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• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Ocado revenue drops despite distribution centre successes

  Ocado has spent the past six months rolling out new customer fulfilment centres and signing partners for its smart platform, but the cost-of-living crisis still sees revenue taking a hit

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Netomnia, Truespeed advance UK altnets’ full-fibre march

  Company claiming to be the UK’s fastest-growing wholesale fibre broadband operator expands reach across swathe of UK while Southwest England provider racks up 300 gigabit business customers

• July 27, 2022 27 Jul'22

  Gigabit Networks brings ‘futuristic’ broadband to Wolverhampton

  Regional UK ISP adds to its growing reach across UK Midlands with 930Mpbs connectivity offer based on CityFibre infrastructure

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Secret court asked to quash a decade of MI5 surveillance warrants following ‘systemic breaches’

  The culture at MI5 was to ‘prioritise’ missions ‘over everything else’, including compliance with safeguards designed to protect the public, the UK’s most secret court heard yesterday

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Eutelsat confirms OneWeb merger after ‘robust’ financial year

  As it posts results showing growth in connectivity and mobile services, satellite operator inks agreement with joint venture satellite broadband provider to create what they claim will be a global connectivity leader

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Meta publishes first-ever human rights report

  Meta details its approach to protecting and promoting human rights, but civil society groups say the company has failed to grapple with the human rights risks associated with its own business model

• July 26, 2022 26 Jul'22

  Ducktail infostealer targets Facebook Business users

  Newly uncovered Ducktail operation targets individuals with access to Facebook Business service and tries to steal their accounts

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  LinkedIn most impersonated brand in phishing attacks

  Social network LinkedIn, along with Microsoft and DHL, are just some of the brands that are most frequently imitated by cyber criminals conducting phishing attacks

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  GCHQ experts back scanning of encrypted phone messages to fight child abuse

  Ian Levy, technical director of the NCSC, and Crispin Robinson, technical director of GCHQ, back client-side scanning software on mobile phones to detect child abuse

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  UK fintech outperforms global sector

  Investment in UK fintech continues to increase, outpacing a flat global sector, according to Innovate Finance

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  Drivers’ union calls for immediate dismissal of Uber executive

  Uber’s continued employment of an executive directly involved in efforts to resist regulatory oversight puts the ride-hailing firm in breach of its 2018 licence conditions, says drivers’ union

• July 15, 2022 15 Jul'22

  HPE expands private cloud capabilities in GreenLake

  HPE’s GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise is a managed service that provides flexibility in deployment models with automation capabilities for a cloud-like experience

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  How hostile government APTs target journalists for cyber intrusions

  Proofpoint shares data on multiple campaigns of cyber intrusions against journalists originating from threat actors aligned to the governments of China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Government pauses Online Safety Bill’s progress

  The government has paused the Online Safety Bill’s journey towards becoming law, amid timetable pressure

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Cost-of-living crisis drives UK consumers to rethink connectivity needs

  EY survey reveals that despite general demands for hybrid and remote working, UK households are concerned by rising home technology costs amid the cost-of-living crisis

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  NTT reveals management plans for JUNO Trans-Pacific submarine cable system

  In response to the growth of the global digital economy, Japanese technology companies collaborate to build and operate what they claim will be the largest submarine internet cable system between Japan and the US

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  APAC organisations renew focus on ERP

  Organisations in Asia-Pacific are looking to renew their enterprise resource planning systems as they emerge from the throes of the pandemic

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  Digital break-up kit to help women get out of bad relationships safely

  Domestic abuse charity Refuge teams up with Avast to equip women with the knowledge to effectively and safely end a relationship digitally

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  NHS trust cuts costs and refresh cycle with Wasabi cloud storage

  Imperial College NHS Trust expects to saves 30% in storage costs and cut back on five-year refresh headaches in a move that has seen backup and archive data move to the Wasabi cloud

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  CityFibre reveals full-fibre economic boost to Swindon, pilots virtualised network service delivery

  Full-fibre platform provider trials Edgility Suite for rapid, cost-effective delivery of value-added services for business ISPs

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Brits say social media must do more to block harmful content

  UK citizens want social media companies to do more to prevent harmful content appearing on their platforms

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  NetApp Ontap to be sole vSAN storage alternative in the cloud

  NetApp Ontap storage will provide file access capacity to extend VMware data stores in AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google clouds as a cheaper alternative to VMware vSAN

• July 11, 2022 11 Jul'22

  Southern Cross announces world’s longest single-span submarine 400GbE net

  Supplier of international capacity to carriers and ISPs in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region launches Southern Cross NEXT cable, aiming to pave the way for of 400GbE services across a 15,840km network

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Ofcom publishes Online Safety Roadmap

  The roadmap sets out how the online harms regulator will approach implementing the UK’s online safety regime, and tells tech firms to start preparing for the new rules

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  Deliciously Ella – how the brand adopted D2C during the pandemic

  Plant-based brand Deliciously Ella did not intend to sell directly to customers, but shifting unsold stock during the pandemic opened digital doors for the brand

