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• August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

  Investment flows towards Nile to redefine enterprise networks

  Latest funding round designed to allow next-generation enterprise network provider to accelerate market expansion amid growing global customer demand

• August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

  Singtel adds Zscaler SSE to managed security services portfolio

  Singtel teams up with Zscaler to offer a managed security service edge service as it looks to ramp up its enterprise business

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Mobile satellite connectivity soars for Eutelsat across fiscal year

  Financial year sees leading satellite operator bring into service three new craft, and also sees it justify business pivot to supporting fast-growing space connectivity sector

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Telia president and CEO Allison Kirkby to take over as BT chief executive

  CEO of leading Baltics and Nordics telco to take the reins at BT Group in early 2024, offering support for current business strategy and next phase of development

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Sateliot, Telefónica claim 5G first for roaming connection from space

  Low-earth orbit 5G IoT satellite constellation provider teams with Spain-based global telco to extend cellular network roaming to space in test supervised by European Space Agency

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  SUSE takes aim at Red Hat in Linux, Kubernetes play

  SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen outlines strategy to capture the Kubernetes opportunity and offer enterprises an alternative to RHEL following Red Hat’s decision to limit access to RHEL source code

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Baicells, Alef, Sky Packets team to take LTE networks across unserved communities

  Community connectivity programme takes advantage of funding options and Private CBRS networks to deliver affordable broadband and digital equity for the unconnected

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Splunk .conf23: The dangers of party planning as a woman in tech

  Why should women in tech seek mentors, mentees and male allies – and avoid party planning? Some of the women at Splunk and its customers explained at .conf23

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  G-Cloud 13 suppliers claim framework extension is making it ‘commercially unviable’ to sell through

  Government procurement chiefs at the Crown Commercial Service are under fire for extending the life of the G-Cloud 13 framework and preventing suppliers from upping their prices as inflation bites

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Lancaster Uni lends cyber support to nuclear decommissioning body

  Lancaster University’s cyber team has joined with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to help support and protect its 300-year mission, while enhancing its own capabilities in the process

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Risks of opening up AI

  Meta has annouced that its Llama 2 large language model will be freely available under a community licence with certain restrictions

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Scottish university hit by Rhysida ransomware gang

  Data allegedly stolen from the University of Western Scotland has been put up for sale on the dark web by a ransomware gang going by the name Rhysida

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore

  ServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Fibre growth drives revenue uptick but BT sees broadband losses in first quarter

  BT posts first-quarter 2024 results vindicating strategy of focus on core networks and benefit of inflation-linked price rises, but broadband division sees overall fall in customers

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  Church of England gives blessing to Vodafone Open RAN to boost rural mobile

  Leading UK operator joins hands with church to improve 4G mobile coverage in rural UK locations

• July 28, 2023 28 Jul'23

  How Indian organisations are keeping pace with cyber security

  Indian organisations are shoring up their defences to improve their cyber resilience amid intensifying cyber threats targeted at key sectors such as healthcare and logistics

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  European Commission starts investigation into Microsoft Teams bundling

  The commission will investigate if the bundling of Microsoft’s collaboration software with its office productivity suite breaks competition rules

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  HMRC hits back at contractor hiring ban claims after accounts reveal no outside IR35 workers

  The government tax collection agency has once again been forced to deny it has banned the use of outside IR35 contractors following the publication of its latest set of accounts

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Cyber criminals pivot away from ransomware encryption

  Cyber breaches that saw data theft and extortion without an encryption or ransomware component account for more and more incidents, in a possible indication that ransomware gangs are changing up their business models

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  US cyber breach reporting rules to have global impact

  Organisations that operate as Foreign Private Issuers in the US will have to get to grips with strict new cyber breach reporting regulations handed down by the SEC in Washington

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Post Office tried to convince independent IT witness that he was wrong about Horizon

  ‘Delusional’ Post Office tried to influence an expert witness and get him to change his view about IT evidence which was detrimental to its case against a subpostmaster

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Meta results show impact of data fines and datacentre upgrade strategy

  The owner of Facebook is battling with regulators over transferring EU data to the US. It is also seeing less improvements on CPUs

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  IBM debuts Cloud Carbon Calculator to help enterprises manage their GHG emissions

  Tech giant IBM has announced the general availability of a tool designed to help enterprises track and curb the greenhouse gas emissions generated by their on-premise and cloud-based activities

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Smallsat market defies challenges to fly higher

  Research finds that despite supply challenges and market leader moving to larger form factors, small-form satellite market keeps growing in all metrics due to increasing government investments and new commercial entrants

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Xcel Energy deploys Nokia private LTE for US grid modernisation

  Comms tech provider’s private LTE network technologies to see use in supporting new levels of automation

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Ant Group teams with NTU to advance privacy-preserving technologies

  The Chinese fintech giant is partnering with Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University on a cryptographic protocol that ensures the privacy of transacting parties

