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• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Facebook bolsters enterprise integration with Workplace tool

  Facebook wants to embed its platform in the enterprise, and hopes to achieve this through integration with third-party services

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  ODI and Sport England launch project using data to break down exercise barriers

  Ten startups have been chosen as part of the OpenActive accelerator programme to develop fitness products and encourage people to be active

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  MPs to grill TSB CEO over IT disaster

  Paul Pester will face questions from the Treasury Committee about the bank’s IT problems

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  TSB IT disaster moves into a second week

  TSB's IT problems have moved into a second week, as the bank fights to get its services and reputation back on track

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Most organisations unprepared for GDPR, survey finds

  Despite the vast majority of businesses agreeing that GDPR affects them, only 5% say they are fully prepared for it, according to a BSI survey

• April 27, 2018 27 Apr'18

  Government given six months to rewrite snoopers’ charter

  The government has until 1 November 2018 to rewrite a key section of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, after the high court declared them unlawful in a judicial review brought by human rights group Liberty

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Barclays aims to drive entrepreneur startup development with law incubator

  Barclays is opening its Eagle Lab incubator in London to help entrepreneurs create successful law businesses.

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Almost all London law firms are using or plan to use artificial intelligence

  Law firms are harnessing artificial intelligence to reduce the manual creation and checking of legal documents

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  SuiteWorld 2018: Hiring people is about more than just ability, says Rachel Zoe

  NetSuite customer, fashion designer and CEO of Rachel Zoe explains that part of entrepreneurship is hiring people who fill the gaps you leave behind, and that in doing so passion can be more important than ability

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  SuiteWorld 2018: Businesses more likely to learn from failures than successes, says NetSuite EVP

  Failure is the best way for firms to learn and succeed when it comes to business transformation, NetSuite’s executive vice-president Jim McGeever tells the audience at SuiteWorld 2018

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Digital Catapult aims to accelerate AR and VR startups to long-term success

  Ten augmented reality and virtual reality startups can join 10-week Augmentor accelerator, with access to classes, facilities and mentorship

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  SuperNova growth programme offers European tech scale-ups chance to pitch for investment

  Scale-Up.eu says initiative will enable scale-up companies to grow their business without relying on overseas investment

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  ICO and finance regulator assess TSB IT blunder

  Customer data was exposed during migration to new core banking platform

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Next generation of SCADA industrial controls will protect against cyber attack

  Oil, energy and chemical companies are rethinking how to control big manufacturing plants, replacing expensive control technology with cheaper, more secure systems, taking their cue from biology

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  GDS on the hunt for new chief operating officer

  Cabinet Office offers up to £130,000 for chief operating officer role, to act as Kevin Cunnington’s deputy and be responsible for the internal transformation and day-to-day running of Government Digital Service

• April 22, 2018 22 Apr'18

  Thales to open ‘digital factory’ in Asia

  India and Australia are potential candidates for Thales’s new coding centre that will support digital transformation efforts

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  CyLon continues to drive cyber security innovation with next accelerator cohort

  CyLon has selected the next group of innovative cyber security startups for its seventh London accelerator programme

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Australian supermarket chain hit by IT outage

  Thirty-minute glitch knocked out checkout systems at half of Woolworths’ stores in Australia

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Artificial intelligence will help Metro Bank customers manage their money

  Service will use AI and predictive analytics to provide personalised prompts to help customers control their spending

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Norway’s tax administration combats economic crime through IT

  Authority has updated its IT system to step up the fight against tax evasion

• April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18

  Many British workers victims of ‘substandard’ technology in secondary offices, shows research

  Workers have claimed they are forced to use poorer technology when outside of the main office

• April 13, 2018 13 Apr'18

  Addressing consumer concerns will drive success for open banking

  Experts say consumers will feel more comfortable about sharing their data as part of open banking once more valuable use cases become available

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  SFO expands use of AI after successful trial in Rolls-Royce investigation

  Serious Fraud Office builds on trials of artificial intelligence in criminal investigations by rolling out a new data management platform

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  CBI calls on government to get post-Brexit regulations right

  Ensuring the UK gets rules and regulations right is key to a thriving economy, and convergence with the digital single market is critical for tech companies, according to the CBI

