Wednesday 27 April 2016

Apple CEO looks to services as device revenues fall

Apple's services division has emerged as its second biggest earner after iPhone sales, as quarterly revenues declined 13%, in line with forecasts

Singapore is second most cloud ready country in Asia-Pacific

Broadband quality, data privacy and pro-business regime makes Singapore the second most cloud ready country in the Apac region

You can now watch a ton of Lionsgate movies on Steam if you so choose

lionsgate Lionsgate has just added more than 100 movies, including the Hunger Games films and Kill Bill (both volumes) to, of all things, Steam. That’s Valve’s digital content delivery platform, of course, used by millions of PC gamers. Why did Lionsgate add more than 100 movies to a gaming platform? Hard to say. Read More

Teardown of HTC Vive highlights the headset’s differences from Oculus Rift

vive teardown 2 Today’s VR headsets are marvels of miniaturization. And, as iFixit’s teardowns show, both the Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vive are also remarkably user-friendly when it comes to repair and customization. Read More

How African governments block social media

The days some Africans are banned from tweeting

Fast cash: The high-speed world of cloud-based finance

How finance in the cloud can save you time and money

VIDEO: Cloud king: 'Ride a tech wave'

Aaron Levie, cofounder of technology company Box, offers the business advice he wishes he'd downloaded before he started out, for the BBC News series CEO Secrets.

VIDEO: Exploring Chernobyl in virtual reality

How a game development company created a virtual reality experience of Chernobyl

VIDEO: Is big data the key to Olympic success?

Marcus Thompson speaks to Olympic and Paralympic rowers and trainers to see how Team GB is preparing for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

VIDEO: Dyson announces 'quieter' £299 hairdryer

Engineering firm Dyson reveals its first hairdryer which it says is quieter and lighter than rivals

Can you guess the Shakespeare play?

Google has paid tribute to Shakespeare and St George's Day with a special Google Doodle - but can you spot which of the Bard's plays are featured?

James Webb's mirror is revealed

The covers come off the huge mirror that the James Webb Space Telescope - the planned successor to Hubble - will use to detect the light from the first stars to shine in the Universe.

Google partners Uber on driverless cars

Google joins forces with Volvo, Ford, Uber and Lyft to form coalition on driverless cars.

Indian mobiles 'must have panic button'

All mobile phones sold in India from January 2017 will have to include a panic button, authorities have ruled.

Beautiful People data sold online

Data stolen from a dating website aimed at "beautiful people only" has been found for sale online.

Twitter shares plunge on weak earnings

Twitter's latest earnings results have disappointed investors, coming in below expectations as the firm struggles with weak growth in users and advertising.

Revenge porn victims 'as young as 11'

Children as young as 11 are among more than 1,000 alleged victims of revenge porn who reported offences in the first year of the new law coming into effect, a BBC investigation reveals.

Getty accuses Google in competition row

Photo agency Getty Images says it will file a competition lawsuit with the EU against Google, adding to a long list of European cases against the company.

Buildings that are smarter by design

A truly smart building is one that has taken account of how humans will use and feel about it and there is technology and design that can help that.

Warcraft considers compromise for fans

The studio behind World of Warcraft responds to a petition asking it to run a server for the original version of the video game.

Volvo to test self-drive cars in UK

Volvo plans to launch the UK's most ambitious self-driving car trial next year in London.

Sunday 24 April 2016

US mulls tech to disable rogue drones

The US is considering legislation to allow authorities to intercept rogue drones flying too close to aircraft.

Research identifies organised cyber threat to Australia

Researchers have identified the profiles of cyber criminals and identified the one that is the biggest threat to Australian organisations

La Poste delivers internet of services

The French postal system is taking existing services and adding a digital dimension to support a new business model

Organisations still fail to understand IAM, says KuppingerCole analyst

IAM is seen as being part of IT and not business, and investments tend to be aimed at mitigating one-off incidents, says KuppingerCole analyst Matthias Reinwarth

Saturday 23 April 2016

Graduation of apprentices is coming of age for Accenture’s Newcastle hub

The first group of IT graduates emerging from Accenture’s apprenticeship scheme in north-east England will walk straight into jobs, debt-free

BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition sparks creative interest in Stem

Microsoft and the Bloodhound Project explain how focusing on the creative side of tech helps drive children’s interest in science, technology, engineering and maths careers

Spectra Logic claims biggest and fastest TFinity tape library

Spectra Logic claims multi-petabyte capacities and speedier tape robot cycle times with TFinity Exascale Edition, a product aimed at tape’s new niche in archive and cold storage

UK economy faces digital divide, CBI warns

A report from the Confederation of British Industry and tech giant IBM paints a bleak picture of UK businesses' adoption (or not) of digital technologies

Friday 22 April 2016

Nationwide streamlines e-commerce checks with CA Technologies

The building society has deployed CA Technology’s risk analytics to detect abnormal payment activities

Rackspace embarks on renewed push to ease enterprise adoption of AWS and Azure clouds

Managed cloud provider Rackspace outlines how teaming up with IT consultancy Cloud Technology Partners will help enterprises struggling with the move off-premise

France takes the lead in the global open data race

The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value

UK information commissioner weighs in on Privacy Shield

It would be “very sensible” if both the EU and the US answered the questions European data protection authorities are asking about the Privacy Shield pact, according to the UK information commissioner

New Zealand wants UK and other overseas ICT professionals to fill skills gap

New Zealand needs ICT professionals from overseas to fill a growing skills gap

From wetsuits to wine: Small firms embrace the cloud

Small firms enter the cloud

VIDEO: Wozniak: Apple were right over FBI case

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes that Apple made the right decision by refusing to hand over information to the FBI which would have helped them unlock an iPhone.

