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• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  StreetWise gets into gear with London driverless car trials

  The StreetWise consortium, led by technology startup FiveAI in partnership with insurance firm Direct Line Group and the Transport Research Laboratory, announces testing of autonomous vehicles in South London in October and November 2019

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Government provides boost to artificial intelligence skills

  PhDs and researchers will be sponsored as part of a programme aimed at creating and retaining experts in artificial intelligence technology

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Cloud leaders invest in datacentres as public clouds expand

  Microsoft and Amazon have posted strong results for Q3 2019. Both are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to support cloud services

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  UKtech50 2019: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have picked a shortlist, now we invite readers to tell us who should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for 2019 by submitting your vote now

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  NHSX seeks chief technology officer

  The principal technology adviser to the organisation's CEO, Matthew Gould, should be interviewed by early December

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  College plans tech school at Bletchley Park

  Planning application aims to turn a selection of the listed buildings that housed Britain’s codebreakers in the Second World War into a facility for up to 1,000 students

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Refinitiv appoints first female CTO after IT leadership shake-up

  Alex Cesar steps up to be chief technology officer at financial service data provider Refinitiv, after previous CTO Phil Wellard took over as global CIO in September

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Know Fraud database became backlog dump

  Reports to Action Fraud handled by City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau were quarantined as security risk, finds HM’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  British Gas powers customer experience with third-party Salesforce app

  Its parent company, Centrica, uses Salesforce to support Hive – now British Gas is using a third-party Salesforce app to improve customer experience

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• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Global broadband market sees fibre push

  Trend towards fibre and dropping copper for broadband links continues in second quarter, but at a slower rate

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Splunk.conf 2019: Mentorship, advocacy and confidence for women in tech

  At Splunk.conf 2019 in Vegas, senior women in technology from firms such as Splunk, Boeing, and Sandia National Laboratories gave advice for navigating a male-dominated industry

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Verizon to give 5G, Fios customers a year’s worth of free Disney content

  US comms giant will offer all new and existing 4G LTE and 5G unlimited wireless customers access to the forthcoming Disney+ direct-to-consumer service

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation

  Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged

  Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Endpoint security is a procurement issue, says HP, IDC study

  Report warns that buyers are falling at the first hurdle on security by not including it in their endpoint RFPs and tenders

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  £4,000 bug bounty could have saved BA from record ICO fine

  British Airways and others could have saved themselves millions of pounds’ worth of fines by having ethical hackers check their systems for simple vulnerabilities

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Kinetica opens Melbourne office, bullish on data analytics

  Analytics startup is bullish about the Australian market as more organisations leverage GPU-based platforms to support real-time analytics

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Ministry of Defence to access IT skills via £1.5bn framework

  The new procurement vehicle is part of the department's plan to improve how it engages with the tech industry

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

  HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  CIOs should think about what it means when employees augment themselves

  The bods at Gartner may have watched a bit too much Hollywood sci-fi: will people really augment themselves with tech to do their jobs better?

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Take responsibility for cyber security basics, urges NCSC CEO

  At the launch of its third annual review, NCSC head Ciaran Martin appealed for individuals and businesses to address the fundamentals of cyber security hygiene to help lighten the load

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Interview: Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi, head of digital, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

  Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi is leading digital developments at Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil giant

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Australia, Singapore emerge tops in data readiness index

  Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific region in harnessing data to achieve key business outcomes

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  IoT connectivity management platforms flourish

  Berg Insight research reveals huge potential growth in devices managed on commercial internet of things connectivity management platforms, predicting a rise from 770 million in 2018 to 3.15 billion by 2023

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Banks move to contain impact of Samsung biometric flaw

  NatWest and Nationwide have moved to lock down their mobile banking apps after Samsung warned of a biometric security flaw on its Galaxy and Note S10 devices

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Abu Dhabi National Oil Company uses blockchain for inter-group network

  The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is using blockchain internally, with plans to expand it beyond the group boundaries

