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• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  Public sector IT leaders struggle with data infrastructure legacy

  The impact caused by the pandemic means government tech executives in Europe are looking for ways to quickly modernise their estates, research says

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  Police open criminal investigation into potential perjury by Fujitsu staff in Post Office IT trials

  Current and former Fujitsu staff could face prosecution for giving false evidence in the trials of subpostmasters accused of theft and false accounting

• November 13, 2020 13 Nov'20

  UKtech50 2021: Help us find the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year’s list

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Hounslow to trial UK’s first autonomous road delivery vehicle

  Custom-built autonomous delivery vehicle promises to offer contact-free form of delivery while maintaining the road network across the UK

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Online kids’ game Animal Jam confirms large breach

  Cyber criminals have stolen data on 46 million Animal Jam player accounts via a third-party attack

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Wi-Fi 6 ready for carrier network deployment

  Wireless standards body reveals successful trial for next-generation Wi-Fi, proven to deliver nearly three times faster than its predecessor and with significantly higher throughput and lower latency

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks

  International organisation that monitors the finance sector asks for the industry to discuss the risks that IT outsourcing brings to the sector

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Budgets rejigged to support 2021 recovery

  IT has been essential in helping organisations remain operational. IT chiefs are now considering the IT to drive a sustained business recovery

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  DCMS opens talks with private sector on future of digital identity market

  Department has met with suppliers to discuss plans for a trust framework to show ‘what good looks like’ as it ploughs ahead with digital identity plans

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• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Company accused of spying on Assange acted for Ecuadorian Intelligence, says ex UC Global manager

  Former operations chief of UC Global told Spanish Court the company accused of spying on Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London was acting on the orders of Ecuadorian Intelligence

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  TCS acquires Prudential Financial tech operation unit for free

  Hot on the heels of its €1 acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s Postbank Systems IT unit, TCS has taken on 1,500 people from the insurance giant’s Ireland-based IT unit

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Winners of female-only data hackathon announced

  Several firms banded together to run a virtual female-only hackathon to encourage data analysts to use Covid-19 data to solve pandemic-related problems

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Standard Chartered embarks on five-year personalised banking push with AWS

  Financial services giant is forging even deeper ties with AWS as part of its push to roll out more personalised banking experiences to customers in 60 countries

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  What businesses can learn from GovTech’s digital strategy

  Modernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Tim Berners-Lee startup releases decentralisation tech to enterprises

  Roll-out of Inrupt’s decentralised privacy technology to four large organisations is helping the startup to develop explicit use cases, which it hopes will prove the tech and lead to faster adoption

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Security pros coped admirably with remote working transition

  Despite facing tight timescales at the onset of the pandemic, security professionals have come through the transition to remote working remarkably well, according to a report

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Gartner: IT spending to focus on fast time to value

  There are no surprises in Gartner’s latest forecast. IT budgets are being spent on supporting remote workers, but CIOs have new metrics

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Norway has lowest physical cash use in the world, says report

  Norway claims to use less cash as a proportion of total spending than any other country across the globe, according to a study by its central bank

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Amazon charged with breaching EU antitrust rules

  Tech giant accused of using data it collects on smaller retailers to benefit its own e-commerce business

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Vilicom, BT, UK academia gain funding to spearhead 5G and AI research

  Strategic network consultancy teams with incumbent UK telco and universities in all-new scientific research project based on advanced communications

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Microsoft drops fix for serious zero-day among 112 Patch Tuesday updates

  November’s Patch Tuesday contains fixes for 112 bugs, including a potentially serious zero-day exploit that malicious actors are already taking advantage of

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Orange strengthens West African connectivity with first regional network

  Global telco and subsidiaries commission and make commercial launch of the first pan-African backbone covering eight major countries in the region

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Lack of openness on Horizon errors remains as Fujitsu refuses to explain latest outage

  Subpostmasters are being kept in the dark about errors in the branch computer system they use, despite the Post Office and Fujitsu being slammed in court over their lack of openness

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Microsoft consumer cloud outage blights Outlook.com and OneDrive users

  Users of several of Microsoft's core consumer cloud services left struggling to log in, with software giant remaining tight-lipped for now over the cause of the issues

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  EU aid funds used to train ‘unaccountable intelligence agencies’ in high-tech surveillance

  Hundreds of documents obtained by campaign group Privacy International show how the EU is supporting surveillance programmes in the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Intel and AMD processors affected by another side-channel exploit

  Two years after Spectre and Meltdown, the x86 processor faces another side-channel exploit – only this time, it is based on sensing temperature

