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• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  BT reveals role of robotics, IoT to transform and automate agriculture

  First fruits revealed of leading UK telco’s dedicated telecoms civil engineering robotics test facility, designed to help fibre network development

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Skype’s legacy and the rise of the ‘new Nordics’

  Estonia and other Baltic states could be part of a ‘new Nordics’ of technology innovation

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Vodafone, Altice create a fibre-to-the-home joint venture in Germany

  A 50/50 joint venture partnership aims to build on operator’s next-generation network with broadband firm’s industrial expertise and proven fibre-to-the-home construction capabilities, enabling gigabit connectivity to customers in Germany

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  Neos Networks announces business-grade managed dedicated internet access

  UK fibre connectivity supplier announces launch of the managed variant of its dedicated internet access service, providing businesses with fully managed, enterprise-grade, fibre-optic internet connectivity

• October 17, 2022 17 Oct'22

  GBI taps Nokia to enhances optical network capacity between Middle East and Europe

  Cloud, connectivity and content enabler undertakes optical network capacity upgrade between key markets to scale wavelength speed by a factor of x4 to offer high-speed connectivity across subsea cable and terrestrial network links

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Malicious WhatsApp add-on highlights risks of third-party mods

  Kaspersky researchers discovered a malicious version of a widely used WhatsApp messenger mod, highlighting the risks of using so-called mods

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Protecting children by scanning encrypted messages is ‘magical thinking’, says Cambridge professor

  Ross Anderson argues in a rebuttal to GCHQ experts that using artificial intelligence to scan encrypted messaging services is the wrong approach to protecting children and preventing terrorism

• October 14, 2022 14 Oct'22

  Alibaba Cloud readying dedicated cloud regions for private datacentres

  The hybrid cloud offering will provide enterprises with a dedicated Alibaba Cloud region in their datacentres with multiple availability zones

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  UK gigabit broadband expansion rolls on for CityFibre, Hyperoptic

  Deployment in South Yorkshire adds to largest independent provider’s estate as part of £8bn development plan, while fibre provider announces internal and external milestones as it clocks up 11 years in business

• October 13, 2022 13 Oct'22

  Indonesia’s NeutraDC outlines global ambitions

  Formed from the consolidation of Telkom’s infrastructure assets, NeutraDC has set its sights on being a global player in datacentre and connectivity services

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Qualcomm unveils next-gen MR, VR devices based on Snapdragon platform

  New premium-tier extended reality platform is said to deliver 50% higher sustained power and 30% improved thermal performance to enable more immersive metaverse experiences in smaller, lighter form factors

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  French Supreme Court rejects EncroChat verdict after lawyers question secrecy over hacking operation

  France’s Supreme Court has sent a case back to the court of appeal after police failed to disclose technical details of EncroChat hacking operation

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  Meta presents vision for business metaverse

  How can hybrid teams collaborate seamlessly? Meta believes virtual reality tied to business applications is the way forward

• October 12, 2022 12 Oct'22

  ICO selectively discloses reprimands for data protection breaches

  Data protection experts question ICO’s selective approach to publishing formal reprimands for contravening the law, after FoI request reveals the Cabinet Office was among the organisations reprimanded

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Community Fibre secures £985m finance facility

  London and South East-based gigabit connectivity provider announces massive cash injection

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Wayfair shutters datacentres and ends hybrid cloud strategy with Google Cloud move

  Online home furnishings retailer Wayfair has completed a 16-month datacentre shutdown project that has seen it migrate all its applications and workloads to the Google Cloud

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Small businesses bask in broadband benefits as UK full-fibre reaches 11 million homes

  As more SMEs shift towards hybrid working, better broadband becomes a priority. Studies from research firm and UK comms regulator show full-fibre availability is on the increase, with almost two in five able to access services

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  Nokia launches SaaS for fixed networks portfolio

  Comms tech giant intros software as a service for fixed networks portfolio line-up covering broadband and Wi-Fi controller, as well as operational tools

• October 07, 2022 07 Oct'22

  Private investors back innovators to boost African connectivity

  Local operator research finds nearly four out of five VC and private equity firms believe innovation in connectivity will drive expansion in Africa, despite infrastructure issues

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  EU rolling out measures for online safety and AI liability

  The European Council has approved the passage of the Digital Services Act to protect people’s rights online, while the European Commission has announced proposals to help those negatively affected by artificial intelligence to claim compensation

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Proposals for scanning encrypted messages should be cut from Online Safety Bill, say researchers

  Automatic scanning of messaging services for illegal content could lead to one billion false alarms each day in Europe

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  JPMorgan’s UK digital bank app outage locks customers out

  App-based Chase Bank suffered tech outage that left customers unable to access its services

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  UK a broadband laggard as altnets grab share from incumbents

  Ookla overview of UK broadband market reveals that while fibre development is accelerating throughout the country, median fixed broadband download and upload speeds compare badly with global market

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play

  Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  BT Group sees network gains through AI Accelerator

  Telco announces new platform to orchestrate, accelerate and monitor artificial intelligence model deployments developed by its data community and to drive efficiencies

