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• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Government is open for business, says SME Crown Representative

  The government’s Crown Representative for SMEs, Emma Jones, sheds light on her three-pronged approach to increase spend with smaller businesses

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Ofcom has another go at liberalising duct and pole access

  Telecoms regulator is making a new attempt to establish better access to BT’s duct and pole infrastructure for communication services providers

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Radisson hotel group could be GDPR test case

  Privacy watchers say the breach of personal data of members of the Radisson Hotel Group’s loyalty scheme could be an interesting test case for how the GDPR will be applied

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Government fails in first attempt to hire chief security officer

  The government’s initial recruitment campaign for the UK’s "biggest and most important security job” has been unsuccessful, Cabinet Office admits

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Jlab 2019 to focus on experiential shopping

  Each year, John Lewis hosts a number of retail startups intent on using technology to transform the industry. Next year they will be aiming to change the customer experience in-store

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Departing DWP IT boss Mayank Prakash to take on digitisation role at Centrica

  DWP’s outgoing chief digital and information officer will begin new role in charge of digitalisation of Centrica’s consumer business in the New Year

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Best of VMworld 2018 Europe User Awards: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, with the winners set to be announced at VMworld next week

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  BT makes progress with Global Services restructuring

  Telco sets out plan to get its troubled Global Services business unit fighting fit

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Apple drops unit shipments as it posts fourth-quarter results

  As long as it is making money, why worry how may iPhones are out there, the company argues

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Government to award £300,000 to select startups as part of Open Data competition

  The Department for Education will be awarding two businesses a share of £300,000 in funding to further develop prototypes submitted as part of the Higher Education Open Data competition

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  The IBM and Red Hat mega-merger: Who stands to benefit most?

  IBM is in the midst of a multi-year repositioning as it looks to offset the downturn in enterprise demand for its traditional, on-premise offerings by courting enterprise cloud buyers, prompting it to place its biggest bet yet on open source

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Alexa to manage Aerohive Wi-Fi networks

  Access networking supplier Aerohive is to add Alexa skills to its HiveManager network management suite

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  SAP’s Atzberger vaunts front to back office capability

  Alex Atzberger, president, SAP Customer Experience, recently went through the company’s customer-focused software strategy with Computer Weekly

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Key elements to success in consumer identity management

  Success in consumer identity management is not just about getting the technology right, it is also about keeping in mind the consumer needs, preferences and concerns, says KuppingerCole

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Nutanix extends its Beam to private cloud deployments

  Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Nutanix pushes its Beam cloud monitoring and management platform into customers’ datacentres, but only for Nutanix deployments, for now

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  International Space Station runs HPE Apollo supercomputer

  The first off-the-shelf supercomputer to run in space, Apollo 40, will be used for local number crunching and artificial intelligence applications

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Robotic delivery service hits the streets of Milton Keynes

  Following extensive testing and a limited commercial roll-out in campus enterprise environments, Estonian robotics firm Starship Technologies is launching a direct-to-consumer robot delivery service in Milton Keynes

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Microsoft chief urges industry to focus on ethics and privacy

  Businesses must focus on GDPR and ethical AI if they are to become software firms, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Three introduces 4G+ at 2,700 sites

  Mobile operator Three hopes to boost average mobile data speeds by up to 33% through carrier aggregation

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  How Bahrain plans to become a regional fintech hub

  Bahrain is a small island with big plans for its financial technology industry

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Percentage of women appointed to tech boards stays stagnant for 20 years

  The percentage of women on the boards of technology firms has not changed for the last 20 years, with the gap between men and women on boards growing

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Triumph Motorcycles kick-starts changes with high-tech HR

  The Leicestershire-based motorcycle company is deploying IT systems to give customers and its own staff a ‘premium brand experience’

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding

  A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups

  At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Hyperoptic full-fibre network hits public housing milestone

  More than 150,000 publicly owned homes have now been connected to Hyperoptic’s ultrafast fibre broadband network

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  GDPR driving data protection maturity

  The EU data protection laws are helping to drive data protection maturity internationally, but five months after enforcement many companies are still playing catch-up, says consultant

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Only 10% of firms have started upskilling employees as automation comes in

  As automation begins to change the way people work, only a small percentage of firms have begun full-scale projects to give their existing staff new skills

