Internet technology
Internet technology has transformed businesses and public services, and as a result has also revolutionised the IT department. Web trends such as e-commerce, social media, Web 2.0 and cloud computing are essential elements of any successful IT strategy. We follow the latest developments and help IT managers choose the right products for their organisation.
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News
07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
Data initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains Continue Reading
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News
13 May 2024
Norway bolsters digital transformation drive
Norway’s government backs digital transformation with major capital investment this year Continue Reading
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News
20 Feb 2023
App-based Zopa bank buys BNPL fintech
App-based Zopa bank is adding a buy now, pay layer platform to its technology stack through its first acquisition Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Feb 2023
Dynatrace Perform: A session with developer advocate Kelsey Hightower
Dynatrace ended its Perform 2023 conference this week in Las Vegas with a set of additional keynotes designed to leave attendees with some additional thoughts on how the company’s technology is ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2023
Virgin Media O2 makes deal for small business broadband customers
Leading UK operator announces faster upload speeds for its small business broadband services, with customers now able to access 10:1 download to upload speed ratio across all Voom packages Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Feb 2023
Dynatrace delivers low-code no-code AutomationEngine
Software intelligence company Dynatrace has launched AutomationEngine, a new element of its higher-level Dynatrace platform technology proposition. This service features what is described as an ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Feb 2023
Dynatrace Perform keynote day #1: an observability automation vision defined
Software intelligence company Dynatrace used its annual ‘Perform’ software application development and data engineer user, customer and partner event this February to detail its company vision and ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2023
UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader
Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Feb 2023
The AI resource challenge: It’s infrastructure & compute, not data scarcity
Where would you look for a 2023 state of AI infrastructure analysis, if you really needed one? The answer should be obvious, of course, it’s Tel Aviv in the Holy Land. A study by Israeli AI ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2023
‘Buy now, pay later’ crackdown in the making
The finance regulator has proposed bringing ‘buy now, pay later’ providers within its regulatory remit Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2023
Payment tech provider opens Finnish tech hub
Nordic payment tech supplier opens a hub in the Finnish city of Espoo to access expertise Continue Reading
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Definition
14 Feb 2023
social media policy
A social media policy is a corporate code of conduct that provides guidelines for employees who post content on the internet either as part of their job or as a private person. Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2023
UAE central bank programme to accelerate digital transformation
The United Arab Emirates government launches programme to accelerate the digital transformation of the country’s finance sector Continue Reading
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News
14 Feb 2023
Researcher exposes crypto scam network exploiting YouTube
A massive network of fake YouTube videos promoted by automated sock puppet accounts is reeling in hundreds of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and persuading them to hand over their money, WithSecure researchers found Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2023
Hycu aims at universal SaaS backup with R-Cloud
Hycu’s R-Cloud aims to provide an API-driven backup product for any software-as-a-service application for enterprise customers, based on a simple low-code development environment Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2023
Porsche revs up Formula E team with NetApp hybrid cloud
Porsche’s electric car racing team has to set up on city street courses in short order, and does it with a portable server setup and hybrid cloud storage managed by NetApp GFC Continue Reading
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News
13 Feb 2023
Ericsson boosts indoor 5G capacity, precise location services
Comms tech provider introduces suite of indoor hardware and software to make indoor 5G easier for enterprises with precise-location software that enables enterprise use cases such as asset tracking and tool positioning Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Feb 2023
CW EMEA: Kyiv is ready for anything
CIOs must be ready for the unexpected, but not many CIOs and IT teams face keeping a city’s vital IT running while fighting for their lives. In this issue of CW EMEA, Oleg Polovynko, CIO at Kyiv City Council, explains how the IT team in the Ukrainian capital has kept services running for its residents amid relentless bombing by Russian forces. We also look at how the Netherlands is planning to regulate AI to reduce bias, how highly accurate time protocols ensure fair trading in finance, and the use of technology in agriculture in Denmark. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2023
BNPL accounted for 12% of UK online spending in January
