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• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  FCO to boost cloud analysis setup

  A new procurement process has been launched to bring in new features such as geospatial analysis

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Tories plan electronic visa waiver for EU citizens

  Pledge introduces the idea of electronic travel authorisation as part of plans to protect the UK border after Brexit

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Dutch government must sort IT mess as priority

  Dutch government lacks the knowledge and skills for its own IT strategy, according to scathing report

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Serving tech from all angles at the Association of Tennis Professionals

  The use of data and analytics technologies has transformed tennis for spectators, players and umpires, with the ATP and its partner Infosys leading the way

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Barclays opens large tech operation in India, hiring thousands

  Barclays opens tech centre in Pune as part of its global delivery network

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  How commodities firm ED&F Man solved its threat detection challenges

  After a minor server breach, leading commodities trader turned to Vectra’s Cognito service to expose hidden threats, spot privilege misuse, and conduct conclusive investigations

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Dutch government must facilitate and coordinate a broad eID system

  The Dutch government should push for an electronic ID system for its citizens that works across the public and private sectors, according to a report

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Qualcomm claims world first for 5G mixed reality

  5G-supported extended reality platform is claimed to offer more immersive, intelligent and connected experiences

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Cyber security takes its place alongside UK’s armed services

  Head of armed services says cyber security will take its place alongside the army, navy and air force as a key pillar of the UK’s defence strategy

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• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  German government and connectivity tech firms lead project to boost optical capacity

  Government-industry consortium will explore technologies to expand the capacity of optical metro and core networks

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  Great Cannon DDoS operation fires on Hong Kong protesters

  AT&T’s security unit has evidence that China is pressing its Great Cannon DDoS tool into service once again, specifically to target pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Two Russians indicted over Dridex and Zeus malware

  The US Department of Justice has indicted two Russian citizens over their alleged role in the distribution of the virulent Bugat, or Dridex, and Zeus banking trojans

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  London mayor Sadiq Khan opens Salesforce’s Ohana floor

  Opening coincides with Salesforce announcing $1.25m funding for education charity Ark and a Pathfinder training programme

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Motorola enhances mobile policing workflows with next-gen Pronto

  Body-worn video and vehicle licensing data integration software designed to accelerate decision-making and evidence management for front-line officers

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  UK financial services regulators tell banks to own their IT disasters

  Financial services regulators propose tighter rules for firms to reduce the adverse effects of operational problems, such as IT outages

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  NetApp’s Keystone hybrid cloud storage ‘try-before-you-buy’ for on-prem

  Keystone on-premise and cloud subscription model will cost more than buying hardware so will be best suited to customers that want to try NetApp on-site before committing to purchase

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Mettis Aerospace completes world’s first phase-one Wi-Fi 6 4.0 trials

  Next-gen Wi-Fi is successfully put through its paces streaming critical engineering information in “hostile” engineering environment

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Cyber Girls First volunteers encourage girls to think high-tech

  More than 80 schoolgirls spent a day learning about computer hackers and rocket science – Cyber Girls First hopes they will become the next generation of technologists

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Mental health websites are leaking user data

  At Black Hat Europe in London, researchers reveal the extent to which confidential data is being leaked to third parties by online mental health websites

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Wells to become UK’s next gigabit city

  Medieval Somerset city hopes to encourage business growth and attract new employers by going gigabit

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Aviatrix VPN vulnerability left user endpoints wide open

  Immersive Labs has disclosed a serious vulnerability in VPN supplier Aviatrix’s enterprise client that could have granted hackers elevated user privileges across enterprise targets

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Huawei mounts legal challenge to US subsidy programme ban

  Chinese tech giant fights back against FCC ban on carriers in the rural US from using the Universal Service Fund to buy its equipment and designation as threat to US national security

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy blames 'significant political interference' for Amazon losing $10bn JEDI deal

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy claims White House meddling led to it losing out to Microsoft on the US Department of Defense JEDI contract, despite its cloud platform being demonstrably superior

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Poor tech provision causes dissatisfaction in SMEs

  Smaller businesses are struggling to provide a good enough employee experience when it comes to tech, according to a study

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  Hackers primed to exploit 5G to Wi-Fi handover flaws

  Warning that attackers will find new vulnerabilities to access voice and data on 5G mobile phones as carriers hand off calls and data to Wi-Fi networks to save bandwidth

