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• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Click and collect drives e-commerce growth for Asda

  Shoppers at Asda are continuing to choose to buy their groceries online and pick them up in-store

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Amazon launches credit card reader for small businesses

  Amazon has launched a card reader and mobile app for small businesses

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Company Magazine ditches print to go online only

  The womens’ monthly publication Company Magazine has announced it will become a standalone digital brand from October

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  House of Fraser rolls out beacon-enabled mannequins in Aberdeen

  House of Fraser is rolling out beacon-enabled mannequins that will allow the store to engage directly with shoppers or passers-by

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Android banking apps susceptible to hacking

  A vulnerability in Android applications built on the Apache Cordova platform has sparked new fears over mobile banking

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

  Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  Kirklees gets dark fibre injection for PSN deployment

  Kirklees Council’s PSN deployment to be enhanced with dark fibre connectivity following agreement between suppliers

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  Nationwide and Santander to take part in FinTech Innovation Lab 2015

  Nationwide and Santander will be supporting next year’s FinTech Innovation Lab in London, which is now open to receive applications

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  BT picks up Welsh PSN contract

  BT gains control of Welsh government PSN broadband and IP services contract, ousting services provider Logicalis

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Joanna Shields becomes a peer

  Former Tech City CEO and the prime minister’s adviser on the digital economy, Joanna Shields, has been awarded a life peerage

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  DCMS: BDUK roll-out hits million premises milestone

  Culture minister Sajid Javid insists the £1.7bn broadband delivery UK (BDUK) roll-out programme will hit coverage targets on schedule

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Google to favour secure websites in search rankings

  Google is starting to favour secure websites and is ranking them higher on its search engine

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Sacked BBC CTO wins unfair dismissal case

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has won his case for unfair dismissal against the broadcaster

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Manchester has the second largest Wi-Fi network in the UK

  The city of Manchester is now home to the second largest Wi-Fi network in the country as it completes a network extension

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Ofcom report reveals boost for superfast broadband and 4G

  Ofcom’s latest communications report suggests superfast broadband and 4G accessibility is growing steadily

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Startup innovation workspace to pop up in Reading

  A Thames Valley pop-up innovation workspace for tech startups will open its doors in September

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Government considers future of national infrastructure strategy

  DCMS launches consultation to help shape the UK’s digital connectivity strategy beyond 2020

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Google executive to set up fintech investment fund in London

  Google’s UK's vice president of brand solutions, Dan Cobley, will be leaving the tech giant to start a fintech incubator

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Virgin Media expands fibre-optic network into East London

  Virgin Media is embarking on a major fibre network expansion, doubling broadband speeds to 100,000 East London homes

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Russian hackers steal over a billion usernames and passwords

  A group of Russian cyber criminals have attacked 500 million email addresses and gained 1.2 billion usernames and passwords

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  What's the solution to Tech City’s lack of superfast broadband?

  Reports of poor internet connectivity for startup tech companies in London’s Tech City have been circulating for some time

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Met Police awards £90m command and control integration contract

  The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has appointed Lockheed Martin as systems integrator of its new command and control system

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Mozilla leaks developers’ personal data

  Mozilla has leaked the personal data of 76,000 users of its Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) it has revealed this week

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Bauer Media Group invests €100m in digital startups

  Bauer Media has set up a venture capital fund with plans to invest €100m in digital technology through startups likely to provide return on investment

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Camden Council’s BYOD adoption soars by 240%

  Camden Council has increased its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme by 240% over the last three years

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  US judge rules for Microsoft to release Irish email data

  A judge in the US district court has ruled against Microsoft, in its attempt to stop a US government search warrant over emails stored in Ireland.

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Netflix suffers “streaming issues” in Europe

  Netflix had an outage yesterday leaving people unable to stream content for around two hours

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Welsh police to develop mobile app for witness statements

  Two Welsh police forces are to develop a mobile application that will allow officers to record and send witness statements while on the beat

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Openreach CEO Joe Garner sets out broadband game plan

  Joe Garner, the new CEO at Openreach, talks about his plans to make the organisation more open, visible and responsive

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  HMRC’s Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle opens for business

  HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has opened the doors to its new digital headquarters in Newcastle

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Russian blogger law comes into action

  A new information security law which places restrictions on Russian bloggers and social media users has come into force today

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Smart meters, digital channels and CRM are top priorities for British Gas

  Smart meters, digital channels and reducing customer complaints by implanting a new CRM system are top of the agenda for British Gas over the coming year.

