Mobile technology

AI workflows – Nightfall: Shadow AI workflows eat security from inside

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rohan Sathe in his capacity as CEO and co-founder at Nightfall. Nightfall AI is known for its agentic data loss prevention ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

VMO2 looks to boost UK mobile connectivity with Giga Site

UK comms provider switches on first Giga Site in London, and claims to be marking a major step forward in delivering faster and more reliable mobile connectivity across the UK Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

BT reveals plan for 99% 5G standalone coverage by 2030

UK’s leading comms provider rebrands 5G standalone into 5G+ while revealing ambition to deliver almost universal population coverage over mobile standard by 2030, taking huge leap compared with rival UK MNOs Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has commissioned a senior lawyer to report back on whether there was any misconduct by police officers following the McCullough Review into the surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

D-Link DPP-201 powerbank 

Anybody who travels knows that sinking feeling when, just as you’re settling into your favourite movie on a long flight, your phone suddenly pings with a low battery warning. It’s not just a ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

UiPath & Snowflake unite on agentic automation 

UiPath has forged a deeper partnership with Snowflake. Styling itself as the “AI data cloud company” these days, Snowflake Cortex AI will now work alongside UiPath’s Agentic Automation platform. ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

UK Space Agency goes global with 23 projects

Projects designed to strengthen international space partnerships, develop national capabilities and boost economic growth include joint effort to support the development of high-performance non-terrestrial networks Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Home Office issues new ‘backdoor’ order over Apple encryption

A second Home Office technical capability notice requires Apple to provide access to encrypted data and messages of British users stored on its iCloud service Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

EU Chat Control plans pose ‘existential catastrophic risk’ to encryption, says Signal

As EU member states prepare to vote on plans to mandate tech companies to introduce technology to scan messages before they are encrypted, Signal warns that Chat Control will create new security risks Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Speaking in volumes: UiPath talks up Google Gemini models for voice agents

UiPath used its annual developer/practitioner event this week in Las Vegas to detail the launch of the UiPath Conversational Agent. The technology’s voice interaction is enabled by Google’s Gemini ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets

Cash accounted for less than 10% of payments in the UK in 2024, according to UK Finance figures Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Apple’s first iOS 26 security update fixes memory corruption flaw

Apple issues an update for its brand new iOS 26 mobile operating system, fixing a potentially dangerous vulnerability affecting iPhones, iPads and other Mac devices Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

AI Workflows- Appian: Up the abstraction ladder (not down the rabbit hole)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Medhat Galal, in his role as SVP of engineering at Appian, where he leads process automation transformation. Galal writes ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

NHS App set to front-end online health service access

Additional functionality is being built into the NHS App to provide online appointments and access to healthcare professionals across England Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

5G-enabled FWA CPE shipments form majority in 4 out of 7 global regions

Annual fixed wireless access CPE market survey reveals that as 5G-based FWA is increasingly the norm, suppliers expect shipments to accelerate, with over 50% of sales in key regions being 5G-enabled Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Boldyn Networks enhances 5G fan experience at AO Arena

Leading UK neutral host network provider engaged to deliver advanced 5G connectivity at sports arena in Manchester, one of the UK’s busiest entertainment venues and one of the largest indoor sporting homes in Europe Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Salesforce saddles up MuleSoft Agent Fabric for orchestration & governance

Agents need control. More specifically, agentic software services that bring forward new strains of AI automation and acceleration into modern IT stacks need orchestration and governance to oversee ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI-in-Box: Cloudera deepens integration with Dell ObjectScale 

Cloudera used its Evolve25 summit in New York this month to detail the integration of Dell ObjectScale with the company’s own platform. The aim is an advancement of the firm’s joint AI-in-a-Box ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI Workflows - AODocs: Fix permissions now, before the bots find them

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Stéphane Donzé, CEO of AODocs. AODocs provides cloud-native document management and governance solutions that help ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Nokia and Boldyn Networks deploy private 5G to power mining

Global comms tech firm teams with wireless neutral network provider for mining technology deployment to enable safer, smarter and more sustainable operations, where most workforces can operate from above ground Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

