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May 17, 2023
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Home Office pushes for more police facial-recognition deployments
An independent report commissioned by the biometrics commissioner of England and Wales reveals that the UK policing minister is pushing for wider adoption of facial-recognition technology by police, and further criticises the government’s proposed ...
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
How Rolls-Royce uses citizen developers
The engineering company is using Microsoft Power Apps to democratise digitisation
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May 17, 2023
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CTO interview: Europe benefits from energy gains in AMD chips
AMD’s chief technology officer explains how the latest chip technology can help European organisations solve the energy puzzle facing IT departments
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
Altnets claim vital role in bringing competition to UK digital transformation
Study by trade association for UK’s independent broadband suppliers shows further rapid progress in rolling out full-fibre networks, prompting calls to UK comms regulator to change national service pricing structures
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May 17, 2023
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Pentera ups ante in penetration testing
The Israeli startup, which expanded to the APAC region last year, scans for vulnerabilities and emulates cyber attacks through its automated security validation platform
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
Knowledge 2023: Ready for the exponential enterprise, says McDermott
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott called for IT and ‘the business’ to finally come together in what he called the ‘exponential enterprise’ at the supplier’s Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
CIO interview: Ravi Malick, Box
Ravi Malick has always been a technologist at heart, and via political science, startups and consultancy, landed in his current role at Box
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
Connexin makes key step in fulfilling full-fibre build plan for 2023
IoT and digital Infrastructure specialist reveals onboarding of Tier 1 contractors to accelerate increasing full-fibre network expansion
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
Vodafone to axe 11,000 jobs in Europe after ‘not good enough’ financial year
Axe set to swing on Vodafone staff after fiscal year 2023 shows performance slowdown, with turnaround strategy to be based on customers, simplicity and growth
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Executive interview: DNS designer David Holtzman discusses net security
How is it possible for criminals to lure people onto fake websites? Holtzman says it’s because DNS is fundamentally insecure
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Gartner highlights four trends shaping enterprise cloud, edge and datacentre investments
Analyst lifts lid on how enterprise attitudes to cloud, datacentre and edge-related digital transformation projects are changing
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Plexal launches Cyber Runway 3.0 accelerator programme
The latest iteration of Plexal’s government-backed cyber security startup accelerator will run four work streams to boost startups at various stages of maturity and growth
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
NetApp to promise ransomware warranty payout
NetApp will recover data hit by ransomware or pay a warranty, and has added entry-level SAN arrays and full access to all NetApp software across its hardware families
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
No10 Innovation Fellowship Programme ramps up AI focus
Second round of the programme, run jointly by Number 10 and the Government Digital Service, focuses on AI and automation
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage
Object storage specialist announces v2.0 of Artesca, with a heavy focus on functionality that can protect against ransomware such as object locking, sharding, backup to object etc
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Imperial College London teams up with Intel and Lenovo for HPC push
Imperial College London has joined forces with Lenovo and Intel to bolster its HPC capabilities for the benefit of its research teams
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
UK renews tech and science deal with Japan
Deal focuses on innovation and will see countries collaborate on networking and investment, joint R&D programmes, and exchange schemes
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Interview: Rachel Phillips, vice-president UK&I, Okta
Hybrid working is the new normal for many, but while it offers many benefits, it has also introduced complications, explains Okta’s Rachel Phillips
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
Virgin Media O2’s Shared Rural Network roll-out reaches 50th site
As part of its commitment to the £1bn programme designed to bring significant improvement to UK mobile coverage in non-metro areas, leading UK operator rolls out reliable 4G coverage across 50 rural sites in area covering almost 2,200km2
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May 16, 2023
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APAC digital leaders score wins in innovation awards
The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2023
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation
The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: Transdev Sydney Ferries taps 5G to improve public safety
Moving to a 5G network has significantly improved video quality and reduced the time needed to scour hours of footage, enabling the ferry operator to quickly investigate customer cases
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: How Singapore's DBS Bank is driving IT automation
DBS Bank’s Technology Marketplace portal has enabled the bank to speed up provisioning of infrastructure and applications through automation and improve developer productivity
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: Zuellig Pharma dispenses healthcare insights with data platform
The regional pharmaceutical giant’s business intelligence-as-a-service offering is touted to plug data gaps and has helped one pharmaceutical client improve customer loyalty
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May 16, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: SensorFlow reaps returns with re-architecture
Smart building management specialist SensorFlow re-architected its entire platform to reduce cost, complexity and implement a real-time business intelligence dashboard for its customers
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh
The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
ServiceNow looks to transform retail IoT and beyond with G2K acquisition
Digital workflow company to add AI-based smart IoT technology provider to its portfolio to enable businesses to use digital and in-store data with enterprise-grade business processes
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
Intelsat expands Hispasat partnership to boost in-flight connectivity
Global provider of broadband connectivity products and services for aviation inks deal with LATAM and European satellite operator
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May 15, 2023
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DE-CIX teams with Connected Nation, Newby Ventures to close digital divide in US
