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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg plans to code a Jarvis-like AI assistant to help around the house and with his work in 2016

Local authority is pushing open data, linking up different services and installing movement sensors in extra care housing

Lack of adequate software asset management tools is leaving IT departments in the dark over Microsoft licensing, says the Campaign for Clear Licensing

Public Accounts Committee slams GP Extraction Service and its supplier, Atos, in a new report on the long-delayed project

EE confirms that CEO Olaf Swantee will step down following the mobile operator’s acquisition by BT

Nokia takes control of 80% of outstanding Alcatel-Lucent shares and prepares to wrap up multi-billion euro deal

The UK video games industry is set to grow over the next year, with more than 70% of employers planning to make new hires

Trojan has been used to deliver a destructive component in attacks on power and media companies in Ukraine, say Eset researchers

What IT security challenges should Australian organisations expect in the new year?

Intel adds to previous strategic investments in drone technology to bolster its competitive position in the drone chip market

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has referred a complaint to the UK information commissioner that the US National Security Agency is intercepting children's internet activities

Malaysia is leading the way when it comes to using internet of things technologies to improve agriculture

Nominet Trust releases its annual guide of 100 organisations across the globe using technology to drive positive change

Orange confirms it is in discussions to buy local rival Bouygues

Communication hubs will provide free public Wi-Fi, voice and video calls, device charging and tablets for internet browsing, access to city services, maps and directions

Bristol City Council offers free access to transport data to encourage the development of mobile technology systems

Organisations in Germany and the Netherlands are struggling to fill positions for software developers as they digitise

Chika Aghadiuno, vice chair of Aviva’s women’s network, says it is important to make young people aware of potential careers

The Nordic region is a hotbed for IT startups and, while it is better known for consumer-targeted creations such as Angry Birds, there are more and more startups targeting businesses

HSBC customers unable to access online banking services as the UK bank suffers internal technical issue.

AWS readies challenger to Gmail and Office 365 as cloud battle with Google and Microsoft enters new phase

Security experts have come out in support of a Dutch government statement against weakening encryption for the purposes of law enforcement and intelligence agencies

In this week's SN blog roundup, analysts explore recent trends in IT, the Juniper breach and next-generation firewalls.

Out of 149 major government projects with total lifetime costs of £511bn, including 40 ICT projects, a third is rated red or amber-red, the National Audit Office has found

Audi drivers will be able to buy in-car connectivity through an MVNO agreement spanning 13 European countries

Failure to update to the latest version of Internet Explorer by 12 January 2016 could put users at risk, Microsoft warns

Building society upgrades network infrastructure to support apps and services for customers and staff

Saab Group's CIO talks to Computer Weekly about the huge challenge of integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one

A consortium of nine UK universities have come together to work alongside the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on research into the internet of things

Rackspace report into cloud migration trends reveals business leaders are more likely to lead the move off-premise than IT people

Cloud, Saas and business analytics set to drive up demand for software

The EU data protection supervisor plans to encourage a discussion on the ethics of future technologies to prevent individuals being reduced to mere data subjects

Organisations in Italy are investing in internet-connected technologies, with infrastructure providers building the underpinning networks

The technology topics that grabbed CIOs in 2015 ranged from Dell's audacious EMC bid to the meaning of robotic process automation to some stern advice on how to be a CIO.

UK information commissioner Christopher Graham has called for a regular review of interception powers and greater audit powers

A former US intelligence director turned whistleblower tells MPs and peers that bulk collection of internet and phone data is putting lives at risk

Latest project in government-as-a-platform strategy aims to make it easier to keep individuals informed about applications and services

News of workforce reduction comes a day after activist investor Starboard Value called for significant changes in a letter to Yahoo board

Charity warned to comply fully with all data protection recommendations within six months or face prosecution

Europe’s economies have varying expectations for IT spending over the next couple of years as the global market sees moderate growth

Ericsson joins with startup Red Technologies, Qualcomm and the French government to run a radio spectrum sharing pilot for future 5G mobile networks

Cyber criminals caused substantial losses across Europe by using Tyupkin malware to access ATM cash cassettes

Cisco has reportedly partnered with Springpath in developing hyper-converged hardware for the data center.

Survey finds nearly one-fifth of IT departments plan to decommission disk, while hybrid leads the flash assault on the datacentre

A UK-based security company has revealed that half of UK banks are using out-of-date security technology

Cloud services giant is opening new datacentres in Seoul in response to Korean customer demands

Study shows UK tech startups won £2.46bn in venture capital funding last year, with London taking the lion’s share

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo say they are particularly concerned about six key aspects of the UK's draft Investigatory Powers Bill

Discussions will cover ways of making it more difficult for extremist groups to use online services to further their aims

Flash memory is making its mark on Spanish enterprises, with hybrid flash storage that merges SSD and traditional spinning disk holding the upper hand

Analyst house’s latest cloud market tracker reveals how enterprise IT buying behaviours are moving to incorporate off-premise technologies

Open-source electronic patient records continue to gain traction in the NHS as Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust signs up

US telecoms firm believes passwords were stolen either through phishing attacks or data breaches at other companies that store its customer information

Retailer’s technology division open-sources learning-to-code initiative to encourage continuous development of coding game

Government purchasing agency’s commercial director for technology will depart to take up a job in the private sector

In our latest roundup of posts from SDN blogs, analysts explore network functions virtualization trends, SD-WAN adoption rates and software-defined security tools.

The 14 finalists in the hard disk/hybrid storage systems category of the 2015 Products of the Year competition blend flash configurations with traditional spinning media.