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16 Apr 2025
Elevate Wholesale taking steps to improve diversity
Industry player Elevate Wholesale launches a community to encourage and support women to enter and work in the channel
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16 Apr 2025
AI chip restrictions limit Nvidia H20 China exports
The US government’s export controls have come into effect, limiting Nvidia’s ability to sell its H20 chip in China
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16 Apr 2025
Fibre fine but US tariffs to take hit on broadband equipment
Analyst predicts effect of US tariffs on telecoms and communications industry, revealing probable winners and losers
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29 Jul 2024
AI ‘changing everything’ about customer experience
Study from customer experience technology provider reveals the profound effect AI is having in its industry, taking it beyond traditional, manual services to more advanced, technological-driven experiences
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29 Jul 2024
Scam CrowdStrike domains growing in volume
Hundreds of malicious domains exploiting CrowdStrike’s branding are appearing all over the web in the wake of the 19 July outage. Experts from Akamai share some noteworthy examples, along with guidance on how to avoid getting caught out
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29 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike says most Falcon sensors now up and running
The vast majority of CrowdStrike Falcon sensors affected by a coding error have now been recovered, with a final resolution expected this week
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29 Jul 2024
WTO digital trade agreement aims to modernise global commerce
A digital trade deal negotiated over five years at the World Trade Organization has been signed by 91 countries, laying the groundwork for a new global digital trade regime
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29 Jul 2024
ALSO strengthens European position with Westcoast
Distributor tie-up will provide Swiss channel player with more options in the UK, Ireland and France
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28 Jul 2024
Nearly a third of GenAI projects to be dropped after PoC
At least 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by 2025 as organisations struggle to realise the value of the technology, says Gartner
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26 Jul 2024
Vince Cable says the Post Office ‘lied’ to the government over Horizon issues
In the latest Post Office scandal public inquiry hearings, Vince Cable and Greg Clark reflected on their time as the minister heading the department responsible for the Post Office
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25 Jul 2024
Why is CrowdStrike allowed to run in the Windows kernel?
Microsoft has pointed the finger at EU regulators, blaming them for a ruling that means it needs to offer third parties access to the core Windows OS
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25 Jul 2024
India bolsters digital agriculture and space tech in Budget 2024
India will extend its digital public infrastructure to the agriculture sector and set up a venture capital fund for space startups, among other tech initiatives in its latest Budget
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike blames outage on content configuration update
CrowdStrike publishes the preliminary findings of what will be a lengthy investigation into the root causes of the failed 19 July update that caused Windows computers to crash all over the world
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24 Jul 2024
Post Office ‘acted the victim’ and civil servants ‘abandoned their principles’, says former minister
Former government minister tells inquiry the Post Office always played the victim of subpostmasters that it considered either ‘incompetent’ or ‘criminal’
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24 Jul 2024
SAP’s Klein bets on cloud stickiness
The SAP CEO said the quiet part out loud while answering a question on the cloud backlog during the company’s most recent earnings call
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24 Jul 2024
Qualtrics CEO: AI can make businesses more human
Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin believes AI can democratise experience management and help businesses better understand what matters to both customers and employees
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24 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos: Enterprises urged to take protective action in wake of botched software update
Enterprises that emerged unscathed from the roll-out of the botched CrowdStrike software update are being urged to view it as a wake-up call rather than a lucky escape
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23 Jul 2024
NCA seizes thousands of social media accounts used by people smugglers
A three-year campaign has seen thousands of social media posts and accounts used to advertise the services of illegal people smugglers taken down
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23 Jul 2024
Adtech, regulators react to Google's third-party cookie reversal
Following many delays and an alternative still in development, Google has relented to advertisers on the timing of depreciating third-party cookies.
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23 Jul 2024
Innovations to power secure-by-design development
Secure Code Warrior unveils technology designed to help CISOs and AppSec teams ensure their projects remain safe and free of coding errors and vulnerabilities – a big issue following the CrowdStrike incident
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23 Jul 2024
Former minister felt she was fighting department over Post Office controversy
Former government minister was fighting with Shareholder Executive officials as she probed for information following allegations brought to her by MPs
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23 Jul 2024
Chrome cookies reprieved amid Google Privacy Sandbox changes
Google abruptly changes tack on third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser, cancelling plans to deprecate them in favour of an unspecified ‘new experience’ for users
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23 Jul 2024
Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?
