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• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  TikTok influencers are better than finance firms for money advice, say quarter of young adults

  Young people are turning to TikTok-based influencers for advice on how to manage their finances and where to bank

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  APP fraud volumes expected to double by 2026, says report

  Losses to authorised push payment fraud in the UK are expected to climb to over $1.5bn in the next four years. Meanwhile, the NAO accuses the Home Office of lagging on progress to tackle the issue

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  NHS Scotland extends video consultation scheme

  The Scottish Near Me video consultation platform can now be used in community settings such as libraries and health and care centres for GP appointments, hospital appointments, care homes, dietetics and mental health support

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Hispasat, Sencinet expand satellite broadband in Mexico

  New agreement between managed services and solutions network integrator and satellite communications operator expands and extends currently contracted capacity until December 2024

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

  Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

  Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board

  Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Orange takes 5G to Africa

  New healthcare, education and security services to be enabled in Southern African country as global telco unveils first affiliate in continent of Africa to launch 5G commercially

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  CaixaBank robot answers the most customer questions

  AI-based virtual assistant at Spanish bank is now used by over four million customers

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Private 5G drives sustainable and agile industrial operations

  Consortium of companies spanning industrial automation, 5G networking infrastructure technology and network service provision team up to enable industrial private 5G application uses cases within manufacturing and process operations

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  How Google and Mandiant are forging synergies in cyber security

  Google’s AI smarts and Mandiant’s intelligence on new and emerging threats could lay the foundation of proactive security

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  G-Cloud 13 launch hits shaky start as suppliers complain about missing framework functionality

  After the start date was pushed back two months, the roll-out of the G-Cloud 13 procurement framework has been beset with a technical glitch that prevents non-buyers from seeing the services on offer

• November 14, 2022 14 Nov'22

  Orange Belgium sets new 5G standard in Liège

  Belgian subsidiary of global telco adds to portfolio of 5G Labs in the country, showcasing new 5G use cases together with industries local to key city of Wallonia

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Metaverse could add up to $1.4tn a year to Asia’s GDP

  The metaverse may still be in its infancy, but sustained investments in the technology over the next decade could have a significant impact on Asia’s economy

• November 13, 2022 13 Nov'22

  Online scam victims lose an average of £1,000 each

  New data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau shows victims of online fraud lose an average of £1,000 per person

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  CityFibre celebrates Dundee anniversary, makes splash in Brighton & Hove

  Full-fibre platform makes mark at both ends of the UK, racking up two-year presence in growing gaming hub in North East Scotland and arriving on shore of South of England’s leading coastal resort

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Volume of self-reported breaches to ICO jumps 30%

  The number of self-reported breaches to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office soared by nearly 30% in the 12 months to 30 June 2022

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  MoD recruits Immersive Labs to bolster cyber resilience

  UK’s Ministry of Defence will run cyber drills and address its security talent gap with Immersive Labs’ CyberPro, Cyber Crisis Simulator and Application Security products

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Lenovo bolsters services play with PCCW Solutions

  Lenovo’s acquisition of PCCW Solutions brings sought-after capabilities in hybrid cloud and application modernisation as it expands its services footprint in Asia

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Defra confirms final settlement of £86.5m with HMRC over ‘historic’ IR35 status assessment errors

  The conclusion of HMRC’s long-running enquiry into errors made by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when assessing the IR35 status of its contractors has seen it pay a final settlement of £86.5m to the tax collection agency

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  Qualcomm claims 5G standalone mmWave milestone in China

  Noting 5G standalone mmWave is poised to unlock new capabilities for enterprises, mobile chip giant reveals high-level mmWave performance in anticipation of commercial deployment in China

• November 11, 2022 11 Nov'22

  17 West Midlands NHS trusts deploy digital pathology

  Trusts hope digital pathology programme will transform cancer diagnosis in the region and reduce backlogs

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits

  Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  5G industry innovates towards next-generation wireless networks

  New whitepaper from industry trade organisation for leading telecommunications service providers and manufacturers explores foundations of 6G wireless communications in 2030 and beyond

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Cyber criminals have World Cup Qatar 2022 in their sights

  Volumes of malicious cyber activity around the upcoming FIFA World Cup are already starting to tick upwards and are likely to continue to do so

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Loan charge contractors hit with fresh loan repayment request from new firm

  IT contractors who participated in loan-based remuneration schemes and were previously pursued to repay loans issued to them by a company called Felicitas Solutions are now being chased for payment by a new entity

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  OneWeb spreads satellite connectivity wings into Asia and Africa

  UK government-backed satellite broadband provider announces distribution partnership with satellite service company in Oman and the Middle East, and appoints connectivity services provider for government and enterprise customers across Africa

