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20 Dec 2024
Trump's stance on E-Verify checks shifting over time
Employers remain cautious about how immigration policies will change under Trump, given his waffling over E-Verify checks and the potential for a DACA repeal.
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20 Dec 2024
Post Office creates CTO role to support ‘extensive and complex’ plans
Post Office bolsters its IT leadership team as it grapples with massive tech transformation with the nation looking on
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20 Dec 2024
HTI-3 final rule updates information blocking exceptions
The Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule adds a new information blocking exception to protect access to reproductive healthcare.
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16 Apr 2024
CW Innovation Awards: Arming for efficiency
Fujifilm Business Innovation Australia’s automated scheduling application has been able to schedule unplanned service calls automatically and reduce travel times for its technicians
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16 Apr 2024
Why Salesforce needs a data management platform
There are reports that Salesforce is looking to acquire Informatica, but such a move needs to fit with its AI and GenAI strategy
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16 Apr 2024
Alan Bates and JFSA won’t back down in fight with government and Post Office
Over the past 15 years, Computer Weekly has learnt that Alan Bates and the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance don’t give up, and it would be crass to disregard their plans
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16 Apr 2024
Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation
DBS Bank and NUS were among the top industry innovators that were lauded for various transformational initiatives at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2024
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15 Apr 2024
Nib shutters last datacentre, moves most workloads to AWS
The Australian health and travel insurance provider has closed the last of its seven datacentres, marking the end of its nine-year cloud migration programme
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15 Apr 2024
More social engineering attacks on open source projects observed
In the wake of the recent XZ Utils scare, maintainers of another open source project have come forward to say they may have experienced similar social engineering attacks
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15 Apr 2024
OpenText expands GenAI for enterprise content, IoT
OpenText finds a novel use for generative AI: combing through, sorting and summarizing massive amounts of IoT data. It also launched new enterprise content management features.
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15 Apr 2024
Employee productivity is top priority but comes at a cost
RedThread Research's Stacia Garr discusses how the rapid shift toward prioritizing employee productivity is affecting performance reviews, trust and long-term growth in organizations.
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15 Apr 2024
Quickwit claims big advantage in log file search and index
When the logs are the data: Startup Quickwit claims late entrant advantage in log file search and index with bigger datasets and better analytics on reduced infrastructure
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15 Apr 2024
EU’s AI Act fails to protect the rule of law and civic space
Analysis reveals that the AI Act is ‘riddled with far-reaching exceptions’ and its measures to protect fundamental rights are insufficient
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12 Apr 2024
White-sounding names have edge in hiring, bias study says
A recent study exposes ongoing racial bias in hiring practices, showing that white-sounding names are often preferred, with a notable overall discrimination rate of 10%.
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12 Apr 2024
UK in critical need of regulation to fight misinformation online
Misinformation, where it is generated by AI, poses a serious threat due to the ease with which plausible false content can be created and spread
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11 Apr 2024
AI skills gap blocking public sector take-up
A Salesforce report claims that a lack of skills in artificial intelligence is preventing effective take-up of generative AI to enhance frontline citizen services across the public sector
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11 Apr 2024
How GenAI use is evolving for Google Cloud customers
With more than one million developers now using Google Cloud’s generative AI systems to power their tools, Google customers have gone beyond experimentation and are now building their own agents
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10 Apr 2024
Cyber crooks poison GitHub search to fool developers
Researchers share data on new technique whereby malicious actors are manipulating GitHub’s search function and using cleverly crafted repositories to distribute malware
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10 Apr 2024
Google Cloud debuts agent builder to ease GenAI adoption
Vertex AI Agent Builder is touted to enable developers with different levels of expertise to build conversational AI agents grounded in enterprise data
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10 Apr 2024
Borussia Dortmund nets operational gains with Wi-Fi 6E
Cloud networking provider selected to deploy Wi-Fi 6E and analytic services at Germany’s largest football stadium to ensure what is claimed to be ‘unparalleled’ fan experience and optimised matchday operations
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10 Apr 2024
Salesforce helps customers establish bug bounty programmes
Salesforce has added new learning content to its Trailhead platform designed to help customers develop their own bug bounty programmes
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10 Apr 2024
Patch Tuesday: Windows Server 2008 receives emergency security patch
Support for the OS ended in 2020, but four years on and there's a live exploit of a security flaw that impacts all Windows users
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09 Apr 2024
Civil servants more to blame for Post Office cover-up than ministers, says Alan Bates
Campaigning former subpostmaster believes the civil service has more to answer for than ministers in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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09 Apr 2024
Public worried by police and companies sharing biometric data
More than half of the British public do not feel comfortable with police forces sharing biometric data with the private sector, including facial recognition images, to tackle crimes such as shoplifting
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09 Apr 2024
Support must be there to make apprenticeships work
Channel advised to think of the complete person and their needs if training schemes are going to be successful
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09 Apr 2024
Google adds generative AI, video creation to Workspace
The tech giant strengthened its workplace productivity and collaboration platform with new artificial intelligence capabilities and the ability to create videos.
