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• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Tech to account for over half of regulatory compliance spending

  By 2026, regtech will account for more than half of the money that businesses spend on compliance with regulations

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  European cities moving fast to change business of parking

  German cities are using the latest smart parking technology to reduce traffic and car pollution while collecting more fees for parking

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Dutch schools struggle with digitisation

  Now is the time for schools in the Netherlands to determine how the opportunities of distance and digital learning resources can be made to work and how the risks involved can be mitigated

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  More Scottish subpostmaster conviction reviews expected as part of Post Office scandal

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission expects more subpostmasters with potential wrongful convictions to come forward

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  General Motors taps Cisco to accelerate in-car connectivity

  Automotive giant becomes first manufacturer of its kind to deploy comms tech provider’s wireless backhaul technology for real-time, high-speed performance testing of pre-production vehicles

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service

  The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Leadwind completes €140m first closing to fund deep tech scaleups

  First investment for fund designed for firms at the intersection of technologies such as edge computing, artificial intelligence, data analytics, 5G connectivity, blockchain and cloud services located in Southern Europe, prioritising Spain and Latin...

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Scuderia AlphaTauri gets in gear with RapidAPI to improve performance

  Challenger Formula 1 team deploys technology from growing US tech company to drive efficiencies and accelerate innovation from the factory to the track

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How Veeam helped grocery chain Franprix escape its backup hell

  French supermarket chain had backup windows that ran well into the next working day and restoring deleted files could take days. It chose Veeam in a contest with Cohesity

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Bots could help businesses polish up their green credentials

  Metrics are a key aspect of a sound sustainability strategy and Oracle believes automation can help businesses achieve their environmental goals

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  EE, Qualcomm collaboration claims European 5G first

  UK operator says use of spectrum aggregation technology across 4G and 5G bands to boost network capacity has seen it become the first European network to deliver 5G over seven combined spectrum carriers, achieving the network’s fastest 5G speeds to ...

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  One-third of scams that hit TSB are impersonation fraud

  TSB reports an increase in fraudsters impersonating trusted organisations to trick consumers into making payments to them

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Uptime Institute supports datacentre operators with honing their sustainability strategies

  In the wake of research highlighting the patchy progress operators have made to-date on sustainability initiatives, the Uptime Institute debuts series of reports to help the datacentre sector improve its environmental standing

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Home secretary Priti Patel to decide whether to extradite Assange

  Home secretary will decide in four weeks whether to approve Julian Assange’s extradition to the US, where he faces espionage and hacking charges

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  AWS fixes vulnerabilities in Log4Shell hot patch

  AWS issues fixes for a series of Log4Shell hot patches after they turned out to leave its services vulnerable to further exploitation

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Nationwide Building Society streamlines payment dispute process through software

  Building society has speeded up the resolution of customer disputes over Visa payments by using Pegasystems software

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  NSO Group faces court action after Pegasus spyware used against targets in UK

  Three human rights activists whose phones were targeted by spyware traced to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have begun legal action against both countries and Israel’s NSO Group Technologies

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

  Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Flexible return-to-office policies are hammering employee experiences

  Research shows work-related stress and anxiety is skyrocketing among office workers and those without flexibility, stressing that trusting teams to work where and when works for them will lead to better results

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Hispasat, GlobalSat team to offer free satellite broadband across Mexico

  Broadening its Latin American connectivity footprint, Spanish satellite firm becomes part of Mexican federal agency programme to bring broadband to 500 rural communities

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner

  Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  ODI data literacy report laments technical skills inflation in government data strategy

  An Open Data Institute report on data literacy and UK government data strategy sees a lack of clarity in definition, fragmentation of responsibility, and a disconnect between government and citizens

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Verizon takes equity stake in Casa Systems to sharpen 5G edge

  US telco takes 9.9% stake in provider of core 5G technologies to develop mobile edge computing solutions

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Median threat actor ‘dwell time’ dropped during 2021

  Security teams appear to be getting better at detecting attackers within their networks, according to a report

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Hammers sign Acronis as backup and security in one

  West Ham United set to replace separate backup from Veeam and a variety of security products with Acronis Cyber Protect to have backup, data protection and file share on a single platform

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Gartner: Public cloud spending on the rise across the globe as hybrid working takes hold

  Latest worldwide public cloud services spending tracker reveals end-user appetite for off-premise services shows no signs of slowing down

