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• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Finland’s OP Financial Group accelerates open banking push

  Finnish banking group is working with a Danish fintech to add open banking functionality to its offerings

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Stemettes and Monster: Why focusing on STEM confidence is vital for girls

  Job site Monster and social enterprise Stemettes have partnered for a fourth year to run workshops aimed at preparing girls for the world of work and encouraging them into the STEM sector

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Security skills gap will take a decade to fill

  The British education systems cannot move fast enough to address the security skills crisis, and in the absence of government action increased reliance on automation may be the least worst solution

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  How APAC firms can unleash the power of creative disruption

  Regional business leaders at the recent Leap Summit in Malaysia talked up the blueprint for creative disruption, which includes scaling up an idea and overcoming the distribution challenge, among other areas

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Enterprises muddled over cloud security responsibilities

  A McAfee study suggests that 2020 will be a big year for cloud adoption, but confusion still persists over who is responsible for securing it

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  VMware doubles up on Kubernetes play

  New Tanzu portfolio reflects efforts by VMware to better meet the needs of enterprises that are warming to containers and Kubernetes when building new cloud-native applications

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Unisys nears completion of SaaS-based upgrade of Holmes2 police IT system

  Global IT provider Unisys says the last of the 43 police forces in England and Wales that need to upgrade to the cloud-based version of its Holmes2 shared investigations system will complete in early 2020

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  TechUK releases ‘digital manifesto’ ahead of General Election 2019

  The digital manifesto from TechUK looks at what technology policies the next government should adopt and sets objectives for how to make them happen

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Verizon, Qualcomm and Ericsson demo dynamic spectrum sharing in US

  US comms giant Verizon teams with Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson to use dynamic spectrum sharing technology to extend reach and hasten development of 5G Ultra Wideband network

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Gartner: Weak global demand for smartphones in third quarter of 2019

  Consumer concern about value for money and deferrals due to 5G add up to disappointing smartphone sales in the third quarter of 2019

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Peer calls for clear-out of Post Office board after Court of Appeal confirms major court defeat

  Conservative peer championing subpostmasters’ long-running battle with Post Office suggests management clear-out after Court of Appeal rejects appeal bid

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Revamped HMRC IR35 status checker tool still lacks key functionality, contractor groups claim

  HMRC releases an updated version of its IR35 tax status checker tool, CEST, to accommodate the onset of the tax avoidance reforms being rolled out to the private sector, but contracting stakeholders claim it still lacks basic functionality

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Facebook undermined rivals in bid to dominate global messaging

  Facebook used buyouts and bullying tactics towards competitors to grow its business empire, documents leaked to Computer Weekly reveal

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  HPE says there will be no further cost cuts as it posts lower Q4 2019 revenue

  Antonio Neri is in his second year as HPE CEO and is overseeing a three-year programme to improve efficiencies and reduce costs

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  McKinsey: Why some industries gain an AI advantage, while others lag

  Study from McKinsey & Company finds data silos and a lack of enterprise integration are putting some industries at a disadvantage

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Ericsson: More than 2.6 billion 5G subscriptions by end of 2025

  Latest Ericsson Mobility Report reveals that 5G has the potential to cover up to 65% of the world’s population and handle 45% of global mobile data by 2025

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  General Election 2019: The Conservatives’ technology policies and digital plans

  With the UK gearing up for its third general election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Conservative and Unionist Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Rural business association slams parties’ lack of plans to address ‘appalling’ connectivity

  UK’s major political parties accused of failing rural businesses by lacking a credible solution to improve mobile 4G and 5G coverage

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Snap taps Verizon as 5G partner to extend AR, video experiences

  US comms giant Verizon teams with Snapchat creator to look at supporting advanced video applications such as augmented reality on its 5G network

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Ink spat as Xerox gets aggressive and HP Inc questions strategy

  Letters have been flying between the HP Inc board of directors and Xerox, with Xerox planning to pitch directly to shareholders

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Nationwide building society opens up systems through mortgage API

  Nationwide Building Society is trialling an application programming interface that will enable its mortgage brokers to link directly to some of its systems

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  University of Leicester dumps SANs and LUNs for Cloudian object storage

  One-to-one mapping between Dell SANs and media servers had passed their sell-by date and caused vulnerabilities for the University of Leicester, which fixed the problems by a move to “stateless” object storage on Cloudian

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  State backs Norway’s fibre cable capacity building

  Norway is increasing investment on communications infrastructure in an effort to reduce reliance on Swedish and Danish networks

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Qualcomm and Bosch Rexroth target industrial device market for 5G tech

