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• 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

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  EE, BT team to ‘redefine’ home broadband with BT Halo 3+

  Comms provider and mobile division announce new hybrid connect device, claiming to combine full-fibre home broadband, Wi-Fi and UK’s fastest mobile network

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Venture capital trusts lobby for relaxed state aid rules

  Venture Capital Trust Association chair speaks to Computer Weekly about how the UK’s exit from the EU means state aid rules can be rewritten to allow for the expansion of funding mechanisms used by tech startups

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Google grows cloud sales as parent’s profits top $40bn

  Alphabet announces massive overall profits and increased Google cloud sales

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  ‘Classic’ Cerber ransomware targets health sector in high volumes

  Cerber ransomware-as-a-service seems to have re-emerged as one of the most critical cyber threats facing healthcare organisations, reports VMware Carbon Black

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  SolarWinds patches two critical CVEs in Orion platform

  New vulnerabilities disclosed as SolarWinds reels from December 2020 Solorigate/Sunburst attack – but do not appear to have been exploited yet

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  CIO interview: Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital, NHS Scotland

  We speak to NHS Scotland’s head of digital about the IT to help ease the pressure on the health service, which has intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  EE 5G mobile usage increases by 40% over last quarter of 2020

  Surge in use of next-generation networks for BT-owned mobile service over the festive period with video, especially news, causing spikes

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down as e-commerce giant celebrates first-ever $100bn revenue quarter

  Bezos confirms he is stepping down as Amazon CEO and will take on the role of executive chairman, as company posts record-breaking fourth-quarter results

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Tata Communications grows IoT footprint

  India’s Tata Communications has been shoring up its IoT capabilities through a handful of acquisitions and partnerships with telcos

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Poly pivots product line to remote working

  Latest Poly P Series offers pro-grade webcams, video bars, speakerphones and an all-in-one video conferencing monitor, with remote management and software services to address new normal

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  CIO interview: Paul Coby, CIO, Johnson Matthey

  Johnson Matthey’s CIO is working to create an agile IT department and says the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a company-wide appreciation of what IT does

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Ten startups graduate from virtual reality-focused accelerator

  Startups focusing on building new immersive technology products have completed Digital Catapult’s Augmentor accelerator programme

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Agent Tesla trojan finds new ways to sneak past defences

  Updated versions of Agent Tesla Rat include new techniques that fiddle with code to disable endpoint protection tools on target systems

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Nordic region provides autonomous vehicle test bed

  Nordic region has the suppliers, environment and appetite for pioneering the development of autonomous vehicles

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Latency higher priority than speed as IT leaders look to gain edge

  Business leaders believe success depends on low latency, namely 10ms or less to ensure the success of their applications, with three-quarters requiring 5ms or less for edge initiatives

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Nordic countries dominate European online banking take-up

  Nordics dominate online banking take-up in Europe, but the UK is not far behind

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Chelsea and Westminster NHS launches diabetes app

  Together with supplier Sensyne Health, clinicians at the trust have designed a diabetes app that allows patients to manage their condition at home

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Liverpool City Council upgrades to cloud-based contact centre

  An 8x8 integrated cloud PaaS contact centre with voice, team chat and meetings support is helping to drive the council’s digital agenda

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Ford makes Google preferred cloud partner for next-generation connected car push

  The Ford Motor Company has gone public with details of the next phase of its ongoing connected car push, which involves a newly struck six-year tech collaboration with Google

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Microsoft and Singtel team up on 5G via Azure Stack

  Microsoft Azure customers in Singapore will soon be able to use Singtel’s 5G infrastructure to power 5G applications through the telco’s edge computing platform

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Financial services giants form EU-focused coalition to boost sector’s public cloud adoption pace

  A dozen or so European financial institutions have joined forces to stimulate the pace of public cloud adoption in the sector

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Bank of Singapore taps analytics to improve operations

  Private banking arm of Singapore’s OCBC Group will use analytics to improve compliance, customer service and the performance of its sales teams

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Enterprise 5G network slicing to carve out $20bn revenues over next five years

  Research highlights dedicated network allocation technique as an enabler for new value creation as communications service providers bolster their capabilities to go beyond connectivity revenues

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  O2 and NEC claim Open RAN trial success

  Leading UK mobile operator teams reveal positive results from open radio access network test with IT and network technologies provider, including virtualised RAN software and hardware from GigaTera Communications, Supermicro among others

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Serco confirms Babuk ransomware attack

  Outsourcing firm was hit by the ransomware last week but insists most of its operations are running as normal

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  West Midlands refreshes digital strategy

  Combined authority’s 2021-2026 digital roadmap aims to address the digital divide and make the West Midlands the most digitally connected region in the country

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Netbackup 9 adds flexibility with hyper-converged backup options

  Veritas’s enterprise backup flagship is available in hyper-converged infrastructure and has embraced containerisation, for better hardware and application scalability

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Qualcomm ramps up 5G with French research and development centre

  Brittany and Paris Region colocated R&D facility set up to boost chip giant as it embarks on next-generation network objectives

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  UKRI suspends services after ransomware attack

  UK Research and Innovation was hit by an undisclosed strain of ransomware at the end of January

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  CISOs invisible to their organisations, says BT report

  Ignorance of cyber issues is leading to misplaced confidence in security in many organisations, as CISOs struggle to make themselves seen and heard