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• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Apple posts earnings decline, but sees strong take-up of iOS

  Company experiences shortfall in emerging markets and lower Mac sales, but sees the iPad Pro as a PC killer

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Microservices introduce hidden security complexity, analyst warns

  Microservice architecture – an approach to application development in which applications are built as a suite of modular services – simplifies development but complicates security, says KuppingerCole

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Businesses unprepared for cyber breaches

  Study shows many organisations lack IT security and operations basics, including visibility across their IT operations

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Why IT departments miss basic IT security hygiene

  IT departments are failing to patch security holes in software because of a disconnect between security and operations teams, survey finds

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Boots appoints former NHS IT executive as director of innovation

  Retailer Boots has enlisted Richard Corbridge, former chief digital and information officer for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to support its digital transformation initiatives

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  PA Consulting announces 2019 winners of Raspberry Pi Competition

  Consulting brand focused on innovation and business transformation has announced the winners of its 2019 coding competition run in partnership with Raspberry Pi

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  How APAC enterprises are using VMware Cloud on AWS

  VMware’s cloud business unit CTO reveals how APAC businesses are using its hybrid cloud service to move workloads to the cloud

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Defence secretary sacked over Huawei leak

  Defence secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked after leaking confidential discussions over the use of Huawei networking equipment

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Fiat Chrysler commits to Android for connected vehicles

  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has signed deals with Google and Samsung to power its connected vehicle ecosystem

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Middle East Interview: Bahrain fintech drive gathers speed

  Bahrain wants to be a launchpad into the wider region for financial technology firms looking to scale

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Scality object storage scales to 400k mailboxes for NZ provider

  New Zealand-based email hosting provider SMX needed to scale up its infrastructure to be able to handle 400,000 mailboxes, and found object storage from Scality fitted the bill

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Department of Health pushes online regulation agenda

  Tech giants commit to initiative to remove harmful content from their websites but MPs call for further changes in algorithms

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  BSA releases framework for secure software

  Software industry advocacy group releases framework to facilitate flexible and comprehensive software security assessments

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Danish financial services regulator launches sandbox initiative

  FT Lab offers fintech startups a platform to test out their products in a secure environment

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Get more proactive on cyber security, says ex Europol chief

  Business needs to get more proactive, collaborative, resilient and analytical to manage cyber risks posed by cyber criminals down to acceptable levels, says former Europol chief

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  How Amadeus used FPGAs to break Moore’s Law threshold

  The innovation team at Amadeus worked with technology university ETH in Zurich to test how FPGAs can be used in artificial intelligence

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  UK gears up for new laws on IoT security

  The UK plans to introduce measures to require that basic cyber security features are built into internet-connected devices

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  HPE to launch Cloud Volumes in UK and Ireland

  HPE Cloud Volumes will offer enterprise-class block storage for use with AWS and Azure compute plus a replication store for backup and disaster recovery from the end of May

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Alphabet Q1 results: Revenue falls short of expectations as EU fine takes toll

  The conglomerate that owns Google missed market expectations, despite positive performance in other revenues such as cloud

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Cyber criminals increase use of fileless attacks

  Fileless attacks are increasingly popular with cyber criminals, while Russia and China top the league of nation state data exfiltrators, threat data shows

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  CIO interview: Mark Holt, CTO, Trainline

  A data-led strategy underpins the growth of the public transport app, which sells over 200 tickets a minute and logs more than 80 million customer visits a month

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Every NHS body to get full-fibre broadband, says health secretary

  Matt Hancock announces plans to give every NHS organisation and community care service access to full-fibre broadband services

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Most businesses vulnerable to supply chain cyber attacks

  UK firms trail the leaders US and Germany in knowing the most about their partners’ cyber security practices, but most companies globally are in the dark about this growing source of vulnerabilities

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  OpenStack Foundation urges enterprises to embrace open, collaborative tech development

  OpenStack Foundation executive director warns enterprises off using closed, non-collaborative product development processes to get ahead of the competition

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Brighton Dome theatre gets access to city’s 5G mobile testbed

  Brighton Dome & Festival is to deploy a 5G network to explore future applications for the technology in the arts

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Open data programme OpenActive ramps up efforts to get people off the sofa

  OpenActive, a programme run by the Open Data Institute and funded by Sport England, is intensifying efforts to get nearly 17 million Britons off their sofas and into sport and fitness

