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• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Poor customer engagement at banks opens door to competitors

  Customer experience levels at banks have failed to improve for the second year in a row and customers are more likely than ever to leave their bank

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Changing IT trends power banking in Norway

  Norway's banking system is undergoing a seismic shift in technology as the country aims for a fully digitised society

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Gartner: Enterprises opt for open-source and cloud middleware alternatives

  Gartner has reported a bigger focus on subscription-based licensing and open-source platforms in the middleware market

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  30% Club launches technology group

  30% Club adds technology arm, which will be chaired by Melissa Di Donato of Salesforce

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Animator Ashling Lindsay crowned UK’s coolest techie

  Pink Bottle Productions founder wins title of UK’s coolest techie as selected by student judging panel

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Mobile malware overhyped, says security company Damballa

  Mobile internet users are 1.3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than infected by mobile malware, research by security firm Damballa finds

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Load DynamiX adds OpenStack protocols to storage testing product

  Storage testing and validation provider adds OpenStack Swift and Cinder support to existing protocols in its Enterprise version 2.6 hardware

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Why self-service and automation will power mass adoption of BI

  Tibco’s analytics head, Brian Gentile, believes business intelligence needs to adapt for mass-market adoption

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Destructive cyber attacks making security a business concern, says Microsoft

  Destructive cyber attacks are driving a fundamental shift in the information security market, according to Microsoft

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Zurich Insurance turns to augmented reality to train 10,000 managers

  The £74bn turnover company aims to harness the capabilities of augmented reality to train 10,000 employees in 170 countries

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  HSBC website mistake guides customers to porn

  HSBC’s Hong Kong website accidentally featured an out-of-date link that directed people to a porn site

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Nationwide extends video link service to 100 more branches

  Nationwide Building Society has expanded the use of video conferencing equipment for customer consultations

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Collaboration key to cyber security, says US homeland security chief

  Collaboration between governments and with the private sector key to improving global cyber security

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  SAP core banking platform will ease Deutsche Bank split following strategic retail review

  Deutsche Bank plans a major IT project as strategic review advises spinning off its retail operations – but its SAP platform will ease the split

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  Fife Council approves £100m green datacentre building plans

  Development of green datacentre campus designed to help Scottish businesses tap into cloud computing trend

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Finland is the place to be for ICT

  Finland stands out as the top country in ICT, according to the European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Post Office failed to investigate account shortfalls before legal action, report claims

  Post Office too quick to take legal action against subpostmasters, finds independent report

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  ISG blames UK general election for fall in outsourcing value

  A lull in UK outsourcing activity in the run-up to the election caused a 25% drop in spending across the Emea region in Q1 2015, claims ISG

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  UK startups facing too many challenges, say entrepreneurs

  Startups need more support if London’s digital economy is to develop, according to business leaders at Westminster Policy Forum

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Interview: The software processes behind Hailo's success

  In the past, a traditional enterprise application would have been developed as a monolithic piece of software

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Cyber security boot camp launched to boost skills

  Sans Cyber Academy unveils eight-week security boot camp after businesses demand more cyber security specialists

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Hutchison Whampoa launches Hue wholesaling for mobile virtual network operators

  Hutchison Whampoa launches mobile wholesaling business Hue to help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) expand internationally

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Accenture chosen to run NHS email service

  The NHS email service is to be provided by Accenture, after the IT services firm was announced as the preferred bidder by HSCIC

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands

  Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Solihull Council's datacentre plans slammed by G-Cloud champions

  Solihull Council is building a new datacentre with 10-20 years of capacity, much to the chagrin of industry watchers

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Pure e-commerce approach does not work for every retailer

  Retailers can no longer be successful with an e-commerce approach alone, according to NYU professor of marketing Scott Galloway

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  Retailers should think of consumers as “omni-customers”, says OVS Spa

  Retailers should refocus their strategy to treat consumers as “omni-customers”, according to the director of e-commerce for Italian brand OVS Spa

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  NCR promises 40% annual savings with thin-client cash machines

  NCR has developed smart thin client cash machines to replacing ageing Windows XP-based ATMs

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Liberal Democrats promise to double innovation spend and 99.9% broadband roll-out

  The Liberal Democrats’ general election manifesto promises to double innovation spending and roll out high-speed broadband to 99.9% of homes

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Banks hide cyber crime losses, says City of London Police

  Banks obscure the amount of money lost to cyber fraudsters – preferring to write off cyber theft as operating losses – says the City of London Police

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  SSE hooks up Manchester datacentres with 10Gbps connectivity

  SSE Enterprise Telecoms launches Manchester Lightnow, a high-capacity optical network service connecting a number of datacentre facilities

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Vodafone launches outlet store for refurbished smartphones

  Vodafone debuts Vodafone Outlet, an online store offering deep discounts on returned smartphones

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Security risk potential linked to young, mobile users

  A study conducted by wireless supplier Aruba Networks has identified a distinct cohort of high-risk, security-agnostic workers

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Lintel bank steers clear of traditional bank IT development

  Lintel Bank applies for a UK banking licence and plans to join a growing number of new banks taking on the high street incumbents

• April 14, 2015 14 Apr'15

  Rio Tinto to put IT systems in the cloud

  Mining giant Rio Tinto is moving IT systems into the public cloud as part of a transformation agreement with Accenture

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Apple Watch pre-order stampede may herald device shortage

  A high volume of orders for its smart watch suggests Apple may struggle to fulfil demand

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  French TV5Monde network cyber attack the latest in destructive trend in system intrusions

  The cyber attack on French television network TV5Monde is the latest in a growing list of incursions intended to destroy data and IT systems

• April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15

  AWS promises to lower skills barrier to machine learning for developers

  AWS wants to make it easier for developers to use data stored in its cloud for machine learning purposes

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  BBC Engineering restructures to support flexible media needs, says CTO Matthew Postgate

  The BBC's technology department, BBC Engineering, will restructure to more effectively provision TV, radio and news, says CTO Matthew Postgate

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  CIO interview: Fernando Birman, head of the digital office, Solvay

  After years of IT work to support major M&A activity, global chemicals company Solvay is focusing on innovation to drive internal efficiency

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Indian outsourcing is booming in the Nordic countries

  Headlines about Indian IT service providers securing high-profile outsourcing deals in the Nordics have become commonplace

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  InfoVista buys Ipanema to boost application performance offer

  Network management supplier InfoVista buys application and network performance firm Ipanema to realise software-defined WAN ambitions

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  Strong dollar may shift server upgrades off-premise

  The strong US dollar will influence how CIOs spend their 2015 IT budgets. Server price hikes may drive spending to the cloud

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Exit checks system for UK borders finally goes live

  The Home Office launches a system for making exit checks of travellers at UK borders, following the scrapped e-Borders programme

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Juniper Networks goes after finance market with switch-integrated compute

  Juniper launches a compact compute-integrated network switch to boost performance of sensitive applications for financial institutions

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Alleged White House hack highlights typical security failings, say experts

  The alleged penetration of sensitive White House computer networks highlights typical security failings, say information security experts

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  CIO interview: Bruna Pellicci, global head of IT, Ashurst

  Global law firm Ashurst is rolling out a new IT strategy based on single platforms worldwide for its core business areas

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  Over-the-top services worth $14bn to carriers by 2020

  A study conducted by Juniper Research suggests that content paid for by carrier billing will be a lucrative money-spinner for communications providers

• April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15

  UBS innovation lab moves into Level39

  Level39 will host the UBS innovation lab to support fintech startups

• April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15

  Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics

  Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce