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• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  More evidence needed to establish 5G’s green credentials

  Research paper from UK university cautions that received wisdom of sustainability associated with next-generation mobile technology is not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Prepare, but don’t panic, over supposed Russian cyber threat

  A fresh alert from the US Department of Homeland Security may have IT security teams jumpy over the possibility that their organisations could be targeted by Russian state actors Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Cyber Essentials programme gets biggest update since launch

  NCSC implements a thorough revision of its Cyber Essentials scheme to reflect the changing security landscape Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 networking stories of 2021

  New hybrid workplace environments are demanding connectivity and security technologies to keep employees productive and able to collaborate. How leaders in the world of networking have been attempting to address these new dynamics over the course of... Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  AgriFood Connect taps Telstra for industry-first Ericsson private 5G enterprise deployment

  Australia-based global operator and comms tech provider extend long-standing business relationship with first deployment of dedicated next-generation 5G network at agriculture and manufacturing firm Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 E-Handbook

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2021

  There have been plenty of ups and downs in the world of cloud over the course of 2021. The public sector has emerged as a core battleground for both public cloud giants and their smaller rivals, sustainability became more important in the cloud ... Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  UK government launches internal cyber strategy

  Multi-pronged government security strategy is designed to protect both core systems and public services Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  UK altnets add fibre across Greater Manchester, Midlands and Southwest

  Two UK independent broadband providers announce full-fibre network offers aimed at allowing businesses to reach potential through supporting both on-premise and hybrid modes of work Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  UK launches international data transfer council

  Businesses, academics and trade bodies convene to help the UK seize data-sharing opportunities Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Twitter to expand Singapore engineering hub

  Twitter will double its engineering workforce in Singapore by 2023, as part of its regional expansion plans Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Subpostmaster campaign group to meet government over unfair compensation settlement

  A group of subpostmasters excluded from fair compensation in the Horizon scandal is to meet government department to discuss their demands Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  CIO interview: Michael Cole, CTO, European Tour and Ryder Cup

  The highly traditional sport of golf is proving to be an innovator in its field, with internet of things technology and cloud adoption transforming tournaments after Covid Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Open RAN on track to comprise 15% of radio access networks by 2026

  Research from leading analyst and software-based networking technology provider Dell’Oro Group reveals growing progress in Open RAN arena with further acceleration over the next five years Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Global broadband divide is closing but speed inequalities widen

  Research finds need for greater investment in advanced, full-fibre broadband networks is essential to closing a digital divide among global broadband users Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 E-Zine

  Why watching your remote workers doesn’t work

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, the surge in home working led many firms to mandate use of surveillance software – we look at why it hasn’t worked. It’s an important year for public sector IT – we examine the trends for 2022. And with robotic ... Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 News

  Retailers mired by manual data integration

  Retail relies on third-party data sources to drive business decisions and competitive pricing, but many struggle to pull in this data Continue Reading

• January 25, 2022 25Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - CircleCI: Standing on the shoulders of DevOps giants

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 Opinion

  Hybrid cloud storage: The devils are in the details

  When it comes to storage, one thing is clear – cloud does not change everything Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  Shanghai rated world’s number-one smart city for 2022

  What is described as a world-leading citizen data platform propels China’s technical heart as the leading connected conurbation Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  MPs say Online Safety Bill fails to tackle full range of harms

  A DCMS select committee has warned that the Online Safety Bill should be expanded to cover more types of harmful content, such as child abuse material designed to circumvent content removal Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can ask Supreme Court to hear extradition appeal

  Senior judges said today that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can petition the Supreme Court to decide whether to hear an appeal against his extradition to the US Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  Carbon emissions data to become key factor in cloud purchases by 2025, predicts Gartner

  With enterprises across the world looking to become more sustainable and environmentally friendly, Gartner claims carbon emissions data will become a key factor in the cloud purchasing decisions of IT buyers by 2025 Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 In Depth

  EDSFF brings built-for-NVMe connectivity to the datacentre

  Aimed at enterprise use cases, EDSFF offers incredible flash density in shared storage and hyperscale deployments, but storage products that use it are still thin on the ground Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  CIO interview: Sheri Rhodes, CIO, Workday

  The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital change for many businesses – and even for cloud software leader Workday, there are always new things to learn and introduce Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 In Depth

  Object storage: How research institute got 850TB for €150,000

  French scientific research institute had its budgets cut and to meet the new cost constraints, it settled on Swarm software-defined object storage from DataCore Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 In Depth

  How Forensic Architecture uses tech to protect human rights

  Forensic Architecture speaks to Computer Weekly about how it uses various digital technologies to investigate human rights abuses around the globe, including the pushback of migrants over the Greek border and the killing of Mark Duggan by London ... Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  Outdated systems core to DWP £1bn pension underpayment blunders

