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• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Marks & Spencer upskills internal talent with data science education

  Retailer is building up a data science capability that includes a Master’s degree-level apprenticeship as well as making data literacy a common currency up and down the organisation

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  NEC delivers packet core for NTT DOCOMO 5G SA net, drives Open RAN

  Leading IT and communications technology provider ends 2021 in a flurry, with services for leading Japanese operator’s standalone 5G

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Top 10 government and public sector IT stories of 2021

  Technology is an increasingly important part of government policy in the UK – while the digital transformation of the public sector continued during 2021, albeit slowly in some places

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2021

  Cyber crime hit new heights and drew more attention than ever in 2021. We look back at the biggest stories of the year

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Top 10 financial services and fintech stories of 2021

  Computer Weekly selects 10 key stories from the financial services IT sector over the past year

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Digital Infrastructure gains £100m investment to forge full-fibre roll-out

  ‘New era’ full-fibre network operator obtains nine-figure investment from independent transatlantic investment firm to deliver wholesale, residential and business connectivity

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021

  Office work has largely remained hybrid this year. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Three, EE agree to provide mobile connectivity across whole London Tube network

  Mobile operators’ deal gives their customers coverage across London Underground with connectivity to ticket halls, platforms and tunnels

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Large organisations turning to digital currencies for stored value

  Gartner predicts a major acceleration in the use of digital currencies over the next couple of years

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Oracle buys Cerner for nearly $30bn in major push into healthcare

  Oracle has bought healthcare IT provider Cerner for $28.3bn, in a major push into healthcare. It is its largest acquisition since NetSuite for $9.3bn in 2016

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Nokia wins five-year sole vendor 5G deal with Elisa Estonia

  Comms tech provider replaces incumbent supplier in enabling Baltic telco to swap out existing 4G network nationwide with 5G AirScale portfolio and develop O-RAN ecosystem

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  IT services spending recovery to get renewals boost in 2022

  IT services and BPO deals worth $18.5bn globally up for renewal next year, adding fuel to already-expected high growth

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  UK tech startups raise almost £30bn in record year

  The UK tech sector has achieved record growth in the past 12 months after the Covid pandemic paused investment

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2021

  Technology has been central to the National Health Service response to the Covid-19 pandemic – we look back at the stories that made the headlines on 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  UK IT shapes up for hybrid new normal in 2022

  The latest Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey shows that secure connectivity and cloud remain at the core of enterprises’ needs for the foreseeable future

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 telecoms stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 telecoms stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 cloud storage, DR and datacentre storage stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that demonstrate the growing importance of cloud storage and disaster recovery, but also the snags that lead to cloud repatriation and difficulties restoring from the cloud

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 software development stories of 2021

  Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Cloud-first mindset growing in India

  Nearly half of organisations in India are expected to spend more on cloud services, underscoring the growing cloud-first mindset that is taking root in the subcontinent

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Defra and MoJ hit with £120m IR35 tax bill despite using HMRC guidance

  Government departments landed with tax bills totalling just over £120m over contractor IR35 status errors, despite receiving HMRC guidance and training

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Finnish government launches digital economy transformation projects

  The Finnish government launches two transformation projects as part of the country’s mission to pioneer a digital economy

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Minorities in IT less likely to be in leadership positions

  IT specialists who are from under-represented groups in the UK’s technology sector are less likely to hold higher-up roles, or to be in permanent positions

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 artificial intelligence stories of 2021

  This year, artificial intelligence has moved to operationalisation, explainability and regulatory frameworks. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 artificial intelligence stories for 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Top 10 ransomware and backup stories of 2021

  Key articles from 2021 that highlight the link between ransomware and snapshots and backup and their role in repelling attacks, plus effects of the pandemic on backup and recovery

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  CDEI research pinpoints barriers to trustworthy AI exploitation

  Survey of UK business by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has disclosed the patchiness of artificial intelligence and data-driven technology adoption across different economic sectors

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Cloud wars: How the US tech giants opening UK datacentres shook up the public sector market

