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March 25, 2021
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Mar'21
Qualcomm, 5G RuralDorset seed partnership to trial farming use cases
Government announces relationship with wireless technology company to work with its DCMS 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme to power smart agriculture for remote farms in the Dorset region
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Interview: Paul Douglas, Scottish Water
Building an enterprise architecture involves balancing near- and mid-term goals with longer-term business objective, cost and technical challenges, says Paul Douglas, lead enterprise architect at Scottish Water
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Facebook disrupts Chinese espionage operation
Social media giant’s in-house security team has tracked down and disrupted a long-running Chinese campaign targeting the Uighur Muslim minority
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
NHS to digitise the ‘red book’ by 2023
Every child born from April 2023 will have a digital ‘red book’, or personal child health record, Matt Hancock has promised
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
More than £34.5m stolen in pandemic scams over past year
City of London Police and National Cyber Security Centre report large uptick in threats and crime related to Covid-19 over the past year, in some cases directed specifically at health organisations
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
China’s cloud infrastructure spending hits record growth
Public cloud infrastructure spending in China grew a record 62% in the last quarter of 2020 due to rapid economic recovery and focus on digital transformation
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March 25, 2021
25
Mar'21
Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network
India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Ex-Post Office CEO Paula Vennells walked away from IT scandal with over £400,000 in pay and bonuses
Former Post Office chief was paid over £400,000 when she left despite the organisation being involved in what would become the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Sky enters business broadband arena with Sky Connect
Broadband provider launches scheme to give UK’s small businesses a better broadband experience, creating 1,000 jobs in the process
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda
Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Intel puts chips on everyone’s menu
Digitisation and geopolitical tension between the US and China may be behind Pat Gelsinger’s news about building fabrication plants in the US and Europe
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
IWM uses StorCycle to free capacity for all-flash SAN upgrade
Imperial War Museums set to embark on unstructured data archiving project that will archive cold data to tape and free up capacity for a move to IntelliFlash all-flash SAN
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Oil giant Shell hit through Accellion FTA breach
Energy firm discloses cyber attack through Accellion File Transfer Appliance
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Prime minister says people should be held to account for Post Office IT scandal
Boris Johnson agrees with MP that those responsible for the Post Office Horizon scandal should be brought to book
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Google Cloud claims revolution with Network Connectivity Centre
Cloud giant introduces platform designed to allow enterprises to simplify complex heterogeneous networks for on-prem and cloud connectivity needs and connect with Cisco SD-WAN as a single network
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Apparent drop in cyber incidents highlights underlying problems
UK organisations report fewer cyber security incidents, but the headline data masks more serious issues, according to a report
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Post Office was told in 2013 that Fujitsu witness was unreliable in subpostmaster prosecutions
The Post Office was warned that a former Fujitsu employee had misled courts when giving evidence on its behalf
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Tableau chief Adam Selipsky to succeed Andy Jassy as CEO of AWS
AWS CEO confirms in an email to staff that Selipsky will be returning to the Amazon fold to lead the cloud company
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
UK faces significant cyber talent shortfall
Cyber security sector is struggling to attract the talented workforce it needs
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
PCCW Global expands SD-WAN services with uCPE, NFV
Hong Kong-based international communications service provider brings new level of user experience, enhanced security, automation and simplified management to global infrastructure
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March 24, 2021
24
Mar'21
Cyber criminals forging Covid-19 vaccine certificates
Vaccine passports and certificates are gaining mainstream traction, which means cyber criminals are also on the bandwagon
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
NUHS taps RPA in Covid-19 swab tests
Singapore’s National University Health System deploys RPA bots to automate patient registration during Covid-19 swab tests as part of broader efforts to improve efficiency
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Former Skyscanner COO will lead Scotland’s tech-led recovery programme
Following his independent review of the Scottish tech sector, Mark Logan will oversee a programme to establish the country as a world-class technology hub
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
SD-WAN, SASE see spike as firms experience ‘network nightmare’ in 2020
Networking tech firm’s annual survey shows Covid-driven home networking sees network complexity skyrocket
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Why collaboration is the next driver in enterprise software
Use of enterprise collaboration tools has exploded during the pandemic. Now they are expanding their remit into the realm of enterprise systems
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy
Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
IR35 reforms: Confusion over who pays employers’ NI leaves IT contractors out of pocket
