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22 May 2025
Virgin Media O2 Business offers Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile
UK operator’s business division looks to offer companies seamless, secure collaboration to support flexible working and gain enhanced productivity
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22 May 2025
BT returns to capital spending for full-fibre expansion
UK’s leading communications group lifts investment in order to beat previous build target and connect customers faster as part of mass transformation of UK’s Digital Infrastructure
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22 May 2025
European Wi-Fi firms make their call for 6GHz spectrum
Trade body for Wi-Fi community calls on European Commission to grant access to coveted wireless spectrum band to ensure digital society objectives and support Europe’s Digital Decade
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21 May 2025
61% of consumers would pay for a premium patient experience
Data showing consumer interest in paying for a premium patient experience could be a boon for the concierge medicine industry.
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21 May 2025
M&S cyber attack disruption likely to last until July
M&S says it has moved into recovery mode after a ransomware attack, but expects some disruption to persist throughout the coming weeks.
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21 May 2025
Patient payment plans leave much to be desired
A survey reveals that current patient payment plans offered by providers don't align with healthcare affordability needs, while tying up significant provider revenue.
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21 May 2025
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board
SAP CEO Christian Klein put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the centre of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando
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21 May 2025
NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations
The NCSC and its partner agencies have blown the whistle on an extensive campaign of malicious cyber attacks orchestrated by the Russian state Fancy Bear operation.
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21 May 2025
Google I/O: LLM capabilities power agentic AI search
As Google strives to make AI universal, it is starting to integrate agentic AI into Google Search to fast-track purchasing on websites
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21 May 2025
Crayon Q1 hit by underperforming Nordics
Channel player Crayon shares first-quarter numbers that show a decent performance across Europe, APAC and the US, but softer conditions in the firm’s home markets
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21 May 2025
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The IT chief of one of the world's biggest tech companies still has to get the technology right - and he's building on cloud, application consolidation and data to bring new capabilities in AI to his users
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21 May 2025
Cyberattack causes system-wide outage at Kettering Health
Kettering Health had to cancel elective procedures across its medical centers and outpatient facilities across Ohio due to a cyberattack.
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21 May 2025
SAP sits Joule at the helm of apps, data 'flywheel'
The vendor also made its Sapphire 2025 conference a showcase for solving AI data challenges with Business Data Cloud and integrated 'suites' of cloud applications.
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21 May 2025
Fujitsu raked in £80m from HMRC in March alone, despite Post Office scandal
HM Revenue & Customs described as a UK ‘cash cow’ for the Japanese IT giant at the centre of the Post Office Horizon scandal
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21 May 2025
Vast Data launches into AI stratosphere with AgentEngine
Vast has built out into data management from its roots and will now offer customisable agentic AI agents that can tap into its existing storage, database and messaging capabilities
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21 May 2025
Nokia trials 5G during Norway military exercise, gains award for private wireless
Global comms tech provider reveals its part in test of 5G technology in a defence scenario during a Norwegian military exercise and scoops top rating for private 5G by leading analyst
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21 May 2025
Capital One pushes out data tokenisation
Organisations using the Databricks and Snowflake platforms will be able to use Capital One’s Databolt tool to secure their data
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21 May 2025
Extreme Networks ups networking AI ante with Platform One
Leading cloud networking provider announces limited availability of next-gen networking platform attributed with reducing manual tasks by up to 90%
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21 May 2025
Red Hat touts OpenShift Virtualization momentum
Enterprises are increasingly adopting Red Hat’s OpenShift Virtualization, driven by Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes and a desire for a stable, AI-ready platform, company executives revealed at the Red Hat Summit this week
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21 May 2025
Ransomware attacks dropped by a third last month
Reported ransomware attacks eased off during April following a dramatic spike in the first quarter of 2025
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21 May 2025
Strong fintech security posture at risk via third-party weak links
Despite having a strong security posture, the financial technology sector could be open to attack via third parties
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20 May 2025
FDA framework ends universal COVID-19 booster recommendation
An updated FDA COVID-19 vaccine policy ends universal boosters and requires clinical outcome trials for individuals aged between 6 months and 64 years without risk factors.
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20 May 2025
Google expands Gemini model, Search as AI rivals encroach
The tech giant introduced a slew of new generative AI capabilities as the pace of innovation in search technology intensifies.
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20 May 2025
Court to weigh divestiture in Google ad tech antitrust case
Forcing Google to divest assets in the DOJ's advertising market antitrust case against it will present a challenging issue to the court during the upcoming remedies trial.
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20 May 2025
Top Challenges Impacting Patient Access to Healthcare
Healthcare organizations must look into convenient care options and other patient services to drive more patient access to healthcare.