The ‘blue screen of death’ signals a catastrophic Windows failure, which is exactly what many people faced on 19 July 2024 – but why did it happen?
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23 Jul 2024
Huawei Cloud doubled its Singapore business in 2023
Huawei Cloud grew its Singapore business by over 100% last year, with customers such as Ninja Van leveraging its services to run key workloads
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22 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike chaos shows risks of concentrated ‘big IT’
The concentration of so much mission-critical technology in the hands of a few large suppliers makes incidents like the Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage all the more dangerous
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22 Jul 2024
How Co-op is preparing for the move off SAP ECC
With end of support in 2027, Co-op has deployed its SAP ECC systems onto Rise, as a step to S/4Hana migration
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22 Jul 2024
Ed Davey and Jo Swinson ‘handled’ by civil servants in Post Office cover-up, says Sir Alan Bates
Evidence in public inquiry revealed how ministers in charge of Post Office were left in the dark at a time when campaigners, MPs and journalists were looking for answers
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19 Jul 2024
U.S. continuous security clearance vetting hits IT disaster
U.S. continuous security clearances system faces severe delays and budget overruns. The now $1.7B project is years behind schedule, affecting millions of federal workers.
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19 Jul 2024
Global Microsoft outage hits NHS GP IT system
The Emis Web IT system used by more than half of GP practices in the UK is down, following the worldwide Microsoft outage
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19 Jul 2024
CrowdStrike security update fails Windows PCs globally
An update to the security firm’s Falcon service has led to many Windows users being unable to work this morning. Microsoft 365 is also affected
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18 Jul 2024
DBS rolls out GenAI assistant for customer service teams
The CSO Assistant was built entirely in-house and uses a large language model tailored to local languages
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18 Jul 2024
Growth in nude image sharing heightens cyber abuse risk
The normalisation of sharing self-created intimate content with others is putting great numbers of people at risk of online abuse, says Kaspersky
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18 Jul 2024
Government trusted ‘abuser’ over the abused on Post Office scandal
The government referred allegations about subpostmasters’ mistreatment by the Post Office to the alleged abuser itself
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18 Jul 2024
Neo4j eyes GenAI workloads in APAC
Neo4j is targeting GenAI workloads in the fast-growing APAC market by leveraging knowledge graphs to improve the accuracy and explainability of large language models
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18 Jul 2024
DHSC ramps up departmental investment in data scientists
The Department of Health and Social Care is revealed to be the latest government entity to have invested in building out its data science capabilities
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17 Jul 2024
OpenText broadens content AI services in quarterly release
OpenText adds generative AI tools for enterprise information management, security, business process mining and more in its 24.3 Cloud Editions update.
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17 Jul 2024
Salesforce to release autonomous AI customer service agents
Salesforce's next generation of customer service chatbots will use sharpened AI tools -- and, in theory, wits -- to choose their own adventure among Flows and actions.
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16 Jul 2024
Fujitsu analyst gave witness statements when more qualified colleagues refused
Fujitsu employee provided witness statements to courts in cases against subpostmasters despite not understanding the evidence, after qualified IT experts refused
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15 Jul 2024
Judge allows AI lawsuit against Workday to proceed
A court partially allows a lawsuit against Workday to advance, raising questions about AI's role in hiring. The case may set precedent for applying discrimination laws to AI tools.
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15 Jul 2024
Schools hit with cost hike as free Microsoft licences end
The A1 Plus academic licence, which gave teachers and pupils access to the Microsoft productivity suite, stops in August
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15 Jul 2024
Channel moves: Who's gone where?
Moves this week across the industry at Sota, OneTrust, Qumulo, Tollring and Object First
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15 Jul 2024
How Snowflake is tackling AI challenges
Snowflake’s regional leader Sanjay Deshmukh outlines how the company is helping customers to tackle the security, skills and cost challenges of AI implementations
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15 Jul 2024
Civil servant said subpostmasters’ threat of legal action was ‘sabre-rattling’
Post Office scandal public inquiry hears damning evidence capping off a bad week for the reputation of high-profile civil servants
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12 Jul 2024
Businesses left in legal limbo with FTC noncompete ban
Employers need to start planning for compliance with the FTC noncompete ban, effective Sept. 4, despite uncertainty around whether the rule will hold up in court.
