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• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  Reliable connectivity key to smooth business running for UK SMEs

  Study from Sky Business shows that in today’s uncertain economic climate, UK SMEs are under pressure to cut costs while maintaining quality services, with the impact of energy prices cited as a major concern

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  UKtech50 2023: The longlist of the UK’s influential tech leaders

  Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT, asking the tech community who it thinks should be in the top 50 – here is the longlist of everyone nominated for 2023

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  Tech jobs are on the rise, but soft skills are most coveted, says WEF

  Research by the World Economic Forum has found technology jobs are currently some of the fastest growing, but firms still want employees to have transferable skills

• May 09, 2023 09 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Collaboration technologies to benefit from future of work investment drive

  Research finds that as businesses settle into hybrid work, UCaaS and other collaboration technologies are regarded by IT professionals as crucial tool for driving employee productivity and workflow optimisation

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  Chat control: EU lawyers warn plans to scan encrypted messages for child abuse may be unlawful

  Leaked legal advice warns that European ‘chat control’ proposals to require tech companies to scan private and encrypted messages for child abuse are likely to breach EU law

• May 08, 2023 08 May'23

  How lab grown neurons could power the future of AI

  Melbourne-based Cortical Labs’ lab grown neurons could speed up AI training in a more energy efficient way and its work has caught the eye of hyperscalers and Amazon’s CTO

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Distributed IT and hybrid work drive adoption of new networks

  Research shows security continues to dominate networking needs, along with the need to support users wherever they are, with firms more than ready to invest in future of work initiatives

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative

  Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Capita pension clients told data may have leaked

  Capita has told trustees of some of the pension funds for which it provides outsourced services that their customer data may have been stolen by the Black Basta ransomware operation

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Open banking use to increase 470% in next four years, driven from Europe

  Europe is leading the surge in the take-up of API-based open banking services, according to Juniper Research

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Apple results show Mac sales hit by economic slowdown

  While it has been a record quarter for Apple in terms of services, and the iPhone remains a big seller, Mac and iPad renewals are down

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Santander reports increase in scams and admits fraud head was impersonated

  Santander has reported an increase in impersonation scams, and admitted its own head of fraud was impersonated by a fraudster

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Welsh Water turns on CPaaS tap for enhanced customer experiences

  Not-for-profit water company deploys CPaaS-based video comms services to optimise operations, budget control and solve customer issues more quickly

• May 05, 2023 05 May'23

  Bing AI push rings in price change

  Microsoft’s large investment in OpenAI has seen an expansion of AI in Bing. This appears to be reflected in new Bing API licensing

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Sateliot joins GSMA, inks standard roaming agreements

  Global trade association for mobile comms industry welcomes provider of satellite-based 5G IoT services as an operator member, signing contracts for standard roaming with more than 100 operators

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  CMA looks at competition in foundational AI

  The Competition and Markets Authority is investigating consumer protection and market forces related to the use of emerging artificial intelligence models

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Significance of cloud investments rises as economic woes bite

  Technology decision-makers across the UK and EMEA are increasingly looking to do more with cloud over the coming year, TechTarget/Computer Weekly research shows

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Vodafone enables ITN Coronation TV coverage with 5G network slice

  Coronation broadcast first in UK to be enabled by a public 5G standalone network, with leading news provider using mobile network for swift and secure transfer of coverage from remote sites to newsroom

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Google debuts passwordless login options for users

  Launch of Google’s passkey service hailed as a great leap forward for passwordless technology

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Maritime bandwidth capacity demand set to increase 20-fold by 2032

  Research finds maritime connectivity market showing high-bandwidth prices adhered to expected downward trends as non-geostationary orbit constellations take to the sea to meet rising demand for satellite bandwidth

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Age UK calls for physical banking hubs as older people demand face-to-face banking

  UK charity calls for banks and government to speed up the introduction of physical banking hubs as research reveals millions of older people don’t bank online

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Inside BlackBerry’s cyber security playbook

  BlackBerry’s president of cyber security discusses the company’s cyber security strategy and what it is doing to deliver an integrated set of capabilities for enterprises

• May 04, 2023 04 May'23

  Wi-Fi, existing network functions critical to successful private enterprise 5G

  Research paper highlights the needs and use cases for Wi-Fi 6 and private 5G as a fundamental part of converged, access-agnostic connectivity portfolios rather than using parallel infrastructure

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Cyber Action Plan for Wales launched

  The devolved Welsh government has set out four priorities in an action plan designed to foster cyber resilience, talent and innovation across the country

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  European space and comms firms eye up IRIS² constellation opportunity

