Orange Wholesale unveils eSIM first for France

Global telco ups the ante in French operator wholesale market by partnering with Prixtel to enable customers to download electronic SIM card to ...

Political awareness needed to ethically handle migration data, panel claims

Understanding the political, social and economic relationships between different groups in society is needed to ensure location data is not used in ...

Mavenir extends AI and analytics portfolio

End-to-end cloud-native communications network software provider Mavenir deploys software and API-led connectivity, deep AI/ML knowledge and ...

Nutanix claims growth in ASEAN amid growing cloud adoption

Nutanix’s business in ASEAN grew by over 40% as the region’s enterprises warm to hybrid and multi-cloud services

Interview: Mayank Prakash, global consumer CIO, and Daljit Rehal, CDO, Centrica

Two of energy giant Centrica’s tech bosses talk to Computer Weekly about the impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown and the importance of ...

Post Office scandal victims have days to raise thousands of pounds or perpetrators go scot-free

Victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal need to raise thousands of pounds in a week or those responsible for their suffering will avoid scrutiny

Security Think Tank: The past and future of security automation

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are said to hold great promise in security, enabling organisations to operate an IT ...

Ericsson hits 100th 5G commercial agreement milestone

Century up for Swedish communications tech firm in next-generation infrastructure wins with deal at Telekom Slovenije to supply essential RAN and ...

Aerospace and satellite comms: The next growth frontier for cloud service providers?

Space projects of the near future are less sci-fi and more about driving efficiencies through business intelligence, edge analytics and cloud ...

Progress needed for UK fibre roll-out to catch up to peers

Even with the best efforts of the government in meeting its target and various initiatives to support deployment, meeting UK full-fibre gigabit goals...

Security funding soars despite Covid-19 slump, but problems lie ahead

The overall cyber security funding ecosystem in the UK is healthier than ever despite Covid-19, but the figures mask stark and concerning disparities...

Nordic CIO interview: Janne Puustinen, Valmet

Janne Puustinen built Finnish industrial technology company Valmet’s entire IT organisation from scratch after a demerger

RingCentral sings praises of master agency model

Cloud comms player is the latest to voice support of an approach that is starting to gain more ground in the UK

MPs set sights on Huawei in 5G security probe

Weeks after UK government allowed access to radio access part of mobile networks, MPs announce inquiry into the use and security of equipment ...

Channel crying out for the ‘human touch’

Research from Kaspersky reveals that distributors and resellers want much more contact with vendors

UK-US data deal puts Brexit data adequacy pact at risk

European Data Protection Board writes to MEPs saying the UK is at risk of failing to strike a post-Brexit data adequacy accord if its data protection...

Government publishes geospatial data strategy to capitalise on location data

National Geospatial Strategy will develop the country’s location data framework over the next five years

Nordic lessons on digital transformation

Swedish financial services firm reports a successful IT outsourcing project with India-based IT services company

NHS Digital seeks suppliers for Covid-19 testing service

The NHS Digital tender aims to find a partner to handle the development, delivery and running of the coronavirus testing service

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes 123 bugs in July 2020 update

The bugs start coming and they don’t stop coming; Microsoft has issued yet another bumper Patch Tuesday update

The evolution of the channel partner: control the narrative to increase your sales

Johnny Carpenter, vice-president of EMEA sales at iland, shares some advice for partners looking to increase their sales in a post-pandemic world

As IT moves deeper into the factory the channel should follow

Schneider Electric is urging partners to get involved with the convergence happening between the operational technology and information technology ...

Dell looking for server growth

Dell shares hopes of a turnaround on the server front over the coming year

How Propre eases its database management woes

Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global ...

Home Office drops ‘racist’ visa algorithm

The Home Secretary has pledged to stop using an algorithmic decision-making system to assess visa applications after migrant welfare and technology ...

Aramex ships in Rackspace Technology to accelerate datacentre downsizing and move to AWS cloud

Dubai-based international shipping and logistics firm Aramex is in the midst of a cloud-focused digital transformation designed to tighten up its ...

Ministers urge local councils to lead on broadband and mobile

Digital minister Matt Warman and local government minister Simon Clarke want local councils to do their bit to help ensure better access to ...

Privacy Shield: Companies face new hurdles to legally transfer data to the US

Businesses will have to conduct legal assessments to ensure they can transfer data from the EU to the US and other countries, following a European ...