McCullough Review finds PSNI failures but no ‘systemic’ surveillance of journalists

A review by Angus McCullough KC reveals that Northern Ireland police failed to comply with the law but that there was no ‘widespread and systemic’ surveillance of journalists, lawyers and NGOs Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

UK Connect gains further support for Fusion construction connectivity

UK wireless communication services provider announces wider availability of connectivity offering that automatically selects the optimal network for a client’s site Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Morse Micro secures $59m funding to lead the next era of IoT

Fresh capital to accelerate Morse Micro’s expansion into international markets, scale production of its Wi-Fi HaLow chips and support the ecosystem shift toward IoT 2.0, characterised by high-throughput, long-range, scalable connectivity Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Verizon launches 6G innovation forum

Leading US communications company brings together comms technology producers to take early step in shaping the next generation of AI-enabled mobile Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

EU to shut door on Big Tech in financial data sharing

US tech giants to be excluded from EU’s Financial Data Access initiative, which enables the sharing of certain customer financial data Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Angus McCullough’s review: A reckoning for the PSNI – and for press freedom

The McCullough Review to be published on Wednesday could mark a turning point for press freedom and for policing in Northern Ireland Continue Reading

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• Donal MacIntyre

AI Workflows - Sysdig: MCP & the rise of 'toxic flows'

This is a guest post fot the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Conor Sherman, CISO in residence at Sysdig. Sherman writes in full as follows... Executives are betting heavily on agentic ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Ericsson, Nokia join VodafoneThree £11bn network build out

VodafoneThree announces signing of partnerships with global comms tech providers to supply technology across 17,000+ sites in one of Europe’s largest privately funded infrastructure projects Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Tech consortium unveils private 5G, AI-powered edge innovation hub

‘Pioneering’ hub for startups and nonprofits to test advanced private 5G and AI-powered edge use cases without the usual cost or deployment challenges Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

AI Workflows - Zencoder: Why it’s time to ‘harness’ AI agent orchestration (part 2)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Zencoder, it follows part 1 of this analysis here. Zencoder is known for its AI-powered ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI Workflows - Zencoder: Why it’s time to ‘harness’ AI agent orchestration (part 1)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Zencoder. Zencoder is known for its AI-powered coding agent that helps developers with ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI investments threatened by ‘fundamentally unreliable’ IoT connectivity

Study shows a third of businesses warn that poor internet of things connectivity is a barrier to AI adoption, with just 2% of deployments reliable enough for success Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

A decision by the French supreme court may pave the way for defendants to challenge the lawfulness of France’s hacking of the EncroChat and Sky ECC cryptophone networks used by organised crime groups Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Workday Rising Day 3: Microsoft collaboration & Agent System of Record

Workday staged its Workday Rising 2025 conference and exhibition to showcase its work to extend its human resources and finance platform, tools and services for the age of agentic AI - and the ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop

A UK solicitor hired by Hamas to challenge its proscription in the UK as a terrorist organisation argues police acted unlawfully by seizing a phone containing confidential legally privileged material about his clients Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Federated Wireless, Cisco validate commercial standard power for Wi-Fi 6E, 7

Networking and IT giant throws weight behind creating path to emerging wireless standard Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Workday acquires agentic AI-search & learning specialist Sana

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach spoke openly at Workday Rising 2025 to explain how his firm has developed some of its own talent pool organically (through internal skills and competency development) ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

GSA: NTN operator–satellite partnerships now in 80 territories

Study shows Starlink leading the satellite landscape with 44 partnerships, followed by AST SpaceMobile and Lynk, while in spectrum Ka-band remains most widely used frequency range, supporting both feeder and service links Continue Reading

Workday expands Illuminate, introduces Workday Data Cloud

Workday Rising 2025 was busy for product announcements. The company (which now defines itself as the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money and agents) announced new Workday Illuminate ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Workday Rising: Evolving the ‘agentic art of the possible’ for people & money 

Workday staged its Workday Rising 2025 conference and exhibition this week in San Francisco. The event was held to showcase development efforts the company has been undertaking to extend, enhance ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