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Ofcom releases BT from 2005 Openreach undertakings

  Following the legal split of the two organisations, telecoms regulator Ofcom has formally ‘released’ BT from the 2005 undertakings set up to manage the Openreach infrastructure business

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Facebook emphasises security drive during third-quarter earnings call

  Social media giant admits it has a lot of work to do to keep on top of security as it looks to extend payment option to Messenger

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  UK Post Office looks to enable reusable digital ID

  The UK Post Office is investigating the possibility of enabling UK citizens to re-use their passport data for other applications where digital identity is a key component

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Inside Schneider Electric’s Batam smart factory

  The French energy management and automation firm has nearly halved material wastage by applying smart manufacturing technologies at its Indonesia plant

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Future Decoded 2018: Adopt AI or get left behind, Microsoft warns

  Research shows business leaders see artificial intelligence and machine learning as key to enabling them to adapt to market disruption

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Australia’s data breaches are a ‘sign of naiveté’

  McAfee executive attributes Australia’s poor cloud security record to the lack of data protection measures amid “new and confusing” cloud configurations

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Budget 2018: A mixed bag

  Computer Weekly looks at some of the detail in the tech-laden 2018 Budget and can’t get away from the big elephant in the room: the impact of a potential No Deal Brexit

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Why businesses must take a strategic view of automation

  For many CIOs, robotic process automation promises quick wins, but businesses should also take a longer-term view to drive digitisation

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Budget 2018: No great leap forward for broadband, but no need to panic

  The chancellor set aside £1.6bn for digital technology in the Budget, but broadband services did not draw much attention. Is this a surprise, or a reflection of growing commercial investment in full-fibre, and what should the role of government be?

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IR35 reforms: Private sector extension confirmed for April 2020 in Autumn Budget

  As the government confirms the IR35 reforms will be extended to large and medium-sized businesses in the private sector from April 2020, campaigners claim the move risks destabilising the UK's flexible workforce

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  UK government taskforce commits to distributed ledger technologies

  Report says distributed ledger technology “has the potential to deliver significant benefits in financial services and other sectors in the future”

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Excelero adds NVMe flash via Ethernet and Fibre Channel

  NVMesh2 will allow NVMe flash connectivity, so customers can use existing network hardware between servers. Erasure coding for data protection is also added

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Aim for long-term customer identity relationship

  Consumer identity management can deliver competitive advantage, but only if businesses follow some golden rules, says KuppingerCole

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  AWS retains cloud market leader status in Q3, as Microsoft and Google post gains

  AWS retains its title as the world's biggest cloud provider, but the position is not going unchallenged by the likes Microsoft and Google, Synergy Research Group's third quarter market analysis shows

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Traditional financial services firms face extinction within 12 years

  A large number of large banks could disappear within 12 years unless they change business models and economics

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Hammond’s digital services tax is a big risk, say experts

  The tech industry is not impressed with the chancellor’s plan to tax web giants, saying it can stifle innovation, while tax lawyers warn that it is a very risky move that could lead to US retaliation

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  Government consults on full-fibre for tenants, new-build homes

  Proposed legislation would compel landlords and property developers to offer full-fibre broadband to tenants and customers

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market

  Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Inside PropertyGuru’s DevOps journey

  The online property search firm is at ease with microservices, containers and serverless computing, even as it grapples with legacy applications that were developed earlier on in its history

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Chancellor Philip Hammond’s 2018 Budget dishes out £1.6bn for ‘advanced’ tech and innovation

  The 2018 Budget promises £1.6bn to fund “advanced technologies” such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, £200m for rural broadband and £150m for tech fellowships, along with plans to impose a digital services tax for web giants

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM refreshes StorWize with NVMe flash and NVMe-over-fabrics

  Big Blue boosts midrange arrays with NVMe and NVMf capability and launches Spectrum Discover, a Data Lake metadata-focused data analysis tool, plus a new tape drive, the TS1160

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Retail tech spending will grow 3.6% globally in 2019, predicts Gartner

  Global spending on technology in the retail sector is set to grow by 3.6% in 2019, according to predictions by Gartner analysts

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Why subpostmasters and Post Office are battling it out in the High Court

  After over a decade of controversy, next week marks the beginning of a court battle between subpostmasters and the Post Office over allegations of faults in an accounting system leading to unfair prosecutions