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Care charity Avante enhances unified communications capabilities with 3CX

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Kent-based residential care charity Avante Care and Support installed an IP PBX to manage telephony across multiple sites and a mobile workforce

IR35 private sector reforms: Treasury ignores sub-committee’s plea to delay April 2021 start date

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Despite the Finance Bill Sub-Committee claiming it would argue for the IR35 reforms to be delayed even if there were no pandemic, HM Treasury remains...

Microsoft Build 2020: Nadella praises developers for their work during pandemic

News | ComputerWeekly.com

IT has played a key role in supporting people and businesses during the coronavirus lockdown

More than 80% of UK startups ineligible for public-private coronavirus loans

News | ComputerWeekly.com

With the majority of startups left out in the cold, the UK government must now focus on the delivery speed of what is available, according to ...

Nokia, KDDI trial fully virtualised 5G cloud RAN

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Finnish comms tech supplier Nokia adds to portfolio of customers trailing its cloud RAN solutions in deal with leading Japanese operator KDDI, ...

Softcat backing charity battling coronavirus-induced food poverty

News | MicroScope

Reseller Softcat is urging the rest of the channel to get behind a campaign aimed at helping to feed people who are struggling with hunger because of...

14. Mike Potter, Director, EU Exit Capability at Cabinet Office

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2. Sarah Wilkinson, CEO, NHS Digital

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Covid-19 will decimate fintechs, but those that survive will prosper

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The coronavirus will wipe out some fintechs, but those that get through it will share in the next growth phase of the industry's development

Adtran initiates software-defined access network project, advances the smart home experience

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Partnerships with Orange and Plume will evaluate and test SDN-based programming for next-gen fibre access networks, and boost customer experience ...

Keeping coral reefs healthy with AI

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Underwater video cameras equipped with artificial intelligence smarts have been deployed in the waters off Pangatalan island in the Philippines to ...

Governing by data: Limits and opportunities

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

Governing by the use of data analytics may be fashionable, but what are its limits as well as its opportunities? Lessons from Estonia, Essex, and ...

Computacenter buying and Tech Data fighting in France

News | MicroScope

There is plenty going on over the other side of the Channel at the moment as Computacenter looks to expand and Tech Data and Ingram counter fines ...

Coronavirus: Surge in Wi-Fi upload traffic shows need for advanced Wi-Fi adoption

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Prolonged home working will see home networks, based on older Wi-Fi technologies rather than the likes of Wi-Fi 6, put under intolerable strain, ...

Chancellor hopes Bounce Back Loan scheme will deliver funds to small firms

News | MicroScope

Small businesses have so far faced a challenge in getting hold of funds during the coronavirus crisis, but a fresh scheme coming in next week should ...

UK contact-tracing app developers hit back at effectiveness and privacy doubts

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Pre-eminent scientists continue to defend NHS contact-tracing app from criticism of its effectiveness and the use of centralised data gathering

3. Jacqueline de Rojas, TechUK president

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Trying to make an Android appear to be an Apple

Opinion | MicroScope

Just when does it help an Android app developer appear as if they are actually producing something for an Apple device? Billy MacInnes finds out

Building security and privacy into contact-tracing apps

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Governance and data decentralisation are among measures that organisations can take to allay security and privacy concerns over contact-tracing apps,...

Storage 101: Crash-consistent vs application-consistent snapshots

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

We look at crash-consistent and application-consistent snapshots and backup, how they are defined, the pros and cons of each and the benefits and ...

The software innovation impact of coronavirus

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Software developers can work remotely, but if workers are expected to work remotely in the long term, can organisations maintain a software ...

17. Charles Forte, CIO, Ministry of Defence

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Government launches online financial support platform for business

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Businesses will be able to use the government’s online support finder tool to discover what sort of financial support is available to them during the...

Coronavirus: Leeds Building Society uses robots to cope with mortgage holiday demand

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Building society initiates more automation software to cope with growing demand for mortgage deferrals

Five-minute interview: Jason Skelton, Acxiom

Feature | MicroScope

Through a series of questions we find out a little bit more about another channel executive, this time Jason Skelton, Acxiom’s platform alliances head

Channel relationships really matter

Opinion | MicroScope

The chief executive and founder of security distributor e92plus, Mukesh Gupta, shares his thoughts about the help his firm can deliver right now

Coronavirus: UK schools will get tech support from Google and Microsoft

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Government hires tech giants to provide remote working resources to children while schools are closed

Pre-owned device values stay strong amidst coronavirus pandemic

News | ComputerWeekly.com

More than half a billion dollars returned to US consumers in Q1 2020 as used and new mobile device markets stabilise after Covid-19 disruption

Coronavirus: Warning over surge in Zoom security incidents

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Check Point researchers have observed a surge in suspicious Zoom domains as cyber criminals target popular remote working and collaboration tools

How likely are IT service providers to offer discounts in an unprecedented global recession?

