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• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Poor UK internet connectivity and technology cited as hampering SME productivity

  Study suggests small businesses could be losing out on two and a half working weeks a year from employees because of unreliable internet connections and technology issues

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  CES 2020: Chipmakers bet on new designs to boost PC market

  The roulette wheels are certainly spinning in Las Vegas, with chipmakers vying for attention to show off their latest hardware innovations

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Half of UK citizens want tighter data regulations

  Over 50% of UK citizens believe the gathering and use of personal data should be subject to more stringent government oversight, according to Fujitsu

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Ofcom announces plans to ‘supercharge’ investment in fibre broadband

  Regulator says proposals to upgrade UK broadband infrastructure will transform the business case for national full-fibre investment in towns, cities and villages

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Qualcomm gets into gear with autonomous vehicle platform and forges in-vehicle tech partnerships

  Chip giant hits the road with new platform to address the complexity of autonomous driving and advanced driver-assistance systems while forging partnership with company specialising in helping launch in-vehicle infotainment systems, telematics and ...

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  AI skills and explainable data models are top concerns for 2020

  New research from IBM finds that 2020 is the year when executives want to deploy real-world artificial intelligence applications

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Deliveroo exceeds tech recruitment target in Edinburgh

  Food delivery firm has increased the number of technology staff it wants in its Edinburgh hub

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Cloud adoption in ANZ gathering pace

  Australia and New Zealand have seen a four-fold increase in the amount of data moving from on-premise environments to the top public clouds, survey finds

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  TikTok video-sharing app left user data exposed

  Check Point uncovered serious vulnerabilities in the TikTok video-sharing app that left users exposed

• January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20

  Fujitsu must face scrutiny following Post Office Horizon trial judgment

  While the Post Office has suffered financial and reputational damage after losing its court battle with subpostmasters, the supplier of the IT system at the centre of the dispute has major PR challenges ahead

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Scale’s HE150 the first of a big push to small edge HCI hardware

  Scale Computing aims to scale to micro-sized hyper-converged with a lightweight operating system it claims its competitors can’t match for edge and remote location deployments

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Telco revs set to increase, but suppliers face critical challenges in 2020

  Potential good times set to roll for telecoms industry in 2020, with SD-WAN first deployments of 5G, but NB-IoT needs to gain traction to stay relevant, says research

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  China Broadcasting Network begins 5G services

  China’s national radio and TV network operator becomes fourth company to offer 5G services in the country, serving the cities of Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Facebook to ban deepfake videos

  New policy closes some loopholes around misinformation, but seems to leave others wide open

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Government confirms IR35 private sector reforms under review ahead of April 2020 start date

  Government honours pledge to embark on a review of its plans to extend the IR35 off-payroll rules to the private sector that will focus on ensuring the changes are introduced in a “smooth” way in April 2020

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Bus open data portal to go live in January 2020

  The service will start by publishing route and timetable data and will evolve to provide fare and real-time location data in 2021

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Etisalat unveils MENA’s first OpenRAN network and launches UCC suite

  Leading MENA telco makes key move in transforming its network to software-based solution hub and introduces a collaboration suite to aid small businesses in the region with digital transformation journey

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Broadcom flogs Symantec enterprise security unit to Accenture

  Acquisition is set to make Accenture a global leader in managed cyber security services

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Met Police to upgrade command and control system

  Metropolitan Police Service signs Leidos to renew command and control setup under a 10-year programme

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  With friends like AWS, who needs an open source business?

  AWS executive’s remarks over the company’s exploitation of open source has put a question mark over the viability of open source businesses

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Klaxoon claims mobile workspace first as multi-team projects become the norm

  As new working methods and increased remote working make effective meetings more challenging, Klaxoon offers a new collaboration system

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Swede’s war on cancer moves to a digital battlefield

  One man’s blog in Sweden turned into a healthcare app to support cancer sufferers and is now expanding globally

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  2019: a whirlwind year for AI in APAC

  Asia-Pacific is proving to be a magnet for entrepreneurial activity from AI firms, though the escalating US-China trade tensions have put one firm in a tough situation

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  More than 30 million smart street lights by 2023, predicts study

  Glowing future for global connected industry over the next three years as adoption of LPWA technologies such as NB-IoT and LoRa grows quickly

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Qualcomm and ZTE claim 5G landmark with voice-over-NR call

  Successful 5G VoNR calls sees tech companies declare an important step towards the commercial use of 5G voice experiences

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  OTT challenge to see mobile operators lose voice over next five years

  Harsh times predicted for voice services over the next five years as revenues are expected to nearly halve, but operators stand to be partially offset by nascent 5G-based offers

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Cyber gangsters demand payment from Travelex after ‘Sodinokibi’ attack

  Cyber criminals are demanding payment to decrypt Travelex’s computer files after a devastating malware attack. New questions have been raised about the security of Travelex’s computer network after it emerged the company waited eight months to patch...