Microsoft targets diesel backup power to reduce emissions

As it pushes towards becoming carbon neutral, Microsoft has started to look at how it can replace backup power generators in its datacentres

Elisa enjoys 5G base station energy, emissions reductions from Nokia liquid cooling

Finnish telecoms operator reduces potential expenses of its base stations by up to 30% and emissions by approximately 80% through liquid cooling

Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service

French data protection authorities to probe TikTok as suitors circle

France’s CNIL has confirmed a new investigation into TikTok’s data protection practices

UK government unveils next steps in digital identity plans

Long-awaited response to July 2019 consultation highlights private sector demands for digital identity support from government

Norway’s corporates want government to support ‘herd immunity’ to cyber attack

Leading business organisations in Norway call on government to play a more active role in improving and coordinating the country’s cyber defences

Tech Data shows expansion ambitions with APAC buy

With the backing of its new owners, the distributor has begun to flex its muscles and has picked an acquisition target to bolster its Asian presence

Data breaches in Australia showing no signs of abating

Compromised login credentials and human error were the most common causes of data breaches reported under Australia’s notifiable data breach regime ...

Trend Micro gets partners to focus on ‘customer health’

Security player keen to get the channel working alongside users that are being supported with licences and assessments

Cyber attacks are becoming lethal, warns US cyber commander

Cyber attacks are escalating from large-scale theft and disruption of computer operations to more lethal attacks that destroy systems and physical ...

CRM failing business due to lack of focus

Customer relationship management (CRM) is failing to deliver business value, according to a study from the National Computer Centre (NCC).

Cloud storage boom as users rush to outsourcers

The Spring 2011 edition of IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey says 40%of enterprise storage users plan to outsource some of their storage needs in the ...

Forrester: Seven trends to shape the future of enterprise applications and ERP

Over the next five years, technology changes will disrupt our long-held beliefs about the ownership and value of core enterprise application, writes ...

FireControl project failed because of inadequate EADS contract, MPs told

The failure of the canned £469m FireControl project was due to an inadequate IT contract, MPs were told at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

Gartner urges IT departments to support end-user application development

Business IT users are increasingly looking outside the IT department for application development and in many cases are building applications ...

Government shelves Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors database to save £11m

The government has shelved plans to create a database of electoral information, in a move estimated to save £11m.

Government axes 376 more websites

The government has axed nearly half of its websites since June last year, following recommendations that all digital public services should be under ...

Hacker group Anonymous steals user names and passwords in cyber attack on Apple

Hacker group Anonymous claims to have stolen 25 internal user names and passwords from Apple in the latest of a series of attacks on government and ...

Hacking group Anonymous claims to have hacked into NATO servers and stolen data

Hacking group Anonymous has claimed to have hacked into NATO servers, according to the Blottr.com news service.

Spamming the universe

Smaller companies installing SP2; larger firms not

Symantec offers bare metal restore software

US and EU hold first joint cybersecurity exercise

The US and EU are holding their first joint cybersecurity exercise in Brussels on 3 November 2011, involving more than 20 EU member states and ...

Authorize.Net says it has 'learned' from attack

The credit card processing service was unprepared for the kind of attack it suffered last week, but it will use the experience to improve security.

Fast Guide: iSCSI

If you need to come up to speed rapidly on iSCSI, you've come to the right place. In this Fast Guide, we touch upon the basics and then we walk you ...

Hackers costing enterprises billions

Symantec's semi-annual Internet Threat Report finds hackers continued adding billions to the cost of doing business on the Internet.

Battery fault prompts HP laptops recall

Hewlett-Packard is to recall more than 15,000 laptops worldwide because a fault makes them a fire hazard.

RSA Conference 2007: Product announcements

RSA Conference 2007: Product announcements

GB Group buys Capscan for £11.2m

Identity management technology company GB Group has acquired address management company Capscan for £11.2m.

City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.

Government trials voice recognition for Universal Credit benefit claims

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is testing a voice recognition system to authenticate claimants of its flagship Universal Credits system, ...

Government earmarks £10m for Identity Assurance

Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has earmarked £10m for implementation of the government's Identity Assurance (IDA) programme, with the cash ...

