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• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Global server revenue hits record quarterly high as hyperscale demand for datacentre kit soars

  Latest worldwide server market tracker from analyst house IDC suggests hyperscale demand for datacentre hardware has fuelled record quarterly revenue growth for the sector

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Iranian cyber espionage highlights human element

  State-backed hackers in Iran have reportedly upped efforts to compromise US officials’ email accounts using phishing scams

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Ofcom tells ISPs to be upfront about better broadband deals

  Telecoms regulator is rolling out a range of measures to make the broadband market serve the interests of consumers better

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Australia passes controversial encryption law

  Arguments continue over law that requires companies to work with government agencies to ensure that encrypted communications can be read if a crime is suspected

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  CIO interview: Mayank Prakash, CDIO, DWP

  Outgoing DWP chief digital and information officer Mayank Prakash looks at challenges and accomplishments during his time at the department, and talks about finishing the roll out of Universal Credit

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  ICO and government help UK businesses prepare for no-deal Brexit

  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the government are providing guidance for UK businesses, particularly SMEs, on how to prepare for a possible no-deal Brexit

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Machine identity protection development gets funding boost

  Cyber security firm Venafi has launched a development fund aimed at accelerating the delivery of protection for machine identities

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Social engineering at the heart of critical infrastructure attack

  Social engineering is the core technique used in a series of cyber attacks targeting government, defence, nuclear, energy and financial organisations around the world, which means people are key to defence

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Sberbank partners US accelerator for startup programme

  Russian state-run bank links up with San Francisco-based accelerator 500 Startups to provide expert advice to startups in a variety of tech fields

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Chief technology officers in high demand in finance sector

  Financial services firms need to hire experienced chief technology officers as the sector is transformed through fintech

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  UK trade sector risks GDPR fines over poor data disposal

  UK businesses in the trade sector are risking GDPR fines for failing to wipe data from old IT equipment, a survey shows

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Most UK retailers plan to up cyber security

  The majority of UK retailers are planning to increase cyber security measures during the Christmas season, a survey reveals

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Government urged to create one million high tech jobs by 2030

  The Trade Union Congress has called on the government to create a million new high tech and manufacturing jobs over the next 12 years

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Interview: Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix

  It may be known for hyper-converged infrastructure, but Nutanix now has its head in the clouds

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  DWP completes Universal Credit roll-out

  The Department for Work and Pensions concludes the deployment of Universal Credit across the UK, meaning the full digital service is now available nationwide

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  UKtech50 2018 – the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the ninth annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK IT sector

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  UKtech50 2018: Women are making their mark

  Women are making strong progress in the UK technology industry, with seven of the top 10 on Computer Weekly’s UKtech50 list being female

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  UKtech50 interview: Jacky Wright, CDIO, HMRC

  The UKtech50’s most influential person in UK IT 2018, HM Revenue and Customs’ chief digital and information officer, Jacky Wright, on balancing priorities, leveraging new technologies and the changing role of the CIO

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Christmas charity appeal increases donations with cloud-based comms

  St Martin-in-the-Fields Charity is using a pop-up cloud contact centre from supplier Sesui to help run its annual Christmas appeal in partnership with the BBC

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Finland’s IT sector recovers after break-up of Nokia

  Finnish government plays vital role in helping IT sector recover from the shock of Microsoft taking over the country’s biggest company

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Criminals act like nation-state attackers in Russian campaign

  Security researchers have uncovered evidence of a sustained effort targeting Russian state-owned critical infrastructure companies by financially motivated non-state actors

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  High-flying clouds: AWS bucks traditional business growth trends with help from the enterprise

  The Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud juggernaut continues to go from strength to strength from quarter to quarter, but what is fuelling its non-traditional revenue growth trends?