News | ComputerWeekly.com

As the global economy slows, businesses are trying to cut costs, with IT services one of the first stops – but what are the chances of a happy ...

IT Priorities 2020: Datacentres remain mainstay of enterprise IT, despite continued cloud creep

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The 2020 IT Priorities Survey from Computer Weekly and TechTarget confirms enterprise datacentres remain the deployment site of choice for many ...

Armar-6 shows how helper robots can work in Ocado warehouses

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Collaborative robot is the result of the five-year SecondHands project with academia to develop a robot that can support human workers

US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory taps Verizon to explore 5G potential

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Comms giant links up with science and technology research body to explore opportunities for 5G to impact national security, energy efficiency and ...

Police IT system failure creates significant backlogs

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Independent review of IT system failure that left Greater Manchester Police working with pen and paper finds combination of technical shortcomings, ...

VAT software supplier exposed data of millions

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Eight million sales records belonging to UK and EU consumers left exposed due to misconfigured server

Schoolgirl security experts prepare to do battle

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The finals of the CyberFirst Girls contest will take place on 16 March as the culmination of the NCSC’s annual competition to unearth future security...

Equality watchdog calls on police to stop using facial recognition

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Equalities and Human Rights Commission says use of automatic facial recognition and predictive algorithms by police is discriminatory, stifles ...

Julian Assange extradition hearing postponed amid coronavirus lockdown

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Julian Assange’s lawyers say they have been unable to communicate or share legal documents with the WikiLeaks founder to enable them to prepare a ...

Application performance for remote workers becomes primary network issue for businesses

News | ComputerWeekly.com

When it comes to WAN, cost diminishes in importance, while dealing with complexity increases, as more firms spread reach to more locations

Swedish consumer-protection legislation will hit fintechs

News | ComputerWeekly.com

New financial regulation to protect consumers from agreeing to unnecessary credit will force financial technology companies to make changes to their ...

Data sharing between private healthcare and NHS to move into new phase

News | ComputerWeekly.com

A consultation has been launched to seek views on the creation of a single source of healthcare data in England, with a series of pilots announced

Meeting reviewing subpostmaster applications to appeal criminal prosecutions moves into second day

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The Criminal Cases Review Commission has extended a meeting considering subpostmaster applications to appeal criminal convictions resulting from a ...

Coronavirus: RAF flies in for UK contact tracing app test

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NHS announces test at air base of app designed to alert users of the close proximity of those carrying or having symptoms of Covid-19

Rapid7 picks up DivvyCloud

News | MicroScope

Security player moves to add more cloud visibility to its armoury and respond to customer demand for greater protection and visibility in hosted ...

Black Rose Lucy ransomware now posing as FBI porn warning

News | ComputerWeekly.com

A new strain of Russian-developed ransomware impersonates US federal law enforcement to force payment, says Check Point

Confidence of UK startups rocked by coronavirus

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Firms worry how to keep sales up and secure investment during pandemic

IBM celebrates quantum cloud fourth anniversary with coding challenge

News | ComputerWeekly.com

IBM has set four tasks for programmers to try out on its cloud-based quantum computer, in a bid to widen quantum coding skills

Treasury gives Gov.uk Verify 18-month reprieve due to coronavirus

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The government's troubled digital identity system was due to end funding in April 2020 but surge in use due to Universal Credit applications has ...

Datacentre M&A closed deal values exceed last year’s total just three months into 2020

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Latest market tracker data shows rebound in datacentre M&A deal values as enterprises look to outsource more of their IT and move to the cloud

iOS zero-day leaves iPhone users dangerously exposed

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Researchers identify dangerous vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS operating system that allow remote code execution on target devices

AdEPT aims to raise millions to fund acquisitions

News | MicroScope

Managed service player is looking to raise millions with a share placing to provide more resources for its acquisition strategy

Oxbotica on board with Cisco to drive autonomous vehicle data challenge

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Connected car technology firm hits pedal with Cisco to solve data challenges of future autonomous vehicles

DWP completes Universal Credit roll-out

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Department for Work and Pensions concludes the deployment of Universal Credit across the UK, meaning the full digital service is now available ...

Coronavirus: HMRC job retention scheme targeted by cyber criminals

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The UK government’s scheme to pay furloughed employees 80% of their wages is being targeted by cyber criminals

CIO interview: Theo Blackwell, CDO for London

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Digital and data are transforming the way London runs – from transport to public services. The first ever chief digital officer for London explains ...

Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2018

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Australia continues to cement its position as a leader in mastering and deploying advanced information and communications technology across a large ...

IT transformation steps pave the path to new ways to work

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

The CEO of Difrent discusses how her roles in local and central government have played a role in public sector IT transformation

Coronavirus: SMEs in the UAE forced to digitally transform

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The UAE, like the rest of the world, continues to be heavily impacted by the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, and technology is helping to lead the ...

Coronavirus: NHS corrals Microsoft, Palantir and Google to hone data analysis

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The NHS has confirmed it is working with Microsoft, Palantir and Google to improve data analysis to make its anti-coronavirus effort more efficient ...

Developed APAC states most exposed to cyber risks

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Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have the highest exposure to cyber risks, but they are also the most prepared to deal with ...

Australian workers are weakest link in fight against cyber attacks

News | ComputerWeekly.com

About four in 10 employees are sharing inappropriate data across mobile devices and half of all security incidents in 2019 occurred through ...

Coronavirus: ICO temporarily relaxes regulatory approach

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Information Commissioner’s Office sets out a revised approach to its regulatory duties during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

Managed services rev up revenues for SD-WAN in fourth quarter of 2019

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Analyst Omdia highlights the steady transition in 2019 from hardware-based to software-defined networking and predicts good times despite Covid-19

Government urged to delay digital services tax amid coronavirus outbreak

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Delaying liabilities for a year could help technology companies already stretched thin by the outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, ...

Riverbed refocuses on its roots

News | MicroScope

Vendor returns to the core business that made its reputation, with partners being encouraged to embrace performance and visibility strategy

UK’s first 5G accelerator gains speed

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK 5G testbed springs into life with 12 hours of content in a virtual event lasting over two days, offering business-orientated training programme to...

Pub ‘check-in’ apps provoke fresh privacy concerns

News | ComputerWeekly.com

With pubs and restaurants required to collect customer data for contact tracing when they reopen, data privacy risks will be heightened

Former Post Office CEO and Fujitsu play the blame game in Horizon IT scandal

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Post Office and Fujitsu blame each other for many of the failings in the Horizon IT scandal that wrecked lives

Digitally mapping for solidarity and cooperation

Feature | ComputerWeekly.com

How digital mapping tools can be used to promote solidarity and cooperation between enterprises, groups and individual organisers with a strong ...

HMRC yet to begin building UK border IT system

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The UK government has still not built its Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) IT system, despite the end of the Brexit transition period looming, ...

Kia Motors partners with Google Cloud to bring motorists AI-based paperless car manuals

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South Korean car manufacturer partners Google Cloud managed service provider Megazone to bring artificial intelligence-based app to market

Verizon and Digital Catapult create enterprise 5G accelerator programme

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Venture will enable retail and brand partners to work directly with UK startups and tech innovators to explore 5G-enabled solutions

How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

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Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global ...

O2 gains KPMG mandate to meet new demand for remote working

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O2 will provide connectivity tools to help support professional services provider’s operational activity

Egypt’s datacentre plans take key step forward

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Government lays the foundations for a datacentre industry with its new data protection law

Australian regulator sues RI Advice for cyber security lapses

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is suing RI Advice for cyber security breaches at the financial firm’s authorised representatives

Extreme delivers secure access to virtual health services in Madrid

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Madrid Digital Telehealth Network expands access to essential health services to 1.5 million citizens, ensuring the safety of patients and staff

UK households suffer as online problems disrupt work during lockdown

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Quadient urges broadband and mobile providers to focus on customer service as UK ranks connectivity as more essential than gas, banking or council ...

US decision to file new charges against Julian Assange ‘astonishing and potentially abusive’

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Lawyer for WikiLeaks founder slams US decision to serve a second indictment at the 11th hour alleging that Assange conspired with hackers, as a ...

Room for improvement in Dutch digital skills

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The Netherlands has good telecommunications and IT networks that can be used safely and reliably, but there is room for improvement in digital skills...

Covid-19 accelerates UK digital transformation efforts by over five years

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Over a third of UK business decision-makers believe changes in operations since Covid-19 have increased digital transformation budgets “dramatically”

Garmin outage prompts ransomware attack speculation

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Details are thin on the ground following a major service outage at Garmin, prompting industry speculation that the firm has fallen victim to a ...

Venture firm Public launches fourth GovTech accelerator

News | ComputerWeekly.com

The GovStart 2020 accelerator programme is looking for innovators working on transport, health and workforce-related technology to help get more ...