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  DCMS’s Whittingdale: National data strategy not tied to EU trade deal

  Minister tells ODI Summit that national data strategy is nearly finished and will fuel UK economic growth post-Brexit and post-pandemic

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Productivity shrinks, but office and remote workers optimistic about new normal

  Despite the bleak times caused by Covid-19, study finds a silver lining in the form of accelerating digital transformation and technology investment for remote workers

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights

  AI-powered border technologies used to ‘manage’ migration frequently make the process more arbitrary, discriminatory and unjust, says human rights group

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Industry tells House of Lords committee it has ‘grave reservations’ about CDS

  The Customs Declaration Service is untested, unproven and not ready, and HMRC is taking a “cloak and dagger approach” to working with the industry, hears a Lords committee – but HMRC says delivery of Brexit IT is on track

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Leaky AWS S3 bucket once again at centre of data breach

  Prestige Software exposed millions of records after failing to pay attention to the security of its cloud instances

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Bright Little Labs launches Agent Asha series

  Children’s media company creates new series of children’s books and resources aimed at teaching children to code

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Mobile is failing over two-thirds of frontline workers

  New data shows frontline workers are experiencing a global increase in mobility problems which negatively impact their work and their company

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 consolidates storage push to cloud

  The emphasis on home and remote working has been felt in storage and backup as in all areas of IT, with continued evolution towards the cloud and as-a-service storage and backup

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Zoom rapped over historic security practices

  The US Federal Trade Commission rules that Zoom’s practices undermined the security of its users

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Deutsche Bank to sell retail banking IT unit to TCS for €1

  Deutsche Bank has agreed to sell its retail banking IT operation to one of its main IT suppliers for a token €1

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Better data sharing needed to help children during pandemic

  Closing gaps in data infrastructure will help the education sector respond better to children’s needs during the Covid-19 pandemic, says Open Data Institute

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Ericsson and Telstra take enterprise cloud to the edge

  After successful 5G edge computing trial with financial institution in 2019, Australian telco and comms tech supplier develop enterprise solution with an extension into the hybrid cloud space

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Gartner: Composability will make business more resilient and agile

  CIOs have stepped up to the challenge of supporting their organisations during the global coronavirus crisis. Now they are set to do more – with less

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Google and OVHcloud to bring co-built cloud services to European enterprises

  Google and OVHcloud are embarking on a technology tie-up that will see the two firms bring a hosted private cloud service to market in Europe

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: After Covid-19, security goes back to basics

  This year’s transition to remote working highlighted big gaps in the fundamentals of security, as updated TechTarget/Computer Weekly data reveals

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Canada ad firm subtracts 44U with HPE and Ctera hyper-converged

  Glenn Davis Group slashed its hardware estate from 48U of rack space to 4U when it ditched its SAN and tape legacy kit for flash-based Ctera X Series and cloud backup

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  SK Telecom furthers Deutsche Telekom partnership to advance in-building 5G

  Latest cooperation between leading German and Korean operators aims to create what companies believe will be major innovations, starting with improving 5G experiences

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Equinix to open third datacentre in Perth

  Datacentre service provider Equinix will open its third facility in Perth to meet the growing demand for digital infrastructure between Australia and Asia

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  Quantum’s ATFS aims to classify and manage unstructured data

  Quantum triumvirate now comprises ATFS for file system classification and management, StorNext for high performance with large files and ActiveScale object storage as a bulk store

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  Nokia partners with A1 Austria to enable LTE, 5G campus networks

  Three-year deal between tech firm and operator covers services for all existing and new private LTE and 5G enterprise campus network deployments in Austrian market, piloting network slicing

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  Global telcos defy previous performance expectations

  Better-performing Asia-Pacific operators lead charge driving analyst to adjust upwards previous forecast for worldwide connectivity services market

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  French bank Crédit Agricole backs immersion cooling for datacentre scale-up push

  Following the completion of a successful two-year pilot project, Crédit Agricole has confirmed it is preparing to roll out Asperitas immersion cooling technology to more sites within its datacentre portfolio

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  EU moves closer to encryption ban after Austria, France attacks

  Draft resolution document setting up an EU-wide ban on end-to-end encryption is set to be waved through this week

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  Tampere’s perfect storm triggers a startup revolution

  Previously a hub for Nokia and Microsoft, Finland’s second-largest city is capitalising on a wealth of technical knowhow to become the dark horse of the Nordic startup scene

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Covid-19 accelerates cloud investments by UK IT leaders

  The updated 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget shines a light on how the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped IT leaders’ technology investment plans