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Government to provide local data to proptechs

  Minister announces creation of a national index of brownfield site data and other initiatives to allow startups and property development companies to use public data to generate business

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Brexit: Withdrawal agreement lists EU IT data link beyond transition

  Document lists system-to-system IT and network connectivity that will be required after the UK leaves the European Union

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Porsche selects HPE for five-year software-defined datacentre strategy

  The IT business inside Porsche is deploying HPE servers and infrastructure on-demand as part of a hybrid environment

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Executive interview: How Moleskine digitises ideas

  Handwritten notes jotted down on paper are not often shared, but capturing these digitally can encourage a creative approach to collaboration

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

  VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Malware volumes decline, but risks are higher

  More insidious and targeted strains of malware are going after high-quality targets, rather than a large volume of targets

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Nordic governments open to Huawei’s ‘no spy’ offer

  Chinese tech giant seeks to reassure Nordic governments over security concerns in 5G contracts

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Attacker hit VPN firm Avast through its VPN

  Avast has published details of how attackers attempted to gain access to its network over a five month period

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

  The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Over-30s tend to do better at cyber security than younger colleagues

  Attitudes to workplace cyber security differ by age group, but not in the way one might imagine, according to a new study by NTT Security

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  APAC spending on AI systems to hit $6.2bn in 2019

  Led by China and organisations in the banking industry, APAC spending on artificial intelligence is set to grow by almost 64% this year, according to IDC

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  European companies hold back outsourcing amid recession fears

  Total outsourcing in Europe plummeted in the third quarter this year, compared with the previous three months

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Equifax lawsuit offers more evidence against passwords

  Equifax’s internal security policies were a mess and directly led to one of the largest recorded data breaches in history, according to a lawsuit, demonstrating fundamental insecurities inherent in the use of passwords

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Asset sharing essential to making 5G RAN affordable

  Rethink Technology finds that upfront cost containment has been the number one priority for cellular operators in the first stage of 5G deployment, and that three main tactics have been used to achieve this ambition

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Alleged state hackers adapting to cover their tracks, says NCSC

  A group called Turla with suspected links to the Russian government stole Iranian tools and infrastructure to obscure the origins of attacks on multiple other countries, according to new evidence

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market

  Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Qualcomm teams with Radisys to hasten 5G deployment process

  Chip maker Qualcomm inks 5G technology partnership with telecoms software provider Radisys for faster time to market and faster time to revenue

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  NHS Digital announces suppliers for GP IT Futures framework

  The NHS’s previous IT supplier framework for GPs – composed of just four suppliers – will be replaced by a pool of nearly 70 IT companies

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Trend Micro buys cloud security firm to broaden offering

  Acquisition of Cloud Conformity will address often overlooked cloud security fundamentals

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  CityFibre expands connectivity offer with Digital Wholesale Solutions

  Wholesale full-fibre provider CityFibre is to make its products available to independent communications, IT and cloud services provider DWS

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Sodinokibi emerging as a diverse, multi-vector threat to businesses

  McAfee shares insight into the Sodinokibi ransomware campaign gleaned from its network of honeypots

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

  Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Many companies fail to empower employee data-driven decision-making

  In a data-driven business, staff need access to the right data at the right time to help them do their jobs, but there appears to be a data gap

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  SAP cloud revenue boosted by Microsoft deal

  New contract with Microsoft will see Azure become the preferred hosting platform for ECC to SAP S/4 Hana cloud migrations

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  VR over 5G helps Belfast Harbour vision to become smart port

  Harbour teams up with BT to deploy 5G-enabled applications including virtual reality

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Australia government moots cloud marketplace

  The Digital Transformation Agency is planning a cloud marketplace for Australian government agencies to acquire a broader range of cloud services through a new procurement model

• October 20, 2019 20 Oct'19

  The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van

  Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  NHS e-prescriptions roll-out aims for £300m savings by 2021

