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• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Altnets advance fibre broadband in East England

  Colchester and Norwich get the opportunity to obtain full-fibre gigabit broadband as leading ISP and cable provider promises ability to work from home and connect online better than ever before

• June 21, 2022 21 Jun'22

  Primark trials click & collect for children’s products

  Predominantly offline brand Primark will be trialling click & collect orders for a select number of children’s products

• June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

  Hyundai taps Singtel’s 5G network in electric vehicle manufacturing

  Automotive giant is tapping Singtel’s 5G network and multi-access edge computing platform to manage and power its electric vehicle factory in Singapore

• June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

  Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians take up free language app offer

  Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have started free language courses from app-maker Babbel

• June 17, 2022 17 Jun'22

  Organisations struggle to support IT in a hybrid work model

  Study from digital employee experience tech firm finds 95% of professionals face disruptive IT issues that hinder productivity, with particular problems regarding remote workers

• June 16, 2022 16 Jun'22

  Interpol arrests thousands in global cyber fraud crackdown

  A two-month operation saw law enforcement agencies in 76 countries crack down on organised cyber fraud

• June 15, 2022 15 Jun'22

  UK homes and businesses increasingly turn to altnets for connectivity

  The UK Independent Network Sector report shows that the independent broadband sector has doubled in size over the previous year

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  Added fibre for Nokia optical network services in US

  Global comms tech provider unveils range of optical networking services for US market, including premier of 100G fibre in the country

• June 10, 2022 10 Jun'22

  Former CEO explains how Dreams went from nightmare to fantasy

  In 2013, Mike Logue joined Dreams after it had been saved from administration – he explains how data and communication rebuilt the business

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CDO interview: Matthew Lawson, chief digital officer, Ribble Cycles

  The 125-year-old bicycle manufacturer is transforming its business with digital innovations such as live streaming and online personalisation

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  CIO interview: Lee Cowie, chief technology officer, Merlin Entertainments

  The theme park giant faced an enormous challenge during Covid with its venues closed, but digital technology came to the rescue and is now opening up new opportunities

• June 06, 2022 06 Jun'22

  Grain expands fibre network as CityFibre hits gigabit roll-out accelerator

  When it comes to UK fibre development, size certainly does not matter, as two full-fibre companies of very different sizes announce major expansion of their gigabit broadband footprints

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  Nokia beefs up Microsoft partnership to enhance mission-critical industrial edge performance

  Comms tech provider forges partnership with cloud provider to enhance the performance of critical use cases pairing 5G private wireless, offering enterprises more options to tap into Azure for their OT environments

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  UK fibre roll-out continues apace with majors, altnets

  CityFibre, Connexin, MS3 Network and Air Broadband announce further digital infrastructure investment, taking full-fibre gigabit connectivity to Buckinghamshire and North and East Yorkshire

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  FTTP coverage grows across UK

  Latest bi-monthly update on superfast and ultrafast broadband deployments in the UK shows that as of April 2022, despite acceleration in overall full-fibre roll-out, take up of fibre-to-the-premises is still sluggish

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  More than 5,000 UK public buildings plugged into high-speed broadband

  Some 1,200 schools, 340 libraries and 50 hospitals across UK now connected to gigabit speed broadband as Project Gigabit contracts worth more than £500m open for bids to upgrade up to 380,000 rural premises

• May 30, 2022 30 May'22

  Analysts weigh in on Broadcom-VMware deal

  VMware customers in APAC will need to assess their exposure amid uncertainty over the impact of the mega deal on the market

• May 27, 2022 27 May'22

  Amazon shareholders vote down audit of warehouse work conditions

  Shareholders reject proposal calling for an independent audit of Amazon’s working conditions during the company’s annual general meeting

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  BT beefs up broadband speeds for small businesses on copper lines

  Telco targets small firms with technology claimed to be able to double download speeds and make upload speeds 10 times faster, on average, on slower copper broadband connections, as well as a low-frills fibre package

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Amdocs acquires MYCOM OSI to monetise next-generation 5G intelligent services

  Acquisition of UK SaaS-based cloud network and service assurance company designed to expand comms software and services provider’s network service assurance and monetisation offering

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  ICO orders facial recognition firm Clearview AI to delete all data about UK residents

  UK data watchdog fines facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5m for multiple privacy breaches. The firm, which offers services to law enforcement, faces growing pressure from regulators and legal action around the world

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Steady growth for fibre networks across Europe over next five years

  Research from European fibre trade association covering 39 countries shows more than half of total homes now passed with fibre, with FTTH/B roll-out accelerating

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank reaches half-million customer mark

  Chase Bank in the UK has already reached the half-million customer mark, but expects a profit to be some years away