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12 Jul 2024
Humans in the loop won't prevent AI disasters, experts say
National Academies workshops reveal skepticism that humans in the loop could prevent an AI mishap. Experts highlight human flaws and AI's disarming nature as concerns.
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12 Jul 2024
Public awareness of ID security grows, but big obstacles remain
Consumers are improving their awareness of the issues around digital identity security, but there are still some big issues preventing many from doing better, according to an Okta report
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12 Jul 2024
IBM: Reimagine processes to unlock AI’s value
Asia-Pacific organisations must reimagine processes for AI success, says IBM’s general manager for the region, Paul Burton
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11 Jul 2024
FTC, DOJ take aim at dark patterns with Adobe lawsuit
The FTC and DOJ's lawsuit against Adobe targets dark patterns by claiming that Adobe's allegedly difficult cancellation process traps consumers in unwanted subscriptions.
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11 Jul 2024
Zoom unveils no-code workflow builder to boost workplace efficiency
Comms and collaboration tech provider announces beta of workplace automation option that uses AI-powered features to streamline routine tasks, boosting efficiency and freeing up time for more meaningful work
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10 Jul 2024
Civil servant was lone voice on Post Office board to query legal plan that blew taxpayers' cash
Government representative felt he was 'in a minority of one' on the Post Office board of directors in questioning the handling of a High Court battle with subpostmasters that cost £100m
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10 Jul 2024
Setting the high bar in digital transformation
Roel Louwhoff, Standard Chartered’s chief transformation, technology and operations officer, outlines what it takes for the company to become a client-focused, data-driven bank
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09 Jul 2024
Amid layoffs, UKG is hiring, especially in India
UKG, citing a need to redirect its spending, cut more than an estimated 2,000 employees. But its hiring continues, with many jobs based in India, some with U.S. support roles.
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09 Jul 2024
Hyper-V zero-day stands out on a busy Patch Tuesday
Microsoft has fixed almost 140 vulnerabilities in its latest monthly update, with a Hyper-V zero-day singled out for urgent attention
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09 Jul 2024
Government left monitoring of Post Office to ‘luck’
If the Post Office board failed to spot bad faith within its management, it would be down to ‘luck’ for the government to find out
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08 Jul 2024
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
In a week that saw major personnel changes on the benches of the House of Commons, the moves continued across the channel
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08 Jul 2024
Sir Alan Bates welcomes MP’s elevation to House of Lords
Former Labour MP has moved to the House of Lords where he will continue campaigning for justice for victims of the Horizon scandal
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04 Jul 2024
UK data regulator should investigate police cloud deployments
The Scottish biometrics commissioner has called for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office to formally investigate whether Police Scotland’s cloud-based evidence sharing system is fully compliant with data protection laws
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04 Jul 2024
How Qualtrics is driving experience management with AI
During the Sydney leg of its X4 conference, Qualtrics’ top executives dived deeper into its efforts to help organisations improve customer and employee experiences with AI
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03 Jul 2024
UK must push forward greater use of open tech
OpenUK is calling on policymakers to put more effort into building the UK’s open source capabilities
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03 Jul 2024
Logicalis: Sustainability still a top customer concern
Even with the tougher economic climate, the commitment by customers to greening their business and working with those with a similar mission remains solid
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02 Jul 2024
SCOTUS ruling shifts H-1B visa landscape
The H-1B visa program could face more legal challenges and pressure for congressional reform following a Supreme Court ruling that limits federal agencies' regulatory power.