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Tibco’s Orchestra acquisition will mean ‘faster IT integration’

  Tibco’s strategic acquisition of Paris-based Orchestra networks will ‘benefit customers of both companies’

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Mac malware makes debut in top 10 list

  Mac malware appears in the WatchGuard top 10 malware list for first time, and 6.8% of major websites still use an insecure SSL protocol, according to the firm’s latest internet security report

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Slow action on broadband and 5G risks UK’s economic future, CBI warns

  A report from the CBI has called for the government to fast-track legislation to guarantee access to ultrafast network services

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Large disparity in NHS cyber skills and training spend

  Despite government pledges to up cyber security spending across the NHS, there are still huge disparities in cyber security skills and spending on cyber security training, FoI requests reveal

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Vodafone’s 4G network goes underground

  Operator will roll out small 4G and 5G-ready antenna to boost network coverage over short distances in areas of dense usage, using manhole covers, among other things

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  BT upgrades InLink street kiosks for deaf, speech-impaired people

  BT has added a next-generation text service to its InLink street kiosks to make the service more accessible to people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  O2 expected to pursue Ericsson for compensation over 24-hour stoppage

  Mobile network operator could seek up to £100m in damages from its supplier, which failed to update expired software certificates, causing a day-long outage

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Port of Rotterdam uses floating lab to learn about automation in harbour

  A ship will soon be converted to a floating laboratory to test automation technologies at the Netherlands port

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Councils awarded funding for digital innovation projects

  The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government digital innovation fund awarded to a range of projects, including chatbots, artificial intelligence and town planning transformation

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  UK businesses feel let down by government on cyber security

  Government needs to provide more support around cyber security issues in 2019, according to the majority of UK IT leaders polled

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Quarter of all UK shopping now happens on mobile devices

  UK’s high-street spend is the lowest across Europe as mobile devices account for a growing portion of online shopping

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Hybrid cloud in Australian government removes supplier lock-in

  Australian public sector could take the hybrid approach to cloud computing as government’s digital transformation strategy moves ahead

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Finnish government announces research and development ecosystem

  Finland has launched an innovation ecosystem that will support IoT and AI developers amongst others

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  O2 outage highlights importance of software certificate audits

  A major outage on the O2 4G mobile network was caused by an expired certificate and could easily have been avoided, it has emerged

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Half of business leaders unaware of BPC cyber attacks

  Half of management teams polled in 12 countries, including the UK, are unaware of business process compromise (BPC) attacks

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Court orders Post Office to explain inability to access encrypted file

  Post Office unable to open encrypted recording of an interview that forms part of its evidence in High Court case

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Complex Post Office Horizon case set to continue into 2020

  Court case where subpostmasters are suing the Post Office set to span at least four trials and extend into 2020

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  BT and KCOM named broadband USO suppliers

  Ofcom has named BT, and in East Yorkshire, KCOM, as the designated providers for the incoming broadband universal service obligation

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Hyperscalers must prep for increase in government regulation and taxation, warns Uptime Institute

  Datacentre think tank Uptime Institute claims government concerns about the tightening hold the hyperscalers have on society and the economy will lead to greater measures to improve the sustainability of their operations in 2019

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Fileless malware surge, warns Malwarebytes report 

  Data from millions of consumers reveals an uptick in fileless malware and other new-generation malware that calls for a new cyber security approach, report reveals

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  China demands release of arrested Huawei CFO

  The Chinese government has called for the release of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who was detained in Canada at the weekend

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  UK genome sequencing project reaches 100,000 genomes goal

  Health secretary hails scheme’s progress as “a major milestone in the route to the healthcare of the future”

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Software failure paralyses O2’s 4G network

  O2 is racing to fix a major outage on its 4G network that has left millions of mobile subscribers without access to data services

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Interview: Mickey Steiner, managing director, Innogy Innovation Hub Israel

  Mickey Steiner, managing director of the Innogy Innovation Hub accelerator, talks about why the UK is becoming more attractive to internationally focused startups than the US

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Adobe releases Flash patch for zero-day exploit

  Emergency security update released for zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited in the wild via a Microsoft Office document, according to researchers

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide features list 2019

  Here is our 2019 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Asean firms dive into microservices for competitive edge

  While microservices has become a buzzword linked with digital transformation, it is no magic bullet for development woes

• December 05, 2018 05 Dec'18

  UK can do more to explore potential of quantum tech

  The government has been urged to address use cases, security and skills, and proposed a series of new innovation centres, to enable the UK to fully capture the opportunity presented by quantum technology