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Fintech unicorn Klarna to cut 10% of staff amid global shocks

  Fintech unicorn to slash jobs in reaction to global economic shocks signalling challenges in the financial technology sector

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Fibre claims more than three-fifths of global total fixed broadband subscribers

  Study of 130 countries shows that by the end of Q4 2021, the number of global fixed broadband connections stood at more than a billion, with fixed broadband subscriber figures growing by 89%

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Two-thirds of UK homes can now sign up to gigabit broadband

  UK broadband roll-out gathers pace over the first three months of 2020, with ability to sign up for gigabit access open to 66% of households.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Relentless branch closures at Lloyds Bank continue as digital banking takes hold

  UK bank branches are being shuttered in large numbers as consumers choose online banking, with Lloyds Banking Group announcing more closures

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Portworx adds anti-ransomware to PX-Backup for Kubernetes

  Pure’s Kubernetes storage and data protection platform adds object locking to combat ransomware

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Openreach, CityFibre further full-fibre roll-out pace

  As part of its regular programme of build updates, BT-owned broadband provision firm adds just under half a million homes and businesses, including both rural and urban areas, to its fibre network

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Video effects firm cuts costs by 20% and goes hybrid with Hammerspace

  Jellyfish Pictures saves on rising power and office space costs, as well as Brexit difficulties, by using Hammerspace to allow access to large files from any geographic location

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Hammerspace the ‘missing link’ for a cloud still lacking

  The cloud can’t enable true multi-region working so Hammerspace helps make data visible globally and aggregate it as needed between locations with workflows set via customer policy

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Amazon shareholders to vote on audit of working conditions

  Amazon shareholders will vote on whether the company has to conduct an independent audit on the working conditions and treatment of its warehouse workers, following the e-commerce giant’s unsuccessful attempt to dismiss the proposal

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Asia-Africa-Europe-1 consortium taps Infinera to upgrade submarine cable net

  Owner of one of the largest sub-sea cable consortiums in the world makes technical choice in upgrading network to increase capacity and diverse resilience

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Fashion tech investment grew 66% during pandemic

  As the pandemic caused an increase in online shopping, fashion businesses began investing in technology to help them match customer demand

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  CyberUK 22: Data-sharing service to protect public from scams

  A new data-sharing service set up by the NCSC and industry partners will give ISPs access to real-time threat data that they can use to block fraudulent websites

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Nationwide stops thousands more attempted frauds with Strong Customer Authentication

  Nationwide Building Society is blocking an additional 2000 attempted online shopping frauds a month through extra checks

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  GTT announces 400G upgrade of global IP network

  New IP infrastructure designed to improve scalability and performance for enhanced internet services as IP traffic continues to increase, with initial phase of deployment expected to complete in the second half of 2023 

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  IBM lived up to its neutrality promise to Red Hat

  Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier claims IBM has lived up to its commitment to maintain the neutrality of Red Hat three years on

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

  A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Avaya extends CCaaS reach on Microsoft Azure

  Avaya and Microsoft expand partnership by pairing CCaaS with Azure to provide more options to increase productivity and customer engagement by accelerating digital transformation initiatives in the cloud

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  European retailers see embedded finance as a revenue builder

  Retailers and e-commerce businesses are working with tech suppliers to embed financial products and services in their customer offerings

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Verizon Business opens gates to international stadium, deploys SD-WAN at Bertelsmann

  Business services division of US comms giant announces dedicated strategy aimed at stadiums and venues located in Europe and Asia Pacific, offering specific technologies designed to benefit their requirements

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  SES to enable GovSatCom satellite broadband with medium Earth orbit constellation

  Luxembourg-based satellite provider SES delivers communications platform for governments and institutions will include medium Earth orbit satellite networks in project co-funded by leading European space agency

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Malaysian government inks agreement with Google Cloud

  The cloud framework agreement with Google will make it easier for Malaysia’s public sector agencies to access Google Cloud services through a single government contract

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  UK digital markets regulator to be given statutory powers

  Digital Markets Unit will be put on statutory footing by UK government to ensure technology giants do not abuse market power, but announcement comes with no clear indication of when legislation will be introduced

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  John Lewis to hire more than 150 tech workers

  As the retail group continues its drive to digitise, the John Lewis Partnership is aiming to hire more than 150 tech workers

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  IT infrastructure used to launch DDoS attack on Russian targets

  Organisations could unwittingly be participating in hostile activity against the Russian government as compromised IT infrastructure is used without their knowledge to launch denial of service attacks

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  NHS email accounts hijacked for phishing campaign

  Microsoft credentials targeted in phishing operation using hijacked NHSMail accounts