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• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis

  Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  UK Cyber Security Council to take charge of skills strategy

  New government-backed body will be set up to boost careers opportunities and professional standards in the cyber security sector

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Interview: Robert Opp, chief digital officer, United Nations Development Programme

  Chief digital officer of the United Nations Development Programme talks about the relationship between digital technologies and sustainability, and how it can be used for a more environmentally-friendly and inclusive future

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  European cities hit key smart technology milestone with €250m investment

  London, Lisbon, Milan, Bordeaux, Burgas and Warsaw trigger investment in smart technologies as part of Sharing Cities programme

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  NHSX backs mobile app to detect kidney disease

  The app, which is being funded by the AI in Health and Care Award programme, turns a smartphone camera into a clinical-grade tool to help detect kidney disease

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  North-West England ‘perfect’ growth area for tech startups

  Industry groups mapping the UK’s technology landscape say the North-West of England is a hotspot for growing tech firms, which benefit from increasing investment and geographic proximity to academic and business support networks

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Too few UK organisations offering cyber training for remote work

  Nearly a year into the pandemic, a study reveals a concerning tendency for organisations not to bother offering security training for remote workers

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Get ready for fake work epidemic

  Remote working has become a fact of life for many office-based workers during the pandemic, and there has also been a rise in remote staff monitoring

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Deutsche Telekom taps Nokia for optical transport network modernisation

  Global operator signs deal to deploy optical transport portfolio to deliver more automated, higher-capacity network to meet growing demands of residential and Industry 4.0

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Data of thousands of Dutch citizens leaked from government Covid-19 systems

  Weak access controls and outdated systems blamed for leaking of the personal details of thousands of Dutch citizens tested for Covid-19

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Woolworths to invest more than A$50m in skills training

  More than 60,000 Woolworths employees across store and e-commerce operations, supply chain network and support offices are expected to benefit from the new investment

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Large and small firms accelerate UC technology adoption in response to Covid-19

  Large companies showed an increase of nearly 40%, an increased adoption driven by remote working surge caused by the pandemic

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Sweden to establish national cyber security centre

  Sweden becomes latest Nordic state to establish a national cyber security centre as the threat landscape grows

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Almost 70% of IT staff say firms working on tech gender diversity

  Many IT workers say their companies are working to address gender diversity in their IT departments, according to Computer Weekly’s salary survey

• February 08, 2021 08 Feb'21

  Singapore tops cloud adoption in ASEAN

  Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Singapore are using cloud services, but cost and security concerns remain

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  EncroChat: Appeal court finds ‘digital phone tapping’ admissible in criminal trials

  Appeal Court decides EncroChat-encrypted phone records can be used in criminal trials. Critics say the decision means phone tapping no longer has a ‘clear meaning in the digital age’

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Mayor of London launches digital inclusion initiative

  Taskforce focused on increasing digital inclusion in London will promote digital skills and increase access to devices and connectivity

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Government R&D funding fails to maximise ‘catapult’ potential

  Barriers in the UK’s research and development funding system mean technology and innovation centres, also known as catapults, are prevented from maximising their potential economic impact

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Google Chrome update to patch serious zero-day

  A serious heap buffer overflow vulnerability means Google Chrome users should patch their browsers as soon as possible

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Telcos flesh out 5G volumetric use cases

  NTT DoCoMo and BT among first telcos to examine the potential of technology that will enable large, high-quality interactive 3D files to be streamed to 5G mobile devices and viewed directly through a browser, along with AR/VR.

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Financial regulatory body bombarded with malicious emails

  New disclosures reveal the FCA’s systems bounced almost a quarter of a million malicious emails in a three-month period

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  CE consortium calls on comms regulator to ignore pleas to delay 6GHz certification

  As users’ reliance on wireless devices increases, the US Consumer Technology Association warns FCC to ignore lobbying to pause progress of Wi-Fi 6E equipment certification

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Security firm Stormshield loses source code in cyber attack

  Source code from two products developed by French cyber security firm was compromised in a December 2020 incident

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Denmark and Sweden to issue digital vaccine certificates

  Sweden and Denmark announce plans to develop digital certificates that prove people have been vaccinated against Covid-19

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  RAN returns strong growth but Nokia prepares for challenging year ahead

