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March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
IR35 research: 85% of contractors will quit public sector if tax status changed

Research by tax advisers QDos Contractor suggests few public sector off-payroll workers would be willing to stick around if made to pay the same tax as salaried staff
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Digital Economy Bill amended to protect Openreach pensions

The government introduces an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill to protect the pensions of BT employees transferring into the newly independent Openreach business
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard
March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17
Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Vodafone brings offshore contact centre work to UK

Mobile operator Vodafone is creating 2,100 jobs in the UK by reducing the amount of call centre work done offshore
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union

March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
NCSC to educate UK politicians on the cyber threat

The National Cyber Security Centre is to deliver tailored seminars for politicians on how to protect their email communications and voters’ data to defend against cyber threats to the political system
March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17
Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Paying ransomware attackers perpetuates attacks, says researcher

Continually evolving ransomware is among the threats organisations need to factor into their cyber defences in 2017, but only once they have taken care of the basics, says Kaspersky Lab researcher
March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17
Singapore’s maritime sector facing talent shortages in big data

The skills gap in Singapore is putting big data analytics out of reach for port and logistics companies
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Birmingham Airport uses sensor tracking to reduce queue times

Birmingham Airport has installed Wi-FI and Bluetooth sensors to gather valuable information on how long travellers are taking to move through the immigration process at the UK Border
March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Scottish police’s i6 project failed due to loss of trust and disagreements, auditor finds

Police Scotland’s IT systems replacement programme failed because of loss of trust and underestimation of its complexities, according to an Audit Scotland investigation

March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17
Nordea brings social aspect to saving with fintech startup Spiff

Nordea launches a mobile savings app from Norwegian finanical technology company Spiff
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Case study: Tamer Group boosts bandwidth and network connectivity

Saudi Arabian firm chooses point-to-point wireless to ensure it provides the connectivity required for a fast-growing business
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud
March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17
WhatsApp, Signal, ProtonMail safe from CIA hacking tools

Top secure messaging and email apps are said to be safe from CIA hacking tools, but organisations are urged to assess their own vulnerability if the tools were to fall into the hands of cyber criminals
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
HPE buys Nimble Storage to fill an all-flash and hybrid gap

Hardware giant buys Nimble Storage for $1.2bn and plugs a gap below its high-end flash retro-fitted 3PAR arrays with ground-up solid state-based hardware
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
IR35 reform will have ‘significant delivery impact’, says Home Office CIO

New regulations for public sector contractors are needed but will lead to a period of “significant pain”, according to Home Office tech boss Sarah Wilkinson
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
ZF Group opens doors to Hyderabad tech centre

German car parts manufacturer ZF Group opens a technology centre in India to focus on software lead innovation
March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17
Retail industry steps up the fight against rising cyber threats

UK retail body BRC publishes the first of its kind step-by-step guide on how to manage cyber security threats
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
CIO interview: Sarah Wilkinson, Home Office

The Home Office tech boss shares her views on Brexit challenges, collaborating with GDS and running large government IT programmes
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Nodeum to add S3 connectivity to LTFS-powered tape archive

Belgium-based Linux-plus-LTFS startup adds S3 capability to allow customers to add cloud as a tier and data portability between on and off-premises archiving
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what to do if a maintenance hangar catches fire
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Thorough network upgrade underpins University of Law’s IT

Legal education specialist the University of Law has undertaken a multi-million pound future IT project to refresh its networks, Wi-Fi and datacentre infrastructures across multiple locations
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
Deutsche Bank creates group-wide CIO role

New chief will drive technology transformation across the bank
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
3D printing gets serious in the Netherlands

3D projects abound in the Netherlands, with the technology being applied to canal bridges, bicycles, ship components and buildings
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
More than a million Gmail and Yahoo account credentials on sale

Usernames, email addresses and plaintext passwords of more than a million Yahoo and Gmail accounts are reportedly on sale on the dark web, posing a threat to corporate security
March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17
AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud disaster recovery

The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
Cyber attack on Barts NHS trust exploited zero-day vulnerability

A cyber attack that forced parts of Barts NHS trust offline in January 2017 has been blamed on previously unknown malware that was able to bypass the antivirus systems, highlighting a common weakness in cyber defences
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
UK sailing team picks BT to help beat Oracle at America’s Cup

BT is to supply a 4G wireless and fixed network to support the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team, led by Olympian Ben Ainslie, in its bid to win the 35th America’s Cup
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
AWS claims human error to blame for US cloud storage outage

Cloud services giant says an input error by an engineer is what led to large numbers of users being unable to use its cloud storage services for several hours on Tuesday 28 February
March 03, 2017 03 Mar'17
Businesses blame rivals for DDoS attacks

Industrial sabotage is considered to be the most likely reason behind a distributed denial of service attack, a study has revealed
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
Gov.uk Notify ready for use across government digital services

The notification platform is now ready to be used by all central government services needing electronic progress updates for users
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
Yahoo breaches underline executive role in cyber security

Yahoo's data breaches cost its top lawyer his job, CEO Marissa Mayer millions in bonuses, and $350m off its sale price, highlighting the importance of executive involvement
March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17
MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists

Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Alibaba runs academy to find future e-commerce leaders

Online marketplace firm Alibaba launches a global academy designed to find and train young people to join the e-commerce landscape
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government

Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Greenpeace calls for sustainable smartphone manufacturing

Electronic waste and the carbon emissions from manufacturing are among the areas smartphone makers must address, says environmental organisation
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
Cyber criminals net £8bn from financial services in 2016

Organised cyber fraud gangs are turning their attention to online lenders and emerging financial services, potentially netting £8bn in 2016, a report reveals
February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17
NHS ‘mislays’ 500,000 confidential patient documents

Health service accused of a ‘cover-up’ after it came to light that more than half a million documents holding patient data were never delivered to their intended recipients
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
UK IT professionals wanted in New Zealand capital city as part of recruitment campaign

The government of New Zealand's capital city is looking for IT staff from around the world to address a skills shortage
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
NHS needs single point of access for data

A report has found that clinicians struggle with access to basic data and recommends a single online point of access for healthcare datasets
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
Banking malware, DDoS, ransomware and CEO fraud top UK cyber threats

Businesses need to be aware of the value of their data, how that data is likely to be attacked, and how to defend against particular attacks, says leading UK cyber cop
February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17
ASEAN’s first nationwide IoT network debuts in Singapore

Sigfox-based IoT network now covers 95% of Singapore, meaning enterprises can connect devices to the network nationwide