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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
Tories to replace GDPR
IT industry reacts to the government’s plan to replace the pan-European data protection regulation
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
Next phase of open banking already gathering pace
Open banking has had a major impact on the banking industry as finance forms harness data to provide better services, but the next phase of open finance promises even more
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
HMCTS continues roll-out of Common Platform despite calls to halt deployment
Controversial roll-out of digital case management system continues amid planned strike action by Public and Commercial Services Union because of issues with the system
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
France extradites Spanish EncroChat cryptophone distributors for complicity with organised crime
Three phone sellers have been extradited from Spain to France to face charges that they were complicit in the activities of criminal EncroChat phone users
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
Vodafone confirms Three UK merger talks
UK’s mid-sized operators begin negotiations on consolidation to gain the scale to accelerate roll-out of 5G in the UK, expand broadband connectivity to rural communities and small businesses, and offer stronger competition
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October 04, 2022
04
Oct'22
Red Hat CEO on OpenShift roadmap, competitive play
Red Hat’s newly minted CEO Matt Hicks talks up OpenShift’s roadmap, the competition with VMware and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
Digital right to work checks officially go live
Under the new government guidance, employers can choose between 16 certified identity service providers to digitally check their employees legal right to work in the UK
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
Natural History Museum partners with AWS for biodiversity research push
The Natural History Museum is teaming up with public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bolster its biodiversity research capabilities
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
BT Group sees network gains through AI Accelerator
Telco announces new platform to orchestrate, accelerate and monitor artificial intelligence model deployments developed by its data community and to drive efficiencies
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
Three-quarters of business professionals want to embrace the metaverse
Study from networking systems, services and software company reveals business professionals’ interest in metaverse pointing to utilising more immersive and connected digital applications in the workplace
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
StorPool takes its software-defined storage to the AWS cloud
Software-defined storage and block access specialist to offer its product on high-performance AWS bare metal and memory-intensive compute, while claiming improved latency
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
Security regulation cuts online payment fraud at 73% of retailers
New online payments security standard, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), sees immediate fall in fraudulent payments to retailers
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
Digital transformation is brewing at Heineken
In a presentation at the Digital Transformation Week conference in Amsterdam, Heineken’s data management director revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform
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October 03, 2022
03
Oct'22
CIO interview: James Fleming, Francis Crick Institute
Francis Crick Institute CIO discusses how Europe’s largest biomedical research institute has co-developed a framework for data sharing
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
A new take on an old relationship: Nordic startups lure UK investors to their front doors
When startup worlds collide: investment and entrepreneurship partnerships form across the Nordics and UK
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
Surveillance tech firms complicit in MENA human rights abuses
Research finds companies are profiting from surveillance technologies that facilitate human rights abuses against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa, with little to no oversight
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
Interview: Rachel Hilliam, chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals
Rachel Hilliam talks about the origins, mission and future plans for the Alliance for Data Science Professionals
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
City of Las Vegas bets on NTT for largest private 5G network in US
Sin City sees no gamble in placing its chips on private 5G networks in new infrastructure designed to create opportunities for businesses, government and educational institutions
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
Hyperoptic, Community Fibre take gigabit highway to Islington
Inner London local authority signs deal so that more than 90% of homes and businesses will be connected to gigabit by August 2025, including 50 community hubs
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September 30, 2022
30
Sep'22
How Endowus is leveraging Kafka and microservices
The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
UK government rolls out Project Gigabit to rural Teesdale
£6.6m contract granted in north-east England as part of national programme to upgrade broadband for hard-to-reach premises, with GoFibre engaged as principal contractor for build out
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
CDO interview: Danny Gonzalez, chief digital and innovation officer, London North Eastern Railway
The rail franchise is driving a wide-ranging digital transformation, encompassing back-office improvements and enhancing passenger experience
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Cost-of-living crisis could spur fintech adoption
The cost-of-living crisis could have a similar impact on fintech and digital banking as the Covid-19 pandemic did, inducing further innovation in the fintech sector
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Five startups to join NCSC for Startups initiative
The NCSC has invited five startups to join its NCSC for Startups programme to help the government with pressing cyber challenges facing the UK
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Failure of Russia’s cyber attacks on Ukraine is most important lesson for NCSC
Russia has so far failed in its attempts to destabilise Ukraine through cyber attacks due to strength of Ukrainian, security industry and international efforts
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Business software aims for the NetSuite spot
In a time of turmoil, Oracle’s business software division unveils innovation and updates to give customers insight and control to increase productivity, enhance profitability and drive growth
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Du, Nokia, MediaTek combine three 5G TDD carriers to claim ‘highest throughput ever’
Comms tech provider and mobile chip company team with Middle East operator in first carrier aggregation of its kind, combining high-speed 5G bands to aggregate 300MHz of spectrum for throughput of up to 4.520 Gbps
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
BSH Home Appliances takes on Twilio to revamp digital customer engagement
Customer engagement platform partners with Deloitte Consulting to support plan by home appliances firm to revamp its entire digital infrastructure within customer service organisation
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
KPMG: IT chiefs vote for innovation, but are they forgetting tech debt?