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Ericsson, Technical University of Sofia to prepare students for 5G-ready future

  Leading Bulgarian education establishment collaborates with comms tech provider to deploy programme that builds 5G ICT skills for the future, including 64 hours of training on 5G technology and standards

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  SES Eagle-1 to fly on Arianespace to offer quantum connectivity

  Launch date confirmed for Eagle-1 satellite for European Space Agency’s end-to-end quantum key distribution system

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  Largest 5,000 enterprises to increase WAN spend by 44% by 2026

  Research predicts that revenue from port charges, software-defined wide area network and broadband will grow, while legacy networking’s contribution to overall market revenue set to decrease by 55% by 2026

• November 10, 2022 10 Nov'22

  ODI fuel poverty survey shows young adults most hard up

  A fuel poverty data report and index from the Open Data Institute shows that young adults and people in multi-occupied accommodation are most at risk

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Optus earmarks A$140m to cover cost of data breach

  Optus sets aside A$140m as an exceptional expense for a customer remediation programme following a massive data breach that affected 10 million customers

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Anything can happen so IT teams need to be ready, says Kyiv City Council CIO

  Kyiv City Council’s IT team has experienced challenges faced by no other tech department and is determined to use what it has learnt to take Ukraine forward when the war is over

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  UK’s National Cyber Advisory Board convenes for first time

  Government convenes National Cyber Advisory Board to further its goals of making the UK one of the safest places to live and work online

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Microsoft serves smorgasbord of six zero-days

  November’s Patch Tuesday fixes significantly fewer vulnerabilities of late, but includes six actively-exploited zero-days, three of them of critical severity

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Fujitsu expert witness in subpostmaster trial ‘manoeuvred’ into role, public inquiry told

  A former Fujitsu technology expert who defended the Horizon system’s robustness in court was unhappy after being ‘manoeuvred’ into acting as an expert witness, public inquiry hears

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  British broadband customers blast proposed mid-contract bill rises

  Four in five Brits regard planned mid-contract price increases as unfair and want their monthly bills to stay the same for the duration of their deals, says Uswitch.com

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Qualcomm, Renault go up a gear in electric vehicle partnership

  Leading car manufacturer and mobile technologies firm announce plan to enter a strategic long-term cooperation, encompassing co-development of high-performance computing platforms based on Snapdragon Digital Chassis Solutions for next generation of ...

• November 09, 2022 09 Nov'22

  Why Sophos is bullish on managed security services

  Sophos has grown its managed detection and response business to more than $100m over the last three years as more organisations grapple with the increasingly complex cyber security landscape

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  VMware CEO tells enterprises to become 'cloud-smart' to speed up pace of digital transformation

  During the opening keynote of the VMware Explore Europe conference, the firm’s CEO shared his observations on how enterprise attitudes to cloud migrations are changing as IT leaders look to pick up the pace of their digital transformation projects

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Nokia, Optus unveil ultra-low-latency Sydney to Melbourne network

  Australian operator takes on comms tech provider’s network infrastructure offering to upgrade its existing long-haul network and address growing market demands for bandwidth

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Samsung claims 5G mmWave FWA milestone in Australia

  Company set up to run Australian national broadband infrastructure hits milestones in 5G mobile during trials, achieving what is said to be an industry-leading speed of 1.75Gbps at a distance of 10km

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  NortonLifeLock, Avast debut new ‘Gen’ identity

  The combined NortonLifeLock and Avast consumer cyber business, Gen, says it will serve over 500 million customers worldwide

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Six subpostmaster convictions referred for appeal in Scotland

  Six former subpostmasters in Scotland will have appeals against criminal convictions heard after being referred by Scotland’s Criminal Cases Review Commission

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  Renault confirms Google as preferred cloud partner

  French motor manufacturer is extending the reach of its long-standing technology collaboration with Google by naming the firm as its preferred cloud partner

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  How organisations can right-size their data footprint

  More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges

• November 08, 2022 08 Nov'22

  TIP 5G plans to pave the way to transform private 5G network economics

  Following what it says was a successful trial led by a group dedicated to the key element of next-generation mobile networks, TIP 5G releases connectivity blueprint

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Singtel, China Telecom Global to lead undersea cable consortium

  New Asia Link Cable system will connect Hong Kong and Singapore with the Philippines, Brunei, and Hainan in China

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Motorola plots Emergency Services Network exit

  On the back of a stinging report, Motorola begins exit strategy from UK Emergency Services Network, which is revealed to have acted as a $147m fixed asset impairment

• November 07, 2022 07 Nov'22

  Gartner Symposium: Welcome to the age of force multipliers

  Tech has always been asked to do more with less. Gartner says that if applied correctly, smart IT decisions offer multiple benefits simultaneously