VIDEO: US Air Force breaks maglev speed record

BBC Click's Stephen Beckett looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

Microsoft Windows hurt by PC sales slump

Microsoft's quarterly profit has missed analysts' estimates as a continued slump in personal computer sales hurts the company's core Windows business.

Ad sales boost revenue for Google parent

Quarterly revenue at Google's parent company Alphabet rises 17% after strong mobile advertising sales.

VR headset shipments 'to boom' in 2016

More than nine million virtual reality (VR) headsets will be shipped in 2016, suggests research by analyst firm IDC.

Connected tech aims to protect rhinos

A system that tracks people rather than animals is being tested in a reserve in South Africa as part of fight against rhino poaching.

Uber settles over employee status row

Uber has agreed to pay out $100m for its drivers to drop their case claiming employee rights.

$10 router blamed in Bangladesh hack

Hackers stole more than $80m (£56m) from Bangladesh's central bank because it skimped on network hardware and security software, reports Reuters.

San Bernardino hack 'cost FBI over $1m'

The figure paid by the FBI to unnamed experts to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino killer has been estimated at $1.3m or more.

China shuts down two Apple services

China has shut down Apple's online book and movie services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.

Business needs education in cloud value and security, study shows

Improved trust and security are critical to encouraging continued adoption of the cloud, an Intel Security report shows

CW@50: The changing face of the datacentre over the past 50 years

As Computer Weekly prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, we take a look back at how the design and role of the datacentre has changed over the past five decades

Ticketmaster tech chief claims software engineers should consider sales training

Ticketmaster tech chief says undergoing sales training could help software engineers become more persistent in tracking down bugs

Social media could be used to identify refugees, says fintech founder

A panel at the Innovate Finance Summit 2016 discussed ways refugees could access funds, including digital identities, smartphones and peer-to-peer applications

IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims

Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape

UK institute seeking better cyber defences for ICS, says director

The UK needs to develop awareness of the vulnerability of industrial control systems to cyber attack and technology-specific security systems, says researcher

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer remains silent on strategy review

Yahoo! considers its options for the future, but CEO Marissa Mayer gave away no details when announcing the company's Q1 financial results

Halfords CIO jumps ship to move to Morrisons

Halfords CIO Anna Barsby will be moving to head up technology at supermarket chain Morrisons

Singapore online grocer RedMart uses cloud ERP to drive growth

Online retailer RedMart turned to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) when its existing system struggled to keep up with business growth

Business needs to take GDPR seriously, says UK privacy chief

The GDPR is about enabling organisations to realise the benefits of the digital era, but it is serious about enforcement for those that not play within the rules, says UK information commissioner

Sony finally says it’s adding 2FA to PlayStation Network

Sony PlayStation It looks like Sony is finally gearing up to add two-factor authentication to the PlayStation Network — some five years after a massive data breach compromised the details of millions of users, including potentially exposing users’ credit card data. Read More

Swarm now lets users check in without sharing their location

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VIDEO: Netflix on personalisation 'utopia'

Netflix's vice-president of innovation outlines how data will be used to personalise video

Thursday 21 April 2016

Mobile operators are overstating 4G coverage, claims Which?

UK mobile phone users can access 4G services just over half of the time on average, says Which? publisher and charity, The Consumers' Association

European Commission to create €6.7bn continent-wide cloud for scientists

The European Commission hopes initiative will pave the way for greater collaboration between European research teams

Sainsbury’s creates 150 digital jobs in Manchester to boost innovation

Supermarket retailer Sainsbury’s has created 150 digital jobs in Manchester as part of its innovation drive

PC market pauses while enterprises prepare for Windows 10

Windows 10 is set to drive sales of high-end PCs, but businesses are not ready yet, says analyst house Gartner

IBM financials squeezed but cloud, mobile, security and analytics show growth

Cloud, security, mobility and analytics are the future for IBM as revenue drops for 16th quarter

Three-quarters of Brits unaware of IP Bill, one-third don’t care

Millions of UK citizens remain in the dark about the reach and scope of the Investigatory Powers Bill, or the so-called Snoopers’ Charter, says Broadband Genie

Digital education in the UK is “patchy”, says Capgemini executive

The level of digital skills taught in schools varies across the UK, claims Capgemini’s chairman

Zadara adds object storage, bigger flash and 16Gbps Fibre Channel

Latest version of Zadara Storage features object storage, Fibre Channel and bigger cache options to software-defined cloud storage product that can run on-premise, off-premise and as a hybrid

Balancing privacy and security a key challenge, says NCA

Striking a balance between security and privacy is a major challenge for law enforcement, says NCCU operations head Mike Hulett

Intel to cut workforce despite strong Q1 results

Intel says strong first quarter results show that its business transformation is working, but it also means cutting 11% of the global workforce

SAP's financials point to boom in cloud and Hana

SAP is steadily growing its cloud business, but on-premise software licensing and support remain the cash cows

European Commission ready to splash €50bn on transformational digitisation plan

A cloud initiative for scientists and technologists among the developments as digital single market moves intensify

DevOps advocates bust myths around use of agile software development in enterprise

Continuous software delivery experts set out why enterprises could be missing out by shunning DevOps

Could cures for cancer lie hidden in the cloud?

How pooling patient data could help combat cancer

'Sweaty billboard' kills mosquitoes

A billboard that smells of human sweat and breath in order to attract and kill mosquitoes has been designed in Brazil.