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Xerox secures $24bn funding to acquire HP Inc

  Xerox believes it now has what it takes to push the deal through, but one of its main investors has been accused of insider dealing

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Highways England uses robot to speed up roadworks

  A machine equipped with precise positioning technology carried out, in a few hours, road marking work that usually takes a week

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  A decade in datacentres: how the rise of cloud has hit enterprise hardware and software spending

  The first of a series of reports by Synergy Research Group into how enterprise IT spending habits have changed over the course of the past decade reveal datacentre hardware and software investment "stagnation"

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Personal transport as a service drives across Nordics

  New mobility-as-a-service projects are gaining traction in major cities across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Why enterprises should care about DevOps

  Besides supporting cloud-native software development, DevOps’ biggest gains lie in legacy systems, says Puppet’s field CTO

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  Iran likely to hit back with cyber attacks, security experts warn

  The possibility of cyber attack by threat groups acting on behalf of the Iranian government has dramatically increased following US actions in Iraq

• January 06, 2020 06 Jan'20

  UK cyber security boss Ciaran Martin to step down

  NCSC chief Ciaran Martin will leave his post in the summer of 2020

• January 03, 2020 03 Jan'20

  Government injects £40m into single sign-on NHS programme

  The government has put aside funding to speed up login times. Additional funding has been announced to support adult digital health services

• January 03, 2020 03 Jan'20

  Survey about Swedish people’s attitude to the internet reveals growing distrust of social media

  Swedish citizens are becoming more concerned about the activities of social media companies and are reducing their online interaction with them as a result

• January 03, 2020 03 Jan'20

  Cummings issues recruitment call for data scientists to reshape Whitehall

  Government’s most senior adviser appeals to data scientists to step forward to refashion how the UK state works

• January 03, 2020 03 Jan'20

  Suspected ransomware attack causes worldwide disruption for Travelex

  Travelex switches off computer systems and resorts to cash-only currency sales after malware attack. Insiders claim the currency exchange chain has been hit by ransomware which has left critical files containing customer data encrypted

• January 03, 2020 03 Jan'20

  How Darktrace is riding the AI boom

  Cyber security firm known for its artificial intelligence smarts doubled its headcount across Asia-Pacific last year in key markets including Australia and South Korea

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Xiaomi makes big bet on 5G, IoT and partners to advance wireless file transfer

  Leading Chinese device manufacturer Xiaomi builds on strong end to 2019 and starts decade with wireless alliance and ambition to cement leadership in 5G, the internet of things and artificial intelligence

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Google Health pioneers breast cancer AI scanning

  An algorithm developed by Google Health promises to reduce the likelihood of patients being wrongly diagnosed, and improve abnormal mammogram scan identification

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  California’s CCPA an opportunity for security industry to do better

  California’s consumer protection and data privacy laws came into effect on 1 January 2020, and present a golden opportunity for the cyber security practitioners

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Call for former Post Office CEO to step down from public roles after IT court battle lost

  Conservative peer is calling for former Post Office CEO to step down from high-profile public roles for her part in Horizon IT scandal

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Luxoft drives into Microsoft connected vehicle platform ecosystem

  Digital strategy and software engineering firm joins the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform as it aims to enable personalised connected customer experiences for automotive companies

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Interview: Why we need a GDPR for dead people

  Back in 2000, there was no Facebook or Twitter and the smartphone revolution had not begun. Today, digital identities outlive the people they represent

• January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20

  Inside Qlik’s data management playbook

  Qlik CEO Mike Capone talks up the company’s transition into a data management company, its traction in APAC and what it is doing to put data analytics into the hands of more workers

• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  Huawei gets India green light as it reports strong sales growth for 2019

  Comms technology giant finishes challenging 2019 with solid commercial performance and permission to supply 5G technology in one of the world’s largest internet markets

• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  UK satellite data to spearhead fight against climate change

  The Universities of Edinburgh and Leeds have joined forces in a £5m government-backed programme to use satellite data to combat climate change

• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  Top 10 investigative stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 investigative stories of 2019

• December 31, 2019 31 Dec'19

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2019

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2019