Buy now, pay later products from fintech providers accounted for 12% of the £8bn spent online in the UK in January, according to analysis Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Feb 2023
Oh, Canada - Open Infrastructure Summit gathers
No, not there, not this time. Not Las Vegas, not Barcelona, not Orlando, not San Francisco and not even France’s nice Nice or London’s ‘OMG that’s too far away’ fabulous ExCeL convention centre. ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Feb 2023
Social media platform Reddit breached in phishing attack
An unspecified threat actor obtained access to internal documents, code and business systems at Reddit after stealing employee credentials in a phishing attack Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Cost-of-living crisis creates appetite to switch banks
As millions of Brits struggle with their finances, many view tailored financial services as beneficial Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk pauses datacentre downsizing push in wake of outage
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has called a temporary halt to the company’s push to cut costs by downsizing its infrastructure expenditure after an outage left users around the world unable to post tweets Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Cisco looks to Full-Stack Observability Platform to address demands of experience economy
Experience is everything in the new world of work, as organisations disrupt their own business to get a full view on how networks ensure operations will be more important Continue Reading
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News
09 Feb 2023
Consumers want tech-driven clothing stores
As consumers increasingly visit stores as the pandemic subsides, NTT Data finds that technology in shops could persuade consumers to return to physical shopping Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2023
Prolific social media fraudster jailed for three years
Ramzan Abubakarov of Hendon will serve three-year prison sentence after using Telegram to coordinate series of frauds which netted almost £2m Continue Reading
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News
08 Feb 2023
Cisco unveils toolkit for greater network visibility and control
Tech giant introduces cloud services in Operations Dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and provide industrial IoT customers with path to cloud automation for Operational Technology Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Feb 2023
Augmented reality in retail: The second coming
H&M, Avon, Very and others’ usage of augmented reality in retail could mean we’re reaching tipping point for the technology in 2023 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Feb 2023
Civo makes a PaaS
Containers are a massive element of cloud. We know this core truism underlines much of the way the as-a-Service model of computing, analytics and storage is developing. Positioning itself as the ... Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Feb 2023
The one problem with AI content moderation? It doesn’t work
The use of artificial intelligence for content moderation is likely to become more pronounced with the passage of the Online Safety Bill, but practitioners and experts question the efficacy of this approach Continue Reading
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News
07 Feb 2023
TSB pilots pods as branch replacements
TSB joins Barclays in adopting banking pods to ensure customers have access to physical banking services as the number of high street branches declines Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2023
Online banks still riddled with cyber security flaws, report says
Online bank Virgin Money was found to have the weakest online and application security measures in a Which? study but Nationwide, TSB and The Co-Operative Bank all failed on multiple points, too. Continue Reading
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Definition
06 Feb 2023
B2C (business-to-consumer)
B2C, or business-to-consumer, is a retail model where products or services move directly from a business to the end user who has purchased the goods or services for personal use. Continue Reading
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Definition
03 Feb 2023
newsgroup
A newsgroup is an online discussion forum where users can post messages, exchange ideas and read the comments of others. Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2023
Finance regulator finding more misleading promotions quicker through improved digital tools
UK finance regulator able to find and block misleading promotions faster through improved digital tools Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Feb 2023
What to expect from ThoughtSpot Beyond 2023
Times change. This time last year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was headed out to Las Vegas for ThoughtSpot Beyond 2022 with a whole set of health and safety advisories to guide us ... Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2023
FCA cracks down on misleading promos by social media influencers
Social media is becoming a major part of the FCA’s work in clamping down on misleading financial advertising and promotions, with multiple influencers rapped for their behaviour Continue Reading
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News
03 Feb 2023
Record fibre growth fails to halt mixed Q3 for BT
Strategy of focus on fibre and 5G vindicated in financial results showing leading UK telco buffeted by inflationary headwinds – but also seeing benefit of growing investment in fixed network infrastructure Continue Reading
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Definition
02 Feb 2023
Pinterest
Pinterest is a social curation website for sharing and categorizing images found online. Continue Reading
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News
