TechTarget News

Desktop and Mobile News from the past 365 days

• 26 Feb 2025
  

  US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard probes UK demand for Apple’s encrypted data

  By Bill Goodwin

  A secret order issued by the UK against Apple would be a ‘clear and egregious violation’ if it provides back door access to Americans’ encrypted data, says US director of national intelligence

• 25 Feb 2025
  

  Plenty of room for improvement in mobile quality in Euro cities

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Analysis of mobile quality in 15 of Europe’s leading cities sees Porto and Stockholm offer highest 5G quality of experience in region, but with all cities falling short of EU Digital Decade Objectives

• 25 Feb 2025
  

  Europe ‘severely’ lags other major regions in 5G standalone

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Research from network intelligence company shows interplay of earlier deployments, more diversified multi-band spectrum and greater willingness to invest in new use cases have driven 5G SA roll-outs at a faster pace in regions outside Europe

• 25 Feb 2025
  

  Bridge Alliance, Telna team on eSIM strategic partnership

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Leading mobile industry alliance announces it will use managed wholesale eSIM platform’s capabilities for connectivity and revenue opportunities

• 24 Feb 2025
  

  Myriota, Saudi Space Authority team for ultra-low power IoT connectivity

  By Joe O’Halloran

  Satellite internet of things connectivity company announces initiatives with Saudi space authorities including the Space and Technology Commission to bring ultra-low power IoT connectivity to the region

• 24 Feb 2025
  

  Government seeks payments tech partner through £49m contract

  By Karl Flinders

  UK government wants tech partner to help it embed open banking functionality into its Gov.uk Pay platform

• 21 Feb 2025
  

  Apple withdraws encrypted iCloud storage from UK after government demands ‘backdoor’ access

  By Bill Goodwin

  After the Home Office issued a secret order for Apple to open up a backdoor in its encrypted storage, the tech company has instead chosen to withdraw the service from the UK

• 19 Feb 2025
  

  Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger

  By Bill Goodwin

  Russia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk

• 18 Feb 2025
  

  DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

  By Cliff Saran

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story

• 18 Feb 2025
  

  DeepSeek-R1: Budgeting challenges for on-premise deployments

  By Cliff Saran

  The availability of the DeepSeek-R1 large language model shows it’s possible to deploy artificial intelligence on modest hardware. But that’s only half the story

• 17 Feb 2025
  

  ‘Times are hard’ for fintech but latest report reveals glimmer of recovery

  By Karl Flinders

  Fintech investment in the UK hit a four-year low last year, as the wider EMEA region saw the lowest numbers in eight years

• 14 Feb 2025
  

  Channel catch-up: News in brief

  By Simon Quicke

  Geographic expansion, partner programmes, fresh warehouses and attempts to increase trust levels in artificial intelligence have all been happening over the past few days

• 14 Feb 2025
  

  Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data

  By Bill Goodwin

  Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data

• 13 Feb 2025
  

  UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple

  By Duncan Campbell

  US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users

• 13 Feb 2025
  

  EU looks to ramp up sovereign tech as Trump trade war begins

  By Cliff Saran

  Trump’s trade war is now looking at the EU, with tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Could US tech be in the firing line?

• 13 Feb 2025
  

  Insight lists AI, security and 5G among channel opportunities

  By Simon Quicke

  Channel player Insight is the latest to share its view of which trends are worth getting involved with this year

• 13 Feb 2025
  

  Interview: Why Samsung put a UK startup centre stage

  By Cliff Saran

  The launch of the flagship Galaxy S25 smartphone from Samsung showcased AI innovation from a company spun out of Oxford University

• 11 Feb 2025
  

  MPs demand bank bosses come clean over IT outages following Barclays crash

  By Karl Flinders

  Treasury committee wants banks to provide details of how IT failures have affected their businesses over the past two years

• 11 Feb 2025
  

  Quocirca: AI is a managed print services opportunity

  By Simon Quicke

  Market watcher shares insights into how print vendors and partners are gearing up to take advantage of growing demand for artificial intelligence

• 10 Feb 2025
  

  Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab

  By Duncan Campbell

  A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out of the UK

• 10 Feb 2025
  

  Unionised drivers to stage ride-hailing app strike

  By Sebastian Klovig Skelton

  Drivers employed by Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee are set to log off for six hours on 14 February 2025 in long-running disputes over poor pay, work conditions and algorithmic transparency