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• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  GDS is ‘sidelined’ and government as a platform ‘is dead’, says Francis Maude

  Former Cabinet Office minister cites diminishing of Government Digital Service role as he criticises civil service resistance to change

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  BT offers enterprise customers flexible bandwidth for peak usage

  New element of BT IP Connect Global WAN service will enable businesses to dial their network capacity up and down at will

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Government aligns data laws with GDPR

  The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Technology vital to healthcare in Asia-Pacific

  The opportunities for technology to improve healthcare services were explored at HIMSS AsiaPac17 in Singapore, but experts warned that challenges must be addressed before innovation can truly transform the sector

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  Lack of skills main barrier to civil service tech adoption

  TechUK civil servants survey highlights need for skills training, common standards and working practices across departments to deliver joined-up public services

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  British Army enhances data-driven decision making to staunch churn

  The British Army is continuing to use SAS analytics software to improve its data management, with a particular focus on reducing high-value personnel churn

• September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17

  CIO interview: Karl Hoods, CIO, Save the Children UK

  The charity’s CIO is looking at the potential of blockchain technologies and establishing an internal digital academy to drive its digital transformation strategy

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Openreach and rivals want collaborative approach to broadband

  The government’s ambitions for FTTP broadband roll-out can only be met through collaboration, and an urgent shake-up of Ofcom regulatory policy is needed to reflect this, say Openreach and CityFibre

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit

  The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: VMware updates software legacy

  VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

  Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Home Office agrees back-office transformation deal

  The Home Office is moving more of its back-office processes into the cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365

  Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EE repurposes 2G spectrum to support expanded 4G mobile service

  The operator will re-farm a tranche of spectrum formerly used for 2G services to boost capacity and speed on its 4G network

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  Martha Lane Fox warns UK is 'sleepwalking' through digital disruption

  During a House of Lords debate, Martha Lane Fox claimed the UK has been “sleepwalking” through digital change and urged for more to be done to promote “digital understanding”

• September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17

  EAN airline broadband service moves closer to reality

  The European Aviation satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and will begin to service in-flight broadband customers later in 2017

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Trainline uses predictive analytics to help rail passengers save money

  Travellers using Trainline’s app can save money on tickets after the introduction of an in-app feature called Price Prediction

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Millions of customer records compromised in Equifax breach

  Major security breach unfolded over a two-month period, and is thought to have affected 143 million customers in the US, as well as an undisclosed number of Britons and Canadians

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Thousands of Deutsche Bank employees will be replaced by robots

  The CEO of Deutsche Bank said a "big number of staff will eventually be replaced by robots” as it looks towards artificial intelligence technology

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Stockholm Data Parks welcomes first Greenfield tenant to renewably-powered datacentre hub

  Multigrid Data Centers named as as one of the first operators to take up space in Stockholm's heat-reusing, green energy-powered datacentre hub

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Legal services firm gets 54TB of NEC Hydrastor NAS as backup target

  Quislex has cut backup windows by a third and will roll out 700TB of NEC Hydrastor to Hyderabad datacentre to provide a grid of deduplicated storage for backup and archive

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Average female tech salary less than males regardless of role or experience

  Research by Computer Weekly has found women in the technology industry are paid less than their male counterparts, regardless of the role they are in or how much experience they have

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  European Union states question copyright law proposal

  European states are questioning legality of a new copyright law proposed by the EU

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  IoT networks a massive sales opportunity for operators, claims GSMA

  Commercial initiatives around low power wide area network infrastructure will present mobile operators with a potential $1.8tn revenue opportunity over the next decade

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  People with non-IT backgrounds could help fill cyber security skills gap

  Organisations should look to fill cyber security roles with people who are curious and have work experience rather than focusing solely on graduates

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Met Police IT strategy: CCTV footage shared through Box

  The Met Police digital policing strategy is taking shape under CIO Angus McCallum, and will use Box for sharing documents and CCTV footage

• September 05, 2017 05 Sep'17

  Gigaclear extends narrow trenching FTTP broadband dig

  Fibre broadband provider Gigaclear is extending its BDUK dig in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  HMRC denies IR35 reforms to blame for public sector IT project delays and cancellations

  New research from ContractorCalculator suggests contractors have left the public sector in droves since the IR35 reforms came into force, but HMRC has a different take on the situation

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  Women still under-represented in Nordic IT despite region’s efforts

  Although countries in the Nordic region are often hailed as pioneers of digital and equal worker rights, there is still gender inequality in the IT sector.

