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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Unionised drivers call on Microsoft to suspend Uber’s Face API licences
Unionised private hire drivers in the UK are calling for Microsoft to suspend Uber’s licences to use its Face API technology after claims the ride-hailing firm’s ID-checking system has led to drivers losing their jobs and having licences revoked
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Altnet association warns of threat to UK full-fibre roll-out
Independent Networks Co-operative Association warns that recent momentum in gigabit broadband implementation could be delayed if independent providers and their investors believe UK comms regulator is not willing to listen to their concerns
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge
Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications
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March 22, 2021
22
Mar'21
CIO interview: Juliette Atkinson, IT director, Bradford University
Bradford University’s IT director took a different route than most to get into IT leadership
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Nokia inks AT&T C-band deal and sets out plan to surf the 5G long wave
Leading comms tech provider outlines plans to speed up transformation to improve profitability, taking advantage of long wave of 5G contracts such as that from leading US operator
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Avaya adds AI, advanced meeting capabilities to Spaces collaboration platform
IP comms firm announces new capabilities for workstream collaboration platform, offering evolved unified communications capabilities via a user’s preferred device
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
UK online traffic soars during year in lockdown
Research from leading UK ISP reveals online usage in the UK has increased by 78% year-on-year since the first lockdown
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
UK government aims to get national broadband project back on track with Project Gigabit
First areas revealed in £5bn government scheme to deliver gigabit broadband connections to help recovery from the pandemic, achieve growth and levelling up
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Coronavirus leads to legacy modernisation cloud boost
Organisations are making the move to migrate legacy IT to the cloud, and the right skills and sufficient time and budget are the key to success
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Government bids final goodbye to Gov.uk Verify
Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Julia Lopez confirms launch of “discrete” successor to Gov.uk Verify
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Employers face delicate balancing act as hybrid workforce emerges from lockdown
Study from UK telco advises firms to prepare for the divided demands of the post-lockdown workforce
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
Post Office IT scandal executive forced out of job at Football Association of Wales
Angela van den Bogerd has left her role at the Football Association of Wales, following criticism of her part in Post Office IT scandal
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March 19, 2021
19
Mar'21
AWS rolls out clean energy initiative in Singapore
62MW solar project expected to generate 80,000MWh of clean energy a year, enough to power more than 10,000 homes
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Coronavirus: How PCs in quarantine and intensive care units can be managed remotely
NHS IT staff generally have limited access to deployed devices, especially if that device is in an operating theatre or intensive care unit
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Ofcom revamps wholesale broadband rules to ramp up full-fibre roll-out
UK comms regulator announces new guidelines for the UK wholesale telecoms market, with the principal aim to drive investment in fibre gigabit services and support the closure of the UK’s copper network
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Vaccine passports cannot put basic rights at risk, warns BCS
BCS warns of challenges to come as the government presses on with its plans for Covid-19 vaccine passports
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Government to bail out Post Office which can’t afford to pay compensation to subpostmasters
The Post Office does not have enough money to pay compensation to the subpostmasters it wrongfully prosecuted
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Reshaping the women-in-tech debate in Denmark, from the top down
Tech Nordic Advocates adopts a different approach to closing the gap between women and men in the Danish tech startup sector
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
NHS will get shared care records by September 2021, says Matt Hancock
The health secretary sets September 2021 target for shared care records roll-out, and wants to explore potential of moving patient data being held in proprietary systems to the cloud
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Survey: Backup failures hit a high as pandemic working hits home
Veeam survey finds distributed working plus operations that span on-prem and the cloud the background to high numbers of failures in backup and restore, with 40% of SLAs not met
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Liverpool health, social care and education 5G network expands
Europe’s largest 5G health and social care network infrastructure deploys range of IT and entertainment technologies in hybrid setup to increase reach of independent public sector network
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Subpostmasters in Court of Appeal to end 20-year torment
Subpostmasters heading to Court of Appeal to clear their names in what is potentially the biggest miscarriage of justice in English legal history
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March 18, 2021
18
Mar'21
Eastern Health reports ‘cyber incident’, takes systems offline
Australian healthcare provider Eastern Health takes IT systems offline as a precaution while it looks into a cyber incident
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
PagerDuty expands European datacentre presence with help from AWS
Company is expanding its datacentre presence within Europe through its longstanding technology partnership with Amazon Web Services
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Google Cloud shares carbon-free datacentre energy usage stats with users
