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• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Met Police launches £600m IT infrastructure tender

  Force aims to move away from a multi-supplier approach and enable flexibility and savings in technology

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Mimecast blocked 99 billion suspicious emails in third quarter

  Latest threat intelligence report reveals the scale of the threat posed by malicious emails, with the transport, legal and financial sectors hit hardest

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Datrium boosts VMware protection but won’t add more hypervisors

  NVMe flash pioneer turned DR-as-a-service-focused data platform provider Datrium says VMware and Kubernetes have “won the market” and it won’t extend support beyond those two

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Ryanair checks in Vodafone for business-class infrastructure

  Budget airline gets upgrade in Vodafone Business communication technology infrastructure to support 300 sites and 153 million passengers across 40 countries

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Finland’s ministry of transport floats tech-enabled four-day week

  Government department says four-day working week is made possible by technologies such as artificial intelligence

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Massive increase in fraud attacks on TSB customers during IT meltdown

  There was a massive spike in attempts by fraudsters to steal from TSB customers when the bank’s IT systems failed in 2018

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  FCC opts for public C-band auction

  US telecoms regulator disappoints satellite consortium with decision to go to public, not private, auction of spectrum in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band to develop 5G

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Conservatives slammed over social media trickery

  The Conservative Party has been caught spreading online disinformation during the General Election campaign for a second time

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Holy grail of digital banking is, at first glance, a new channel, not a new concept

  Details of Google’s plans in the financial services sector have emerged with nothing groundbreaking so far, but the sector is guessing what comes next

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• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Dreamforce 2019: Benioff puts data centre stage as protestors disrupt speech

  Salesforce founder and co-CEO outlines data integration and data visualisation product vision underpinned by MuleSoft and garnished with Tableau

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  SK Telecom unveils 5G Virtual Social World

  Korean telco aims to take advantage of its growing 5G infrastructure with hyper-immersive experience platform optimised for the mobile era

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  House of Commons seeks IT security chief

  Interviews for the two-year engagement are due to take place in December 2019

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  John Lewis Partnership taps Google Cloud for AI expertise to bolster customer experience

  The John Lewis Partnership is building on its earlier forays into the Google Cloud by tapping into its artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise to deliver on its omnichannel business ambitions

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Carbon Black to open Australia datacentre in 2020

  Australia datacentre comes on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of Carbon Black and will serve organisations with data sovereignty requirements

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Public sector risks downplayed by senior IT leaders

  Sophos reveals a significant cyber security perception gap between senior IT and security leaders in the public sector and their front-line teams

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Macy’s Magecart breach presages Christmas fraud spike

  US retailer Macy’s admits some customer data was accessed by unknown actors during a week-long Magecart attack

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IoT growth set to come from managed data analytics

  CompTIA's latest IT industry forecast suggests that businesses will be making more use of automation in internet-of-things applications

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  A third of LGBTQIA+ people in tech believe there is a wage gap

  Research has found wage gaps across the technology sector, with LGBT+ people, BAME individuals and women being paid less than their white, straight, male counterparts

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Anti-stalkerware coalition calls time on intrusive abusers

  New coalition plans to tackle the scourge of stalkerware as a tool of domestic and other forms of abuse

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses failing to wipe data from old endpoints

  Organisations are not taking adequate precautions to sanitise data held on endpoints when refreshing their PC or mobile device estates

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Businesses still struggling to reap benefits of cloud, study shows

  Research by global IT firm Unisys shines a light on reasons why some firms are still struggling to reap the benefits of using cloud

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  TSB programme pulled apart in report on IT meltdown

  City law firm tears into TSB’s management of botched core banking platform migration

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  AR and VR set to enhance jobs and boost GDP

  New headset technologies and 5G networking promise to lower costs, and make AR and VR more user friendly

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Huawei shrugs off latest US reprieve

  Chinese tech giant dismisses the latest extension of the US Temporary General Licence and maintains that the US government is harming its own interests in banning it

