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• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Info sharing key to cyber defence, says financial services firm

  Threat information sharing is key to success in combating cyber attacks, says the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

  Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  UK leads international partnership to fight financial malware

  The UK National Crime Agency is leading international collaboration between law enforcement and the private sector to fight bank theft malware

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Finance watchdog to investigate colocation services

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is investigating colocation services

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  PC sales bounce back as XP drives hardware refresh

  Desktop and laptop upgrades, driven by the migration away from Windows XP, has bolstered PC sales in Europe

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Further education tutors lack time and support to utilise technology

  Further education tutors lack time and support to explore technology options finds City & Guilds survey

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Microsoft adds StorSimple hybrid storage arrays to Azure cloud service

  Azure users get more storage, archiving and disaster recovery from 1 August 2014 with Microsoft's StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Why using voice biometrics is a good idea

  Banks and other organisations are turning to voice biometrics, but why do they believe the technology is good idea?

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Clear Returns wins Tech All Stars 2014 Best Young European Startup

  E-commerce software firm Clear Returns handed the Tech All Stars 2014 Best Young European Startup award by Neelie Kroes

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services

  EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

  Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity

  The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Smart light bulbs get security update

  Smart light bulb maker LIFX has issued a firmware update after security researchers exposed a security weakness

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner

  Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Contact centre value-add services on the up

  The global contact centre outsourcing market was worth almost $75bn in 2013 after growing 7% since 2011, according to research

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Barclays passes government’s ‘internet-born threat’ test

  Barclays Bank has been awarded the government’s cyber security certificate for digital banking services after independent tests of services such as Pingit

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Rising Stars revealed with Most Influential Women in UK IT list

  Judges for Most Influential Women in UK IT hail five females as Rising Stars

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Security Think Tank: The dos and don’ts of a good incident response plan

  What does a good information security incident response plan look like?

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Interview with the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014: Wendy Hall

  Wendy Hall, who has been crowned the Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2014, says gender equality is not just a women’s issue

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Computer Weekly names the 25 most influential women in UK IT

  Find out the results of Computer Weekly's Women in Technology Awards, ranking the top 25 most influential women in UK IT 2014

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

  Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Blender maker adds ServiceNow ITSM to business mix

  Blender maker Vitamix has rolled out its ServiceNow IT service management (ITSM) beyond the improvement of its IT operation by automating tasks across the business.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres

  Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Tour de France organiser deploys satellite phone system for UK stages

  Tour de France organiser ASO selects Globalstar satellite phones to keep support and emergency crews connected during UK leg of tour

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Facebook apologises over psychological experiments

  Facebook has apologised over the controversial psychological experiments carried out on 689,000 users without their consent in 2012

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Most people keen to share biometric data for smoother travel

  A study has revealed that 89% of citizens agree with the use of biometric identification to aid travel

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  BBC promotes R&D controller Matthew Postgate to CTO role

  The BBC has appointed its research and development (R&D) controller Matthew Postgate as the corporation's chief technology officer (CTO)

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Industrial control systems increasingly under attack, says Kaspersky

  Targeted attacks on industrial control systems take place on a regular and increasing basis, says Kaspersky Lab

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Connected cars standard by end of 2018

  Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Interview: Cloud drives Bangalore rag picker revolution

  After years working in London for Mindtree, Prashant Mehra returned to Bangalore to help transform the lives of 1.5 million waste pickers in the city and make local government waste management more efficient

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development

  Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has integrated software testing and development to support agile methodologies

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Facebook under fire over secret experiment on users

  Facebook has come under fire for conducting a psychology experiment on 689,000 users without their consent

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

  Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Wearable tech must comply with privacy laws, warns ICO

  Wearable technology must comply with UK data privacy laws, warns the ICO

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Google begins complying with European takedown requests

  Google has begun removing search results in response to takedown requests from European citizens

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds

  Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Big IT suppliers top government spending on contracts

  IT firms are earning the most from government contracts, with HP alone earning more than £1.7bn a year

• June 26, 2014 26 Jun'14

  Security must change in Indian digital marketplace

  More than 25% of large digital marketplaces will have explicit strategies for consumer computing and security by 2018, according to Gartner

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Why customer service automation goes awry

  Customer service automation brings speed and improved quality to the effort of serving consumers. If poorly managed, it can also do the opposite.

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  Benefits of accessing data outweigh privacy risks for chronically ill

  Over half of UK patients with chronic health conditions want access to their medical records and believe the benefits outweigh privacy risks

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

  Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

  Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Six suppliers shortlisted for NHS HR system replacement

  Six suppliers have been shortlisted for the NHS electronic staff record project – the world's largest HR and payroll software implementation

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BDUK to grill local authorities on broadband postcode data

  New BDUK CEO Chris Townsend plans urgent review of local authorities to establish which are releasing broadband postcode data

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups

  BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Government reveals winning bids in superfast broadband trials

  Government reveals names of eight suppliers that have won a share of a £10m funding pot to trial superfast broadband in rural areas

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Facebook launches Slingshot to rival Snapchat

  Facebook has launched its limited lifetime messaging app Slingshot in the US to rival Snapchat