CoreStory deseeds legacy wormholes with inner code intelligence 

Appley-sounding AI-powered code intelligence company CoreStory has this month explained how its technology addresses the ageing legacy application and system sluggishness problem... CoreStory ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

VMO2 5G standalone network reaches 500 UK locations

Leading UK operator expands next-generation mobile network reaching more than 70% of the UK’s population, claiming to have the largest 5G standalone network in the UK Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Nokia deploys world’s first 1900 MHz 5G radio network for Deutsche Bahn

Germany’s national railway company expands relationship with comms tech provider to deploy ‘world’s first’ commercial 1900 MHz 5G radio network solution with a 5G Standalone core, running on live outdoor test tracks   Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Space42, Viasat form joint venture to launch D2D 5G mobile satellite services

UAE-based AI-powered space tech company forms partnership with global communications provider to enable global delivery of D2D services facilitating evolution to a 5G network environment Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Solo Kagent Enterprise, bridges agentic K8S-AI infrastructure gap 

Cloud-native connectivity company Solo has detailed kagent enterprise, a context-aware platform for AI & agentic applications on Kubernetes. The company says that this release solves the ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Swissto12, Astrum Mobile hit satellite preliminary design milestone

Preliminary design review revealed for Astrum Mobile’s Neastar-1, said to be the first geostationary satellite-to-device mission in the region designed to change how mobile networks reach people across Asia Pacific Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Serving up tennis improvements through AI

Elite sports have long deployed artificial intelligence and computer vision to gather vital data to improve player performance and deliver marginal gains. Tennis is no exception - but now players can get data to ace performance Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Smart headset gives visually impaired a new way to ‘see’

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have created a wearable device that combines a camera with conversational AI powered by Meta’s Llama models to give sight to the visually impaired Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Ericsson claims first enterprise 5G agentic AI agent

Comms tech provider enhances NetCloud platform by integrating agentic AI technology framework to serve as enabler for future autonomously operating self-optimising 5G enterprise networks  Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Auditoria lends an AI ear to ‘conversational’ financial analytics

Auditoria SmartResearch is a technology that combines “finance-tuned” language models, ERP data and real-time data to create a service for finance teams that offers reactive reporting. Tabled to ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Post Office Horizon accounts are still a mess and replacement system is years away

Sources say the Post Office doesn’t know whether millions of pounds of branch discrepancies are real or not Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages

Law enforcement and police experts meet on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images amid growing opposition from security experts Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

IAA Mobility: Mercedes-Benz gears up AI-driven experiences in all-electric vehicles

Digital Chassis powers the next-generation MBUX system in CLA and all-new electric GLC car range to deliver immersive, AI-driven in-cabin functionality, real-time assistance and 5G connectivity Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

EE claims 5G world-first with advanced RAN coordination

UK’s leading operator becomes first company to launch Advanced RAN Coordination technology in distributed network to deliver more reliable 5G connectivity and 20% faster download speeds, with standalone network offering biggest boost Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

o9 Solutions aim10x 2025: Inside new agentic functions in demand planning

Enterprise planning software platform company o9 Solutions hosted its aim10x Americas event this month in Dallas, Texas, to a full crowd of attendees that included the Computer Weekly Developer ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI workflows - Camunda: BPMN as a tool for creating & orchestrating AI workflows

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Meyer in his capacity as CTO of Camunda. Camunda is known for its open source platform that automates business ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

UK contactless card payment limits could be unlimited

The UK Financial Conduct Authority says contactless payment technology and fraud protections have advanced enough for firms to adjust the limit Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IAA Mobility 2025: Qualcomm and Google Cloud team to enhance in-car experience

So-called ‘landmark’ technical collaboration brings together Gemini models and Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions to help automakers create deeply personalised and advanced AI agents to redefine customer experience Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

IAA Mobility 2025: Cerence AI develops AI agent for working on the go

Artificial intelligence-based conversational user experience firm develops voice AI agent for the car that integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot to address the rise of mobile work and associated distracted driving risks Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

