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MIT Sloan cybersecurity expert Stuart Madnick talks about clear and present dangers in an IoT-enabled world.

New Verizon data centers are part of a two-pronged strategy of helping customers and taming suppliers through open technology.

EMC launches Unity, SME-targeted all-flash and hybrid flash arrays built on a Linux OS on commodity hardware with services run from containers

This week, networking analysts explore Verizon NFV, SD-WAN as intent-based networking and automation costs.

Singapore is the first nation in the Asean region to get the Apple and Samsung mobile payment services

Cloud technology can bring businesses into the internet age, but has to be based on open architecture and innovation to bring value, according to Huawei

iPass launches a software development kit to let enterprises, operators and suppliers integrate its technology and services into devices and apps

EMC World 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, with the supplier vaunting datacentre modernisation, based on software-defined storage, cloud, flash and scale out architecture

ESA initiative aims to kick-start the development process for high-capacity satellite products, apps and services

Nikita Kuzmin spared further jail time after co-operating with investigators for the past three years

Fire and rescue services in Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire have joined forces to deploy modern command and control technology

The Government Digital Service didn’t meet its target of taking identity assurance service Verify out of beta by the end of April, but is “nearly there”, according to programme director Janet Hughes

NHS 24 won’t attempt a second go-live of its £117m IT system in June after discovering further technical problems, but still plans to deploy the system in summer 2016

In light of the continued growth of AWS, Computer Weekly looks at how the firm intends to retain its hold on the cloud market

The security elements of business IT, the internet of things and operational technology are now all deeply interconnected, claims Martin Kuppinger

Gregg Ambulos, EMC's senior vice president of global channel operations, said channel partners will be an important part of Dell Technologies' go-to-market strategy.

A data-sharing agreement between a Google-owned firm and the Royal Free NHS trust raises privacy concerns, despite assurances that Google cannot use the data

CIOs in the Middle East have the skills that could make them CEOs – and technology's growing importance in the enterprise makes this increasingly likely

Cyber attackers are crafting spam to deliver malware that uses vernacular, brands and payment methods for better cultural compatibility, Sophos researchers find

Computer Weekly recognises more great women’s lifetime achievements in its Most Influential Women in UK IT Hall of Fame

Oil giant Shell is the latest large business to announce plans to insource its IT operations at a delivery centre in Bangalore, India

A quarter of banks will go to financial technology suppliers for their online and mobile banking requirements by 2020

IBM starts the ball rolling on what it would mean to program a universal quantum computer

OpenTraffic smart data platform provides free GPS information for better analysis of travel speeds and journey times in Metro Manila and Cebu City

Who deserves to win the 2016 title of the most influential woman in UK IT?

A new report from Forrester cautions CIOs against bimodal IT, contending the two-tiered approach could create more problems than it solves.

The European Parliament’s official publication of the General Data Protection Regulation means it will become enforceable on 25 May 2018

Marks and Spencer shares details of how moving to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite has ushered in an era of ”smarter working” in its retails stores and corporate HQ

Market watcher Gartner predicts the hyper-converged market will be worth $5bn by 2019 as integrated systems become a staple of mainstream datacentre environments

World Password Day seeks to promote multi-factor authentication as a security firm reports the discovery of a cache of millions of stolen webmail credentials

Telecoms giant ramps up rhetoric around ultrafast broadband following Ofcom’s criticism in its recent market review

When Vesa Pirinen became CIO at Finnish construction firm YIT Group, he set out to question the norm

OECD initiative and audits of some of the world’s biggest technology firms prompted the tax clampdown, outlined in a budget statement

Airline is using a private cloud and open-source software to enable it to analyse social media and understand what consumers think about it

Speaking at Interop 2016, Martin Casado laid out his vision for infrastructure evolution instead of a future that predicts its demise.

Consumers in Europe increasingly consider companies such as Facebook and Google as potential financial services providers

Studies indicate trying to fix or work with tricky technology isn’t particularly good for your health

Visa opens its first innovation centre outside of the US to work with partners and customers to develop payment technology for the Southeast Asian market

Romanian organisations are training software developers internally after having problems recruiting people with the right skills and experience through the labour market

Security researchers at Kasperky Lab and FireEye confirm that the upward trend of ransomware is continuing and has emerged as a top threat to business

Ford steps up involvement with Pivotal, and sets out plans to expand the use of Pivotal’s software development kit across its IT and product development teams

Accessing analytics to deal with incidents is the future of information security, according to Terry Greer-King

The head of IT at Danish oil and shipping company Monjasa tells Computer Weekly about making IT part of the decision-making process and managing personal development

SharePoint harks back to a pre-cloud era and Microsoft is desperate to modernise it with cloud integration – but can it compete with pure cloud rivals, Box and Dropbox?

The Local Digital Coalition is “well-placed” to extend government as a platform (GaaP) services – such as gov.uk Notify, Pay and Verify – says Socitm

Data center evolution will drive the illusion that the network has disappeared, Google networking lead tells networking crowd at Interop 2016.

Nuance Nina will offer basic frontline support for online customers

A panel of technology entrepreneurs gave advice to teenage girls about starting tech companies, and admitted there’s a reason people are “falling into tech”

Roundup: Customers, vendors both unaware of unpatched open source vulnerabilities in commercial software. Plus OpenSSL patches, warrantless wiretaps and more.

In an effort to simplify its channel partner program, UC vendor Unify has cut back certification requirements across its portfolio; more IT channel news from the week.