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• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Enterprise WLAN industry makes tracks

  IDC research finds wireless connectivity remains a top priority for global business as bandwidth demands continue to increase and near real-time business applications require lower latencies

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Banks let customers down with mixed approaches to security

  Treasury Committee report recommends new measures to tackle financial fraud

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  Nordea brings fintech for women by women

  Bank’s female-only hackathon comes up with new ideas for financial services aimed at improving women’s financial wellbeing

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  5G core tech leadership race a close-run thing

  What is said to be the first competitive landscape assessment of the 5G Mobile Core arena shows the market is still very much up for grabs

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  IR35 reforms: Concerns raised over private sector’s lack of preparedness for April 2020 start date

  As the countdown towards the IR35 reforms coming into force in the private sector continues, research by recruitment firm Hays draws concerns over an apparent lack of awareness and preparation amongst enterprises

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UK government demands Ofcom boosts broadband development

  In a UK legal and regulatory first, UK government constructs priorities for telecoms regulator Ofcom, principally regarding the roll-out nationwide of gigabit-speed broadband

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  SK continues transition away from mobile dominance

  SK Telecom has shown an annual increase in its mobile communications business revenues for the first time in eight quarters, as it carries on with its plan to transform into a global “new” ICT company

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  BT network investments dig into half-year profits

  The need for speed, and the need to lay down and connect high-speed broadband and fibre, has put a break on the financial performance of BT over the first six months of its fiscal year

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Global smartphone market grows for first time in two years

  Range of market stimuli align to see global smartphone shipments growing 1% in the third quarter of 2019, bucking two years of declines

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• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Government review of cloud-first policy concludes guidance should remain unchanged

  A review into the continued relevance of the UK government’s six-year-old cloud-first policy has concluded its ‘brand recognition’ is too strong for it to be scrapped, according to GDS

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UK at the forefront of government AI investment

  Current and anticipated artificial intelligence spending is the highest in Europe despite various challenges around implementation, according to a report by Accenture

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  JEDI mind tricks: Did White House interference affect the outcome of $10bn US gov cloud contract?

  Microsoft's triumph over Amazon Web Services (AWS) in securing a $10bn cloud contract with the US Department of Defense has led to questions being asked about whether White House pressure changed the course of the procurement

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  NHSX reports advancements in artificial intelligence

  Latest study showcases the work in artificial intelligence that is ongoing in the NHS as part of its Long-Term Plan

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Facebook agrees to pay £500,000 fine over Cambridge Analytica data law breaches

  Social media giant also promises to change the way its platform is used to protect people’s data

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Apple finds good fit in wearables and services in fourth quarter

  Consumer electronics giant sees marked pivot from products to services in quarterly results

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones steps down amid sexual misconduct allegations

  CEO of Manchester-based cloud computing firm denies allegations of misconduct, and is taking a leave of absence while the claims are investigated

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Digital Realty and Interxion gun for market leader Equinix through colocation mega-merger

  The colocation market is continuing to consolidate, with Digital Realty confirming plans to acquire and merge with Europe's second biggest colocation provider, Interxion

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Li-Fi takes to the skies with Oledcomm

  Oledcomm claims a world’s first in equipping an Airbus commercial flight with Li-Fi connectivity technology

• October 31, 2019 31 Oct'19

  Alibaba Cloud earns security credentials in automotive and healthcare sectors

  Alibaba Cloud’s compliance with Tisax and GxP follows earlier efforts by major public cloud suppliers to win over enterprises with strict data protection and security rules

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  FCC guns for Huawei, ZTE in US comms network protection proposal

  US comms regulator proposes regulations that could see technology from Chinese suppliers such as ZTE and Huawei removed from US comms networks

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  L'Oréal builds Talend-based data lake in Microsoft Azure to accelerate product R&D

  Cosmetics giant L'Oréal reveals details of how it is combining Microsoft cloud technologies with Talend's data integration tools to speed up product development within its organisation

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  DWP outlines steps to reduce fraud and error

  The Department of Work and Pensions has released the priorities within its single departmental plan, including the new platforms National Debt Service and Counter Fraud and Error Management Service

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Cisco connects Canary Wharf for Wi-Fi 6 ‘seamless’ roaming

  OpenRoaming will allow devices to connect automatically to Wi-Fi and seamlessly roam from one hotspot to another

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Legacy monitoring tools hamper digital progress

  Older monitoring tools lack support for microservices, containerisation and serverless computing, Forrester Consulting warns

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  What will succeed the National Cyber Security Strategy?

  As the National Cyber Security Strategy nears the end of its working life, the government is considering what comes next, and is asking probing questions of its successes and failures

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Executive interview: Why the times are a changin’ in collaboration

  Companies are aware that the next wave of talent wants to work collaboratively, but how do you collaborate and what policies discourage collaboration?