Litigators are circling as thousands of contractors realise that the 2017 roll-out of IR35 reforms to the public sector may have resulted in unlawful tax deductions – and the private sector could be next
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Ericsson aims to make network services smarter with 5G Core Policy Studio
Programmability tool designed to offer centralised management of end-to-end network policies for communication service providers
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
NCSC beefs up support for education sector after spate of attacks
Refreshed guidance from the NCSC recommends a defence-in-depth strategy as schools and universities face a renewed wave of cyber attacks
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Benu has the edge with cloud-native integrated SASE and 5G AGF
New broadband network gateway said to offer industry’s only carrier-first secure access service edge architecture as market scales to billions of devices, users and services
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Scottish government AI strategy majors on ethics and inclusion
Scottish government announces artificial intelligence strategy that involves the creation of a Scottish AI Alliance to be drawn from across society, including trade unions and companies
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Commission calls for adult social care to get digital revamp
A commission on adult social care has called for the government to fund a personalised social care innovation programme, as well as invest £450m to replace outdated care and housing technology infrastructure
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
UK defence strategy strengthens AI, cyber and satellite spies
The nature of warfare is changing. Electronic warfare will need to be a key component of the UK’s defence strategy
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Interview: Ivan McKee, Scottish innovation minister
Scotland’s innovation minister talks to Computer Weekly about the country’s new digital strategy, the importance of inclusion, and why the strategy is underpinned by ethical thinking
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Scottish government embarks on green datacentre investment push
The Scottish government is on a mission to position Scotland as a green datacentre hub as part of a push to boost the country's economy and achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2045
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Laying the groundwork on quantum roadmap
IBM has plans to develop a 1,000-plus qubit quantum computer system within two years. We look at how it is preparing software developers
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Young people don’t feel they have advanced digital skills for work
Young people know how important digital skills are, but don’t think they have the necessary level of skill for the workplace, according to the Learning and Work Institute
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud
Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments
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March 23, 2021
23
Mar'21
Northwest Australia to get digital boost
A $1.5bn datacentre and connectivity project that links Perth and Darwin to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region is set to boost digital investments in northwest Australia
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Post Office staff instructed to shred documents that undermined its claims Horizon was robust
Barrister advising the Post Office in 2013 stated that destroying documents would "amount to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Big four make small impression in Which? UK broadband survey
As remote working became the default during the UK lockdown, the importance of dependable and enterprise-acceptable home broadband was never more crucial, but Which? shows that the country’s largest providers have proved a let-down regarding ...
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Nokia claims 5G throughput breakthrough and deploys first SE Asia 5G standalone RAN
Finnish comms tech supplier marks the first 5G standalone RAN sharing network in Southeast Asia, enables M1-StarHub joint venture to gain Singapore-wide 5G coverage, and breaks a speed barrier
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
$50m ransomware demand on Acer is highest ever
Record-breaking double-extortion cyber attack saw REvil gang exfiltrate financial data from Taiwan-based PC manufacturer
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Unionised drivers call on Microsoft to suspend Uber’s Face API licences
Unionised private hire drivers in the UK are calling for Microsoft to suspend Uber’s licences to use its Face API technology after claims the ride-hailing firm’s ID-checking system has led to drivers losing their jobs and having licences revoked
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Altnet association warns of threat to UK full-fibre roll-out
Independent Networks Co-operative Association warns that recent momentum in gigabit broadband implementation could be delayed if independent providers and their investors believe UK comms regulator is not willing to listen to their concerns
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge
Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
CIO interview: Juliette Atkinson, IT director, Bradford University
Bradford University’s IT director took a different route than most to get into IT leadership
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Nokia inks AT&T C-band deal and sets out plan to surf the 5G long wave
Leading comms tech provider outlines plans to speed up transformation to improve profitability, taking advantage of long wave of 5G contracts such as that from leading US operator
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Avaya adds AI, advanced meeting capabilities to Spaces collaboration platform
IP comms firm announces new capabilities for workstream collaboration platform, offering evolved unified communications capabilities via a user’s preferred device
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
UK online traffic soars during year in lockdown
Research from leading UK ISP reveals online usage in the UK has increased by 78% year-on-year since the first lockdown