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Managed services fuelling APAC security market

  Spending on managed security services will account for almost half of Asia-Pacific’s cyber security market by 2023, as global and local providers shore up their offerings in the region

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  IR35 reforms put IT contractors at risk of 'second wave' of loan charge-like tax bills, experts warn

  Concerns raised over re-emergence of umbrella firms targeting IT contractors with loan-based remuneration schemes ahead of the private sector IR35 reforms coming into play

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Trade associations dial down anger on Labour’s broadband plans

  Anger at the Labour Party’s proposals on full-fibre broadband have persisted, but more nuanced views have emerged from fibre associations

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Aryaka aims to disrupt traditional SD-WAN and legacy service provider models

  SD-WAN provider Aryaka claims to have unyoked enterprises from what it calls carriers’ burdens and ‘rigid, limited’ offerings with new regional WAN models

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Dreamforce 19: Salesforce promotes enhanced MuleSoft data integration

  SaaS CRM supplier dubs enhancements to its acquired MuleSoft integration software “Customer 360” on the eve of its annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

  The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Investec Bank cashes in on WAN acceleration

  Investec Bank turns to WAN acceleration to cut down distributed database response times and ensure that more traders can go online and earn more money

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Failure to assess cloud network architectures affecting service performance

  The second annual ‘Cloud performance benchmark report’ from ThousandEyes notes the need for businesses to make rigorous assessments of underlying network architectures in cloud service acquisition

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Scottish local government prioritises automation and AI in digital plan

  Use of the technologies will be ramped up as part of the next phase of the Digital Office 2.0 programme

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Microsoft increases data protection for enterprises following Dutch MoJ audit

  Last year’s audit by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security got the attention of the European Data Protection Supervisor. Now Microsoft has reacted

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO

  Software-defined storage specialist DataCore has added file storage and S3 object storage access with vFilO, which lets customers create virtual pools from on-site and remote datastores

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Nextgenaccess gains 20-year rights to run full fibre alongside HS1 track

  Broadband infrastructure provider will deploy high-capacity 432 Fibre System between Stratford in London and Eurotunnel in Folkestone

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  HP Inc declines Xerox offer, but is ready to haggle

  HP Inc's board of directors have formally declined Xerox’s $30bn acquisition offer, but it has left the door open for merger negotiations

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Foreign e-commerce giants threaten Nordic high streets

  Surveys show up to 40% of high-street stores in Sweden and Finland could face closure by 2030 as retailers seek to combat e-commerce threat

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  London 5G operators make mixed start to service lives

  London 5G networks are not yet cutting the mustard in terms of consistency and reliability of performance

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  How DBS is pushing the limits of IT efficiency

  Besides shrinking its datacentre footprint by 75%, Singapore’s DBS Bank is running twice as many virtual machines on a single socket and decoupling applications from its infrastructure stack

• November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19

  Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

  The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  How businesses can accelerate innovation

  To compete in the digital age, businesses will need to work quicker, partner where appropriate and upskill staff, according to McKinsey & Company

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  University Hospitals Birmingham demos UK’s first remote 5G-powered diagnostic procedure

  NHS trust uses BT 5G network to deliver medical services to a 5G-connected ambulance, combining virtual, augmented and robotic technology

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Loan charge under review: The 20-year retroactive tax policy pushing IT contractors to the brink

  Thousands of IT contractors are at risk of financial ruin as HMRC pursues them for tax it claims they owe on work they did up to two decades ago and were reimbursed for via loan remuneration schemes. Computer Weekly investigates

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

  A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Notorious hackers claim responsibility for Labour DDoS

  Hackers claiming to represent Lizard Squad say they were behind a distributed denial of service attack on the UK’s Labour Party

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Google Cloud introduces holistic cloud network monitoring

  Spotting a gap in holistic network management in today’s multicloud business environments, Google Cloud introduces its Network Intelligence Centre

