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• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Hancock sets out NHS tech vision

  Government will mandate national open standards for the NHS and tech suppliers, build a health and caretech ecosystem and give local NHS organisations more flexibility in how and what tech they buy

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Violin to add X-IO flash, hybrid and disk as mid-range options

  Reborn Violin Systems is to buy X-IO’s spinning disk, all-flash and hybrid flash storage systems in a bid to provide more mid-range options to its customers

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

  Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Microsoft signs pledge to assist people with dyslexia

  Tech giant Microsoft has signed the Made by Diversity pledge to help more people with dyslexia use technology as part of their education

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  UCaaS supports British Medical Journal’s cloud-first ambitions

  With a growing global business and a CIO intent on doing everything in the cloud, the British Medical Journal turned to unified communications-as-a-service provider RingCentral to make its comms infrastructure fit for the cloud era

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Nordic CTO interview: Anders Johanson, Husqvarna

  Husqvarna is on a journey to transform itself into a product and services company by using the latest digital technology and Anders Johnson is a driving force behind it

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  APAC security spending tipped to reach new highs

  Security services will be the largest and fastest-growing slice of the overall security pie in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Monster partners with Stemettes to encourage girls into Stem

  Recruitment firm links up with social enterprise to give young people experience in applying and interviewing for technology roles

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive

  Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Commuter trains may need over 3Gbps of mobile data capacity by 2025

  Ofcom has set out its vision of what will need to be done to meet the government’s goals around data connectivity on the UK’s rail network

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  There is more to fintech than meets the eye

  Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation

  Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Elastifile ClearTier allows cloud tiering for burst workloads

  Elastifile adds ClearTier to its CloudConnect to bring enterprise NAS access in the cloud with the ability to tier data between object storage and file system

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies, aged 65

  Computer programmer who helped propel Microsoft to become one of the world’s largest businesses will be remembered for his generosity

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Public Health England builds Ceph and Lustre cloud for analytics

  Healthcare analytics and modelling organisation Public Health England built an open source cloud from Red Hat Ceph object storage and Lustre scale-out file access storage to petabyte scale

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  More than half of women think their gender helps them pursue tech careers

  A majority of women think being female helps them enter the tech sector, but career progression can be a different story, study shows

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Zero-trust security model gaining traction

  The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  UK faces 10 cyber attacks a week as hostile states step up hacking, says NCSC

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has thwarted more than 1,600 attacks over the past two years – many by hostile nation states

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Home Office completes initial test of online system for registering EU citizens

  Online application process for registering EU citizens in the UK after Brexit has concluded initial trials, and will now be expanded to a wider group

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal

  Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

  Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Tech companies should not be under legal duty to remove terrorist material, says watchdog

  The internet should not be a safe place for terrorists, but making it compulsory for technology companies to trawl for radical content risks interfering with the rights of innocent people, says Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism ...

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Good data governance is good business

  Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Datacentre operators ignoring risk of climate change-induced downtime, warns Uptime Institute

  Uptime Institute data suggests operators are not taking disaster recovery precautions to protect their sites from extreme weather events

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Cost of WannaCry attack to NHS set at £92m

  Department for Health and Social Care estimates the immediate cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack on the NHS was £92m, and says it will have spent about £275m on improvements to its cyber security infrastructure by the end of 2021

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Big expectations, huge presence: Gitex 2018 opens

  Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality are all in the spotlight at Gitex Technology Week 2018 in Dubai

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Atos and Google open London-based digital innovation centre to boost enterprise adoption of AI

  Atos and Google follow up the news of their global joint push to increase enterprise use of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies by opening London-based innovation centre

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  IoT firms sign up to UK security code of practice

  Internet of things technology firms have begun signing up to a UK code of practice to strengthen the security of internet-connected devices. The code is expected to form the basis of an international standard

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Apple challenges Australia’s proposed decryption law

  Tech giant Apple argued that the lack of judicial oversight could reduce customer trust and security, among other reservations over Australia’s draft decryption legislation

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Moonpig to open technology hub and create 50 new roles

  Greeting card company chooses Manchester for its first tech hub because of the city’s thriving tech scene and “exceptional” pool of talent

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  FS-ISAC awards cyber security scholarships in Europe

  Five women have been awarded cyber security scholarships at FS-ISAC’s 2018 EMEA Summit

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  WikiLeaks goes public with alleged list of AWS datacentre locations and code names

  Whistle-blowing website claims to have obtained a confidential document detailing code names, locations and operational details of Amazon’s datacentre portfolio

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Research and innovation unit for healthtech opens at Great Ormond Street Hospital

  Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Drive research unit is dedicated to bringing the latest technological developments into healthcare

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  ASOS launches voice shopping on Google Assistant

  Online fashion brand introduces voice shopping service to help customers navigate its thousands of products more easily

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Some 10% of user-reported emails malicious

  On average, 1 in 10 user-reported emails is identified as malicious, and more than half can be tied to credential phishing, a Cofense report reveals

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  Watchdog calls for clarity on Schedule 7 terrorism powers

  The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation has called for greater clarity over police Schedule 7 powers to seize mobile phones and computers and question people without grounds for suspicion at ports and airports

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  AI is no silver bullet for cyber security

  A security expert has called for businesses to manage the risks of adopting new technologies and improve their cyber hygiene, rather than see artificial intelligence as a panacea for their security woes

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud

  AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Crypto-mining malware poses as Flash updates

  Cryptocurrency mining malware is posing as Flash updates that appear to be legitimate, Palo Alto Networks security researchers warn

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  RATs and Mimikatz among top publicly available hacking tools

  Remote access Trojans (RATs), web shells and Mimikatz among the top publicly available tools that are used in cyber attacks around the world, a five-nation cyber intelligence report reveals

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  The troublesome saga of Gov.uk Verify

  As the government plans to hand over its flagship identity assurance programme to the private sector, Computer Weekly looks at the history of the troubled project and how Gov.uk Verify ended up on the chopping board

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Highways England demonstrates connected cars in Kent

  Connected cars are being demonstrated on roads in Kent as part of a project to improve safety and improve traffic flows

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Nato to be fully operational in cyber space by 2023

  Nato is aiming to achieve full operational readiness in cyber space within five years

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs

  Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  MEPs urge Facebook to roll out election fraud prevention measures

  Facebook is coming under pressure from European lawmakers to do more to prevent its user data from being misappropriated during elections

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity

  Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Optus to acquire Hivint in cyber security deal

  The deal is expected to bolster the telco’s security pedigree in a market that is grappling with more data breaches and cyber incidents

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Google-supported programme in Netherlands helps primary schools with computational thinking

  A programme to help primary school teachers in the Netherlands understand IT is gaining momentum