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  European CIOs have budget balancing act ahead of them

  There is some consensus among European CIOs on budget rises across the continent, but less so on what to invest in

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  HS. focuses on global scaling for healthcare startups in new accelerator programme

  HS. is trying to enable healthcare startups to scale internationally as part of its accelerator programme

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  What Amazon’s ideal robot looks like

  Robots should be available at the fingertips and work in tandem with humans and other machines to improve task efficiency, says the chief technologist of Amazon Robotics

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  HSBC adopts fintech to fight money laundering

  HSBC is using technology from a fintech startup to help it monitor transactions for potential money laundering

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  US tax cuts and dollar’s decline propel datacentre spending

  Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows the strongest growth in IT spending, which it expects to total $3.7tn in 2018, up 6.2% from 2017

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Deutsche Bank system replacement already paying back

  Deutsche bank is replacing a complex IT infrastructure that helps its traders operate and automates regulatory compliance processes

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Pfizer tech startup accelerator will be a shot in the arm for healthcare innovation

  Pharmaceutical giant invites startups to apply for its second Healthcare Hub: London accelerator, with the chance to share £50,000 funding

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Microsoft outlines approach to intellectual property

  Enterprises will own patents and industrial design rights that result from new technology jointly developed with Microsoft, among a raft of intellectual property principles unveiled by the software giant

• April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

  Tech City and Tech North merge to support startups nationwide

  Southern and northern groups finalise merger to become Tech Nation as government pledges £21m in funding

• March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

  Organisations can use GDPR ambiguity to contest fines in court, experts say

  Businesses can use the vagueness of the regulation to argue against fines in court, say experts

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Arsenal uses Innovation Lab accelerator to improve worldwide fan experience

  Arsenal’s Innovation Lab programme has enabled collaboration with “world-class” startups to offer the best experience for fans in the future, says the club’s IT director

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Capgemini turns to tech startup to identify ‘most engaged’ teams

  Technology and consulting services firm Capgemini is using technology from a startup company to poll its employees’ views and provide feedback from managers every week. It is discovering what it takes to create “engaged teams”

• March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

  Ransomware publicity heightened awareness but other threats remain, experts say

  Due to several high profile attacks over the past year, ransomware is now well known across organisations, but there are other threats to be aware of, say cyber security experts

• March 24, 2018 24 Mar'18

  Government must improve quality and awareness of childcare website, say MPs

  Treasury Committee says government should launch websites only when they can cope with the expected workload, after childcare website was down for 160 hours last summer

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Telefonica cuts HR running costs by 40% as it replaces hundreds of ageing IT systems

  Multinational telecoms group Telefonica is on the verge of completing a project to replace 175 incompatible HR IT systems with a cloud service covering more than 40 countries

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Shared services project is about user needs, not tech, says strategy director

  If you’re hoping for the government’s shared services strategy to “break revolutionary ground” in terms of tech, you’ll be disappointed. It’s about serving user needs – not tech – says its strategy director Andy Helliwell

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Singapore government outlines its approach to IoT

  Avoiding supplier lock-in, driving open standards and tapping modular platforms are part of the approach that the Singapore government has taken in implementing the internet of things in the city-state

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Researchers use AI, big data and machine learning to find best place in the world to live

  West Perth in Australia and Hebden Bridge in the UK are among the top locations ranked by machine learning tool in SAS project

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Tech firms not “walking the walk” when it comes to diversity

  Despite high-tech firms claiming to have a good track record in diversity, most do not consider it when making business decisions

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Employers face hiring crisis as AI replaces mid-skilled jobs

  Artificial intelligence could replace two-thirds of existing jobs within 20 years, and employers will face growing difficulties recruiting skilled staff

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Majority of organisations unaware of costs and responsibilities for cloud outages, research finds

  Most companies are unaware about the costs associated with a cloud outage and who is responsible for getting systems back online

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  Tech won’t solve Brexit UK-Ireland border challenges, say MPs

  There is no evidence of any technical solution “anywhere in the world” that would help avoid physical infrastructure at the UK-Ireland border post-Brexit, according to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Public sector organisations ill-prepared for GDPR

  Public sector organisations in the UK need to do much more to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation rule on providing information to citizens about details held about them

