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Mobile apps and software

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Connectivity is levelling the playing field for small businesses in UK creative sector

  Research shows key segment of UK creative industry small businesses produce their best ideas and work on the go, increasingly relying on connectivity to drive productivity

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Biometrics to enable $2.5tn of mobile payments by 2024

  Juniper Research study predicts that biometric technology will be present on 90% of smartphones in five years’ time

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Insurtechs help traditional players differentiate

  Traditional insurers are harnessing the agile development techniques of the tech startup community through partnerships with insurtechs

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Top Android apps at risk from StrandHogg vulnerability

  Researchers at Promon say all of the 500 most-downloaded Android apps are at risk from a newly discovered vulnerability

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  China Mobile stakes 5G first for Hong Kong

  CMHK successfully accomplishes 5G Standalone network test and completes first voice over NR call in Hong Kong

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  NatWest digital bank goes live

  NatWest has announced the availability of its standalone digital challenger bank, known as Bó

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Gartner: Weak global demand for smartphones in third quarter of 2019

  Consumer concern about value for money and deferrals due to 5G add up to disappointing smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2019

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Facebook undermined rivals in bid to dominate global messaging

  Facebook used buyouts and bullying tactics towards competitors to grow its business empire, documents leaked to Computer Weekly reveal

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Rural business association slams parties’ lack of plans to address ‘appalling’ connectivity

  UK’s major political parties accused of failing rural businesses by lacking a credible solution to improve mobile 4G and 5G coverage

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Snap taps Verizon as 5G partner to extend AR, video experiences

  US comms giant Verizon teams with Snapchat creator to look at supporting advanced video applications such as augmented reality on its 5G network

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Uber app exploit posed safety risk to passengers

  A flaw in Uber’s system meant thousands of trips in London were taken with unauthorised drivers at the wheel

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  How ServiceNow is empowering Asia’s mobile workforce

  ServiceNow’s newly minted managing director in Asia talks up the company’s sweet spots and traction in the region, and what it’s doing to abstract away workflow complexities for mobile workers

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Europe in the driving seat for global smartphone market

  Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi lead the charge to drive unprecedented shipment numbers in the third quarter of 2019, says Canalys study

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Ryanair checks in Vodafone for business-class infrastructure

  Budget airline gets upgrade in Vodafone Business communication technology infrastructure to support 300 sites and 153 million passengers across 40 countries

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Conservatives slammed over social media trickery

  The Conservative Party has been caught spreading online disinformation during the General Election campaign for a second time

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  SK Telecom unveils 5G Virtual Social World

  Korean telco aims to take advantage of its growing 5G infrastructure with hyper-immersive experience platform optimised for the mobile era

• November 19, 2019 19 Nov'19

  Anti-stalkerware coalition calls time on intrusive abusers

  New coalition plans to tackle the scourge of stalkerware as a tool of domestic and other forms of abuse

• November 18, 2019 18 Nov'19

  Foreign e-commerce giants threaten Nordic high streets

  Surveys show up to 40% of high-street stores in Sweden and Finland could face closure by 2030 as retailers seek to combat e-commerce threat

• November 14, 2019 14 Nov'19

  Home Office Brexit app contains multiple security flaws

  The Home Office’s Brexit app may be putting EU citizens’ personal data at risk

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Google to launch bank accounts in 2020

  Google is launching bank accounts in the US in 2020 as tech giants continue to deepen their activities in the financial services sector

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Police Scotland furthers Pronto digital beat in Glasgow

  Officers will be able to fill in reports directly on their mobile devices for incidents such as crimes, road collisions and traffic tickets

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Subs spike sees growth return to Vodafone UK

  Vodafone UK is claiming its best-ever quarter for new customers, with more than 500,000 additions in the three months ending 30 September

• November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs probed over alleged Apple Card gender discrimination

  US financial services regulator is investigating allegations that Goldman Sachs’ credit decisions for its Apple Card offering show gender bias

