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• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Thriving fintech, AI sectors give boost to UK tech funding

  British technology businesses have received £5bn worth of venture capital funding since June 2016 – more than France, Germany and Sweden put together – with fintech and AI startups standing out

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

  Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  BT’s Gavin Patterson quits under shareholder pressure

  Patterson’s resignation comes just weeks after he announced 13,000 redundancies across BT

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Businesses must report cyber crime, panel urges

  By reporting cyber crimes, private enterprise can help improve national and international cyber defences and bring criminals to justice, according to an expert panel

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  DWP finally publishes Universal Credit business case

  Published eight years after the programme began, the business case states that Universal Credit will generate £8bn a year in “economic value” once it is in a “steady state”

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Cyber security focus too much on tech, says Domino’s CISO

  Many organisations are still focusing only on technology and compliance, which means their cyber defences are not as solid as they think, according to Domino’s Pizza chief information security officer

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  IT spending reaches 10-year high as CIOs struggle with digital technology strategy

  IT leaders have seen their budgets and headcounts rise for the first time in 10 years, but face challenges implementing their digital strategies

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Nation state cyber attacks affect all, says former GCHQ boss

  Cyber attacks by nation states used to be a small part of the problem for state authorities to address, but now all organisations are potential targets of nation state attacks, according to former GCHQ head

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Newcastle Council to show off smartest street in Britain

  The Great Exhibition of the North will see Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne transformed into Britain’s smartest street as part of a demonstration of IoT technology

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  5G transformative for UK plc, but potential impacts still vague

  5G mobile technology looks set to transform the UK economy for the better, but the immaturity of the technology and lack of standards makes its true impact harder to judge, according to a report by Deloitte

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  European CIOs establish committee to drive IT value in business

  Technology Business Council creates a European arm to help CIOs get the best value and efficiency from their IT assets

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Business not learning from past cyber security incidents

  Businesses are still not getting the basics right and they are not learning from past security incidents, according to world-renowned security blogger and trainer

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  What SAP C/4 Hana means for the APAC enterprises

  The cloud-based CRM suite could find takers, but it may not be enticing enough for Salesforce.com CRM customers that also run SAP’s ERP software to make the switch

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney

  Microsoft is stepping up its research into the feasibility of using underwater datacentres to deliver low-latency cloud services to homes and businesses across the world

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Financial Conduct Authority raises questions over TSB's IT regression testing

  The FCA will look at whether TSB carried out sufficient regression and user acceptance testing before migrating to a new IT platform

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  GDPR and backup: A potential minefield easily avoided

  The right to be forgotten will be impossible in backups and snapshots, but systems can be built that automate for compliance, says Andy Barratt of security consultancy Coalfire

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  HMRC puts numerous IT projects on hold to focus on Brexit

  Nearly 40 technology projects and changes are being put on the backburner because of Brexit priorities, including improving HM Revenue and Customs’ data-sharing capabilities and parts of the Maxing Tax Digital programme

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Digital Catapult partners with Cray to give AI startups supercomputing power

  Innovation centre says partnership will bring down some of the barriers to entry that startups often face in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  We need to design for security and privacy, says Martha Lane Fox

  The digital future is bright, but only if society works through a gear change in its relationship with technology, and demands products and services that are secure and private by design, says internet service pioneer

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  UK tech firms increase exports by more than 20%

  The country’s tech sector continues to blossom and has significantly increased the export of both services and goods in recent years

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Understanding is key to security awareness, says specialist

  Only if people understand why cyber security matters will they change their behaviours as a result of awareness training, according to a human behaviour specialist and cyber security consultant

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  EE confirms October 2018 UK launch date for first 5G live trials

  Mobile operator outlines plans to test its 5G network within London’s Tech City startup hub, as its push to become the UK’s first to market with the technology gathers pace

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise

  Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted?