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09 Apr 2024
Google releases GenAI Creative Agent for designers, marketers
Google plants its stake in the marketing and advertising vertical with a bot tuned to help creatives craft campaigns, storyboards, images and text with generative AI.
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09 Apr 2024
Government struggles to upgrade legacy IT systems, says PAC chair
In her annual report, Public Accounts Committee chair Meg Hillier calls legacy IT one of government’s ‘big nasties’ and says money urgently needs to be spent to fix the situation
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08 Apr 2024
What Cisco’s Splunk acquisition means for APAC customers
APAC organisations can expect better visibility and insights into their networks and applications along with automation and response capabilities to improve their digital resilience
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08 Apr 2024
Sendbird launches in-app business messaging, dashboard
SMS and email channels are so noisy and subject to so many regulations that in-app messaging has appeal for businesses who want a direct customer communication channel.
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08 Apr 2024
UN adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on making AI safe and trustworthy
A UN draft resolution promoting the use of artificial intelligence in sustainable development and the protection of human rights was backed by over 120 member states
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08 Apr 2024
Channel roundup: Who's gone where?
Moves made in the past working week at Infinigate, Synaxon, Epson, Expel and Eficode
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08 Apr 2024
Some former Post Office staff should be jailed over scandal, says government minister
Government minister outlines the real prospect that people will be jailed for their roles in the Post Office Horizon scandal
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08 Apr 2024
MPs will grill Cabinet Office over Fujitsu contract bidding pause
Parliamentary select committees have their eyes trained on Fujitsu’s response to the Post Office Horizon scandal, with its pause on bidding for contracts under scrutiny
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05 Apr 2024
As AI expands, big tech to upskill, reskill 100M people
Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft and others will work to train 100 million people in digital skills by 2032. Details are lacking, however, including how this effort will be deployed.
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05 Apr 2024
Why Alphabet might acquire HubSpot: Data, data and more data
If Alphabet were to buy HubSpot, it would come with a hefty price when interest rates are high. Experts discuss what HubSpot assets might interest Google's parent company most.
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05 Apr 2024
AI reduces the need for humans in talent acquisition
AI is reducing staff at many companies, but it's also raising questions about how far automation can go in interacting with job applicants. Recruiters bring the human element.
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05 Apr 2024
Channel ambassadors take the message to the next generation
Non-profit company is formed to promote the benefits of a career in the IT channel to help fill the skills gap and increase inclusivity
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04 Apr 2024
Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
UK non-profit London Grid for Learning and Belgian university KU Leuven are just two of the academic organisations facing huge licensing increases after Broadcom scraps VMware academic discount scheme
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04 Apr 2024
Umbraco provides update on sustainability progress
CMS player issues annual Impact Report to cover progress made on carbon emissions, diversity and efforts to work with partners to save planet
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04 Apr 2024
Fujitsu should stop bending rules, stop bidding and pay up, says MP
MP Liam Byrne calls on Fujitsu to put actions behind the promises it made to MPs, victims of the Post Office scandal and UK taxpayers
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03 Apr 2024
Boomi CEO anticipates rise of the AI agent economy
Boomi CEO talks up the company’s efforts to build up an AI agent architecture, its upcoming AI capabilities set to debut next month, and its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region
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03 Apr 2024
Frontline worker jobs at risk from AI surge
Experts warn that AI's ascent could disproportionately affect frontline jobs, worsening mental health and deepening the skills divide. Some workers fear obsolescence due to AI.
