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Santander uses blockchain for international payments
Bank is using blockchain to underpin its latest app, which enables customers to make international payments 24 hours a day, which clear the next day

UK challenger bank OakNorth puts its core systems in AWS cloud
UK challenger bank OakNorth is putting core banking systems in the Amazon Web Services cloud

Nordic CIO interview: Petteri Naulapää, Stockmann
CIO of Finnish-listed international retailer tells Computer Weekly about the department store’s journey towards omnichannel

Australian police raid opposition offices over leaked broadband documents
Australia’s federal police have raided the offices of a Labor opposition politician in an investigation into leaked National Broadband Network documents

Avoiding a security nightmare at South Australia’s Catholic schools
Taking on the challenge of securing student and organisational data while ensuring easy access to resources

Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud
Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings

BSA warns of malware risk from unlicensed software
While piracy rates are declining, unauthorised software poses a big security risk, says the Business Software Alliance

Healthtech brand Qardio adopts NetSuite OneWorld
Qardio, a brand offering health technology devices, wanted an ERP system to deal with billing, accounting and taxes in different regions of the world

Cortex helps football charity kick off translatable website
Homeless World Cup’s new website will help homeless people around the world improve their lives through football tournaments

UK Government details plans for National Cyber Security Centre
The objectives of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre are to address systemic vulnerabilities, reduce risks, respond to serious incidents and nurture national cyber security capability

European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research
451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share

GDS begins publication of PSN performance data
The government makes public data gleaned from its monitoring of the performance of the Public Services Network to help customers understand their networks

Bet365 gets SwiftStack object storage as NAS pulls up short
Online gaming firm Bet365 is set to replace NAS for data with 0.5PB of more scalable and elastic object storage, built on SwiftStack and commodity SuperMicro hardware

IoT increases cyber and legal risk, say experts
Organisations embracing the internet of things must be aware of the information security and legal liability risks, experts warn

Microsoft confirms job cuts at Nokia smartphone business
Big job losses in Finland as Nadella has a rethink on Windows phones

MasterCard, TfL and British Airways join for travel tech hackathon
The payments provider is running the event alongside BA and the UK local government body responsible for London’s transport system to create new travel services

EC sets out proposals for online platform regulation
The European Commission has outlined a number of proposals to better regulate the operation of online platforms in the Digital Single Market

An overview of cloud customer relationship management
Businesses are confident about buying customer relationship management (CRM) software as a cloud-based service. Computer Weekly looks at the main players

How The Hague solved its bike parking problem with a mobile app
City authorities in The Hague are cleaning the streets of wrecked and abandoned bicycles with the help of Kony’s mobile app platform

French authorities raid Google’s Paris office in tax fraud probe
French investigators raid Google’s Paris office to follow up complaints by tax authorities of acts of aggravated financial fraud

CSC and HP’s services division merging, joint sales could hit $26bn a year
Both entities will take an equal stake in the new business

Huawei sues Samsung alleging patent violations
Huawei has filed lawsuits in China and the US, accusing Samsung of infringing a number of its patents relating to mobile technologies

Theresa May agrees to review proposed bulk data collection powers
Labour welcomes the government’s commitment to review bulk data collection powers in the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, but says more change is needed to win the party’s backing

Atos hits Rio 2016 Olympics IT milestone
The IT underpinning the 2016 Olympics in Rio enters a critical phase as one of its essential event management systems starts to work

HPE second quarter results reveal risks in CSC services deal
HPE’s CEO Meg Whitman admits the company’s flagship private cloud will need to run in CSC/ES datacentres

A new wave of cyber attacks targets the Middle East’s banks
Hot on the heels of the Qatar National Bank breach comes a campaign employing advanced social engineering techniques

Australia’s government commits to fintech innovation and blockchain
Australia’s latest government budget included commitment to the financial technology revolution, but what developments are already afoot?

What the EU’s new data protection laws mean for UK industry
The General Data Protection Regulation, which will come into force on 25 May 2018, could have a big impact on any company in the world that deals with the personal data of EU citizens

TVOne deploys NetSuite ERP to utilise data analytics
Audio visual hardware producer TVOne chooses NetSuite’s ERP application to help handle and interpret its new and historic data

Network Collapse: Why the internet is flirting with disaster
It’s surprising the internet works at all, given the age of its core software. The question is, can we catch it before it falls over?

Benelux CIO interview: Stefaan Motte, Materialise
CIO of Belgian 3D printing company explains how selling software to competitors is good for a fledgling industry

Unchecked social media use can damage career opportunities
Allegedly tech-savvy millennials are letting social media stand in the way of job prospects as potential employers turn to the internet for background information

Interview: Kate Johnson, chief commercial officer at GE Digital, on digitising manufacturing
GE Digital’s CCO is driving service revenue growth through the commercialisation of Predix, the company’s big data and analytics software platform, as it seeks to exploit the industrial internet of things

New Zealand reaps fibre benefits as copper-choked UK risks digital exclusion
Telecoms and technology consultant, futurist and ex-BT CTO Peter Cochrane highlights the urgency for the UK to consider FTTP if it wants to maintain its place in the world economy

CIO interview: Cloud a necessity at News Corp
News Corp’s global CIO, Dominic Shine, discusses how the media giant’s five-year cloud strategy has driven the business

Philippines expands tax payments with mobile system
The Philippines tax office is enabling people to access more services via their mobile phones

Nutanix aims Xpress hyper-converged appliances at SMEs
Hyper-converged pioneer launches slimmed-down version of enterprise products with its own hypervisor, VMware or Hyper-V on board

UK government announces CyberFirst bursary scheme
GCHQ will partner with other government departments and private industry to offer students a comprehensive package of financial assistance and cyber skills

Datacentre operators look to Africa for new co-location growth opportunities
Data sovereignty concerns and a growing digital economy are fuelling demand for new datacentres in Africa, say analysts and operators

The emergence of the Creative CIO
A new kind of transformational and strategic CIO has started to appear, willing to harness disruption techniques and add value to the organisation

Dutch mastering the art of big data analysis
Gathering and analysing huge amounts of data offers the promise of business efficiency and new opportunities. We look at what this all means for the once-cautious Dutch

Graph databases: What are the benefits for CIOs?
With enterprise interest in graph databases on the rise, Clive Longbottom explains why some businesses are favouring them over relational setups

How 3D printing will disrupt industry worldwide
The technology is helping startups model prototypes and inventory suppliers lop millions from supply chain costs

CIO Interview: Grant Hodgkinson, Mimecast
CIO and vice-president of digital operations at the email security expert explains the importance of electronic communication in the modern business environment

Three Ireland sets out to become an omnichannel operator
Mobile network Three Ireland chooses Amdocs to support a ground-up rebuild of its systems and processes after acquiring O2’s Irish business in 2014

Vue Entertainment uses Rackspace to manage online demand for blockbuster movie tickets
Cinema chain explains how its ‘lean and mean’ IT team relies on Rackspace to meet the growing online demands of moviegoers

IBM PCM leap opens way to new layer of enterprise storage
IBM shows off triple-level cell phase change memory and says PCM can be used as faster adjunct to flash storage and extension to DRAM memory

Middle East CIOs put ambitious IT projects on hold as cheap oil hurts business
A lack of business confidence leads some organisations in the Middle East to delay or abandon ambitious IT projects that may not show an immediate return

UK emergency services upgrade set to save lives
The UK government introduces an open standard for emergency services’ IT systems to improve the speed and efficiency of responses to incidents