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Businesses and IT suppliers are planning to build datacentres across the Asean region, with challenges to Singapore’s dominance emerging

Panellists at Bett 2016 claim gender roles should not only be dispelled in Stem subjects, but in other gender-specific industries

MPs have again called for BT and Openreach to be split up, but have been heavily criticised for including misleading statistics in their evidence

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey confirms CTO and COO are to take on additional responsibilities with the departure of four top executives

Google is to pay more UK tax in line with new rules – £130m, said to cover the last 10 years – but denies any wrongdoing in the past

Cloud infrastructure services will experience fastest growth in 2016, as enterprises move to shift more of their datacentre investments off-premise

Consumers aged 18 to 34 are more likely to buy items based on what they see on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Research by altnet Relish reveals that BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin customers are locked into overpriced broadband deals

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust doctors use Skype so patients can stay at home to attend outpatient appointments

Train engineering company Alstom has outsourced its IT to HCL Technologies as part of a five-year transformation project

Ahead of the mayoral election, Tech London Advocates, techUK and Centre for London produce a manifesto lobbying for “a truly digital city”

Cyber risk management can add business benefit while improving security, says Digital Policy Alliance advisory panel member Philip Virgo

Offerings such as Salesforce IoT Cloud are open for business. But are IoT-connected devices ready to generate meaningful data?

Nokia launches a long term evolution radio service called FastMile, which will allow operators to boost mobile broadband services in rural areas

Canalys claims access to cheaper energy will make it easier for datacentre operators to respond to growing demand for cloud

BT adds Cisco-based software-defined networking capability to its services offering, with retail pharmacist Boots among early customers

It’s not doom and gloom for the UK’s traditional banks – as long as they can learn from fintech and transform themselves

Ofcom announces protections and rights for SMEs buying standard broadband products

Local authority claims datacentre migration project should pave way for further shared service initiatives and wider cloud use

Construction and civil engineering group Costain gets mix of pure cloud and bare metal hosted at Navisite datacentres as it tools up to provide key highways infrastructure systems

The Cabinet Office has begun looking for a replacement for its controversial contract for sourcing temporary staff in government

Sweden is fast becoming a country where cash is on the periphery of payments, and some think it might be the first to become cashless

AGS Airports signs Getronics to provide IT support services after splitting IT from its former owner

Gartner estimates that 90% of large organisations globally will have chief data officers by 2019. It advises a canny political game

Criminal activity is top motivation for DDoS attacks as average attacks become strong enough to down most businesses, Arbor Networks report reveals

A public sector-owned broadband infrastructure provider is one option on the table as DCMS consults on the future of the £1.7bn BDUK scheme

Apple's share price dips in response to forecast fall in iPhone sales despite record quarterly revenues and profits

Government has announced a £250,000 programme to increase the rate of cyber security startup development in the UK

The CIO at Norway's Hydro has established an IT department that allows for regional autonomy and central guidance at the same time

Arrow has followed the example of other firms and opted to spread the COO responsibilities once the current incumbent opts to leave the distributor

Microsoft hopes hybrid cloud platform will help enterprises that want to do more in public cloud but can't because of data sovereignty concerns

The knock-on effect of a data breach can be devastating for a company, warns information commissioner Christopher Graham

Police ICT reform is “gritty and unglamorous” but necessary to tackle crime, according to home secretary Theresa May

Global IT spending hits a plateau, says Gartner, but SaaS expenditures are up. What does it mean for CIOs? Also, in Searchlight: Dell-EMC deal in trouble? Microsoft to donate $1B in cloud.

Growth of the internet of things will be slowed or stunted if the industry fails to be proactive about data security, according to IoT Security Foundation

In this SDN blogs roundup, an expert says deploying SDN is more important than defining it; an SDN company gets Google's attention; and the brite box turns 2.

Analyst Gartner expects BI to shift up a gear as businesses adopt new techniques to improve decision making

The developers behind Scottish green datacentre project confirm the campus is finally under construction

RootMetrics’ analysis of mobile broadband connectivity at London’s City, Gatwick and Heathrow airports reveals EE is far outpacing its rivals in terms of performance

Oracle announced plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in, a noted attack vector, though the choice was not entirely its own.

BT is awarded a seven-year, £100m plus contract to supply networking services to the BBC

The ICO has launched an online self-assessment tool to help SMEs to comply with data protection laws and improve data handling procedures

Amazon.com posts record profit, as its AWS cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

HSBC was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which targeted its online personal banking services.

Regulator announces an investigation into errors made by EE in applying European roaming charges

This week, CIO top priorities revealed, Juniper Networks acquires BTI Systems -- an optical networking firm -- and Netronome introduces Agilio.

BT has completed its £12.5bn acquisition of EE on schedule, with the mobile operator set to become a new business unit in the wider group

Attackers with increasing capabilities have strong financial motivation to go after critical infrastructure and manufacturing firms, says security industry expert

BT is set to develop an integrated digital care record, pulling information from both health and social care systems in Islington

Salaries for IT security professionals are on the rise as firms react to an increase in cyber crime

The government has extended the BDUK consumer broadband voucher programme to cover wireless systems in a few locations, in addition to satellite

Juniper Networks sees sales growth in metro networks and the DCI technology market.

A new OpenSSL patch fixes a severe encryption flaw and strengthens the protocol against the Logjam vulnerability.

Data governance managers who spoke during an online conference said that tracking business-oriented metrics on data quality improvement is a key to success in governance efforts.

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