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• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  UK government aims to prioritise future innovations

  Government research has been published to enable evidence-based recommendations on emerging technology with greatest impact

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Welsh shared electronic record project is far from realising ambition, says auditor

  Welsh Community Care Information System roll-out, originally due in 2018, is taking longer and costing more than expected, and the prospect of a full take-up among local organisations is still uncertain

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Small businesses’ remote working frustrations threaten exodus of best talent

  While large firms mull massive investment to return to offices, over a quarter of European small business workers would switch jobs to somewhere better equipped for remote working

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  KDDI, Orange start engine on connected automotive IoT services

  Toyota and Mazda to use connected car capabilities for improved customer experience in connected car platform covering 63 European territories

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Spanish court to question witnesses over ‘illegal surveillance’ of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  The Spanish National Court in Madrid is to hear evidence from information security expert Andy Müller-Maguhn and two lawyers who were subject to ‘illegal surveillance’  of their meetings with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London

• October 16, 2020 16 Oct'20

  Services Australia taps AI in document processing

  Services Australia and Capgemini have developed an AI engine to classify and extract information from claim documents in a pilot project

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Arrests and indictments made in cyber money laundering ring

  The NCA has revealed six men were arrested in the UK as part of an international investigation into a money laundering network which handled transactions for some of the world’s most prolific cyber criminal groups

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Cloud data protection keeps the Crick’s medical research Covid-secure

  Cloud data management services from Rubrik gave the Francis Crick Institute a data protection edge and have helped keep its vital work going through the pandemic

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  UK regulators lack the skills and expertise to cope with increasing use of algorithms

  MPs told that multiple regulators will be needed to govern the ever-growing use of algorithmic systems in all areas of the economy and public sector

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• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Jersey launches contact-tracing app

  Irish software developer NearForm adds Channel Island to its list of customers for mobile proximity app technology

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Emerging tech can improve regulatory processes, says BEIS report

  Regulators should take a best-practice approach to the use of emerging technologies but need to be aware of the challenges, according to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Employees demand greater ownership and choice in the ‘new normal’ of work

  Cisco survey shows flexible future for work, with three-quarters of UK office workers wanting to choose whether to work from home or office, and manage their hours

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  The IBM business split: Big Blue places biggest bet yet on hybrid cloud

  IBM has placed its biggest bet yet on hybrid cloud, by setting outs plans to hive off its managed infrastructure services arm, so it can throw its full weight behind tapping into the enterprise's demand for off-premise services

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Post Office races to solve IT error under gaze of public and banks

  The Post Office is focusing urgently on fixing an IT error suffered by a subpostmaster amid the ongoing IT scandal

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  Hackney services still offline in ongoing cyber attack

  Services remain disrupted two days after council was hit by a serious incident, as residents are warned to be on their guard

• October 15, 2020 15 Oct'20

  How Tokopedia is streamlining incident management

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has improved incident management and developer productivity using a cloud-based incident management tool

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Public sector security failings leave UK at risk, says think tank

  Reform report urges adoption of new policies in the next version of the UK’s National Cyber Security Strategy

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Unions urge government to improve conditions for Amazon workers

  Unions have urged the UK government to leverage its position as a client of Amazon to improve conditions for workers

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Nokia signs five-year deal with Google Cloud to support its datacentre shutdown plans

  Telco giant Nokia is pursuing a cloud-first strategy that will see it shutter datacentres across the globe in a bid to cut costs and boost innovation

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Employees demand office redesign for new hybrid work environment

  Global study by visualisation and collaboration technology provider says employees worldwide are desperate to get back to the office and want their employers to invest in a tech-driven environment

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  US Elections: Malicious internet domains spike as campaigns heat up

  Internet domains related to the US presidential election are 56% more likely to be malicious than regular ones

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  NHS England issues integrated cloud ERP procurement advice call

  NHS England is calling on software suppliers for advice concerning the feasibility of moving and integrating its ERP systems in cloud infrastructure

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Interxion invests in growing its Austrian colocation presence with Vienna campus expansion

  Digital Realty-owned colocation giant Interxion is continuing to build out its European datacentre footprint, having acquired a parcel of land in Vienna to expand its Austrian server farm footprint

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Public data should not be held by US tech giants

  One-off evidence sessions to follow up on the recommendations of the House of Lords AI Committee revisit the data and ethics debate

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Fintech ‘unicorn’ Klarna probed over data misuse

  Online bank blames misuse of user data on human error as Information Commissioner’s Office weighs in