02 Feb 2023
UK government announces plans to protect consumers through cryptoasset regulation
UK government wants feedback on its plans to regulate organisations operating in the cryptoasset sector Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Feb 2023
NTT & Palo Alto Networks get sassy on secure SaaS SASE
NTT Ltd. has changed. It’s a long time since the company was known as the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, that name was only used when the organisation was established as a state ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2023
Romance fraudsters stole £65m from Brits since 2020
Online romance fraudsters have scammed Brits out of £65m in the past three years, according to retail bank TSB Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2023
CryptoRom scam abuses Apple and Google app stores to claim victims
Sophos researchers report on two fake apps used by romance scammers to lure victims into parting with their money, both of which were able to escape the attention of Apple and Google app store safeguards Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Feb 2023
Sysdig lifts ‘lid’ on container image risks
Sysdig says it’s ‘driving the standard’ for cloud and container security - but how? The company reminds us that it ‘pioneered’ cloud-native runtime threat detection and response by creating Falco ... Continue Reading
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Tip
31 Jan 2023
Fine-tune a social media emergency plan with ISO 22329:2021
Social media and its effective management are major interests for emergency management professionals. Find out how ISO's recent standard can help guide a social media strategy. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Jan 2023
Facebook wall
A Facebook wall refers to the space on a Facebook user's profile where other users can post messages, pictures, videos and other digital content for their friends or the public to see. Continue Reading
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Definition
31 Jan 2023
meta description tag
A meta description tag is a snippet of HTML code in a web page header that summarizes the content that's on the web page. Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2023
Digital banking changing the high street forever as banks close branches and open alternatives
Banks are reshaping their channels as customers move to digital services, with physical innovation complementing digital strategies Continue Reading
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E-Zine
31 Jan 2023
How the cost-of-living crisis is affecting IT
In this week’s Computer Weekly, with major tech companies announcing thousands of job cuts, we examine what the cost-of-living crisis means for IT leaders and tech professionals. We analyse what you need to consider when reversing systems out of the cloud and back on-premise. And Very Group’s CIO talks about the post-pandemic challenges facing online retailers. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2023
BT tests out high-altitude flying antenna
The trial with Stratospheric Platforms may lead to hydrogen-powered drones being used to provide 4G and 5G rural coverage Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Jan 2023
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 are websites and applications that make use of user-generated content for end users. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jan 2023
Data of 10 million JD Sports customers accessed in cyber attack
Data on 10 million people who shopped online at JD Sports over a two-year period was accessed and potentially stolen in a cyber attack Continue Reading
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News
27 Jan 2023
Lords question ‘extensive’ government online safety powers
Digital minister Paul Scully defends government Online Safety plans to give secretary of state powers to direct Ofcom Continue Reading
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News
26 Jan 2023
Final months of 2022 saw highest ever number of bank account switches
More people than ever before switched their current account provider using the government’s switching service Continue Reading
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Definition
25 Jan 2023
UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
UDDI, or Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, is an Extensible Language Markup (XML)-based standard to describe, publish and find information about web services. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2023
UK Treasury recruiting digital currency leader
The UK government’s investigation into the merits of a central bank digital currency gathers pace at it looks for a team leader Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2023
Neos Networks completes full-fibre access promise for key UK cities
Just over a year after UK business connectivity provider opened its first metro access network to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses, such services are now live in four key UK cities as part of an ongoing expansion programme Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jan 2023
Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve
Storage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right Continue Reading
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News
25 Jan 2023
Virgin Media O2 taps Juniper to upgrade core IP backbone for 800G readiness
Need for increased data capacity and flexible scalability highlighted by 32% traffic growth on its mobile network,16% growth in broadband data downloads and a peak traffic load of 22TB over the past year Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2023
AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037
Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country Continue Reading
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Definition
24 Jan 2023
World Wide Web (WWW)
The World Wide Web -- also known as the web, WWW or W3 -- refers to all the public websites or pages that users can access on their local computers and other devices through the internet. Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2023
IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail
With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down Continue Reading
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News
24 Jan 2023
Vodacom lands 2Africa subsea cable in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
What is described as ‘transformative’ subsea cable lands at the Vodacom facility in Gqeberha at South Africa’s Eastern Cape to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country and drive digital inclusion Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2023
NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors
Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming Continue Reading
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Opinion
23 Jan 2023
The rise of fraud in pop culture is impacting consumers’ digital trust
Shows such as The Tinder Swindler and Inventing Anna were big money-earners for Netflix in 2022, but Onfido’s Mike Tuchen says their popularity risks damaging consumer trust Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation
Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage
Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
Year-on-year growth down to more customers, says Ocado
As the customer landscape shifts, Ocado reports year-on-year revenue growth in the last quarter of 2022, bolstered by a successful Christmas Continue Reading
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News
20 Jan 2023
WhatsApp’s £4.8m fine raises questions for organisations using behavioural advertising
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has fined WhatsApp, owned by Meta, in a case that will raise questions for organisations that rely on contracts rather than consent to comply with GDPR when offering behavioural advertising Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2023
Zayo expands 400G fibre to connect Paris and Marseilles
Leading global communications platform boosts European fibre infrastructure with a new fibre route to link up two major French cities, supporting traffic growth and making it easier and more secure for enterprises to send traffic to the rest of Europe and the US Continue Reading
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Definition
19 Jan 2023
doomscrolling
Doomscrolling, sometimes also called doomsurfing, refers to constantly checking disturbing or upsetting news articles or videos online, often via social media. Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2023
UK government reveals Cornwall as next port of call for Project Gigabit
Latest contract in UK government’s Project Gigabit programme given to Wildanet to deliver ultra-fast broadband in south-west and mid-Cornwall connecting nearly 20,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2023
UK seeks to ban sharing ‘positive’ Channel crossing videos online
Under UK government amendments to the Online Safety Bill, video footage that shows people crossing the Channel in a ‘positive light’ could be added to a list of illegal content that all tech platforms must proactively prevent from reaching users, while senior managers could face further criminal sanctions Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jan 2023
Encord offers ML toolkit for computer vision apps
Encord is data-centric computer vision company. The firm’s Encord Active is a free open source industry-agnostic (Ed: they mean its works in all verticals, presumably) toolkit that enables machine ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Jan 2023
David Anderson KC to review UK surveillance laws
Home Office commissions independent review of the Investigatory Powers Act, known as the snoopers’ charter. It will include a review of bulk datasets and government access to internet connection records held by phone and internet companies Continue Reading
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News
18 Jan 2023
Nokia, Telefónica successfully test 25G PON technology in Spain
Noting ever-increasing consumer bandwidth demands and the need to support applications such as the metaverse, operator announces demo of new FTTH technology to offer new business services on same network as home connectivity Continue Reading
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Definition
18 Jan 2023
Yahoo
Yahoo, or Yahoo.com, is a web services provider that offers both a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2023
Orange juices JDE expansion with SD-WAN
Telco’s Business Services division selected by global coffee company to secure end-to-end connectivity offerings for more than 120 locations worldwide Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2023
Southern Cross switches on third 400GbE transpacific link
Specialist international capacity provider and optical network technology provider announce commercial availability of ultra-high throughput along 15,840km network Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2023
Cloudflare urged to clamp down on pirates, counterfeiters
A whitepaper produced by brand protection specialist Corsearch calls on Cloudflare to do more to stop online content piracy and sales of counterfeit goods Continue Reading
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News
16 Jan 2023
Cash use rises for first time in 13 years as cost of living increases
The number of cash withdrawals increased last year, for the first time in 13 years, but remains below the pre-Covid-19 figure Continue Reading