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03 Apr 2024
Fujitsu staff instructed how to bid for government contracts during self-imposed ban
Leak reveals how Fujitsu advises staff to approach UK government customers during its self-imposed bidding pause, as well as details of a multimillion-pound project to protect its reputation
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02 Apr 2024
Microsoft unbundles Teams, but change won't affect market
Microsoft's decision to separate out Teams from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 products might satisfy regulators, but won't change adoption trends.
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02 Apr 2024
Microsoft pushes Teams out of M365 and O365 bundle globally
Microsoft claims Teams push out of bundle will simplify pricing, with enterprise IT buyers possibly better off
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02 Apr 2024
Risks and rewards of AI in HCM
Research from Citi Commercial Bank warns of the risks associated with overusing AI in human capital management
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01 Apr 2024
AWS, Google release contact center GenAI tools
AWS releases contact center workforce management features and post-call summaries powered by GenAI; Google previews its own for Contact Center AI Platform.
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01 Apr 2024
Open source alert over intentionally placed backdoor
A backdoor in the open source XZ Utils data compression library could have led to widespread compromise across the Linux ecosystem - and the community is on the trail of a developer who seems to be behind it
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28 Mar 2024
Avaya simplifies contact center line, inks Zoom partnership
Zoom to work natively in Avaya hardware-software work collaboration environments; Avaya revamps contact center lineup to reflect changing CX landscape.
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28 Mar 2024
Climb CEO talks emerging vendors, expansion and UK importance
We speak to the distributor’s chief executive, Dale Foster, who has plans to widen the reach of the business and believes the need for specialists remains as high as ever
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28 Mar 2024
HM Treasury builds out its data science team
Team of data scientists expands as Treasury looks to drive ‘data transformation’ across department
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28 Mar 2024
Remote access is the Post Office’s known unknown
Calls for criminal investigation after covert recordings are latest evidence to reveal extent of Post Office knowledge of remote access to subpostmaster accounts
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27 Mar 2024
Adobe intros new GenAI tools and apps for marketers
The new applications and tools are for marketers looking to connect the different processes of the content supply chain in a safe and responsible manner.
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27 Mar 2024
Workday's AI lawsuit defense puts responsibility on users
Workday faces an AI lawsuit that's raising questions about HR software responsibility and liability in AI-driven recruitment. A federal judge is considering a dismissal motion.
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27 Mar 2024
Zoom spreads AI across collaboration services
Zoom's new AI-powered Workplace enters a market in which enterprises worry about the loss of data control in AI applications spreading across collaboration platforms.
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27 Mar 2024
HMRC’s online IR35 status checker tool CEST not updated in five years, FOI confirms
Despite a previous pledge that HMRC’s IR35 online status checker tool will be continually updated as employment cases and tribunals occur, a freedom of information request confirms CEST has not been updated since October 2019
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27 Mar 2024
Indian large language models gain momentum
Indian LLMs trained on Indic languages are now being used by businesses and governments to better serve the needs of a diverse multilingual country
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27 Mar 2024
Avaya announces Zoom strategic partnership for collaboration
Avaya selects Zoom’s recently launched AI-powered Workplace platform to integrate with its Communication and Collaboration Suite to help enterprises ‘reimagine’ teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Generative AI: Databricks unveils open source large language model
Enterprise customers are shifting to open source options to build customised generative AI tools using their own data, says Databricks
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27 Mar 2024
Cisco unveils enhanced collaboration tech for the hybrid workforce
Multifunctional devices from Cisco aim to enhance collaboration in offices through optimised cameras and AI-powered collaboration features for hybrid teamwork
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27 Mar 2024
Lord Holmes: UK cannot 'wait and see' to regulate AI
Legislation is needed to seize the benefits of artificial intelligence while minimising its risks, says Lord Holmes - but the government’s ‘wait and see’ approach to regulation will fail on both fronts
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26 Mar 2024
Talkdesk releases on-prem AI contact center automation suite
Contact center as a service users have a leg up on generative AI integrations because of the nature of cloud infrastructure, but on-premises customer service will get theirs.
