Uber shuts down in Denmark after less than three years

Changes in Denmark’s taxi legislation force transportation network company to cease its operations in the country

CNCF: Cloud Native Foundation drives portability forward

The Cloud Native Foundation conference in Berlin kicked off with a set of initiatives to take on board popular container engines from Kubernetes and Docker

In-flight electronics ban unsustainable, says IATA

The IATA calls on the American and British governments to urgently find alternatives to restricting the carry-on of laptops and tablets on Middle Eastern flights

Cyber attacks cost financial firms up to £1.6m a time

The costs associated with cyber attacks on the financial sector are rising as organisations face increasingly sophisticated threats, research shows

Are ethical questions holding back AI in France?

France has been slow to create a strategy around the use of artificial intelligence, partly due to questions around ethics

Non-malware attacks pose bigger threat than malicious software

Malware-free cyber attacks are on the rise and artificial intelligence in cyber security is still far from replacing humans, according to most cyber security researchers

Belfast Waterfront centre equipped with state of the art network

Belfast City Council has refitted its Waterfront conference and entertainment venue with new smart building connectivity to enhance the staff and visitor experience

Security Think Tank: Four guidelines on how balance security, usability and cost

How can organisations maintain usability and keep support costs low without compromising on security?

Almost 40% of firms seeking cloud skills find it hard to recruit

Most orgainsations agree that cloud skills are important for the future, but those involved in recruitment are finding it difficult to hire talent

Cyber defence just one of the skills next-gen IT professionals will need

Emerging technologies, the impact of Brexit and fintech companies are creating new opportunities for the next generation of IT professionals

Thorn CEO on using machine learning and tech partnerships to tackle online child sex abuse

The CEO of US-based no-profit Thorn explains how cross-industry collaboration and machine learning is helping her organisation stay one step ahead of online child sex abusers

Girls across UK take part in cyber skills event to promote tech careers

Young women from across the UK took part in cyber security event CyberFirst Girls, designed to promote girls with cyber skills and encourage them to pursue careers in technology

Apple denies hackers holding millions of iPhones, iCloud accounts ransom

Apple reassures customers that none of its systems have been breached, dismissing hackers' claims that millions of iPhones and iCloud accounts are at risk of being wiped

Almost 45% of men want a robot-led shopping experience in the future

Research reveals differences between what male and female, and older and younger consumers want from their shopping experience

How Google is riding the multi-cloud wave to win over the enterprise

The Google Cloud Next conference saw the internet giant share details about how enterprise appetite for multi-cloud deployments are working in its favour

LastPass releases fix browser extension security flaws

LastPass has been praised for its quick response in fixing flaws reported in browser extensions for its password manager

The rise of the ODMs: Should the branded hardware suppliers be worried?

The use of ODM datacentre hardware makes good economic sense for the hyperscale providers, but what about everyday enterprises?

FBI director reiterates call for action on encryption

The world is wasting time in resolving the conflict between privacy and public safety, and should consider an international framework on encrypted data access, says FBI director James Comey

Inside the well-planned metro network: how CityFibre does it

Computer Weekly met metro network builder CityFibre to find out why, and how, the organisation believes it can mount a credible challenge to Openreach’s dominance of wholesale fibre

UK labour costs are cheap but automation will erode jobs market

PwC has estimated that millions of people may be affected by robots and artificial intelligence replacing their jobs

Security Think Tank: Minimise data to cut costs and comply with GDPR

How can organisations maintain usability and keep support costs low without compromising on security?

AI and robots will 'create political instability' until humans find new occupations

The belief that advances in technology will create more jobs than they replace may no longer hold true

ISPs to pay automatic compensation for broadband faults

Telecoms regulator Ofcom says its plan, which would cover slow repairs and missed appointments, could see consumers in line for a payout of up to £185m every year

Case study: How the Department for Education deployed flexible IT

The Department of Education has upgraded its ageing datacentre to the Azure cloud and Office 365, and rolled out Microsoft Surface devices

UK impersonation fraud up 39% in last quarter of 2016

Just ahead of the end of the UK tax year, a survey underlines the importance of guarding against business email compromise aimed at stealing data and money

Dell joins HPE and Cisco at top of cloud infrastructure leader board

Cloud infrastructure is looking like a three-horse race between the big US suppliers, but the contract manufacturers are also in the running

IBM cognitive assistant to help manage and secure devices

IBM has announced a cognitive assistant powered by IBM Watson to help businesses manage and secure endpoints, including devices making up the internet of things

Global business leaders hail UK tech sector’s innovation potential

KPMG report reveals global confidence in UK tech sector’s ability to create innovative products and services that are keenly adopted across the world

Flash: it’s not all over yet

We look at the need for new approaches to storage as ever-increasing demands are placed on all-flash arrays

Cardiff man Samata Ullah admits terrorist charges after posting encryption details on Islamic blog

Samata Ullah, a resident of Cardiff, pleaded guilty to five terrorism charges, including developing an encrypted version of an Islamic website and posting videos explaining how to use encryption

How business analysts can bring a human touch to IT change programmes

Aviva business analyst David Beckham is keynoting at the Innovation, Business Change & Technology Forum on how his profession can help IT and other workers through trauma of change programmes

Storage fails the business as data balloons, survey finds

Lack of agility and failure of storage to keep pace with the business and data growth are major concerns to UK businesses that see data volumes increase by 27% a year

Security Think Tank: Governance framework key to best security at lowest cost

How can organisations maintain usability and keep support costs low without compromising on security?