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Windows 7 and XP still more popular than Windows 11

  Lansweeper audit of Windows devices finds more people are running unsupported Windows operating systems than the newest release

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Mavenir, Fujitsu, Aspire accelerate global development of Open RAN

  Network software provider and network solutions developer accelerate O-RAN-compliant cloud-native CU/DU with pre-tested and integrated remote radio head units, while Japanese tech firm announces collaboration to hasten global adoption of Open RAN

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Softbank and UnaBiz team up on internet of robotic things

  Japan’s Softbank Robotics and Singapore-based UnaBiz are bringing IoT and robotics technology together to improve facilities management, among other applications

• April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

  Singtel expands datacentre footprint in Indonesia

  Singtel’s datacentre platform will host selected datacentre assets from Indonesia’s Telkom as part of the telco’s move to grow its datacentre footprint in key regional markets

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Zoom unveils platform innovations to elevate customer experience

  Breakout videoconferencing leader announces conversation intelligence service and enhances online events offering, with aim to modernise how businesses engage with customers

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Cisco and Venywhere reimagine the future of hybrid work in Venice ‘living lab’

  Cisco employees live and work remotely in Venice for three months as part of a pilot programme to help the city reinvent itself as a work-from-anywhere destination

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Lack of expertise hurting UK government’s cyber preparedness

  UK government bodies and critical infrastructure owners cite a lack of staff resources, and internal and external expertise, as hampering factors when it comes to cyber readiness, according to a report

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Openreach accelerates UK full-fibre build

  BT broadband provision division claims significant milestone in its full-fibre build programme, revealing it is more than a quarter of the way to reaching 25 million homes by December 2026

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Kyndryl kindles cyber incident recovery pact with Dell

  IBM spin-out Kyndryl hops into bed with Dell Technologies in a joint cyber resilience proposition

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Multi-ERP systems are on the menu for SAP implementations

  Organisations using SAP may build future ERP systems from composable building blocks from multiple software providers

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Zhadnost DDoS botnet deployed against Finland

  A coordinated DDoS attack hit two government ministries in Finland at the same time as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a virtual address to the Finnish parliament

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Edge computing is critical enabler of transition to digital-first connected operations

  Research reveals drivers of edge computing deployments, challenges and solutions for maintaining resilience, connectivity and supporting digital-first connected operations that are secure, reliable, resilient and sustainable

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Incontroller ICS malware has ‘rare, dangerous’ capabilities, says Mandiant

  Mandiant joins a growing chorus of warnings over novel nation state threats to ICS systems

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources

  Campaign group Liberty to launch legal appeal that will call for journalists to receive stronger legal protections from state surveillance

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Hybrid work catching on in India

  More tech workers in India now enjoy flexi-work arrangements and higher salaries, but talent retention remains an issue in the subcontinent, study finds

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Virgin Media O2, Samsung deploy multiple live 4G, 5G sites across UK

  UK mobile operator announces successful completion of multiple live site deployments in its 4G and 5G estates

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  UK 5G nets ready for gaming explosion

  Research reveals UK gamers are ready for a ‘post-console’ future, enabled by 5G connectivity, cloud and the metaverse

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  WatchGuard firewall users urged to patch Cyclops Blink vulnerability

  The US authorities have seen fit to add the WatchGuard vulnerability used by Sandworm to build the Cyclops Blink botnet to its list of must-patch vulnerabilities

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

  Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  News UK hires former Discovery Inc tech head as new CTO

  Simon Farnsworth, who previous worked as chief technology officer at Discovery Inc, is now driving News UK's tech strategy

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Oracle vaunts ME as employee experience platform geared to post-crisis workforce realities

  Oracle has launched an employee experience platform, dubbed ME, said to be designed for post-Covid, individualistic pandemic workforce trends

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Microsoft patches two zero-days, 10 critical bugs

  Patch Tuesday is here once again. This month, security teams must fix two privilege escalation zero-days in the Windows Common Log File System Driver and the Windows User Profile Service

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Alef announces mobile enterprise network in 60 minutes without 5G

  Mobile network-as-a-service provider claims a new category in wireless networking, allowing enterprises to create a private mobile network inside a firewall within an hour without 5G or knowledge of 3GPP standards

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Criminals researched hacking TTPs post-breach in ‘messy’ cyber attack

  Sophos shares details of a cyber attack that saw attackers hang out in their victim environment for five months while they prepared to sow further mischief