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• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Singapore firms struggle with RPA roll-outs

  Almost three-quarters of Singapore business leaders say their organisations are facing difficulties in scaling up their implementations of robotic process automation

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Loan charge: HMRC tells contractors not to ‘hold out hope’ of revised down settlements emerging

  With the 30 September 2020 loan charge policy settlement date fast approaching, HM Revenue & Customs tells those in its scope to abandon hope of revised down settlements being offered at this stage

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  UK government redesigns contact-tracing app and begins new trial phase

  No official launch, but app is upgraded to offer alerts based on postcode, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test booking in conjunction with the official Test and Trace programme

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  PCCW Global furthers global IoT reach with Nayar Systems

  Industrial internet of things firm collaborates with global comms services provider to reduce the time and cost of deploying the services most required by high-tech elevator systems

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Computing students achieve high A-level grades despite coronavirus outbreak

  Students taking computing at A-level have achieved higher grades than last year despite the uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  CIO interview: Mark Gannon, director of business change and information, Sheffield City Council

  Like many organisations, the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital change in Sheffield, and its IT leader is looking to build further on that momentum

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Ericsson hits 100th 5G commercial agreement milestone

  Century up for Swedish communications tech firm in next-generation infrastructure wins with deal at Telekom Slovenije to supply essential RAN and Packet Core technology

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  Muslamic Makers launches careers discovery programme

  Tech community Muslamic Makers has launched a programme to help Muslim talent develop skills and understand more about digital careers

• August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20

  APAC consumers do not feel responsible for data security

  Just one in four consumers believe they should protect their own data, underscoring the tightrope between security and convenience that organisations have been walking on

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Broadband upstream usage, speeds spike higher in Q2 2020

  As the need for remote working, learning, information and entertainment makes broadband access more important than ever, a consumption report finds mass usage of applications such as Zoom driving uptake of higher-speed packages

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  EU and US start discussions on ‘enhanced’ Privacy Shield data-sharing agreement

  Talks begin on a successor to the Privacy Shield EU-US data-sharing agreement declared unlawful in July 2020 – a decision by the European Court of Justice that left thousands of businesses facing legal uncertainty

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Beyond.pl plots Polish datacentre campus expansion to capitalise on growing continental cloud demand

  Polish colocation provider Beyond.pI says expansion plans are in direct response to growing demand for sustainably powered datacentre capacity in central Europe

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Government awards funding for innovation projects

  The funding for innovative projects forms part of the government’s plan to increase research and development spending, which it claims will aid the UK’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Pure and Cohesity launch FlashRecover for flash-speed restores

  Flash market pioneer links up with scale-out backup product maker to provide bundled backup plus super-fast recovery based around Pure FlashBlade storage arrays

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  How Dharma ransomware became an effective services business

  New research looks under the bonnet of a Dharma ransomware attack, with the ransomware's ease of use being particularly dangerous for small to medium-sized enterprises

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  NHS SBS spies £75m savings on IT purchases through new procurement framework

  NHS organisations and public sector bodies will be encouraged to use £500m procurement framework to acquire IT software and hardware in a more cost-effective way

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  CIOs raise IT budgets as increased remote working drives security concerns

  Research finds that as the pandemic forces companies to accept the idea of permanent massed remote working, CIOs are waking up to the threat of increased cyber attacks

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Microsoft patches two zero-days with active exploits

  Microsoft drops another major Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for two zero-day exploits that are already being exploited by cyber criminals

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Security training body Sans Institute hit by data breach

  Around 28,000 items of personally identifiable data were lost in a phishing attack on Sans, proving that even the professionals can be caught out

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court

  In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  SD-WAN revealed as key enabler for ‘new normal’ remote workforces

  Research from software-defined network and cloud platform provider shows the increased importance of software-defined infrastructure to the new work environment

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  NHS hit by thousands of malicious emails at height of pandemic

  The NHS received nearly 30,000 malicious emails at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in March and April

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Citrix users urged to patch five XenMobile CVEs

  Patches are available for CVEs 2020-8208 through 8212 and should be installed as soon as possible

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  PCCW Global and Sure Universal team up for home-based medical IoT

  Leading IoT software and platform developer teams with Hong Kong telco to offer global network of connected solutions for medical care from home, providing a customisable platform and interface to deliver global connectivity, simplify device ...