Israeli volunteers ready their cyber defences as Anonymous affiliates attack

Every April, Israel braces itself for an onslaught from pro-Palestinian hackers, but the occupants of a small conference room in Tel Aviv stand in their way

RBS to close NatWest branches and cut 600 jobs as customers go online

The Royal Bank of Scotland is set to close branches and cut jobs due to the rapid take up of digital banking services

Government surveillance under fire across Europe

UK and US government surveillance programmes are facing criticism from the courts, MPs and data protection regulators

Mixed response to call for more work on Privacy Shield

The Article 29 Working Group’s call for revisions of the Privacy Shield for trans-Atlantic data transfers is welcomed by those keen for a stronger framework and criticised by those keen to avoid delay

T-Systems embarks on enterprise-focused cloud push with colocation provider Virtus

IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom shares five-year plan to close private datacentre in Feltham, after signing colocation deal with Virtus Data Centres

Wednesday 20 April 2016

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A competition run by PA Consulting encourages schoolchildren to use Raspberry Pis to create projects that solve real-world problems

GDPR will require 28,000 DPOs in Europe, study shows

The staffing impact of the GDPR will be huge, with 28,000 data protection officers (DPOs) in Europe alone, says the International Association of Privacy Professionals

European Commission formally objects to Google’s Android dominance

Pre-installing Google Search and Play on devices is anti-competitive and limits consumer choice, claims EC

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c-run-thumb Chameleon Run launched a little over a week ago and has been heavily promoted by Apple. Admittedly, I love this game and I am not the only one. Chameleon Run is an auto-runner where you fly through the air bouncing off platforms, see-saws and slides to make your way to the end of each level. It costs roughly $2 on both iOS and Android and there is no free version. Yet, it’s on the paid… Read More

‘Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur’ is a simple game you can play from the iOS Notification Center

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How Nasa is helping businesses to be greener

Nasa is developing a number of sustainable technologies that could benefit companies back on Earth.

VIDEO: Tech helps to teach Malawi's children

From apps and tablets to a solar-powered projector helping to teach Malawi's schoolchildren

VIDEO: HDR: The next TV revolution

High Dynamic Range (HDR) is the latest picture boosting technology for our TV sets

VIDEO: Shakespeare's plays go virtual in new game

Play the Knave is a new motion capture video game developed in California that lets players act out scenes from Shakespeare's works.

VIDEO: Sweaty billboard could help fight Zika

A billboard that smells of human sweat and breath in order to attract and kill mosquitoes has been designed in Brazil.

Football club's website deleted

The website for Scottish League Cup winners Ross County is accidentally deleted, causing problems for the club selling tickets.

Outcry over Twitter's new China boss

The BBC's Stephen McDonell looks at the social media outcry over Twitter's new China boss - and what the fuss is all about.

Drones to be banned during Obama visit

Drones will be banned from flying in large parts of London during the visit of US President Barack Obama, aviation officials say.

UK phones only get 4G '53% of the time'

A new study into the use of 4G in the UK has found all four networks provide limited access to the service

Construction giant launches smartphone

Power-tool maker Dewalt has entered the smartphone market with a tough handset designed for construction workers

Intel to cut 12,000 jobs globally

Computer chip maker Intel says it is cutting 12,000 jobs - about 11% of its workforce - over the next 12 months.

Yahoo revenues and profits fall

Yahoo reports a fall in revenues and profits for the first three months of 2016, as the company reviews offers from potential bidders.

VIDEO: Would you buy a book from a vending machine?

Machine Supply creator Matt Webb explains the concept behind his vending machine that sells books.

Apple complies with US data demands

Apple's transparency reports show it consistently complies with a greater-than-average proportion of information requests from US authorities

Help! My building has been hacked

There are millions of buildings being connected to the net, which makes them vulnerable to cyber-attack, so should we be worried?

Minecraft Education Edition, aimed at teachers, arrives in May

minecraft-education-edition Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was expanding its investment in Minecraft, the popular game it acquired for $2.5 billion in 2014, by building out a new version that would allow teachers to use Minecraft in the classroom. Today, Microsoft announced that “Minecraft Education Edition,” as this version is called, will become available in beta format starting in… Read More

Australian universities increase IT spending well above global average

Australian universities are increasing their IT spending as they improve learning and operational efficiency

Tuesday 19 April 2016

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Friday 15 April 2016

Stockholm’s public sector boosts productivity with a move towards mobility

The city has a mobile strategy that’s been embraced by staff and citizens

BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices

The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers

Microsoft steps up campaign against government surveillance

Microsoft is the latest technology firm to push back against the secrecy of US government data access requests, which it claims are rapidly increasing in number

Security Think Tank: Five tips for creating a patch management strategy

What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

Mitel and Polycom merge to form $2.5bn cloud unified communications firm

Communications and collaboration suppliers Mitel and Polycom pool their resources to form a $2.5bn unified communications (UC) powerhouse

Lack of career progression pushes IT workers to shop around for jobs

Research from EMC finds that a lack of career progression in their current organisation is the top reason IT people choose to move jobs

E-commerce struggles for growth in Asean countries

Online retail market growth in the Asean nations remains slow but nonetheless significant, according to a survey of consumer habits in the region

Magic Pony’s neural network dreams up new imagery to expand an existing picture

The source image on the left was used to generate the one on the right. A British startup is using the unique abilities of convolutional neural networks to do a sort of scaled-up version of Adobe’s content-aware fill — but instead of filling in the gaps in a picture, it’s imagining a whole new picture, larger and more detailed than the original. Kind of hard to believe without seeing it, right? That’s why they call their company Magic Pony. Read More

The wearable tech giving sports teams winning ways

How wearable tech is transforming the world of sport

VIDEO: The sphere drone that can deliver water

BBC Click's Stephen Beckett looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

VIDEO: Football star's biotechnology venture

Arsenal star Mathieu Flamini discusses his passion outside football, a biotechnology company that he runs.