New study from KPMG shows businesses are keen to adopt new technologies to drive improvements to customer experience
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September 29, 2022
29
Sep'22
Optus breach casts spotlight on cyber resilience
The massive data breach that affected more than 10 million Optus customers has cast the spotlight on API security and other factors that contribute to the cyber resilience of organisations in Australia
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
UK suffers third highest number of ransomware attacks globally
Based on an analysis of around 5,000 ransomware incidents, NordLocker has found that UK businesses, and small businesses in particular, are a priority target for ransomware gangs
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Whistleblower Peter Duffy calls for oversight of NHS records to prevent evidence tampering
A whistleblower has called for greater oversight in the handling of ‘safety-critical digital information’ across the NHS, in light of a number of cases that raise questions about data governance and record-keeping within the health service
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Data protection in Finland, four years after GDPR came into force
Data privacy has always been a big concern in Finland, so the country naturally has a lot to say about the General Data Protection Regulation four years on
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Russia ready for complete switch to domestic IT infrastructure
In a bid to counter sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government is implementing a policy of import substitution in the country’s domestic IT sector
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
EnterpriseDB rides on PostgreSQL momentum in APAC
The open-source database supplier has seen more enterprises in the region replacing their Oracle databases with Postgres to support their digital transformation initiatives
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Online Safety Bill needs complete overhaul, say rights groups
Civil society groups write to new digital minister to challenge various aspects of the upcoming Online Safety Bill, which they say threatens rights to privacy and freedom of expression
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Most hackers exfiltrate data within five hours of gaining access
Insights from more than 300 sanctioned adversaries, otherwise known as ‘ethical’ hackers, reveal that around two-thirds are able to collect and exfiltrate data within just five hours of gaining access
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
IoT success fuelling further expansion
Survey reveals profound change around the benefits derived from internet of things over past 12 months, with senior decision-makers focused on operational efficiencies, reducing costs, and increasing revenue and profit
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Neos Networks to connect Viking Wind Farm to SSE Renewables HQ
Business connectivity provider constructs communications links between wind farm being built on Scottish island and headquarters on mainland more than 300 miles away with machine-to-machine network to control and monitor performance of wind turbines...
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September 28, 2022
28
Sep'22
Zain Kuwait taps Accedian, Cisco for ‘unparalleled’ network performance monitoring and analytics
Middle East mobile voice and data services operator deploys automated assurance network technology to boost customer experience of performance and availability
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Fraudsters adapt phishing scams to exploit cost-of-living crisis
Around 80,000 Brits a month are falling victim to phishing attacks as fraudsters switch up tactics to take advantage of cost-of-living crisis and behavioural changes prompted by pandemic
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
DeepMind aims to close STEM skills gap with new programme
AI-led business will develop resources and boost support for programmes aimed at teaching STEM subjects
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Robo investment platform adopts open banking-based payments
Nordic consumer investment fintech simplifies customer experience through open banking software from Mastercard-owned Aiia
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Guy’s Cancer collaborates with healthtech provider to digitise patient care
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has begun working with digital healthcare platform provider Carology to build capacity, drive efficiencies and improve patient experience
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
American football giants jet into digital age with HCLTech
US football clubs the New York Jets and New York Giants outsource their digital transformations to Indian service provider as they target improved fan engagement
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Specsavers clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse
At Big Data London, Specsavers’ global data officer related how clinicians used company data to spot Covid referral collapse
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Broadcasters treat data science as niche and sporadic in use
Data science specialists at UK broadcasters conveyed a similar picture of niche use cases at Big Data London 2022
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Telefónica, Qualcomm collaborate to build XR, metaverse systems
Partnership designed to grow metaverse and extended reality ecosystem using Snapdragon Spaces as well as upskilling Telefónica’s internal teams and external innovation programmes in XR hardware and applications
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Nokia, Speedcast deploy private wireless connectivity for Origem Energia in Brazil
Private wireless solution will deliver critical network operations to 600 gas production wells at Brazilian sustainable energy firm
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September 27, 2022
27
Sep'22
Businesses see fixed broadband charges rise as average bandwidth increases
Latest roundup of global fixed broadband arena shows residential consumers reaping speed and cost rewards of fibre proliferation, while B2B subscribers see little improvement in bandwidth versus monthly charges