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• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Major shift predicted for IoT connection strategies

  Arrival of SGP.32 eSIM standard, as well as regulations and evolving industry dynamics, seen as transforming the market for cellular-based IoT connectivity, including emergence of orchestrator role

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Planning permission sought for UK’s largest AI datacentre campus

  North Lincolnshire Council has received a planning permission application for another large-scale datacentre development, in support of its bid to become an AI Growth Zone

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Microsoft Copilot AI saves civil service hours of admin work

  Over a third of Microsoft 365 users who took part in trials across government departments claimed they saved more than half an hour in productivity a day

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Cyber and digital get over £1bn to enhance UK’s national security

  The government has set out plans to spend over a billion pounds on digital and cyber warfare capabilities to enhance the UK’s ability to defend itself and fight offensive wars

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Agentic AI set to handle 68% of customer service interactions by 2028

  Research reveals that advanced artificial intelligence will drive more personalised, proactive and predictive support to transform customer experience delivery

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  AI in IT services and the diminishing correlation between people and growth

  While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from generative AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers are prepared for change

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Roig Arena to open with 6GHz Wi-Fi network and advanced analytics

  State-of-the-art sports and events arena set to open in Valencia in September 2025 reveals connectivity set up to guarantee expected fan experience with high-speed connectivity plus optimised venue operations

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  NPCC calls for better tech investment

  The National Police Chiefs’ Council sets out a series of digital ambitions and asks for £220m per year in the upcoming spending review to scale up science and technology capabilities

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  AI should be used to improve boardroom efficiency

  Artificial intelligence is not just for business efficiency. Company boards should deploy the technology to support their own processes

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends

  Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, sketches out cyber criminal trends as ransomware and other attack varieties become democratised beyond Russophone, skilled software developers

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  How Mistral is driving growth through open source and enterprise AI

  Company CEO Arthur Mensch details how the French startup is balancing its open source ethos with a strong enterprise focus and delivering efficient, customisable AI to solve business problems and expand its global reach

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Dutch businesses lag behind in cyber resilience as threats escalate

  While non-IT business professionals in the middle of their careers face the most disruption from AI, professionals in the IT services sector and their employers must prepare for change

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  T-Mobile for Business ups 5G fixed wireless access offer

  5G enterprise cloud WAN provider teams with operator to deliver high-performance FWA connectivity for business customers throughout the US

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Nokia unveils Wi-Fi 7 gateways as high-end router market sees growth

  As high-end segment of the router market is dominated by four firms and eases back into profit, leading comms tech provider introduces entry-level and mid-tier devices that can deliver speeds over three times faster than Wi-Fi 6 devices

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Tech adaptability helps Zopa unwrap current account and test generative AI

  Zopa Bank’s current account, already used by thousands of existing customers, will be made available to the wider public before end of 2025

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Noisy quantum hardware could crack RSA-2048 in seven days

  Research highlights the need for quantum safe cryptography given the speed with which quantum computing is evolving

• May 30, 2025 30 May'25

  Cloud migration demands contractual safeguards and clear strategy

  Cyber security experts urge organisations to define clear objectives, understand shared security models and implement strong data governance when migrating workloads to the cloud

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Wildix rolls out embedded agentic AI for UCaaS

  UCaaS provider offers real-time, codeless automation with shared memory, native privacy controls and ‘proven’ return on investment, live across more than 1,000 environments

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana

  Germany-based global chemical giant BASF has elected to move its SAP IT estate to S/4Hana private cloud to evolve its business in uncertain times

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Value of mobile device trade-ins up 40% in US

  Analysis for first quarter of 2025 sees value of turned-in mobile handsets reach $1.24bn, with trend towards newer models even as average device age rises

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  CEOs and IT chiefs misaligned on AI readiness

  A report from Kyndryl shows a significant gap in how business leaders perceive the AI infrastructure of their organisations compared with IT chiefs

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Nokia accelerates multi-Gig PON fibre broadband services

  Line card product optimised for cost-effective mass market 25G PON, while co-existence network element enables ability to run single fibre 10G, 25G and 50G services

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Post Office slammed after deleting social media comments on IT scandal

  Post Office accused of suppressing the views of victims of the Horizon scandal by deleting comments on social media platforms

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Gov.uk Wallet open to public sector bodies

  Government departments can soon begin to add documents to Gov.uk Wallet, as the Government Digital Service publishes guidance for public sector bodies on how to use the smartphone app

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Nvidia takes $4.5bn hit due to export restrictions

  Nvidia warns it could miss out on $50bn market opportunity as China ramps up its AI capabilities

• May 29, 2025 29 May'25

  Sweden claims world’s first 6G, edge-connected vehicle test facility

  Independent test environment unveils first 6G, edge-computing facility to test the limits of traffic and vehicle communications with near-perfect connected vehicle system reliability