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  BT forges on with fibre roll-out but customer uptake weak

  BT rolls out fibre optic broadband across the UK at a steady pace but only 15% of fibre-ready premises sign up for the superfast internet service

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  PayPal launches UK startup accelerator programme in London

  PayPal's accelerator programme will select up to five technology startups from the UK and host them in the London offices for six months

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  UK technology sector sees strongest growth since 2007 crash

  KPMG survey finds 61% of technology businesses reporting improved revenues and expect this to continue

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Why Google could become the Amazon of banking

  Internet giants will not replace banks but will disrupt the sector through other services taking consumers away from traditional banks

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Joanna Shields joins the government’s digital revolution

  Chair of Tech City UK, Joanna Shields is joining the prime minister’s Digital Taskforce to represent the digital sector

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  53% of G-Cloud spend on is on SMEs

  Just over half of G-Cloud spend is with SMEs, according to June sales figures released by the Cabinet Office

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Isle of Man gets 4G LTE service

  Huawei teams up with local incumbent Manx Telecom to deploy the Isle of Man’s first 4G LTE service

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  5G network for London by 2020, says Boris Johnson

  Mayor Boris Johnson to promise 5G mobile network for London by the end of the decade

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  British Legion launches online WW1 remembrance database

  The Royal British Legion is launching an online database to remember those killed in the First World War

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Dr Who visual effects studio builds desktop as a service for graphics

  Jellyfish Pictures, the visual effects and animation studio behind Dr Who and the Line of Duty link has developed a DaaS for GPU

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Carl Dawson to become IT director at M&S

  Marks and Spencer hires ex-Tesco internet retailing lead as IT director

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Contactless card payments to be accepted across entire TFL network

  Transport for London (TfL) will begin accepting contactless card payments from 16 September 2014.

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Five top UK tech startup clusters outside London

  Tech City UK has moved towards promoting the entire UK, rather than just the capital

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Online spending continues to increase thanks to fashion sector

  Consumers are spending more money shopping online, with clothing and footwear seeing the biggest increases

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Yorkshire councils upgrade networks for Tour de France

  IP telephony and Wi-Fi upgrades help North Yorkshire and Leeds City Councils meet the demands of the Tour de France

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Isles of Scilly tap into seabed fibre cables to get superfast broadband

  Superfast Cornwall initiative resorts to novel method to bring fibre broadband to offshore islands

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Vince Cable welcomes £135m datacentre investment in Docklands

  Telehouse, London's colo and datacentre provider, to build a mission-critical datacentre in Docklands with £135m from parent firm KDDI

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  PayPal offers working capital to UK small businesses

  Payments giant PayPal has announced that it will be providing online cash advances to small businesses in the UK

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Alpharooms drives mobile conversion with responsive design

  Holiday booking site Alpharooms has adopted a responsive website in order to increase purchases driven by mobile website visits

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Business Secretary calls for TSB’s funding to be doubled

  Business Secretary Vince Cable has urged the government to double the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) funding

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Infosys takes the wheel in Daimler European datacentre deal

  Daimler has signed a multi-year agreement with Infosys to run its datacentre operations in Europe

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Law should be strengthened to protect data from mass surveillance, tribunal hears

  Privacy of UK citizens' metadata may fall short of European standards

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

  Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Technical glitch hits BBC iPlayer

  BBC iPlayer was affected by technical problems over the weekend, preventing some viewers from accessing TV on demand

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

  Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UK

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BBC 4G broadcast research wins support of Huawei and EE

  BBC Research and Development has teamed up with Huawei and EE to explore the role of 4G mobile networking in the future of broadcasting

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Growth in cloud and IoT lend momentum to European managed datacentres

  European datacentre services market will grow 16% up to 2018

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  BBC News commits to digital investment amid loss of 220 jobs

  BBC News has announced a restructure where it will invest more into digital transformation and original journalism.

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  London Co-investment Fund calls for tech investors

  The London Co-investment Fund (“LCIF”) is looking to select co-investment partners to build a £75 million+ seed fund for early startup technology companies.

