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• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Government provides boost to artificial intelligence skills

  PhDs and researchers will be sponsored as part of a programme aimed at creating and retaining experts in artificial intelligence technology

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Cloud leaders invest in datacentres as public clouds expand

  Microsoft and Amazon have posted strong results for Q3 2019. Both are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to support cloud services

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  UKtech50 2019: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology

  Our judges have picked a shortlist, now we invite readers to tell us who should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for 2019 by submitting your vote now

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  NHSX seeks chief technology officer

  The principal technology adviser to the organisation's CEO, Matthew Gould, should be interviewed by early December

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  College plans tech school at Bletchley Park

  Planning application aims to turn a selection of the listed buildings that housed Britain’s codebreakers in the Second World War into a facility for up to 1,000 students

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Refinitiv appoints first female CTO after IT leadership shake-up

  Alex Cesar steps up to be chief technology officer at financial service data provider Refinitiv, after previous CTO Phil Wellard took over as global CIO in September

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Know Fraud database became backlog dump

  Reports to Action Fraud handled by City of London Police’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau were quarantined as security risk, finds HM’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  British Gas powers customer experience with third-party Salesforce app

  Its parent company, Centrica, uses Salesforce to support Hive – now British Gas is using a third-party Salesforce app to improve customer experience

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Global broadband market sees fibre push

  Trend towards fibre and dropping copper for broadband links continues in second quarter, but at a slower rate

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Splunk.conf 2019: Mentorship, advocacy and confidence for women in tech

  At Splunk.conf 2019 in Vegas, senior women in technology from firms such as Splunk, Boeing, and Sandia National Laboratories gave advice for navigating a male-dominated industry

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Verizon to give 5G, Fios customers a year’s worth of free Disney content

  US comms giant will offer all new and existing 4G LTE and 5G unlimited wireless customers access to the forthcoming Disney+ direct-to-consumer service

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation

  Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged

  Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Endpoint security is a procurement issue, says HP, IDC study

  Report warns that buyers are falling at the first hurdle on security by not including it in their endpoint RFPs and tenders

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  £4,000 bug bounty could have saved BA from record ICO fine

  British Airways and others could have saved themselves millions of pounds’ worth of fines by having ethical hackers check their systems for simple vulnerabilities

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Kinetica opens Melbourne office, bullish on data analytics

  Analytics startup is bullish about the Australian market as more organisations leverage GPU-based platforms to support real-time analytics

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Ministry of Defence to access IT skills via £1.5bn framework

  The new procurement vehicle is part of the department's plan to improve how it engages with the tech industry

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

  HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  CIOs should think about what it means when employees augment themselves

  The bods at Gartner may have watched a bit too much Hollywood sci-fi: will people really augment themselves with tech to do their jobs better?

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Take responsibility for cyber security basics, urges NCSC CEO

  At the launch of its third annual review, NCSC head Ciaran Martin appealed for individuals and businesses to address the fundamentals of cyber security hygiene to help lighten the load

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Interview: Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi, head of digital, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company

  Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi is leading digital developments at Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil giant

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Australia, Singapore emerge tops in data readiness index

  Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific region in harnessing data to achieve key business outcomes

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  IoT connectivity management platforms flourish

  Berg Insight research reveals huge potential growth in devices managed on commercial internet of things connectivity management platforms, predicting a rise from 770 million in 2018 to 3.15 billion by 2023

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Banks move to contain impact of Samsung biometric flaw

  NatWest and Nationwide have moved to lock down their mobile banking apps after Samsung warned of a biometric security flaw on its Galaxy and Note S10 devices

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Abu Dhabi National Oil Company uses blockchain for inter-group network

  The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is using blockchain internally, with plans to expand it beyond the group boundaries

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Government to provide local data to proptechs

  Minister announces creation of a national index of brownfield site data and other initiatives to allow startups and property development companies to use public data to generate business

