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• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  Ordinary citizens with no terror links caught by US surveillance, court hears

  US government has “extraordinary access” to private data of non-US citizens around the world, a Dublin court is told

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  MWC 2017: 4G still has plenty of mileage, say mobile analysts

  5G is likely to be a hot topic at this year’s Mobile World Congress, which kicks off at the end of February, but operators should be paying more attention to getting more out of their 4G networks

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  Rubbish digital collection needs to be addressed

  Services like rubbish collection, that are usually outsourced, need greater digitisation to join up to council processes

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  Dubai’s oldest bank is anything but archaic inside

  The digital head of Mashreq, the UAE's oldest private bank, tells Computer Weekly about his role as half banker, half techie

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  Consumers losing millions through out-of-date broadband deals

  Consumers are still paying over the odds for out-of-contract broadband deals, according to a report from uSwitch

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  Battersea Power Station development gets ultrafast FTTP broadband

  Hyperoptic has been selected to deliver FTTP broadband to new-build apartments at Battersea Power Station

• 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 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  UK fintech investments slump over Brexit fears

  Investment in UK financial technology companies fell in 2016 because of the uncertainty caused by the Brexit vote

• February 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  Indonesian university rolls out faster, more secure network

  Yogyakarta State University deploys enterprise-grade Wi-Fi network to ease IT administrative workloads and support more users

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  CityFibre and Gamma strike long-haul dark fibre deal

  Gamma plans to connect 15 datacentres and exchanges around the UK using CityFibre’s long-distance and metro networks

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Public cloud services in mature APAC markets to reach $10bn in 2017

  Increasing adoption of cloud-based applications and platforms has been fuelling the growth of cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Three to expand into fixed broadband

  Mobile network operator Three is to acquire UK Broadband, heralding an expansion into fixed broadband services for the first time

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Openreach launches enhanced duct and pole mapping service

  BT’s infrastructure arm, Openreach, has made digital maps showing its duct and pole network infrastructure available to allow other comms services providers to plan new fibre broadband networks

• February 05, 2017 05 Feb'17

  Middle East-based Emirates NBD launches mobile app-based bank

  UAE bank’s new account is based on a smartphone app that is designed to learn and adopt to customer preferences

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  Security of industrial systems must be a top priority

  The idea that hackers could switch off a country’s electricity, water, oil and gas supplies is a nightmare scenario – but it could happen

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  Finnish city takes €10bn leap into digitisation

  Tampere is encouraging its people, businesses and government organisations to come together to make digital transformation work for everyone

• January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17

  Gigaclear wins Northamptonshire BDUK contract

  Rural fibre broadband supplier Gigaclear has been awarded a Stage Three BDUK contract covering remote parts of Northamptonshire

• January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17

  New leaders in insurance industry drive digital innovation

  Insurance companies are investing in digital innovation, with a new breed of leaders formalising enterprise strategies

• January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

  Bellway Homes signs Hyperoptic for Welwyn Garden City development

  Developer Bellway Homes chooses FTTP broadband supplier Hyperoptic to supply ultrafast services to new homes in Welwyn Garden City

• January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17

  GDS signals intent to move public sector off PSN

  Government Digital Service’s Technology Leaders Network determines that the internet is an adequate solution to support the vast majority of public sector work

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore bank offers online chat banking

  POSB launches automated customer service platform that understands spoken language

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Government reaffirms broadband funding in industrial strategy plan

  The government reaffirms previous commitments to further funding of rural broadband roll-out and 5G mobile networking in its post-Brexit industrial strategy plan

• January 20, 2017 20 Jan'17

  BT draws fire over broadband price hike

  Consumer broadband groups have hit out after BT put up its broadband prices

• January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17

  Facebook to build third datacentre in Europe to underpin virtual reality push

  Social networking giant hails country's cool climate as one of the many reasons it has decided to site its latest server farm in Denmark

• January 19, 2017 19 Jan'17

  How Singapore can help Southeast Asia reach its digital potential

  Singapore could play a vital role in supporting the digital transformation of its Asean partners in the Asian Century