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Zayo swoops on defunct South Yorkshire fibre network

  US fibre optic network owner Zayo has bought the defunct fibre assets of Digital Region in South Yorkshire

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Law gives 'arbitary' protection against surveillance, tribunal told

  Your choice of mobile phone service can determine whether the government can legally spy on you, tribunal told

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Dotforge launches in Leeds as UK’s first regional fintech accelerator

  Leeds has become home to Dotforge, the first financial services technology (fintech) accelerator outside London

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Lloyds Bank strives to boost digital skills for SMEs and charities

  Lloyds Banking Group pushes ahead with government-led initiative to increase digital capability of UK SMEs and charities

• July 11, 2014 11 Jul'14

  Microsoft acts to block bogus crypto certificates

  Microsoft has acted to block bogus encryption certificates that could be used to attack computers running Windows

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Alcatel-Lucent demos 10Gbps internet over copper

  Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent’s R&D arm, has claimed a new world broadband speed record using traditional copper phone lines

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network

  Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Vodafone cuts roaming costs with WorldTraveller

  Vodafone moves to combat high roaming costs outside the EU, launching £5 a day WorldTraveller service in countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the US

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  What IT challenges would an independent Scotland face?

  If Scotland votes ‘Yes’ for independence in September, what are the costs and challenges of building new government IT systems?

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Santander launches $100m London fintech fund

  Santander is creating a $100m venture capital fund in London for financial technology (fintech) suppliers

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  NHS Stockport CCG joins Huddle to combine health and social care

  The NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is using Huddle cloud collaboration software to deliver more joined up health and social care

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

  Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Can UK fintech startups survive outside London?

  With London’s booming financial services sector the biggest in the world, the UK Fintech Industry Summit 2014 considered the prospects for startups elsewhere in Britain

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  CIO interview: “Stores still very much part of Argos IT strategy”

  Argos combines wants to deliver a shopping model as compelling for online and mobile as it is for traditional channels

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager

  Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Vodafone brings gigabit fibre internet to 500,000 Irish premises

  Supplier signs JV agreement with sustainable energy outfit ESB to plough €450m into FTTP deployment in Ireland

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  BBC promotes R&D controller Matthew Postgate to CTO role

  The BBC has appointed its research and development (R&D) controller Matthew Postgate as the corporation's chief technology officer (CTO)

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Google loses US appeal over Street View data collection

  Failure of appeal leaves Google facing legal action over Street View data collection programme

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  BT sorry after broadband customers hit by mystery outage

  BT has apologised after a network incident left thousands of its customers without internet access on Saturday

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Efforts to detect terrorism hampered by mass surveillance, says former NSA technical director

  US at risk of missing terrorist threats under huge volume of surveillance data, says former NSA technical director

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Interview: Remote monitoring will revolutionise long-term care

  Electronics equipment maker Philips has partnered with Salesforce to develop a platform to support internet-connected healthcare devices

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Why are retailers turning to startups for innovation?

  There has been a surge of interest by retailers in using startups, rather than established IT suppliers, to build their technology solutions.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  CIO interview: Thierry Bedos, CTO, Hotels.com

  Hotels.com packs a huge digital punch globally, but is still striving for the perfect omni-channel customer experience

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BDUK to grill local authorities on broadband postcode data

  New BDUK CEO Chris Townsend plans urgent review of local authorities to establish which are releasing broadband postcode data

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Government reveals winning bids in superfast broadband trials

  Government reveals names of eight suppliers that have won a share of a £10m funding pot to trial superfast broadband in rural areas

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Symbian ransom shows risk in internet of things

  The news that Nokia was held to ransom over a digital certificate should raise alarm bells in organisations with aspirations to digitise their business

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Department of Health sets out technology priorities for coming year

  The Department of Health (DoH) has outlined changes in the way technology and information will be used over the coming year

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  EE, John Lewis and other big-name brands support start-up competition

  A £1m Launchpad competition opens to support small businesses producing innovations in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  G-Cloud chief receives OBE in Queen’s birthday honours list

  G-Cloud and digital commercial programme director, Tony Singleton, has received an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  House of Lords sets up Digital Skills Select Committee

  The House of Lords has set up a select committee for digital skills

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  Vodafone buys automotive specialist Cobra for M2M tech

  Vodafone plans to expand machine-to-machine capabilities with automotive and telematics systems

• June 13, 2014 13 Jun'14

  Cloud suppliers call for clearer guidelines over revised security classifications

  Cloud suppliers have raised concerns over the lack of guidance surrounding the government’s latest security classifications.

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Government to launch digital marketplace in September

  The government’s digital marketplace is due to go into alpha testing in the coming days, ahead of live user testing in September