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26 Mar 2024
Softcat boss talks H1 results, M&A and growing headcount
In light of the release of numbers for the channel player’s first half, Softcat’s CEO shares his thoughts on the progress made
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26 Mar 2024
Writer Inc.'s new AI tool generates voice of marketers' content
As generative AI technology grows in marketing, personalized tools such as these help brands define their style. It makes sure what's generated is on brand with a company's message.
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26 Mar 2024
Cisco releases Webex AI Assistant for office, contact center
Cisco brings AI Assistant for Webex to Enterprise Connect. Analysts break down the timing and potential for the new features available for office collaboration and contact center.
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26 Mar 2024
Apple, Meta and Alphabet under EU scrutiny
Under the new Digital Markets Act, European commissioners are looking at potential issues with the way Apple, Alphabet and Meta operate their platforms
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26 Mar 2024
Goldman Sachs discusses virtues of Kubernetes for virtual machine management
Kubernetes is not only a platform for orchestrating containers – Goldman Sachs has found it offers the same benefits when used to manage virtual machines
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26 Mar 2024
Zoom aims to reimagine teamwork with Workplace AI collaboration platform
Comms and collaboration specialist unveils artificial intelligence-powered platform to help reimagine teamwork, facilitate connections and improve productivity intelligence within familiar experience
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26 Mar 2024
How SAP is infusing AI into its business applications
SAP’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company’s approach towards AI and how it is making the technology more accessible to customers
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26 Mar 2024
RingCentral looks to ‘reimagine’ business phone system with real-time AI
Cloud business communications provider adds artificial intelligence to provide immersive employee experience, with capabilities including real-time call notes, conversation intelligence, message translator and generative search
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25 Mar 2024
Interview: Priyanka Sharma, executive director, CNCF
We speak to the Cloud Native Computing Forum chief about her own journey in software development and the continuous drive towards greater inclusivity
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25 Mar 2024
Vodafone Business aims to boost SME effectiveness with IT Hubs channel
UK IT experts and entrepreneurs are invited to join local franchise opportunity as part of strategic drive from Vodafone to help smaller businesses better manage their IT solutions
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22 Mar 2024
Salesforce Field Service users get generative AI helpers
Salesforce launches Einstein 1 Field Service Edition. Field technicians get a generative AI boost to help navigate through scheduling and technical content.
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22 Mar 2024
Nationwide building society falls victim to IT outage
Nationwide joins McDonald’s, Greggs, Sainsbury’s and Tesco as the fifth major high street name to experience an IT service outage in the space of a week
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22 Mar 2024
Open Data Institute launches digital policy manifesto
The Open Data Institute has launched a policy manifesto ahead of the UK general election that outlines policies and issues it believes must be part of the political discussion around digital and data
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22 Mar 2024
The evolution of DevOps: Why platform engineering is gaining momentum
Platform teams are extending their responsibilities to security as platform engineering takes DevOps to the next level
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22 Mar 2024
Post Office Capture users’ campaign for justice gathers pace
The government is taking Post Office Capture allegations seriously as former subpostmasters seek answers
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21 Mar 2024
SAP chief AI officer: Waiting on AI is the wrong strategy
SAP's first chief AI officer, Philipp Herzig, outlines the company's new AI-focused organization and underscores why companies should begin experimenting with AI technologies.
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21 Mar 2024
Dell's plan to restrict remote worker promotions might backfire
Dell's new plan to restrict promotions for full-time remote workers may lead to employee turnover. But research says remote workers have always been at a disadvantage.