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Apple announces new era for 5G with iPhone 12

  Even as its growth exceeds earlier expectations, the global 5G market gets rocket fuel with the long-awaited launch of the 5G-compatible iPhone 12

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Microsoft fixes 87 bugs in October 2020 Patch Tuesday

  Smaller October Patch Tuesday update includes fixes for critical bugs in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  CyrusOne to prioritise water preservation across global colocation estate in sustainability push

  Global colocation giant makes good on its promise to publish first sustainability report into its operations, which contains commitments to curb the amount of water its facilities consume locally

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  ServiceNow to roll out Now platform on Azure

  ServiceNow introduces Azure-linked offering to cater to the needs of organisations in regulated industries that have strict data sovereignty and security requirements

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  Rémy Cointreau migrates SAP to S/4 Hana on Google Cloud

  Cloud-based deployment speeds up scalability and provides integration with Salesforce and e-commerce systems

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Cheaper and more available smartphones set to drive 5G adoption surge

  Arrival of 5G-enabled iPhones, particularly in Europe and North America, along with momentum in China, to push worldwide 5G connections to 3.6 billion by 2025

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  UK firms find obstacles to unlocking full potential of Edge

  Survey finds almost of half of UK IT leaders in the UK are already actively using Edge technologies to deliver new outcomes and business value, but 87% of ITDMs are missing key skills to unlock the value of data

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Nokia claims big win in small cells for Chunghwa Telecom 5G net

  Leading Taiwanese mobile operator becomes first in its country to deploy 5G non-standalone network powered by Nokia radio technology

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Covid-19 fuels bandwidth connectivity growth between carrier neutral colocation sites

  The latest Global Interconnection Index survey from colocation giant Equinix highlights ripple effect of Covid-19 on connectivity growth patterns

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Suppliers neglecting virtual appliance security, putting users at risk

  Software suppliers are often distributing their products on virtual appliances that contain known vulnerabilities or are running outdated or unsupported operating systems, according to a report

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  GMB Union boss calls for Dido Harding to resign from NHS Test and Trace

  Following the news that a technical glitch caused 16,000 coronavirus cases to go unreported, the GMB Union has called for Test and Trace chair Dido Harding to quit

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Government minister’s plea for subpostmasters to take part in review of IT scandal rejected

  Government minister met with former subpostmaster online in an attempt to get victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal involved in government review

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  London to become ‘Gigawatt’ colocation hub by 2023 as Covid-19 fails to dim datacentre demand

  Inaugural datacentre market report by property consultancy Knight Frank highlights rise of secondary datacentre hubs across Europe, as Covid-19 prompts surge in demand for work and leisure-related cloud services

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Hackney Council services offline after ‘serious’ cyber attack

  Services to residents of the London borough of Hackney are being disrupted by a cyber attack

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  HMRC signs five-year £169m contract with Fujitsu for VME platform

  Supplier will host 13 HMRC applications on its virtual managed environment platform, following its role as an incumbent provider to the department under two different contracts

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Can chameleon Big Blue change its colours?

  IBM is renowned for reinventing itself. It now plans to spin out its Global Technology Services business, a division that was once its crown jewels

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  DBS to deploy IBM z15 mainframes

  Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to run and modernise mission-critical applications on z15 mainframes

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Small training steps can have big impact on economic recovery

  Staff cuts and using IT to drive optimisation are short-term measures and businesses need to reskill their workforce, says Microsoft

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Challenger bank accessing latest anti-money laundering technology through fintech

  Challenger banks works with fintech to support its anti-money laundering efforts

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  O-RAN ready to rocket to be worth $47bn by 2026

  Industry analyst predicts rapid expansion for open radio access network over the next six years

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  5G set to add $8tn to global GDP by 2030

  Research from leading global telecommunications technology provider finds that despite the economic challenges of Covid-19, a global boom in 5G investment will see 71% of companies invest in it over the next five years

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Trickbot forced offline in major cyber security victory

  Coalition led by Microsoft obtained a court order enabling them to take down the infamous Trickbot botnet’s back-end server infrastructure

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Five Eyes spy group again demands access to private messages

  Spooks are once again calling for the tech industry to break end-to-end encryption in messaging platforms

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  H&M Group signs multi-year colocation deal with Swedish eco-friendly operator in sustainability push

  Clothes retailer H&M has signed a hosting deal, covering all of Northern Europe, with green datacentre operators EcoDataCenter, as its sustainability push continues apace