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  UK gets low score in European e-gov ranking

  Leaders in the region got scores of over 80% while Britain achieved just over 61%, a Capgemini report has found

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Cost savings drive business automation

  While businesses are using automation to save money, many also see robotic process automation as essential to support new business initiatives

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  Singapore startup plugs AI skills gap with pre-trained microservices

  Sentient.io is offering artificial intelligence microservices that developers can use to augment their applications with speech recognition and other AI capabilities

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  How Aussie Broadband is improving service levels with automation

  Australian telco Aussie Broadband has improved customer service though automation, even with a lean team and a growing subscriber base

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Openreach: momentum needed now to hit all IP UK network target

  Openreach says time is very much of the essence if it is to meet its 2025 target of upgrading the UK’s comms infrastructure to a full fibre and All-IP technologies

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme

  Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Businesses at risk as mainframe skills die out

  Most businesses that are heavily reliant on mainframes fear a shrinking skills pool

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Fancy Bear resumes Olympic hacks ahead of Tokyo games

  Fancy Bear is back in action and once again targeting anti-doping bodies and sporting organisations, warns Microsoft

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Change CIO reporting structure to avoid missing KPIs

  The key performance indicators used by heads of finance to measure the effectiveness of CIOs is not sufficient to drive tech-led transformation

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Reykjavik: An IT ecosystem beyond the ice

  Iceland is a small island between Europe and the US, and that is one of several reasons why it is attracting tech startups to its capital

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Europe, MENA and enterprise adds colour to modest Orange Q3

  Solid commercial performance in France, Africa and the Middle East, as well as increased revenues from the Europe and enterprise segments, are drivers for modest profit and revenue growth for Orange

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Post Office IT trial judgement within days

  The judgment in the second trial in a multimillion-pound legal battle over an allegedly faulty IT system at the Post Office is imminent

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  C-Band Alliance offers new spectrum proposal to hasten US 5G roll-out

  In its goal of clearing and repurposing C-band spectrum to support fast 5G wireless deployment, C-Band Alliance updates its spectrum clearing proposal to US regulator the FCC

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  AT&T puts major acquisitions on hold for three years after mixed Q3

  Acquisitions on hold at AT&T after third quarter growing strategic and managed business services, US wireless and IP broadband are offset by declines in revenues from legacy wireline services, recently acquired WarnerMedia assets and domestic video

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  Why Singapore’s GovTech is building an IoT technology stack

  Government Technology Agency has built an internet of things technology stack to level the playing field for smaller firms and drive innovation in public sector IoT projects

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Birmingham 5G tests show +450 Mbps maximum download speed

  New RootMetrics report shows that early 5G roll-out brings breakneck speeds in limited availability, with vast promise moving forward

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Eutelsat launches satellite-based IoT connectivity service

  Satellite operator aims to address connectivity challenges of industries ranging from retail, banking and security to energy, mining and agriculture

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Politics and inflexible legacy tech stymies disruptive innovation

  Startups in traditional enterprises often feel they are being held back by culture, with legacy tech and business processes hampering innovation

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  5G projected to bring $1.4tn to global economy over next decade

  Survey from Huawei and STL Partners calculates that 5G mobile technologies are set to create an extra $1.4tn in gross domestic product for worldwide economies over the next decade

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  AWS 'surprised' over losing out on $10bn US JEDI cloud deal to Microsoft

  Microsoft has emerged as the victor in the long-running battle with AWS over who would secure a decade-long cloud contract with the US Department of Defense worth $10bn

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Ofcom updates mobile airwaves plan

  UK broadcast regulator reveals plans to release airwaves to improve mobile services for customers aiming to help more areas get better comms services

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Windows 7 upgrade haunts health service tech vision

  Windows 7 issues at the NHS are making headlines, 15 months after the release of the review of how legacy IT was exploited by the WannaCry attack

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Stronger regulations needed to fix banking IT problems, say MPs

  Regulators need to use more potent tools to get banks to sort out problems with their IT systems, as customers become more reliant on digital channels

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  UK government announces new funding for robot development

  The £34m package will go towards research around autonomous technologies to improve safety and public trust

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  P27 pan-Nordic payments system moves a step closer

  Six regional banks sign shareholders’ agreements, agree business plan and make financial commitments to payments platform

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling: enterprise customers won’t pay extra for AI

  Mike Ettling, chief executive, Unit4, spoke to Computer Weekly at the Unleash HR conference in Paris about ERP trends, and how he is positioning the firm he started running this year

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  London announces £10m cash injection for full-fibre connectivity

  New fibre-optic cabling scheme will use Tube network and public buildings to create a fibre backbone across the capital

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  IT professionals question networks’ readiness to support digital strategies

  Cisco’s Global Networking Trends report shows there’s a long way to go for today’s networks to meet the demands of the emerging digital era

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  UK government proposes £1.3bn scheme to improve rural mobile coverage

  UK government sets out its plans for a £1.3bn scheme dubbed the Shared Rural Network which will aim to wipe not-spots from the map

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Defra sustainable ICT paper highlights datacentre water crisis

  A new paper on sustainable ICT published by Defra in conjunction with the IT industry has identified the areas of e-waste that need urgent attention

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  How the DWP lifted two decades of outsourcing to adopt a cloud-first model

  For the past four-and-a-half years, the Department for Work and Pensions has been evolving into a cloud-first organisation. We find out how it has been getting on

• 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

• 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

  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

  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

  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