• Google takes on FaceTime and Skype with Duo
• MoD launches £800m futuristic tech fund
• PoS malware attacks highlights need for security standards in hotel industry
• UK data scientist roles grow by 32% in first half of 2016
• Case study: Improving food safety and traceability
• HMRC ramps up digital tax plans
• Financial sector faces era of cyber mega heists
• Disaster Tech Lab brings emergency internet to refugee camps
• Cloudian makes HyperStore object storage available from AWS
• Sage data breach underlines insider threat
• Europe lags US in gigabit broadband deployments
• Slow response to Privacy Shield EU-US data transfer programme
• Robot Wars: Team Storm uses modern IT to breathe new life into legacy machines
• Mobile internet will grow GDP and generate jobs in Asean countries
• Government announces digital apprenticeship service as part of apprenticeship levy guidelines
• Care charity Avante enhances unified communications capabilities with 3CX
• Financial cyber attacks increase as malware writers join forces
• Russia competition watchdog fines Google $6.8m over Android
• Newcastle and Gateshead take public Wi-Fi network to the streets
• Nimble adds to all-flash arrays with entry-level AF1000
• Security pros split on government access to cloud data, survey shows
• IT business confidence in UK drops by a fifth
• Mobile devices becoming first port of call for shopper info
• IT departments fear they lack skills to implement IoT
• Google Fiber to expand tests of gigabit-speed wireless broadband
• IDC: Global public cloud spend set to double by 2020
• Nordic CIO interview: Johan Tömmervik, SKF
• Prisons to get power to remotely pull plug on illicit mobile phones
• Rackspace divests Cloud Sites as managed cloud services take off
• UK well equipped to protect data after Brexit, says new ICO head
• Facebook suppresses ad blockers to maintain revenues
• South East Coast Ambulance Service deploys EPR on iPads
• Intel to acquire AI firm Nervana Systems
• Microsoft hails cloud security breakthrough with encrypted data
• IPT fines Police Scotland for communications breach of privacy
• MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules
• Operator Alfa launches Lebanon’s first LTE-A network
• PwC Australia uses gamification to teach cyber security lessons
• Finland brings e-patient records and 5G into health tech testing
• Retail banks ordered to open up APIs
• E8 launches D24 NVMe PCIe SSD-based all-flash arrays
• Global infosec spending to reach £63bn in 2016, says Gartner
• Vodafone to end broadband landline rental charges
• Met Office moves weather observation site to Azure
• Oracle Micros breach highlights PoS and supply chain security risks
• Gen-Z visit stores to ‘validate’ product purchases
• Half of vehicle cyber vulnerabilities could give hackers control, study shows
• Affluent Singapore middle class turn to banking apps
• Australians vent census privacy concerns
• IT failure grounds Delta flights worldwide
• Interview: Sainsbury digital experience boss shuns silos
• Home Office dishes out £23m to digital policing projects
• Strider cyber attack group deploying malware for espionage
• Brexit data flow confusion prompts datacentre project slowdown
• CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, interim CIO, Camden Council
• CityFibre nears end of Edinburgh fibre broadband roll-out
• Tech for good’s Cast awarded £1m to give charities digital aid
• Care.data – dead or alive?
• 900 million Android devices vulnerable to attackers
• Rackspace ‘on brink’ of sale to private equity house – report
• RBS abandons IT project for hiving off 300+ bank branches
• NHS England offers top digital trusts £100m prize fund
• Svitzer Marine tracks tugboats with 4G ship-to-shore Wi-Fi
• Banner Health cyber breach underlines need for faster intrusion detection
• GDS ‘will not be broken up’, says new boss Kevin Cunnington
• Artificial intelligence takes centre stage in cyber security
• Italian-based Android RAT spies on mobiles in Japan and China, say researchers
• Slow broadband causes widespread stress, campaigners claim
• Context warns of VoIP wars at Black Hat USA
• How Action for Children improved IT service delivery
• Singapore’s DBS Bank signs up to Amazon cloud
• Bitcoin exchange hack highlights security weaknesses
• Why Asean SMBs increasingly opt for SaaS
• Ofcom comms survey shows changing nature of UK network use
• IBM DeepFlash 150 latest in all-flash aimed at file, object and analytics use cases
• One in five businesses hit by ransomware are forced to close, study shows
• MTR Crossrail overcomes tech hurdles to roll out beacons
• Government awards blockchain G-cloud contract to startup Credits
• Gap between biggest and smallest cloud infrastructure firms is growing
• Alphabet X gets go-ahead to test delivery drones in the US
• Will Whitehall power struggle cripple Government Digital Service?
• UAE consumers not confident that their data is safe
• Blockchain could be decades away for Australian enterprises
• Government considers use cases for blockchain
• DDoS attack disrupts 123 Reg services despite DDoS protection
• Asean consumers divided on digital satisfaction
• Hacker attacks following Verizon purchase of Yahoo
• Panama Papers technology shows data journalism at its best
• Linux botnets on the rise, says Kaspersky DDoS report
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update ramps up Defender security
• MI5 wrongly told staff it was exempt from privacy safeguards
• Swedish fuel supplier replaces multiple systems with single ERP application to free up IT
• Ransomware is a mature business model for cyber criminals, says report
• Broadband connection voucher SMEs generate substantial ROI
• Threat intelligence key to fighting cyber crime, says CrowdStrike
• Nordic CIO interview: Liv Fiksdahl, DNB
• Saudi Telecom Company builds out NFV capabilities
• Sky suffers national broadband outage
• White House efficiency reforms will limit new datacentre investments from January 2017
• Enterprises dangerously complacent about mobile threats, says report
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