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• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Subpostmaster group calls for government to pay legal costs for Horizon trial

  The group of subpostmasters that defeated the Post Office in court over a faulty IT system are calling for the government to pay the costs of the legal action

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Scottish government misses national superfast broadband target

  SNP government admits failing to meet ambitious target to roll out broadband of at least 30Mbps to all Scottish homes and businesses by 2021

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Microsoft led enterprise IT pack in revenue growth terms over past decade, research shows

  In the final despatch from Synergy Research Group's look back at the IT trends that shaped the past decade, Microsoft emerges as the tech firm that managed to grow its enterprise revenue share the most throughout the 2010s

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  HP Inc: The price is wrong

  Although Xerox sees major synergies between the pair and the ability to cross-sell, HP Inc has turned down Xerox’s latest offer to buy the company

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Portsmouth City Council taps MLL Telecom for future network

  Initiative designed to offer schools, residents and businesses a fibre framework that will support existing and future digital services

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Queen’s University Belfast and Rakuten Mobile set up edge computing hub

  Aiming to boost its plans to make truly autonomous networks a reality, Japanese operator Rakuten opens a new lab in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast to develop edge computing hub

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Home Office reinforces commitment to AWS with £100m cloud hosting deal

  The Home Office’s position as one of the central government’s biggest cloud spenders shows no signs of slipping, as details emerge of four-year contract with Amazon Web Services

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Travelex hackers threaten to sell credit card data on dark web

  Sodinokibi cyber gangsters have threatened to sell Travelex customers’ private data on a Russian underground cyber crime forum if it fails to pay a $6m ransom

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Retail group Dixons Carphone fined £500,000 over data breach

  Dixons Carphone receives maximum possible pre-GDPR fine from the ICO following a 2018 data breach

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• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Automation could help resolve store shortfalls, says Capgemini

  As consumers become more receptive to in-store technology, introducing automation to improve the retail experience could increase footfall, says Capgemini

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  New Cabinet Office junior minister takes over GDS duties

  Jeremy Quin is the seventh minister to be responsible for the digital service since Francis Maude's departure in 2015

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Don’t become the next Travelex: Get ready for ransomware

  With Travelex’s IT still in disarray and banks and travellers left without access to funds more than a week after it was hit by a ransomware attack, we ask what others can learn from the foreign exchange services company’s response to the incident

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Nokia notches 63 commercial 5G tech equipment deals

  Finnish comms giant reveals huge strides in 5G essential technology deployment around the world

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  5G roll-out no guarantee of smartphone upgrade bonanza

  5G’s network success more or less guaranteed, but same can’t be said for 5G smartphones in short term as study finds only 30-40% of those in major markets such as the US, Europe and Australia likely to result in upgrade, while over 50% likely to do ...

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  UK government begins legal process to bring about full-fibre roll-out

  First steps on the legislative journey for UK government to make good on election commitments to bring full fibre across the UK