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• March 03, 2022 03 Mar'22

  Nato Cyber Security unit tests post-quantum VPN

  Nato’s Cyber Security Centre has successfully tested secure communication flows in a post-quantum world using a UK-designed VPN

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  HPE results boosted by new orders rush

  A rush on new orders to avoid HPE price hike, along with some help from Oracle, has helped to boost revenue

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  One in three Norwegian unicorns created in 2021 alone

  Norway’s tech sector has undergone rapid growth in the past year, consolidating the Nordic country’s position as an emerging European tech hub

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Nvidia/Arm: Competitions and Markets Authority to drill down further in Phase 2 investigation

  The merger between Arm and Nvidia is to be investigated further following publication of the CMA’s Phase 1 report into the deal

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Vodafone claims solid half-year

  Hot on the heels of signing a contract with City Fibre to gain UK fibre leadership, leading European comms operator’s results for the first six months of 2021 shows sustainable growth in both Europe and Africa

• November 10, 2021 10 Nov'21

  Cisco aims to conquer complexity in hybrid world of work

  Network tech and services giant Cisco unveils solutions designed to simplify complex environments as the world embraces flexible ways of working, giving global view of SaaS application health and outages map

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda

  Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  LightBasin hackers breach 13 telcos in two years

  Hackers have obtained an undisclosed volume of subscriber information and call metadata in a sustained campaign against telecommunications firms

• October 18, 2021 18 Oct'21

  DCMS appoints Plexal to drive telecoms diversity strategy

  Government chooses UK innovation company to understand and develop the role of SMEs in the telecoms market with particular reference to how to create a diverse market that supports the creation of home-grown, sovereign technology

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  Generation Novel hybrid workers bring new demands and risks

  Aruba survey warns business leaders that they must strike a balance between flexibility and security to address risky behaviours and evolving expectations of today’s tech-savvy workforce

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  Global internet traffic, bandwidth ‘return to normal’

  Global Internet Geography Research Service analyses internet capacity, traffic and IP transit pricing and finds average traffic growth and peak traffic growth drop as world accommodates post-Covid environment

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  Room for improvement in UK right to repair laws

  The UK government introduced right to repair legislation earlier in 2021 to combat the growing issue of electronic waste, but data sanitisation firm Blancco says that while it’s a step in the right direction, there is definitely scope for improvement

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Swedish IT industry braced for China’s response to Huawei 5G ban

  Swedish IT and communications equipment suppliers fear economic backlash from China following Huawei ban

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Microsoft fixes seven critical bugs on light Patch Tuesday

  All seven critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday were related to remote code execution, and there was one zero-day related to Windows Update Medic Service

• August 09, 2021 09 Aug'21

  Possible ransomware attack hits Italian vaccine booking system

  It is still unclear who is behind the attack that caused Covid-19 vaccine bookings in Lazio, Italy, to grind to a halt, as despite masses of files being encrypted no specific ransom demands have been made for the decryptor

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Nine security flaws found in critical hospital infrastructure

  The ‘PwnedPiper’ vulnerabilities identified in systems used by 80% of US hospitals could be used to launch ransomware attacks

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  Can India become a global manufacturing hub?

  India can be a major player in the global manufacturing supply chain by shoring up IP protection and tapping opportunities in contract manufacturing and firmware design

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Forrester finds companies confounded by data deluge

  A Dell-commissioned study by analyst firm Forrester finds organisations overwhelmed by mounds of data

• June 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  GlobalFoundries to open new fab in Singapore

  US chip foundry GlobalFoundries is building a $4bn semiconductor fabrication plant in Singapore to expand its manufacturing capacity as chip demand surges worldwide

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Openreach taps Ciena to boost connectivity services for UK carriers

  To hasten full-fibre network build out and help meet growing customer demand, BT-owned broadband provision division deploys new routing, switching and optical solutions

• May 03, 2021 03 May'21

  New standard to simplify IoT device onboarding

  Fido Alliance’s device onboarding protocol will automate the process of connecting internet-of-things devices to device management platforms while improving security

• April 29, 2021 29 Apr'21

  Intel seeks broader platform play with Ice Lake

  Company is counting on performance improvements from its third-generation Xeon ‘Ice Lake’ chip and its broader platform strategy to regain its mojo in the market

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  Lose-lose US sanctions apply brakes to Huawei’s 2020 growth

  Bans on Huawei products in infrastructures around the world begin to affect its bottom line, but comms technology provider shows growth and reaffirms commitment to creating greater value for customers and society in the face of adversity

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  CityFibre extends full-fibre network to Peterborough

  Former leading altnet to put a further £1.5m into its high-speed broadband connectivity project

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Oracle unveils final cog in cloud strategy

  Oracle’s Roving Edge Infrastructure is getting interest from mining companies in Australia and manufacturers in ASEAN that are looking to run cloud-based workloads in edge locations

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Tata Communications grows IoT footprint

  India’s Tata Communications has been shoring up its IoT capabilities through a handful of acquisitions and partnerships with telcos

• January 26, 2021 26 Jan'21

  Saudi IT spending to hit $11bn in 2021

  Saudi Arabian organisations will spend about $11bn on IT this year, with emerging technologies high on shopping lists

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  Where is Intel going to place its next strategic bet?