• September 04, 2017 04 Sep'17

  Government launches FTTP pilot for businesses, schools and hospitals

  The government has released £10m to six FTTP trial projects around the UK, testing ultrafast broadband technology in businesses, schools and hospitals

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  US Open tennis uses IBM AI to create video highlights

  Fans of the US Open are able to access match highlights provided by IBM's Watson artificial intelligence system

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  Content delivery innovation improves user experience for e-tailer

  WorldStores Group, the owner of a number of online home and lifestyle retail brands, has transformed its customer experience with enhanced content delivery capabilities from Instart Logic

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  App-based challenger bank Starling enters next stage of its journey

  Thousands of people are downloading Starling’s app every week as the bank builds its customer base

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Open source helps Schiphol fly to multi-clouds

  Amsterdam airport Schiphol is utilising open source software to create and use a multi-cloud platform with an open API

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  How an idea built on web freebies and low-cost tools evolved into a virtual NHS clinic

  We speak to an NHS trust about how readily available web software helped clinicians get a pioneering project off the ground

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Instagram fixes API blamed for celebrity data leaks

  Instagram says it has fixed the API responsible for enabling hackers to access some personal details of high-profile users of the service

• August 31, 2017 31 Aug'17

  Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana to offer integration

  Amazon and Microsoft’s voice assistants will be able to integrate with each other to provide users with the best features from both

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  HCL expands global network with Swedish delivery centre

  HCL has opened another delivery centre in the Nordic region, this time in Gothenburg, Sweden

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Researcher finds over 711 million compromised email accounts

  A security researcher has discovered a spambot using more than 711 million compromised email accounts to spread data-stealing malware

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Challenger bank Fidor reaches 200,000 customers

  Fintech trailblazer Fidor now has more than 200,000 people using its banking services, but its CEO believes the fintech environment is getting tougher

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  McDonald’s selects Capgemini to help it drive digital customer services

  Fast-food chain decides to outsource its digital developments globally to French IT services giant

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  CIO Interview: Neal Sunners, CIO, Avis Budget Group

  CIO international and senior vice-president for innovation at car rental firm aims to remove customer stress by driving mobile self-service applications

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Saudi Telecom Company creates cloud computing giant

  The IT joint venture in Saudi Arabia will drive the digitisation of government services

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Danske Bank taps into the cognitive capabilities of IBM Watson

  Danish bank is using IBM Watson as part of a major IT outsourcing deal

• August 28, 2017 28 Aug'17

  VMware making bigger push into cloud, cyber security

  The virtualisation bigwig is making it easier for VMware customers to adopt public cloud services, starting with a partnership with Amazon Web Services

• August 25, 2017 25 Aug'17

  Security professionals name top causes of breaches

  Security professionals have named the top reasons for successful cyber attacks, which are affecting more than half of organisations

• August 24, 2017 24 Aug'17

  UK business welcomes government post-Brexit data sharing plan

  Business has welcomed government proposals for data protection to enable unhindered data sharing with the EU after Brexit

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  Dutch e-voting is waiting for an opportunity

  Despite years of opposition and distrust in voting machines, a small Dutch initiative is aiming for a new form of e-voting

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  UAE telco Du pushes SaaS adoption in Middle East

  The Middle East looks set to see strong growth in software as a service and IT departments need to take a different approach

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  SAP Ariba gaining ground in APAC

  Companies like Woolworths and DuluxGroup in Australia are using the cloud-based service to reduce procurement costs and risks