  After signing off on its Galileo and Copernicus constellations, EC tenders for supply of new secure and resilient connectivity infrastructure for European governments, businesses and citizens

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  TikTok fixes vulnerability that could have exposed user activity data

  A potentially dangerous vulnerability in the TikTok video-sharing platform was discovered by Imperva researchers, and has now been fixed

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Government anti-fraud strategy targets the tech behind the scams

  The UK government’s anti-fraud strategy proposes to make it much harder for criminals to target their victims by cracking down on the exploitation of technology

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  US competition watchdog issues generative AI warning

  Generative AI can be used to manipulate people into making harmful decisions, says US Federal Trade Commission in warning to firms building and using AI-powered tools

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  UK full-fibre boost as Openreach expands, Gigaclear claims rural altnet leadership

  Operators at both ends of the corporate scale make notable advances in their respective roll-outs of gigabit connectivity in the UK

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  AWS confirms Scope 3 GHG emissions data will be made freely available to customers in ‘early 2024’

  With regulators increasingly calling on companies to transparently report their greenhouse gas emissions data, Amazon Web Services has confirmed users will get access to Scope 3 data from early next year

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Artificial intelligence: Business leaders start to realise the risks

  ChatGPT and other large language models can rewrite value, and business leaders now realise they need a plan

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Scottish residents and businesses in £75m 4G investment boost

  First UK government-funded phone mast upgrade activated in Scottish borders to give major 4G mobile coverage boost to community

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Mystery Apple security update sparks speculation

  Apple releases its first Rapid Security Response update for iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, but users are in the dark about what security problems they have fixed

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Nokia claims first CE-certified 5G automated drone-in-a-box service

  Comms tech giant declares first-mover status with CE-certified turnkey drone-in-a-box offering, designed to meet the needs of public safety agencies, smart cities, construction, energy and defence organisations

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SES, Viasat hail successful satellite launches

  European operator’s second-generation medium earth orbit system said to be just one launch away from providing global connectivity services backed by service level agreements

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Delays, downscaling of national fast broadband roll-out threaten BBC digitisation

  UK parliamentary committee warns uncertainty over funding and regulation around national fast broadband roll-out plans threaten public broadcaster’s digitisation plans

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  HMRC confirms potential April 2024 end date for double-taxation issue in IR35 compliance cases

  HM Revenue & Customs launches eight-week consultation on plans to roll out a legislative tweak that would put a stop to the government tax collection agency over-collecting tax in IR35 non-compliance cases

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Seagate launches 22TB IronWolf straight into QNAP NAS partnership

  Seagate’s 22TB IronWolf Pro HDD equals Western Digital for capacity. Of the big drive makers, only Toshiba now lags behind. QNAP NAS to offer petabyte capacities with new Seagate drive

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  UK Cyber Security Council launches certification mapping tool

  Cyber careers body aims to offer clarity for professionals seeking to advance through security certification

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Software development

  Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Researchers see surge in scam websites linked to coronation

  Scammers and fraudsters continue to take advantage of large public events, with the coronation of King Charles III no exception

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Government is playing ‘psychic war’ in battle over end-to-end encryption

  Peers hear that the UK government is being deliberately ambiguous about its plans to require technology companies to scan the content of encrypted messages

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  AWS suffers year-on-year drop in profit and revenue growth as enterprises curb cloud spend

  The first quarter results for AWS show the firm is continuing to feel the effects of enterprise customers “optimising” their cloud spend

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  More Post Office software-related convictions overturned takes total to 86

  A total of 86 former subpostmasters wrongly prosecuted for financial crimes after computer errors showed phantom losses have had convictions overturned

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Intel results reveal a push to address AI shortcomings

  The chipmaker has been impacted by poor PC sales, but aims to drive adoption of its AI inferencing technology

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Tenable opens playground for generative AI cyber tools

  A set of generative AI cyber tools designed to help security researchers in reverse engineering, debugging and other areas of work have been made available for the community to experiment with

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Microsoft fails to get CMA thumbs-up on Activision deal

  The UK Competition and Markets Authority has decided that Microsoft‘s proposed $68.7bn acquisition of Activision would damage the cloud gaming market

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Zopa’s emotional journey to becoming a bank

  Zopa Bank’s CEO sees no reason why the app-based bank should not be as big as the high street giants

• April 27, 2023 27 Apr'23

  Google Cloud seals bug that could have led to data breaches

  The Asset Key Thief vulnerability gave rise to multiple potential attack scenarios that could have impacted thousands of Google Cloud users, but has now been safely fixed