  The final stage of digitising prescriptions in the NHS is expected to reduce inefficiencies, errors and paper usage

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, has died

  The software giant announced a leave of absence for Hurd only last month, while he underwent treatment for undisclosed health problems

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Home Office Brexit app finally available for iPhone

  A mobile app to help EU citizens apply for Settled and Pre-Settled Status after Brexit is finally available for Apple iPhone devices, but only on newer generations

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Talent shortage impedes UK business data analytics efforts

  Research from data blending and preparation supplier Alteryx finds UK businesses struggling to make the most of their data due to a shortage of data analytics expertise

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Two-thirds of UK financial services firms are using machine learning

  The use of machine learning in the finance sector is set to increase as obstacles to its take up are not seen as being insurmountable

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Due diligence requires a flexible, standardised approach

  A study has found that procurement professionals are not confident of the process for vetting new suppliers – but a one-size assessment approach does not fit all

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Huge rise in rogue banking apps driving fraud attacks

  Fraud perpetrated through fake mobile apps purporting to be from legitimate banks has seen a statistically significant spike, says RSA

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  O2 promises ‘revolutionary’ offers as it joins UK 5G party

  O2 has become the latest operator in the UK to offer a 5G network and claims to be able to demonstrate real-world 5G business use cases that can potentially boost the British economy

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Amazon consumer devices vulnerable to two-year-old exploit

  Millions of older Amazon Echo and Kindle devices are still susceptible to a Wi-Fi vulnerability that was first disclosed in 2017

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  BEIS launches multimillion-pound security investment package

  Government is making available more than £50m to support a range of new cyber security initiatives and collaborations, including the latest phase of its Digital Security by Design programme

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Barclays demonstrates proof-of-concept quantum clearing algorithm

  Barclays and IBM researchers publish paper on a quantum computing algorithm for securities transaction trading

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  NHSX could transform NHS security capabilities

  The health sector is increasingly confident that NHSX can deliver a streamlined, effective cyber security policy for the health service

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  London calling for Ding

  Dublin-based top-up mobile services provider Ding expands operations with new office in the UK

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Security threat landscape becomes more organised and business-like

  Approaches to securing the enterprise need to change in the face of a rapidly maturing threat landscape

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Abu Dhabi AI university open for applications

  New university in UAE aims to enable students, businesses and governments to increase the use of artificial intelligence technology

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Report calls for urgent replacement of health screening IT

  Major review of cancer screening programmes urges NHSX to prioritise the update of the underlying technology systems

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Three hit by network outage

  Telco blames “technical difficulties” for outage that has taken down voice, text and data services

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  IR35 private sector preparation: What the banks’ take on the reforms means for IT contractors

  With six months until IR35 tax avoidance reforms are extended to the private sector, a number of financial services firms are thinning out their contractor workforce – is that the way to ensure compliance?

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Emerging markets’ mobile financial services transactions set to surpass $1tn in by 2024

  Mobile financial services transaction value will grow by 70% from 2019 to 2014 to total more than $1tn, driven by markets such as Latin America and Cico transactions

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  Singapore kicks off first steps in 5G roll-out

  Singapore’s telco regulator will award 5G spectrum to mobile operators by the middle of next year, culminating in the deployment of two nationwide 5G networks by the end of 2022

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Government shelves age verification plans for online porn

  Plans to introduce age verification to access online pornography will not go ahead, with provisions around protecting children from inappropriate content on the internet to become part of wider regulations

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Commvault adds Metallic SaaS backup and Hedvig features

  Backup software maker adds software-as-a-service Metallic, which can protect on-premise, cloud and hybrid platforms. Meanwhile, Hedvig gets datacentre features and erasure coding

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Huawei defies US ban with rising revenues in third quarter

  Chinese telecoms equipment giant attributes 24.4% revenue growth to maintaining its focus on ICT infrastructure and smart devices

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  5G awareness and interest high but consumers struggle to see benefits