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  DAG Wireless unveils 4G/5G infrastructure for in-flight connectivity

  Broadband access products provider announces new FCC and DO-160 certified in-flight broadband network designed to offer first-class wireless connectivity experiences

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Coronavirus: Phishing lures pivot to exploit vaccine hopes

  Phishing emails are increasingly luring in victims with subject lines relating to the development of a vaccine for Covid-19

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix launches Clusters in AWS for hybrid cloud hyper-converged infrastructure

  HCI pioneers launches Nutanix Clusters, which will provide hyper-converged deployments across customer datacentres and the Amazon cloud, but only in Acropolis and on AWS for now

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Pandemic acts as catalyst for digital-led recovery

  Economies with strong digital services are set to grow cross-border trade, while 3D printing could revolutionise goods manufacturing

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Equinix expands into India through $161m acquisition of two local datacentres

  Colocation giant looks set to tap into the huge demand for cloud and internet services from enterprises in India

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  French data protection authorities to probe TikTok as suitors circle

  France’s CNIL has confirmed a new investigation into TikTok’s data protection practices

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Hospitality sector is failing on contact-tracing obligations

  Cyber security experts urge the government to do more to help small hospitality businesses improve their contact-tracing data-handling practices

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  UK government gigabit broadband scheme nears half a million new premises benchmark

  UK government celebrates reaching gigabit broadband services deployment milestone as part of its ambitious target over the lifetime of parliament

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Looming threat of Covid-19 and IR35 reform conspire to keep contractor confidence dampened

  Quarterly data on how confident freelancers feel about their job and earning prospects highlights the negative impact Covid-19 and the government's looming tax reforms are having on the sector

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  UK lags in AI skills and AI project success

  Global study by Microsoft shows that UK organisations have more artificial intelligence projects that deliver zero value than other countries

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Nutanix Clusters on AWS debuts in 20 cloud regions

  In technical preview since 2019, Nutanix Clusters on AWS will enable unified operations across private and public clouds

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Coca-Cola European Partners signs multi-year hybrid cloud deal with IBM

  Coca-Cola European Partners is building on its past relationship with IBM to accelerate its cloud migration, and drive efficiencies within its business

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Government launches digital identity checking pilot

  More than a year after first announced, the government has launched a year-long pilot of its post-Brexit digital identity checking service

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Retailer Monsoon allegedly exposing data via Pulse Connect server

  A researcher has found a critically insecure Pulse Connect Secure VPN version belonging to UK retailer Monsoon Accessorize, but claims the firm is ignoring his disclosures

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  EE expands emergency services network to 500th site

  BT-owned UK operator announces milestone for emergency services network as it accelerates its strategy towards bringing 4G to more places across the country, particularly rural communities

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Gartner flags continued growth in global IaaS spend as enterprise demand for public cloud soars

  Global spend on IaaS continues to surge, with a growing competitive threat posed by Chinese providers

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Gov.uk Verify continues to pose ‘notable risk’ to Cabinet Office

  Government Digital Service put in place “unprecedented measures” in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and built several new digital services, but its Gov.uk Verify programme continues to “pose notable risk” to the department, according ...

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  SD-WAN gains momentum with enterprises in Australia

  As Australian businesses accelerate migration to the cloud, the underlying network will play an increasingly important role and nearly 60% of enterprises in the country have already implemented SD-WAN

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Security teams struggle to keep pace with cloud threats

  Security professionals face challenges in keeping pace with cloud deployments and migrations, and the additional security threats they open up

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  CIO interview: DFS’s Russell Harte on the Google ecosystem

  The furniture retailer has standardised on G Suite and has bought into the Google Cloud Platform and Chrome OS devices

• August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20

  Poor connectivity sees home workers lose over half an hour of work a day

  Business leaders reveal pressure of new normal with research revealing four-fifths of home workers experiencing unreliable internet connection while working from home, and nearly half having slow and/or unreliable internet connection

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Cyber attack combined with Covid-19 puts Travelex into administration

  Foreign exchange firm Travelex has cut UK staff by 1,300 and physical outlets will remain closed

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Isle of Wight trial shows positive effect of contact-tracing app, but data privacy body slams UK

  Rare piece of good news for long-awaited but much-criticised mobile app as technical conference highlights the positive outcomes for first large public test of coronavirus contact-tracing service

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Virgin Media customers targeted in Twitter phish

  Customers seeking help from the ISP are being targeted by a scam Twitter account

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Data Standards Authority publishes guidance on government data sharing

  The Data Standards Authority (DSA) wants government departments to use new open data standards when sharing data, with the aim of improving public services

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Intel, VMware broaden 5G collaboration across radio access network

  Leading software and chip companies embark on a pre-integrated software platform for virtualised RAN designed to reduce development cycles for communications service providers