• December 05, 2019 05 Dec'19

  European first for Vodafone as global telcos tune into AWS Wavelength

  In an endorsement of the cloud giant’s push towards the edge, leading global telcos pile in on AWS Wavelength, eyeing up large low-latency gains in key 5G use cases

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  RMIT to tackle cyber security challenges

  Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to launch a Cloud Innovation Centre to solve cyber security challenges

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Traditional telco approach risks hampering 5G development in manufacturing

  Adoption of enterprise business models could see operators’ 5G break-even reduced from 14 to 10 years, with especially large gains in manufacturing, says ABI Research

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Percentage of women in tech remains low at 16%, with little growth in 10 years

  The WISE campaign is calling on the STEM sector to increase the number of women in core roles to 30%, after finding the ratio of men to women in IT has been static for a decade

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  5G to reshape global telecoms sector in 2020

  Study says next-gen technologies and the pressures of digital transformation are likely to continue to reshape what it means to be a telecoms operator next year

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Scots urge councils to embrace smart city technologies

  Survey of Scottish citizens indicates a number of benefits that local communities can gain from IoT and other connected technologies

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Black Hat Europe: Red teams and blue teams must evolve in the 2020s

  The red team versus blue team dichotomy is somewhat arbitrary and risks pigeonholing skilled security professionals into certain roles, says Facebook’s Amanda Rousseau

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Connectivity is levelling the playing field for small businesses in UK creative sector

  Research shows key segment of UK creative industry small businesses produce their best ideas and work on the go, increasingly relying on connectivity to drive productivity

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS fleshes out edge computing strategy with hyper-local datacentre hubs planned in major cities

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to supplement its ‘mega’ datacentre regions with smaller cloud data processing hubs in major cities to support enterprises requiring low-latency connections to its compute and storage resources

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS Outposts debuts in Australia

  Amazon Web Services rolls out Outposts in Australia, enabling enterprises to run a consistent version of the AWS platform at locations that require low latency

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy slams Microsoft over cloud-focused Windows Server licensing tweaks

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy took to the stage at Re:Invent 2019 and slammed Microsoft for attempting to pull Windows Server customers back on to its cloud through its recent licensing tweaks

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS plans renewable energy project in Australia

  AWS’s renewable energy project in Australia is one of six projects that the cloud supplier is spearheading to reduce its global carbon footprint

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  General Election 2019: Which manifesto is best for the UK’s tech sector?

  Computer Weekly breaks down each political party’s technology policies ahead of the upcoming General Election to see how they compare

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  How AWS is growing its ASEAN footprint

  Building ‘strong autonomous country teams’ has been a key focus for AWS in Southeast Asia where demand for cloud computing services is on the rise

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  CERN increases network capacity for cutting edge of research

  Aiming to boldly go even further where physics hasn’t gone before, CERN increases capacity of its technical network to support breakthrough research in fundamental physics

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Survey finds most firms don’t respond to GDPR requests in time

  Most organisations do not respond to requests for GDPR data in the one month allowed, while many return incorrect data. The education sector does best, but the public sector lags behind

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Biometrics to enable $2.5tn of mobile payments by 2024

  Juniper Research study predicts that biometric technology will be present on 90% of smartphones in five years’ time

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  HPE takes aim at hybrid IT management as a service

  Starting with its GreenLake family, HPE is building out a hybrid platform from the edge to the cloud

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  UK government urged to ramp up digital skills

  Programme for International Student Assessment results show UK is lagging behind Asian powerhouses, according to Open Knowledge Foundation

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Tenable buys Indegy to integrate IT and OT security

  Acquisition of industrial security specialist Indegy will create a unified, risk-based platform spanning both IT and OT security for Tenable

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Insurtechs help traditional players differentiate

  Traditional insurers are harnessing the agile development techniques of the tech startup community through partnerships with insurtechs

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Chinese web users take more risks than Brits or Americans

  A research paper published by the University of Birmingham seems to show that differences in cultural values have an impact both on risky behaviour online and legal regulation

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  AWS VP of engineering on the cloud giant's first major quantum computing push

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has used the first day of its annual Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas to set out its plans to democratise quantum computing, while also firming up the enterprise use cases for the technology

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Klarna uses AWS cloud as it moves from startup to global fintech force

  Swedish fintech cements its relationship with Amazon Web Services to speed up product development and support its global expansion

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  ‘Poor’ comms and collaboration tools cost UK plc over £7,500 per employee per year

