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Two-thirds of large UK businesses are hit by cyber security attacks, but directors aren’t told about them, according to a government sponsored report

EE signs communications provider Avanti to use satellite capacity for mobile backhaul on its 4G network at a number of sites in the UK

Chinese hardware manufacturer claims move will result in faster delivery times and lower costs for European customers

Lawlords snubs traditional SAN and server architecture and upgrades disaster recovery with Simplivity Omnicubes that combine server and storage hardware in one box

Younger children are more interested in a career in technology than their older teenage counterparts who become disaffected as they grow older

IT transformation should not be a one-off event. It should be a continuous improvement and exist in the DNA of everybody in the company

Research from VMTurbo suggests firms are using cloud, even if they claim not to have a formal private or public deployment plan in place

Reed.co.uk CIO Mark Ridley is due to leave after 18 years at the company. He talks to Computer Weekly about his decision to resign, plans for the future and the remaining challenges in his current job

The Post Office computer system failed on 9 May 2016, leaving sub-postmasters unable to open branches

Courts and Tribunal Service CEO Natalie Ceeney’s sudden departure raises questions on the future of digital courts

The Singapore government minister running the city state's smart nation project tells the world about the country’s smart nation vision

Singapore is leading Asia in the way it uses IT to improve business and society

A push to encourage greater adoption of electronic health records has raised the spectre of online record theft

The CIO of Swedish company Samhall has the task of digitising its business while ensuring its staff, many of whom are disabled, get used to using IT

The UK and Ireland SAP user group has found a majority of members to be using the supplier’s cloud portfolio, but many are unconvinced by its business value

Lloyds Banking Group’s head of digital inclusion thinks the company has a responsibility to help society take advantage of the benefits digital brings

Eurovision Song Contest sponsor Visa Europe equips visitors with contactless payment wristbands backed by Gemalto’s Allynis events platform

UK domain name registrar Nominet launches a campaign, and opens its own greasy spoon café, to try to get more of the UK’s tradespeople online

Court rules against an attempt by the National Crime Agency to force activist Lauri Love to disclose encryption keys by bypassing the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Israel’s capital is using the latest technologies as a way of placing the needs of local citizens at the heart of regional government

By 2030, parts of Whitehall will no longer exist, policy making will change and digital government will be the norm, predicts government digital chief Stephen Foreshew-Cain

Virgin Media adds a record number of subscribers to its platform in the first quarter of 2016

There are five essential areas to which businesses need to pay attention to build competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving digital world, according to analyst Martin Kuppinger

Nursery and baby store Kiddicare suffers a data breach following a cyber attack on a test website that held real customer data

Lenovo's North American channel chief points to premium PCs, hyper-converged technology and services as some of the key opportunities for the company's channel partners.

Costs mount up at network equipment supplier Nokia following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent

Northern Irish startup See.Sense scoops £15,000 prize in BT smart city contest after developing a connected bike light

Online spending increases in 2015/16 as face-to-face transactions remain stagnant, finds Visa

The Nordic financial services group offers a technology bringing together investors and startup businesses

National Audit Office report finds the BBC’s management of critical projects has improved since the failure of its Digital Media Initiative, but further action is needed

Recent regulations in Myanmar widen the financial services market to include non-banking institutions

Axel Springer CISO Henning Christiansen teams up with business stakeholders to get board approval for an identity and access management (IAM) initiative

The European Commission has blocked the proposed takeover of UK mobile network O2 by competitor Three

CityFibre opens up its metro fibre networks to b2b services in Milton Keynes and Northampton

Nato Support and Procurement Agency embarks on five-year datacentre deal to boost its disaster recovery capabilities

Advances in design and pricing will push wearables into the mainstream in the UK over the next four years, say analysts at CCS Insight

A study of SME sellers conducted by eBay in the UK finds that many feel held back by poor broadband and mobile coverage

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Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge

IBM is giving the public an all-access pass to its cloud-enabled quantum computing platform. Is it a milestone in quantum computing or just a lot of noise? Also in Searchlight: Facebook rewards 10-year-old hacker; self-driving minivans to hit the road.

Everyone in an organisation should be made to realise what digital safety means to them, says Thom Langford

Australia’s federal budget has a surprisingly low financial commitment to fintech, despite the country’s clear appetite for developing the sector

The blockchain endgame is unclear, but organisations should ensure they are aware of what is happening at the very least, says consultant Sebastien Meunier

Senior IT decision-makers understand the need for identity and access management (IAM) systems to meet the challenges and opportunities of the digital age

The Crown Commercial Service’s £4bn technology products and services framework opens up for SMEs and moves focus to quality rather than price

Data protection watchdog the information commissioner's office (ICO) investigates the NHS data-sharing deal with Google DeepMind, after a complaint from the public

Deutsche Bank is using a centralised identity and access management (IAM) system and an application program interface (API) architecture for digital transformation

Barclays bank is developing its own contactless payments service for users of the Android mobile phone operating system (OS) – hoping to launch in June 2016

Could risk aversion slow the growth of containerisation – touted as an enabler of innovation – in the region?

Together with nine other countries, the UK government will create an anti-corruption innovation hub to share innovation and best practice

RBS is cutting more jobs and closing branches as customers increasingly prefer digital services

IC Tomorrow’s Future Retail Contest aims to help the retail industry tackle some of its business issues by leveraging retail-focused startups

Australian academic institute uses the technology to help it deal with huge – and still growing – storage demands

Loss of 100,000 customers, and thousands of personal details, weighs heavy on the broadband and comms provider

Dangerous driving site explains how its videos going viral on social media prompted an urgent rethink about using a multi-tenanted hosting platform to support its website

Global financial messaging organisation Swift warns of a highly adaptive cyber criminal campaign targeting banks with user credentials to submit transfer requests

Data warehousing and business intelligence top dogs in the UK, finds 2016 TechTarget IT spending priorities survey

Gathering aims to recognise the people on the front line of cyber threats, saving companies from financial and reputational harm

Retailer Sainsbury’s is targeting those with and without previous technical skills to become software development apprentices

The UK government’s call for evidence on broadband for small to medium-sized enterprises is due to close, with the review aiming to drive down the cost of high-quality broadband for smaller businesses

With less than two years before the new EU data protection rules come into force, there are key areas businesses need to focus on to ensure they will be compliant

Organisations need a new approach which recognises security is “breakable”, according to Michael Meli