Steel jobs 'can be saved by tech'

The UK steel industry is doomed unless it embraces cutting-edge technology, a Cambridge professor warns.

New Microsoft bot 'still learning'

Microsoft's latest bot, designed to describe the contents of photographs, says it is "still learning" after receiving mixed reviews online.

Apple 'abandons' QuickTime on Windows

Apple has stopped producing updates for its QuickTime media player software on Windows, according to security experts.

Pepper spray college 'hid web results'

The American university at the centre of a pepper spray row paid consultants more than $175,000 (£123,000) to bury online search results about the incident.

Doom free trial divides gamers

The studio behind classic shooter game Doom is inviting players to test the new version, Doom 4, for free from 15 to 17 April.

Cinema chain makes U-turn over texting

US cinema chain AMC changes its mind over allowing texting in some of its venues after its plan drew criticism online.

VIDEO: Drone racing to become TV sport

American sports TV network ESPN says it will begin screening drone races this August.

VIDEO: Surgery live-streamed in virtual reality

The operation of a patient undergoing surgery for colon cancer is streamed-live using virtual reality video.

Culloden battlefield laser-scanned

The Culloden battlefield site is being scanned to provide a detailed model of the landscape 270 years on from the Jacobites' final stand.

Implant lets paralysed man 'play guitar'

In a world first, a quadriplegic man can once again move his own fingers after a chip was implanted in his brain.

Army Reserve targets social media users

In a bid to recruit more part-time soldiers, the Army Reserve releases details of a survey showing young people spend more than three hours a day on social media and gaming.

Music streaming boosts sales of vinyl

Almost half of the people who bought a vinyl record in the last 12 months did so after hearing it on a streaming site like YouTube or SoundCloud, new research shows.

Yahoo brings eSports coverage to mobile with launch of new app

yahoo-esports Yahoo has recently been trimming down its digital media business, with the closure of several of its online magazines, but other verticals – including eSports – are still seeing investment. To that end, the company has now launched its first eSports mobile application on Android. The new app brings eSports match coverage, including the ability to watch live or replay past games,… Read More

Thursday 14 April 2016

Google urges enterprises to abandon data capacity planning in the face of IoT

Director of Google cloud platforms claims enterprises are wasting time trying to predict how their data needs will change over the next five years

Singapore’s Jurong Health Services: Transforming healthcare through data technologies

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) is being recognised for its high standards of data use

BT seeks security recruits

BT is to recruit 900 people to its security business in the next 12 months as part of a push against cyber crime

UK would need its own Privacy Shield deal with EU if it votes for Brexit

If the UK voted to leave the EU, it could face a difficult negotiation to conform to new data protection regulations, say experts

NCA attempts 'back door' access to obtain activist Lauri Love’s passwords

Court told that use of civil proceedings to force disclosure of alleged hacker Lauri Love's passwords is disproportionate and would breach human rights law

OpenStack accelerates into production environments

People are no longer just dabbling in the OpenStack private cloud – the OpenStack Foundation has found that many users are starting to undertake production work

GDS appoints Public Services Network head

Government Digital Service (GDS) elevates Mark Smith to head of the Public Services Network (PSN)

Wednesday 13 April 2016

Apple Pay struggles in Australia as banks profit from a fee-phobic market

Despite Australia being iPhone crazy its banks aren’t exactly rushing to enable the payment process

European Parliament set to approve EU data protection law

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ready for its final rubber stamp this week, with EU countries expected to pass it into law in two years

Enterprises that shun cloud comprise a business threat, says 451 Research

Hosted IT reaches a tipping point as analyst house 451 Research claims that enterprises shunning cloud technology constitute a risky proposition

Windows PowerShell tied to more than a third of cyber attacks

Security firm Carbon Black confirms widespread abuse of Windows PowerShell by attackers flying under the radar in line with the trend of exploiting operating systems

Security Think Tank: Allocate maintenance processes to each piece of key software

What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

Oculus demos a VR selfie stick

DSC05826 Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer strapped into Oculus’s Toy Box social den. There, 360 photos will appear as handheld spheres you can rotate to look at. But when smashed against your face, you’ll instantly teleported to where the photo was… Read More

VIDEO: Facebook reveals Surround 360 camera

Facebook reveals a high-end virtual reality camera that captures 360-degree footage in three dimensions.

VIDEO: Facebook takes steps to stop bot abuse

Facebook says it is taking steps to prevent hackers taking advantage of its new shop-by-bots facility on Messenger.

Drone woe Madeley hails 'Twitterpower'

TV's Richard Madeley hails "Twitterpower" after taking to the social media site to tackle a "peeping Tom" drone operator.

Gaming blamed for rail crash error

A German train controller was distracted by a computer game seconds before a fatal rail crash in February, prosecutors believe.

Uber issues first transparency report

Uber has joined some of tech giants in issuing a transparency report but concentrates on data shared with regulators.

Build your own house via the internet

We all crave a home at a price we can afford in a place we want to live. Now technology is helping to make that become a reality.

EU to harvest more air passenger data

The EU plans to give police more powers to see airline passenger details, in a major counter-terrorism initiative.

EU watchdogs reject Safe Harbour fix

Privacy watchdogs say changes must be made to a proposed EU-US data transfer pact meant to replace the Safe Harbour agreement.

Online scams 'target Apple customers'

Cybercriminals target people using Apple products as they are more likely to have disposable income, a security researcher warns.