• November 09, 2020 09 Nov'20

  AWS expands footprint in India with Hyderabad region

  Amazon Web Services is investing $2.8bn in a second cloud region in one of the fastest growing public cloud markets in the Asia-Pacific region

• November 08, 2020 08 Nov'20

  Optus to acquire Amaysim, signals decline of MVNO market

  Optus’s A$250m acquisition of Amaysim could signal the decline of the mobile virtual network market, according to Venture Insights

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  Mobile device trade-ins return to rise in value in Q3

  HYLA Mobile study reports strong trade-in values amid the Covid-19 pandemic – with the value of devices at trade-in maintaining an upward trend in the third quarter

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  CityFibre awards £1.5bn to fund full-fibre construction across 27 towns and cities

  Broadband provider signs contracts to create over 3,750 local network construction jobs in three-year recruitment and training programme to provide up to 10,000 people with jobs to develop fibre network

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  MPs unconvinced NHS has learned lessons from failed IT programmes

  None of the components needed to deliver NHS digital ambitions are in place, says Public Accounts Committee, as MPs call for the Department of Health and Social care to set ‘realistic targets’

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  Samsung, KT complete Korea’s first 5G common core deployment

  Leading Korean operator collaborates with Samsung to prepare for the launch of 5G standalone networks so that enterprises can scale business-specific services such as network slicing

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  NHS warned over Ryuk spreading through Trickbot replacements

  NHS Digital tells healthcare organisations to be mindful of a marked rise in usage of the Bazar and Buer loaders

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  Covid-19 pandemic has significantly affected HMRC’s operations, says NAO

  NAO’s insight into HMRC’s annual report and accounts finds that the pandemic has created challenges for the department’s transformation programmes, including Universal Credit and the end of the Brexit transition period

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  Lockdown 2: Balancing job retention with automation

  As the UK enters its second coronavirus lockdown, experts have questioned the funds that governments across Europe have put aside to support businesses

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  ICO sued over ‘failure’ to address ad industry practices

  Privacy campaigner the Open Rights Group claims the advertising technology industry is systematically breaching the GDPR, and the ICO is doing nothing about it

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  Finger pointed at Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon system crashes nationally

  Post Office branches offline during busy business hours after suffering an IT error that the Post Office said related to IT from supplier Fujitsu

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  HMRC shuns Gov.uk Notify and seeks supplier to unify notifications

  Tax collection agency HMRC will spend up to £9.75m to streamline notifications through text, voice and email

• November 06, 2020 06 Nov'20

  UK, Jersey, Gibraltar contact-tracing apps now interoperable

  Apps now interlinked to cover and protect 66 million people through digitally reinforced contact tracing

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Risk of ‘widespread disruption’ at UK border after Brexit transition period, NAO warns

  National Audit Office report highlights concerns over UK’s readiness when Brexit transition period ends, including several IT systems at risk of not being ready in time

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Quarter of UKISUG members plan S/4 Hana migration by 2022

  Research by UK and Ireland SAP User Group and analyst firm shows SAP customer base still moving slowly to S/4 Hana

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Microsoft to support next generation of security startups

  Tech giant lends its support to the NCSC Cyber Accelerator scheme, which is seeking its seventh cohort of startups

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Multi-year migration of BBC Online to the cloud 'nearing completion', broadcaster confirms

  The BBC's head of architecture within its Design and Engineering team lifts the lid on the work the broadcaster has done to migrate its BBC Online infrastructure assets to the cloud

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Virgin brings gigabit broadband to London and Northern Ireland

  Nearly three million homes in UK capital and Ulster gain access to gigabit connections with the next-generation infrastructure now in 45% of Virgin’s network across the UK

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Consumer rights organisation warns of computer takeover scams

  Consumers warned to be on guard against criminals pretending to be IT support staff to gain access to personal banking information

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Royal Navy tests new tech in Cyprus

  Navy has been trialling drones, autonomous systems and new communication systems under plans to evolve the Royal Marines into a ‘hi-tech raiding and strike force’

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Slot of the Antarctic: Tape the best option for polar survey backup

  Tape deemed the best medium for backup on board the Antarctic research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough, with Quantum’s Scalar i3 chosen in a fully redundant deployment

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  BBVA creates market information infrastructure on AWS cloud

  Spanish bank BBVA is using Amazon Web Services to give its traders better access to market data following a project which also involved data provider Bloomberg

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Mastercard: Looks like a tech firm, acts like a tech firm, is a tech firm

  Financial services giant finds itself in a prominent position as the volume of digital transactions increases

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  GSMA calls for whole-of-government approach to digital societies

