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• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  GP contract calls for increased digital uptake

  NHS England’s GP contract says practices must move to e-referrals by October 2018, and work on improving uptake of patients using online services to 30%

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Privacy group calls for UK response to data exploitation

  Policy-makers need to respond swiftly to the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data exploitation scandal, according to privacy rights group

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Salesforce buys into API economy with $6bn Mulesoft deal

  Cloud CRM giant’s acquisition will give it a step up in the API management space, enabling internal users and external partners to connect to applications

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Colt pioneers blockchain in telco voice wholesaling

  Colt Technology Services and Hong Kong Telecom’s international unit PCCW Global teamed up to trial the use of blockchain in wholesale voice settlements

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Pressure grows on government to clarify post-Brexit position on UK-EU data flows

  TechUK says clear guidance is needed on whether the UK will need a data adequacy agreement in place during the 21-month Brexit transition period

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Canadian broadband expertise speeds Gigaclear fibre dig

  Rural broadband provider Gigaclear has enlisted Canadian firm Lite Access Technology to assist in the roll-out of full-fibre services to 10,000 properties in Oxfordshire

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  CityFibre consumer broadband collaboration hits Peterborough

  CityFibre is returning to one of its earliest Gigabit City projects with Vodafone in tow to upgrade thousands of homes in Peterborough to gigabit-capable full-fibre broadband

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Mayor of London kick-starts drive to make city top for AI

  London mayor Sadiq Khan commissions a study to look at improving the capital’s readiness for artificial intelligence

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Application layer DDoS attacks increasing, Imperva data shows

  Distributed denial of service attacks targeting applications almost doubled in the last three months of 2017, according to Imperva Incapsula data

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Fintechs weigh up their partnership options

  Fintechs need to consider what type of companies they should work with to make the most of open banking regulations

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Chancellor of the exchequer announces UK fintech strategy

  The government has outlined its plans to support the financial technology industry in the UK

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  HMRC sets August launch date for customs IT system

  HMRC plans to begin a phased deployment of its Customs Declaration Service this August, with completion expected by early 2019

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Legacy IT hampers digital strategy at banks and insurers

  A highly regulated environment, a risk-averse culture and a reliance on core legacy technology are holding back banks and insurance companies from modernisation

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  UK local councils favour hybrid cloud as legacy IT management needs persist

  Research into the IT buying habits of more than 300 local authorities in the UK reveals a growing appetite for using cloud, as councils continue to grapple with managing and maintaining legacy IT

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  BlackBerry QNX to power Jaguar Land Rover electronic controls

  BlackBerry’s embedded operating system and cryptography platform will be used to power the carmaker’s next-generation connected and autonomous cars

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Businesses lack cyber security confidence after majority were breached in past year

  Most businesses were hit by a data breach in the past year, yet less than half are confident they would detect a breach, a survey shows

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  What would coders do in ethical grey areas?

  Software developers are writing code that affects the lives of millions of people and how businesses are run, but what do coders think about some of the ethical questions they face?

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Uber autonomous vehicle death raises questions for UK law review

  Uber suspended testing of autonomous vehicles in North America after one of its cars struck and killed a pedestrian this week, and the tragic accident raises big questions in the light of the UK’s ongoing legal review of self-driving cars

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Ministry of Justice CDIO Tom Read claims CIO role will succumb to cloud

  Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe, Ministry of Justice CDIO Tom Read says CIOs must be prepared to make their own roles redundant by embracing commodity cloud services and utility computing

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Shared services project is about user needs, not tech, says strategy director

  If you’re hoping for the government’s shared services strategy to “break revolutionary ground” in terms of tech, you’ll be disappointed. It’s about serving user needs – not tech – says its strategy director Andy Helliwell

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  MoD to focus on SMEs to raise supply chain cyber security

  The Ministry of Defence continues to develop a joint initiative with industry aimed at raising the security posture throughout the UK’s defence supply chain, with increasing focus on SMEs

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Tech North aims to fill 24 tech jobs in 24 hours

  Government-backed initiative is launching a campaign to try to fill 24 digital job vacancies in the north of England within a day

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Train leasing firm demos mobile edge computing for smart trains

  Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains is demonstrating edge computing over a wireless mesh network to make life easier for its customers’ on-board staff

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  BT to create 1,300 apprenticeship and graduate tech roles

  Roles in TV production, engineering, customer service and cyber security offered in telecoms giant’s apprenticeship and graduate scheme

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  HPE pushes prescriptive AI for industrial applications

