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• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Huawei Connect 2018: China on the hunt for AI talent

  At Huawei Connect 2018 in Shanghai, Huawei shared insights into how the developing artificial intelligence industry is changing the face of IT talent development in Asia-Pacific

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Windows 10 update pulled after file losses

  Microsoft has been forced to stop the October 2018 release of Windows 10 because users have complained it deletes files

• October 09, 2018 09 Oct'18

  Grab signs up for Azure, nabs investment from Microsoft

  Ride-hailing, delivery and mobile payments firm will use slew of Azure services to improve operations and customer experience

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  High Court blocks Google iPhone privacy lawsuit

  The UK High Court has thrown out a group action lawsuit against Google for tracking iPhone browsing data, but campaign group Google You Owe Us, which brought the litigation, will appeal the decision

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  NCSC head calls for technocratic partnership to fix cyber risks

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is appealing for collaboration with the technology industry to remedy key vulnerabilities in current IT

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Airbus secures European institutions against cyber threat

  Airbus CyberSecurity has partnered with Atos to help protect 17 European government institutes from cyber attacks

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  ICO hits Heathrow Airport with £120,000 data breach fine over lost USB stick

  Information Commissioner’s Office fines airport after a member of the public came across a USB stick containing sensitive personal information about airport staff

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost

  Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  NHS trust uses automation and virtual workers to speed up referrals

  East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation trust is using intelligent automation and virtual workers to monitor and process referrals from GPs in five of its specialist clinical units

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Geospatial Commission pumps £5m into unlocking value of location data

  Commission wants to unlock the value of location data held by its partners through the use of emerging technologies

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Google Safety Center goes live in the UK

  Google says its commitment to transparency is as strong as ever as its new Safety Center goes live in the UK to help keep businesses and consumers safe online

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Hortonworks Cloudera merger proposal stirs market pot

  The proposed merger between Hadoop distributors Cloudera and Hortonworks stings MapR, and elicits analyst comment pointing up the threat from cloud players AWS, Google, and Microsoft

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Amazon and Apple deny claims Chinese government bugged their servers

  Amazon and Apple have publicly refuted a Bloomberg report that claims their servers were tampered with and bugged during the manufacturing process

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  EE switches on 5G test network at Canary Wharf

  MNO explores high-capacity zone testing for its 5G network roll-out, with the first phase expected to target hotspots such as London’s Canary Wharf

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Telenor retrains 20,000 staff as it prepares for impact of digital tech

  Norway-based mobile phone company Telenor, which provides phone services in Scandinavia and Asia, is challenging its workforce to spend 40 hours a year learning digital skills as it prepares for the impact of digital technology

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  GDPR case work swamps Denmark’s data protection agency

  The agency investigating alleged breaches of GDPR in Denmark is recruiting additional resources to cope with the increase in work

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Business secretary awards regulators £10m to drive innovation

  Regulators will be given funding to drive innovation and strengthen regulations in areas such as automation, data and artificial intelligence

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  AI will boost productivity in the NHS, says digital minister

  Digital minister Margot James thinks artificial intelligence could liberate NHS clinicians and boost productivity across the health service

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Education doesn’t encourage creative thinking, says Apple co-founder

  Speaking at Splunk.conf 2018, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared his belief that the education system dampens creativity

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Cloudera and Hortonworks sink differences to merge

  Hadoop distributors Hortonworks and Cloudera have sunk their differences and announced their marriage

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Security Serious Unsung Heroes announced

  Awards celebrate the people of the cyber security industry on the front lines of organisations battling cyber threats

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Business email compromise made easy for cyber criminals

  Poor security practices and access to hacking services are making it easy for cyber criminals to compromise business email, research reveals

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Apps are gateway to business data for cyber attackers

  Application security is becoming increasingly important because apps are often the main way cyber attackers are getting into corporate networks, a threat researcher warns

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  CIO interview: Niall Quinn, technology director, Crown Commercial Service

  The Crown Commercial Service’s technology director talks about how the government’s procurement agency is working to make buying easier, drive innovation forward and shake up the public sector

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  UK and allies accuse Russia of cyber attack campaign

  The UK National Cyber Security Centre has identified a campaign by the Russian military intelligence service of “indiscriminate and reckless” cyber attacks

