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• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Post Office staff instructed to shred documents that undermined its claims Horizon was robust

  Barrister advising the Post Office in 2013 stated that destroying documents would "amount to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice"

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Big four make small impression in Which? UK broadband survey

  As remote working became the default during the UK lockdown, the importance of dependable and enterprise-acceptable home broadband was never more crucial, but Which? shows that the country’s largest providers have proved a let-down regarding ...

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Nokia claims 5G throughput breakthrough and deploys first SE Asia 5G standalone RAN

  Finnish comms tech supplier marks the first 5G standalone RAN sharing network in Southeast Asia, enables M1-StarHub joint venture to gain Singapore-wide 5G coverage, and breaks a speed barrier

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  $50m ransomware demand on Acer is highest ever

  Record-breaking double-extortion cyber attack saw REvil gang exfiltrate financial data from Taiwan-based PC manufacturer

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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