  Predicting when a machine will fail is one thing, but HPE hopes its artificial intelligence service will help businesses augment their maintenance programmes

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Microsoft readies Windows Server 2019

  As it pushes Azure for the cloud and Azure Stack as an on-premise bridge, Microsoft still believes there is life in Windows Server

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  IT attracts more foreign investment projects to UK than other sectors

  IT accounts for the highest number of foreign direct investment projects in the UK, which should come as a warning to the UK government to listen to the sector

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  AB InBev settles out of court in $600m SAP licensing dispute

  SEC filing reveals that brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has come to an agreement with SAP over the ERP provider's under-licensing claim

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  SD-WAN still too complex, survey shows

  Despite SD-WAN adoption, WAN complexity remains a major challenge, a survey has revealed, driving firms to managed services, mainly because of security concerns

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Nodeum adds clouds to boost tape-to-hybrid-cloud platform

  Belgian startup’s Linux-based storage environment now stretches from on-premise disk, LTFS tape and NAS to hybrid cloud working via AWS and Azure public clouds, with more planned

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  UK must hurry to agree science and innovation deal with EU, MPs say

  The Science and Technology Committee calls on government to urgently secure science and innovation deal with the EU to get clarity on funding, regulation and talent retention and recruitment

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Popular culture key to giving cyber security much-needed boost

  The cyber security industry should turn to popular culture to raise awareness of the cyber threat to businesses and consumers and attract new blood to the field, says McMafia author

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  RBS said to be setting up its own digital bank

  Royal Bank of Scotland is reportedly setting up a standalone digital bank to take advantage of changing customer habits

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Danish government launches business-focused national digital strategy

  Denmark’s government has launched a plan to get more small businesses into the digital economy as it targets being a leader in advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  WhatsApp co-founder calls time on Facebook

  Brian Acton has called time on Facebook following reports of the firm’s dealings with data mining firm Cambridge Analytica linked to the EU referendum and Donald Trump’s US election campaign

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Singapore government outlines its approach to IoT

  Avoiding supplier lock-in, driving open standards and tapping modular platforms are part of the approach that the Singapore government has taken in implementing the internet of things in the city-state

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Boom expected in processor attacks

  Sonicwall's latest research shows worrying signs that the processor flaws revealed at the start of 2018 are set to dominate IT security

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Case study: Stationery firm gets things moving with FTTP broadband voucher

  Nuco, a Midlands-based supplier of paper and stationery products, has improved its business agility and is moving its IT into the cloud thanks to the government’s full-fibre broadband connection voucher scheme

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Ireland eyes Brexit-triggered tech investments

  The organisation that champions Ireland to foreign investors has seen an increase in IT companies moving to its shores

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  IBM delivers Watson-powered voice assistant for consumer brands

  Alexa and Google Assistant have taken residence in people's homes. IBM aims to give companies a way to deliver their own branded AI voice assistants

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Oracle Q3 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.6bn

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2018 show an increase of almost 7% of overall revenue to $9.8bn, of which 18% was cloud

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Croydon Council partners with Rainmaker to shake up its IT

  Croydon Council has employed digital transformation specialist Rainmaker to help it change the way it delivers IT over the next three years

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Ofcom opens 5G spectrum auction

  Ofcom has opened the bidding in the auction of spectrum to support 4G and 5G mobile networks

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Maplin in administration: Internet connectivity issues hit in-store card payments

  Internet issues at beleaguered high-street electronics retailer Maplin cause trouble at the tills in stores across the UK

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Brexit is an opportunity to transform, says HMRC digital transformation director

  HMRC’s digital transformation director Brigid McBride on Brexit opportunities, using AI and robotics to improve services, and growing the API ecosystem

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Dutch cycling culture pumps up bicycle startups

  Bike-sharing services are cropping up in urban areas of the Netherlands but the government wants to restrict their number

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Researchers use AI, big data and machine learning to find best place in the world to live

  West Perth in Australia and Hebden Bridge in the UK are among the top locations ranked by machine learning tool in SAS project

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Think tank reports lifts lid on police cyber crime training

  UK think tank Parliament Street has lifted the lid on spending by police forces on training staff to deal with cyber crime and recommended greater collaboration in this regard

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  SAP at the core of S Group’s €100m IT renewal

  Finnish retailer S Group is putting SAP at the core of its IT transformation, which will be complete by 2021

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Firms need to move from DevOps to DevSecOps, says expert

  In the face of competition, organisations are turning to DevOps to improve efficiency and accelerate innovation, but this is creating new security risks, an industry expert warns