Ofcom to present Openreach network access plan by summer of 2016

Ofcom’s Sharon White tells MPs she hopes to present detailed proposals on how BT’s rivals can access the Openreach network by the summer of 2016

UK poised to lead global fintech sector, says Tech City chair Eileen Burbidge

Tech City chair and venture capital expert says the UK is in a position to become a world leader in financial services and sheds light on how cloud can provide failing firms with a stay of execution

Collaboration vital to reduce economic impact of CNI cyber attack

The interconnected nature of critical national infrastructure (CNI) means the impact of the risk and the cost of a cyber attack grows exponentially every day

Tuesday 12 April 2016

How monitoring behaviour could unmask the fraudsters

The tech making online banking safer and easier

VIDEO: A wearable personal cinema system

From a personal cinema system headset to a retro games console - Tommy Sandhu looks at some of the latest travel gadgets

VIDEO: How graphene could change cycling

Why adding graphene to bicycle tyres makes them stronger and lighter with more grip

ID data losses hit 500 million in 2015

More than 500 million digital identities were stolen or exposed in 2015, suggests a report from security firm Symantec.

HTC 10 phone combats shaky selfies

HTC unveils a smartphone, which is the first to feature front-camera optical image stabilisation tech to reduce the chances of blurred selfies.

US considers 'breathalysers for phones'

New York legislators consider introducing technology that can analyse whether a phone was being used by a driver in an accident.

Hello, I am BBCTechbot. How can I help?

Chatbots are on the rise but what are they and why is everyone talking about them?

Singapore releases cloud outage guidelines

The Singapore government releases a set of tiered guidelines for organisations to follow if they have a cloud outage

Monday 11 April 2016

Openreach passes 25 million premises with fibre backhaul

BT Openreach marks another milestone in its national fibre broadband network roll-out

UK’s Daily Mail publisher eyes Yahoo’s assets

The Daily Mail parent company is putting together a bid for Yahoo’s news properties that would increase its US presence significantly

Hyperoptic launches FTTP services in Brighton

Hyperoptic rolls out its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband service to housing developments in Brighton

Competition and Markets Authority urges EC to kill Three's O2 merger

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urges the European Commission (EC) to rule against CK Hutchison's proposed acquisition of mobile network O2

Smith & Williamson starts legacy renewal with WhereScape Red

Financial services company Smith & Williamson migrates Cobol data into SQL Server data warehouse in a bid to recreate and cleanse legacy data

VIDEO: TomTom boss: 'You can go 100mph'

Harold Goddijn, chief executive and cofounder of TomTom, offers the business advice he wishes he had been given when he started out, for the BBC News series CEO Secrets.

VIDEO: Is this the world's safest helicopter?

An 18-rotor multicopter, designed to be safer than a traditional helicopter, takes its first manned flight in Germany.

O2-Three tie-up risks 'long-term damage'

The planned merger of UK mobile networks O2 and Three should be blocked or severely restricted by the EU to prevent serious damage, the UK competition regulator says.

Philippines elections hack 'leaks data'

The Philippines may have suffered its worst-ever government data breach barely a month before its national elections.

Blackberry to launch two Android phones

Blackberry will launch two mid-range Android handsets this year, chief executive John Chen says.

Petya ransomware encryption cracked

Anyone hit by the Petya ransomware virus can now recover their scrambled files without paying.

Why would anyone want to buy Yahoo?

The Daily Mail's owner says it is considering a bid for Yahoo - but why would anyone want to buy the tech giant?

Sunday 10 April 2016

SSE Enterprise Telecoms connects customers over CityFibre network

SSE Enterprise Telecoms becomes the first customer on CityFibre’s recently acquired long-haul national fibre network

Whatsapp adds end-to-end encryption

Facebook-owned messaging app Whatsapp heightens security for information sent through the service.

Phishing email that knows your address

BBC Radio 4's team investigate a new phishing scam which entices users to click on malware by claiming they owe money to UK firms.

Computer paints 'new Rembrandt'

A team of technologists working with Microsoft and others produce a 3D-printed painting in the style of Dutch master Rembrandt.

Huawei P9 uses dual-cam tech to refocus

Huawei unveils a dual-camera smartphone that can refocus photos after they have been taken.

FBI shuns call to reveal hacking tools

The FBI is resisting calls to reveal how it identified people who used a child pornography site on the Tor anonymising network.

Saturday 9 April 2016

Pfizer collaborates with IBM to use IoT to support Parkinson's treatment

Pfizer and IBM plan to work together on using IoT to monitor patients remotely to help in drug development and clinical therapies for Parkinson’s disease

Samsung forecasts 10% jump in profits

South Korea's electronics giant is forecasting a 10% jump in first quarter operating profit compared with the same time last year.

How to make money hunting cyber bugs

As the US government prepares for its first bug bounty programme, meet the bug hunters making money from finding cybersecurity weaknesses.

Setback for Playboy in hyperlinks case

A top EU lawyer says a website did not break the law by linking to Playboy photographs that had been re-published on another site without permission.

Video game Olympics announced for Rio

A new eGames international gaming tournament will make its debut in Rio during this summer's Olympic Games.

Volvo plans China driverless car tests

Swedish carmaker Volvo has said it plans to launch a self-driving experiment in China involving up to 100 cars.

Panama Papers revealed by graph database visualisation software

The 11.5 million files leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca are being interrogated by journalists using a combination of Neo4j’s graph database and data visualisation software Linkurious

Turkish authorities 'probing data leak'

Turkish prosecutors are investigating an alleged data leak of personal information of about 50 million citizens, according to reports.

Messaging app Kik opens chatbot store

Messaging app Kik is opening a kind of app store for robots, betting on a future when users chat to automated machines.