  Survey reveals workplace productivity is deeply impacted by an organisation’s communications and collaboration practices and technology

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Private sector warned off delaying IR35 reform prep as Conservative Party promises review

  The Conservative Party has followed in the footsteps of the Liberal Democrats, The Labour Party and the Scottish National Party by committing to a review of the IR35 reforms

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  DCC UK second-gen smart meter network passes three million mark

  Provider says more than 500 million encrypted messages to and from smart meters have been carried by its secure network in 2019

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  UK boards lose digital confidence

  Fewer organisations feel they have the expertise they require, according to a Harvey Nash survey

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Top Android apps at risk from StrandHogg vulnerability

  Researchers at Promon say all of the 500 most-downloaded Android apps are at risk from a newly discovered vulnerability

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  China Mobile stakes 5G first for Hong Kong

  CMHK successfully accomplishes 5G Standalone network test and completes first voice over NR call in Hong Kong

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Goldman Sachs reins in cloud-based retail challenger in UK

  Bank does not want rapidly expanding Marcus to breach deposits threshold at which UK banks have to ring-fence their retail operations

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  UKISUG 2019: Qualtrics unknown to 43% of SAP customers

  On the opening day of its annual conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing scant awareness of Qualtrics, and continuing slow adoption of S/4 Hana

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Orange Poland picks Juniper Networks for major core network upgrade

  Orange Poland has embarked on a project to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network core by automating its WAN and enhancing the management of label-switched paths

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  OPPO joins Ericsson 5G spectrum sharing project

  Chinese smartphone manufacturer deploys Ericsson dynamic spectrum-sharing technology in data call on Telstra and Swisscom 5G networks

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  QD Stores deploys SAP Fiori as pathway to possible S/4 Hana adoption

  East Anglia-based discount retailer uses design thinking to develop SAP Fiori Screen Personas to enhance ECC6 instance

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Labour SME minister back-tracks over claims party will scrap IR35 reforms if it comes to power

  Shadow small business secretary Bill Esterson clarifies comments he made during an event this week that suggested Labour had made halting the roll-out of the IR35 reforms to the private sector policy

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Cyber criminal RAT busted by cops

  Police forces around the UK have arrested nine people as part of an international operation targeting users of a remote access trojan

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  TfL locks down Oyster accounts to ward off credential stuffing

  Mandatory password reset for all travellers who use Oyster and contactless payment systems follows minor breach incident earlier in 2019

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Orange taps Ericsson to bring machine learning, AI to networks ops

  Telco extends service contract with Ericsson in five European countries to bring artificial intelligence network operations, field support, and maintenance, as well as service management for fixed-line access, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  Hack Friday: This Christmas, fight back against cyber criminals

  It’s nearly Christmas, and cyber attacks and fraud attempts in the retail sector are ramping up. Is it time to panic? And is there anything we can do beyond hammering home the message around basic cyber security hygiene?

• November 29, 2019 29 Nov'19

  5G needed quickly before mobile video boom overwhelms networks

  Opensignal’s State of Mobile Video Experience report shows that the video boom is causing concern over mobile experiences before 5G becomes mainstream

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  How Intel has put the brakes on Windows 10 refresh

  IT departments have until 14 January 2020 to update their PCs to Windows 10, but a shortage of Intel chips may scupper their plans

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  UKtech50 2019 – the most influential people in UK technology

  Computer Weekly has announced the 10th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  UKtech50 2019 winner: Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, DeepMind

  Computer Weekly profiles the achievements and journey of the founder of one of the world’s pioneering artificial intelligence companies, after his recognition as the most influential person in UK technology for 2019

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  TSB neglected to assess capabilities of main IT provider in its failed system migration

  TSB failed to properly assess and manage the internal service provider that lead its botched IT migration

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  CIO interview: Ross Fullerton, CIO, London Ambulance Service

  Brought in after a major IT disaster in 2017, the CIO is now introducing technologies to speed up emergency response times and get key patient data back to doctors before arrival at A&E

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Most data scientists plan exit in 2020, Women in Data conference hears

  Survey shows lack of management support is behind a majority of data scientists planning to change jobs next year

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Conservatives urged to join Labour, Lib Dems and SNP in committing to post-election IR35 review

  With several major political parties making pre-election pledges to conduct a review of the IR35 tax avoidance reforms, pressure is growing on the Tories to follow suit

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Record-breaking colocation take-up across Europe prompts renewed space availability concerns

  Latest market data from real estate company CBRE suggests the final three months of 2019 could turn the year into another record-breaker for the European colocation market

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  General Election 2019: the Scottish National Party’s technology policies and digital plans

  With the UK gearing up for its third General Election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Scottish National Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  NatWest digital bank goes live

  NatWest has announced the availability of its standalone digital challenger bank, known as Bó

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  The Security Interviews: Do cyber weapons need a Geneva Convention?