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Community Fibre gigabit broadband network passes a million London homes

  UK capital’s largest 100% full-fibre broadband provider passes seven figures in its bid to offer over two million residential properties the ability to access its gigabit services

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Cyber attack on IT supplier hits two major ambulance trusts

  Ambulance trusts serving millions across southern England have been hamstrung for the past week after a cyber attack took down their hosted patient records system

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Inside Cloudera’s data platform strategy

  Cloudera executives outline their business and technology strategy to help enterprises harness generative AI and other capabilities through its work in the open source community and other areas

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  ETSI launches OpenSlice group to deliver mobile network slicing as a service

  Association for ICT development, ratification and testing of standards introduces software development group for dedicated portions of mobile networks

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  UK organisations lack confidence to carry out basic cyber tasks

  Amid a shortfall of more than 10,000 cyber pros, UK businesses are still finding it difficult to fill their cyber security skills gaps, with even those in charge of security saying they lack confidence in themselves

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  Artificial intelligence puts Microsoft Azure in top gear

  Microsoft’s latest quarterly earnings results show the company’s public cloud business was the largest contributor to revenue

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  EE and Three make strides, but no clear leader in UK 5G stakes

  Latest figures from mobile network testing experts find UK consumers are the clear winners to emerge from continued 5G competition, though two players stand out in terms of download speeds

• July 26, 2023 26 Jul'23

  eero reveals Communities spirit for indoor connectivity

  As multi-dwelling population rises, so do connectivity needs, and technology firm unveils purpose-built network management tool for managed properties designed to make it easier to deploy and manage mesh Wi-Fi

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Digital transformation to drive tenfold rise in 5G mobile connections in Asia-Pacific

  Survey finds APAC’s uptake of 5G will continue gathering pace until the end of the decade, but barriers in certain countries mean the region still has one of the largest usage gaps in the world

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Cisco, BT and others launch network security coalition

  Network Resilience Coalition focuses on bringing together global expertise to improve data and network security

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  CCRC refers two more subpostmaster convictions for appeal

  Two more subpostmaster convictions referred to appeal court by the Criminal Cases Review Commission

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Subscriptions dip, jobs to be cut, but Virgin Media O2 sees positives in Q2

  Second-quarter 2023 results see UK operator increase revenue generation and expand network with particular emphasis on full-fibre, but 2,000 employees set to be axed by the end of the year

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Forestry and Land Scotland uses Nutanix to gain breathing space in cloud modernisation

  With its datacentre contract coming to an end, the Forestry and Land Scotland agency, which has a cloud-first strategy, needed a way to manage cloud migration

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Google reveals how AI and machine learning are shaping its sustainability strategy

  Google's latest annual environmental report reveals details about how the technology giant's ‘artificial intelligence-first’ policy is shaping its ongoing efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of its customers’ operations

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Tetra radio users’ comms may have been exposed for years

  A number of flaws in the encryption algorithms used in the secure Tetra radio communications standard have potentially left users exposed to snooping

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Mayor of London announces startup funding

  Seven technology startups working on the Mayor of London’s Poverty Prevention Challenge will receive up to £50,000 each to further develop their proposals, designed to help alleviate the cost-of-living crisis for the capital’s most vulnerable

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Small satellite testing gets funding boost

  A new facility has been established as part of the government’s £200m funding for Earth Observation

• July 25, 2023 25 Jul'23

  Soracom teams with Skylo to deliver cloud-native IoT non-terrestrial network connectivity

  Advanced IoT connectivity company inks deal with non-terrestrial network service provider to deliver cloud-native, space-based connectivity solutions

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CIO interview: Sean Green, University of East Anglia

  In his role as director of digital and data at the University of East Anglia, Sean Green provides high-performance computing to researchers and manages the diverse needs of a campus with the characteristics of a small town, all while finding the ...

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Airbus extends Astrocast partnership to enhance satellite IoT technology 

  Satellite internet of things tech provider extends business relationship with Defence and Space division of global aerospace leader

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Business segment boon for Vodafone in first quarter

  As it works out how to merge business with erstwhile rival, UK operator posts first-quarter results showing green shoots of recovery, after fiscal 2023 leading to turnaround strategy based on customers, simplicity and growth

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  CunoFS brings Posix file access to S3 object storage capacity

  Developed out of data compression tools for genomics, PetaGene gateways allow application servers Posix-based file access to the deep data stores of S3 object capacity

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  BT, OneWeb demonstrate high-speed satellite connectivity delivery to island community

  UK’s leading telco and satellite communications provider join UK government to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity to island in country traditionally under served by high-speed broadband

• July 24, 2023 24 Jul'23

  Citrix NetScaler users told to patch new zero-day urgently

  A vulnerability disclosed and patched last week by Citrix appears to be being exploited by China-backed threat actors as a zero-day, prompting warnings from government cyber bodies