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• June 19, 2024 19 Jun'24

  Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data

  Documents show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Benelux specialised venture capital fund finds global deep tech investments

  A venture capital fund in Belgium partners with tech research organisation in its search for investments

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Why AI could finally get CIOs a seat at the table

  Companies are looking for an exec to lead their corporate artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The CIO is the obvious choice, but there are some challenges ahead

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Digital leaders spending more on tech for efficiency gains

  In spite of the economic slowdown, IT budgets are on the rise, but GenAI deployments are being marred by poor corporate data

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  General election 2024: The Green Party promises Digital Bill of Rights

  The Green Party manifesto contains several tech nuggets, including a bill to ensure independent regulation of social media platforms, increase R&D investment and a cautious regulatory approach to AI pledges

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Digging into the Labour Party’s election manifesto datacentre planning reform pledge

  The Labour Party is promising to reform the planning rules that govern whether new datacentre builds can proceed or not, but stakeholders warn the sector’s growth must not come at the expense of the environment

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Bayanat and Oxa team up to drive innovation in autonomous vehicle technology

  Autonomous vehicle software provider Oxa inks partnership with AI-powered geospatial solutions company Bayanat AI, aimed at advancing the development and deployment of AV systems

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  HPE Aruba Networking to connect new Everton stadium

  Premier League football club inks deal with leading networking firm to become official supplier of soon-to-be-completed stadium

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Altnets Netomnia, brsk announce merger

  Merger of broadband indies described as transformative step for UK telecoms industry, establishing what companies say will be only scaled and capital-efficient retail, wholesale and consolidation platform

• June 18, 2024 18 Jun'24

  Tech Talent Charter to disband after nearly 10 years of operation

  As the IT industry hits an ‘inflection point’ in its progress towards a more equitable sector, the Tech Talent Charter is bowing out, leaving the industry with resources it has produced since 2015

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Artificial intelligence to make Olympic Games more inclusive

  The International Olympic Committee is working with Intel to use AI at the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  IBM deploys GenAI to power new Wimbledon features

  With Wimbledon 2024 running at the start of July, IBM has used the Watsonx platform with GenAI to power a new catchup feature

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  Once ridiculed Post Office scandal campaigner Alan Bates receives knighthood

  Campaigner for justice, once labelled a ‘nutter’ and a ‘thief’, knighted for his work to expose the Post Office scandal

• June 17, 2024 17 Jun'24

  VMO2 boosts fibre, mobile comms in Essex, Manchester

  Latest expansion for joint-venture UK fibre network to see it deliver network to over 12,000 premises east of London, boosting local connectivity

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  Nokia unveils software to expand and simplify APIs

  Nokia’s Network Exposure Platform aims to expand and simplify the number of network application programming interfaces available to service providers, their partners and customer channels

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  Amdocs simplifies eSIM activation with Google Cloud

  Communications software provider and cloud giant announce partnership to streamline embedded subscriber identity module onboarding and activation with automated, remote real-time processes

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  Decision-makers less confident in network investment

  Research finds nearly nine in 10 of those responsible for network buying are less confident in investments, and two-thirds believe network technology’s rapid advancements hinder decision-making

• June 14, 2024 14 Jun'24

  Post Office scandal victims in Scotland have convictions quashed

  Scotland follows England, Wales and Northern Ireland in exonerating wrongfully convicted subpostmasters en masse

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  General election 2024: Labour promises to boost digital infrastructure

  The Labour Party manifesto for the UK general election promises a new industrial strategy and an overhaul of planning rules to help support the digital and tech sector

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  AI’s environmental cost could outweigh sustainability benefits

  Artificial intelligence can help organisations manage and mitigate their environmental impacts in a number of ways, but the highly polluting nature of the technology could outweigh its other sustainability benefits if not dealt with

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Carrefour taps BICS to launch eSIM travel data

  Global travellers with embedded subscriber identity module-enabled phones now able to purchase data packages from multinational retail corporation over the air

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Vonage, Telstra team to accelerate digital transformation with network APIs

  Ericsson-owned cloud communications provider partners with Australian operator to combine network APIs with API platform and 5G network capabilities to enable enterprises to build applications for optimised customer experiences

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Black Basta ransomware crew may be exploiting Microsoft zero-day

  A Microsoft vulnerability that was addressed without fanfare in March may in fact have been exploited as a zero-day by the notorious Black Basta ransomware gang, threat hunters warn

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Barcelona kicks off edge to cloud to customise fan experience

  Aiming to fulfil its ‘mes que un club’ ethos, Spanish football giant pulls networking ‘palanca’ to offer fans customised experience at legendary stadium, becoming official edge-to-cloud partner for next four seasons

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Enterprises scale private wireless for additional use cases, industrial sites

  Study shows enterprises expanded private wireless networks use or deployed them in another location

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  eSIM Go checks in with Lufthansa on-brand global travel service

  Aviation group partners with embedded subscriber identity module company to provide mobile data services to passengers across four of its airlines, enabling travellers to stay connected in more than 150 countries while avoiding data roaming charges

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Tech industry losing steam for DE&I, finds TTC report

  Tech sector diversity is slowly improving, but trends spotted by the Tech Talent Charter could be a threat to current and future progress

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support

  VMware is not going away anytime soon. While some IT leaders may be feeling the pain of Broadcom’s changes, they still need to seek a long-term plan

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Q&A: Adalbjorn Thorolfsson on IT project management in Iceland

  With a small, but very sophisticated population, Iceland has unique ways of keeping up with the rest of the world in the IT sector. Adalbjorn Thorolfsson, president of the Icelandic Project Management Association, describes some lessons for the rest...

