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• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  Martha Lane Fox unveils Dot Everyone

  Lane Fox uses Dimbleby Lecture to reveal national institution idea putting women at the heart of the technology sector

• April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15

  'Bored' RBS investment chairman Rory Cullinan resigns after daughter's Snapchat message goes public

  Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank chairman Rory Cullinan leaves after a Snapchat message to his daughter appeared in Instagram

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Brecon Beacons National Park soups up staff comms with Unify

  Brecon Beacons National Park Authority deploys Unify’s OpenScape voice technology to keep remote staff and home workers in touch

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth

  Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Microsoft adds ODF 1.2 to Office 365 to adhere to government demands

  Microsoft will roll out the ability export documents in open document format (ODF) in Office 365, regardless of original file format, to adhere to government policy

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  AWS gets EU approval for data replication outside of Europe

  The European Union Data Protection Authorities has approved Amazon Web Services’ Data Processing Agreement

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  Vodafone adds banking capability to mobile wallet

  Mobile operator Vodafone is enabling its customers to add banking functionality to their Vodafone Wallets

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  IT is more important than marketing for banks

  IT spending will grow at the expense of other areas such as marketing as optimism in financial services increases

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  DDoS losses potentially £100k an hour, survey shows

  DDoS attacks could expose 40% of businesses to losses of £100,000 or more an hour at peak times, a survey shows

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Rural payments service failed GDS assessment but still went live

  The troubled rural payments digital service failed its most recent assessment by the Government Digital Service, but was still launched to farmers

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Sky Italia looks to the cloud for better customer experience

  Sky Italia “remakes” its customer acquisition, customer service and change order management processes using cloud

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption

  Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  British Airways rewards scheme hack highlights password problem

  The hacking of British Airways’ executive club frequent flyer accounts shows the importance of using strong, unique passwords for all online accounts

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  NHS announces £78m technology fund for health and social care providers

  The NHS will give £78m integrated digital care funding to health and social care providers in 2015 to help them invest in technology

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  National Police ICT Company operational after four years of wrangling

  The national Police ICT Company is operational and aims to save £465m a year – nearly four years after Theresa May proposed its creation

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  UK government pays £150m to Raytheon to settle e-Borders dispute

  UK government agrees to pay Raytheon £150m to settle dispute over the cancellation of e-Borders contract

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud

  Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Nordics' Glenna research cloud project underway

  Researchers in the Nordics will soon enjoy a new cloud infrastructure from which to share systems and resources

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  Retiring MP aims to uncover truth of alleged Post Office computer system problems

  Retiring MP James Arbuthnot is determined to get to the bottom of problems with the Post Office system that led to subpostmasters being blamed for account shortfalls

• March 27, 2015 27 Mar'15

  MPs slam Defra for making rural payments 'digital by default'

  MPs have slammed the government’s decision to make rural payment claims from farmers a 'digital by default' service

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  More than a fifth of world’s billionaires studied engineering at university

  Approved Index analysis finds 22% of Forbes’ 100 rich list studied engineering at university

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Samsung targets business with Microsoft tools integration

  Samsung has pre-installed Microsoft OneNote, OneDrive, and Skype on the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, as it expands into business

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Photo editing app firm BeFunky transforms into female-weighted team

  Photo editing app company BeFunky set out to recruit the best talent it could find and unintentionally landed a team largely comprising women

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  UK attacks on crypto keys and digital certificates endemic

  All UK security professionals polled in a global survey have responded to attacks on keys and certificates in past two years

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  UK government adds five authentication providers to Gov.uk Verify identity management system

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) adds five authentication providers to the Gov.uk Verify identity and access management scheme

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Santander launches ISA mobile app

  Spanish banking giant Santander launches a mobile app to help consumers navigate the ISA market

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Identity fraud still top UK fraud threat

  Identity fraud continues to be the single biggest fraud threat, according to the latest report by UK fraud prevention service Cifas

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Monitise no longer up for sale

  Mobile banking software company Monitise to continue as an independent company rather than seek to be taken over

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Atomic Weapons Establishment to build supercomputer for Trident simulations

  The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) builds HPC cluster based on SGI ICE XA system to support Trident programme

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  HP Helion Rack looks to speed up enterprise private cloud adoption

  HP wants to take the heavy lifting out of moving to the private cloud by offering enterprises pre-configured and tested infrastructure packages

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud

  Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Talon upgrades MobileFast for web and Windows file sync and share

  Enterprise file sync and share provider Talon Storage adds web browser and Windows workstation access to MobileFast

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Google warns of fake digital certificates

  Google has warned of unauthorised digital certificates issued for several of its domains that could be used to intercept data traffic

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  Swarovski opts for cloud HR to move function to strategic level

  Swarovski’s move to cloud HR system demonstrates its desire to move HR from an operational function to a strategic level

• March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15

  MPs seek reassurance over Post Office mediation scheme

  Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) select committee seeks reassurances over the Post Office mediation scheme

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server

  With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Women have a big part to play in the future of the fintech industry

  International Women’s Day sparks debate around the lack of females holding board-level positions in the fintech sector and elsewhere

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Sabadell to migrate TSB IT to proprietary banking platform with £450m sweetener

  Spanish bank Sabadell will move TSB IT systems to its own in-house core banking platform

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  What went wrong with Defra's rural payments system?

  A £154m system to process payments to farmers has been forced to resort to paper forms. What went wrong – and is this a digital disaster?

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Home devices threaten enterprise data security, warn researchers

  Poor or lacking security on ADSL routers and other devices used by teleworkers a threat to global enterprise information security

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Information Commissioner's Office calls for transparent public sector outsourcing

  For greater transparency, public sector buyers and suppliers should be open about their dealings before signing contracts, says ICO

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Mobile devices better suited for digitally excluded

  Digitally excluded find tablets and smartphones easier to use and more intuitive, according to Tinder Foundation and Vodafone UK report

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy

  The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Holland & Barrett outsources data handling to ITC Infotech

  IT services firm ITC Infotech manages customer data for health food business to help it glean business value from the information

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Ofcom finalises BT wholesale broadband pricing rules

  Ofcom finalises plans to introduce wholesale broadband pricing rules to promote competition and investment in superfast broadband

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Government creates Crown Hosting venture with Ark Data Centres

  Cabinet Office signs seven-year joint venture agreement with Ark Data Centres to create Crown Hosting Service

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Target agrees to $10m breach compensation

  US retailer Target has agreed to a $10m compensation package for victims of its 2013 data breach

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015

  The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Internet of things and 5G network research priority in 2015 Budget

  Research into the internet of things and the 5G networks to support it figured highly in chancellor George Osborne’s 2015 Budget