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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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