• June 13, 2024 13 Jun'24

  Epicor rides Southeast Asia manufacturing boom

  Midmarket ERP software supplier capitalising on growing investments by Chinese and local manufacturing firms in region to drive business

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Nordic innovators look to revive the zombie subscriber population

  Zombie subscriptions where customers buy a service and forget about it are harming the subscription economy, but software is being developed to support the subscription economy

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  NTT upgrades JUNO submarine cable

  Largest trans-Pacific submarine cable system boosts network capacity to support delivery of ubiquitous high-capacity 800Gb, 400Gb and 100Gb services, claiming to hit service delivery targets as soon as it launches

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  CMA working paper outlines concerns about Microsoft’s competitive hold on UK cloud market

  Microsoft has dismissed the idea its cloud licensing practices are affecting its two biggest competitors, but stakeholders claim the CMA's latest working paper could signify a day of reckoning over its pricing strategy

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  CIO interview: Career progression and business alignment

  We speak to the CIO of law firm Kingsley Napley about his progression from PC support to IT leadership

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Nokia maintains 25G PON momentum with HKBN and Chorus

  Comms tech provider closes more deals for 25Gbps passive optical network technology with Hong Kong fibre network provider and New Zealand’s largest open-access internet infrastructure company on behalf of leading retail service provider

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  Case study: BT rolls out Amazon’s generative AI developer tool to more coders

  Amazon Q Developer tool has helped the telecoms giant write 200,000 lines of code

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  IT witness was hidden away from Post Office court battle, but supported it from shadows

  Former Fujitsu chief architect provided evidence support to Post Office witnesses in High Court battle despite being unfit to provide it directly

• June 12, 2024 12 Jun'24

  RCE flaw and DNS zero-day top list of Patch Tuesday bugs

  An RCE vulnerability in a Microsoft messaging feature and a third-party flaw in a DNS authentication protocol are the most pressing issues to address in Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Tableau CEO on AI moves to ease analytics adoption

  Tableau’s head honcho Ryan Aytay talks up Tableau’s efforts to bring more consumerisation and personalisation capabilities to data analytics through the use of AI

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  PSNI ran secret unit to monitor journalists’ and lawyers’ phones, claims former senior officer

  The Police Service of Northern Ireland denies claims that its anti-corruption unit used a standalone computer to ‘avoid scrutiny and control’

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Pure Storage hit by Snowflake credential hackers

  Pure Storage emerges as the latest victim of a fast-spreading breach of Snowflake customers targeting users with lax credential security measures in place

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  General election 2024: Conservative manifesto promises to continue tech policies

  The Conservative Party manifesto contains little by way of new commitments for tech and digital, but lays out plans to continue existing policies and promises made under the last government

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  More than 160 Snowflake customers hit in targeted data theft spree

  Mandiant reports that more than 160 Snowflake customers have been hit in a broad data theft and extortion campaign targeting organisations that have failed to pay proper attention to securing valuable credentials

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Apple adopts ChatGPT to put the ‘A’ in AI

  At its worldwide developer conference, Apple updated macOS and iOS, making Siri more context-aware

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Nuclear waste body cuts energy use by 20% as Pure replaces HPE

  French nuclear waste agency Andra has cut storage energy use by 20% and strengthened its disaster recovery capabilities by deploying Pure Storage and 10-year controller upgrades

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  CDO interview: Sophie Gallay, global data and client IT director, Etam

  The French retailer has some catching up to do on its data strategy and digital transformation – and its new data chief has an ambitious roadmap to deliver on data science, business intelligence and artificial intelligence

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Cobol knowledge crisis threatens Dutch financial systems

  Expertise in complex Cobol systems, critical to major financial institutions, is dwindling in The Netherlands, resulting in retired professionals returning work

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Interview: Astronaut Tim Peake on an imminent revolution in space tech

  Britain’s first male astronaut discusses the UK’s successful space sector, its overlaps with enterprise IT, and how to encourage more young people to work in science and technology

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  Altnet full-fibre firms hit the north

  Independent UK broadband providers continue programmes of network expansion to light up premises in Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Humberside with gigabit connectivity

• June 11, 2024 11 Jun'24

  O2 Telefónica, Ericsson renew core network partnership

  German operator and leading comms tech provider agree multi-year contract extension to realise network of the future