Public cloud giant publishes details of its Carbon Free Energy Percentage metric that it hopes companies will use to inform their decisions about where best to run their workloads for sustainability reasons
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Nokia accelerates Telenet cloud services with 5G core tech
Comms and cloud tech giants to support public cloud deployment of Belgian operator’s mobile core, signalling the first step in its transformation towards cloud-based services
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Average ransomware cost triples, says report
The average amount paid out by ransomware victims has grown almost threefold to more than $300,000 per incident, according to a report
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Digital Green Certificate proposed for travel in Europe
Digital Green Certificates will supposedly help re-establish freedom of movement within the European Union
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Uber classifies drivers as workers after Supreme Court ruling
Ride-hailing firm will pay its UK drivers minimum wage following court ruling, but has diverged from the court’s interpretation that drivers should be paid from when they log in, not just when passengers are on board
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Ofcom raises £1.356bn in principal stage of new 5G spectrum auction
After announcing their plans to extend and improve basic 4G connectivity around the country, the UK’s mobile operators are celebrating their principal gains in the 5G arena with low-band and mid-band spectrum
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Capita restructures to simplify its business
Business services supplier creates two core units that focus on public sector and commercial enterprise customers and will sell off non-core assets
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Cyber sector welcomes PM’s defence review
Security commentators approve of measures to improve the UK’s cyber resilience, strengthen its R&D and skills base, lead on the development of new technology and promote a free, open, peaceful and secure global internet
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Viavi expands fibre network test and measurement portfolio
Fibre optic testing and measurement portfolio designed to address businesses’ rapidly changing infrastructure needs
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March 17, 2021
17
Mar'21
Nordic healthcare digitisation drives medtech growth
Nordic medtech is growing rapidly as the healthcare sector adopts technologies such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Children’s learning held back by digital schooling, NAO report finds
Children’s socio-economic status has affected their experiences with digital learning, and most teachers consider their pupils to be, on average, three months behind where they would be expected to be
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Legacy tech integration issues impede telcos’ digitisation ambitions
Research finds a worryingly large number of operators indicating that when it comes to digital transformation, integration with legacy technology is their largest gating factor, followed closely by data security concerns
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
5G economy to spur huge GDP, job growth across the US
BCG study estimates large contribution to employment and GDP over the next decade, through the roll-out of next-generation mobile infrastructure
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
One-fifth of all UK tech investment went to just 10 scaleup firms in 2020
Annual Tech Nation report shows UK technology firms saw record levels of investment in 2020, but a significant proportion of it was concentrated in a small number of scaleup enterprises
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles
Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Cinia cuts Ribbon deal for transport network upgrade
Real-time communications software and network solutions firm sees OTN platforms deployed in upgrade of backbone transport network in Finland and Northern Europe
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Uber and Ola ordered to hand over more data to drivers
A Dutch court has rejected Uber and Ola’s claims that drivers collectively taking action to access their data amounts to an abuse of their individual data access rights, laying the ground for drivers to form their own union-controlled data trust
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience
Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
MoD partners playing fast and loose with confidential data
Clear spike in data breach incidents at defence partners may reflect better reporting standards, claims MoD
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Banks still lack tech skills at the top
Banks have made progress in adding IT knowledge in their boardrooms, but they need more as digital transformation accelerates
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Unusual DearCry ransomware uses ‘rare’ approach to encryption
Hybrid approach to encryption used by DearCry bears similarities to WannaCry
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Canada’s Rogers and Shaw announce $26bn merger
Canadian telcos come together citing the belief that 5G is redefining the innovation landscape and that significant multibillion-dollar investments are needed to deliver the connectivity that communities, consumers and businesses require
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Microsoft releases one-click ProxyLogon mitigation tool
Microsoft’s mitigation tool is designed to help customers without dedicated security or IT teams navigate fixing their vulnerable Exchange servers
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Government calls for input into Covid-19 vaccine passports
Evidence gathering exercise will inform the development of the UK’s proposed Covid-19 vaccine passport scheme
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
Microsoft cloud users hit by global outage linked to Azure Active Directory issue
Microsoft claims to have resolved a global outage that left users of various services within its cloud portfolio unable to access their business apps and platforms overnight
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March 16, 2021
16
Mar'21
ST Engineering teams up with Google Cloud
Singapore’s ST Engineering and Google Cloud will explore offering secure cloud services for organisations in regulated industries