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Industry questions viability of Labour plan to offer free full-fibre broadband to all UK homes

  Uproar in tech sector as Labour proposes to part-nationalise BT and offer free full-fibre broadband to all individuals and businesses by 2030 if successful in General Election

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Cord-cutting driving global broadband usage to surpass 500GB of data per month

  Exodus from traditional video services to online spurs surge in average broadband data usage, presenting untapped opportunities for service providers

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  How Slack is going beyond messaging in enterprise play

  Deeper integrations with business applications and data residency support are part of Slack’s broader strategy to penetrate deeper into the enterprise

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Home Office Brexit app contains multiple security flaws

  The Home Office’s Brexit app may be putting EU citizens’ personal data at risk

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Cyber criminals tool up for Christmas fraud season

  Organised criminals are trying to cash in on the festive retail boom with both brand new and tried-and-tested techniques

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  LOTI launches dashboard that maps technology resources of local authorities

  London Office of Technology and Innovation launches dashboard in partnership with Bloomberg Associates to drive savings and identify skills levels

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Booming broadband drives EU cable to new highs

  Record revenue fuelled by continued growth in cable revenue generating units, says European broadband cable yearbook

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Docker restructure sees enterprise platform business sold to open source cloud firm Mirantis

  Docker, the company credited with popularising the notion of container technologies, sells off its enterprise arm as part of a wider business restructure

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Uploadcare gets $1.7m cash investment to expand CDN

  Funding will help bi-directional CDN technology provider to accelerate content delivery speed, reduce internet traffic volume and acquire Blinkloader content optimisation platform

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  ASEAN regulatory sandbox will promote cross-border data flows

  The Regulatory Pilot Space will offer ASEAN businesses a safe test environment to provide digital services across the region while complying with data privacy rules

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  11 new 5G hacks enable user device tracking and monitoring

  Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Iowa publish details of several new 5G mobile network vulnerabilities

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Google to launch bank accounts in 2020

  Google is launching bank accounts in the US in 2020 as tech giants continue to deepen their activities in the financial services sector

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Business leaders fibbing to cover up lax security posture

  Nominet study finds evidence that many businesses tout the robustness of their security posture as a selling point even though their security teams lack confidence in themselves

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Finnish biometric identity plans for seamless air travel

  Finnair and Finavia explore options for automatic digital identification and authentication of air travellers

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Synchronoss joins US big four operators in cross-carrier messaging initiative

  Joint venture aims to deliver advanced mobile messaging experience across suppliers’ mobile networks

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Enterprises begin mandating open APIs as part of RFPs

  Back-office implementations see increased demand for native support for TM Forum’s Open APIs, boosting interoperability and helping service providers improve agility and reduce IT integration and maintenance costs

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Attack on Labour shows need for DDoS defence but should alarm few

  After being hit by two DDoS attacks in the space of 24 hours, many commentators are convinced the UK’s Labour Party is the victim of foreign interference in the General Election campaign. It probably isn’t

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Business must engage with consumers to boost AI

  Artificial intelligence is set to become a core part of business, but to get the most from it, enterprises need to engage with consumers to focus personalisation

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Bet365 backs DevOps to improve site reliability

  The online betting site is setting up a DevOps team to improve website reliability and ensure applications are deployed quickly

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Singapore sets national AI strategy with focus on skills and ethics

  Singapore is kicking off its national AI strategy with five key projects spanning logistics, healthcare, smart estates, education and border security

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Cyber risk insurance is more than just insurance

  Insurance companies such as Chubb are offering incident response services and security tools to help companies improve their cyber security posture and better cope with cyber attacks

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Nordic SMEs lack the money needed for cyber security

  Businesses and governments in Denmark and Norway are working together to address a cyber security shortfall for SMEs in each country

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  CIO interview: James Freed, CIO, Health Education England