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Department for International Trade slashes tech SME funding

  Smaller UK companies will see their ability to showcase their offerings at large international events compromised, trade bodies say

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Nearly half of UK IT pros report serious data breaches

  Integration of security systems and employee training recognised as key ways to reduce the growing severity of data breaches

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  How Microsoft is prepping manufacturers for Industry 4.0

  Building on its manufacturing and technology knowhow, Microsoft has teamed up with industrial firms to support the growing demand for smart manufacturing capabilities

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Bosses want to see explainable AI

  Almost one-third of UK bosses surveyed in the latest PwC global CEO survey plan to use artificial intelligence in their businesses – but explainable AI is critical

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Privacy and data protection an opportunity, says entrepreneur

  Organisations should see data protection and privacy compliance as an opportunity to build trust with customers, according to startup One.Thing.Less

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  LightBits Super SSD brings NVMe on vanilla Ethernet

  Israeli startup LightBits offers super-fast NVMe flash storage over plain Ethernet networks in a move that some think will bring “iSCSI for the NVMe generation”

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Fix the basics first, then worry about AI, advise experts

  The freedom of the internet is at risk, with the cyber arms race and the industrialisation of hacking are set to continue as attackers move up the value chain to target trust mechanisms, threat experts predict

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Home Office to award £300m contract for management of biometric services

  Government department is behind schedule in the selection of suppliers to work on two platforms covering fingerprints, DNA and facial matching capabilities

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Ofcom must rethink rural broadband USO, says Lords report

  There are still serious concerns about whether or not the 10Mbps broadband USO is fit for purpose, and Ofcom needs to take account of them, according to The House of Lords Select Committee for the Rural Economy

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  CIO interview: Dylan Roberts, CDIO, Leeds City Council

  After 15 years leading technology in Leeds, Dylan Roberts is building a digital ecosystem for the entire region, even looking at how digital services can help extend life expectancy for local people

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Danske Bank and IBM bring AI to banking IT

  Artificial intelligence partnership is designed to reduce the risk of major IT outages and keep the bank’s customers happy

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Europe is playing catch-up with the US on cloud adoption, research suggests

  Report by O'Reilly media shines a light on how cloud adoption is progressing across the globe, and how this could be affecting follow-on use of other technologies too

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Australians lost half a billion dollars to scams in 2018

  Most of the losses went to investment scams as tricksters found innovative ways to dupe victims into parting with their money

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Malaysia to get its first AI park

  Malaysia’s first artificial intelligence park to be developed by a trio of local and Chinese firms is expected to raise the country’s standing in the global race for AI supremacy

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  British 5G developers to test their mettle in South Korea

  DCMS launches £2.4m project to support the development of 5G applications for public transport alongside its South Korean counterpart

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Facebook faces fresh privacy actions from regulators

  Facebook faces legal action from Canada after it dismissed regulators’ findings that it failed to protect customer privacy. The firm has set aside $5bn to settle a privacy action in the US and faces a new investigation in Ireland

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Digital map of UK underground pipes and cables to be developed

  The Underground Asset Register is expected to reduce the costs and safety issues associated with maintaining underground cables and pipes

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Amazon cautions against reading too much into slowdown in AWS revenue growth rate

  Amazon's CFO claims slowdown in revenue growth and capital expenditure should not be interpreted as signs of distress for any of its business units, as firm shifts growth strategy to prioritise operational efficiency

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Top lessons from cyber attacks

  Cyber security experts weigh in on lessons learned from cyber attack experiences, underlining that recovery capability is as important as defence

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Huawei leak inquiry launched

  Cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill has instituted an inquiry aimed at discovering who leaked confidential discussions about UK mobile operators’ use of Huawei in their future 5G networks to the press

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  NVMe is ‘ready’, say Dell EMC, Virtual Instruments and Cisco

  Storage and networks big guns say super-fast NVMe flash is ready for enterprise users, with performance 10x over existing Fibre Channel and ecosystem in place

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Central government fails to meet SME tech spending targets

  Smaller businesses find it “impossible” to win public sector tenders while the number of single-bid contracts rises, report says

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  GDPR cases drive bigger budgets for Nordic regulators

  High-profile General Data Protection Regulation cases in Finland and Sweden have increased the workload for regulators, which are to receive an increase in funding

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Dutch road management organisation encourages startups to innovate

  Dutch highway management agency RWS is sharing data with the private sector to stimulate innovation