  Collaborating companies successfully demonstrate industrial devices utilising time-sensitive networking technology while operating over a live 5G network

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  AI may open dangerous new frontiers in geopolitics

  Truly artificial intelligence has the potential to provoke an international geopolitical crisis, warns F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Uber app exploit posed safety risk to passengers

  A flaw in Uber’s system meant thousands of trips in London were taken with unauthorised drivers at the wheel

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Juniper claims longest 400GbE deployment

  As pressure grows to support bandwidth demands from advanced high-performance computing uses cases, Juniper Networks announces success in 1,300-mile 400GbE network test

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Tim Berners-Lee launches nine principles for the web

  Inventor of the worldwide web sets out Contract for the Web to protect its freedom, data privacy and access for all

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  How ServiceNow is empowering Asia’s mobile workforce

  ServiceNow’s newly minted managing director in Asia talks up the company’s sweet spots and traction in the region, and what it’s doing to abstract away workflow complexities for mobile workers

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  General Election 2019: Labour’s technology policies and digital plans

  With the UK gearing up for its third General Election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Labour Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  General Election 2019: The Lib Dems’ technology policies and digital plans

  With the UK gearing up for its third General Election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Liberal Democrat Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Europe in the driving seat for global smartphone market

  Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi lead the charge to drive unprecedented shipment numbers in the third quarter of 2019, says Canalys study

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  Conservatives propose national cyber crime force

  Manifesto also says Tories would “empower the police to safely use new technologies like biometrics and artificial intelligence, along with the use of DNA, within a strict legal framework”

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Mystery surrounds leak of four billion user records

  Threat researchers uncover four billion user records on a wide-open Elasticsearch server but who left them there is a mystery

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Court of Appeal dismisses Post Office application to appeal damning judgment

  The Court of Appeal has rejected a Post Office application to appeal judgments made in the first trial of its multimillion-pound battle with subpostmasters over IT system failures.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  IT chiefs recognise the risks of artificial intelligence bias

  Artificial intelligence promises to change the way businesses operate. IT leaders are now taking bias in AI algorithms seriously

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  CIO interview: Paul Stein, CTO, Rolls-Royce

  The aerospace engine manufacturer is at the leading edge of technology developments such as electric power, and already makes extensive use of advanced IT systems such as AI

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  England manager Gareth Southgate tells how data analytics and cloud have helped the FA modernise

  England football manager tells Google Cloud Next UK conference how the FA is using big data and cloud collaboration tools to change the organisation's culture and improve players’ performances on the pitch

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  TSB tech woes continue with overnight systems failure

  TSB customers have experienced problems receiving money into their accounts due to an IT error, just days after the bank was slammed in a report on its IT problems last year

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Tata, Fortinet to offer managed services for Microsoft Azure virtual WAN

  Firms launch one of the first industry offerings of native hybrid SD-WAN coupled with traffic steering and security protection for the Azure cloud

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Some 29,000 UK web domains suspended for criminal activity

  Domain suspensions for criminal activity over the past year has dropped for the first time since 2014

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  CityFibre appoints chief delivery officer

  Alternative UK wholesale fibre provider appoints new network delivery chief to ensure roll-out of programme to bring gigabit broadband to the UK

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Obama at Dreamforce 2019: Leaders orchestrate the conversation

  Former US president Barack Obama spoke in a fireside chat with Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2019. He cautioned on the dangers of the information age and offered some advice for business leaders

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Orange Neva jet takes off as Europe’s first operator-branded 5G smartphone

  Back to the future for telco Orange as it introduces Neva jet, Europe’s first operator-branded 5G smartphone, with the aim of preparing its customers for the arrival of the next-generation networks

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Wind River teams with Dell for 5G distributed edge system

  Dell EMC teams with Wind River to form Kubernetes-based system to see use in virtual RAN (vRAN) infrastructures for 5G networks

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Druva eyes data protection for IoT workloads

  Cloud data protection software supplier Druva is looking at a comprehensive platform that will protect data generated by IoT workloads

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Labour pledges review of NCSC in UK security overhaul

  The UK's National Cyber Security Centre may get expanded powers under a Labour government

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  British Airways cancels flights due to technical issue

  British Airways customers are suffering delays and cancellations as a result as a technical issue

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Swiss packaging manufacturer powers digital maintenance with GE and ServiceMax

  Carton and packaging company SIG, which also sells IoT-connected machines to food and beverage firms, has developed a digital maintenance service

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  SMEs prevail in expanded FutureNHS tender

  Health service is looking to procure a larger sharing and collaboration platform for health and social care