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• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  UK public increasingly concerned over NHS data sovereignty

  Amid security concerns and AI advances, a majority of the British public still trusts the NHS to store and analyse their health data, but would prefer it remains domiciled in the UK

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud in digital banking

  Indonesia’s largest digital lender is tapping Tencent Cloud’s TDSQL database management system and cloud infrastructure to provide digital banking services for six million customers

• July 05, 2023 05 Jul'23

  Dassault Systèmes, Cranfield collaborate on 3DExperience centre of excellence

  Partnership between tech firm and university aims to provide centre for experiential, lifelong learning with connected 3D engineering platform to accelerate digital and sustainable transformation of aerospace and defence industry

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  IT contractors urged to check umbrella payslips as two firms caught making unlawful deductions

  Two recently published tribunal judgments emphasise why it is so important for umbrella company contractors to make sure they are being paid exactly what they are entitled to, warn experts

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  Telstra inks Starlink first as OneWeb gains Momentum for LATAM connectivity

  Further expansion in satellite connectivity as leading Australia-based telco inks deal with Elon Musk-led satellite firm while enterprise connectivity services provider looks to LEO satellite operator to connect remote areas

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  EU judgment sinks Meta’s argument for targeted ads

  The EU Court of Justice has issued a significant judgment against Meta, ruling that national anti-trust bodies can investigate GDPR breaches, disrupting the platform’s entire basis for carrying out targeted advertising

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  ‘Political lethargy’ to blame for digital exclusion, says Lords

  A House of Lords report about digital exclusion across the UK has blamed slow and undedicated government intervention for the extent of digital exclusion

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  CityFibre grabs further slice of Project Gigabit network expansion

  UK’s largest independent network provider wins £318m in new contracts as part of £5bn UK national gigabit broadband scheme

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  Scotland’s Techscaler programme joins forces with CivTech

  The partnership between the scaler programme and the innovation accelerator means CivTech alumni companies will be offered Techscaler membership and gain access to its technology hubs, education initiatives and support

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  Coping with the ongoing chip crisis in the UK

  China has imposed export restrictions on key semiconductor compounds, so how will the UK's National Semiconductor Strategy cope?

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  HPE, BT team for global managed LAN service

  Business division of leading UK telco and networking technology and service provider enter collaboration to introduce LANs supporting high-performance experiences for hybrid workers and IoT transformations

• July 04, 2023 04 Jul'23

  How Maxeon is forging the path to SASE

  Maxeon Solar Technologies is building out its security service edge capabilities with an eye on a SASE implementation that combines best of breed offerings from different suppliers

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  Over half of ANZ organisations hit by ransomware

  Amid the rising ransomware threat, almost four in five organisations in ANZ expect to pay a ransom if they could recover data and business processes

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  OneWeb expands commercial service across Europe, US

  Satellite connectivity services provider announces coverage of for the majority of the US and expands reach with 37 new countries in Europe added to footprint

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  Next-generation mobile lands on Channel Islands with Jersey Telecom

  Next-generation mobile comes to customers of largest telco on Channel Islands with 5G infrastructure using RAN, transport and cloud core to offer enhanced mobile connectivity

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  BlackCat gang claims cyber attack on Barts NHS Trust

  Investigations continue into a claim by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang that it has stolen 7TB of data from Barts NHS Trust in London

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  BBVA launches tech job portal as it continues to add talent

  Spanish bank BBVA ramps up its tech recruitment strategy with new online portal and target of 2,600 more people

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  CDO interview: Robert Michael, group head of data, DFS

  ‘Data Bob’ is transforming data strategy at furniture retailer DFS, aiming to build a digital twin of the company to improve business modelling – but his first task is to make sure people can trust data

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  Deutsche Bank completes migration of millions of Postbank customers

  Deutsche Bank has completed the migration of 12 million Postbank customers to its banking platform

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  5G takes its intended place in UK mobile

  Study from specialist network analyst finds mobile games and video users’ experience over 5G is more consistent and drops less at busy hours of the day than when using 4G infrastructures

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  PAC slams HMCTS justice system transformation programme

  HMCTS has consistently underestimated the scale and complexity of the reforms, and criticises the programme, which only has £120m of its £1.3bn budget left with only just over half of projects completed, MPs say

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  Driving synergies in digital healthcare

  As group CIO of API Holdings, Chandresh Dedhia has been driving synergies across a spectrum of digital healthcare businesses to create operational efficiency and other business outcomes

• July 03, 2023 03 Jul'23

  Salesforce to invest $4bn in its UK business over five years

  At its recent London conference, Salesforce UK managing director Zahra Bahrololoumi announced the supplier will invest $4bn in its own UK business over the next five years

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  AI can never be given control over combat decisions, Lords told

  Artificial intelligence is technically incapable of distinguishing between the complex contextual factors of combat situations, and will likely never be able to, according to legal and software experts

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  SGN pens IT service desk outsourcing deal