Huawei technology banned from UK national comms infrastructure

News | ComputerWeekly.com

After NCSC advice, and accepting billions in cost and a significant delay to 5G roll-out, UK government takes decision to remove so-called high-risk ...

HPE extends edge to home network

News | ComputerWeekly.com

With employees working from home, IT departments are struggling to provide adequate remote access to corporate systems

WebAssembly Hub boosts Envoy filter development

Tutorial | TheServerSide.com

Examine WebAssembly Hub's features, why developers have turned to the portal to share Envoy filters and how it seems to be built for the long haul.

NHS gets £50m in AI funding for digital pathology

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Government funding package focuses on earlier diagnosis of cancer in the West Midlands, north of England and London

Northern Ireland Covid-19 tracing app reaches 250,000 downloads

News | ComputerWeekly.com

In the two weeks since it went live, Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 test and trace app has been downloaded a quarter of a million times

UK Biobank to build AWS-hosted data analysis platform with DNAnexus to speed research

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK Biobank is looking to the cloud to help democratise access to its research data, and ensure the information it holds can be used by as broad a ...

How to keep IT staff safe when they are needed on-site

News | ComputerWeekly.com

One of the challenges for IT departments during the coronavirus pandemic is that staff sometimes need to come into the office, which poses health ...

Making Tax Digital will boost business resilience in case of future Covid crises

Opinion | ComputerWeekly.com

HMRC is expanding the digitisation of income and corporation tax in a move that will benefit businesses, the self-employed and the economy, writes ...

UK government ignored civil service warning of no benefit in acquisition of OneWeb

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Civil service revealed to have taken the rare step of alerting government that $500m investment in troubled satellite company would bring no ...

NHS contact-tracing app for England and Wales launches nationwide

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Arriving over four months later than originally proposed, the much-delayed and much-criticised UK Covid-19 contact-tracing app is now available to ...

Octopus Energy selects AWS as cloud provider to power its global expansion plans

News | ComputerWeekly.com

UK-based energy market challenger Octopus Energy has named Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud provider, as it gears up for further global ...

TikTok’s GDPR compliance probed amid accusations of data misuse

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Dutch privacy organisation SOMI claims TikTok falls short in protecting young users, and that it is likely violating GDPR

NHS whistleblower privacy concerns passed on to regulator, but campaigners not holding their breath

News | ComputerWeekly.com

NHS Improvement chair Dido Harding acknowledges receiving concerns raised about the anonymity of whistleblowers, but campaigners have little faith ...

Lawrence Oliva

Contributor | TechTarget

Lawrence Oliva is a senior consultant and program manager with CH2M Hill, a global engineering and program management company.

Veeam reminds partners of data’s role in a digital transformation play

News | MicroScope

Vendor’s recent VeeamON event underlined its belief in the need to focus on the data

UK, US workers report ‘overwhelmingly’ positive experiences of remote working

News | ComputerWeekly.com

Study finds that despite challenges, mass remote working due to Covid-19 has been a net benefit on both sides of the Atlantic, suggesting companies ...

NHSX seeks evolution of digital transformation capabilities

News | ComputerWeekly.com

New approaches and team structures could be tested as a result of learnings from the work around Covid-19

Networking
  • firewall as a service (FWaaS)

    Firewall as a service (FWaaS), also known as a cloud firewall, is a service that provides cloud-based network traffic analysis ...

  • private 5G

    Private 5G is a wireless network technology that delivers 5G cellular connectivity for private network use cases.

  • NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure)

    NFVi (network functions virtualization infrastructure) encompasses all of the networking hardware and software needed to support ...

Security
  • virus (computer virus)

    A computer virus is a type of malware that attaches itself to a program or file. A virus can replicate and spread across an ...

  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) is an advanced certification that indicates that an individual possesses the ...

  • cryptography

    Cryptography is a method of protecting information and communications using codes, so that only those for whom the information is...

CIO
  • IT project management

    IT project management is the process of planning, organizing and delineating responsibility for the completion of an ...

  • chief financial officer (CFO)

    A chief financial officer (CFO) is the corporate title for the person responsible for managing a company's financial operations ...

  • chief strategy officer (CSO)

    A chief strategy officer (CSO) is a C-level executive charged with helping formulate, facilitate and communicate an ...

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Customer Experience
  • martech (marketing technology)

    Martech (marketing technology) refers to the integration of software tools, platforms, and applications designed to streamline ...

  • transactional marketing

    Transactional marketing is a business strategy that focuses on single, point-of-sale transactions.

  • customer profiling

    Customer profiling is the detailed and systematic process of constructing a clear portrait of a company's ideal customer by ...

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