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TECHNOLOGY POWERING BUSINESS
2016
Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04
Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04
British Spy Agencies Have Carried Out Bulk Data Collection For Years
British intelligence agencies have been bulk collecting our personal data to a “staggering extent”
Facebook Messenger Launches Group Calls
Up to 50 people can now conflab together thanks to new expansion of messaging app
DDoS Assaults Target UK As Bot Attacks Hit New High
UK remains a major target for criminals as Imperva report reveals South Korea is now the main source of DDoS attacks
Forget Big Data – Telcos Can Use Machine Learning For Future Success
Jane Zavalishina, CEO, Yandex Data Factory, explains how telcos can empower their data with the right disruptive technology
Microsoft Offering Free Cloud Training Programs For IT Pros
The company announces two free programs to help IT professionals brush up on their cloud computing skills on Azure
Microsoft Azure Launches Face Tracking, Emotion Detection In Preview
Azure Media Analytics puts Azure Media Face Detector and emotion detection into preview, can recognise happiness, sadness, anger, fear
UK Tech Start-Ups ‘Oppose Brexit’
Hundreds of UK tech start-ups and entrepreneurs sign open letter opposing Brexit in latest show of support for Remain campaign
Samsung Pay Just Smartened Up Mobile Payments
Partnership with leading payment terminal firms should make contactless mobile payments easier than ever
Opera Releases Desktop Browser With Built-In VPN
Free, 'unlimited' 256-bit encrypted VPN comes with Opera's latest browser release as company says "everyone deserves to be private online"
Sky Adds 46,000 Broadband Customers In Q3
Sky says customer service and content is helping company to profit ahead of mobile launch
Beware Of Bank Heists For The Digital Age
Kaspersky Lab's Kirill Slavin takes a look at the tactics being used by some of the new generation of tech-savvy bank robbers
Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 8, Revamps Cloud Suite
Red Hat talks DevOps, goes after telcos in latest OpenStack attack
EMC Revenue Slides Ahead Of Dell Purchase
EMC CEO describes results as “solid” as revenues slip ahead of pricey acquisition by Dell
CityFibre: Our FTTP Broadband Network Can Compete With Openreach
As revenues reach £6.4m, CityFibre explains how KCOM purchase, network architecture and ducts and poles can help it compete with Openreach
Researchers Tout Coal As Key Element In Future Electronics
As world moves away from burning coal, US scientists develop way to make electronics from the fossil fuel
Hootsuite Unveils Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Instagram Video Integrations
Video is "crucial" to organisations as they evolve their digital transformation strategies, says Hootsuite
Smartphone Resurgence Boosts ARM Results
Devices such as Samsung Galaxy S7 help push British hardware firm's profits back to black
Apple Consistently Compiles With US Data Requests
Privacy champion? Apple's own figures reveal it nearly always compiles with US requests for user data
EC Formally Charges Google With Abusing Android’s Dominance
Google abuses dominance of Android to stifle competition and preserve its lead in search, says EC
AWS Migration Tools Hope To Attract More On-Premise Workloads To The Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) ramps up efforts to entice businesses to its cloud with Application Discovery Service and bigger Snowballs
Amazon Takes Prime Now To Leeds And West Yorkshire
One-hour delivery for over 15,000 Items now available for Amazon Prime Members in Leeds
Web Hosting Site Squarespace Suffers Major Outage
Over a million Squarespace sites are down following second major hosting service downtime in the last week
Printing Giant Lexmark Targets Asia After £2.5bn Chinese Takeover
Lexmark finds a buyer as it continues to move away from printers into software
Dell Signs Up Microsoft, SAP And GE To IoT Partner Programme
New partner ecosystem sees Dell offer up its range of IoT solutions to businesses everywhere
Intel Cutting 12,000 Jobs As Pivot To Cloud And IoT Continues
Chipmaker reports steady revenues, but is taking a $1.2bn restructuring charge as company pushes cloud and IoT 'growth engines'
Almost All Apps Have Flaws, Trustwave Study Finds
2016 Trustwave Global Security Report reveals shocking cybercrime trends
Half Of British Firms Ban Workers From Using Free Wi-Fi Networks
Research from iPass shows 62 percent of firms in four countries ban free Wi-Fi and 94 percent believe it is a security risk
Are ISPs Doing Enough To Protect Businesses Against DDoS Attacks?
Nine tenths of firms say they want more protection from their provider and 80 percent of ISPs believe there is a business opportunity. So what's the issue?