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Cyber security skills ad branded ‘crass’ by minister

  Security skills campaign advert depicting a ballet dancer comes in for criticism as the arts sector struggles in the pandemic

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  UK economy could see blockchain boost worth £57bn by 2030

  Blockchain could provide major economic benefits by being used to track and trace products and services

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Regional Covid-19 lockdowns will leave digitally excluded ‘stranded’

  Charity calls on government to do more to level up digital skills as it warns that tougher regional lockdowns in the Midlands and the North will hit digitally excluded people the hardest

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  BT expands digital workplace portfolio with Zoom

  New carrier agreement with conferencing provider Zoom designed to allow BT to offer a managed service with integrated networking to ensure optimal user experiences

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Software AG caught in double extortion ransomware hit

  Data stolen from prominent German software company by Clop ransomware gang appears on the dark web

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Government gives update on post-Brexit customs systems

  Cabinet Office’s Border and Protocol Delivery Group provides further clarity on the readiness of the UK’s post-Brexit border IT systems

• October 12, 2020 12 Oct'20

  Making sense of zero-trust security

  Implementing zero-trust security is not an easy feat, but enterprises can still get it right if they approach it from a process perspective and get a handle on their infrastructure footprint

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Nokia, Ericsson score 5G tech wins with Orange, Proximus

  Centre of politics becomes centre of 5G activity as incumbent telcos tap Nordic comms giants to build out next-generation infrastructures

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Dryad Networks gains funding for large-scale wildfire detection IoT network

  Forest management startup gains seed fund to develop internet of things technology for what it says is the dawn of the digital forest

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Facebook critics’ webpage removed over false phishing allegations

  Real Facebook Oversight Board alleges Facebook is trying to censor it for speaking out against the social media company’s behaviour

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  TCS results signal enterprise readiness to spend on IT after Covid-19 pause

  TCS’s financial results signal that enterprises are ready to invest in IT to help them recover from the coronavirus-related business slowdown

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Inside VMware’s Kubernetes playbook

  Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda talks up the evolution of the container orchestration platform and efforts by VMware to help enterprises get the most out of the technology

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Major tech companies respond to lawsuit over mining deaths

  Multinational technology companies accused of knowingly benefiting from human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo have responded to a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for the deaths of Congolese children in their cobalt supply ...

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Magecart strikes website of school payments service Wisepay

  Magecart credit card skimmer harvested financial data of users of Wisepay’s platform over a two-day period

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  CMA asks for right to probe O2/Virgin merger

  Competition and Markets Authority requests right to probe potentially game-changing joint venture that could transform UK’s wired and wireless communications provision

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Cisco, Qwilt and Digital Alpha launch open caching CDN for service providers

  Consortium of tech providers introduce new model for media delivery using open caching architecture, claiming ‘unprecedented’ levels of quality with open, global APIs

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Datacentre sustainability tipped to become competitive differentiator for colo community by 2023

  Schneider Electric marks 2020 Innovation Summit with release of joint report with 451 Research into global datacentre market’s attitudes towards sustainability

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  IBM preps for 2021 business split as enterprise hybrid cloud push gathers pace

  IBM is set to split in two to form two publicly traded entities, with one focusing on the delivery of hybrid cloud services to enterprises, and the other specialising in the delivery of managed infrastructure services

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Quarter of remote workers fail to engage with tech teams

  Research reveals a burgeoning IT-employee divide among the growing ranks of remote workers, but the root causes have yet to be examined fully

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  NCSC relaunches SME security guide with home working focus

  The NCSC is issuing an updated version of its guide to security for SMEs, reflecting the long-lasting changes to the world of work seen in 2020

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  5G to fore as Vodafone, Immense join Midlands Future Mobility

  UK telco and simulation platform provider join project to accelerate the development of cutting-edge transport technologies

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Emotet rated September’s ‘most popular’ malware

  The current resurgence of Emotet is attracting attention as governments issue new warnings and cyber criminals rush to exploit the chaotic US election

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Care Quality Commission enquiries into IT scandal CEO continue

  NHS regulator continues enquiries about the appointment of former Post Office CEO at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as more damning details emerge

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Coronavirus face mask spammer fined by ICO

  The director of software company Studios MG spammed members of the public at the height of the pandemic as one of its directors tried to shift a job lot of face masks

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Edinburgh sets out plans to become a smart city

  Three-year digital plan includes empowering people to become ‘smart citizens’, introducing sensor technology, 5G and smart public transport, and moving most of the council’s systems to the cloud

