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Three joins forces with TalkTalk, CityFibre and others to urge consumers to put pressure on Ofcom over mobile spectrum capping

TechUK survey shows there are still barriers to small companies gaining access to public sector procurement despite government efforts

Open Rights Group has called on parliament to debate the Investigatory Powers Bill and review it in light of pending court actions, after petition against the bill tops 100,000 signatories

HMRC is first department to implement technology to block phishing emails as part of UK government’s active cyber defence programme and self-testing strategy

San Francisco's transport agency appears to be the latest target of cyber criminals using encryption malware to hold organisations to ransom

Newcastle campus datacentre owner supports the connectivity needs of local businesses as well as cloud customers

CIOs have the potential to become business leaders – it’s a matter of nurturing the right skills, talent and relationships, according to Deloitte

Council’s contract for Unicorn network, which provides a fully managed and integrated voice and data communications service, extended to 2021

Singapore Power is moving to a more advanced digital platform that will enable it to develop IoT-based services

Malaysia’s latest budget reflects the country’s aim to boost the digital economy

Computer giant reportedly pays $30m to Australian government as reports are released from two inquiries into DDoS attacks on census website

Dubai bank is set to launch a digital-only bank that will be based on mobile phones

Samsung Electronics is considering a proposal to simplify its structure under pressure from shareholders as it tries to deal with fallout from the Galaxy Note 7 recall

Telecoms regulator Ofcom is to push ahead with plans to require the legal separation of BT and Openreach

For an e-commerce business, adopting an agile and product-led approach is the right thing to do, but it hasn’t come without challenges, says Rentalcars.com CIO Graham Benson

German telco says its broadband outages are linked to a botched attempt to hijack routers, which security experts say further underlines the cyber threat to internet connected infrastructure

HPE aims to push the limits of computing by moving the memory bottleneck it claims is limiting the performance of application software

Finnair is working with IBM to bring user-friendly apps to its internal workforce

Postmasters’ legal case against the Post Office claims that computer system is to blame for losses, not false accounting or theft

Hampshire Fire and Rescue’s CIO talks about collaborating, moving to the cloud and getting staff on board with digital transformation

Two reports from analyst house 451 Research suggest cloud providers must consider adding support for competing services to their portfolios in order to survive in the hybrid, multi-cloud era

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority restored systems without paying following a ransomware attack that allowed free rides for travelers over the weekend.

With smaller security budgets and IT teams than enterprise businesses, small and medium-sized companies are more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Insightly's new security features hope to combat that.

Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs

Urban fibre supplier CityFibre is to connect 500 business parks across its 40-city UK network footprint to full-fibre services

Kainos signs up to help HM Land Registry create a digital local land charges register service

National Lottery operator Camelot says the log-in details of thousands of people who do the lottery online have been stolen

Hotel chain has enlisted London mobility startup GoInStore to offer visitors to its website virtual facility tours

Mastercard is using artificial intelligence to reduce the number of transactions that are wrongly declined, while maintaining security

HPE is moving from IT to operational technology with a set of products and tie-ups to target industrial internet of things applications

While many executives are on board with digital transformation, research shows some aren’t sure why organisations find digital technology important

Thousand-year-old organisation The Royal Mint is the latest financial services business to harness blockchain technology

Scottish transport authority is using Esri’s location technology to keep tabs on its gritters in icy weather

By investing properly in digital technologies, the automotive industry could gain £74bn for the UK economy by 2035, according to a report

HPE Aruba networks are getting the access switch and software needed to support mobile and IoT devices, such as surveillance cameras and medical gear.

Most IT pros know what a CMDB is, but mastering the database and asset management is difficult -- though not impossible.

AWS CEO Andy Jassy hits out at “old guard” enterprise IT suppliers, while talking up his company’s ability to out-sell and out-innovate them

Cloud giant fleshes out data-transfer appliance portfolio to help enterprises shift large amounts of data off-premise

Users of Tor anonymous browsing urged to update to the latest versions of relevant software to block an exploit that collects IP and MAC addresses to identify users

Amazon Web Services opens up about the progress it is making with ramping up the amount of renewable energy its datacentres consume

Bangalore centre added to US industrial giant’s global network of digital hubs

Nokia licence holder HMD Global plans to use the famous brand name on Android devices from early 2017

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announces plans for a skills programme to help young people get into digital and tech careers

The US has introduced wide new hacking powers for federal agents a day after the UK's Investigatory Powers Act firmed up bulk surveillance powers for intelligence and polices services

European Commission sets out proposals for simplified tax rules to “unlock e-commerce and make it easier for online businesses”

Broadband providers Post Office Broadband and Kcom are among a number of operators to have been hit by a hack targeting Zyxel routing hardware

Both customer and supply side IT organisations need to consider the needs of disabled people when embarking on new procurements, according to a recent study

Analytics pioneer Dunnhumby is undertaking a large reskilling exercise and investing in new technologies to cater for increasingly sophisticated client requirements around data

UK academics uncover a vulnerability in online payment systems, which they say could have been used in the Tesco Bank cyber heist

The UK's National Crime Agency has contributed to the takedown of a cloud-based cyber crime network in a collaborative law enforcement operation involving 30 countries

After the departure of HM Revenue and Customs IT chief Mark Dearnley, the PAC is concerned about the robustness of the department’s digital transformation plans

Projects offered funding include a scheme to deliver a national policing data analytics lab and an IT system for the UK Protected Persons Service

UK firms should prioritise defence against spear phishing as a key component of cyber attacks, according to security veteran Peter Wood

Datapipe, an MSP and cloud services provider, has unveiled a platform for designing, testing and deploying applications that will run in the cloud; other news from the week.