  Comms tech provider claims solid Q4, full year 2020 performance but anticipates “meaningful headwinds” in year of transition

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  How Yarra Valley Water is tapping APIs

  The largest water retailer in Melbourne has rolled out application programming interfaces to improve operations and customer service

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  UKRI should speed up Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund approval processes, says NAO

  Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s lengthy approval process leads to delays in funding projects and could be a deterrent, according to the National Audit Office

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams

  Microsoft has launched an “employee experience platform”, based on Microsoft Teams, said to aid the integration of the working environment

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Nurture software developer heroes

  Developer teams have been put under immense pressure to drive through digital transformation change, and they are now experiencing stress and burnout

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Revolut rewrites policy to include permanent remote working

  Challenger finance firm Revolut is redesigning its office spaces and introducing permanent remote working policies

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Woodland Trust hit by cyber attack in December

  Conservation charity is investigating what it describes as a ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack but has waited nearly two months to inform its members

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Wi-Fi global economic value to reach $5tn in 2025

  Study of the mainstay of in-home work, educational and entertainment communications finds Wi-Fi is a major global economic engine

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Boeing outsources to Dell affecting 600 IT jobs

  US aircraft manufacturer contracts hundreds of IT roles to Dell as it accelerates outsourcing plans

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  BT counts cost of Covid-19 in third quarter

  Fibre and 5G roll-outs continue apace, but trading update reveals trying times for UK incumbent telco, with falling revenues and profits

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  SolarWinds chases multiple leads in breach investigation

  Investigators at SolarWinds are exploring multiple theories as to how the company’s systems were compromised

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  IBM and Microsoft close the gap to mainstream quantum computing

  Recent developments from IBM and Microsoft suggest that cloud-based enterprise computing may become mainstream in just a few years

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  CCS goes live with £800m NHS IT framework

  Digital Capability for Health framework covers development and IT management services for health and social care organisations

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Fraud and cyber crime still vastly under-reported

  The scale of digitally enabled crime in the UK is dramatically under-reported, new statistics indicate

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Covid-19 saw 32% of UK&I firms furlough IT staff in 2020

  The coronavirus outbreak led to pay freezes, reduced hours and furlough for many IT workers, according to Computer Weekly’s annual salary survey

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  UiPath hires former cloud executive to head APAC business

  Former Google and AWS executive Rick Harshman will lead UiPath’s business in Asia-Pacific, where adoption of robotic process automation is growing

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Ericsson: Dematerialisation is the path to profitability

  Comms tech provider’s research finds so-called dematerialised enterprises expect to take advantage of cloud and mobile technology to become more productive and sustainable by 2030

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  CDEI: Local government data use must keep up Covid momentum

  The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation says momentum in local authority data use during the Covid-19 pandemic is in danger of being dissipated without central government investment and support for data skills development

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  CIO interview: David Walmsley, chief digital and omni-channel officer, Pandora

  The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic could have been a disaster for the jeweller, but due to its digital transformation programme, it was ready to carry on serving its customers online

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  AWS and Telstra team up on 5G

  Australia’s Telstra will explore a range of AWS’s edge computing offerings that can be integrated into its 5G network to speed up the performance of 5G applications

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Crypto malware targets Kubernetes clusters, say researchers

  Newly identified Hildegaard malware targets Kubernetes clusters and seems to herald a new campaign from the TeamTNT gang

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Has Covid-19 made bank branch closures easier to sell?

  Big banks continue to close branches and invest more in technology as the Covid-19 pandemic makes a case for digital banking

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  UK slow in AI maturity race

  A new survey for Rackspace has found that IT decision makers in the UK struggle with finding the right skills to support artificial intelligence

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Broadband speed boost sees UK home values jump by £3,500

  UK government survey quantifies added value of access to superfast broadband, which is now said to have pushed broadband speeds up a gear for 5.5 million homes across the country, creating £2.7bn of economic benefits including 17,600 jobs

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Healthcare and life sciences dominate 2021 DataIQ 100 list

  NHS England’s managing director of data and analytics, Ming Tang, joins data leaders from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and GSK in the top 10 of this year’s DataIQ 100 list

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Foxtons rejects claims of slow reaction to data leak

  Investigators have unearthed 16,000 data records that seem to have been stolen in an attack on property firm Foxtons last year, but the organisation says it acted by the book in dealing with the incident