CIO Interview: Phil Pavitt, global CIO, Specsavers – Online not the only way

Specsavers CIO explains why the personal touch is as important as digital services for customers of health-related products

Friday 8 April 2016

CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business

VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

UK has hit 90% ‘superfast’ target, say broadband analysts

Statistics from broadband comparison site Thinkbroadband seem to suggest the government has hit its target of making superfast broadband available to 90% of UK premises

IT job seekers want to make bigger career moves

LinkedIn, which now has more than 20 million members in the UK, recently looked at how IT professionals’ jobs have changed over the past year

Security Think Tank: Tackle vital patching challenge with risk-based approach

What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

British innovation targets file manipulation malware

Innovative British security software firm Glasswall Solutions is tackling the growing threat of malware that tampers with files and exploits structural weaknesses in popular business document formats

VR and sport: What is the reality?

What is the reality?

How old banks are learning from a new breed of tech start-ups

How old banks are learning from a new breed of tech start-ups

VIDEO: Dara O Briain on Bafta games awards

The host of the Bafta games awards discusses some of the titles nominated at 2016's ceremony.

VIDEO: Batman: Arkham Knight is top British game

Adam Doherty, Sefton Hill and Nathan Burlow from Rocksteady Studios speak about Batman: Arkham Knight winning best British game at 2016's British Academy Games Award.

VIDEO: Doom creator honoured with Bafta

The creator of Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake is honoured with a Bafta fellowship at the academy's games awards.

VIDEO: Fallout 4: Bafta win 'unexpected'

US games developer Bethesda is caught by surprise as it wins 2016's best game prize at the Bafta awards.

VIDEO: 3D-printed 'Rembrandt' painting

BBC Click's Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

NCT parent details hit by data breach

A childbirth charity apologises to 15,000 expectant parents after registration details were accessed in a "data breach".

Thai police probe royals Line stickers

Thai police are investigating the release of a set of icons on messaging app Line, now withdrawn, which depicted the royal family.

Fallout 4 wins best game at Baftas

Fallout 4 wins best game at 2016's British Academy Games Awards.

Martha Lane Fox to join Twitter board

Digital pioneer Martha Lane Fox tweets that she will be joining the board of Twitter.

'Hack' puts explicit show on US radio

The producers of an explicit "furry" podcast say they are "deeply sorry" after it was broadcast on several US radio stations in an apparent hack.

New ransomware knows where you live

A widely distributed scam email that quotes people's postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher.

Security Think Tank: Five strategies for dealing with software security updates

What strategies can companies adopt to keep up with, and deal with, the huge volume of software updates they face?

Large global companies still manage supply chain with phone, fax and email

Digital supply chain management is still five years off for almost half of the west’s global firms

Time to cut IT costs again, predicts Gartner

IT spending has increased slightly, but not enough to fuel major digital transformations, says Gartner

How an IT department in a portacabin supports UK’s biggest critical infrastructure project

The man in charge of the IT supporting the UK's largest critical infrastructure project – the redevelopment of London Bridge station – tells Computer Weekly about life in a portacabin

Thursday 7 April 2016

Nokia slashes jobs after Alcatel-Lucent acquisition

Nokia embarks on a round of job cuts as part of its post-merger restructuring

Maynooth University modernises network to meet growth challenges

Maynooth University in Ireland has installed a Juniper-based campus network to support its future growth plans

CIO interview: Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO, Air France-KLM, on why WANs win business

Operating at locations around the world, the WAN is key to business success for airline Air France-KLM, says its global CIO, Jean-Christophe Lalanne

Samsung aims for 10% profit bounce in Q1

Korean mobile giant Samsung forecasts a turnaround in its financial performance during the first quarter of 2016

FBI briefs senators drafting anti-encryption bill on iPhone hack

US senators drafting a bill aimed at limiting encryption on consumer devices are being briefed on how the FBI hacked into the San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

Brexit debate: Why IT pros should vote to leave

IT consultant Peter Chadha gives five reasons why the UK would be better off leaving the European Union

Cargotec saves €2m by moving HR systems to the cloud

Cargo handling equipment manufacturer Cargotech reduces the cost of managing its 11,000 employees by moving HR systems to the cloud

Gateshead NHS Trust uses data visualisation to boost performance

Trust is using the Medway BI system provided by System C to enhance clinical, operational and financial performance

Executive interview: Harriet Green, IBM’s internet of things chief

Former Thomas Cook CEO is leading IBM's charge into the IoT, and is pushing its Watson AI technology as a unique differentiator

Security Think Tank: Six alternative strategies to centralised security patching

What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

Three makes new attempt to ‘sell’ O2 acquisition

Three parent CK Hutchison is understood to have made a number of further concessions to curry favour with European regulators

Rackspace debuts private cloud packages to drive up enterprise adoption of OpenStack

Rackspace claims pre-configured hardware, software and services stack will smooth enterprise path to OpenStack-based clouds

The murder victim and the media blackout

How Facebook posts disrupted a murder trial

VIDEO: Liquid-pumped robot made by 3D printer

Robotics researchers in the US develop a new technique to build working robots using a 3D printer.

VIDEO: A show driven by artificial intelligence

A new dance production, Pattern Recognition, will make use of artificial intelligence to drive the latest motion sensing technology

VIDEO: Sinclair sale: 30 years anniversary

A look back at the events that led British computer-maker Sinclair to sell out to its rival Amstrad 30 years ago.

VIDEO: Rapture game leads pack at Bafta awards

An indie title - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - is the frontrunner at this year's British Academy Games Awards after securing 10 nominations.

Suspect 'tried to flee by hoverboard'

A Florida man suspected of a drug offence tried to flee from US police on his hoverboard, an affidavit seen by the BBC says.