IAA Mobility: BMW drives to software-driven future with Snapdragon Ride Pilot

AI-enabled automated driving system, powered by latest system-on-chips and an automated driving software stack, debuts in the BMW iX3 Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Nokia readies for comms AI super cycle with R&D facility

Research centre in Oulu to address comms industry on verge of next generation of mobile, as well as global marketplace in flux Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

IDTechEx: significant confusion surrounds SDV core meaning

Research firm questions whether software-defined vehicles are built for those actually driving them or for the industry selling them Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

What to expect from Cognite Impact: 2025

Global industrial AI company Cognite is staging its annual user, partner & customer symposium in Houston, Texas from 13-16 October and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team will be in ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Q2 2025 strongest second quarter on record for smartphone trade-ins

Quarterly investigation of US phone trade-in market shows record value Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

AI workflows - TetraScience: When AI meets the lab (lessons from scientific data workflows)

This is a guest post written by Naveen Kondapalli, chief development officer for TetraScience. TetraScience is a vendor-neutral, open cloud platform designed to transform raw scientific data into ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

AI in driver’s seat for real-time, in-vehicle experience

Platform designed to help automakers bring AI-powered features to vehicles faster, without waiting for new chips or cloud connectivity Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

EE boosts City of London mobile coverage with added outdoor small cells

Deployment of nearly 50 outdoor small cell sites go live for leading mobile network operator in UK’s financial hub, expanding coverage, and improving 4G and 5G connectivity Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Some 87% of enterprises see private wireless, edge ROI in a year

Research reveals surge of ROI and AI-enabled use cases with on-premise edge and private wireless sectors blossoming with many industrial enterprises deploying edge with AI-driven applications Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Kong acquires OpenMeter 

Cloud API company Kong has acquired of OpenMeter, an open source and SaaS platform for usage-based metering and billing. The acquisition is hoped to bring “usage-based monetisation capabilities” to ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Interview: Holland & Barrett CDO preparing a Michelin star-worthy data strategy

Holland & Barrett’s chief data officer discusses the framework – and reasons – behind the retailer’s multi-layered data strategy Continue Reading

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• Ben Sillitoe

AI workflows - xtype: Everything you wanted to know (no, really, everything)

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Willson, head of product marketing at xtype. The company is a venture-backed startup that provides platform ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Enterprise 5G set for ‘potentially intensive’ growth over next five years

Whitepaper notes rise of enterprise 5G use cases through AI, the cloud and 5G Standalone/5G Advanced with the support of key stakeholders such as regulators, governments, CSPs and connectivity ecosystem Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

AI Workflows - WisdomAI: Why we must move beyond reactive analysis

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Soham Mazumdar in his capacity as co-founder & CEO of WisdomAI. WisdomAI is a knowledge platform that connects into ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Cable plant spending to grow steadily, Open RAN stabilising

Analyst optimistic on tech spend on both wired and wireless comms with 2026–2028 to be peak years for spending, as operators prepare their networks for Docsis 4.0 and Open RAN showing signs of growth at last Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm

A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

8x8 lines up for Southampton FC to boost customer experience

Integrated customer experience platform provider extends role as official partner of English Football League Championship team, with cloud platform supporting ticketing and hospitality and delivering unique fan experiences Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

HONOR Magic V5

A smartphone that's the right size at last… and it’s about time. I’ve been saying it for weeks, months and years… in the age of the mobile-first ubiquity, the rise of smartphone OEMs telling us ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Nokia signals commercial 5G offering for next-gen digital railways

Rail communications service features commercial 5G radio for the 1900 MHz (n101) band, purpose-built to accelerate the sector’s digital transformation Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

5G mobile core market surges in Q2 2025

Research predicts robust growth for 5G mobile core market driven by RedCap-enabled IoT devices, 5G smartwatches, expanding MEC deployments and dynamic network slicing Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Private mobile network deployments return to growth

Research finds that mobile private network landscape is diversifying, with specialist and smaller players gaining traction Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Boldyn powers up 5G for VMO2 users at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light

Virgin Media O2 mobile users are first to benefit from Sunderland stadium’s 5G neutral host network, delivered under the auspices of the Open Network EcosysTem project Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

What is a SIM swap attack (SIM intercept attack)?

