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• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  Visa encourages US businesses to go cashless with £500,000 in hard cash

  Card giant offers small US businesses financial support to upgrade their payments technology if they agree to abandon cash

• July 13, 2017 13 Jul'17

  Ofcom sets up Openreach Monitoring Unit

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom is setting up a dedicated unit to keep a watchful eye on Openreach

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  UK ranked as top 10 digital economy

  The UK has been ranked among the top 10 nations in terms of digital capabilities

• July 12, 2017 12 Jul'17

  Cisco to build O2’s public Wi-Fi network for City of London

  O2 enlists Cisco to help build out the multi-million pound public Wi-Fi network currently taking shape in London’s Square Mile

• July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17

  Mobile operators must act soon as 5G business models emerge

  Full deployment of a commercial 5G mobile network is still at least two years away, but new business models are already beginning to crystallise around the technology, and operators would be wise to start preparations soon, a new report claims

• 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

• July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17

  Virgin Media fails to deliver on broadband speed claims, says investigation

  An investigation by the BBC’s Watchdog programme accuses ISP Virgin Media of over-promising and under-delivering on the claims it makes about its fibre-based broadband services

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  App-based banking continues its ascent in the UK

  The number of people banking from their mobile phones is increasing as more services are made available through the channel

• June 26, 2017 26 Jun'17

  Court ruling on Apple’s Irish datacentre planning dispute delayed by ‘shortage of judges’

  The outcome of a judicial review into Apple's plans to build a datacentre in County Galway was delayed on Friday 23 June because of a shortage of judges, it has emerged

• June 23, 2017 23 Jun'17

  Swedish fintech Klarna gains full banking licence

  Swedish online payments provider Klarna becomes one of “the largest banks in Europe” after being granted an EU-wide banking licence by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority

• June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17

  Queen’s Speech highlights digital charter and data protection

  Government confirms plans to create a digital charter to ensure the UK is “the safest place to be online”, and a new law protecting personal data

• June 19, 2017 19 Jun'17

  South African game reserve goes digital to save the rhino

  Dimension Data and Cisco have teamed up to protect rhinos living on a private game reserve in South Africa with the latest networking and IoT sensor technology

• June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17

  Microchips implanted in hands could be in use for payments in 20 years

  UK consumers are becoming more accepting that biometric authentication will become the norm for payments

• June 08, 2017 08 Jun'17

  Islamic State supporters shun Tails and Tor encryption for Telegram

  Confidential communications show terror group’s supporters are turning to simple mobile phone messaging apps to exchange messages and distribute propaganda

• June 06, 2017 06 Jun'17

  HSBC launches global social network for businesses

  HSBC Bank is helping its business customers connect with potential partners through a digital hub

• May 30, 2017 30 May'17

  Taiwan’s OwlTing taps blockchain to improve food safety

  The e-commerce company is using blockchain technology to provide consumers with greater transparency on food sources and production processes

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  Dubai financial services regulator launches temporary licence aimed at fintechs

  Dubai is making it easier for financial technology companies to test out their ideas through a temporary licence

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus

  Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Mayor of London seeks chief digital officer

  Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Telenor launches IoT pilot in Norway

  Telenor is opening up its IoT infrastructure in Norway to encourage students and entrepreneurs to develop IoT products and services

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  New subsea cable to connect Australia and Southeast Asia

  The Indigo submarine cable will provide additional capacity to mitigate disruptions caused by fibre cuts, as well as meet the growing demand for internet services in the region

• 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

  Digital Economy Bill amended to protect Openreach pensions

  The government introduces an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill to protect the pensions of BT employees transferring into the newly independent Openreach business

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

  Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government

  Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  ASEAN’s first nationwide IoT network debuts in Singapore

  Sigfox-based IoT network now covers 95% of Singapore, meaning enterprises can connect devices to the network nationwide

• February 23, 2017 23 Feb'17

  BDUK head Chris Townsend to step down

  Government executive Chris Townsend, who oversees the DCMS-run BDUK rural broadband programme, is to step down in April

• February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17

  Sweden uses Minecraft for urban planning

  Swedish National Land survey has put its maps on Minecraft to promote its work

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Santander introduces voice-controlled payments

  Santander has taken its voice-controlled banking initiative to the next phase, with customers now able to make payments by voice

• 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

  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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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?