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• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards in UK due to high fees

  Online retail giant Amazon will stop accepting UK Visa credit card payments from January next year

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  ONS data points to rise in UK tech employment for women

  Female professionals accounted for 71% of the new jobs created between June and September 2021

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Post Office agrees to share privileged legal information with Horizon scandal inquiry

  The Post Office will waive professional legal privilege for documents relating to legal advice it received regarding subpostmaster prosecutions

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Ericsson launches Intelligent Automation Platform for smarter networks

  Comms tech provider looks to bring scalability, performance and operations simplicity to mobile networks, including purpose-built and Open RAN

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Orange Business Services powers Safran with smart-tracking IoT

  Telco deploys more than 15,000 trackers and 250 antennas at two aircraft engine production sites in France to remotely locate and manage tools and equipment in real time

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  COP26: Lord Maude on using open source to help fight against climate change

  Public and private sector organisations need to pool their resources and collaborate to address the climate crisis by using open source technologies, urged Lord Maude during OpenUK’s COP26 event

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  One-fifth of NCSC-supported cyber incidents linked to Covid-19

  National Cyber Security Centre has helped to thwart multiple cyber incidents that could have seriously disrupted the UK’s response to the pandemic

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  National Infrastructure Commission pinpoints strategic gaps in UK infrastructure planning 

  UK infrastructure assessment stresses it remains critical for health of country that gigabit broadband is effectively rolled out to rural areas and towns to ensure genuinely universal provision

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Unit4 research finds divergence between decision-makers and employees in SMEs

  Sponsored research among mid-sized enterprises finds decision-makers and employees to be radically at odds in reading what makes a successful organisation

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Tech suppliers chosen for £5bn NHS digital records framework

  A pool of 46 firms has been selected to deliver digital document solutions and associated hardware and software

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Nvidia/Arm: Competitions and Markets Authority to drill down further in Phase 2 investigation

  The merger between Arm and Nvidia is to be investigated further following publication of the CMA’s Phase 1 report into the deal

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Vodafone claims solid half-year

  Hot on the heels of signing a contract with City Fibre to gain UK fibre leadership, leading European comms operator’s results for the first six months of 2021 shows sustainable growth in both Europe and Africa

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Blueprint for future high street shows tech’s role in creating thriving communities

  Technology will play an important role in creating thriving communities after Covid-19 lockdowns renew interest in local high streets

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Can UAE become a world leader in AI?

  The UAE has launched multiple programmes as it bids to be a world-leading location for artificial intelligence innovation

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  NHS Digital announces sustainability pledge

  NHS Digital outlines its commitments and plans to tackle the net-zero challenge, including a new approach to cloud hosting

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  IBM readies System Two modular quantum architecture

  127-qubit Eagle represents IBM’s last System One quantum computer design. Scaling to more qubits requires multiplexing and modularity

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Broadband beats bedrooms for UK homebuyers

  Research from global communications provider finds that fast internet access is now a top-two must-have for UK homebuyers

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Medtronic ups ante in digital health

  Medtronic wants a slice of the burgeoning digital health market and is teaming up with startups and other organisations in Asia-Pacific’s healthcare ecosystem to raise its game

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  WM5G, Intercity Technology unveil 5G support session for West Midlands manufacturers 

  5G innovation centre teams with enterprise mobility and collaboration provider to offer free sessions

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK government proposes new rules for digital supply chain security

  Proposals could see IT service providers legally required to adhere to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework, among other things

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

  Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  UK’s first datacentre-focused University Technical College course makes its debut

  Some of the datacentre sector’s biggest players have pooled their resources to help launch the UK’s first industry-specific University Technical College course

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Openreach in consultation over next stage in transition to fibre

  BT-owned UK broadband provision firm accelerates plan to stop selling copper-based broadband and traditional voice services, aiming to use five pilot areas to develop and test approaches for mass-migrating end-users to new digital offers

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  General Motors restructures IT to develop $25bn software business

  Carmaker has divided its IT function, one part focusing on the back office, the other on its software-defined business opportunity

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Three-quarters of global IT decision-makers facing skills gaps

  Research by Skillsoft has found that 76% of IT decision-makers across the world have departmental skills gaps – a number that has increased significantly in the past five years

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic

  The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Convictions of eight former subpostmasters in Scotland under review

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission is investigating eight potential miscarriages of justice linked with faulty Post Office IT system

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Norwegian telco Telenor partners with Google Cloud for digital transformation push

  Telenor has signed a deal with Google Cloud that will see the pair collaborate on bringing joint services and products to market for their customers

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  CaixaBank system normal after migration of millions of customer accounts

  Spain’s CaixaBank has successfully completed the migration of millions of Bankia customers to its systems

• November 14, 2021 14 Nov'21

  Nominations open for Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2022

  Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for the annual Innovation Awards to honour digital transformation initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have transformed organisations in seven industries

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Royal Navy gets £100m electronic warfare boost

  Contract will see new technology deployed to bolster the UK's radar detection capabilities for the Royal Navy

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  New law needed to rein in AI-powered workplace surveillance

  MPs and peers call for new legislation to regulate the growing use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, which is being used to surveil workers’ performance and behaviour

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  GSMA announces 5G mmWave accelerator initiative

  Mobile industry trade association announces new accelerator, with an aim to drive education efforts and showcase innovation

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Ofcom introduces rules to ease rural broadband development

  UK comms regulator aims to address key issue preventing proliferation of gigabit broadband to hard-to-reach places

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  OpenUK debuts carbon-negative datacentre blueprint at COP26

  Open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and hardware reuse

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Oversight of biometrics and surveillance should not go to ICO

  Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson has panned the UK government’s proposed plan to absorb the functions of those roles under the remit of the information commissioner

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Cost reduction is still the biggest driver of banks’ cloud adoption

  More than 80% of banks now have a clear cloud strategy following a injection of urgency during the Covid-19 pandemic

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  BT applies Covid-19 R number modelling to threat response

  A prototype cyber security tool developed at BT uses epidemiological principles to detect and respond to cyber threats

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  LOTI to develop data ethics governance approach for London

  The technology and innovation office is working on the elements needed to ensure ethical standards in data projects in the capital’s boroughs

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  CaixaBank to complete IT integration of Bankia in two days

  Spanish bank embarks on a massive migration of customer accounts following merger

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Klaxoon enters US and launches next-gen meetings workshop platform for hybrid work

  French teamwork and smart work technology provider unveils its next-generation workshop platform and expands in the US with CEO and key executives

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Government publishes research on maritime technology sector

  The report outlines opportunities and recommendations for the industry in areas such as autonomous systems and artificial intelligence

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Vodafone anchors CityFibre nationwide network for UK full-fibre leadership

  Strategic partnership expanded to anchor nationwide roll-out of full-fibre gigabit broadband to up to eight million homes, with long-term volume commitments

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Online sales now account for 34.4% of M&S clothing and home goods

  Ongoing digital transformation sees online sales grow for M&S as pandemic consumer habits continue

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Cambridge Quantum tackles rail optimisation for German operator

  Among the promises of quantum computing is to run combinational optimisation for tasks such as complex train scheduling to minimise disruption

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  HPE’s Aruba networking unit hit by cyber attack

  Undisclosed threat actor compromised data buckets used to run the Aruba Central cloud environment using a stolen access key

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Post-Covid tech world to see 89% of UK tech operations hosted off-premise

  Leading UK ISP releases research showing that emergence of the hybrid era means that dependence on on-premise infrastructure to support a full capacity office is no longer required

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Green energy Cray supercomputer to power weather predictions

  HPE is building a supercomputer that will be shared by four European meteorological services