Everything Everywhere to reinvest £450m windfall

Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere is to reinvest profits made from the upcoming sale of its 1,800MHz spectrum in the UK's mobile network, ...

Long-term archiving needs better media, experts say

The hundred-year archive is coming soon, and industry watchers say a new physical medium for long-term storage should come with it.

NetApp to acquire Topio

Six months after EMC acquired heterogeneous replication provider Kashya, NetApp jumps on the bandwagon by announcing plans to acquire Topio for $160M.

Podcast: Security certifications pay could rebound in '07

Security certifications pay is languishing, according to skill and certifications pay expert David Foote of Foote Research. Foote examines the state ...

VoIP security safeguards -- they may be there already

Protecting your VoIP system may be easier than you think, especially since many of the necessary tools are already there.

How does file archiving differ from email and database archiving or document management systems?

The thing they all have in common is "archiving" -- long-term storage and preservation of data that's inactive...

Convergence certification provides evaluation standard

CompTIA has developed a convergence certification, designed to validate qualified convergence professionals.

Analysis: Intelligence key to security business case

Information security is becoming an increasingly important part of any business as the value of information assets continually grow, as do the ...

Burton Group: Web application firewall market maturing

Web application firewalls have improved performance and functionality, but it still takes time, knowledge and skills to implement them, according to ...

IP telephony unites New Orleans nonprofit after Katrina

Hurricane Katrina nearly disbanded the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, until the nonprofit rolled out a hosted voice solution

Users say keeping it simple means keeping one vendor

Despite some potential benefits of heterogeneous shops, users at Storage Decisions say they find sticking with one vendor a better way to survive the...

Shell HR gains from structured information quality programme

Oil giant Shell’s human resources function has been on an information quality journey since 2002, integrating historically decentralized businesses ...

In IT security, vendor size does not compute

With consolidation gripping the security industry, companies are seeking out the most stable security vendors, but analysts and experts say the ...

IT pros worried about unsecured devices

IT admins keep working to make networks secure even as more unsecured personal gadgets their way into companies.

ISCSI gets a boost from InfiniBand

The InfiniBand protocol has already gained popularity in some bleeding-edge storage systems; a new spec will now standardise connection to iSCSI ...

Resellers come around to storage virtualization

Storage virtualisation has been around as a concept for years, but value added resellers are finally finding ways to sell it.

TCS bags rare megadeal and 1,900 more UK workers

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) business process outsourcing (BPO) subsidiary, Diligenta, has won a deal with life insurer Friends Life worth £1.37bn.

The consumerisation of IT: it’s a trickle, not a tide, but you still need to be ready

If media headlines and supplier claims are to be believed, organisations today are faced with an unstoppable tide of many different types of personal...

How many people does your total organisation employ?

Photos: Top Ten security sensitive sites on Google Earth

Following the hysteria in the British media that Google Earth can be used to target sensitive sites, we decided to look at which sites so far have ...

Bournemouth average download speed 8-06Mbps

Photos: Top ten cybersquatter cases

Here's our top ten cybersquatting cases.

Cybersquatting cases: Number 10 - Dell

Photos: Top Ten Gadgets from CeBIT 2009

Gadgets galore at CeBIT this year, here's our top ten.

The White House

Sliding screen reveals the keyboard

Photos: Nokia N97

See our Nokia N97 photo gallery.

Best new blog of the year winner: WinRumors

Social Media Champion: Kate Craig-Wood

Best IT Industry blogger: Capping IT Off from Capgemini

Best use of social media – not-for-profit sector: Easyfundraising.org.uk

Best IT video: Capgemini - Counting Down to the 13th European Energy Markets Observatory

Best use of social media - Individual: Tom Warren

Best use of social media – public sector: Met Office - Social Media 'When it Matters'

Best use of social media – private sector winner: AVG Anti Virus

Best IT professional blogger: Elizabeth Harrin – A girl’s guide to Project Management

Best CIO/IT Director blog: Atos CIO Blog

The Social Media Awards - The Winners!

Computer Weekly's search for the best use of social media in IT is finally over after hundreds of nominations and thousands of votes we now have the ...

2009 - Coming soon...

Photos: 10 years of Apple gadgets at Macworld

This year will be the last time Apple attends Macworld. So, the qustion on everyone's lips is what do they have up their sleeve? We look back at the ...