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  UK biometric surveillance exists in ‘legal grey area’

  The rapid proliferation of ‘biometric mass surveillance technologies’ throughout the UK’s public and private sectors is taking place without legal certainty or adequate safeguards for the public

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Adidas confirms customer data was accessed during cyber attack

  Sportswear manufacturer Adidas has confirmed its systems were infiltrated by an unauthorised third party

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  HPE Aruba Networking expands distributed services switch platform

  Leading network tech and services provider extends offer with distributed services switches, and expanded wired and wireless portfolio, to meet increasing AI and high-performance computing demands

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  UK government upgrades over 50 existing mobile masts across nations

  UK government claims mobile signal boost across UK countryside covering area larger than 66,000 football pitches, with masts across England, Scotland and Wales, including natural parks such as Snowdonia and Lake District

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  DSIT tells Ofcom to prepare to expand regulatory remit to include datacentres

  During a recent audience with the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, Ofcom confirmed preparations are underway for it to start regulating the datacentre sector

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  VMware and Oracle licensing: Time to consider alternatives

  With so much Java code running enterprise IT, we consider the benefits of adapting existing systems to make them more cloud-native

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Jersey Telecom goes live with 5G Standalone network

  Full-service telecommunications company switches on first sites of its 5G Standalone network, built in partnership with Ericsson

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Remote purchase fraud surges 14%, says banking industry

  Brits lost over £1bn to payment fraud in its many forms last year, according to the latest banking industry numbers

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  ANZ firms spending more on data management

  Nearly nine in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand increased their overall spend on data management last year to cope with higher data volumes and growing use of artificial intelligence, study finds

• May 28, 2025 28 May'25

  Infor bets on ‘micro-verticalisation’, sees uptick from SAP customers

  Infor’s head honcho in Asia-Pacific and Japan details how the company's deep industry focus and cloud-native business applications are driving growth and attracting customers, including those rethinking their SAP roadmaps

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play

  Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Maturing UK fintechs increase tech and cyber security hiring

  Increased hiring reflects that fintechs are maturing and now require more cyber security and compliance experts

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  US makes fresh indictments over DanaBot, Qakbot malwares

  US charges the operators of two malwares, DanaBot and Qakbot, whose actions led to millions of dollars worth of cyber theft and fraud

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Government launches search to link UK to European supercomputers

  As part of Horizon 2020, the UK recently signed up to an EU initiative to support the expansion of high-performance computing for AI

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Armed forces charity steps in to address cyber mental health crisis

  CIISec and military charity PTSD Resolution hope to address a gathering mental health crisis among frontline cyber professionals

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Satellite connectivity service keeps airports online

  Air transport industry’s IT provider launches space-based comms system to deliver ‘reliable, secure communication’ in more than 130 countries, even during blackouts and emergencies

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Interview: Richard Masters, vice-president of data and AI, Virgin Atlantic

  The airline’s data chief is applying his expertise as a PhD in astrophysics to the nitty-gritty details of using artificial intelligence to improve customer experience

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Imec ITF World 2025: The hardware horizon for AI

  At its recent ITF World 2025 conference in Antwerp, Belgian research institute Imec delivered a pointed message: as AI accelerates, the world needs new thinking – not just in software, but in the hardware ecosystems underpinning it

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Norway’s autonomous bus moves into the fast lane

  In a small but ambitious project in Stavanger, Norway, autonomous buses are proving they might one day solve a critical problem: the chronic shortage of bus drivers

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  Immersive content to stretch wireless networks to breaking point

  Research finds video accounts for 69% of all internet data traffic, far surpassing social media and gaming, and that by 2031, limitations of current networks are already apparent

• May 27, 2025 27 May'25

  CTO and ESA cooperate to launch European space-based 5G connectivity

  Forward-looking agreement signed to test 5G mmWave telecoms infrastructure in low Earth orbit, paving the way for hybrid, universal and autonomous connectivity

• May 26, 2025 26 May'25

  Gartner: VMware users face multi-hypervisor future

  With two-thirds of organisations reportedly negative about Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes, Gartner analyst Michael Warrilow advises IT leaders of multi-year migrations and an inevitable shift towards multiple hypervisors

• May 26, 2025 26 May'25

  Gprnt platform to ease sustainability reporting

  Singapore businesses can now automatically generate basic sustainability reports free of charge using Gprnt, a platform aimed at simplifying reporting and unlocking green financing

• May 23, 2025 23 May'25

  Essex Police discloses ‘incoherent’ facial recognition assessment

  An equality impact assessment of Essex Police live facial recognition deployments is plagued by inconsistencies and poor methodology, undermining the force’s claim that its use of the technology will not be discriminatory