• March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18

  Regulator takes tougher line than expected on surveillance warrants

  The Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office has signalled to government that it will take a tough line when scrutinising surveillance warrants under the controversial Investigatory Powers Act

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  How banks can make sense of digital disruption

  Banks and financial institutions need to go back to basics, deconstruct their core banking processes and strive for zero defects in building applications, says the IT head honcho of Malaysia’s CIMB Bank

• March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

  Tech City targets companies outside of London for next cohort in accelerator programme

  Tech City UK has placed more of an emphasis on companies outside of the capital for its next accelerator cohort

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Cyber attacks up nearly 20% in 2017

  Research by SonicWall shows there were 9.32 billion malware attacks globally last year, but ransomware attacks fell by 71%

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Banks more confident than other sectors in face of digital disruption

  Banks have accepted the changes brought about by digital disruption and are confident that new technologies will be core to their business success, according to a survey by Fujitsu

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Nesta challenge leverages Open Banking to help small businesses

  Innovation foundation invites enterprises of all sizes to compete for a share of a £2.5m prize fund in the second phase of its Open Up Challenge

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Vast majority of consumers unaware of Open Banking consequences, research finds

  Research shows most consumers have little or no knowledge of the Open Banking regulation and how it will affect them

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  Wearables join mobiles as high-growth payment methods

  Banks must develop broad contactless payment strategies if they are to keep pace with consumer demand

• March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

  New privacy fears as IT challenges delay surveillance oversight body by a year

  IT challenges have delayed government plans for an independent body to authorise requests to access the public’s internet and phone records by nearly a year, raising new legal and privacy concerns

• March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

  Pizza Hut customers can now pay for meals with Mastercard Qkr mobile app

  Pizza Hut has joined a number of UK restaurants in enabling customers to pay at the table using the Mastercard Qkr app

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Open Banking could bring an extra £1bn to UK economy

  As a result of the Open Banking initiative, an additional £1bn could be available to drive the UK economy forward

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told

  A court has been asked to give ministers until July 2018 to rewrite powers to require phone and internet companies to retain data on the population. The government acknowledges parts of surveillance regime are unlawful

• February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18

  Surveillance watchdog investigates security risks of GCHQ IT contractors

  The investigatory powers commissioner is reviewing the security arrangements for IT contractors that have access to live computer systems at GCHQ holding highly sensitive records on the UK population

• February 23, 2018 23 Feb'18

  More than a quarter of UK shoppers prepared for wearable contactless payments

  Mastercard research shows a growing number of shoppers are prepared to make purchases with smartwatches, rings and bracelets

• February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18

  Manchester Science Partnerships opens competition to drive data science and tech startups forward

  Manchester Science Partnerships has begun a competition for startups to win free desk space at its Tech Incubator

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  University of Cambridge to host ethical hacking challenge

  Cambridge is hosting its 2018 hacking challenge, aiming to captivate students and address the cyber security skills shortage

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  London remains top city for migrating tech talent

  Despite Brexit, the UK capital is still a popular destination for technology workers migrating from both inside and outside the European Union

• February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Mike Thomas, CIO, Hobbycraft

  The CIO of Hobbycraft, Mike Thomas, speaks to Computer Weekly about the art of digital transformation in retail, the importance of customer experience and getting a good return on investment

• February 15, 2018 15 Feb'18

  ODI begins fitness-focused startup accelerator to get the UK moving

  The Open Data Institute is calling for startups to join its accelerator programme, as it aims to get more people to be active in the UK

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Technology spend growing at expense of trader salaries

  Investment firms are spending a larger proportion of their budgets on software as data and artificial intelligence technology is seen to provide a competitive advantage

• February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18

  Grocer Lidl rolls out natural language chatbot to improve customer experience

  The German supermarket has unveiled a natural language chatbot to offer customers information about wines

• February 09, 2018 09 Feb'18

  UK technology salaries lag well behind major US cities, research finds

  The salaries for tech workers in London fell well below the figures for major US cities in 2017

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Lloyds Bank cuts CIO workforce

  Lloyds Banking Group is changing the skills make-up of its IT team to support demand for digital services

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  Tech boosts sales at Abu Dhabi’s Healthpoint

  United Arab Emirates healthcare provider Healthpoint has increased sales and efficiency through the use of the latest IT systems

• February 06, 2018 06 Feb'18

  BMW selects new startups for Innovation Lab 2018 accelerator

  Five startups will pitch their projects to BMW executives for the chance to work with the car manufacturer’s commercial divisions

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Appeals court rules Lauri Love will not be extradited over US hacking charges

  The lord chief justice, Lord Burnett, says 33-year-old engineering student Lauri Love will not be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, in a landmark legal decision, and the Crown Prosecution Service should bring proceedings against Love in ...