  Old software is among the main reasons behind the pension errors affecting 134,000 people, says a House of Commons committee report Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  Heathrow Airport takes to the cloud with Oracle Fusion Applications

  Airport has implemented a full spread of Oracle Cloud Applications, including ERP and HCM, as it looks to recover from the pandemic Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 News

  India’s cyber security industry doubles in size amid pandemic

  Revenues from cyber security products and services reached $9.85bn in 2021 thanks to rapid digitalisation and regulatory attention on data and privacy Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 In Depth

  Hybrid cloud storage: Options for rearchitecting enterprise IT

  Hybrid cloud is seen as a way to have the best of both the on-premise and public cloud worlds. We look at the pros and cons of hybrid cloud storage Continue Reading

• January 24, 2022 24Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - HashiCorp: no, it’s not just “the code”

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  Tinder algorithm charging users more based on age

  Popular dating app Tinder could have broken data protection and equality laws by using personal data about people’s age to set different prices Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  UKCloud acquired: Troubled government cloud provider receives funding lifeline

  UKCloud has declined to reveal the terms of its acquisition by an investment company run by its own chairman, prompting questions about how this deal will close the £30m funding hole revealed in its most recent set of accounts Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  CTO interview: James Donkin, Ocado Technology

  Ocado is a cloud-first business and develops its own software cloud-natively, but some things need to be processed on-premise or at the edge Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  Mandiant analysts: Russia-backed APTs likely to ramp up attacks

  More cyber attacks like those perpetrated against targets in Ukraine are to be expected, and they may become more destructive Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  ICO criticises government-backed campaign to delay end-to-end encryption

  Data protection watchdog warns that delaying end-to-end encryption will put children at risk Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  Cyber pros: Don’t revel in REvil’s downfall just yet

  The arrests of REvil’s alleged kingpins is a welcome step, but as with any disruption to cyber criminal activity, it is never wise to assume law enforcement action means the threat has passed entirely Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  Majority of UK employees prefer hybrid work

  Survey reveals the importance of hybrid working and shows a degree of WFH fatigue following Omicron, with firms assessing when it will be possible to return to in-person work Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  New normal sees SASE, SD-WAN surge as MPLS is phased out

  Research confirms that MPLS is ‘out’ and SD-WAN and SASE systems are the clear winners in enterprise networking as more and more European organisations are eliminating all on-prem datacentres, with cloud adoption steaming ahead Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  MoJ faces ICO enforcement over subject access requests backlog

  Ministry of Justice receives enforcement notice from information commissioner over ‘substantial’ backlog of subject access requests described as being of ‘significant concern’ Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 News

  Scam losses in Australia hit record high

  Australians lost a record A$323.7m to scams last year, with investment and romance scams accounting for the bulk of their losses Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 Blog Post

  Alibaba Cloud’s growing clout in databases

  Alibaba Cloud growing clout in cloud-based databases was validated this week when it reported that its database revenues grew by over 50% year-over-year. The company’s database product portfolio ... Continue Reading

• January 21, 2022 21Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - PagerDuty: From the declarative to the imperative

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Ransomware attacks dropped 37% in December, claims NCC

  Latest monthly data reveals a significant decline in ransomware attacks at the end of 2021, but a new, emergent gang is making waves Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 E-Zine

  CW APAC: CIO trends

  IT leaders would be wise to embrace the technology expected to become prevalent in 2022. In this handbook, focused on CIO trends in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the top IT predictions for the year ahead, how India is preparing ... Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Government ‘has nothing against’ paying 555 subpostmasters fair compensation

  Government officials are open to finding a way to properly compensate victims of the Horizon scandal without setting a dangerous legal precedent Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 Blog Post

  The ‘core’ of data science: McKinsey donates Kedro to Linux 

  Scottish-sounding management consultancy McKinsey has donated Kedro to the Linux Foundation. Build back in 2019, McKinsey launched Kedro as an open source software tool on GitHub for data ... Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Updated cyber security regulations proposed for managed services sector

  The Network and Information Systems regulations are to be updated to include MSPs and outsourcers, following a spate of supply chain attacks Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Data of 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross attack

  The International Committee of the Red Cross is probing a cyber attack that has already seen the personal data of hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people compromised Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Police Digital Service offers £50m contract for Tetra products and services

  Delivery vehicle for the UK’s National Policing Digital Strategy announces major procurement contract for comms services and technologies Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows advances in malicious implants

  MoonBounce firmware bootkit shows evident technical improvements over others, making it a more dangerous threat to organisations. It is being used by Chinese state-backed actors Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Advantages of traditional banks are weakening amid digital challenge, says FCA

  Weakening of the advantages enjoyed by traditional banks over the years is “driven by digital innovation and changing consumer behaviour”, says regulator Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Zopa Bank hits £1bn deposits in just 18 months