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Singapore government to form AI advisory council

  New council will develop standards and guidelines to address ethical issues arising from the growing use of artificial intelligence

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Sapphire 2018: SAP will take over CRM market, says McDermott

  SAP’s chief executive Bill McDermott tells 2018 Sapphire conference the supplier will storm the CRM market with its C/4 Hana business applications suite

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Cyber attacks not sophisticated, says Just Eat CISO

  The chief information security officer of Just Eat has challenged the perception that all cyber attacks are sophisticated and that it is impossible to fill cyber security jobs

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Skills gaps slow business cloud adoption, research shows

  Public cloud provider Skytap highlights the toll skills gaps take on cloud migrations

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Nexsan adds Assureon Cloud Transfer for hybrid cloud archiving

  Nexsan archiving appliances add hybrid cloud capability to AWS and Azure cloud for unstructured data, targeting users that want to retain files on-site with cloud access

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Australia’s chief scientist calls for AI regulations

  The proposal would require companies to apply for a trustmark so they know from the outset how their AI is expected to behave

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  HMRC on track for August roll-out of customs IT system

  The government will have a “fully functioning” customs declaration service by January 2019, HMRC CEO Jon Thompson told MPs

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Interview: How a tech apprenticeship changed one man’s life

  Past Microsoft apprentice Joshua Uwadiae explains how in hindsight, he realises his apprenticeship was a life-defining moment in the lead-up to his tech career

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

  Object storage maker Scality upgrades software-defined storage to give unified deployment, provisioning and management while cutting minimum nodes required to three

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Complex pricing hinders enterprise assessment of AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud IoT hubs

  451 Research claims the complex IoT pricing models favoured by the hyperscale cloud giants are making life difficult for enterprise IT departments

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Mobile, IoT and cloud biggest drivers for Wi-Fi growth

  The intersection of mobility, the IoT and cloud will be the driving forces behind wireless network deployments over the next few years

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  Boards not asking right security questions, says Dido Harding

  Former TalkTalk CEO says boards are still not asking the right cyber security questions, do not understand that they should be making cyber risk decisions, and are not communicating with engineers

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Boris Johnson wants tech to fight illegal wildlife trade

  The foreign secretary wants the country’s “finest technological brains” to help combat poaching and save endangered species

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Technology key to new UK counter-terrorism strategy

  Technologies such as machine learning and data analytics are key to the UK government’s updated counter-terrorism strategy

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Microsoft takes over GitHub as it expands its open source plan

  Microsoft is a major contributor to open source. It has now acquired the largest open source repository

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  One-third of firms would pay ransoms rather than invest in security

  Report says businesses are still making the same mistakes, failing to make any progress in crucial areas such as cyber security awareness and preparedness

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Scotland to begin building identity platform prototype this autumn

  Scottish government plans flexible approach to online identity providers as it aims to launch alpha phase of is online identity assurance programme in August 2018

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Visa blames hardware failure for UK-wide card payment system outage

  Credit card payment processor moves to assure customers that last Friday afternoon’s downtime was not the work of hackers

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Cloud-based integration platforms underpin digital strategy

  The application integration market is dominated by IBM and Oracle, but AWS and Salesforce are changing the game with integration platforms as a service

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Offensive AI unlikely in the near future, says Mikko Hypponen

  Cyber criminals are not close to being able to use AI for attack purposes, according to industry veteran Mikko Hypponen, who has been at the forefront of AI use in cyber defence for several years

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Subpostmasters told to expect decision on alleged unfair prosecutions in August

  The Criminal Courts Review Commission is expected to announce the findings of an investigation into alleged unfair subpostmaster prosecutions in August

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Visa card payments system goes down across the UK and Ireland

  Millions of businesses across the UK and Ireland are unable to accept VIsa card payments because of a "service disruption"

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Revamped BHS website to close two years after department store collapse

  The BHS website, which was developed after the department store’s closure in 2016, will be closed at the end of June

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Huge rise in TSB-themed mobile phishing attacks after IT meltdown

  Scammers have used bank’s IT problems as an opportunity to target its customers with mobile phishing attacks

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Ethical hacker, 86, rises to Santander’s challenge

  Elderly hacker with little computing experience was able to hack WiFi and create phishing attack

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  BBC to show World Cup in virtual reality

  Broadcaster will trial virtual reality and ultra HD live streams of the FIFA World Cup through BBC iPlayer and a dedicated VR app

• June 01, 2018 01 Jun'18

  Security suppliers need to interact with community, says researcher

  Security suppliers need to interact with the community to get feedback on their products before launch to ensure they have not missed any vulnerabilities, a security researchers advises