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• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  University Hospitals Birmingham calls on BT for remote diagnostic station

  UK’s largest health trust sets up clinicians to work with multidisciplinary teams for remote clinical support in real time over a converged 4G/5G and Wi-Fi network

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  NHS signs countrywide deal with Microsoft

  ‘Landmark’ IT deal will see NHS organisations in England get access to all Microsoft 365 services, including Teams and Office 365, and strengthen cyber security measures

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  Gartner: CIOs should start preparing for coronavirus recovery cost cutting

  To recover from the Covid-19 lockdown, businesses will need to cut costs. In doing so, Gartner urges CIOs to look at value and cost optimisation

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  NatWest develops behavioural biometrics as additional authentication

  Bank is working with Visa to develop behavioural biometrics technology as an extra layer of invisible authentication

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  Northern Ireland invests £1.7m in online learning

  Package of online skills interventions aimed at people who have been affected by the coronavirus

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  Accessories store Claire’s hit by Magecart credit card fraudsters

  Attackers gained access to retailer’s website as long ago as March

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  UK government to investigate water and energy networks to deliver nationwide gigabit broadband

  Existing utility pipelines to be examined as way to accelerate national fibre infrastructure roll-out, but critics voice concern about broadband strategy fixating on fibre

• June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20

  Blow to government review of Post Office scandal as key forensic accountants refuse to support it

  The government’s proposed review of the Post Office IT scandal has received a further setback as forensic accountants join subpostmasters in refusing to back it

• June 14, 2020 14 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Enterprise VPN adoption in India set to rise

  Advancement in cloud technologies and secured remote access to applications will significantly contribute to the overall growth of India’s VPN market, says GlobalData

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• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Brits get used to life without cash

  British people are getting used to life without cash, as the Covid-19 lockdown forces the adoption of digital payments

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Hospital uses thermal surveillance cameras to protect patients against second wave of Covid-19

  A North Midlands NHS trust claims to be the first NHS trust to deploy thermal surveillance cameras to protect patients and staff against the coronavirus

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  NHS email service users ensnared in phishing attack

  More than 100 accounts on the NHSmail service were affected by attack, but health service says no patient data was accessed

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Salisbury becomes UK’s first city to go fully full-fibre

  Politicians and broadband provision unit urge homes and businesses to switch to a new ultra-fast and ultra-reliable broadband network

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Santander to recruit 3,000 more IT staff

  Spanish bank to recruit a further 3,000 tech staff globally to accelerate its digital transformation

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Fake contact-tracing apps delivering banking trojans

  Spoof government coronavirus apps are popping up all over the world, says the Anomali Threat Research team

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  UK to boost data science efforts in citizen services

  Government Digital Service launches Data Labs to enhance services with tools such as artificial intelligence and natural language processing

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Minister downgrades status of UK contact-tracing app from vital to ‘cherry on cake’

  Scientists warn of fundamental flaws of Bluetooth technology in proximity measurement function of much-delayed app

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  How the RHS overcame Covid-19 to create first online-only Chelsea Flower Show in just eight weeks

  The technology and digital teams at The Royal Horticultural Society discuss the work that went on behind the scenes to transform the Chelsea Flower Show into a virtual event with just weeks to plan

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  100,000 cheap wireless cameras vulnerable to hacking

  Active devices built by Chinese firm HiChip have been sold in the UK as webcams and connected baby monitors

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  UN secretary general calls for global digital cooperation

  Antonio Guterres launches roadmap for digital cooperation and calls for world leaders to come together to “connect, respect and protect people in the digital age”

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Twitter kills thousands of misinformation accounts

  The accounts were linked to the governments of China, Russia and Turkey, and engaged in systematic operations against pro-democracy activists, political opponents and dissidents

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  5G at ‘tipping point’ as Nokia reveals biggest drivers for enterprise 5G

  While analyst believes ‘enormous’ investment required and lack of killer apps put 5G growth in doubt, comms tech giant Nokia paints picture of IT decision-makers making tracks with next-gen infrastructure

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  CityFibre hires 10,000 people to facilitate UK full-fibre roll-out

  UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform provider creates thousands of multi-skilled jobs across network of construction partners to facilitate network deployment

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Subpostmasters will not cooperate with government review into IT scandal

  A group of subpostmasters who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s error-prone IT system refuse to participate in a government review into the scandal, describing it as a sham