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Three-quarters of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse

  Study from networking systems, services and software company reveals business professionals’ interest in metaverse pointing to utilising more immersive and connected digital applications in the workplace

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud

  Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency

• October 03, 2022 03 Oct'22

  Security regulation cuts online payment fraud at 73% of retailers

  New online payments security standard, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), sees immediate fall in fraudulent payments to retailers

• September 30, 2022 30 Sep'22

  Hyperoptic, Community Fibre take gigabit highway to Islington

  Inner London local authority signs deal so that more than 90% of homes and businesses will be connected to gigabit by August 2025, including 50 community hubs

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  UK government rolls out Project Gigabit to rural Teesdale

  £6.6m contract granted in north-east England as part of national programme to upgrade broadband for hard-to-reach premises, with GoFibre engaged as principal contractor for build out

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption

  The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  BSH Home Appliances takes on Twilio to revamp digital customer engagement

  Customer engagement platform partners with Deloitte Consulting to support plan by home appliances firm to revamp its entire digital infrastructure within customer service organisation

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?

  New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Online Safety Bill needs complete overhaul, say rights groups

  Civil society groups write to new digital minister to challenge various aspects of the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which they say threatens rights to privacy and freedom of expression

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  Neos Networks to connect Viking Wind Farm to SSE Renewables HQ

  Business connectivity provider constructs communications links between wind farm being built on Scottish island and headquarters on mainland more than 300 miles away with machine-to-machine network to control and monitor performance of wind turbines...

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Telefónica, Qualcomm collaborate to build XR, metaverse systems

  Partnership designed to grow metaverse and extended reality ecosystem using Snapdragon Spaces as well as upskilling Telefónica’s internal teams and external innovation programmes in XR hardware and applications

• September 27, 2022 27 Sep'22

  Businesses see fixed broadband charges rise as average bandwidth increases

  Latest roundup of global fixed broadband arena shows residential consumers reaping speed and cost rewards of fibre proliferation, while B2B subscribers see little improvement in bandwidth versus monthly charges

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How Russian intelligence hacked the encrypted emails of former MI6 boss Richard Dearlove

  Hack by Russian-linked ColdRiver group exposed former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove’s contacts and email communications with government, military, intelligence and political officials

• September 26, 2022 26 Sep'22

  How AWS is tapping the groundswell in cloud adoption

  Phil Davis, managing director of Amazon Web Services in Asia-Pacific and Japan, talks up the company’s growth strategy and how it is retaining customers amid rivals nipping at its heels

• September 23, 2022 23 Sep'22

  How Great Eastern is transforming its IT organisation

  Singapore-based insurer Great Eastern made painstaking efforts to rid itself of legacy systems and transformed its IT organisation to become nimbler by building up its cloud and DevOps capabilities

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Ofcom turns its attention to the hyperscalers

  The regulator sees its role expanding into emerging areas of communications technologies and public cloud services

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Dr Martens goes feetfirst into cloud-to-cloud backup

  Iconic bootmaker laces up for a strategy to move all applications to the cloud, beginning with cloud-to-cloud backup for Microsoft 365 apps plus on-site VMware operations

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  Privacy Pledge signatories dream of alternative internet

  A group of privacy-focused organisations have come together to establish a set of principles for taking the internet back from big tech and surveillance capitalism

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  American Express recruiting thousands of tech professionals

  Amex will add 5,000 IT professionals to its workforce in 2022 as digital products and services become the staple of the finance sector

• September 21, 2022 21 Sep'22

  European Central Bank working on prototypes of digital Euro interfaces

  European Central Bank’s digital Euro investigation phase is at the point of developing and testing systems that might interface with consumers

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  Flex muscles up 5G SA private wireless, Industry 4.0 in advanced manufacturing

  Leading comms tech provider teams with multinational electronics company to combine 5G SA private wireless and Industry 4.0 expertise for advanced manufacturing services in Brazil

• September 16, 2022 16 Sep'22

  WBA unveils ‘world-first’ combination of Wi-Fi 6E, OpenRoaming

  Trial of combined wireless technologies at Polytechnic Institute of Viseu said to showcase the future of higher education, including 8K video and interactive experiences in classrooms

• September 15, 2022 15 Sep'22

  Linksys lines up deals with UK gigabit ISPs for Wi-Fi 6 mesh solutions

  Business Wi-Fi networking solutions firm partners with growing UK full-fibre gigabit broadband ISPs to offer mesh wireless network systems claimed to deliver four times faster coverage across the home

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  New networking era imminent as global internet bandwidth rises 28% in 2022

  TeleGeography’s Global Internet Geography research service shows continuing return to ‘normal’ following the pandemic-generated bump of 2020, as demand looks to quickly transcend terabyte measure

• September 13, 2022 13 Sep'22

  Verizon VRAN velocity gains as fibre pushed to almost half of cell sites

  Communications giant takes advantage of extensive fibre broadband network to support mobile infrastructure, which is seeing significant push into virtualised radio access network technology in cell sites