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  HSBC appoints technology advisers to keep pace with IT changes

  Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Artificial intelligence critical to business growth

  There are many hurdles to overcome before the full benefits of AI can be realised by organisations

• January 13, 2017 13 Jan'17

  Davos: Technology poses new risks to jobs, economies and society

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by technology to jobs, political stability and cyber security at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Lloyds Bank digital banking problems an industry warning

  Lloyds Bank’s digital banking problems still unresolved after a second day

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Case study: The Alan Turing Institute takes cloud-first stance on data science research

  Computer Weekly meets the Alan Turing Institute team and finds out how using cloud-first thinking can help achieve its goal of becoming a global force to be reckoned with in data science research

• January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

  Tech focus helps Singapore go second in globalisation index

  Singapore is the second most globalised economy in the world and its IT infrastructure is critical to this achievement

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Verizon deal to buy Yahoo looks set to go ahead

  Yahoo has filed documents which indicate that if the Verizon deal goes ahead, the remainder of the company will become an investment company called Altaba

• January 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

  City of London Corporation to build small cell Wi-Fi network

  Residents, workers and visitors to the City of London will be able to log onto an ultrafast Wi-Fi network across the Square Mile later on in 2017

• January 06, 2017 06 Jan'17

  Surrey County Council catches £3.8m gain share windfall for broadband

  Local authority to receive £3.8m to extend a BDUK broadband roll-out through the gain share clauses written into its BT contract

• January 03, 2017 03 Jan'17

  Alexa enters home automation

  Alexa is Amazon’s intelligent voice service for the home. Computer Weekly explores its potential for home automation

• December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16

  Top 10 financial services stories of 2016

  Here are 10 of the most popular fintech articles on Computer Weekly in 2016

• December 28, 2016 28 Dec'16

  Top 10 mobile stories of 2016

  A look back at Computer Weekly’s most-read mobile stories from 2016

• December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

  Top 10 networking stories of 2016

  A look back at Computer Weekly’s most-read networking stories of 2016

• December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

  Top 10 state surveillance, investigatory powers and activism stories of 2016

  This year saw the UK introduce the Snoopers' Charter, legalising some of the most extensive government surveillance powers in the world. Computer Weekly exposed state monitoring of Parliamentary emails, and reported on activist Lauri Love's legal ...

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Hyperscale datacentre growth sees demand for OEM hardware soar, research shows

  Synergy Research Group lifts the lid on how the growth of hyperscale datacentre operators is developing around the world, as well as the impact this is having on demand for hardware from legacy IT suppliers

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Top 10 broadband stories of 2016

  A look back at Computer Weekly's most read broadband news, analysis and features from 2016

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  Consumers prepare for Christmas broadband misery

  Holiday pressure on already over-capacity broadband services is likely to leave consumers frustrated this Christmas, according to a survey

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  What does Tech Nordic Advocates network look like a year on?

  Group set up to stimulate collaboration in the Nordic and Baltic IT communities to help them grow is a year old

• December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16

  Ofcom says 5% of UK properties still lack sufficient broadband access

  Ofcom’s Connected Nations report highlights improvements in broadband speed and connectivity across the UK, as well as areas that are still ripe for improvement

• December 15, 2016 15 Dec'16

  Industry backs call for government action on 5G

  The mobile industry has rallied around this week’s National Infrastructure Commission report on 5G and telecoms

• December 15, 2016 15 Dec'16

  BMW Group uses IBM Watson to explore personalised driver systems

  BMW and IBM are putting research teams together to investigate the use of IBM Watson to personalise the driver experience

• December 15, 2016 15 Dec'16

  Yahoo hacked: One billion users affected by August 2013 data breach, company confirms

  Yahoo confirms details of a historic data breach, dating back to 2013, affecting one billion users

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  GP tests out connected stethoscope, cleared for NHS use

  A digitally connected stethoscope from a Silicon Valley startup is now available in the UK and promises to change patient-doctor interaction

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Is there a Dutch digital delusion?