• June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20

  Coronavirus outbreak will speed up enterprise automation

  Forrester calls for enterprises to automate with empathy as they deploy an increasing range of intelligent technologies to reduce their dependence on human labour

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  How Informa Markets cohered customer data as it absorbed UBM merger

  Trade show organiser Informa Markets turned to Collibra software as it sought to improve data quality while making marketing communications more targeted and precise

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Tech firms respond to Nordic government calls

  Nordic firms are working with tech suppliers to help them get back up and running after Covid-19

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Amazon bans police use of its facial-recognition technology for a year

  Tech giant claims it has been an advocate for stronger government regulation on the ethical use of facial recognition

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Government lays out future trade plan for UK tech

  Measures aim to create jobs and increase technology exports, as well as encouraging international investments into the UK

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  North Staffordshire NHS trust rolls out mental health platform for young people

  Digital portal enables young people to self-refer to local mental health services, giving them easier access to support and reducing waiting times

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  O2 extends 5G network, hits 10,000 mark for LTE-M in UK

  Operator says network technologies will revolutionise the way people and businesses use mobile connectivity, unlocking huge possibilities for the UK’s economy and society

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Bungled British response leads to rise in security risks

  Covid-19 cyber security threats are evolving over the course of the pandemic, becoming more targeted to virus hotspots such as the UK

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Global colocation demand holds firm in Q1 in face of Covid-19

  First-quarter global market data from Synergy Research Group shows demand for colocation capacity from hyperscalers and edge compute providers is holding up, despite the pandemic

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  NHS England launches online tools for diabetes

  People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes will have access to three new online services to help manage their condition at home

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Data insights will define post-coronavirus city planning

  Who would have imagined that in 2020, the majority of people would work remotely and buy online? Cities are going to have to change how they are set up

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  CISOs buying into unified security proposition

  The time is right for all-in-one security solutions, according to a report

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Evidence emerges of slow increase in global mobile cellular network times

  Smartphone users may have seen the worst of the negative impact from the coronavirus pandemic on their cellular experience, with time connected to Wi-Fi networks decreasing, Opensignal research finds

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  Anger as government launches ‘pathetic’ and ‘pointless’ review of Horizon scandal

  The government has been accused of launching a review that fails in getting to the bottom of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  How Tableau is riding on its Salesforce synergy

  Tableau has bolstered its presence in Asia-Pacific following its acquisition by Salesforce and is combining its analytics capabilities with Einstein Analytics to deliver AI-powered insights

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Government to fund nine advanced security projects

  Nine academic projects have been selected to receive a share of a £10m funding pot as they develop advanced cyber security solutions using prototype chipsets

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Alibaba Cloud follows up datacentre investment pledge with global tech talent recruitment drive

  Chinese public cloud giant Alibaba to hit the recruitment trail in hot pursuit of tech talent to support its datacentre revamp plans

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Ericsson continues 5G roll-out in the UK, writes down Chinese assets

  It’s a classic case of swings and roundabouts for the Swedish communications technology provider, as it cheers UK win for its 5G technology but admits defeat in business in China

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  IBM divests from facial-recognition market

  IBM’s CEO writes to US congress about decision to stop using and selling facial-recognition technology, and says we should re-evaluate whether it should be sold to law enforcement agencies

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  UK tech professionals feel impact of lockdown easing

  Mental health concerns increase, with a possible negative effect on the quality of work, as companies get ready to return to the office, study shows

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CogX 2020: Matt Hancock on tech during Covid-19

  Health secretary Matt Hancock says technology companies have been vital in dealing with the pandemic, and praises UK for testing more people “than almost anywhere in the world.”

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Dowden: AI and data science conversion path open and diverse

  DCMS says 2,500 places on university artificial intelligence and data science conversion courses – 1,000 targeted to produce more diversity in tech – are now open for application

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CogX 2020: Rethinking technological innovation

  Innovation processes and relationships must be fundamentally restructured to bring in more stakeholders, and spread the benefits of technological change as far as possible

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  IBM Cloud users demand further clarity over cause of global outage

  Multi-hour cloud outage leaves IBM users calling on Big Blue for further information on what caused it

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Decade-old vulnerability among 129 Patch Tuesday fixes

  A 10 year-old bug in Windows Group Policies could easily enable attackers to gain highly privileged user status on target systems, opening the doors to a wave of cyber attacks

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Licensed low-power cellular market gains high traction

