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• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  Reason girls don’t choose Stem 'rooted in society', says Fujitsu executive

  Michael Keegan, chairman and head of product business for Fujitsu in EMEIA, claims the issues preventing girls from choosing careers in Stem are embedded in society

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  UK cyber defenders set to build on existing capability

  UK national cyber attack response and investigation is a well-defined and rehearsed process, but the responsible agencies say they are building more capability and closing the gaps

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  SAP indirect access: Prepare for the impact on third-party applications

  SAP is acting in an anti-competitive manner and could be in breach of the US Sherman Act, according to a Duke University School of Law professor

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Universal Credit moves into Amazon Web Services cloud

  Parts of the digital system underpinning the controversial welfare reform programme are now running on AWS under DWP’s hybrid cloud strategy

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  CIO interview: Claire Priestley, IT director, City, University of London

  City, University of London's IT director is leading her team's drive for innovation while seeking collaboration with other public sector bodies in the capital

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Budget 2017 to promise huge UK technology boost

  Wednesday’s Budget will include funding for artificial intelligence, driverless cars, 5G, digital skills and more computer science teachers

• November 20, 2017 20 Nov'17

  Dubai Health Authority completes final phase of Salama electronic medical records system roll-out

  Dubai Health Authority completes medical records digitisation scheme, 21 months after the project was first unveiled

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Europe not ready for imminent cyber strikes, say infosec professionals

  Information security leaders in Europe believe a major breach of critical infrastructure is coming and that data breaches in their own organisations are imminent – yet most are not ready

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Private Swiss bank Julius Baer to save $1m a year with cloud HR

  Julius Baer banks on higher returns after replacing on-premise systems with cloud HR services

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Post Office court case judge issues warning to legal teams

  The high court judge managing the sub-postmasters versus Post Office legal case over an allegedly faulty computer system tells legal teams to cooperate

• November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17

  DWP insourced 400 staff from HPE into new IT services subsidiary

  New arrangement allows Department for Work and Pensions to pay higher base salaries to encourage staff expecting private sector wages

• November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17

  How the biggest cyber security disasters could have been avoided

  The headline-grabbing breaches that hit Accenture and Equifax in 2017 could have been averted had basic cyber hygiene been in place

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Emergency Services Network delay to cost hundreds of millions

  The Emergency Services Network roll-out has hit further delays and is likely to become very costly indeed, the Public Accounts Committee has heard

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Government will deliver at least 89 digital services by 2020, says Caroline Nokes

  New minister for digital government talks about plans for more digital services, the importance of digital in Brexit, and the roll-out of Gov.uk Verify

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  Waltham Forest Council gives 5G network plans a boost

  Waltham Forest Council in London is to allow Arqiva to deploy small cell technology on 16,000 lampposts across the borough

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  Only a quarter of UK law firms are ready for GDPR, study shows

  Just 25% of UK law firms are ready for the General Data Protection Regulation and one in five have experienced an attempted cyber attack in the past month

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  Muslim hactivists hack “unhackable” IS news site

  A Muslim hacktivist group has hacked into Islamic State’s news site and published thousands of subscribers’ details just hours after the site claimed it was impenetrable

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  DBS teams up with Equinix to reduce datacentre footprint

  Building on earlier efforts to harness cloud computing to support growing compute workloads, DBS’s new private cloud datacentre will be smaller, greener and cheaper to run

• November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17

  Accenture launches returners programme for people re-entering the workplace

  Tech firm Accenture has launched a programme for people aiming to return to the workplace after a career break

• November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17

  More than half of schools do not offer computer science GCSE, says Royal Society

  The Royal Society calls for more investment in computing education after finding many schools in England still do not offer a computer science GCSE

• November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17

  ISPs agree to Ofcom broadband compensation proposals

  BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Zen Internet have agreed to introduce automatic compensation for consumers when their broadband service goes down

• November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17

  WikiLeaks publishes code and analysis of CIA hacking tool

  Security experts are questioning the wisdom of WikiLeaks releasing more source code for US intelligence agency hacking tools

• November 09, 2017 09 Nov'17

  TSB customers can use their faces to authenticate payments

  Bank’s latest addition to its mobile apps is a facial recognition option for Apple iPhone X users

• November 09, 2017 09 Nov'17

  Bangalore offers the best ecosystem for digital transformation, says Economist report