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  Tech companies face pressure over end-to-end encryption in Online Safety Bill

  An amendment to the Online Safety Bill, currently going through Parliament, will put pressure on tech companies over end-to-end encrypted messaging services

• July 07, 2022 07 Jul'22

  The Security Interviews: Inside Russia’s Ukraine information operation

  Computer Weekly speaks to Craig Terron of Recorded Future about delving deep inside the Russian disinformation machine, and how the Kremlin’s strategy is set to evolve

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Extreme E, Vodafone Business deploy LPWAN to help tackle wildfires in Sardinia

  Cloud-based IoT technology can operate in remote environments where the impacts of climate change have become the hardest to monitor

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Weston-super-Mare projected to enjoy £144m economic boost from full-fibre roll-out

  CityFibre releases research showing positive economic impacts of gigabit broadband roll-out to famous seaside resort

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  CIO interview: Carl Dawson, CIO, Asda

  As the IT handover from Walmart looms, Asda CIO Carl Dawson explains how the business is renewing all of its technology, putting the retailer in the rare position of being able to start from scratch

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Virgin Media O2 Business switches on 5G-connected hospital

  Business division of UK cable provider announces switch-on of what it calls UK’s first 5G-connected hospital

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  Most APAC banks to spend more on cloud this year

  More than nine in 10 banks across Asia-Pacific are increasing their cloud spending in 2022 after years of hesitation due to initial regulatory hurdles

• July 05, 2022 05 Jul'22

  Cato Networks opens Copenhagen point of presence

  Cato opens PoP in Danish capital to bolster resiliency and extend converged security and networking capabilities across Nordic region

• July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

  MPs call for ban on Chinese surveillance camera technology

  Nearly 70 MPs have called on the government to ban Chinese camera technology that is widely used by UK government agencies despite links to human rights abuses in China

• July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

  UK altnets accelerate as fibre forges path to be fixed broadband standard

  Research shows how direct fibre connections are lighting up the world of broadband, rapidly deposing copper-based legacy DSL networks

• July 04, 2022 04 Jul'22

  Assange appeals against Priti Patel’s extradition order

  WikiLeaks founder is expected to raise concerns over the political nature of his prosecution, the likelihood of him receiving a fair trial, and the risk of a coercive plea bargain

• July 01, 2022 01 Jul'22

  Telstra taps Ericsson, Ciena to quadruple optical network service capacity

  Leading Australian operator forges partnership with leading comms tech providers to make enhancements to next-generation optical network to increase the service capacity of optical network to 400 Gbps Ethernet

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Brits battered by broadband outages in past year cost UK economy £1.3bn

  Almost 11 million UK consumers experienced broadband outages of three or more hours over the past 12 months, representing almost two days offline

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Romance scammers exploit Ukraine war in cynical campaign

  Romance scammers can make easy money exploiting people looking for love, but in this newly observed campaign linked to the Ukraine war they are playing on deeper emotions

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Inside Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s cloud journey

  With a strong DevOps culture, Australian bank has been moving its most important applications to the cloud in a journey that has already reaped returns

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Spy agencies need ‘independent authorisation’ to access telecoms data, say judges

  The High Court has ruled that UK intelligence agencies should seek independent authorisation before accessing phone and internet records during criminal investigations

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Digital Poverty Alliance unveils evidence review

  Evidence review into the state of digital poverty in the UK sets out policy principles and recommendations, which will be used as the basis for a national action plan to eliminate the issue

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Avast uncovers ‘thieves’ kitchen’ of malware-writing teens

  Researchers stumble across online community of 11 to 18-year-olds constructing, exchanging and spreading malware

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Hyperoptic aims to address cost of living crisis with Fair Fibre Framework

  UK broadband provider announces affordability scheme that it says is part of a duty of care to protect and support customers and aid those struggling with increased financial pressures

• June 27, 2022 27 Jun'22

  China’s Cyclone Robotics eyes APAC market

  One of China’s largest suppliers of robotic process automation software has made a foray into Asia-Pacific, leveraging its bot management and ‘human-in-the-loop’ capabilities

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  CityFibre, Toob push the envelope further in UK gigabit broadband

  Fibre-to-the premises provider launches full-fibre broadband for small to medium businesses in south of England, while independent full-fibre platform racks up 360km of infrastructure beneath the streets of Inverness 

• June 24, 2022 24 Jun'22

  Weka scale-out NAS v4 goes beyond just AWS to go multicloud

  Weka v4’s multicloud capability means the scale-out NAS file system can work across customer datacentres and public clouds that include AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Ukraine cyber agency enlists Radware to protect government networks

  Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection is using Radware cloud DDoS protection and web application firewall services to protect the government from persistent Russian attacks

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Non-European tech giants could be subject to EU-backed anti-greenwashing directive

  EU-backed push to tighten up the sustainability reporting processes for companies that do business in Europe gathers pace

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  PagerDuty expands Japan presence with joint venture

  PagerDuty forms joint venture with Japan Cloud and is eyeing business from financial, telecoms and e-commerce companies as it seeks to grow its footprint in Japan