HCL Technologies to support IT for Volvo Ocean Race

HCL Technologies is to build and support the IT that will make the Volvo Ocean Race available to spectators around the world

Many UK local councils still unprepared for GDPR, ICO survey shows

The ICO fines the Norfolk Council as it publishes GDPR guidelines for local councils after a survey revealed not all were up to speed in preparations to comply with the new data protection law

Openreach trains apprentice engineers in virtual reality

Openreach inductees get to experience an immersive simulation of life as an engineer, taking them up telephone poles and into underground chambers

NCC Group launches bounty for open source security flaw fixes

Firm hopes bounty scheme will inspire others to do the same to encourage security specialists to make open source software more secure

Royal Dutch Touring Club stimulates innovation and renewal of ICT

Dutch motoring club has shaped its business in a way that enables the business and IT department to innovate together

Powering the cloud: Unlocking the secrets of Google datacentres

At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the internet search giant opened up about how it secures, operates and stress-tests its growing cloud datacentre fleet

The true impact of a cyber breach on share price

As cyber security breaches become increasingly common, a security consultant explores how recent headline breaches have affected company valuations

Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services

Make identity management a foundation for cloud deployments

Every SaaS product has its own way to authenticate users, making it hard to keep track of which ones have access to which services

Cyber threat to UK business significant and growing

The UK’s NCSC and NCA publish a joint report on the cyber threats facing UK businesses, outlining the best response strategies

HPE, Dell and IBM suffer Q4 server sales slumps, as demand for ODM hardware grows

IDC's latest EMEA-wide server market sales tracker suggests soaring demand for ODM servers is hitting tier-one manufacturers hard

CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services

Digital Economy Bill amended to protect Openreach pensions

The government introduces an amendment to the Digital Economy Bill to protect the pensions of BT employees transferring into the newly independent Openreach business

IR35 research: 85% of contractors will quit public sector if tax status changed

Research by tax advisers QDos Contractor suggests few public sector off-payroll workers would be willing to stick around if made to pay the same tax as salaried staff

Scale Computing to bring NVMe flash to hyper-converged

Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Scale Computing is set to introduce NVMe connectivity to its products in 2017 with tiers of all flash also on the roadmap

Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy

NCSC chief calls for UK collaboration on cyber security

The National Cyber Security Centre is unashamedly ambitious in aiming to make the UK the safest place to do business online, which chief Ciaran Martin sees as an achievable goal

What’s in the UK government’s 5G strategy?

The UK government’s 5G mobile strategy was released to coincide with the Spring Budget. We look at some of its key aims

Middle East healthcare on cusp of IT innovation era

Healthcare in the Middle East looks set for a revolution, according to the first surgeon to use Google Glass during an operation

Recruiting women key to closing cyber security skills gap, say experts

The European cyber security industry has one of the lowest proportions of women and the highest gender pay gaps in the world, the latest Global Information Security Workforce Study shows

HPE buys Nimble Storage to fill an all-flash and hybrid gap

Hardware giant buys Nimble Storage for $1.2bn and plugs a gap below its high-end flash retro-fitted 3PAR arrays with ground-up solid state-based hardware

WhatsApp, Signal, ProtonMail safe from CIA hacking tools

Top secure messaging and email apps are said to be safe from CIA hacking tools, but organisations are urged to assess their own vulnerability if the tools were to fall into the hands of cyber criminals

Investment industry to spend $2.8bn on AI by 2021, expected to cut quarter of a million jobs

230,000 jobs in the capital markets sector globally will be defunct because of the adoption of artificial intelligence technology

Cloud-based ID management is key to PostNL’s public cloud strategy

Mail company uses Azure, AWS, Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics as it shifts from on-premise IT

Excelero NVMe over fabrics NVMesh brings SAN to hyperscale

Excelero aims at transactional and analytics use cases for webscale users that want to create SAN-like pools of storage with its NVMesh software-defined product

Abu Dhabi finance regulator pens fintech agreement with Singapore central bank

The financial services regulator in Abu Dhabi is co-operating with its counterpart in Singapore to promote financial technology developments

