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• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Almost two-thirds of businesses fear IT estate incapable of supporting hybrid workforce

  Research from managed workplace services provider finds current IT setup is preventing effective collaboration, putting remote workers at a disadvantage and driving up cyber risks

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  Medusa Submarine Cable to land on Orange infrastructure in Marseille

  Orange will give users of Mediterranean submarine cable system the ability to access datacentres in French city and interconnect through fully redundant infrastructure

• December 14, 2022 14 Dec'22

  How India is moving towards net zero

  Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Crime Stoppers Tasmania debuts new reporting portal

  Reporting tool will enable the public to share crime-related information with law enforcement agencies to support policing in Tasmania

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

  Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  Openreach announces 12 new full-fibre build locations

  London calling for BT-owned broadband provision division as it makes next step in plan to reach 25 million homes with full fibre by December 2026 and launches simplified online map showing when and where full-fibre network is being built

• December 12, 2022 12 Dec'22

  CityFibre extends reach across southern England as it files Openreach competition complaint

  Just as it carries build-out momentum of 2022 to key towns in Suffolk and Berkshire, UK’s largest independent full-fibre provider protests to UK regulatory authorities about behaviour of arch-rival in gigabit broadband

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  Société du Grand Paris books in Nokia IP, private wireless for metro rail network

  Nokia forms secure mission-critical communications system behind four Grand Paris Express lines that will transport two million passengers per day, delivering enhanced capacity, reliability and performance, and contributing to efforts to boost ...

• December 07, 2022 07 Dec'22

  Vingroup to run SAP systems on Google Cloud

  The Vietnam conglomerate and EV maker is planning to migrate all its SAP systems to Google Cloud in a move that is expected to reap cost savings and improve product quality

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Fake investment ads persist on Meta’s social networks

  Online adverts for investment scams relating to property and crypto assets are still getting past measures designed to stop them

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

  HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

  Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Post Office boosted its ‘coffers’ as Horizon system threw up unexplained shortfalls, inquiry told

  The Post Office was ‘keen’ to make subpostmasters cover unexplained accounting shortfall as its business struggled, public inquiry hears

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Twitter ‘replacement’ Hive Social shuts off service in privacy alert

  Hive Social, a recently established social media network, has temporarily closed its servers to address deep structural privacy issues identified by ethical hackers

• December 02, 2022 02 Dec'22

  Communications runs in his blood

  Symbio Connect CEO Giorgio Mihaila has spent more than two decades in a career dotted with roles at major communications technology providers

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  UK government accelerates satellite, fibre gigabit broadband access to remote regions

  Mountain rescue base and 12th century abbey set to gain from government test of satellites to connect remote locations, while work also begins to connect 60,000 rural premises in North West England

• December 01, 2022 01 Dec'22

  Wi-Fi ‘essential’ to bridge the digital divide in rural areas

  Report from trade association for wireless communications sets out strategies for mobile operators, fibre providers and cable companies to serve the estimated billion people unconnected to Wi-Fi

• November 30, 2022 30 Nov'22

  Microsoft 365 banned in German schools over privacy concerns

  German schools cannot legally use Microsoft Office 365 over lack of clarity about how data is collected, shared and used, as well as the potential for unlawful transfer of European citizens’ personal data to the US

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals exploiting naked TikTok ‘challenge’

  Malware operators lured targets by promising them they would be able to view nude videos of TikTok users

• November 29, 2022 29 Nov'22

  ‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill

  Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm

• November 28, 2022 28 Nov'22

  Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

  Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  BT aims to reign in industry where connectivity is king

  In the latest part of its drive to evolve from a telco to a techco, BT unveils range of 5G-enabled robotics systems and reveals how it is driving the evolution of advanced communications in industrial applications

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Internet of things market continues to surge

  China and US to drive world adoption of internet of things with global demand for smart offerings from industrial to security use cases still rising

• November 24, 2022 24 Nov'22

  Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

  The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes

• November 23, 2022 23 Nov'22

  How Photobox keeps site reliability in the picture

  Photobox’s site reliability head discusses how the photo book and personalised gifts site manages a complex microservices architecture

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  CityFibre inks strategic relationship with Toob

  Terms agreed to give rapidly growing full-fibre platform’s wholesale customers access to growing network footprints of south of England fibre-to-the-premise network provider

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  Ducktail spins new tales to hijack Facebook Business accounts

  The increasingly active Ducktail cyber crime operation is refining its operations, seeking new methods to compromise its victims’ Facebook Business accounts

