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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust will join up and share digital health and social care records across the region

The new GDS chief Kevin Cunnington has turned to his former DWP colleagues to help as he prepares his plans for the team

While the Anderson review’s recommendation of a technical advisory panel has been welcomed, human rights groups say the opportunity to move to more targeted surveillance has been missed

The perception of the role of CIO at organisations in the Middle East is gradually shifting from back-end support to business enabler

The public post-mortem of the Australian census website meltdown continues as the IT industry gives its opinions

Private hospital in Thailand is recognised for its effective use of IT by a global accreditation body

Regional development organisations in Finland describe how despite massive job cuts Nokia and Microsoft have provided the foundations for IT industry development

Microsoft announces another cross-licensing deal that will see its software pre-installed on millions of Android devices

As Saudi Arabia sets out to diversify its economy away from oil, the kingdom’s companies are undergoing rapid transformation

Jess McEvoy looks at potential for re-use of the government’s identity assurance platform in both public and private sector

Insurance firm Aviva is partnering with Silicon Valley startup accelerator Plug and Play to gain access to new innovations

Cyber criminals capitalise on the popularity of holiday-related media sites to spread malware

Simplivity all-flash hyper-converged infrastructure appliance aims at high-performance datacentre workloads, with MLC drives from Intel

IT records as well as sporting records were set at the recent Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

Finger-pointing between suppliers in server/SAN environment led Yorkshire-based ticketing web host Millennia to opt for Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure

Ransomware is confirmed as a pervasive threat and whaling emerges as a strong trend, according to the latest security report by Trend Micro

IBM's all-flash portfolio grows, with a new midrange and entry-level option, and the vendor adds a migration program aimed at EMC-Dell customers.

Singapore authorities are creating 3D maps of the entire country to help organisations in the public and private sector make better planning decisions.

Distributed denial of service attacks on UK organisations have eased from a peak in the fourth quarter of 2015, but the UK remains the world’s second most targeted country

CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

Security experts say UK organisations are not taking ransomware attacks seriously enough, after two studies reveal that tens of UK universities and NHS Trusts have been attacked

This week, networking bloggers look into operationalizing threat intel, Google Fiber's deployment and home lab spending.

An online forum has been set-up in the Philippines to promote cloud take-up in the country

French naval contractor data breach proves that protecting intellectual property is challenging, say security experts

Financial sector breaches in the US doubled in 2015 over the year before, according to a report by security firm Bitglass

A report on mobile device performance produced by Blancco Technology Group says the performance of Apple iPhones is flagging compared with Android-based devices

What's new in the SDN blog world? One expert says SDN advancements will be accelerated, thanks to SDN and open source convergence, while another points out the influence SDN has in the cloud industry.

Businesses and consumers are being urged to update their versions of Apple's iOS to fix three critical, zero-day vulnerabilities that enable attackers to spy on victims

Mobile network operator will offer six months of Apple Music free to new and upgrading customers as it expands into content provision

The number of girls taking computing at GCSE level has more than doubled with more students taking the subject than ever before, but grades are dropping

Businesses should be preparing for the storm of litigation that is likely to be unleashed when the GDPR goes into force, warns Stewart Room of PwC Legal

Samsung reports that its mobile payments app, which will soon be available in the UK, has transacted 100 million payments in its first year of availability

IBM X-Force researchers advise banks to use adaptive malware detection and real-time endpoint malware intelligence to counter the latest evolution of Ramnit banking malware

After weeks of speculation about its acquisition status, Rackspace confirms definitive agreement with private equity buyer

The Department for Work and Pensions is looking to hire a chief data officer with a potential salary of around £130,000