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Brexit: Withdrawal agreement lists EU IT data link beyond transition

  Document lists system-to-system IT and network connectivity that will be required after the UK leaves the European Union

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Porsche selects HPE for five-year software-defined datacentre strategy

  The IT business inside Porsche is deploying HPE servers and infrastructure on-demand as part of a hybrid environment

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Executive interview: How Moleskine digitises ideas

  Handwritten notes jotted down on paper are not often shared, but capturing these digitally can encourage a creative approach to collaboration

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

  VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Malware volumes decline, but risks are higher

  More insidious and targeted strains of malware are going after high-quality targets, rather than a large volume of targets

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Nordic governments open to Huawei’s ‘no spy’ offer

  Chinese tech giant seeks to reassure Nordic governments over security concerns in 5G contracts

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Attacker hit VPN firm Avast through its VPN

  Avast has published details of how attackers attempted to gain access to its network over a five month period

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Assessing the aftermath of Apple’s abortive effort to build its Irish datacentre

  The site Apple had earmarked as a prime location for one of its first non-US datacentres is up for sale, but what will become of the site and the community that supported the tech giant through its four-year battle to get the server farm built?

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  Over-30s tend to do better at cyber security than younger colleagues

  Attitudes to workplace cyber security differ by age group, but not in the way one might imagine, according to a new study by NTT Security

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  APAC spending on AI systems to hit $6.2bn in 2019

  Led by China and organisations in the banking industry, APAC spending on artificial intelligence is set to grow by almost 64% this year, according to IDC

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Equifax lawsuit offers more evidence against passwords

  Equifax’s internal security policies were a mess and directly led to one of the largest recorded data breaches in history, according to a lawsuit, demonstrating fundamental insecurities inherent in the use of passwords

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  European companies hold back outsourcing amid recession fears

  Total outsourcing in Europe plummeted in the third quarter this year, compared with the previous three months

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Asset sharing essential to making 5G RAN affordable

  Rethink Technology finds that upfront cost containment has been the number one priority for cellular operators in the first stage of 5G deployment, and that three main tactics have been used to achieve this ambition

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Alleged state hackers adapting to cover their tracks, says NCSC

  A group called Turla with suspected links to the Russian government stole Iranian tools and infrastructure to obscure the origins of attacks on multiple other countries, according to new evidence

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market

  Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Qualcomm teams with Radisys to hasten 5G deployment process

  Chip maker Qualcomm inks 5G technology partnership with telecoms software provider Radisys for faster time to market and faster time to revenue

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  NHS Digital announces suppliers for GP IT Futures framework

  The NHS’s previous IT supplier framework for GPs – composed of just four suppliers – will be replaced by a pool of nearly 70 IT companies

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Trend Micro buys cloud security firm to broaden offering

  Acquisition of Cloud Conformity will address often overlooked cloud security fundamentals

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  CityFibre expands connectivity offer with Digital Wholesale Solutions

  Wholesale full-fibre provider CityFibre is to make its products available to independent communications, IT and cloud services provider DWS

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Sodinokibi emerging as a diverse, multi-vector threat to businesses

  McAfee shares insight into the Sodinokibi ransomware campaign gleaned from its network of honeypots

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Virtual Instruments is now Virtana and aims at cloud, containers

  Searches for “Virtual Instruments” returned too many synthesizers, so storage monitoring pioneer went through a blue sky ordeal. It has new plans for cloud and container capability, too

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Many companies fail to empower employee data-driven decision-making

  In a data-driven business, staff need access to the right data at the right time to help them do their jobs, but there appears to be a data gap

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  SAP cloud revenue boosted by Microsoft deal

  New contract with Microsoft will see Azure become the preferred hosting platform for ECC to SAP S/4 Hana cloud migrations

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  VR over 5G helps Belfast Harbour vision to become smart port

  Harbour teams up with BT to deploy 5G-enabled applications including virtual reality