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Digital Catapult launches Ethics Framework for AI and machine learning

  Innovation centre hopes to foster responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  How Starbucks is using Splunk to automate mundane security tasks

  Coffee giant Starbucks is using Splunk to automate some of its more tedious security tasks to reduce the workload for its cyber staff

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  APAC SMEs still hanging on to older PCs

  A majority of small and medium-sized business in Asia-Pacific are still using PCs older than four years out of cost and application compatibility concerns

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  London tech startups awarded £15,000 as part of Mayor's 'smart city' initiative

  Eight London tech startups have been awarded £15,000 each to help Mayor of London realise vision of the capital as a world-leading smart city

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Companies failing to recognise the internal cyber threat

  The focus at many companies is on external cyber threats, and internal threats are being overlooked as a consequence, a researcher warns

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Violin launches XVS8 flagship high-performance flash array

  Reborn Violin Systems launches flash boxes that can scale to petabytes and are aimed at transactional, analytics and virtualisation use cases, with NVMe upgrades expected

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  CIO interview: Jason Oliver, ICT director, Science Museum Group

  The Science Museum’s outgoing ICT director talks about improving data, dealing with legacy systems and digitising the museum’s collection

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Tech should intentionally seek out black talent, says Splunk rep

  Speaking at Splunk.conf 2018, a representative of the data firm explained how the technology industry can engage with young people from the BAME community

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Blind faith in AI risks flawed decisions

  AI is the new snake oil. Mathematician and TV presenter, Hanna Fry believes humans should be cautious when using algorithms in critical decision making

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Majority of businesses believe they are open to cyber attack

  More than two-thirds of businesses believe their network is open to attack, a report on the state of web application security reveals

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Matt Hancock plans to sequence five million genomes in five years

  The health secretary aims to expand the government-funded 100,000 Genomes Project and sequence five million genomes over the next five years and roll out genomic testing across the NHS

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Diversity key for innovation, says Carnival Corporation CEO

  The CEO of travel brand Carnival told Splunk.conf 2018 that having diverse teams is the best way to drive innovation throughout a business

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  AI full of possibilities with the right tools and understanding

  Artificial intelligence has the potential to assist in the analysis of data in a range of topics, but businesses need to understand its limitations and have the right tools to get the most benefit, says a Swiss entrepreneur

• October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

  Rise in data-stealing Betabot malware

  Researchers are warning about an increase in Betabot malware after detecting multiple infections in recent weeks, underlining the importance of software patching

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  How Bank of England is using Splunk for proactive security

  Head of the Bank of England’s security operations centre talks about how Splunk is helping it to take a more proactive approach to preventing cyber attacks

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  How Australian firms are plugging the tech talent gap

  Australian companies such as Atlassian and Ansarada are now turning to international options to access scarce talent

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Technology shouldn’t leave anyone behind, says Jeremy Wright

  DCMS secretary of state highlights investment in 5G and superfast broadband, and says no one should be left behind by technology

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Filling the blockchain chasm

  Blockchain as a term is becoming common language, but there is a long way to go before it will mean anything to the performance of most organisations

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Industry backs Norway’s AI powerhouse project

  Industry and academia in Norway are working together to boost the country’s artificial intelligence capabilities

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Openreach extends full-fibre broadband roll-out to Coventry

  Openreach is forging ahead with its Fibre First full-fibre broadband programme and has started to roll out ultrafast services in Coventry

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Government explores blockchain to make buying and selling property easier and cheaper

  HM Land Registry moves into the next phase of a project that will use the latest technologies to speed up property transactions

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Porsche Informatik deploys OpenShift to accelerate software development

  The automotive manufacturer's software arm is using a Red Hat private cloud to develop new trading platforms

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Full-fibre broadband penetration reaches 5%

  The number of UK properties able to access a full-fibre broadband connection has hit a small but significant milestone, according to Ofcom

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Open Compute Project eyes European enterprise adoption with Experience Centre opening

  The Facebook-backed Open Compute Project is getting its first European Experience Centre in Amsterdam, as part of a three-way collaboration between its members to get more enterprises using its technology

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Singapore government makes bold cloud move

  Most government IT systems will be migrated to commercial cloud services within five years, while a private government cloud will host more sensitive workloads

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Berners-Lee’s startup promises more control over web data

  Startup will support open source platform that allows users to choose how and where their data is stored

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Launch of NHS app marks a new era

  The NHS has begun piloting its coveted app, but how exactly will it work, and what does it mean for patients accessing the health service?