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02 Jul 2024
Dassault Systèmes and Mistral AI team to accelerate edge AI generative economy
Leading provider of engineering design systems and artificial intelligence firm form partnership combining industrial ecosystem and frontier AI to industries in a trusted environment, to deliver secure, scalable, AI-driven services
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02 Jul 2024
Nordic banks pursue AI in battle with digital competitors
Traditional Nordic banks are raising their investments in artificial intelligence to help them retain market share in increasingly populated sector
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02 Jul 2024
Interview: Nvidia on AI workloads and their impacts on data storage
We talk to Charlie Boyle of Nvidia about data challenges in artificial intelligence, key practical tips for AI projects, and demands on storage of training, inferencing, RAG and checkpointing
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02 Jul 2024
Kyndryl eyes mainframe workloads in ASEAN
Kyndryl and AWS open centre of excellence in Malaysia to help ASEAN enterprises modernise and migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud
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28 Jun 2024
AWS' Amazon Q adds Connect contact center integration
Amazon Connect, AWS' contact center platform, takes aim at solving the customer service agent's biggest problem: app switching during customer calls.
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28 Jun 2024
How FWD is driving its digital strategy
FWD’s group chief technology and operations officer talks up how the pan-Asian insurer is driving change faster and putting technology at the heart of its services
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28 Jun 2024
Trump's liberal green card plan faces skepticism
Donald Trump's plan to issue green cards to all college graduates exceeds Hillary Clinton's 2016 proposal and raises skepticism about the likelihood of it ever being adopted.
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28 Jun 2024
Sage: SMEs want the channel to be trusted advisors
Firm shares research that indicates partners are seen by small and medium-sized customers as the source of digital transformation support
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27 Jun 2024
UKtech50 2024: The most influential people in UK technology
Computer Weekly has announced the 14th annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK tech sector
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27 Jun 2024
IT giant Atos faces collapse if restructuring talks fail
French IT giant Atos is facing financial problems that could affect the ability of its UK arm to deliver key government contracts, including those related to NHS records in hospitals
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27 Jun 2024
Halo Trust partners with AWS to accelerate AI-led landmine clearance in Ukraine
Landmine clearance organisation Halo Trust is drawing on AWS’s AI expertise to see if the technology can accelerate the pace of its work in Ukraine
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27 Jun 2024
Box AI becomes free to Enterprise Plus subscribers
Box previews new features to come later this year -- including a revamped metadata API -- while dropping generative AI query fees for its highest tier of premium subscribers.
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27 Jun 2024
Hybrid workers call on employers to increase investment in connectivity
Survey reveals lack of reliable mobile connectivity in the office is affecting seven in 10 hybrid workers, forcing a majority of employees to leave their office building simply to make a phone call
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27 Jun 2024
Experts shocked by ‘extraordinary’ claim made by Post Office IT expert witness
A former Fujitsu engineer made an ‘unbelievable’ claim about evidence he gave in witness statements when acting as an expert witness during Post Office prosecutions of subpostmasters
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27 Jun 2024
Gulf Edge to operate Google Distributed Cloud in Thailand
The Gulf Energy subsidiary will offer Google’s sovereign cloud service in Thailand with a focus on air-gapped configurations
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26 Jun 2024
SHRM warns of HR polycrisis from AI, incivility, DEI backlash
SHRM CEO Johnny C. Taylor Jr. highlights a polycrisis facing HR managers, as political discord, AI's effects on the workplace and DEI battles challenge HR and workers.
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26 Jun 2024
Goldilock builds out partner network
Security vendor adds distributors and resellers to increase UK, US and European coverage and to support its plans to go indirect
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26 Jun 2024
Hume talks of ‘recovering market’ as TD Synnex shares Q2 numbers
Distributor’s numbers fall within guidance in second quarter as it looks towards stronger second half
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26 Jun 2024
Ignorance of ‘legal niceties’ from Post Office expert IT witness saw innocent people jailed
IT expert used by Post Office to give evidence supporting prosecutions of subpostmasters did not understand legal duties he was bound to
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26 Jun 2024
Police Scotland did not consult ICO about high-risk cloud system
Police Scotland chose not to formally consult with the data regulator about the risks identified with a cloud-based digital evidence sharing system, while the regulator itself did not follow up for nearly three months
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25 Jun 2024
Gong adds GenAI conversational intelligence for sales insights
Generative AI tools in Gong's Smart Trackers provide deeper analysis into sales reps' communications with customers.