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20 May 2025
Early-stage tech companies comb through data, software code
Software startups participating in the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium's Innovation Showcase take on the challenge of picking out the key signals from vast amounts of data.
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20 May 2025
Dell makes private cloud optionality a priority
Dell Technologies wants to enable automation and choice on its data center hardware, with third-party support for Dell NativeEdge and new software, including Dell Private Cloud.
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20 May 2025
Dell unveils disaggregated infrastructure strategy
Dell makes push for disaggregated infrastructure, aiming to offer enterprises the independent scaling of three-tier architectures with the operational benefits of hyperconverged systems
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20 May 2025
New Microsoft database, analytics tools target agentic AI
New features across the tech giant's broad array of BI and data management offerings, including Fabric and OneLake, provide developers with tools for agentic AI development.
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20 May 2025
Cleveland Clinic, Oracle, G42 to launch health AI platform
Through a strategic partnership, the three organizations will combine health AI systems, AI infrastructure capabilities and clinical expertise to enhance treatments and outcomes.
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20 May 2025
Medicare Part D coverage affected by insurer exits: Study
Mass General Brigham researchers studied how insurer exits following Medicare Part D changes under the Inflation Reduction Act impacted coverage for beneficiaries.
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20 May 2025
Value-based care revenue to grow, but risk is a challenge
Healthcare organizations expect higher value-based care revenue in 2025, with 64% predicting growth despite challenges like financial risk and lagging data interoperability.
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20 May 2025
Hacking contest exposes VMware security
In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor
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20 May 2025
Virtual mental health solutions effective, but some boost costs
A new PHTI report reveals that virtual mental health solutions improve depression and anxiety, but the price of some solutions does not offset improvements in mental health.
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20 May 2025
Botched Post Office IT projects continue to drain public purse
Millions more pounds of public money spent by the Post Office as a result of an IT error that exposed the personal details of Horizon victims
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20 May 2025
Retail cyber attacks hit food distributor Peter Green Chilled
Cold chain services provider Peter Green Chilled, which supplies the likes of Aldi, Sainsbury’s and Tesco, has been forced to halt operations after succumbing to a ransomware attack
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20 May 2025
Dell Technologies CEO expects AI ubiquity in the enterprise
Michael Dell says he anticipates smaller, focused AI deployments for enterprise applications, but IT experts foresee challenges in adoption and security.
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20 May 2025
Sophos teams up with Capsule to cover MSP insurance needs
Security player arms channel partners with access to the fruits of a partnership that meets growing SME demand
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20 May 2025
Nvidia AI platform for cloud GPU providers widens supply
The vendor is addressing the AI chip supply and demand challenge while also helping some lower-tier cloud GPU providers that are facing challenges in the GPU-as-a-service market.
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20 May 2025
Ireland sets out chip plan
Ireland has a long history of attracting high-tech firms. Building on the EU Chip Act, it now aims to be a leader in semiconductors
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20 May 2025
Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition
The acquisition adds capabilities such as Chat that enable users to embed agents in workflows to complement the vendor's existing plans for agentic development.
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20 May 2025
Red Hat amps up open source AI infrastructure pitch
With a new AI Inference Server and a distributed inference open source project, Red Hat hopes to capitalize on the surging popularity of open source AI.
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20 May 2025
Interview: Driving tech innovation at the BBC
Computer Weekly speaks to Jatin Aythora, director of BBC Research and Development, about self-belief and learning from different industries
- 20 May 2025
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20 May 2025
Westcon-Comstor European unification efforts progressing
Distributor announced at the start of March it was looking to go to market across the region with a more unified approach
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20 May 2025
Build 2025: Microsoft opens up Windows machine learning
Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows
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20 May 2025
DigiCert and Panasonic team to accelerate adoption of Matter smart home devices
Partnership between industrial arm of technology giant and digital trust security firm aims to embed security into the DNA of metering devices during manufacturing for ‘swift’ and ‘seamless’ certification
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20 May 2025
Qualcomm boosts UAE presence with AI, IoT, Edge development
AI-first platform provider bolsters UAE activity in collaboration with leading operator for AI at the edge, and expands global engineering centres to Abu Dhabi to spearhead technological innovation in AI, datacentres and industrial IoT
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20 May 2025
Rio Tinto overhauls IT operations with platform model
Rio Tinto’s head of technology platforms outlines the mining giant’s move to an IT platform model designed to escape a reactive cycle of critical incidents and improve service quality for internal and external customers
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19 May 2025
Dell Technologies pitches its hardware for AI data centers
Servers, networking and storage hardware take center stage at Dell Technologies World 2025, as well as a tightly integrated offering with AI titans such as Nvidia and Google.
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19 May 2025
Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth
The open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.