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Government launches public consultation on smart data

  Smart data review aimed at encouraging new data services to help customers of utilities and banks

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Police Scotland sets out 10-year digital plan

  Scottish Police Authority has approved Police Scotland’s 10-year digital transformation plan, which aims to bring the country’s police forces into the 21st century and requires £244m in capital funding and £54m in reform funding

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  UK will unilaterally tax web giants, says Hammond

  Chancellor threatens to go it alone on tax reform for digital services businesses if an international agreement cannot be reached

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  New cloud storage services for Microsoft Azure at Ignite 2018

  Microsoft launches Data Box hardware appliances for cloud ingestion, Avere vFXT cloud NAS, Ultra SSD storage based on NVMe flash and Azure Premium file storage

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  UK firms’ password security score ‘average’

  While businesses are making strides in strengthening password security, there is more work to be done, with the UK password score lagging behind the frontrunners, a survey shows

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Two autonomous vehicle projects funded in government contest

  The National Infrastructure Commission’s Roads for the Future contest has awarded a £50,000 prize fund to two projects exploring how to make the UK’s roads ready for connected and autonomous vehicles

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Tesco Bank gets first cyber-related FCA fine

  UK’s financial watchdog issues its first cyber-related fine to Tesco Bank in connection with a multimillion-pound cyber fraud in 2016

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  CIOs unsure how Brexit will affect their ability to hire IT staff

  Harvey Nash/KPMG survey shows CIOs are looking to boost their IT teams, but US and UK immigration rules may block their plans

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Mobile will be more disruptive for retail than online, says Facebook representative

  Facebook’s retail industry head says mobile technology is likely to cause a bigger shift in retail than online shopping did

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Facebook could face up to $1.6bn fine for data breach

  Facebook is under increased pressure to demonstrate that users’ personal data is protected as it faces a potential fine of more than a billion dollars for a data breach affecting millions of users

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia

• September 30, 2018 30 Sep'18

  Openreach completes largest Tupe transfer in history

  More than 30,000 BT employees have transferred across to the quasi-independent Openreach, completing what is thought to be the largest one-off Tupe transfer in history

• September 30, 2018 30 Sep'18

  UKtech50 2018 – help us find the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly’s annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is on – let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  EU sees eIDAS regulation come into full force

  A regulation aimed at cutting red tape to enable a digital single market in Europe will soon be in full force, but it could present some challenges to the UK after Brexit

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  No let-up in digital banking glitches as TSB and HSBC customers are hit on payday

  Online and mobile app banking outages continue to increase in regularity as TSB and HSBC customers report problems

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Citizens Advice makes super-complaint over rip-off phone charges

  Citizens Advice is calling for a fair deal for consumers that it claims are being ripped off by out-of-contract charges by communications services providers and the financial services industry

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Brighton’s 5G experiment enters new test phase with focus on virtual reality

  The latest phase of the Digital Catapult’s 5G mobile network testbed in Brighton has begun, with digital businesses from across Sussex taking part in trials of augmented, mixed and virtual reality technology

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Cyber attackers are increasingly exploiting RDP, warns FBI

  Businesses should to act to reduce the likelihood of compromise from cyber attackers exploiting the remote desktop protocol, warns the FBI

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Finland’s e-retail sector driven by international growth

  Finland has a fast-growing e-retail industry as a positive consequence of the huge job cuts at Nokia

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Blockchain is no ‘magic wand’ for cyber security

  The decentralised nature of blockchain networks may deter some cyber crooks, but ASEAN organisations still need to pay heed to the security of their blockchain infrastructure

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Network growth brings management challenges

  As enterprise networks grow, so do the challenges of managing them effectively, says a report compiled by Oracle’s communications unit

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Business is at inflection point for proactive cyber security

  The time is ripe for proactive cyber security, but many organisations must first overcome four key obstacles to achieve effective protection, according to a research report

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Explosion in fake data-stealing shopping sites