ZTE shares tumble as trading resumes

Shares in Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE slide in Hong Kong, as they resume trading after a one-month suspension.

Panasonic launches at-seat mobile payments for airlines

In-flight entertainment and connectivity specialist Panasonic Avionics unveils near-field communications system to let airline passengers use mobile payments in the air

SimpliVity adds Hyper-V support to hyper-converged products

Hyper-converged appliance maker adds Hyper-V support to VMware ESXi capabilities and upgrades OmniStack software to support workload optimisation on SimpliVity clusters

Two-thirds of farmers didn’t need to use ‘digital by default’ rural payments system

Internal review produced by Defra reveals full catalogue of errors that led to the withdrawal of the digital farm subsidy system in 2015

Wednesday 6 April 2016

UK and European firms invest in data protection ahead of GDPR

European firms are set to invest in data protection in 2016, with enforcement of the EU General Data Protection Regulation just two years away, Computer Weekly’s IT priorities survey shows

Barclays bank succumbs to Apple Pay

Barclays Bank brings Apple Pay to its customers nine months after its main competitors, with the announcement of its support of the app

Capgemini strengthens its Indian backbone

With half of its global staff now based in India, Capgemini expands its operations there by opening a facility for a further 30,000 staff

Panama Papers stolen by hackers, says Mossack Fonseca

Breach underlines need to focus cyber security on key data, say experts, after law firm’s founder insists the company was breached by an outside hacker

BBC to publish details of £560m enterprise ICT and hosting tender

Broadcaster seeks single supplier for IT provisioning, cloud management and hosting services, as Atos outsourcing deal nears end

The Met Office deploys Weather Cloud on AWS

Amazon Web Services will help the Met Office’s servers weather the storm of data requests as demand increases for location-based forecasts

IoT will shake up world of data analytics, says report

A report produced for US network operator Verizon says data analytics will become a core competency as the internet of things becomes more widely adopted by businesses

Atom banking app goes live

Digital-only bank makes app available to iPhone and iPad users, with Android version to follow soon

CW@50: From ICL to ITIL

Standardisation helps industries to grow. Here in the UK, a number of highly influential standards emerged that have become building blocks for the modern computer industry

Finnish contest looks for real-world 5G applications

Finnish city Oulu is running a competition to unearth apps that can utilise 5G networks

Volkswagen Group selects Mirantis OpenStack for private cloud build

Volkswagen outlines plans to use open source cloud platform, as it moves to embrace connected devices and agile software development techniques

Security industry welcomes WhatsApp encryption

The more encryption becomes ‘the norm’, the less resistance there will be to adopting it in businesses, say information security pundits

Is world's greenest office also smart?

The Edge has been given the highest ever marks for sustainability but is its radical technology helping workers?

VIDEO: An app-controlled 'day at the office'

Alexandre Janssen shows how a smartphone gives him a highly personalised day at the office, at The Edge building in Amsterdam.

VIDEO: Tech measures how hard you exercise

BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the latest wearable technology

VIDEO: Huawei phone uses Leica camera tech

Huawei launches a smartphone that it co-engineered with the camera specialist Leica, promising high quality photos that can be refocused after being snapped.

China's 'Great Firewall' blocks creator

Fang Binxing bypasses his own system after it blocks website access during a speech.

Drones to catch Dubai litterbugs

Waste management team says using drones to monitor beaches and campsites will save time.

Dog microchipping law brings fines risk

Dog owners who have not had their pets microchipped could face a fine of up to £500, as a new law comes into force across Britain.

Panama Papers firm 'victim of hack'

A partner at the Panamanian law firm at the centre of a huge leak of confidential financial data says it has been the victim of a hack.

Trump hotel group investigates payment card breach

Financial sector sources say a pattern of payment card fraud indicates hackers have breached payment systems at some, and possibly all, Trump Hotel Collection properties

'Citizens will be stripped naked' by Turkey’s data law

Turkey's data protection law, introduced in March 2016, will make Turkey a near total surveillance state, yet the EU, apparently more concerned about securing Turkey's help in controlling immigration, is turning a blind eye

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Facebook lets blind people 'see' photos

As the internet becomes a picture-led domain, Facebook launches a service for visually impaired people to 'see' photos using artificial intelligence.

Barclays joins Apple Pay in UK

Barclays becomes the last of the UK's major banks to support the digital wallet service Apple Pay.

Wiki art map 'violated copyright'

A website documenting public artwork in Sweden violates copyright laws, the country's supreme court rules.

PS4 gamer given bespoke controller

A 22-year-old computer gamer with cerebral palsy has received a Playstation controller especially adapted for him by Sony.

What is a warrant canary?

A warrant canary is a statement saying a company has not received secret requests for user data by government or law enforcement agencies.

Tesla blames 'hubris' for part delays

Tesla blames over-engineering of its Model X electric car for delays in getting them to consumers.

Digital Single Market: European Commission warned not to over-regulate online platforms

Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market

EU cyber security agency urges action to avoid crisis

EU countries lack a harmonised framework to respond to the challenges of a large-scale cyber incident, according to a report by security agency Enisa

Monday 4 April 2016

EY invests heavily in Singapore IT expertise

New centres of excellence will offer business transformation strategy, cyber security, analytics and manufacturing capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region

Dropbox gears up for new EU data protection rules

Certification on ISO27018 and planned European-based infrastructure put cloud file storage provider in good position for new EU rules

How operational analytics can help utility companies

Capgemini finds operation analytics has a low adoption rate among UK businesses despite many having data warehouses

Middle East enterprises warm to wearable technology

Organisations in the region are increasingly investing in wearable technology, but there are hurdles to overcome before there is broad take-up in the enterprise sector

Enterprise IT conference comes to the Nordics

IP Expo is holding an event focused on the Nordic region for the first time as countries such as Sweden and Finland become leaders in enterprise IT

Security Think Tank: Ignoring software patching spells trouble

What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing?