• February 04, 2018 04 Feb'18

  APAC business leaders divided on impact of AI

  Around half of business leaders in the APAC region do not think they will have greater job satisfaction by offloading work to machines, or see a need for machines to decipher between good and bad commands

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Interxion closes in on Equinix in battle for Emea colocation market supremacy

  The latest colocation market leaderboard from Cloudscene shows Interxion could be gaining ground on giant provider Equinix

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Appeal Court to give landmark verdict on Lauri Love extradition

  The Appeal Court will decide whether Lauri Love, who has serious health issues, should be extradited to the US to face hacking charges, or face trial in the UK. The landmark case is the first test of legal protections introduced by Theresa May to ...

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  Digital Catapult begins accelerator programme to help AI startups overcome major hurdles

  A business accelerator programme from Digital Catapult aims to help artificial intelligence-focused startups by giving them access to expertise and computational resources

• January 31, 2018 31 Jan'18

  What CIOs need to watch out for in digital transformation

  IT head honchos will need to consider new performance indicators, adopt an embedded digital business model and build up an enterprise-wide digital platform to avoid digital deadlock

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  Davos: Cyber risks grow as countries turn towards protectionism

  The cost of natural disasters is now at record levels, but the cost of cyber crime is far higher. The World Economic Forum hopes to persuade governments to work together on the problem, but with isolationist politics back in fashion, can it succeed?

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  Superfast broadband available to 95% of country

  The UK government has announced it has reached its target for making superfast broadband available

• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  NVidia aims to tackle UK’s AI skills gap by educating year nine students

  Computer chip developer is providing a teaching kit to educate students on artificial intelligence

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  Kao Data opens doors on first phase of £200m datacentre campus in Harlow

  Kao London One has a capacity of 8.8MW and is being touted as a good fit for hybrid cloud infrastructures

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Modern methodology gives Sweden’s 100-year-old SKF a digital push

  Long-established engineering company takes a leaf out of the startup guide to software development

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Judge will take time to seek answers from EU court over Max Schrems Facebook privacy fight

  The Irish High Court will take time to decide what questions to put before the European Court of Justice in a case with significant implications for EU and US trade and the privacy of EU citizens

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  European Parliament votes to restrict exports of surveillance equipment

  European Parliament votes to tighten export controls to restrict supply of surveillance and encryption technology to states with poor human rights records amid fears British companies may not have to comply after Brexit

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Bristol council in a hurry with £250,000 cloud migration project

  Local authority seeks IT supplier to help it move systems to the cloud in nine-month project before colocation service ends

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Australia’s Citic Pacific Mining uses IoT to track vehicles

  Perth-based iron-ore mining giant has implemented an analytics and internet of things system from SAP to track its assets and shore up operational efficiency

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  LeakedSource operator could face up to 10 years in jail

  Canadian man accused of selling stolen identities and passwords on website

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Ohio computer programmer faces 16 criminal charges over monitoring thousands of computers

  A 28-year-old computer expert has been charged for monitoring thousands of computers, using a form of malware he created

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy

  The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day. It should be subject to statutory regulation, says an independent ...

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Alan Turing Institute to add universities of Birmingham and Exeter to data science network

  The Alan Turing Institute has announced the latest two universities to join its data science research network

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Retail banking regulations hit UK with the potential of a ‘Big Bang’ moment

  The UK retail banking sector is at the beginning of a journey towards to a more competitive future as new regulation hits them

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UK must use new technologies in the workplace to reverse productivity issues, say researchers

  Researchers have called for the UK to utilise new technologies in the workplace to drive better productivity

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region