  Cyber attackers are ramping up efforts to steal personal data by setting up look-alike domains that pose a phishing risk to online shoppers, researchers warn

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Norwegian state discusses vulnerabilities with IT sector

  Government is collaborating with the country’s IT industry to improve the availability of security expertise

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Replication won’t protect VMs against ransomware

  Seamless replication is among the benefits of virtualisation, but many organisations fail to back up virtual machines properly

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Object storage: On-prem, in the cloud and hybrid

  We take a look at the object storage market and products and find offerings made to build public and private clouds that often provide a link between the two

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Fraser Ingram, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank

  Fraser Ingram joined the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking group as CIO just at the right time – as it was embarking on its digital journey

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Uber fined $148m for data breach cover-up

  US court hits Uber with heavy fine which security industry commentators hope will encourage firms to take cyber security more seriously and resist the urge to cover up data breaches

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Open for business: Microsoft on using cross-industry collaboration to drive AI use in the enterprise

  Microsoft's multi-year effort to drive adoption of artificial intelligence technologies has entered a new phase, with the firm banking on openness and cross-industry collaboration to boost enterprise take-up

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Agile IT held back by legacy tech and legacy budgeting

  CIOs admit their organisations cannot keep pace with digital transformation initiatives, with capex budgeting and legacy IT part of the problem

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Best supply chain firms are masters of data and automation

  Europe’s best supply chains are making the most out of e-commerce, customer insights and robotic process automation, according to Gartner

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Australian teen Apple hacker avoids jail time

  “Fan” who broke into Apple’s mainframe from his home in Melbourne has avoided prison because the information he gathered was recovered

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Creativity and tech ‘two sides of same coin’, says 2018 Most Influential Woman in IT, Amali de Alwis

  The winner of Computer Weekly’s 2018 Most Influential Woman in UK IT award, Amali de Alwis, says creativity and technology go hand in hand in the modern world

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Most Influential Women in UK IT 2018: Rising Stars

  Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choices for this year’s female Rising Stars of the UK tech sector

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK IT 2018

  Computer Weekly has announced the list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK IT 2018, including this year’s winner Amali de Alwis

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  ICO threatens fines for outstanding fees

  The UK’s privacy watchdog has issued warning letters to organisations, including some NHS trusts and government organisations, for failing to pay a new data protection fee

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  At the new Cisco, culture is as important as innovation

  Cisco’s newly appointed SVP of Emear, Wendy Mars, shares her thoughts on the state of network innovation within the industry, and explains why cultural change is just as important an element of a digital strategy

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Indian IT giant TCS sees IBM and Accenture as nearest rivals

  Rapidly-growing Tata Consultancy Services has its eyes on the US IT giants, with customer service key if it is to overtake them

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Rural business bodies seal new broadband agreement

  The Country Land and Business Association and the National Farmers’ Union have reached an agreement with Openreach to put new wayleave arrangements in place for broadband network builds

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Financial services firms face potential security bombshell

  UK financial services are facing a security crisis over outdated services and applications, a survey shows

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Australia’s ANZ banks on Google Cloud

  The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group has signed up for the Google Cloud Platform to help its bankers deliver data insights to institutional customers

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Benioff calls for ‘inclusive capitalism’

  At Dreamforce 2018 in San Francisco, Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff argued for what he called “inclusive capitalism” and urged the technology industry to set the highest possible ethical standards

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Fujitsu teams up with UTCs on cyber security training

  Fujitsu, University Technical Colleges across England and other private sector partners have joined forces to help address the cyber security skills gap

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Nipping DevOps challenges in the bud

  A clear focus on helping enterprises overcome hurdles in their DevOps journey has been central to Puppet’s growing footprint in Asia

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  PCI DSS compliance falls despite security benefit

  Despite the benefits of the payment card industry security standard, there is a concerning downward trend in compliance, a report reveals

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  MI5 admits to ‘unlawful’ spying on Privacy International

  The UK's intelligence agencies acted unlawfully by intercepting communications data on NGO, Privacy International, the UK's most secret court ruled.

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  NHS Digital to publish new guidance on data standards

  Data could be a huge advantage for the NHS, but data quality and accessibility is still a big challenge, says NHS Digital CEO Sarah Wilkinson as she promises clear guidance on standards and interoperability