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19 May 2025
Chinese cyber spooks lure laid-off US government workers
A Washington DC-based think tank has published evidence that Chinese intelligence services have been running a network of digital ‘front’ companies targeting laid-off government workers as recruits
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19 May 2025
New GitHub Copilot agent edges into DevOps
The GitHub Copilot coding agent can take on toilsome tasks such as bug fixes and code reviews with its own GitHub Actions pull requests.
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19 May 2025
Trump visit bolsters Saudi AI
A new AI datacentre is among the initiatives the White House announced during the president’s Middle East visits
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19 May 2025
71% of LGBTQ+ patients report healthcare discrimination
Experiences with healthcare discrimination have ripple effects, like hampering an open and transparent patient-provider relationship, survey data shows.
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19 May 2025
Legal Aid Agency breach may encompass millions of people
Legal Aid Agency says the data of anybody who applied for legal aid over the past 15 years has been compromised in a cyber attack
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19 May 2025
Ekco bolsters cyber testing with Predatech buy
Managed security services provider hits the M&A trail to extend its options and UK coverage
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19 May 2025
SAP should balance AI talk with customer concerns at Sapphire
SAP will focus on Joule, agentic AI and Business Data Cloud at Sapphire; experts say it should also show how it can help customers deal with real-world issues.
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19 May 2025
Dutch universities call for reduced dependence on Big Tech
Dutch universities are calling for greater digital autonomy as more research and educational data is stored in American clouds, posing risks to academic freedom, privacy and accessibility
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19 May 2025
Government sets up guidance for 10-year R&D commitment
Research and development is one of the main areas of focus for Labour’s Plan for Change as it readies its Industrial Strategy
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19 May 2025
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
Discover the moves announced over the past week at Ingram Micro, AMD, Nutanix and Logpoint
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19 May 2025
Keepit to expand SaaS backup footprint and intelligent automation
Danish cloud backup provider will add Atlassian and Okta support and has plans for intelligent automated restores to customer RPOs and RTOs as well a threat library
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19 May 2025
Gartner: Most firms not tapping cloud’s full potential
Organisations have not fully leveraged the full potential of cloud and must navigate emerging trends such as artificial intelligence, multicloud complexity and security perceptions to stay competitive
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19 May 2025
Post Office performs costly 30-year U-turn on Horizon
Post Office Horizon replacement magnifies missed opportunity as move from the controversial Horizon system to an off-the-shelf alternative is going back to a plan it rejected in the 1990s
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18 May 2025
AI’s thirst for power pushing enterprises into supercomputing
The compute and energy demands of large-scale AI are turning enterprise AI infrastructure into supercomputing, though the search for a killer app and concerns over initial infrastructure costs remain
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16 May 2025
News brief: Patch critical SAP, Samsung and chat app flaws now
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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16 May 2025
AWS intros Strands Agents SDK
Many developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy.
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16 May 2025
Study: Most healthcare data breaches caused by hacking
Healthcare data breaches have surged over the past 14 years, with hacking or IT incidents increasing from 4% of all breaches in 2010 to 81% in 2024, researchers observed.
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16 May 2025
Mid-career professionals must learn to understand and use AI as GenAI tips balance
Whether in the finance, IT or legal sectors, artificial intelligence will change the way businesses operate and how their people work
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16 May 2025
Docs say AI can improve healthcare, but do patients agree?
While providers think AI in healthcare can reduce administrative burden and create opportunity to connect with patients, patients are leery of the tool.
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16 May 2025
Channel catch-up: News in brief
Developments this week at Ignition Technology, Phoenix Software, Westcon-Comstor and Utelogy
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16 May 2025
5GAA claims first-ever satellite, 5G-V2X direct vehicle connectivity
Leading car manufacturers demonstrate what is said to be a world-first for emergency messaging and hazard warnings showing the ability for vehicles to connect over non-terrestrial networks, complementing terrestrial 4G and 5G
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16 May 2025
Novo Nordisk CEO steps down amid increased competition
Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen will step down as the company faces heightened competition and a declining share price.
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16 May 2025
ITS claims UK first for 50G-PON business trial
What is described as ‘pioneering’ test with Lancashire-based technology group said to have shown early demand for next-generation fibre speeds through passive optical network
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16 May 2025
No workaround leads to more pain for VMware users
There are patches for the latest batch of security alerts from Broadcom, but VMware users on perpetual licences may not have access
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16 May 2025
Cisco prepares partners for its 360 partner programme
Halfway through the time between announcement and launch of the fresh channel programme, Cisco’s UK channel boss is busy supporting partners through the transition
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16 May 2025
Security tests reveal serious vulnerability in government’s One Login digital ID system
A ‘red teaming’ exercise to simulate cyber attacks on the government’s flagship digital identity system has found that One Login can be compromised without detection
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16 May 2025
BT to bring gigabit broadband to hard-to-reach Swansea Bay areas
UK’s leading comms provider inks £10m contract to deliver full-fibre to nearly 1,800 sites across the south coast of Wales, bridging connectivity gaps in Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire
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16 May 2025
The Security Interviews: David Faugno, 1Password
David Faugno, co-CEO of 1Password, discusses how his background led to him joining the company and why maintaining profitability is a key factor in overcoming the challenges of switching markets.