  Asia-Pacific countries need to take a whole-of-government approach and not regulate the telecoms industry in isolation to advance their digital societies

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  Singapore government rolls out digital signature service

  Individuals and businesses will soon be able to sign documents digitally using a new service on the Singapore government’s SingPass digital identity platform

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Asda recruits new IT chief to handle transition

  Former Morrisons CTO Anna Barsby will lead retailer’s tech agenda as part of its acquisition by the Issa brothers

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Pandemic prompts interest in career shifts into tech

  Many people considering a career change have chosen to shift their focus to the technology industry since the beginning of the pandemic, according to CWJobs

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Community Fibre claims fastest home broadband package in London

  Altnet unveils what it says is a gigabit connectivity industry-first for homes in the UK capital

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Government releases funding for green technology businesses

  New funding will support UK entrepreneurs and startups in scaling up their eco-friendly innovations

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  University of Warwick graduates to BT 5G to accelerate innovation

  BT installs UK’s first dedicated public 5G network for the University of Warwick, aiming to bring new opportunities for research and further enhance students’ learning experience through its EE mobile network

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Nordic countries to develop common digital system

  Common digital platform will help small and medium-sized enterprises across the Nordic region with data sharing

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Contractors claim IR35 reforms pose ‘bigger threat’ to their livelihoods than Covid-19 or Brexit

  Latest poll by contractor tax consultancy Qdos suggests freelancers are less concerned about the threat the coronavirus and Brexit pose to their businesses than the havoc the IR35 private sector reforms might cause

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  EU to introduce data-sharing measures with US in weeks

  The European Commission is to issue updated standard contractual clauses (SCCs) that will allow organisations in the EU to exchange data with the US, but they may arrive too late to incorporate into UK law

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  India and Japan report stronger concern over cyber threats

  Security operations teams in the two Asian giants see the increased volume of cyber threats as their biggest challenge amid the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Horiba Mira accelerates autonomous vehicles with Vodafone 4G and 5G

  Expert in engineering driverless technologies partners with leading UK operator to bring 5G to its Nuneaton headquarters with a private mobile network designed to allow vehicles to communicate with each other and surrounding infrastructure, such as ...

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  GDPR lawsuit against Oracle and Salesforce moves forward

  Class action suit seeks claims worth more than £10bn over the processing of personal information

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Mixed blessings for robots in retail

  Ocado has acquired two US firms to boost its robotics expertise, while Walmart has reverted to using staff for shelf inventory checks

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Cambridge Consultants takes off with airborne 5G

  5G connectivity takes to the skies as Capgemini division announces what it says is a breakthrough for service which will beam signals through the stratosphere from fleet of aircraft

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Government sets out plans for security vetting IT platform

  A three-year programme to transform the security vetting process for civil servants includes a technology platform due to be rolled out in summer 2021

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  NHSX launches second round of NHS AI competition

  NHS is looking for artificial intelligence products to help with triage, screening, imaging and intelligent operational automation

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Robot lawyer gets Sberbank role

  Russia's largest state-owned bank creates a robot lawyer to reduce the time taken to process documents and make decisions based on them

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  OVHcloud doubles down on sustainability with carbon reduction pledges

  OVHcloud emerges as the latest cloud provider to reinforce its commitment to ensuring the growth of its business does not come at the expense of the environment

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Industrial IoT connections to reach 37 billion by 2025

  Smart factory concept realised as research reveals smart manufacturing will represent three-fifths of global industrial internet of things connections over next five years

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  Subpostmasters’ complaint about government begins its journey to Parliamentary Ombudsman

  Government faces scrutiny of its handling of the Post Office IT scandal that destroyed subpostmasters’ lives and livelihoods

• November 03, 2020 03 Nov'20

  AWS signs three-year UK government cloud deal to help SMEs win more public sector business

  Public cloud giant becomes latest provider to sign MoU with UK government focused on delivering cost savings to public sector cloud buyers, while seeking to support them with skilling up on off-premise technologies

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  HPE to build new Pawsey supercomputers

  Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has snagged a A$48m deal to deliver a supercomputer for Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  NHS weathers cyber crime storm during pandemic, says NCSC

  The NCSC dealt with over 700 incidents in the 12 months to August 2020, with over 200 specifically related to Covid-19, and the NHS a critical area of focus

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  Sky launches new fibre-to-the-home across UK

  Provider aims to install fibre to more than seven million UK households by the end of the first quarter of 2021

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  Maze ransomware shuts down with bizarre announcement

  The operators of Maze announce they are shutting down, and claim their crime spree was merely intended to demonstrate lax security at their targets