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News
16 Jan 2023
The Security Interviews: Protecting your digital self
Our digital self – the virtual presence of who we are online – has a pervasive influence in the real world. People make judgements based on these digital depictions, so what can be done to ensure positive representation? Continue Reading
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News
16 Jan 2023
CIO interview: Matt Grest, Very Group
The Covid-19 pandemic changed many things, including an increase in remote working – so how is the Very Group approaching the workplace and talent post-Covid? Continue Reading
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News
13 Jan 2023
Unionised contract workers who train Google’s AI win pay rise
Google contract workers employed at artificial intelligence training supplier RaterLabs have secured their first-ever pay rise, following collective demands that Google fulfil its own commitment to pay its extended workforce a minimum of $15 an hour Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth
AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
CityFibre continues gigabit roll-out to non-metro south of England
UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform begins work on £50m digital transformation project in Kent Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
Chrome vulnerability could have led to widespread data theft
A dangerous vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers could have put billions of users’ files at risk of being stolen Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
UK net neutrality regulation failing all stakeholders
Leading analyst releases study showing net neutrality regulation is failing consumers, innovators and investors, calling for evidence-based broadband policy Continue Reading
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News
12 Jan 2023
Cloudflare completes SASE offer with Magic WAN Connector
Software-defined wide-area network functionality released by online application acceleration and infrastructure provider Cloudflare to complete single-supplier secure access service edge offering Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2023
SMEs eye moving business to challenger bank
Known for their consumer banking success, challenger banks are now winning over hearts and minds in the small business sector Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2023
Internet shutdowns cost global economy $24bn in 2022
Deliberate disruption of people’s access to the internet by governments is having a substantial economic impact and contributing to a range of human rights abuses, primarily against protestors Continue Reading
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News
11 Jan 2023
What’s happening with quantum-safe cryptography?
Chinese researchers claim quantum technology is reaching a point where a quantum device will soon be able to crack RSA 2048 public key encryption Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2023
Latest Innovate Finance report reveals decrease in UK fintech investment, but like-for-like increase
Innovate Finance’s latest figures on fintech investment show reduction in UK, but report methodology leaves this open to change Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2023
‘Anomaly’ sees first UK space mission fail to reach orbit
Despite optimism surrounding historic first attempt to launch satellites from UK, mission reaches space but falls short of reaching target orbit Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jan 2023
Kubernetes monitoring cluster map widens workload observability
Based in Tel Aviv, groundcover is a start-up focused on the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. Built as an extension to BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology used in certain ... Continue Reading
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News
10 Jan 2023
Launch window opens for UK’s first orbital mission
All systems go for first space mission in UK as project partners announce the official opening of the Start Me Up launch window Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2023
Proposed digital fraud refund rules risk excluding many victims
Proposals to establish a fraud refund mechanism in the UK risk excluding many victims of digitally enabled fraud, a major bank has warned Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2023
New UK laws to see homeowners, tenants get better access to fast broadband
UK government mandates that almost all new homes in England must be built with gigabit broadband connections during construction, making it easier for homebuyers, renters and some leaseholders to upgrade to ultrafast services Continue Reading
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News
06 Jan 2023
Meta to appeal £345m fine for Facebook and Instagram privacy breaches
Social media company Meta is to appeal after the Irish Data Protection Commission fined the company for breaching GDPR Continue Reading
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Definition
05 Jan 2023
Google Chrome browser
Google Chrome browser is a free web browser used for accessing the internet and running web-based applications. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jan 2023
Cashless Denmark has no bank robberies in a year for first time
Denmark saw no bank robberies in a single year for the first time ever, but online fraud continues to increase Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jan 2023
Anyscale, it’s not a shame about Ray
Anyscale is the company behind Ray, an open source unified compute framework for scaling machine learning or Python workloads Ray was built to make it easy to scale AI and Python workloads — from ... Continue Reading