  To stand still is to decline. The Netherlands seems to be losing ground in the digital world, according to new reports

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Tech industry big guns unite to create crash-free IT services and systems

  Some of the tech industry's biggest names have come together to create the Zero Outage Industry Standards Association to help improve the uptime of IT systems and services

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars

  The UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2016, ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars, shares his thoughts on the consequences of Brexit, access to skills and the importance of security in a world full of connected devices

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Ofcom reveals duct and pole sharing proposals for fibre broadband

  Regulator has made a number of suggestions to make it easier for broadband providers to get access to BT Openreach’s ducts and poles

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  Mirai botnet hits Post Office Broadband and Kcom customers

  Broadband providers Post Office Broadband and Kcom are among a number of operators to have been hit by a hack targeting Zyxel routing hardware

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  GE opens biggest digital hub in India

  Bangalore centre added to US industrial giant’s global network of digital hubs

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  AWS CEO hails "changing of the guard" in enterprise IT on the back of cloud growth

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  Blockchain-based gold trading planned for 2017

  Thousand-year-old organisation The Royal Mint is the latest financial services business to harness blockchain technology

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  HPE fleshes out IoT strategy

  HPE is moving from IT to operational technology with a set of products and tie-ups to target industrial internet of things applications

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  CityFibre targets underserved businesses with fibre broadband

  Urban fibre supplier CityFibre is to connect 500 business parks across its 40-city UK network footprint to full-fibre services

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  BT and Openreach to split: but what will change as a result?

  The telecoms industry has welcomed Ofcom’s decision to legally split BT and Openreach, but what, if anything, will actually change?

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  Ofcom to legally separate BT and Openreach

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to push ahead with plans to require the legal separation of BT and Openreach

• November 28, 2016 28 Nov'16

  Measures to boost digital economy announced in Malaysia budget 2017

  Malaysia’s latest budget reflects the country’s aim to boost the digital economy

• November 28, 2016 28 Nov'16

  Metro fibre dig backs new Newcastle datacentre build

  Newcastle campus datacentre owner supports the connectivity needs of local businesses as well as cloud customers

• 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 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  Competition authority wants feedback on open banking plan

  The government’s Competition and Markets Authority is asking for feedback on its proposals to introduce competition in the retail banking sector

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Case study: How the RAC is digitising roadside assistance

  The RAC, an organisation steeped in tradition, is on a modernisation drive. We look at how Microsoft Azure is helping it digitise older cars

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Government offers five-year tax holiday on new fibre networks

  In his Autumn Statement, Chancellor Philip Hammond confirms a massive cash injection for broadband and 5G, and announces business rate cuts for new fibre broadband network builds

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Nationwide breaks norm and opens branch because of technology

  Nationwide Building Society is bringing a bank branch back to Glastonbury to try out new technology on customers

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  HumanOps: Etsy on how unclear workplace expectations contribute to staff burnout

  IT managers risk "normalising" bad workplace behaviour and contributing to employee stress by responding to emails out of hours and staying late unnecessarily, warns Etsy web operations manager

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Alleged hacker Lauri Love’s ‘life will be destroyed’ under Trump regime

  Supporters fear for activist Lauri Love if his extradition to face hacking charges to the US goes ahead

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Chancellor to pledge £400m for FTTP broadband roll-out

  The chancellor is set to announce a major investment in the UK’s broadband infrastructure in the upcoming Autumn Statement

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Barclays pilots contactless cash withdrawals

  Barclays bank is piloting technology to enable customers to withdraw cash by just tapping their smartphone or contactless card on a reader

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Lending platform pioneer Zopa aims to become a UK bank

  Zopa, the company that pioneered the peer-to-peer lending sector with its tech platform, looks to add more disruption to the retail banking market

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Citibank Australia to go cashless as digital technology takes hold

  Citibank will no longer handle cash at its six branches in Australia as digital channels reduce demand for cash transactions