  With the current extensive deployment of 4G networks and continued expansion of 5G, licensed low-power IoT applications and use cases are set to take off

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Unsecured Elasticsearch server breached in eight hours flat

  Comparitech’s Bob Diachenko wanted to find out how long it would take for hackers to find and attack an unsecured, public internet-facing database, so he set up a honeypot

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Virtual GP practice accidentally exposes patient video calls

  A small number of users of Babylon’s GP at Hand service were briefly able to view other patients’ video GP consultations thanks to a bug in a new software feature

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Google partners with WWF Sweden to dig even deeper into fashion industry's sustainability habits

  Google is doubling down on its efforts to support the fashion industry in cleaning up the environmental friendliness of its supply chains through its partnership with WWF Sweden

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  US networks weather unprecedented traffic during lockdown

  “The networks were made for this,” says network technology provider as it shows how US networks have coped with added loads since the stay-at-home order

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Berlin breaks the national mould to become a global hub

  German capital is attracting tech startups from across the world as it cements its position as a leading European hub

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Nasty surprises lurking in furloughed employees’ inboxes

  Research conducted by KnowBe4 points to a looming email security problem as furloughed employees head back to work

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Danske Bank to make permanent changes to working practices

  Danske Bank has seen the value of remote working during the unplanned proof of concept triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  CaixaBank introduces facial recognition ATMs

  Spanish bank broadens its use of facial recognition technology on cash machines

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  6G, European internet, censorship: EU Parliament sets out vision for digital services

  Research outlines trends for the coming decade and an action plan with some controversial recommendations to inform the decisions of policymakers around the upcoming Digital Services Act

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  Businesses learn to cope with new normal as only 25% of UK workers crave return to office

  Research from enterprise identity firm finds that even with no playbook, UK workers are coping well with mandated home working and have maintained productivity

• June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20

  How Australian firms can defend against supply chain attacks

  Supply chain security risks can wreak havoc if measures are not taken to deter cyber attackers from exploiting a supplier’s security gaps to target another firm

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Honda investigates suspected Snake ransomware attack

  Attack disrupts global operations at carmaker, with assembly lines falling silent and sales suspended

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  SES Water turns on IoT tap to reduce leaks

  Vodafone announces 10-year deal with utility firm to provide internet of things solution to revolutionise how water leaks are prevented and detected

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Churchill gets Ctera hybrid cloud NAS and dodges 3PAR disk spend

  Potteries-based ceramics maker faced the choice between expanding its HPE SAN at great cost or deploying Ctera hybrid cloud NAS. It saved thousands by heading for hybrid cloud

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Cyber security needs more women role models, says report

  A report compiled by security assurance organisation Crest highlights the progress made on gender diversity in cyber security, and offers pointers for next steps

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Covid-19 global co-ordination is off the mark, Tony Blair tells CogX

  Former UK prime minister, now head of a global institute that advises governments, tells CogX attendees that global co-ordination to combat Covid-19 is far from where it needs to be

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise

  Italian football club will get variable-price ticketing using artificial intelligence expertise to develop systems. It has also deployed Acronis cloud backup

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Bankers say artificial intelligence will separate winners and losers

  The application of artificial intelligence at banks will be the difference between the ones that succeed and the ones that fail in the coming years

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Major technology companies ‘negligent’ on forced labour practices

  Most of the world’s largest information technology companies continue to leave supply chain workers at serious risk of forced labour, according to a new report that highlights the sector’s inaction

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Netherlands digital sector yearns for government recognition

  The sector building and supporting the Netherlands’ digital infrastructure wants to be valued as highly as Schiphol airport and the port of Rotterdam are for the Dutch economy

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Huawei launches charm offensive to fight ‘high-risk’ label

  Global communications technology provider begins fightback against perceived high-risk status and stresses its fundamental role in UK telecoms as it finds itself under further attack from UK and US politicians

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Government publishes artificial intelligence procurement guidance

  A document has been published outlining the challenges for public sector buyers as well as best practices on procuring AI technology

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Select committees to continue with Zoom virtual meetings until September

  Although MPs have returned to Parliament, House of Commons select committees will continue with virtual meetings until 17 September

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Poorly-secured AWS buckets used to launch Magecart attacks

  Cyber criminals are exploiting misconfigured AWS S3 buckets to run credit card fraud and malvertising campaigns, according to new data

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Kao Data courts hyperscale tenants for Harlow-based mega-datacentre