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25 Jun 2024
SAP public cloud migration requires architectural rethink
Research from analyst Gartner has identified common issues IT leaders may encounter when moving S/4HANA to the public cloud
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25 Jun 2024
Numbers prove former subpostmaster federation boss’s ignorance over Post Office scandal
George Thomson is ignoring the numbers when he downplays subpostmaster prosecutions based on Horizon data
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24 Jun 2024
Post Office expert IT witness Gareth Jenkins resigns BCS membership
The former Fujitsu chief architect for Horizon has resigned as a member of the BCS after he was told he could be investigated
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24 Jun 2024
Abzorb shares experiences of apprenticeship scheme
As those finishing A-levels contemplate their futures, channel player Abzorb shares experiences of its apprenticeship scheme
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24 Jun 2024
Workday GenAI upgrade aims to speed and simplify app dev
Workday speeds up creation of apps with AI-powered Developer Copilot and Visual UI Mode. Low-code improvements aim to help citizen developers.
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24 Jun 2024
Kmart taps event streaming for real-time insights
Retailer’s Hamilton event streaming platform delivers real-time insights on container shipments, sales and customer interactions to support its online retail business
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24 Jun 2024
Channel moves: Who’s gone where?
We look at moves made in the past week at Six Degrees, TelcoSwitch, CyXcel and TD Synnex
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24 Jun 2024
Metropolitan Police could investigate one of its own staff in Post Office probe
Former Post Office investigator deleted references to software errors in a witness statement from Fujitsu’s Gareth Jenkins during the wrongful prosecution of a subpostmaster
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24 Jun 2024
Why SAP ECC customers need to upgrade before 2027
While SAP will support its Enterprise Central Component ERP until 2027, this is only the case if you’re on a later enhancement pack
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21 Jun 2024
Job security is redefined by layoffs and generative AI
A global study reveals that in the age of GenAI, workers are redefining job security to emphasize upskilling, adaptable skills and opportunities for growth.
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21 Jun 2024
Qilin ransomware gang publishes stolen NHS data online
The ransomware gang behind a major cyber attack on NHS supplier Synnovis has published a 400GB trove of private healthcare data online
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21 Jun 2024
Executive interview: Open models pros and cons
We speak to Meta’s vice-president of AI research about recent publicly released research and models, and the role of closed AI models
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21 Jun 2024
IT leaders share tips for AI success
With everyone talking about artificial intelligence, at a recent event in London, speakers shared their experiences of deploying AI business applications
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21 Jun 2024
ICO police cloud guidance released under FOI
Long-awaited guidance from the UK data regulator on police cloud deployments highlights some potential data transfer mechanisms it thinks can clear up ongoing legal issues, but tells forces it’s up to them to decide if the measures would work
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20 Jun 2024
Pure harnesses AI to enhance partner processes
Vendor unveils range of enhancements to provide its channel with greater insights and growth opportunities
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20 Jun 2024
Zammit announced as next TD Synnex CEO
The decision by Rich Hume to retire means the distributor’s current COO will get a chance to make his mark in the top job
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20 Jun 2024
Bupa turns to data to provide personalised health services
Private healthcare provider Bupa says a project to deploy business process automation is bringing it closer to APAC customers
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20 Jun 2024
Post Office and Fujitsu had tense relationship, but were joined at hip when protecting their brands
Problems in the roll-out of Horizon Online in 2010 created a tense relationship between the Post Office and Fujitsu
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19 Jun 2024
HPE Discover 2024: Deloitte develops Gen AI industrial digitisation use case
Deloitte teams with enterprise networking firm on first use NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE product portfolio to help manufacturers build and operate secure-by-design manufacturing simulations
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19 Jun 2024
Post Office Horizon system investigators were blocked and threatened as they witnessed cover-up
Independent investigators who put Post Office and its Horizon system under spotlight faced aggression as they witnessed cover-up
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19 Jun 2024
Microsoft admits no guarantee of sovereignty for UK policing data
Documents show Microsoft’s lawyers admitted to Scottish policing bodies that the company cannot guarantee sensitive law enforcement data will remain in the UK, despite long-standing public claims to the contrary