  The ramp-up of 5G networks would seem only a matter of time, but research suggests consumers are not yet seeing the light

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Brussels accuses Broadcom of breaching antitrust practices

  Competition commissioner says US tech giant’s behaviour is “likely, in the absence of intervention, to create serious and irreversible harm to competition”

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Pitney Bowes ‘considering options’ after malware attack

  Mailing and shipping services firm in recovery mode after key systems were encrypted by a malware attack

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Sweden’s first GDPR fine sets regulatory tone

  Secondary school fined for breaching General Data Protection Regulation, signalling the attitude of Sweden’s Data Protection Authority

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Southeast Asian organisations warm to Anthos

  Google Cloud sees pockets of interest in Anthos and could review its pricing strategy as adoption of the multi-cloud management platform grows

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Michael Cole, CTO, PGA European Tour

  Younger generations are turning away from golf – so golf is turning to technology to revolutionise the sport and improve engagement with fans and players

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Government IT hosting providers fail to provide emissions data

  Cloud computing is driving the government’s IT and sustainable tech strategy, but cloud and hosting providers are unable to divulge emissions data

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  HMRC fails to get new customs system ready for Brexit

  A National Audit Office report reveals that HMRC has opted for a multimillion-pound enhancement of a legacy platform rather than working on its planned replacement

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking

  Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans.

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Intel makes Pivot towards 5G with Smart Edge acquisition

  Chip giant Intel has signed a definitive agreement to buy the Smart Edge intelligent-edge platform business from infrastructure and service provider Pivot Technology Solutions

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Software architects struggle with relational database legacy

  Legacy relational database management systems were originally designed as systems of record, but they don’t work as well in modern, cloud-native designs

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Hugo Mathias, CIO, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

  For all the talk of a ‘paperless NHS’, replacing legacy systems and eliminating paper records is a challenge – but one that Hugo Mathias is tackling through real-time information and cultural change

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  UK government aims to measure success of digital initiatives

  Responding to a critical parliamentary report on digital progress, the government has laid out plans to develop better metrics and to overhaul legacy IT

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Huawei: Fresh mindset needed to speed up 5G development

  It may already enjoy pricing and technological advantages, but Huawei is calling on 5G industry to collaborate more, especially with regard to regulatory policy

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  CityFibre announces consultation to speed up full fibre switchover

  CityFibre undertakes industry-wide consultation process regarding the role of builders such as itself in developing the switchover from legacy copper networks

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Attackers hunt iPhone jailbreakers in click fraud campaign

  Research by Cisco’s Talos threat intel unit has identified a new click fraud campaign targeting people looking to jailbreak their iPhone devices

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  TfL to use artificial intelligence to run London’s road network

  Transport for London is seeking input from companies about how it can use data-intensive technologies to predict the impact of road problems across the capital

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  OVH rebrand signals renewed push to become Europe’s alternative cloud provider of choice

  French public cloud provider OVH has undergone a rebrand and doubled down on its pledge to offer European enterprises an alternative place to store their data

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Braintree boasts broadband benchmark

  Braintree in Essex claims to have access to some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  AI Singapore to set up on-premise HPC infrastructure

  Singapore’s national AI programme is getting its own high-performance computing infrastructure to support more compute intensive workloads

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  UK government confirms gigabit broadband roll-out, rows back on 2025 delivery commitment

  UK government confirms plans to roll out gigabit-capable broadband across the UK, yet quietly shelves previous pledge to do so by 2025

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Private equity swoops on Sophos

  British cyber security star picked up by technology sector investors for $3.9bn

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Researchers reveal the cyber campaign that built China's new airliner

  CrowdStrike has published details of a coordinated campaign of cyber espionage and hacking, forced technology transfer and physical theft as China seeks to gain an advantage in the commercial aviation industry

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Digital and innovation apprentices to start NatWest programme

  NatWest is kicking off a tech apprentice programme, with its digital innovation hub set to play a key role