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The European Aviation satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and will begin to service in-flight broadband customers later in 2017

Amidst concerns that the customs declaration service won’t be ready in time for Brexit, the Institute for Government calls on HMRC to focus on getting the basics right and let innovation come later

Give people the space to grow and reward people for ideas rather than their output and innovation will come, says Frazer Bennett, a member of PA Consulting’s management team

Government procurement chiefs and digital champions share details of the work being done to help export the principles of the Digital Marketplace overseas

During a House of Lords debate, Martha Lane Fox claimed the UK has been “sleepwalking” through digital change and urged for more to be done to promote “digital understanding”

The operator will re-farm a tranche of spectrum formerly used for 2G services to boost capacity and speed on its 4G network

Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

The Home Office is moving more of its back-office processes into the cloud

Study finds that thinner margins and the desire for faster and higher quality production has driven manufacturers to modernise their operations through digital technology

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt will set out plans for giving patients access to records and booking GP appointments through app

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs

VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019

The government’s ambitions for FTTP broadband roll-out can only be met through collaboration, and an urgent shake-up of Ofcom regulatory policy is needed to reflect this, say Openreach and CityFibre

Organisations have more chance of meeting their cost saving expectations following cloud migrations if they carry out ROI analysis before

If Oracle moves to a six-month Java release cycle instead of the existing feature-driven one, what happens next? We talk to Azul's Gil Tene about Mark Reinhold's proposal.

The CBI is warning of the risks to UK businesses of no deal with the European Union on data exchange when Brexit arrives

Vodafone outlines how smart devices can improve patient adherence by offering them personalised healthcare

A Vodafone research report has identified a number of towns and cities that have the potential to become what it refers to as Digital Super Towns

Industrial tech firm Valmet outsources IT infrastructure services to focus its internal IT resources on business and digital developments

The charity’s CIO is looking at the potential of blockchain technologies and establishing an internal digital academy to drive its digital transformation strategy

The Puppet 2017 DevOps Salary Report suggests practitioners working at larger firms, with sizeable server farms and low-level manual configuration management, get paid more

Apple announced the new iPhone X Face ID system, which replaces Touch ID in favor of facial recognition and may offer 20 times fewer false positives than fingerprint scanning.

The British Army is continuing to use SAS analytics software to improve its data management, with a particular focus on reducing high-value personnel churn

Apple has announced the iPhone X but it faces a challenge of convincing current owners to make the jump.

Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, told a House of Lords select committee that artificial intelligence could stoke government productivity in areas of “low-level decision making”

Experts criticized the Equifax breach response as insufficient, given the size and scope of the data loss, and they said the company was likely not prepared for such an incident.

If your company wants to tap into the emotion and sentiment customers display on social media, social media mapping may be the answer. Learn about one company's approach.

TechUK civil servants survey highlights need for skills training, common standards and working practices across departments to deliver joined-up public services

The opportunities for technology to improve healthcare services were explored at HIMSS AsiaPac17 in Singapore, but experts warned that challenges must be addressed before innovation can truly transform the sector

New data from 451 Research shines a light on the challenges enterprise datacentre operators face when sourcing staff

The Dubai Health Authority has put the process for bidding for its contracts on an app

Insurance startups that use the latest IT are gaining customers but still face challenges around trust, security and consumer awareness

The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR

Research into corporate appetites for cloud-based financial apps suggest demand is growing faster than expected, claims Gartner

Digital Catapult is planning a major expansion of its Things Connected IoT network across the UK and has invited bids from regional bodies

Equifax appears to have failed to roll out a patch that might have stopped the massive breach of its systems

The energy company is the latest Nordic organisation to outsource IT services to enable it to focus on the business

New element of BT IP Connect Global WAN service will enable businesses to dial their network capacity up and down at will

The UK financial services authority has published warnings to consumers thinking of investing in initial coin offerings

Former Cabinet Office minister cites diminishing of Government Digital Service role as he criticises civil service resistance to change

Emergency networking teams from the Vodafone Foundation and Télécoms Sans Frontières are working to restore mobile connectivity after the Caribbean was ravaged by Hurricane Irma

The government and Newcastle University have teamed up to launch a £30m National Innovation Centre for Data, as part of the Northern Powerhouse

Vivavo runs Excelero NVMesh NVMe storage at claimed near-bare metal performance to support real-time analytics for face and behaviour recognition on CCTV

HMRC has tasked Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright with helping the department achieve its goal of becoming one of the world's most digitally advanced tax authorities

The new system for handling customs at UK borders is 50% complete, says HMRC - but CEO warns he cannot give guarantees over Brexit deadline

In an effort to spur innovation and collaboration on the Java EE platform, Oracle has enlisted the help of IBM and Red Hat in moving Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation.

Everspin's new ST-MRAM-based nvNITRO Storage Accelerator pledges 'DRAM-like' performance, but analysts say the high price could limit the SSD's use cases.

A delegation from Europe's data protection regulators will meet with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees US intelligence gathering

A set of eight Bluetooth vulnerabilities, branded together as BlueBorne, affect billions of devices and could be one of the most dangerous issues, according to experts.

KPMG Australia CIO Craig Wishart says his counterparts need to start running IT like a business service and that the days of doing large SAP implementations are over

Oracle’s first quarter 2017-18 results show jump in cloud revenue of 51%, boosted by NetSuite acquisition. Executives continue to be bullish on cloud growth, and the AI makeover of core database is flagged

HMRC‘s Mike Potter says department has built blockchain proof of concept to coordinate interventions at the border, and highlights the need for an ‘API economy’ in Whitehall

The digital skills gap is set to widen as many in the UK are without the basic skills needed for most positions, with jobs increasingly requiring above-average digital skills

Equifax has confirmed an unpatched critical Apache Struts vulnerability was exploited in the breach that compromised the personal data of 143 million U.S. citizens.

Banks across Europe cut jobs and close thousands of branches as IT shakes the industry

Bloggers explore Huawei's efforts to grow its public cloud market share, workload performance in containers and Cisco's new emphasis on LISP.

Comcast networking now includes the new ActiveCore SD-WAN platform. The company is the first U.S. cable operator to offer the SDN service. Meanwhile, AT&T has unveiled better cloud connectivity.

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