  Utility company SGN renews its internal IT services managed services contract with new supplier

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  NHS data stolen in Manchester Uni ransomware attack

  The ransomware gang behind the cyber attack on the University of Manchester appears to have got its hands on an NHS dataset being used by the university for research purposes

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  How STT GDC is cracking the Philippines datacentre market

  The joint venture formed by ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, Globe and Ayala Corporation is building its largest datacentre in the Philippines among other efforts to meet the needs of an underserved market

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  Virgin Media O2 switches on XGS-PON network through Nexfibre

  Leading UK operator takes leap forward with full-fibre optical network promising upload and downloads of up to 10 Gbps to cover five million homes by 2026

• June 30, 2023 30 Jun'23

  5G can improve society more than AI

  Vodafone reveals that over half of UK adults believe 5G has the potential to improve their day-to-day life, more so than artificial intelligence, and points to potentially massively lucrative 5G use cases

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS has potential to get digital transformation right

  NHS must address digital skills gap in its workforce, demonstrate the value of the NHS App and address the digital maturity gap in organisations if it wants to succeed, MPs say

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS England signs five-year Microsoft 365 contract

  Hot on the heels of its earlier deployment of Microsoft Teams, NHS England is now going all-in on the rest of the software giant’s online productivity tools

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  ‘Shadow’ AI use becoming a driver of insider cyber risk

  Off-the-books use of generative AI tools will inevitably lead to a costly, high-profile data breach for someone, but a little attention paid to appropriate data management policy can help mitigate the risk

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Oxa strengthens leadership team to drive next phase of autonomous vehicle growth

  Autonomous vehicle software developer bolsters executive leadership team with new chief product engineering officer and chief people officer

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Brits are using healthcare apps without proper checks

  As mobile health app acceptance increases, people are taking risks by using them without any advice from their medical professionals, finds survey

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  NHS to launch Digital Health Check

  The NHS Digital Health Check will be rolled out from spring 2024, and allow patients to do certain tests and get advice from their homes

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  The Finnish Food Authority uses AI to accelerate research

  Researchers have reduced the time taken to get critical insights into potential public health crises and address issues in real-time, through artificial intelligence

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Ruckus One enhanced for unified management of multi-access public and private nets

  CommScope launches Ruckus One suite of AI-driven converged network solutions designed to accelerate business transformation by simplifying the implementation of multi-access public and private networks

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Cisco looks to strengthen network assurance with intent to acquire SamKnows

  Networking technology and services giant announces intent to acquire UK-based internet performance monitoring platform to extend its ThousandEyes network assessment stack to remote and hybrid workers

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Charity demands transparency in digital universal credit system

  The digital universal credit system needs overhauling to ensure greater transparency over benefit claims and more effective means of redress when things go wrong, says child poverty charity

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Supercomputing research collaboration to bring fusion energy to UK grid in 2040s

  The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Cambridge have joined forces with Dell Technologies and Intel to accelerate pace of fusion energy power plant development

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  UK comms regulator to probe BT emergency number failure

  Investigation to assess source and extent of 25 June technical issue causing lack of access to key first response services, including Metropolitan Police, Bedfordshire Police, Suffolk Police, and Cheshire Fire and Rescue

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Scottish government tech accelerator opens latest funding round

  The Scottish government’s CivTech accelerator is seeking technology businesses to help develop new tools to improve public services, as well as to address pressing social and environmental issues

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Zoom brings together in-office, remote employees with Intelligent Director

  Collaboration provider expands portfolio and capability with launch of Intelligent Director, which uses AI and multiple cameras to provide optimal images and angles of participants in conference room

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  GDPR tax reclaim scheme preys on fears of SMEs

  IT suppliers are a target of companies offering a tax reclaim scheme that preys on small businesses’ fears around General Data Protection Regulation compliance

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Dubai Smart IoT unclear on deadline, but not ambition

  While the Dubai Smart IoT strategy reads like any other ambitious – and equally ambiguous – plan for the overhaul of a gulf state economy, there is still a clear message that the country is serious about technology

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Stolt-Nielsen SASE looks to optimise global connectivity, security for hybrid workers

  Bulk liquid logistics and sustainable land-based aquaculture expert advances secure digital transformation plans and operational efficiency

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Three years on, EncroChat cryptophone hack nets 6,500 arrests and seizures of €900m

  French and Dutch prosecutors say three years after they infiltrated the EncroChat cryptophone network in a novel hacking operation, Europe’s courts are opening the way for more collaboration and data sharing between law enforcement agencies

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Oracle shifts database support goalpost

  Oracle has updated its maintenance and support across its relational database family – we explore the implications

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Alkira introduces extranet as a service

  Provider of cloud networking as a service unveils infrastructure designed to enable third parties to securely connect to critical business applications 

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  Why an ecosystem helps IT projects move forward

  It used to be the case that IT departments would build or buy, but now there’s an alternative to help organisations integrate different data sources