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• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure

  The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

  Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Ivor Nicholson, Nottinghamshire County Council

  Nottinghamshire County Council is facing £77m in cuts by 2018 and by rolling out new services, it plans to save £8m through technology alone

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers

  US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  2015 IT priorities: SDN yet to prove itself, fear of network hacks growing

  In Computer Weekly’s 2015 IT priorities study, software-defined networking is still behind management and monitoring as a networking priority

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Connected cars set CIO agenda at Volvo

  IT has always tried to align with the business, but for Klas Bendrik, group CIO at Volvo Cars, it seems business has aligned with IT

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  London’s Air Ambulance swaps A-Z maps for mobile apps

  London’s Air Ambulance has halved emergency dispatch times through an incident information and routing app from Mubaloo

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Airwave's Tetra emergency services radio "costly and inflexible"

  Incumbent Airwave failed to advance to the next stage of the Emergency Services Network procurement because its Tetra radio technology was too inflexible for current needs, according to reports

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  IoT could be key to farming, says Beecham Research

  The internet of things could be key to the farming industry meeting the challenge of increasing food production by 70% by 2050, says report

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Gandalf to become the Speaking Clock

  BT reveals it has engaged the services of actor Ian McKellen to be the voice of the Speaking Clock for Comic Relief

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Darknet technologies have legitimate security uses, says researcher

  Darket technologies have legitimate security applications for business, says security investigator

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Health trust proposed offshoring mental care through Skype

  Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust considered cutting costs by using Skype and low-cost staff to treat patients with depression

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Government network services tender deadline slips again

  Crown Commercial Service pushes back deadline for tender submissions to Network Services framework to give suppliers more time to prepare

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  BDUK accused of not being “vigilant” in upholding broadband targets

  MPs accused BDUK of not being vigilant enough to deliver its own current superfast broadband coverage targets

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Cancer Research UK trials contactless donations

  Cancer Research UK installs four smart charity shop windows to enable contactless donations

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  N3 network outage knocks NHS users off internet

  An internet gateway fault causes problems for users of the NHS N3 network

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  UK outdone by superfast European broadband

  Britain’s fall down the average broadband speed rankings continues, according to web watchers Akamai

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mercedes AMG Petronas IT director on the need for speed in IT

  When Matt Harris became IT director for F1 team Mercedes AMG Petronas in 2009, IT costs needed to be slashed

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Technology needed to help ambulance services cope with increased demand

  The future of the ambulance and emergencies services needs more investment in networking

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  DECC publishes annual report on delayed smart meter scheme

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its annual report on the roll-out of smart electricity and gas meters

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Avaya brings contact centres to Google Chromebooks

  Avaya and Google team up to streamline customer service agent workflows by enabling desktop contact centres on Chromebooks

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  JCDecaux partners with Vodafone to build small cell networks

  Vodafone joins outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux to deploy small cell technology on billboards to increase network performance

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman

  At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Barclays bank launches mobile video banking

  Barclays Bank has launched a 24-hour video banking service that will enable customers to receive face-to-face service from anywhere

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  Three pondering bid for O2 or EE, say reports

  As BT conducts sales talks with both O2 and EE, reports have emerged the owner of Three is also preparing a bid for one or other of the two networks

• November 28, 2014 28 Nov'14

  CGI secures communications between pilots and air traffic control

  Satellite communications firm Inmarsat has outsourced the provision of security IT and services to CGI

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  EE in sales talks with BT

  EE owners Deutsche Telekom and Orange eye up a sale to BT just days after news O2’s owner is also looking to exit the UK market

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  National Trust for Scotland overcomes legacy network challenge

  The National Trust for Scotland has replaced a historical network infrastructure with a core service from Brocade

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  UK will get 700MHz TV spectrum for mobile data – in 2022

  Ofcom will make the 700MHZ terrestrial TV spectrum available for mobile data when it falls out of use in 8 years' time

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Increase in mobile users sees 2.7 billion devices worldwide in 2014

  Mobile subscriptions have increased by 800 million in 2014, bringing the total number of devices to 2.7 billion worldwide, according to a report

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Tech Mahindra backs Milton Keynes smart city project

  Tech Mahindra’s telco services wing to support development and deployment of smart city solutions and IoT sensor networks

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Hull gets dark fibre injection for EE and Three

  Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL), a joint venture between EE and Three, deploys dark fibre backhaul connections to masts in Hull

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Network firewalls as relevant to data security as ever, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed

  Network firewalls are as relevant to data security today as they were 20 years ago, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Juniper CEO Kheradpir resigns over misconduct allegations

  Shaygan Kheradpir steps down from his role as CEO of Juniper Networks after less than a year in the post, after a customer negotiation went sour

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Ofcom to auction tranche of MoD-owned spectrum

  190 MHz of spectrum in two bands currently controlled by the Ministry of Defence is to go under the hammer

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Ofcom launches initiative to plug SMEs' lack of confidence in communications services

  Regulator Ofcom launches online portal to help business owners exploit commercial communications services

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news

  ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots

  Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Six networks that changed the world forever

  The Science Museum opens its Information Age gallery, dedicated to the history of information and communications

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Forget devices, we still need signal, says WWF IT director

  Organisations such as the WWF are still trying to focus on sufficient connectivity for remote workers says WWF director of ICT services, Linda Humphrey.

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

  GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Housing associations launch shared internet service from BT

  BT promises housing association tenants lower internet costs through new scheme

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

  HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

  Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  ARM enters mainstream datacentre with HP’s ProLiant Moonshot servers

  ARM chips have entered mainstream enterprise datacentre with HP's production-ready ARM-powered Moonshot servers