• November 07, 2019 07 Nov'19

  Amazon Ring video doorbell flaw left users open to attack

  A vulnerability in Amazon’s Ring video doorbells left the internet-of-things devices open to a variety of attacks

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Marks & Spencer profits drop as digital push ramps up

  Clothing, home and luxury food retailer Marks & Spencer has been pushing to make its business more digital, but its half-year profits have seen a hit

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public today

  Computer Weekly publishes cache of leaked documents disclosed to Congress

• November 05, 2019 05 Nov'19

  Goldman Sachs lends billions of dollars through Apple partnership

  Apple Card issuing bank Goldman Sachs has already given billions of dollars in credit to iPhone users since Apple's credit card was launched

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Huawei ‘in Europe, for Europe’ to unplug bottlenecks towards the intelligent world

  Chinese comms infrastructure giant dismisses external “pressures” and sets out its strategy to make breakthroughs and deliver the all-connected intelligent world based on 5G, IoT and AI

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Brits moving to digital banking channel faster than people in the US

  Digital banking services rapidly gain popularity, but digital banks face major challenges to make deeper inroads into traditional banks’ customer bases

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Banks let customers down with mixed approaches to security

  Treasury Committee report recommends new measures to tackle financial fraud

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  BT network investments dig into half-year profits

  The need for speed, and the need to lay down and connect high-speed broadband and fibre, has put a break on the financial performance of BT over the first six months of its fiscal year

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Global smartphone market grows for first time in two years

  Range of market stimuli align to see global smartphone shipments growing 1% in the third quarter of 2019, bucking two years of declines

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Apple finds good fit in wearables and services in fourth quarter

  Consumer electronics giant sees marked pivot from products to services in quarterly results

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Reykjavik: An IT ecosystem beyond the ice

  Iceland is a small island between Europe and the US, and that is one of several reasons why it is attracting tech startups to its capital

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  5G projected to bring $1.4tn to global economy over next decade

  Survey from Huawei and STL Partners calculates that 5G mobile technologies are set to create an extra $1.4tn in gross domestic product for worldwide economies over the next decade

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation

  Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Take responsibility for cyber security basics, urges NCSC CEO

  At the launch of its third annual review, NCSC head Ciaran Martin appealed for individuals and businesses to address the fundamentals of cyber security hygiene to help lighten the load

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Banks move to contain impact of Samsung biometric flaw

  NatWest and Nationwide have moved to lock down their mobile banking apps after Samsung warned of a biometric security flaw on its Galaxy and Note S10 devices

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market

  Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Home Office Brexit app finally available for iPhone

  A mobile app to help EU citizens apply for Settled and Pre-Settled Status after Brexit is finally available for Apple iPhone devices, but only on newer generations

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Huge rise in rogue banking apps driving fraud attacks

  Fraud perpetrated through fake mobile apps purporting to be from legitimate banks has seen a statistically significant spike, says RSA

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Three hit by network outage

  Telco blames “technical difficulties” for outage that has taken down voice, text and data services

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Singapore kicks off first steps in 5G roll-out

  Singapore’s telco regulator will award 5G spectrum to mobile operators by the middle of next year, culminating in the deployment of two nationwide 5G networks by the end of 2022

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking

  Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Huawei: Fresh mindset needed to speed up 5G development

  It may already enjoy pricing and technological advantages, but Huawei is calling on 5G industry to collaborate more, especially with regard to regulatory policy

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Attackers hunt iPhone jailbreakers in click fraud campaign

  Research by Cisco’s Talos threat intel unit has identified a new click fraud campaign targeting people looking to jailbreak their iPhone devices

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Digital and innovation apprentices to start NatWest programme

  NatWest is kicking off a tech apprentice programme, with its digital innovation hub set to play a key role

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  French and German banks end talks on challenger bank sale

  After months of negotiations, BPCE's proposed sale of Fidor Bank to OLB has fallen through

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  HETT 2019: Digital literacy gap will never be fully closed, says panel

  The increasing use of digital technology in healthcare means it is important for people to be digitally literate to take part, but the digital literacy gap will always be there, says an expert panel