  Bank has seen rapid growth since its launch and has set ambitious targets for the next 12 months Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Delayed pay: Umbrella company cyber attacks disrupt salary payments to thousands of contractors

  Thousands of contractors across the UK are anxiously waiting to see if their payroll cycles will be disrupted for a second week, after two of the umbrella industry's biggest players were targeted by cyber criminals Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  UK parliamentary committee casts doubt on government’s gigabit connectivity targets

  UK parliamentary committee pours scorn on Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s confidence in meeting targets for gigabit connectivity Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 Opinion

  Security Think Tank: Cyber training is useless without staff empowerment

  In-house or outsourced? What makes a good security training programme, and what questions should buyers ask when procuring training as a service? Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  NCSC for Startups programme seeks ransomware-busters

  Innovative ideas for ransomware-busting technology are being sought by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre and startup incubator Plexal Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  UK SMEs to receive tech skills and software boost

  A new government scheme aimed at helping businesses improve their productivity and sales online has opened for applications Continue Reading

• January 20, 2022 20Jan2022 News

  Singapore to tighten digital banking security

  Banks in Singapore will have to put in place more stringent measures to combat the rise in online phishing scams targeted at bank customers in the city-state Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Government funds charity campaign to warn big tech over the risks of encryption to children

  Barnardo’s and other charities begin a government-backed PR campaign to warn of the dangers end-to-end encryption poses to child safety, which has been criticised as being ‘one-sided’ Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Around 65% of tech recruiters say there’s bias in the hiring process

  Those responsible for recruiting developers worldwide have admitted that bias during the hiring process is an issue Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  LTE still has legs with permanent roaming IoT connections to reach 825 million by 2026

  Study from Kaleido Intelligence reveals significant demand for monitoring and telemetry-based internet of things applications to drive 27% CAGR in permanent roaming IoT connections Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Verizon, AWS take mobile edge to 30% more US metro area locations

  Communications and cloud giants extend reach of mobile edge computing footprint in the US and announce deployment for drone and energy management applications Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Gartner: IT spending forecast points to skills rebalance

  Latest forecast on IT spending shows that more IT workloads are being deployed in the cloud, and outsourcing is also set for a boost Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Danish digitisation partnership delivers plan to government

  Public-private collaboration submits plan setting out “how Denmark can take advantage of the opportunities presented by digitisation moving forward into the future” Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Investigators find Beijing 2022 app riddled with security flaws

  Security flaws in Olympic app may put personal health data at risk of compromise in a man-in-the-middle attack Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Vodafone switches on first UK 5G Open RAN site

  Vodafone teams with Samsung Networks Europe to switch on the UK’s first Open RAN site to carry live 5G traffic, marking a milestone in the commercial deployment of Open RAN network architectures in Europe, with more than 2,500 additional sites to ... Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Content removal will not stop misinformation, says Royal Society

  Censorship of scientific misinformation online could exacerbate feelings of distrust, so government should look at information literacy and funding fact checkers instead, says report Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 In Depth

  Cloud-era disaster recovery planning: Assessing risk and business impact

  In the first in a series on cloud-era disaster recovery, we provide a step-by-step guide to building firm foundations for the disaster recovery plan, with risk assessment and business impact analysis Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Twelve million jobs to be lost to automation in Europe by 2040

  Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Chasm exists between ‘true’ and portfolio SASE approaches

  Survey of enterprise IT leaders finds little difference between respondents without SASE and those who adopted SASE product portfolios regarding issues such as trade-offs between performance and security Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Aldi launches grab-and-go test store in London

  Discount supermarket brand Aldi has launched a checkout-free concept store in London to test contact-free shopping Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 Blog Post

  SUSE offers a Neu approach to container security, opens NeuVector codebase

  SUSE has announced the NeuVector codebase to the open source community on GitHub.  The German softwarehaus claims that NeuVector the first truly open source end-to-end [container] security ... Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 Blog Post

  2022: Time to take algorithm-enhanced online abuse seriously

  The algorithms used by dominant social media companies have compounded the risks to unsupervised children in their bedrooms by automating the processes predators use to find and groom potential ... Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Arizona State University taps Verizon for 5G Innovation Hub

  Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute services enable researchers to develop and test real-world solutions to enhance immersive education, remote learning, virtual reality and data analytics Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  IT teams blind to Kubernetes observability

  The complex nature of modern cloud environments makes it exceedingly difficult for IT admins to monitor IT infrastructure and systems effectively Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Trellix looks to democratise access to XDR in APAC

  The company formed from the merger of FireEye Enterprise and McAfee will team up with managed service providers, among other efforts, to democratise access to extended detection and response capabilities in the region Continue Reading

