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The two Asian giants will account for nearly half of all new mobile subscribers worldwide by the end of the decade, according to a new study by GSMA

Apple must wait until the end of the month to hear if its bid to build a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, will get the go-ahead

Unsanctioned cloud apps continue to be major bugbear among security chiefs in the two countries, a Symantec survey has found

Government launches Digital Economy Council with the aim of bringing together industry leaders and academia to collaborate on implementing the UK’s digital strategy

Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations

Government officially launches £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund to encourage more construction of FTTP networks

The 1MW facility could potentially generate enough heat for 2,500 residential apartments in Stockholm when completed in 2018

IT security can no longer be seen as just a technical matter. People, education and management matter too, but culture is the overarching and binding element, says security executive at Dutch bank

Email is insecure, yet it is still the main means of business communication, with many companies relying on employees as the first line of defence, but that is unfair, says Corvid

UK data protection watchdog has found an NHS data sharing deal with Google DeepMind failed comply with data protection law

CEO Dheeraj Pandey on Nutanix HCI: large server vendors were late to hyper-converged, and now the focus has shifted to building hybrid clouds across data centers.

The streets of Dubai will soon see Robocops to help fight crime and help people out

Confusion reigns in European firms about security responsibility for cloud-based services, while investment in additional measures highlights ongoing concerns

Interpol has called for speedy and effective information-sharing between law enforcement agencies, governments, businesses and cyber security companies to counter growing cyber threats

Information Commissioner’s Office finds that the controversial NHS data-sharing deal with Google DeepMind did not fully comply with the Data Protection Act

Comms infrastructure supplier buys two 112MHz bands of wireless spectrum to support its 5G wholesale ambitions

The UK is seeing an acceleration in major cyber security incidents, according to the country’s cyber security protection agency

Every year, Computer Weekly asks the technology industry to nominate who it thinks are the most influential women in UK tech – here is the 2017 longlist

The National Crime Agency believes the recent WannaCry attacks represent a “signal moment” in terms of awareness of cyber attacks and their real-world impact

Swedish land registry is trying out blockchain as a means of proving ownership

Move applauded by industry lobby group, but some emerging roles are missing from the list of skills covered by the Temporary Skill Shortage visa scheme

Credit scoring company recently upgraded its systems and introduced a new mobile app that caused temporary issues for some customers

The government has introduced promised legislation to incentivise full-fibre broadband network builders to invest over the next five years

Despite lingering trust issues, storage and backup are key use cases in the public cloud, says Barracuda survey. Meanwhile, Microsoft Azure is Europe’s favourite cloud provider

The ICO has set out a four-year international strategy on how to tackle international data protection challenges, aiming to enhance the safeguarding of UK citizens’ data

An investigation by the BBC’s Watchdog programme accuses ISP Virgin Media of over-promising and under-delivering on the claims it makes about its fibre-based broadband services

Colocation giant is building out its datacentre capacity in Amsterdam by opening another facility, geared towards helping enterprises embrace the multi-cloud consumption model

As online retail becomes more popular, Ocado has seen a rise in orders, but its profits for the first half of 2017 have dropped after heavy tech investment

Despite uncertainties surrounding Brexit, the London tech sector has seen record levels of investment so far this year

Atos has made a quantum computing simulator available for sale so that organisations can test out the algorithms of the future

Following the success of a joint FTTP broadband trial in York, CityFibre is to market its metro fibre network to consumer ISPs for the first time

Tintri will scale back head-to-head matchups in all-flash array market; stand-alone software accounts for a growing portion of storage revenue, CTO and co-founder Kieran Harty says.

A survey from Rimini Street says that almost 90% of SAP users have no plans for an S/4HANA migration, in part due to satisfaction with their existing SAP ERP.

The open source tool lets cyber forensics investigators access infected machines remotely to collect malware artefacts without compromising system integrity

Transport for London figures for the use of contactless payments on its network add weight to its plans to sell its expertise to other cities

Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham announces plans to make the region one of the “best digital hubs in the world”, and a £2m digital skills fund

Tech for good funding firm launches programme to fund several organisations with the aim of increasing digital skills among young people in the UK

IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments

Setting out plans for Labour’s National Education Service, Jeremy Corbyn says the country needs to invest in skills and training to ensure benefits of technological change and not leave people behind

LTO-8 tape to boost capacity by leveraging HDD head read technology TMR. Spectra gets in early with offer to customers, “buy LTO-7, get LTO-8 when it ships”

Navigation firm teams up with network giant to develop low-latency, real-time traffic services for autonomous vehicle management

Young people are worried they will not have the skills necessary to set themselves apart from robots when leaving education

App-based car transportation company has stopped providing one of its services in Finland until next year

Group reports 8% increase in online grocery business and 10% rise in online Argos sales as total like-for-like sales jump 2.3% in first quarter

UK government is placed fourth overall in the International Civil Service Effectiveness Index, but only 23rd out of 31 countries for digital services

Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017

Panzura CEO Patrick Harr predicts more customers will shift from using the company's physical appliances to VM-based software deployments in the cloud by year's end.

Experts from three major technology research institutions have been awarded a government grant to develop a 5G test network

The Singapore ISP is gearing up for a public listing that will support its efforts to deliver mobile and broadband services in seven new markets

European operators may be more concerned with getting the maximum value for money from their 3G and 4G networks than rushing to roll out 5G

A report by the advisory charity highlights issued around making and managing claims online, lack of digital skills and problems with identity verification through Gov.uk Verify

Microsoft confirms job cuts and says affected staff have been notified that their jobs are either under threat or set to be made redundant

Twenty-eight banks collaborate in blockchain project that will enable the real-time management of accounts used to make cross-border payments

A new survey shows a majority of organizations are facing a cybersecurity skills gap and experts say more focus on women and minorities could be key to finding talent.

Thames Valley NHS organisations work on building sepsis algorithms into their electronic patient record system to ensure quicker treatment

Broadpwn, a flaw in Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets, is patched, but Google withholds details. Plus, the latest in the antivirus drama between the U.S. and Russia, and more.

Rail operator Govia Thameslink sets out to replace its desktop ticket issuing service with a Worldline mobile solution

Researchers analyze the software backdoor used to deliver NotPetya ransomware to Ukraine targets, while the threat actors behind the attacks ask for more money.

Mainstream acceptance of cloud computing has led more organizations to adopt cloud-based ERP, creating a demand that NetSuite wants to capitalize on with its partners; other news from the week.

Unified electronic medical record (EMR) system to be rolled to more medical facilities across Dubai