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Swedish startup fund that targets financial technology developers has expanded its reach into Finland

Network operator announces plans to test 5G technology to provide wireless connectivity before the end of 2016

UK parliament’s Joint Committee review fails to address issues of collateral damage and business protection by spy agencies, says cyber security expert

Singapore government merges its ICT and media agencies in recognition of their overlapping responsibilities

Mobile operator’s worldwide tax bill has fallen by 36% in the past 12 months following significant divestments

Charity partners with tech firm to run five simultaneous events to inspire girls to pursue science technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers

Bromley Council hopes to make 10% cost savings by contracting BT to deliver computer and datacentre services for the next five years

Mobile network operator Three offers customers in Northern Ireland the chance to trial a mobile home broadband service as an alternative to fixed operators

Telco is transforming its IT operation to make better use of the cloud, data and application programming interfaces

Colocation provider is set to begin the construction of its third Irish datacentre during the fourth quarter of 2016

Traditional mass marketing methods don't cut it anymore. Salesforce discusses its plans to bring one-to-one marketing to customers.

LendInvest suggests acquisition could help it become “the biggest mortgage lender in the country”

Scottish law firm MacRoberts replaces more than 80U of ageing, heterogeneous HPE infrastructure with 4U of hyper-converged servers and storage from Gridstore

Smart headphones manufacturer uses Zyme's channel management tool to gain insights with sales and distribution data

Public consultation launched on how best to enforce age restrictions on pornographic web content

Vodafone and Liberty Global confirm that they are to merge their Dutch businesses

Hollywood hospital forced to shut down all its computer systems while the FBI and others investigate

There is still much work to be done in the area of collaboration and sharing responsibility when it comes to preventing data breaches, a study has found

International law enforcement collaboration around cyber crime is making progress, says National Cyber Crime Unit deputy director Sarah Goodall

This week, bloggers touch on VMware's cloud management platform for legacy businesses, Arctic Wolf's security service that blends humans and software, and next-gen data centers.

EMC replaces Vspex Blue with VxRail, integrating the new version of VMware's Virtual SAN software on four-node hyper-converged appliances.

Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

HM Revenue & Customs has published its IT strategy outlining how it plans to transform its IT estate by taking a platform approach, moving to virtual infrastructure and cloud-based services

The Renault Sport Formula 1 team explains why it is considering a refresh of its trackside converged infrastructure setup

Research suggests enterprises are looking to recruit chief internet of things officers (CIoTOs) to lead their forays into the hyper-connected world

A US judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI bypass the auto-erase function on the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone to find the passcode and access data, but the company says it will contest the order

A team of researchers at University College London has developed a new design of optical receiver that they claim could dramatically reduce the costs of deploying FTTP broadband

Businesses should focus on application security, changes in threats and regulations, and vulnerabilities in emerging technologies, says Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Veeam survey finds most organisations fail to recover from unplanned outages in the time demanded by SLAs, with average recovery time in the UK being five hours

Electronics manufacturer RS Components outsources its corporate software development to Atos in a bid to modernise its customer services

NHS trusts need to focus not only on opportunities, but on how to escape the pitfalls that come with introducing digital technologies, according to a report by the Nuffield Trust

The BBC channel aimed at younger viewers, BBC Three, broadcast its last night as a TV channel before moving to online-only viewing

Startup Avi Networks has built into its application delivery controller support for containerized applications found in public and private clouds.

Apple announces it will open a development centre in one of India's fastest growing technology hubs, in the city of Hyderabad

As smart city initiatives spring up in the Middle East, telecoms operators contend with the strain of the internet of things (IoT) on networks

A personal data breach at the University of Greenwich highlights the repercussions for organisations that fail to review what they publish online

The type of person working as a technology specialist stills skews towards older males, according to research

At the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, distributor Avnet and IBM announced partnerships focused on the Internet of Things and security as a service.

President Obama's new national cybersecurity plan will beef up cyberdefense, but does it do enough to close the cyber-skills gap? Also in Searchlight: The Obama family's Wi-Fi is patchy; Twitter posts lackluster earnings.

Gonzaga University is building upon its cloud-based ITSM system, as it deals with an expanding number of Internet-enabled devices -- from wireless speakers to sprinkler systems.

Google engineers who discovered the glibc vulnerability say exploiting it is difficult, but they have also proved it can be done, and security experts say it is best not to take the risk

NHS trust’s CIO aims to deliver digital technology that helps clinicians spend more time with patients

A US hospital reveals that, after a week of being offline, it caved into ransomware demands to restore access to its computer systems

As smartphone sales continue to stagnate, suppliers are looking to innovate in more novel ways

Alternative online finance provided 3% of lending to SMEs and 13% of lending to small businesses last year, but overall growth rate slowed

Crown Commercial Service’s tender for a framework to develop integrated commercial solutions will go live in May

The average salary for a technology professional rose by 2% in 2015, according to a study by IT jobs website Dice

Key executives need to be more engaged with CISOs beyond planning for security, and take a more active role, according to an IBM study

A whitepaper published by the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre reveals how 5G could work in tandem with existing technology to meet the needs of rural users

Creative industries such as media, marketing, advertising and sales place more value on digital skills than IT and telecoms sector does

According to the Cloud Industry Forum's latest cloud adoption research, UK firms are steadily coming round to the charms of running their IT off-premise

X-IO Technologies upgrades enterprise storage-featured Iglu Blaze controllers with boosted CPUs to create FX controllers with increased flash and hard drive capacities

The latest Ansible release brings net automation to infrastructure devices from Cisco, Arista Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks.

Bank claims UK’s largest planned roll-out of voice biometric security technology, with more than 15 million customers in line for voice and fingerprint authentication services

Royal Mail CIO talks about replacing legacy systems, new contracts and moving to a platform-based model

CIO of Swedish hygiene and forest products company tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is changing the firm from inside out and how he manages this transformation

Australia’s executives need to get their heads out of the sand when it comes to cyber security and realise they are part of the solution

Eyecare company has used the Mendix application platform as a service to create new apps to support the business

Apple CEO Tim Cook is getting support from technology and information security firms in his refusal to help the FBI to hack into an iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook

Asean country Thailand will get one of the world’s most advanced datacentres, which is set to stir up competition in the region

Cloud services giant is continuing on with its plans to build out its European datacentre region with another facility in Ireland

Infrastructure services provider is betting on Cisco’s SDN play in one of its Tier 3 datacentres

Services designed to prepare operators’ datacentres for running business processes in the cloud, and allow them to scale up their network capacity

All government departments have set out their delivery plans for the next five years, showing commitment to government as a platform

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