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  ASA calls for clarity on broadband speed claims

  The Advertising Standards Agency turns its attention to how broadband providers advertise the speed of their packages, amid fears that consumers may be misled

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Altnet broadband customers tend to be happier, says Cable

  A consumer broadband study by Cable reveals that customers of smaller providers and altnets tend to be more satisfied with their service

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  SSP Worldwide under fire over cloud outage communication failings

  Insurance brokers blast SSP Worldwide over its approach to crisis communications during recent cloud outages

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Copenhagen fintech hub opens its doors

  Copenhagen gets a financial technology startup co-working venue as the city attracts more digital entrepreneurs

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  White space spectrum to bring wireless broadband to Isle of Arran

  Suppliers Nominet and Broadway Partners collaborate to trial the use of TV white space spectrum to improve broadband coverage on the Isle of Arran in Scotland

• November 11, 2016 11 Nov'16

  Cloud datacentres to house 92% of workloads by 2020, predicts Cisco

  Networking giant Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index shines a light on how the growth of off-premise services is affecting the datacentre market

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Road to safety: Self-driving cars in the Middle East

  The Middle East could improve its poor record on road safety through the use of driverless vehicles

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Fintech disruption hits UK cheque processing industry

  Cheque processing company makes huge cuts to its operation as new technology reduces demand for its services

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  ANZ bank puts cloud expert in leading IT role

  Australian bank has recruited another senior executive from the IT supplies sector to support its digital developments

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  BT boosts broadband speeds for SME and consumer customers

  Telco is increasing the broadband speeds it makes available for small businesses and consumer customers using its fibre-to-the-premises network

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  AWS shares datacentre security secrets to inspire more enterprise cloud adoption

  CISO says there is no need to sacrifice security to pursue innovation in the cloud, as he reveals how the cloud giant safeguards customer information in its datacentres

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Welsh government earmarks £80m for new broadband scheme

  The Welsh Government is planning to invest up to £80m to extend its broadband roll-out across the entire country by 2020

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Three-quarters of banks see startups as best way to access latest technology

  The latest survey of banks by Efma and Infosys reveals a big appetite for working with startups in the traditional banking sector

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Insurers face same legacy system battle as retail banks

  The biggest barrier to insurance companies adopting digital technology is their heavy reliance on legacy IT systems

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  Twitter cuts Vine and jobs as revenue growth slows

  Twitter has announced it is to restructure with the aim of achieving profitability in 2017, but in the meantime it is axing its Vine video sharing service and around 350 jobs

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Dyn reveals details of complex and sophisticated IoT botnet attack

  DNS services provider Dyn, which was the victim of a large-scale DDoS attack perpetrated by an IoT botnet earlier in October, discusses details of its experience

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee to join Oxford University

  The University of Oxford has appointed Tim Berners-Lee as a professor at its computer science department

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Google suspends US FTTP broadband roll-out

  Google parent Alphabet calls a halt to its roll-out of FTTP broadband in the US as it embarks on a strategic rethink

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Ultrafast York UFO broadband network to go citywide

  Following successful trials in a number of York neighbourhoods, UFO broadband backers CityFibre, Sky and TalkTalk have agreed to roll out the service across the city

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  SAP steps up data privacy in Europe

  SAP guarantees technicians outside of Europe will not be able to access companies’ sensitive personnel and other records

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Australian IT spending to be near A$85bn in 2017

  Australian CIOs must plan digital platforms that can connect to customer and business networks – or risk losing customers

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Insurers are joining fintech party

  Insurers are held back from digital transformation by legacy systems, but insurance-focused IT startups offer them hope

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Self-driving taxi roll-out in Singapore gathers intelligence

  Autonomous vehicle startup nuTonomy launched a fleet of self-driving taxis in Singapore in August

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Dyn DDoS attack highlights vulnerability of global internet infrastructure

  Last week’s DDoS attack on DNS firm Dyn has highlighted both the vulnerability of the world’s internet infrastructure, and the dangers of leaving internet of things devices unsecured