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Aisha Bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, discusses how Dubai is evolving as a smart city with the support of local telecoms provider Du.

A cyber attack on England's largest NHS trust has underlined the importance of cyber security at healthcare organisations and has raised renewed fears about NHS legacy IT systems

By giving students access to practical demonstrations of technology uses in business, TeenTech City show aims to encourage more children to pursue science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) careers

MPs urge HMRC to push back the go-live date of its Making Tax Digital project amidst concerns over costs, software and readiness

Science and Technology Committee chairman says he is “disappointed” that the government has still not published its digital transformation strategy

Tieto has replaced the position of CIO with chief digital officer. The first person to hold the position and its creator explains what this means to the Nordic IT services giant

The consortium is working on building low-powered HPC based on 64-bit ARM chips

Former government IT leader says Australia’s IT is so bad that if the government were a private sector organisation, it would fail

3D printing adoption is set to accelerate in Southeast Asia after a delayed start

Mark Zuckerberg is expected to argue Facebook-owned Oculus made VR technology a reality without help of IP ZeniMax Media claims it stole

There are many hurdles to overcome before the full benefits of AI can be realised by organisations

Job site Indeed urges the UK’s tech sector to pull together to attract more people into cyber security roles, as a study shows the UK skills gap is among the worst in the world

Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

Demand for traditional IT hardware slumps, as sales of private and public cloud-enabling technologies soar, shows IDC data

Screen size really does matter to retailers, with bigger mobile screens leading to more consumers shopping on their devices

Database software giant’s renewed commitment to the UK market is part of a wider push to ramp up its cloud presence worldwide

TechUK responds cautiously to prime minister Theresa May’s 12-point plan, calling for a “smooth and orderly” Brexit

Investment banks can make huge cuts to their IT infrastructure costs through blockchain, according to analysis

Carnegie Institution for Science's embryology department
manages research data with Qumulo Core data-aware NAS storage, taking advantage of advanced analytics.

Researchers saw a Gmail phishing campaign in the wild using clever tricks to access accounts including a difficult 2FA bypass only possible in real time.

Moorfields Eye Hospital’s interim head of IT talks about the complicated world of NHS IT, building foundations and business-led IT transformation

Oracle reports a new wave of customer take-up of its cloud offerings and announces new datacentres and increased IaaS availability of its Database Cloud Service

Testifying in an IP-theft case against Facebook-owned Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg reveals the acquisition cost $3bn, not $2bn as originally announced

A failure to properly implement changes to how its system managed international dialling codes has seen EE fined £2.7m for incorrectly charging roaming customers

Civil service chief John Manzoni highlights the potential and need for the government’s use of data to improve public services

Forrester rates 12 hyper-converged infrastructure providers according to products, company strategy and market presence, with Nutanix, Simplivity and Pivot3 coming out on top-line

The proliferation of IoT devices and IoT exploit kits may make 2017 a turning point in DDoS attacks requiring new defence tactics, warns Deloitte

MasterCard and VocaLink respond to Competition and Markets Authority’s concerns over proposed merger

UAE-based restaurant chain has upgraded its Wi-Fi and introduced a platform to help it understand customer behaviour

The long-awaited HPE-SimpliVity deal cost HPE $650 million for the hyper-converged pioneer. The buy gives HPE an installed base, as well as data reduction and protection features.

Government Digital Service moves to allay public sector concerns about using off-premise services in a bid to speed up cloud adoption beyond Whitehall

A DARPA project seeks researchers from academia and business to improve security for mobile networks and devices. The program could bring better tools for the enterprise.

Salesforce hopes to add visual and creative elements to its document tool, while Commerce Cloud's integration with Facebook Ads hopes to make buying easy.

Singapore could play a vital role in supporting the digital transformation of its Asean partners in the Asian Century

Businesses want security suppliers to offer more complementary products and collaborate more effectively as they struggle to manage data protection in the light of new laws, a survey shows

Hardware giant pays out for hyper-converged market number two, and says it will keep existing Simplivity products, moving them all to its ProLiant servers by the end of 2017

Criminal gang’s abuse of Google services highlights the trend of attackers using legitimate tools to launch and manage attacks

The cloud-based system by Advanced supports fan engagement and is able to handle peaks in traffic on Southampton FC’s website

Social networking giant hails country's cool climate as one of the many reasons it has decided to site its latest server farm in Denmark

Experts say US-CERT is taking advantage of a potential -- but unverified -- vulnerability in Windows SMB v1 to remind enterprise users the outdated service should be disabled.

Cyber crime is on the up and is now included in official crime figures

IT delays and failures contributed to a failed HMRC outsourcing contract, finds NAO investigation

Satellite connectivity services supplier’s worldwide internet of things network will support customers operating connected vehicles

Traditional outsourcing contracts reduce in number and are being replaced by cloud-based services

Networking supplier has filed voluntary petitions under chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code

CTOs share enterprise storage predictions for 2017. Cloud, server-based storage, HCI, and growing use of containers and analytics will spur further disruption.

Research finds shipments of 25 GbE and 100 GbE switches are outpacing 10/40 GbE hardware, as companies find more value in the higher-bandwidth gear.

Two factors are driving the hybrid deployment of unified communications: infrastructure needs and business value. But enterprises need to navigate certain deployment turbulence.

This week, bloggers look into network automation tools, incident response, and the new reality of MPLS and SD-WAN.

As Microsoft touted its Windows 10 security features defeating unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities, it also warned customers about security issues with Windows 7.

Insurance software provider says latest service outage was caused by power problems at third-party datacentre site

Investigative journalist Brian Krebs believes distributed denial of service mitigation firm owner is the author of malware designed to enable massive IoT botnet-enabled DDoS attacks

IBM’s Watson cognitive, artificial intelligence technology and its cloud strategy are overtaking core product areas in terms of revenue

Chinese cloud services provider Alibaba agrees to supply the Olympic Games organisers with cloud infrastructure and services until 2028

Serial entrepreneur and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson tells the audience at NRF 2017 to fail fast, pay it forward and to stop taking themselves so seriously

West Middlesex University Hospital trials technology that allows the checking of vital signs through wearable patches on patients

Information Commissioner’s Office encourages business to review guidance on the General Data Protection Regulation as it is published to identify what areas need to be addressed in 2017

Digital Economy Bill comes under fire again for its data-sharing principles, this time from the House of Lords Delegated Powers Committee

Increase in high-profile data breaches and the need for data insight are seen as contributory factors in salary rises for IT security and data analytics staff

Consumer broadband groups have hit out after BT put up its broadband prices

News roundup: A flawed Adobe extension was secretly installed on 30 million Chrome browsers. Plus, the Mirai author has been identified; Google releases security details; and more.

Researchers find the Carbanak gang has evolved its attacks on financial institutions to use Google services for command and control infrastructure in malware.

Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill stepped down as the federal CISO, leaving questions surrounding the future of the position and the work he has done.

SSH creator Tatu Ylonen talks with SearchSecurity about how the cryptographic network protocol has grown over the years and why poor SSH security is jeopardizing enterprises today.