IBM plans ‘cognitive storage’ to cut costs for big data and enterprises

Big Blue’s Zurich research labs announce project in which storage systems learn to put value to data so it can be assigned the most cost-effective media and lifecycle policies

UK campaign launched against location data security risks

UK consumers are unwittingly signing up to be location tracked and this data is being used and sold on for commercial benefit, warns privacy campaign

Intel-backed Collaborative Cancer Cloud expands to include two more universities

Joe Gray from the Oregon Health and Science University explains how its cloud-based cancer research project with Intel is progressing

Brocade buys Ruckus Wireless to target 5G and IoT business

Supplier plans to enhance its play in emerging networking segments such as 5G and the internet of things

Obstacles to 'coding while black'

Exposing the real problems that keep minorities out of tech

VIDEO: Could a drone help spot landmines?

Scientists from Bristol University have developed a ground-breaking way to try and detect landmines.

Tesla Model 3 orders total 276,000

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says pre-orders of its much-anticipated Model 3 electric car currently total 276,000.

Crypto-challenge: the answers

If you want to know the answers to the crypto-challenges we set last week, help is at hand.

Taliban app removed from Google store

A new app for Android phones created by Islamist fundamentalist group the Taliban has been removed from the app store.

Movie studios attack revenge porn law

The Motion Picture Association of America opposes draft "revenge porn" legislation that is being considered in the US state of Minnesota.

Oculus offers shipping refund

Facebook-owned Virtual Reality firm Oculus is offering shipping refunds on all pre-ordered devices following delays.

Saturday 2 April 2016

From punch cards to smartphones

The Briton who almost invented the floppy disk in the 50s

VIDEO: The world of tiny architecture

Rebecca Roke celebrates the world of miniature architecture in her new book, Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things.

Barclays Bank closes US technology hub

Barclays Bank's investment banking arm will close its technology centre in McKinney, Texas, and move about 200 jobs

Google April Fool prank sparks backlash

Google removes an April Fool's Gmail button which sent a comical animated gif to recipients after reports of people getting into trouble with their employers.

Tesla launches 'affordable' Model 3

Tesla unveils its much-anticipated Model 3 electric car saying it will cost $35,000 and have a range of at least 215 miles (346km) per charge.

European Union GDPR data rules prompt cyber security review

Isolated legacy security systems are a big cyber security risk – but the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could change that, says Palo Alto Networks

Microsoft sets out to woo iOS, Android and Linux developers

Build is not just for Windows developers – Microsoft is keen to attract iOS, Android and Linux coders too

Aeroflot puts IBM analytics on board to personalise customer targeting

Russian airline Aeroflot has turned to IBM analytics technologies, including BigInsights and SPSS, to improve customer targeting

Friday 1 April 2016

Intel offers enterprises helping hand in making private clouds work for them

Chip manufacturer Intel sets out plans to help the enterprise deploy tens of thousands of cloud environments

Intel expands Xeon processor family to help enterprises build software-defined clouds

Chip manufacturer Intel unveils products and customer use cases in support of its software-defined infrastructure push

US and Canada issue joint alert on ransomware

Organisations urged to backup data because paying ransom does not guarantee files encrypted by ransomware will be released, warns an awareness-raising alert issued by the US and Canada

Singapore smart city chief delivers vision to the world

The Singapore government minister running the city state's smart nation project tells the world about the country’s smart nation vision

Financial services regulator reveals backlog approving peer-to-peer lenders

There is a backlog of firms waiting for FCA approval to become authorised peer-to-peer lending platforms

CHKN, letting you build and raise creatures, is betaworks’ latest game

Screen Shot 2016-04-01 at 9.25.00 AM betaworks doesn’t often launch games, but when they do, it tends to stick. Just take Dots, for example, which ended up spinning out of betaworks as its own game studio. Today, the startup studio is launching its second game in the form of CHKN. Imagine that Minecraft had a baby with a Tamagotchi from the 90s and you’ll have a pretty clear idea of how CHKN works. It’s a… Read More

Does 'pay by app' mean an end to shopping queues?

How 'pay by app' could transform the way we buy stuff

VIDEO: The ship that sails without a crew

BBC Click's Marc Cieslak looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

VIDEO: Meet Ronald, Apple's third co-founder

Many know the story of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - but could you name Apple's third co-founder?

VIDEO: 40 years of Apple in just over a minute

BBC Rewind looks back at Apple's highs and lows as the tech firm marks its 40th anniversary.

VIDEO: Tesla reveals Model 3 electric car

Tesla unveils its much-anticipated Model 3 electric car, which it hopes will take the company from loss to profit.

Huawei's profits up more than 30%

Chinese tech giant Huawei sees its profits jump 33% in the full year to December boosted by demand for its consumer products.

Blackberry squeezed as sales slump

Blackberry sales fall by almost $200m in the three months to February in a bigger-than-expected slide that sent shares down almost 8%.

English clubs to get free stadium wi-fi

England's Football League says free wi-fi for a set of official apps will be made available at Championship, League One and League Two stadiums.

Reddit kills snooping 'warrant canary'

Reddit removes a 'warrant canary', stating it has not received secret data snooping requests, from its transparency report.

Uber 'price-fixing' lawsuit to go ahead

A federal judge in the US refuses to throw out a lawsuit alleging that Uber's chief executive conspired with drivers to fix the cost of rides.