  Kao Data rolls out ‘built-to-suit’ service for prospective hyperscale clients, that it claims will speed up the time it takes to bring online new datacentre capacity in a cost-effective way

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  CIO interview: Simon Moorhead of the Rail Delivery Group discusses integration

  Train services across the UK are fragmented, with data and systems in silos, which makes it hard to provide a seamless experience for rail users

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  Australia’s AGL to move most systems to Azure cloud

  Energy supplier is moving more than 200 applications and most systems to Azure in a three-year deal with Microsoft

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  How Malaysia’s Gain Secure stood tall amid Covid-19

  Walter Wong, executive director of Gain Secure and former Microsoft employee, talks up how his business is coping during Malaysia’s lockdown

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Progress needed for UK fibre roll-out to catch up to peers

  Even with the best efforts of the government in meeting its target and various initiatives to support deployment, meeting UK full-fibre gigabit goals depends on ultimate switch-off of the copper network

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  South Korea takes global 5G leadership

  Initial Omdia market assessment shows home of Samsung as the world’s powerhouse for establishing and commercialising 5G networks

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Nordic CIO interview: Janne Puustinen, Valmet

  Janne Puustinen built Finnish industrial technology company Valmet’s entire IT organisation from scratch after a demerger

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  Cystic fibrosis and Covid-19 patients get tech to monitor condition at home

  NHS at Home programme sees cystic fibrosis patients given home spirometers and coronavirus patients given oximeters, together with an app, to monitor their condition from home and share information with clinicians

• June 08, 2020 08 Jun'20

  What it takes to get DevSecOps right

  DevSecOps will drive at least 50% of new applications in Asia-Pacific by 2024, but getting it right will require change management, a collaborative mindset and the right automation tools

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  NHS Covid-19 datastore contracts published under pressure from privacy groups

  The government has published the contracts with Palantir, Faculty, Microsoft and Google for the controversial NHS datastore ahead of court proceedings initiated by civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Third of UK internet users report worse service since lockdown

  Even though operators assured at beginning of lockdowns that their infrastructures could cope with the extra strain on home networks, UK internet users say the quality of their online experiences has demonstrably worsened

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

  Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Police chiefs working with Public Health England on contact-tracing security

  Police force representatives are in talks with Public Health England over operational security concerns arising from the NHS Test and Trace coronavirus contact-tracing scheme

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Coronavirus: Digital bank Monzo cuts 120 staff

  Digital challenger Monzo has announced 120 job cuts as it navigates the current economic slowdown

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Gamgee and QuantWiFi announce managed Wi-Fi strategic partnership

  Network technology providers Gamgee and QuantWiFi team up to develop solutions ensuring Wi-Fi for a growing number of consumers whose network experience has become more crucial than ever

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  CaixiaBank gets ready to modernise IT using IBM Cloud Pak

  Spanish bank extends IBM relationship with the roll-out of Cloud Pak to modernise IT, which it says will allow it to innovate in quantum computing and blockchain

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  London Tech Week to go ahead through Zoom

  London Tech week will go ahead next week, with the tech industry attending through Zoom

• 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 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  Ministry of Defence forms new cyber security regiment

  The 13th Signal Regiment brings together personnel from across the armed forces to provide specialist security services

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why GovTech is building its own robotics stack

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency has developed a robotics technology stack that will power robots using capabilities from commercial suppliers and the open source community

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Elisa enjoys 5G base station energy, emissions reductions from Nokia liquid cooling

  Finnish telecoms operator reduces potential expenses of its base stations by up to 30% and emissions by approximately 80% through liquid cooling

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Dutch organisations invest heavily in compliance – but in vain

  Despite the fact that companies in the Netherlands have invested heavily to comply with GDPR legislation introduced two years ago, 90% of them are still discovering fundamental weaknesses in their IT environment

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why this is the right time for IT

  The coronavirus has put the spotlight on IT capabilities, and people are now willing to embrace technology-driven change to working practices

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Government evades being pinned to a date for online harms legislation

  MPs challenge government on online harms bill timetable, but have to settle for “clear assurances” that it will brought to parliament before the end of the session

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Small businesses failing on remote worker protection

  Only one-third of people working for small businesses have received any guidance from their employers on how to secure their remote working set-up

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Data privacy groups pile in on UK contact-tracing app

  UK-based digital privacy and free speech campaigning organisation files complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office about contact-tracing app