware authors are adapting to thwart cyber security controls

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  VMware readies on-premise and as-a-service hybrid offerings

  During its annual VMworld event in Barcelona, VMware unveiled its vision for combining vSphere and Kubernetes

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  TechUK calls on datacentre sector to scale up climate change action efforts

  Tech trade body TechUK claims the datacentre sector must do more to tackle climate change, and assist the government with its pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Nordic private equity groups drive paytech investments as global actors hover

  Private equity companies in the Nordic region are stepping up M&A activity as international tech firms eye acquisitions in the region

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Welsh government to hire chief digital officer

  The £500,000 of annual funding will go towards a leader and a department dedicated to developing digital initiatives

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Best of VMworld 2019 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2019 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs lends billions of dollars through Apple partnership

  Apple Card issuing bank Goldman Sachs has already given billions of dollars in credit to iPhone users since Apple's credit card was launched

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Qumulo gets HPE upgrade as customers ‘come back from object’

  Distributed file system maker Qumulo benefits from HPE Apollo hardware upgrade in a market where Qumulo exec says customers are coming back from object storage for unstructured data

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  ICO launches data security campaign for UK General Election

  Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham launches campaign to remind the public of their rights when personal data is used for political purposes

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Gartner: The time is right to make IT a boardroom issue

  In many businesses, IT is regarded as an internal service provider and cost centre. Gartner says now is the best time for CIOs to make IT strategic

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China

  New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Sumo Logic buys into cloud security software market

  Jask’s cloud-native autonomous security operations software will be integrated into Sumo Logic’s intelligence platform

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Modernisation of justice may leave vulnerable users behind

  A Commons Select Committee report has voiced a number of concerns about the ongoing transformation efforts led by the Ministry of Justice and called for actions such as maintenance of non-digital services

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Government allocates £2m to support growth of lawtech

  New government funding unlocked to help break down barriers to the adoption of emerging technologies in the legal sector