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21 Mar 2024
US sues Apple, alleging smartphone monopoly
A major legal action against Apple over its dominance of the smartphone market has kicked off in the US, alleging anticompetitive practices on Apple’s part that have damaged the sector and restricted consumer choice
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20 Mar 2024
Ukrainians crack network that stole 100m email, social accounts
Three members of an organised cyber criminal group who hacked and appropriated personal email and social media accounts face up to 15 years in prison
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20 Mar 2024
A bad tech job market wants good AI skills
Tech layoffs are on the rise, yet AI skill demand grows, creating a split tech job market that values specialized AI roles amid general employment challenges.
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20 Mar 2024
Oracle Cloud: A discussion about public cloud, dedicated regions and Alloy
We speak to Oracle cloud chief technical architect Pradeep Vincent about cloud deployment scenarios
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20 Mar 2024
Inclusive approaches to AI governance needed to engage public
Technology practitioners and experts gathered at an annual Alan Turing Institute-run conference discussed the need for more inclusive approaches to AI governance that actually engage citizens and workers
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20 Mar 2024
Global UCaaS market set for over 130 million users by 2028
Study from specialist comms research and consulting firm finds growth in UCaaS market continues apace, but price pressures are driving interest in value-added services
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20 Mar 2024
ServiceNow acquires 4Industry, EY Smart to boost smart industry
Digital workflow company announced its latest acquisitions of 4Industry and EY’s Smart Daily Management app to accelerate digital transformation
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20 Mar 2024
SAP S/4HANA data migration beset by poor and fragmented strategy
Survey finds customers transitioning to S/4HANA lack strategic thinking and skills, can’t access data, face challenges in data duplication, can’t use AI, and worry about compliance
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19 Mar 2024
Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder amid Google-Apple news
DeepMind's cofounder will head a new division that focuses on Copilot. The move comes amid talk that Microsoft's rival's LLM might be incorporated into the iPhone.
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19 Mar 2024
SAP, Nvidia partner to boost Business AI development
SAP and Nvidia are working together to combine platforms and services that help customers build business-specific generative AI capabilities across SAP's cloud products.
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18 Mar 2024
Bytes shares FY update as it investigates Murphy departure
Channel player Bytes’s interim CEO talks of growth while the board shares reasons for the former leader’s exit
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18 Mar 2024
Deep fake AI services on Telegram pose risk for elections
Deep fake services advertised on Telegram and other platforms pose a risk to upcoming elections in Europe, Asia and the US
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18 Mar 2024
Government needs ‘realistic plan’ for adopting AI, says NAO
Benefits of artificial intelligence in public sector will only be realised if government ensures overall programme for adoption is supported by realistic plan to tackle range of longstanding barriers
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15 Mar 2024
Channel leaders feeling positive
The highest levels of optimism seen for five years among those driving the industry have been fuelled by growth in AI and other emerging technologies
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15 Mar 2024
Coterie launches channel marketing academy
Marketing specialist introduces courses designed to help improve and develop marketing skills across the channel
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15 Mar 2024
Controversial Post Office Capture software was completely rewritten in 1994
MP demands that the Post Office put effort into fully explaining the development and use of error-prone software used before Horizon in the 1990s
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14 Mar 2024
Oracle advances generative AI and HR into the unknown
Oracle's new generative AI tools for HR aim to reduce costs and help candidates self-select. But some users may remain hesitant to adopt the new tech.
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14 Mar 2024
RM outlines strategic growth plan
Education player puts tough 2023 into history books as it looks to improve business fortunes
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14 Mar 2024
Channel struggling to unlock data insights
High volumes of information from various sources are underlining attempts to grow revenues, according to findings from Westcon-Comstor
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14 Mar 2024
MPs will attempt to amend law on overturning Post Office scandal convictions
Business and trade select committee chair says the job is not done with legislation to overturn wrongful subpostmaster convictions and provide financial redress
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14 Mar 2024
Oracle adds generative AI tools to Fusion CX applications
The new tools are among 50 generative AI features Oracle released for several Fusion applications, from CX to HR and supply chain.
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14 Mar 2024
Children of Post Office victims to hold Fujitsu boss to his word
The children of victims of the Post Office scandal have formed a group that will hold Fujitsu’s European boss to his promise of support