Thursday, March 31, 2016

Fintech axe to fall on a third of banking jobs over next 10 years

More than a third of jobs at European banks will disappear over the next decade as the adoption of fintech-based services grows

Fintech axe to fall on a third of banking jobs over next 10 years

More than a third of jobs at European banks will disappear over the next decade as the adoption of fintech-based services grows

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Ofcom must be ready to take radical action over Openreach

The government says Ofcom should take whatever action is needed to correct the problems the regulator identified in its communications market reviews

Ofcom must be ready to take radical action over Openreach

The government says Ofcom should take whatever action is needed to correct the problems the regulator identified in its communications market reviews

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Sweden's central bank puts brake on cash-free society

Sweden has been on a fast track to become the world's first cashless society, but now its central bank is stamping on the brakes

Sweden's central bank puts brake on cash-free society

Sweden has been on a fast track to become the world's first cashless society, but now its central bank is stamping on the brakes

Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Israeli companies disrupting mobile technology

Israel's high-tech startups are developing innovative technology that will bring new capabilities to consumers and mobile phone operators

Urban broadband speeds three times higher than rural

Ofcom releases statistics on average broadband speeds in the UK and finds the gap in experience between town and country dwellers remains as wide as ever

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Google ups ante in cloud infrastructure services with global datacentre expansion plans

Google is set to expand global datacentre footprint, as competition in the cloud infrastructure services market heats up

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Santander launches voice-controlled banking

Santander has made technology available that enables its customers to control its mobile banking app and access information using their voices

Monday, March 21, 2016

Singapore and Malaysia most aware of gap in IT availability

The gap between IT availability and what users want is clear to organisations in Singapore and Malaysia, according to a global study

Friday, March 18, 2016

Australian girls believe online harassment is endemic

There are clear signals that online threats against women and attempts to invade their privacy are becoming societal norms in Australia

Thursday, March 17, 2016

AWS at 10: How the cloud giant shook up enterprise IT

A decade on from the launch of its first cloud service, the UK managing director of Amazon Web Services reflects on its first 10 years in business

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Fintechs want to take one-third of traditional banks’ business

Banks know they could lose large chunks of business to fintech firms, but if the challengers have their way, it will be more than expected

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Monday, March 14, 2016

New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks

Friday, March 11, 2016

RTÉ leans on satellite broadband to cover Irish general election

Irish TV network RTÉ turned to satellite ISP Europasat to support its coverage of the country’s general election

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Equinix taps into Open Compute Project to build open source datacentre ecosystem

Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

Innovate UK and UKTI lead Asean smart city mission

Smart city technology developers are heading to Malaysia and Singapore on a government-led trade mission

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Open source not best bet for all business analytics projects

Many enterprises today are building their business analytics programs around open source tools, but one software company took a different path.

Friday, March 4, 2016

Facebook to overhaul UK corporation tax-paying regime – report

Social networking giant plans to book larger deals with British firms via its UK arm, paving the way for it to pay more corporation tax

Thursday, March 3, 2016

US researchers begin solar-powered datacentre research project

Massachusetts-based project aims to uncover how best to integrate datacentres and smart grids

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries