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The council is looking for a head of ICT and information management to drive its transformation programme, with a potential salary of up to £115,000

CIO at Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer shares advice for shouldering a new CIO position and guiding the business towards innovative technology

At a Westminster Hall debate, digital economy minister Ed Vaizey conceded the £150m Mobile Infrastructure Project to address "not-spots" was largely unsuccessful

Consultation includes proposals to allow data to be used for research purposes and making unlawful disclosure a criminal offence

Global financial system stability group FSB will take a closer look at financial technology companies

EC claims the publication of legal texts and written assurances marks the start of the new-look data-sharing agreement coming into force

DSSD D5 brings array-based PCIe flash to market for EMC. VMAX hybrid arrays upgrade controller software to create two all-flash arrays, the 450F and 850F

Versa Networks says new security features will help providers create safer branch networks; SDN could make medical devices more secure; and Aryaka claimed two SDN-related patents.

Judge rules that Apple does not have to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of a suspected drug trafficker

Addressing data sovereignty concerns means European CIOs are forced to pay more for cloud services than their US counterparts

Local authority has partnered with IoT platform developer InterDigital to establish a county-wide smart transport model

The amount of cash withdrawn from UK ATMs last year was up on the previous year despite the arrival of technology-enabled alternatives

The home of the Large Hadron Collider has deployed AppDynamics’ APM tool to improve the speed and efficiency of application monitoring

Releasing a draft local government digital service standard, Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock advised councils to embrace digital technology

The Australian government is injecting money into the country’s financial technology community to help firms break into lucrative Asian markets

Tracking a cyber adversary that is recruiting and the skills they desire can improve the overall maturity of an organisation’s security programme, according to Digital Shadows

E-commerce and cyber security professionals in Singapore could gain 10 to 20% pay rises if they move companies, due to increased demand of niche IT skills

The Home Office has tweaked the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, taking on committee recommendations – but questions remain

The US is negotiating with the UK to establish a new framework that will permit UK authorities to access electronic communications directly from US companies

Lift manufacturer is using IBM Watson as part of its internet of things strategy after a multi-year agreement with the IT giant

Banks are hindered by legacy systems that prevent them from delivering a personalised customer experience

Information security requires a comprehensive approach including strong encryption, says Microsoft chief legal officer Brad Smith

Husqvarna has expanded an existing IT outsourcing agreement with Indian IT services firm

Researchers publish paper outlining how an attacker could crack the TLS security protocol to gain access to millions of secure websites

Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries

Bruce Schneier chats with SearchSecurity during lunch at RSAC about IBM's plans to acquire Resilient Systems to complete their security offering.

The rural payments programme was a “Whitehall fiasco” with too much focus on the digital front end, says the public accounts committee (PAC)

A policy of weakened encryption would harm US economic interests and undermine those trying to defend digital environments, according to RSA president Amit Yoran

Cloud Security Alliance’s research team uncovers the “dirty dozen” off-premise threats

Chris Young calls on security industry to pay more attention to cyber threat intelligence sharing and encouraging people to become information security professionals

The new Cisco NFV software stack will eventually run on any Intel-based x86 server.

The Veeam partner community will see more enablement and support resources, a new emphasis on the enterprise market, and further expansion into the cloud.

This week, bloggers examine the network impact of IoT, tackle RSA Conference priorities and how to use MS Visio for network diagramming.

The decision not to separate BT and Openreach has not solved any regulatory issues and will not address the problems at the heart of broadband roll-out, a Select Committee hears

The rural payments programme has again been in the spotlight over its failures, continuing the trend of government IT programmes being noted not for their success, but rather the opposite

BT joins Ericsson, O2 and Vodafone to create a mentoring scheme encouraging girls into science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers

Colocation rivals outline their investment intentions and priorities for the year ahead

Financial services firm is deploying AI software created by one of the IT startups it supports in a global programme

Forty major global banks have jointly run tests of the use of blockchain in wholesale banking

The UK government is thinking about becoming more interventionist to ensure the next five years yield a better return on investment in cyber security, according to CESG cyber security head

Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

Robert Bird deploys Talon Storage CloudFAST with Microsoft Azure cloud storage on the back end to enable 24-hour working between offices on three continents

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is claiming costs from a system analyst who brought an employment tribunal raising allegations of bullying at the Legal Aid Agency

Three-dimensional printing challenges will test CIOs and IT organizations on security, data management, and their ability to work fast and collaboratively with the business.

The Institute of Directors warns that businesses are actively covering up when they have been the victim of a cyber attack

Cyber criminals are using social media as a communication and sales channel, not just for reconnaissance and phishing, an RSA study has revealed

The open-source initiative will help to drive adoption of the Erlang functional programming language among enterprise developers

Speed tests carried out by Cable.co.uk have located the slowest average broadband speeds in the UK, in the village of Miserden in Gloucestershire

Police Scotland is investigating the implications of the end of Safe Harbour. Service providers must comply with UK law, regardless of where they are based

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticises the Home Office for allowing the e-Borders programme to run eight years late and £500m over budget

Big Australian businesses are turning to digital professionals from outside rather than promoting from within

A reporter on the BBC Radio Four You and Yours programme has managed to hack a NatWest online bank account and extract cash

MasterCard is reportedly in talks with the banks that own payments provider VocaLink over a £1bn takeover

Social networking giant plans to book larger deals with British firms via its UK arm, paving the way for it to pay more corporation tax

The success of ERP projects depends on organizational change management, the right ERP software selection and executive buy-in, says a panel of ERP experts.

Serro releases its new open source SDN framework, AuSM, to link up network and monitoring tools via API.

The Open Networking User Group is hosting the first ONUG Grand Challenge Hackathon, with the goal of encouraging the development of new automation applications.

HPE posts its first financial results following the split of the business

The UK insurance industry is making a priority of big data to make more personalised customer offers in 2016, research from Teradata reveals

Vertiscale designed its new workspace-as-a-service offering for small and medium-sized healthcare practices; more IT channel news from the week.