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The Home Office reaches an agreement with National Parks England over the provision of mobile coverage for the emergency services

A hacking group based in Saudi Arabia claims to have accessed several social media accounts belonging to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Post Office chairman Tim Parker says there would be ‘considerable risk’ associated with changing its Horizon computer system

Government officials deny that emails sent by MPs are open to surveillance by GCHQ and NSA - we examine the evidence

IT services firm Atos completes its 200,000 hours of testing the IT systems for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

Wakefield-based academy school trust went from 22 different backup systems and no adequate disaster recovery provision to unified Arcserve virtual and physical backup

Talari has rolled out a new strategic alliance program, indicating the vendor's interest in supporting third-party products that complement its own SD-WAN technology.

Faster processors, flashier screens and extra features are failing to attract people to upgrade their existing smartphones

Swedish bank Sparbanken Syd outsources the IT that runs its trading business to Finland's Tieto supplier, to cut costs and improve the quality of its services

Electronic giant Philips predicts a revolution in home heathcare thanks to internet of things and wearable technology

Specialist motor insurance provider Adrian Flux introduces new contract terms for a driverless car insurance policy

Encryption should become the default as study reveals millions of sensitive services are exposed to the internet, says Rapid7

The Asean region has the highest levels of unlicensed software use, according to the 2016 Global Software Survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA)

The Middle East has been slow to join the fintech revolution, but there is an opportunity for CIOs to help banks stride ahead as demand picks up

There is a lot of 'fog' surrounding cyber weapons and cyber war because there is no way of knowing the true capability of any country, says security expert Mikko Hypponen

Consumers in the UK are reducing their cash use, with a quarter of shoppers claiming to avoid stores that don't accept payment cards

This week, bloggers assess Corsa's programmable switch offerings, Verizon DBIR, and how to create a marketing and technology 'lingua franca.'

Common Technology Services director Iain Patterson wants to strengthen the relationship with departments and industry

The latest edition of Cisco’s Visual Networking Index predicts a near tripling of internet traffic during the coming years as more than a billion people come online

While there is value in security awareness training, not all training programmes are effective or value for money, according to a panel of experts

EDF Energy signs a 10-year, multi-million pound contract with Vodafone to update its communications and IT infrastructure to support training and compliance

Avi Networks' software ADC brought new features and capabilities to the load balancing and application delivery market.

The swiftly expanding Keflavik Airport in Reykjavík is using a combination of sensors and Wi-Fi to monitor passenger movement and improve airport efficiency

The idea of a 'Snoopers Charter' is ridiculous in the light of current and planned checks and balances around access to communications data, says William Hague

Citrix is increasing its presence in the Middle East, opening its first office in Saudi Arabia with plans to expand into Qatar and Egypt

The latest Lenovo networking products reflect the vendor's shift to technologies outside of the shrinking PC market.

Organizations forging into the digital future often come up short in a search for talent. But there are novel ways to close the tech skills gap, say execs at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

Mid-sized businesses are less efficient and are losing money because they give staff the wrong computing devices to do their jobs

As the Payment Services Directive makes life easier for challenger banks and payment providers using fintech systems, the big banks need to step up their game

While people are comfortable using digital technologies at home, the majority don’t have access to, or have a negative view of, technology at work, according to a survey

Commuters on the London Underground are spending their time in the tunnels shopping on their mobile devices, says payments provider Pay by Bank

At online and mobile platform startup TaskRabbit, the TechOps team is as jazzed about the next new thing as the product engineers and data scientists.

If organisations want to fight cyber crime, they need to get serious and they need to get professional about it, says Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

With user demand for low-latency, high-performing applications, delegates at Datacloud Europe 2016 hail edge datacentres as the answer

Indian telco CEO claims datacentre operators are risking business failure by not investing time in getting to know the nuances of emerging markets before expanding into them

There is huge demand for data scientists – but rather than build skills in-house, analyst Forrester suggests CIOs can outsource to specialist providers

Calligo puts Cloudian object storage on Lenovo hardware to add a tier of storage for customers that want Amazon S3-compatible cloud services, but not from Amazon

There is a need for both privacy and security, and only a network of partnerships is going to succeed in delivering that, according to William Hague MP

The Bahrain government is trying to create an IT industry with global ambitions that could increase options for CIOs in the wider Middle East region

Businesses should approach law enforcement as early as possible about cyber crime, even before they are targeted, according to an expert panel

Australia’s National Blood Authority saves A$10m as mobile and data innovations inject efficiency into the supply chain

Twitter cross-checks leaked user data with its records, identifying and locking a number of accounts for extra protection

Speakers at the 2016 DataCloud Europe conference urge co-location firms to act on public cloud threat or risk losing business

Research from business ISP Beaming suggests internet connection failures hit two-thirds of British businesses last year, costing the economy £12.3bn

The Australian government is aware it has a cyber security challenge, but might not understand the size of the issue, according to experts

Some 43% of civil servants don’t know what the Government Digital Service’s government-as-a-platform programme is, according to a survey

The Federation of Small Businesses is calling for more government support for its members in defending against cyber threats

CIOs in the Middle East are formulating their virtualisation strategies as the region warms to the benefits of cloud computing

The annual Startup Village event near Moscow to showcase Russian innovators was the biggest yet

Government action at national and international levels is essential for addressing IoT security issues, but the relevant expertise is lacking, according to security expert Bruce Schneier