  On a cold afternoon in Finland, F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen discusses cyber weapons and nation state threats, and explains why arms limitations treaties might one day expand to include malware and other threats

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Telefónica reveals global restructuring plan

  Global telco to undergo wholesale changes to prioritise markets where it says it can be relevant and grow sustainably in the long term

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  US consumers ‘confused’ by 5G

  Six months in, and after major operators roll out coverage with great fanfare and suitable devices in their branded stores, confusion exists in the US 5G arena

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Finnish tech firm aims to create scalable general-purpose quantum computer

  University spin-off is attempting to take quantum computing capabilities to multiple business sectors

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  AT&T integrating 5G capability with Microsoft cloud

  AT&T announces plans to provide availability for Network Edge Compute (NEC) technology, bringing Microsoft Azure cloud services into its network edge locations closer to customers

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Australia’s Fenner Dunlop ditches tape backups for cloud

  Australian manufacturer of conveyor belts Fenner Dunlop has freed up its IT staff to focus on future projects by moving tape backups to the cloud

• November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19

  Top APAC security predictions for 2020

  More attacks on critical infrastructure, supply chain vulnerabilities and file-less attacks are some of the security threats that enterprises should keep an eye on next year

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  More women expected to join tech sector in 2020

  Research by travel booking platform Trainline has found more than half of people in tech think there will a rise in the number of female tech workers over the next year

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Kudelski proposes Microsoft Azure IoT security solution

  Integrated security platform claimed to enable IoT device manufacturers and providers to connect devices to Microsoft’s cloud-based IoT services at scale

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  UK Court of Appeal gives boost to telcos scoping 5G access points

  UK court sides with telco against landowner in legal row regarding access to survey site for 5G technology

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  City of London switches on to connected lighting

  City of London teams with Itron, Wi-SUN Alliance for smart lighting project to brighten up urban experience of historic parts of the UK capital

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Dell admits Intel chip delay could impact Windows refresh

  In the earnings call for Dell’s Q3 2019 results, the company admitted that up to one-third of Windows PC refresh orders may not be fulfilled until 2020

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Openreach set for third technology supplier as it hits Bristol fibre benchmark

  BT Group-owned broadband infrastructure provider set to add third fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology supplier to Huawei and Nokia as it accelerates fibre deployment across the UK

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Staff in smaller businesses bogged down by poor communications

  Inadequate communications between senior management and staff in small to medium-sized enterprises is leading to poor decision-making

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Finland’s OP Financial Group accelerates open banking push

  Finnish banking group is working with a Danish fintech to add open banking functionality to its offerings

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Stemettes and Monster: Why focusing on STEM confidence is vital for girls

  Job site Monster and social enterprise Stemettes have partnered for a fourth year to run workshops aimed at preparing girls for the world of work and encouraging them into the STEM sector

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Security skills gap will take a decade to fill

  The British education systems cannot move fast enough to address the security skills crisis, and in the absence of government action increased reliance on automation may be the least worst solution

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Enterprises muddled over cloud security responsibilities

  A McAfee study suggests that 2020 will be a big year for cloud adoption, but confusion still persists over who is responsible for securing it

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play

  New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Unisys nears completion of SaaS-based upgrade of Holmes2 police IT system

  Global IT provider Unisys says the last of the 43 police forces in England and Wales that need to upgrade to the cloud-based version of its Holmes2 shared investigations system will complete in early 2020

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  TechUK releases ‘digital manifesto’ ahead of General Election 2019

  The digital manifesto from TechUK looks at what technology policies the next government should adopt and sets objectives for how to make them happen

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Verizon, Qualcomm and Ericsson demo dynamic spectrum sharing in US

  US comms giant Verizon teams with Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson to use dynamic spectrum sharing technology to extend reach and hasten development of 5G Ultra Wideband network

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Gartner: Weak global demand for smartphones in third quarter of 2019

  Consumer concern about value for money and deferrals due to 5G add up to disappointing smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2019