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Tesco hires 16,000 staff to cope with Covid-19 shopping habits

  After an increase in online sales as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, supermarket Tesco made 16,000 temporary staff permanent to cope with the shift in customer behaviour

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  CDO interview: Pets at Home uses data analytics to further petcare ‘ecosystem’

  Robert Kent, chief data officer for Pets at Home, describes how he has built a data analytics team and technology stack to enhance the petcare company’s understanding of its customers

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Crown Prosecution Service suffers 1,600 data breaches in 12 months

  CPS sees a spike in data security incidents, many of them serious enough to be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Threat of GDPR fines increasingly driving security buying decisions

  Scaring the people who hold the purse strings may be the best option for CISOs who need a little extra budget

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Singtel rolls out 5G trial network for enterprises

  Singtel is providing enterprises with early access to its 5G standalone network at its testing facility to test and develop new 5G applications

• October 08, 2020 08 Oct'20

  Accenture acquires NZ firm to bolster SAP practice

  Accenture’s acquisition of Zag comes amid growing demand for expertise in S/4 Hana migrations in Australia and New Zealand

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  5G regulation failures are a threat to UK’s national security

  Defence Committee report on the security of 5G brands existing regulations outdated and unsatisfactory

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Carhartt shifts old data to the cloud with Komprise

  US-based workwear manufacturer cuts storage costs from $1 to $0.25 per gigabyte as it deploys data management software and shifts old files to Microsoft Azure Blob and Cold storage

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  US lawmakers release big tech antitrust report

  House Democrats have published a report on the monopoly power wielded by big tech companies and how to restore competition in digital markets

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Nvidia reveals its plans for Arm

  Nvidia intends to acquire Arm for £31bn, as part of its plan to “create the computing company for the age of AI”

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Department for Education failed to protect data on millions of children, says ICO

  The Department for Education’s National Pupil Database, which contains millions of items of data on the UK’s schoolchildren, was found to be non-compliant with data protection regulations across the board

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Consumers find new payment methods during pandemic

  Non-cash payments have grown at their fastest rate for a decade and due to Covid-19 restrictions, more people are discovering different ways to pay

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  UK accounts for 45% of Europe’s card fraud as criminals target online transactions

  Payment card fraudsters steal €1.5bn, with card-not-present attacks accounting for three-quarters of this sum

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  ICO wraps up Cambridge Analytica investigation

  Information Commissioner’s Office concludes its investigation into Cambridge Analytica, saying no additional evidence has come to light that would change its previous assessments

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  More than four-fifths of global workforce rule out return to office full-time

  With workforces demanding increased – if not permanent – home networking, research reveals CIOs’ top priorities in planning for new everywhere enterprise, specifically securing mobile devices, apps and users

• October 07, 2020 07 Oct'20

  Southeast Asia remains hotspot for cyber attacks

  Geopolitics and Covid-19 have been fodder for cyber criminals to advance their motives in Southeast Asia in 2020

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Government to provide 100,000 devices for remote learning

  The Department for Education is offering education providers access to additional devices to help with remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  EU’s top court questions legality of UK phone and internet data surveillance

  European Court of Justice rules that the UK and EU member states must comply with EU privacy laws when harvesting people’s sensitive communications data from telecoms and internet companies

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Government deaf to loud calls for statutory public inquiry into Post Office scandal

  MPs are demanding the government holds a full statutory public inquiry into the Post Office IT scandal

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Coronavirus raises the software audit stakes

  IT asset managers say they are receiving more requests from software publishers to check for licence discrepancies

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  5G technology could increase global economy by $1.5tn by 2030

  Research commissioned by Huawei suggests next-generation networks can stimulate growth and drive productivity as the global economy recovers from Covid-19

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growing in the house of Oracle

  NetSuite CEO Evan Goldberg briefs analysts and press on the eve of the supplier’s annual, this year virtual, conference

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Scotland seeks views on digital government

  Scottish government consults on how to build a digital Scotland, ahead of plans to deliver a new digital strategy for the country

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Scotland digital identity prototype pilot successful

  Digital Identity Scotland’s 10-week test of its digital identity prototype finds that users understand the concept of two-factor authentication and using the same credentials across services

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Ransomware attacks go through the roof

  The volume of ransomware attacks has jumped 50% in the past three months, according to data produced at Check Point

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  EE leads latest Opensignal UK mobile performance report

  UK’s largest operator tops UK mobile quality survey measuring performance across four key use cases