• January 19, 2022 19Jan2022 News

  Trellix XDR platform forged out of McAfee, FireEye union

  The private equity owners of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye are merging the companies into a new entity to ‘define the future’ of cyber security through XDR technology Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  ‘Robust’ market opportunities ‘still abound’ in SD-WAN

  Research reveals demand for cloud agility and cross-enterprise visibility, and that the integration of enterprise-grade 5G will continue to drive opportunities in software-defined wide area networks Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 E-Zine

  The race to quantum computing

  In this week’s Computer Weekly, researchers are racing to create the first commercially useful quantum computer – we look at one of the European candidates. Cyber security is one of the greatest risks facing the global economy, warns the World ... Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Exium, Teneo team to deliver digital experience, 5G-capable SASE platform

  Work-from-anywhere IT services company and cyber security provider enter into partnership to assist lean enterprise IT teams in their transition to a secure access service edge Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Nordic fintech to use Google-inspired core banking from Thought Machine

  Nordic fintech Lunar is modernising its banking platform as it sets out to expand free of the limitations of its current systems Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Jisc selects Neos Networks for gigabit fibre network serving north-west England

  Business connectivity provider strikes partnership to connect major universities and research centres in Liverpool and Manchester to gigabit-capable fibre network offering up to 100Gbps connections and 10-fold increases Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Amazon puts UK Visa ban on hold

  Online retail giant Amazon continues to allow UK Visa credit card payments as negotiations over fees with the card provider continue Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Government widens subpostmaster miscarriage of justice compensation

  Government changes its position in billion-pound Horizon scandal compensation Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Police take down VPN linked to multiple ransomware hits

  German police led a multinational effort to seize and take down the LabVPN service, which was allegedly used by cyber criminals to facilitate ransomware attacks Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 News

  Cobalt Strike still C2 infrastructure of choice

  Its utility and ease of use, coupled with explosive growth in ransomware actions, makes Cobalt Strike Team Servers the C2 infrastructure of choice for malicious actors Continue Reading

• January 18, 2022 18Jan2022 Blog Post

  Infrastructure-as-Code series - Ondat: IaC is the means to a DevOps end

  The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ... Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  Test police algorithms in court rather than legislate, Lords told

  Police algorithms and their impacts should be tested and challenged in court, rather than controlled by new laws, says policing minister Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  CityFibre extends full-fibre in Aberdeen

  Granite City sees rock-solid gigabit connectivity in £19m expansion of full-fibre network to homes and businesses in the Aberdeen area Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  International Space Station gets connected on SpaceDataHighway

  SpaceDataHighway deploys space laser communications to increase the operational flexibility of ISS, allowing more astronauts, scientists and researchers to benefit from a direct link with Europe Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  ‘Russian-backed’ hackers defaced Ukrainian websites as cover for dangerous malware attack

  Kiev claims that a hacking group in Belarus – a close ally of Russia – was responsible for hacking Ukrainian government websites amid threats of military action Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  Automation and interoperability key to UK’s digital energy plans

  Energy Digitalisation Taskforce recommends that policy-makers and regulators drive open standards across the energy sector Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  Connexin switches on full-fibre broadband network in Hull

  So-called ‘disruptive’ communications company specialising in building and operating smart city infrastructure connects first customer to full-fibre network in East Yorkshire Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  Top three questions about the Log4j vulnerability

  Singapore’s Ensign Infosecurity answers the top three questions about the impact of the Log4j vulnerability Continue Reading

• January 17, 2022 17Jan2022 News

  Umbrella firm Parasol confirms ‘malicious activity’ as root cause of ongoing systems outage

  Umbella company confirms a ‘malicious activity on its network’ as the root cause of a systems outage that has delayed salary payments to thousands of contractors across the UK Continue Reading

• January 14, 2022 14Jan2022 News

  Nato offers tech support after 'massive cyber attack' hits Ukraine

  Speculation mounts that Russia is behind a cyber attack which defaced Ukrainian government websites amid growing international tension Continue Reading

• January 14, 2022 14Jan2022 News

  Full-fibre investment helps tackle digital exclusion in Greater Manchester

  Study from cable operator and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority reveals the massive significance that digital investment is making for local people, helping to assist those at risk of digital exclusion, create local jobs and tackle ... Continue Reading

• January 14, 2022 14Jan2022 E-Handbook

  A Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to emerging technology

  The way we work is changing with the exponential emergence of new technology. In this 15-page buyer’s guide, Computer Weekly looks at the potential of DNA storage, how we can benefit from quantum computing in the future and the role of software in ... Continue Reading

• January 14, 2022 14Jan2022 News

  Hispasat expands North America strategic collaboration, bolsters Brazilian holdings

  Spanish satellite operator expands agreement with Swedish connectivity services company to offer high-capacity portable broadband solution in North America, and acquires the full share capital of its subsidiary in Brazil Continue Reading