• November 22, 2022 22 Nov'22

  How Singapore’s OCBC is harnessing open source

  OCBC using the OpenShift container platform to modernise its applications, reduce its reliance on proprietary software and deliver new business capabilities

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  Virgin Media feels strain from Warzone, teams with TIP for Dublin Wi-Fi

  Comms provider sees busiest day on record for UK data consumption, and teams with local authority in Irish capital to trial open, disaggregated Wi-Fi network with goal to provide city centre with free wireless internet access

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  GBI adds to optical network capacity to deal with World Cup traffic spike

  Middle East-based smart and fully managed network provider deploys optical network engine ahead of expected increase in demand on infrastructure

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Is Elon Musk’s Twitter safe, and should you stop using it?

  With a litany of security and compliance issues exposed and in many cases caused by Elon Musk’s takeover of social media platform Twitter, some may be asking if it’s still safe or appropriate to use

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Enterprises embrace SD-WAN but miss benefits of integrated approach to security

  Research from managed network and security services provider finds virtually all enterprises have deployed software-defined wide area networks or plan to do so within the next 24 months, but nearly half reported they either don’t have security ...

• November 16, 2022 16 Nov'22

  Agility, business more important than cost, network management for IT teams

  Cisco report finds new rules applying in a multicloud world, with IT decision-makers regarding security as the top networking challenge when managing distributed and hybrid workloads

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  TikTok influencers are better than finance firms for money advice, say quarter of young adults

  Young people are turning to TikTok-based influencers for advice on how to manage their finances and where to bank

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Hispasat, Sencinet expand satellite broadband in Mexico

  New agreement between managed services and solutions network integrator and satellite communications operator expands and extends currently contracted capacity until December 2024

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Metaverse could add up to $1.4tn a year to Asia’s GDP

  The metaverse may still be in its infancy, but sustained investments in the technology over the next decade could have a significant impact on Asia’s economy

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Online scam victims lose an average of £1,000 each

  New data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows victims of online fraud lose an average of £1,000 per person

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  CityFibre celebrates Dundee anniversary, makes splash in Brighton & Hove

  Full-fibre platform makes mark at both ends of the UK, racking up two-year presence in growing gaming hub in North East Scotland and arriving on shore of South of England’s leading coastal resort

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Nokia, Optus unveil ultra-low-latency Sydney to Melbourne network

  Australian operator takes on comms tech provider’s network infrastructure offering to upgrade its existing long-haul network and address growing market demands for bandwidth

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Altnets announces fibre equipment partnership with HellermannTyton

  Supplier to internet service providers inks partnership with custom-built telecoms products manufacturer to distribute broadband products to service providers across the UK

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Keeping personally identifiable data personal

  As it celebrates its 100th birthday, the BBC has begun a pilot looking into its role in enabling the general public to store their personal data

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake

  The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Elon Musk begins mass Twitter layoffs via email

  New Twitter owner Elon Musk has begun the process of cutting the company’s workforce in half, but is already facing a legal backlash for allegedly violating US labour laws

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  UK government approach to space industry lacks coherence and investment

  As satellite broadband industry rockets, report from Commons Science and Technology Committee criticises government’s failures in key technical areas and continues to question value to taxpayer of OneWeb joint venture

• November 04, 2022 04 Nov'22

  Networks division stars as SES shows solid Q3 2022

  Global satellite operator continues to benefit from its pivot away from video and to business connectivity, reporting a positive third quarter but continued revenue decline for its video business

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  BT sees fibre and 5G advances in H1

  After ‘building and connecting like fury’, UK incumbent telco claims to be remaining on the front foot in current turbulent times and nears nine million mark in fibre deployment

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  The Security Interviews: Building trust online

  Consumer reviews website Trustpilot has built and scaled its IT security team and is now turning to agile methods and DevSecOps to further enhance its cyber capabilities

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Automated threats biggest source of cyber risk for retailers

  Threat actors targeting retailers during the coming holiday season are increasingly turning to automated forms of cyber attack, according to a report

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Shadow digital secretary outlines Labour’s tech priorities

  Labour’s digital and technology plans focus on reining in the power of the tech giants, boosting connectivity across the UK, and improving online safety

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Truespeed invests £22m into South-West full-fibre roll-out

  With the addition of 12 new areas to its gigabit broadband network, Bath-based UK altnet expands full-fibre network access to parts of home city and regions of South Gloucestershire and North Somerset