A SIM swap attack (SIM intercept attack) is a form of identity fraud in which the attacker transfers a user's phone number to a different SIM card to gain access to the user's phone calls, text messages, bank accounts, credit card numbers and other sensitive information. Continue Reading

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• Rahul Awati

Can the M1-Simba merger rewrite the telco playbook?

The merger of investment-heavy M1 and lean challenger Simba has created Singapore’s newest telecom giant. Their attempt to solve the “investment-agility paradox” could offer a blueprint for saturated telco markets in Asia-Pacific Continue Reading

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• Edwin Lin

Apple iOS update fixes new iPhone zero-day flaw

Latest Apple zero-day found in the ImageIO framework opens the door for targeted zero-click attacks on iPhone users Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Interview: Simon Goodyear, chief information and technology officer, Redwood Bank

Redwood Bank’s new IT boss is a problem solver who wants to eradicate every unnecessary Excel spreadsheet Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

What to expect from Sitecore Symposium 2025

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to Sitecore Symposium 2025. As many readers will know, Sitecore is recognised as a company that creates digital products through its agentic experience ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Warlock claims more victims as cyber attacks hit Colt and Orange

Ransomware gang Warlock is adding more victims to its data leak site as the impact of a spreading wave of cyber attacks continues to be felt Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Oracle Cloud and private 5G give added edge to SailGP

Global racing championship deploys 5G standalone network slicing to support seamless delivery of real-time communications, telemetry and live video connectivity across event sites in pursuit of $12m prize Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

What is iCloud?

Apple's iCloud is a free service that stores subscribers' photos, videos, documents, apps and more and updates everything across users' synced devices. Continue Reading

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• Scott Robinson, New Era Technology
• Jeremy Stanley
• Erin Darling

UK government looks to boost space sector growth

UK government departmental reform plan includes ambition to help streamline support for growing satellite sector, from tackling space junk to building and repairing craft in orbit Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

What to expect from Qualys QSC 2025

A firm fixture on the global technology event calendar every year, the Computer Weekly Developer Network is once again off to Qualys QSC Americas. Held at the JW Marriott Houston, Texas from ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Software engineers brace for foldable smartphone development

There was a time when we defined developers as developers. Then, over the years, they became mobile-first developers, cloud-native developers, API-first orchestration-aware developers and then… ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

O2 to upgrade Haven holiday parks mobile networks

O2 continues programme of mobile upgrades at holiday locations with announcement of enhancements to networks at 22 UK sites, aimed at ensuring connectivity can keep up with increasing customer demand Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘backdoor’ demands against Apple

US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘backdoor’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advanced encryption services to UK users Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

JetBrains details state of Python in 2025

JetBrains has detailed its eighth annual Python Developers Survey.  This survey is conducted as a collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains’ PyCharm team.  ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Concierge now on call 24/7 for Zoom Phone

AI-first work platform provider unveils integration of virtual agent with phone platform to deliver concierge experience for organisations that ‘goes beyond’ basic call answering services or auto-attendants Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

China Unicom 5G-A network powers world’s first humanoid robot games

Leading Chinese telco offers robot showcase next-gen 5G network that supports embodied AI realising seamless connectivity for both spectators and robots even during peak usage Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

EE continues UK mobile leadership in first half of 2025

Study of UK mobile market reveals ‘measurable’ performance differences between operators, with median 5G download speeds varying by more than 140Mbps between the fastest and slowest networks in some cities Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Series brief: AI workflow platforms & tools

AI got to work. Well, to be clear, AI has “gotten” to work for us as it now permeates enterprise applications with its automations, accelerators and ancillary augmentations that we hope will make ... Continue Reading

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• Adrian Bridgwater

The UK’s Online Safety Act explained: what you need to know

In this essential guide, Computer Weekly looks at the UK’s implementation of the Online Safety Act, including controversies around age verification measures and the threat it poses to end-to-end encryption Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor