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Southeast Asia’s largest telco is delivering peak data transmission speeds of up to 800Mbps in Singapore’s prime shopping belt

Government launches £20m Cyber Schools Programme aimed at students aged between 14 and 18

EC digital leader says EU must avoid “data nationalisation” after the UK leaves – but also warns EU states

Following the early-stage success of efforts to crowd-fund a legal challenge against the IR35 reforms, one of the IT contractors behind the campaign outlines details of what could happen next

A test of an app-based autonomous valet service is to take place at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart over the next few months

Amazon Web Services' head in the Nordic tells Computer Weekly about the region's increasing demand and use of the cloud

Supermarket retailer Tesco announces it will be extending its offering of same-day delivery for groceries to across the UK

In many organizations, chief data officer jobs centered on defense against risk are giving way to ones emphasizing innovation. To do so, CDOs must nurture a data culture, MIT panelists said.

Headline figures from KPMG’s Outlook 2017 survey of 1500 CEOs shows that 40% expect technology innovation to cause major disruption

The Ericsson-Cisco partnership is likely to produce little in the way of sales or technology, as carriers wait to rearchitect networks for 5G broadband.

Mastercard has developed its mobile app, Qkr, for spectators at The Open Championship. The improvements further demonstrate new digital payment platforms offered by the company

Red Hat's Ceph and Gluster storage roadmaps reflect increased focus on hyper-converged infrastructure, containers and big data, in addition to performance improvements.

Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies

Nordea is reaping the rewards of its fintech investments through its latest project to use artificial intelligence to support customers

Led by growing demand for cloud infrastructure services, the public cloud market is now dominated by Microsoft, Amazon and Alibaba, which is expanding its footprint outside China

Oil and gas giant reveals details of plans to move its proprietary data lake to Microsoft Azure for data processing purposes

The government is to fund a new cyber security innovation centre in the capital and has launched a competition to develop and design it

The Swedish Transport Agency exposed sensitive information by transferring its databases to a third party cloud provider without following data protection procedures

Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future claims that the North Korean elite are as plugged in to the worldwide web as any western citizen

The advent of ransomware as a service heralds a new era in malware, which means security suppliers and user organisations will have to adapt

IT leaders who have adopted a hyper-converged architecture say it streamlines costs and eliminates silos and finger-pointing, but also brings a fear of the unknown to their staffs.

Experts applaud Microsoft for clever use of a lawsuit to claim command and control server domains used by malicious Russian APT group Fancy Bear.

Europol warns that the threat of ransomware continues to escalate as it marks the anniversary of a cross-industry anti-ransomware initiative

Unilever enters tech partnership with Accenture to help maintain consumer loyalty and drive sales

Pharmaceutical giant GSK is building out its executive tech team with the appointment of its first chief digital officer

Demand for artificial intelligence technology is growing in Australia amid looming fears over job losses

Adobe has announced it is to stop updating and distributing Flash Player in just over three years’ time

A business-centric rather than one-size-fits-all approach to cyber security will help organisations mitigate cyber attacks that have become bolder than ever

GCP is establishing itself as a viable revenue stream for the search engine giant

Most UK companies consider their staff as the biggest threat to compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, a survey has revealed

Apple faces a further three-month delay to see if it will be given the go-ahead to proceed with its much-delayed bid to build an €850m datacentre in Athenry, County Galway

With nearly 800 reported incidents of potential data misuse by police in less than 16 months, at least 34 police forces are taking steps to improve monitoring systems to address this problem

Digital projects aren’t living up to expectations, with many only delivering incremental improvements to the status quo, survey reveals

A security researcher has discovered numerous security flaws in multiple devices that are used to detect radiation in critical facilities

The Government Digital Service encourages tech firms to adopt the platform services it has developed – but can’t offer any service or support guarantees

The latest update to the Mist Wi-Fi management platform makes it more useful for divvying up network access in hotels, college dormitories and apartment buildings.

The latest version of Ctera's file-sharing software takes the sync out of sync-and-share with intelligent caching built into Enterprise File Services Platform 6.

Long a conference that has thrived on technical sophistication and nuanced attacks, Black Hat USA 2017 in Las Vegas also found room for softer themes.

Facebook's Alex Stamos used his Black Hat 2017 keynote to address a wide variety of issues, including defensive security research and diversity in the infosec community.

The Nordic region is becoming highly connected – which has not gone unnoticed by cyber criminals

Social networking giant reports revenue up 45% and profits up 71% in second quarter compared with Q2 2016, as share price hits $173

The telecoms regulator will have to go back to the drawing board as it seeks to establish regulation for the business broadband market, following a successful appeal by Openreach

Whitman has served as chairperson of HP since the separation of HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November 2015

Broadcasting giant outlines plans to ramp up its software engineering capabilities in the face of growing competition

The deal will create a market leading unified communications business and adds strength to Mitel’s cloud offering

EE has retained its overall lead as the top-performing mobile network in the country, but is facing increasingly stiff competition from O2, Three and Vodafone

Security researchers at Black Hat 2017 analyzed the Industroyer malware, the attack on Ukraine's power grid and what it means for industrial control system security in the U.S.

Despite data breaches costing UK firms nearly £30bn in 2016, cyber security is still not a priority for most UK industry sectors, a study has revealed

Karla Burnett of Stripe presented sobering results of phishing research from her company at Black Hat 2017, suggesting phishing training is ineffective against today's threats.

If given the green light, the proposed changes to the Personal Data Protection Act will require organisations to notify the authorities of data breaches

Intel chief claims to have raised the bar on performance and predicts record year for the chip maker after record second-quarter revenue

Intelligent voice service will enable motorists to check whether their vehicle tax and MOT are up to date

WikiLeaks has exposed hacking tools targeting the Mac and Linux operating systems in the latest of its series of leaks allegedly from the US Central Intelligence Agency

Amazon.com’s earnings per share failed to meet analyst expectations, but the retail giant’s cloud arm continues to go from strength to strength

BT has had to pay out £225m to avoid being dragged through the courts by EE’s old owners

Full-fibre broadband supplier wants to pass two million homes and businesses with a gigabit service by 2022 after receiving a £100m funding injection

Analyzing infosec through the lens of game theory shows that cyber-risk analysis and wasting attacker time may be highly effective cybersecurity strategies.

At Black Hat 2017, security researcher Matt Suiche analyzed the Shadow Brokers dumps, postings and behavior to get to the bottom of one of the infosec industry's biggest questions.

News roundup: Adobe announced that Flash end of life will happen by the end of 2020. Plus, Microsoft expands its bug bounty program, the 2017 Pwnie Awards winners, and more.

This week, bloggers look into 2017 cybersecurity trends leading up to the Black Hat conference, Movidius deep learning and Mist's approach to WLAN.

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