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16 May 2025
Com4 selects Nokia 5G standalone core to power global IoT
Norwegian managed internet of things connectivity provider installs 5G Standalone Core to power global IoT services with a flexible architecture to enable company to meet demand for connected devices
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16 May 2025
Kissflow finds its place in low-code market
The supplier of low-code software development tools that cater to both citizen developers and IT professionals is experiencing rapid growth in Southeast Asia where it has been doubling its revenue over the past four years
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15 May 2025
Together AI acquires startup to improve data quality
The startup has a family of models for data tasks. The acquisition adds complementary capabilities to improve AI model quality.
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15 May 2025
Proposed U.S. budget cuts raise fears about tech innovation
President Donald Trump's proposed FY 2026 budget slashes funding for federal agencies, including NSF and NIST, which support tech research and innovation in the U.S.
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15 May 2025
NHS asks suppliers to sign up to cyber covenant
NHS digital and security leaders call on their suppliers to commit to a cyber security charter as the health service works to improve its resilience in the face of growing threat levels
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15 May 2025
Salesforce acquisition of Convergence adds Agentforce talent
Salesforce beefs up its Agentforce engineering corps, leadership.
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15 May 2025
Qlik evolves to keep up with latest AI, analytics trends
The longtime BI vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base to keep current with what's happening in GenAI and agentic development, analytics, and data management.
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15 May 2025
House committee pushes through Medicaid work requirements
The legislative language enacting Medicaid work requirements awaits full discussion on the House floor.
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15 May 2025
New remote patient monitoring advocacy group launches
The new Remote Monitoring Leadership Council aims to expand RPM access, adoption and policy through advocacy and data sharing.
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15 May 2025
GSMA calls for governments to prioritise affordable mobile spectrum
Global Spectrum Pricing Report from mobile trade association finds spectrum costs have risen sharply, increasing the cost burden on operators and constraining critical network investment
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15 May 2025
How close is quantum computing to commercial reality?
At a recent event, experts explored the progress towards logical qubits and how these will be applied to empower business IT
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15 May 2025
Innovation team expanding ADP horizons
Managed service player keen to identify relationships where it can add value with its expertise in disaster recovery and data protection
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15 May 2025
Is there implicit bias in patient clinical notes?
Researchers found evidence of implicit bias in clinical notes, particularly with variable use of positive negative language used for patients of difference races.
- 15 May 2025
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15 May 2025
Lancashire Police extends use of Pronto tech for faster, more effective response
Northwest of England force unveils next-gen approach to policing with voice-activated systems in vehicles and livestream body cameras that give the control room real-time visibility of incidents
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15 May 2025
SonicWall keeps focus on MSP channel
Security player continues to roll out products and services for its partners as it identifies further growth fueled by customer demand for zero-trust solutions
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15 May 2025
Government starts private sector engagement on digital ID and Gov.uk Wallet
Following concerns from the digital identity industry that Gov.uk Wallet would dominate the market, the government has offered private sector providers a ‘critical role’ in its future, as it revealed further details on the wallet
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15 May 2025
Myriota and ETSI team to boost NTN IoT satellite comms standardisation
Global IoT-optimised satellite connectivity provider becomes associate member of leading communications standards body to boost delivery to mobile devices
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15 May 2025
Smart ball analytics proves value in rugby
Welsh professional rugby player Dan Biggar gives his thoughts on the role of data analytics in his sport, at an event where the Sportable smart ball was demonstrated
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15 May 2025
Post Office scandal inquiry to publish first findings this summer
Inquiry announces that findings on compensation and human impact will be presented in the next few months
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14 May 2025
Scattered Spider retail attacks spreading to US, says Google
Google’s threat intel analysts are aware of a number of in-progress cyber attacks against US retailers linked to the same Scattered Spider gang that supposedly attacked M&S and Co-op in the UK
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14 May 2025
London Fire Brigade improves emergency response network
UK’s largest fire service turns to advanced comms tech – including real-time data analytics and social media integration – to make it easier and quicker for the public to contact it and improve its response to emergencies across UK capital
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14 May 2025
Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform
The updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation.
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14 May 2025
Fibre, 5G continue to expand global footprint
Core ‘future-proof’ communications technologies are steadily expanding their reach as wireless applications gain ground in key territories