Strategic partnership with non-profit organisations designed to enable operator of internet exchanges in smaller cities and rural areas to significantly improve regional online performance
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
MS macro-blocking has forced cyber criminals to innovate
One year after Microsoft started blocking VBA and XL4 macros by default, the cyber criminal ecosystem has all but stopped exploiting macros in their attacks. They’re instead innovating at an unprecedented rate
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May 15, 2023
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Demand for access to talent driving UK IT outsourcing growth
Organisations in the UK are increasing the amount of IT work they outsource to enable them to access talent
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
Post Office executive told to report false bill of health on controversial software
A 2010 Post Office internal review of the Horizon software was designed to ignore the system’s problems to reassure stakeholders amid questioning of its reliability
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May 15, 2023
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May'23
Online sales suffer as consumers hit shops for bargains
While overall shopping figures saw year-on-year growth in April 2023, online sales took a hit as shoppers look for cheaper goods in stores
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May 15, 2023
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Consumers, operators and governments drive Fixed Wireless Access market
Analyst predicts rosy future ahead for Fixed Wireless Access as 5G flourishes on a global basis, becoming a major source of revenue for operators globally over the next seven years
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May 12, 2023
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May'23
Cisco accelerates observability strategy with customer digital experience monitoring
Bi-directional integration between network giant’s AppDynamics solution and network intelligence provider aims to close network observability gaps with rapid actionable recommendations and insights
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May 12, 2023
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IT Priorities 2023: Business automation intensifies as data governance returns
Business automation and a renewed focus on data governance to get more value from data have attracted more interest for UK enterprise software investment, says the TechTarget IT Priorities 2023 survey
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May 12, 2023
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MEPs vote in raft of amendments to EU AI Act
The proposed amendments to the EU’s AI Act have garnered a mixed reception from both industry and civil society, with the former seeing it as too stringent and the latter as not stringent enough in many areas, despite positive progress in others
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May 12, 2023
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Let’s put an end to secrecy and cover-ups in ransomware attacks
The NCSC and the ICO are calling for organisations to bite the bullet and be more open about cyber security and ransomware incidents, and the community is firmly behind them
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May 12, 2023
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IT leaders missing vital connection between enterprise network and employee experience
Survey reveals that despite the rise of hybrid and remote working, and as digitisation demands increase, companies are struggling to connect their employees to the enterprise network
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May 12, 2023
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IR35 compliance review: HMRC applauded over handling of 18-month investigation
The government tax agency has been praised for its ‘pragmatic’ approach to handling an 18-month private sector IR35 compliance investigation
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May 12, 2023
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BT unveils secure networking service for UK business customers
UK’s leading telco teams with US cyber security company to launch secure software-defined networking service for business customers available on a managed services basis
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May 12, 2023
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IT Priorities 2023: Budgeting for IT innovation
In spite of the economic slowdown, IT leaders are driving forward investments in IT
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May 12, 2023
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Post Office lawyer bragged how team ‘destroyed attack on the Horizon system’ and put woman in prison
A senior Post Office lawyer appeared gleeful in email about how his team helped prosecute a subpostmaster who was sent to prison
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May 12, 2023
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How Splunk is driving security automation
Splunk’s head of security in APAC talks up the company’s efforts to ease the workloads of security analysts amid lower adoption of security automation and analytics in the region
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May 12, 2023
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Solid Q2 sees Amdocs make acquisition, drive international partnerships
Communications software and services provider announces record second quarter revenues with high rate of successful project deployment
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May 12, 2023
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Microsoft, Singtel debut Azure public MEC in Singapore
Azure public multi-access edge compute service will let enterprises deploy low-latency workloads and leverage public cloud services in edge locations
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May 11, 2023
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May'23
Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds NCA EncroChat hacking warrants were lawful
Investigatory Powers Tribunal refers questions over whether messages obtained from the EncroChat encrypted phone network are legally admissible back to the criminal court
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May 11, 2023
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May'23
Webex and Google drive improved collaboration capabilities
Collaboration arm of networking giant reveals enhanced relationship with IT behemoth centred on creating faster synergy offering seamless way to connect through meetings and messaging and to improve automotive meeting experiences
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May 11, 2023
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Google AI targets programmer productivity
Google is opening up more capabilities in its generative AI model, with tools for peer programming and automatic code generation
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May 11, 2023
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ThinkWiFi launches first Kenyan commercial outdoor deployment of TIP OpenWiFi
Kenya’s largest ISP dedicated exclusively to rural and peri-urban markets teams with free, uncapped internet operator to provide disaggregated, open-source Wi-Fi network funded through digital advertising monetisation model