  Five years have passed since Microsoft and Amazon opened their UK datacentre regions, rapidly growing their share of the public sector market to the detriment of several smaller, home-grown cloud providers

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  HSBC fined £64m for automated transaction monitoring failures

  Bank hit by multimillion-pound fine for failures related to its transaction monitoring, which failed to spot potential money-laundering activity

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  EE to upgrade 4G in more than 2,000 rural UK areas by 2024

  BT-owned UK mobile operator sets out to improve rural connectivity across the UK as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme, with more than 1,500 upgrades to follow as it invests to reduce partial notspots

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  5G, fibre flourish in UK in 2021

  Full-fibre broadband is now available to more than eight million homes as roll-out accelerates and ‘decent’ broadband is at highest-ever level

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Barclays selects HPE GreenLake to host 100,000 workloads

  Bank sees a need to provide more personalised digital experiences, and GreenLake is providing the IT infrastructure to help it get there

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

  Building society’s tech teams work with consultancy Contino to implement new website using the chaos engineering method

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Pressure on government to pay fair compensation to subpostmasters left out of current schemes

  MPs demand that the subpostmasters who defeated the Post Office in court should be properly compensated for their losses and suffering

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Gig economy algorithmic management tools ‘unfair and opaque’

  Report published by Worker Info Exchange warns of algorithmically enabled rights abuses in the gig economy, noting the insufficient transparency of employers and the lacklustre nature of legal redress

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Asda follows EG Group sibling in selection of Rise with SAP

  Retailer is looking to improve the agility of its operations in the cloud with a move to Rise with SAP on Microsoft Azure, and to streamline its procurement with SAP Ariba

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  After Log4j, December Patch Tuesday piles on the pressure

  December’s Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft contains several critical CVEs, but this month all attention is focused on the fall-out from Log4Shell, and burn-out is becoming a real issue

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Digital Ethics Summit: Innovation needs regulation to be ethical

  Experts attending the 2021 Digital Ethics Summit spoke out against the idea that regulation will stifle technological innovation, arguing that setting clear rules will produce more ethical innovation

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  AIB signs up to z15-powered transformation

  Irish bank has continued its investment in IBM z-series hardware and the Red Hat software portfolio to help it achieve its digital transformation goals

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  UK government to take ‘whole-of-society’ approach to cyber

  Second iteration of the UK’s National Cyber Strategy broadens its focus to build a ‘whole-of-society’ security posture

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  CMA wants Apple and Google to open up mobile ecosystem

  Interim report from Competitions and Markets Authority finds Apple and Google exert too much control over the mobile device market

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Which? tells banks to stop rushing branch closures

  Consumer rights protector says banks should pause branch closures until they can ensure people have access to cash and services

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Neos Networks brings high-capacity fibre access to leading UK cities and Oxfordshire

  UK business connectivity provider opens first of four metro access networks to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses and those in the City of London while also announcing rural county expansion plan to connect over 200...

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Avaya enhances educational and logistics environments with UCaaS and cloud

  Supply chain leader supports business expansion and supercharges agent retention with cloud comms platform, and enables ‘exceptional’ education experiences for thousands of students with unified comms as a service

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  UK advances research of autonomous robots in lab environments

  The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has been awarded new funding to develop the equipment alongside industry and academia

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Increased Altice BT shareholding fuels UK government jitters

  Significant increase in stakeholdership by potential buyer of UK incumbent telco prompts UK government to warn of potential threat to levelling-up agenda

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Multibillion-dollar quantum opportunities if error rate recedes

  Management consultant McKinsey discusses a potential $700bn opportunity in the pharma, finance, automotive and chemicals sectors

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Almost half of networks probed for Log4Shell weaknesses

  Close to half of corporate networks have already been actively targeted by individuals seeking to exploit the critical Log4Shell Apache bug

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Joint committee publishes report on improving Online Safety Bill

  MPs and peers release report on Online Safety Bill following five-month inquiry into the draft legislation and make a number of recommendations on how it can be improved to deal with harmful content and abuse on the internet