  Bangalore ranked as the number one location for businesses looking to access the right ecosystem to support digital transformation

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Panasas upgrades scale-out NAS to ASD-100 and ASH-100 nodes

  New Panasas appliances upgrade CPU and RAM to double throughput while changing hardware architecture. Clustered NAS specialist says all-flash and tiers of flash are on the roadmap

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  GDPR fines may affect almost 80% of US firms, poll shows

  Most US companies risk fines for non-compliance with new European data protection laws that apply to all organisations processing any personal data of EU citizens

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  The digital transformation journey – four IT leaders share the lessons learned

  CIOs discussed the best practices in driving digital change at the recent Gartner Symposium event in Barcelona

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 brings file, iSCSI and container storage

  Latest version of open source OpenStack-targeted software-defined storage adds CephFS, ISCSI and storage that can be deployed in containers to save hardware

• November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17

  People ready to consider AI, but businesses must tackle ethics

  Study from Sage finds technology early adopters and consumers are ready to try artificial intelligence, but there are concerns over ethics

• November 07, 2017 07 Nov'17

  CIOs need to champion digital change as IT leadership roles evolve

  Gartner CIO survey shows digital business is changing mindsets and culture at organisations that are successful in transformation

• November 06, 2017 06 Nov'17

  Bank of Scotland testing out artificial intelligence on customer iPhone app

  Bank of Scotland pilots artificial intelligence within its iPhone banking app.

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  Go beyond GDPR for a competitive edge

  By exceeding the bare minimum requirements set by privacy regulations, businesses can win customers by offering greater assurances, says a business adviser

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  How soon will we be driving fully autonomous cars?

  Nvidia sets out vision for driverless cars as its new Pegasus processor promises to support “level 5” autonomy

• November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17

  Monique Shivanandan leaves Aviva

  CIO has left the insurance company after more than three years in the role

• November 02, 2017 02 Nov'17

  Businesses unprepared for cyber attacks, warn cyber professionals

  Businesses are nowhere near prepared enough for a cyber attack, according to a poll of information and security professionals

• November 02, 2017 02 Nov'17

  Middle East blockchain forum moves to accelerate adoption of the distributed ledger technology

  Blockchain technology is becoming more widely used by financial services companies in the Middle East, and is finding its way into other sectors in the region

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Infosec pros urged to demonstrate value to business

  Information security professionals have been urged to help business understand the value of what they do and the importance of security and privacy

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Irish High Court denies latest appeal bid by Apple datacentre objectors

  Judge rules that latest attempt to block Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry does not meet the required legal threshold

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  NHS England on the hunt for new CCIO

  NHS England is looking for a chief clinical information officer to replace Keith McNeil, who resigned from his role earlier this year

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Co-working space aimed at female founders opens in London

  Co-working space Blooms aims to create a working environment aimed at entrepreneurial women

• November 01, 2017 01 Nov'17

  Personal data of 46.2 million Malaysia mobile subscribers leaked

  The massive data breach is yet another example of a ‘low and slow’ attack that stays dormant inside networks for years, without anyone noticing

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Shell makes $200m saving with virtual learning environment

  Royal Dutch Shell has saved hundreds of millions by replacing field trips with interactive training that allows employees to interact with geological formations from their computer screen

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Cyber security professionals urged to embrace AI and automation

  IBM security intelligence head says professionals should embrace artificial intelligence and automation to ensure they do not become obsolete

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  TomTom navigates move onto global HR platform

  TomTom went live with HR platform in all 37 countries, serving 5,000 staff, in March 2017

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Image recognition system clears cheques in one day

  All cheques paid in the UK will be cleared on the next working day once an image-based clearing system is fully rolled out

• October 31, 2017 31 Oct'17

  Deloitte sponsorship helps progress of Bletchley cyber school

  Sponsorship will provide hundreds of places on online Qufaro CyberEPQ course

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Study reveals employees’ fears over digital change

  Many employees are fearful of the job risk associated with automation and company-wide digital transformation initiatives

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

  Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence

• October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17

  Court dates set for Post Office accounting system trials

  An end is in sight for sub-postmasters’ campaign against alleged wrongful prosecution, which they blame on a faulty computer system

• October 27, 2017 27 Oct'17

  Nordea lays off 6,000, citing digital transformation as the driver

  Nordea is cutting staff as a result of its ongoing digital transformation, which means it needs less people