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TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2016
Android Pay Adopted By Santander, NatWest, RBS And Ulster Bank To Chase Apple Pay
Facebook Brings Native Payments To iOS and Android Messenger App
The social networking giant has tweaked its chatbot platform with a suite of features
Space Tech Gets £2m Funding And Earth Observation Portal
The government is aiming to boost development of UK technologies based on earth observation satellites
HPE Aruba Gives Mobile and IoT Networks API Flexibility
Mobile First Platform allows the integration of third-party services via APIs and delivers real-time network information.
Microsoft To Kill-Off Lumia Smartphones By The End Of 2016
The Redmond company is expected to replace the Lumia smartphones with a Surface-branded Windows 10 Mobile phone
Councils Support Draft Broadband Comparison Rules
The proposed regulations would force Internet providers to make house-by-house speed estimates available to the public for the first time
Dell, HPE CEOs Debate the Merits of Their Strategies
Michael Dell says scale is necessary in a fast-changing IT world, while Meg Whitman says being smaller and more nimble will win out
Hackers Breach US Government, Sell Attack Source Code
Two linked hackers are selling tools used to breach US government and military networks along with a trove of 33,000 government staff records
Bitcoin: The Future Currency Businesses Cannot Ignore
Bitcoin and blockchain technology can usher in a new way for businesses to carry out transactions; there will be challenges but the reward may justify the effort
O2 CTO Talks Network Upgrades As Life Goes On After Failed Three Merger
O2 CTO Brendan O'Reilly says network will only get better under Telefonica despite failed Three merger but wants spectrum and dark fibre reforms
MoJ Struggling To Attract ‘Cooler’ Cyber Security Staff
Government is losing top talent because ethical hackers don't want to work for it, writes a senior recruiter
Google Play CallJam Malware Infects Half A Million Users
The CallJam malware achieved a high ranking through deception while raking in funds through premium-rate calls
ING Bank Data Centre Taken Offline By Noisy Fire System
Loud noise emitted during a fire drill destroyed dozens of hard disk drives at an ING Bank data centre
MIT Uses Terahertz Radiation And Sophisticated Algorithms To Read A Book Through Its Cover
The prototype system heralds the potential future for computational imaging technologies
Samsung Sells Printer Business To HP For $1 Billion
The move leaves Samsung free to focus on smartphones and memory chips, while boosting HP's leading printer business
DDoS Website ‘Ringleaders’ Arrested In Israel
The two teenagers were arrested after DDoS giant vDOS was hacked and its internal records exposed last week
Samsung Could Remotely Deactivate Unreturned Galaxy Note 7 Smartphones
Samsung is forcing French customers to abide by its recall instructions and return their Galaxy Note 7s if they don't wish to be left with an expensive paperweight
Harrow Council Integrates Watson AI Into Social Care Pilot
The cognitive technology is to help individuals and carers manage personal health budgets
Amazon CTO: We Were A Technology Company Long Before AWS
Boxworks 2016: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says Amazon has always been a technology company, just one that happens to do retail really well
One Year Post-IPO, Sophos Extending Its Security Platform
Sophos' CEO discusses the challenges and opportunities of being a publicly traded security company in 2016
IBM Reveals Power8 Linux Servers Aimed At AI and Big Data Workloads
Big Blue's new servers mix Power8 processors with Nvidia's NVLink technology
Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech
DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music
Google Will Shame Websites Without HTTPS Encryption Starting January 2017
Google will warn Chrome users away from insecure HTTP websites
GDS Aims To Boost Gov.UK Verify Adoption With Local Council Pilot
Government Digital Service will continue to push is government-as-a-platform plans beyond Whitehall but cloud challenges await
NHS Digital Bolsters Cyber Security Defences With Expanded CareCERT Service
Three new cyber security services will provide assessment and guidance on how NHS healthcare organisations can protect themselves
Moke Malware Hops Over From Windows And Linux To Threaten Mac OS X
Backdoor.OSX.Mokes can swipe data from Apple's operating system
Google Snaps Up API Firm Apigee To Boost Cloud Offering
The buy is aimed at boosting enterprise cloud offerings for web and mobile apps, Google says
Dell ‘To Cut At Least 2,000 Jobs’ Post-EMC Buy
Dell Technologies is planning to reduce supply chain, administrative and sales staff following the completion of its £45bn EMC deal
How 3D Printing Will Change Your Industry
3D printing is on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology but how will it change your business?