  Intel is getting a new CEO and the company is on a mission to move beyond the x86, a processor architecture that it has defined and dominated

• December 31, 2020 31 Dec'20

  Top 10 networking stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 networking stories of 2020

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Singapore employees want more support for remote working

  Singapore workers faced challenges in accessing internal company resources, spotty connections and had to use their personal devices for business while working remotely

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Amnesia:33 IoT flaws dangerous and patches unlikely, say experts

  The disclosure of multiple flaws by Forescout has raised big questions for the developers of connected products, and for their users

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  UK Space Agency awards £7m for space innovation projects

  A range of ‘high risk, high reward’ projects have been awarded a total of £7m from the Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, aiming to make the UK a world leader in space technology

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  SonicWall patches 11 firewall vulnerabilities

  SonicWall users are advised to download updates that fix 11 CVEs in the SonicOS operating system, uncovered by Positive Technologies

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Iliad Group makes €2.2bn Play acquisition

  In a move covering Poland, France and Italy, parent company of French operator Iliad announces public tender offer for leading Polish mobile provider

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Nutanix boosts storage performance by 50% with BlockStore

  Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix boosts access to NVMe and potentially Optane storage with BlockStore, which avoids the need to access the deepest layers of the OS

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Broadcom launches Brocade gen7 Fibre Channel switches

  New generation Fibre Channel doubles performance to 64Gbps with switches and HBAs now available. But what future for Fibre Channel with NVMe-over-fabrics hitting the datacentre?

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Nokia to set up robotics lab at Indian Institute of Science

  The Nokia Centre of Excellence for Networked Robotics will explore the use of drones, advanced communications and artificial intelligence in agriculture and industrial automation, among other applications

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Inside Intel’s transition into an enterprise tech company

  Computing giant Intel is pushing deeper into the enterprise with investments in data-centric and emerging technologies along with partnerships with local firms to develop new solutions

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  Warning over security holes in fake Cisco kit

  Two counterfeit Cisco Catalyst 2960-X switches were only found after a software update caused them to stop working

• June 29, 2020 29 Jun'20

  Airports deploy thermal cameras to control Covid-19, science suggests it’s merely ‘safety theatre’

  UK airports are rolling out thermal surveillance cameras to identify people who may have coronavirus, but science says the technology is ineffective at detecting and preventing the spread of the disease

• June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20

  Inside Lenovo’s transition to a solutions provider

  Lenovo’s long-term transformation from a primarily hardware supplier to an IT solutions provider is progressing, but the journey isn’t over yet

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Global enterprise WLAN market dips in first quarter of 2020

  Consumer market buoyed but Covid-19 lockdowns blow headwind into enterprise sector for worldwide wireless local area network market for the first quarter of 2020

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Revved-up electric vehicle market to drive associated connected services to 270% growth

  Projected end of sales of petrol-engined cars set to propel higher adoption of electric vehicles and generate boom in connected vehicle tech to $378m by 2024.

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Wireless Broadband Alliance calls for single global Wi-Fi network

  Global wireless ecosystem consortium unveils WBA OpenRoaming to offer automatic and secure connection of billions of devices to millions of Wi-Fi networks

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  Qualcomm aims to tap into Wi-Fi 6E with ‘world’s most advanced’ mobile wireless portfolio

  Hot on the heels of FCC action described as milestone and watershed moment for innovation that will supercharge connectivity, wireless processor giant aims to cash in on new wireless standard

• April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20

  Coronavirus puts brakes on 5G core deployments

  Research firm identifies short- and long-term impacts that global pandemic will have on 5G core and edge networks

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Industry group launched to develop standards for fibre deployment in sewer network

  Water utilities companies are working with SSE Enterprise Telecoms to deploy fibre in the sewers, as well as transform the sewage system into a “smart wastewater network”

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kr00k vulnerability compromises billions of Wi-Fi devices

  Billions of Wi-Fi chips used in IoT devices, laptops, smartphones and tablets are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  China’s tech sector to shrink by 10% in Q1 amid virus outbreak

  Hardware makers will be hit more badly than software houses, but the decline in China’s ICT market will be limited to the first quarter

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Secure data erasure is needed to ensure more people recycle their tech

  A dedicated team of IT recycling experts offers free data erasure to give people confidence that their old tech can be safely disposed of