  As well as the usual IT leadership tasks, the healthcare IT chief is also responsible for helping to develop digital skills and awareness for staff across the health and care sectors in England

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  PCI DSS payment security compliance drops again

  Worldwide, barely one-third of companies are maintaining full compliance with the PCI DSS security standard – and the numbers are falling

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Police Scotland furthers Pronto digital beat in Glasgow

  Officers will be able to fill in reports directly on their mobile devices for incidents such as crimes, road collisions and traffic tickets

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Mist gets into gear with first self-driving network for the enterprise

  Mist Systems has launched what it claims as the world’s first AI-driven self-driving network for the enterprise, allowing business users to streamline IT operations, simplify troubleshooting across wired/wireless domains and deliver optimised ...

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  NHS still holds citizen trust on data use

  But the public trust banks more than local or central government bodies when it comes to handling personal information, a new study has found

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Subs spike sees growth return to Vodafone UK

  Vodafone UK is claiming its best-ever quarter for new customers, with more than 500,000 additions in the three months ending 30 September

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  ‘Robust’ security foils cyber attack on Labour Party

  Labour claims to have been the victim of a cyber attack, but says it is confident no data leaked

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Shared responsibility model key to solving 5G security problem

  Both buyers and sellers need to cooperate to solve the thorny issues around 5G security

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  IBM drums up quantum computing future

  IBM’s head honcho, Ginni Rometty, welcomes Australia’s Woodside Energy to the quantum computing fold through a partnership to harness the technology to shore up cyber security and plant operations

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  German telcos team to combat mobile dead spots

  Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone have entered into a co-operation for mobile network expansion to extend coverage throughout Germany

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Australia’s productivity woes pinned on poor employee experience

  Research by Ricoh suggests that the lukewarm view of employee experience among IT leaders is part of the reason for Australia’s declining productivity

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  How SAP is supporting ASEAN’s digital economy

  A regional SAP executive outlines what it takes for Southeast Asia’s workforce to tap the opportunities offered by the region’s booming digital economy

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Vodafone inks network deal with Openreach to expand FTTP in UK

  First phase of network expansion aims to give users download speeds of up to 900Mbps in 15 UK towns and cities

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Major report on TSB IT disaster expected soon

  A damning report into the 2018 IT disaster at TSB is expected to heavily criticise executives when it is published in November

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  G-Cloud 10 fails to generate business for suppliers, study says

  Research firm Tussell’s study into G-Cloud reveals majority of suppliers listed in its report did not earn any revenue in 2018 through the public sector framework

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Swisscom takes step towards nationwide 5G coverage

  Telco deploys spectrum-sharing technology to help realise its goal of reaching 90% 5G coverage of Switzerland by end of this year

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Zain taps Ericsson for 5G network

  Zain commissions Ericsson for 5G technology to meet growing data traffic demands and deliver high-quality mobile broadband and fixed wireless experiences, encompassing new business in the automotive, health and energy sectors

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs probed over alleged Apple Card gender discrimination

  US financial services regulator is investigating allegations that Goldman Sachs’ credit decisions for its Apple Card offering show gender bias

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  WISE calls out tech industry for slow approach to equality

  At the 2019 WISE awards, chair of the campaign Trudy Norris-Grey called upon the audience to help find ways to speed up the move to equality in the tech sector

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  A buyer’s guide to hybrid cloud management tools

  As more Asia-Pacific enterprises gear up for the hybrid cloud, a slew of tools has emerged to help organisations manage the lifecycle of cloud applications in a heterogeneous IT environment

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Security pros urged to get ahead of incoming BlueKeep exploits

  The BlueKeep RDP vulnerability is beginning to be exploited in the wild, and security teams have no excuse for not trying to get in front of it, says Microsoft

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Morrisons in new appeal over data breach fine

  The Supreme Court has heard an appeal from retailer Morrisons as it attempts to overturn prior judgments holding it liable for a 2014 leak of employee data

• 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