Storage performance 101: Server, array and fabric/network basics

We look at the key performance attributes of storage media in use today, and the choices and basic tuning steps you can take to get the most from your storage

Spring Budget advances 5G strategy and broadband funding

The government has launched its 5G mobile strategy to coincide with Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget, and has revealed more details of its planned broadband investment

Budget 2017: IT skills, 5G, broadband, and R&D receive funding boost

Chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond targeted improvements in innovation, connectivity and education in his latest financial update

BT, Ericsson, O2 and Vodafone expand Stem for girls scheme

BT and partners Ericsson, O2 and Vodafone are to expand a mentoring scheme launched last year to encourage girls into Stem careers

Retail industry steps up the fight against rising cyber threats

UK retail body BRC publishes the first of its kind step-by-step guide on how to manage cyber security threats

Four reforms to deliver competitive broadband

The UK will never benefit from ‘gold standard full fibre’ broadband without major reforms to the fabric of government, writes Ed Straw

ZF Group opens doors to Hyderabad tech centre

German car parts manufacturer ZF Group opens a technology centre in India to focus on software lead innovation

Bank branches still more popular than mobile apps for new accounts

Major research reveals the opportunities and challenges facing fintech firms

Accept everything is hackable, business told

Many companies are in denial about cyber attacks, but they need to accept that they are likely to be targets, that everything is hackable and that they need to act accordingly, says security expert Menny Barzilay

Can you work around SAP indirect access software licensing?

The SAP legal case against Diageo highlights the seemingly arbitrary rules governing software licensing

Build mobile experiences that drive engagement

Mobile experiences throw open the door to new opportunities for firms to win, serve and retain customers

AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud DR

The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT

More than a million Gmail and Yahoo account credentials on sale

Usernames, email addresses and plaintext passwords of more than a million Yahoo and Gmail accounts are reportedly on sale on the dark web, posing a threat to corporate security

UK sailing team picks BT to help beat Oracle at America’s Cup

BT is to supply a 4G wireless and fixed network to support the Land Rover BAR America’s Cup team, led by Olympian Ben Ainslie, in its bid to win the 35th America’s Cup

Crystal Palace Football Club uses app to securely share tactical information

IT is helping Crystal Palace football team to prepare for matches

NSPCC CIO on combining hybrid cloud with managed services to boost Childline resiliency

NSPCC CIO Ray Bilsby sets out the work the children's charity is doing to boost the resiliency of its flagship services, with the help of its managed services partners

HMRC blasted over "inaccurate" and "unreliable" IR35 online assessment tool

Public sector contracting stakeholders claim newly launched tool is returning inaccurate results over IR35 status of some public sector off-payroll workers

Cyber attack on Barts NHS trust exploited zero-day vulnerability

A cyber attack that forced parts of Barts NHS trust offline in January 2017 has been blamed on previously unknown malware that was able to bypass the antivirus systems, highlighting a common weakness in cyber defences

MWC 2017: Barcelona trial uses IoT and big data to manage tourists

Barcelona, the host city for Mobile World Congress, has been demonstrating its use of the internet of things and big data to help manage visitors to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

Yahoo breaches underline executive role in cyber security

Yahoo's data breaches cost its top lawyer his job, CEO Marissa Mayer millions in bonuses, and $350m off its sale price, highlighting the importance of executive involvement

MWC 2017: Huawei R&D focuses on vehicles, drones, virtual reality

Huawei used its presence at the annual Mobile World Congress fair in Barcelona to showcase a number of its mobile innovation programmes

MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities

Swedish municipality Järfälla signs €14m outsourcing deal

Swedish municipality signs a new IT services partner to drive digital transformation

Cloudflare reviews code after Cloudbleed bug leaks data

Cloudflare has published a detailed analysis of the Cloudbleed data leaks and promised ongoing code reviews to assure customers and partners

BT to create 1,700 apprenticeships and graduate jobs

BT has announced it will create 1,700 apprentice and graduate positions across its group businesses this year

IWM digitises vast collection in SpectraLogic tape archive

Imperial War Museum deploys SpectraLogic tape archive systems with LTFS Black Pearl in digitisation project for 21,000 hours of film and millions of images and voice recordings

Unite union members at Fujitsu on strike

Union members strike over jobs, pay and pensions after Fujitsu announced plans to cut it UK workforce by 1,800

Microsoft to discontinue Skype Wi-Fi service

Microsoft is retiring its Skype Wi-Fi service to concentrate on other services on the communications platform

DevOps done right: Why work-life balance matters to digital transformation success

DevOps practitioners warn enterprises off neglecting the health and well-being of the IT staff responsible for delivering their digital transformation projects

The internet of things: an overview

Despite security and other concerns, there are many benefits associated with embracing the internet of things

CloudPets’ data breach underlines need for secure cloud apps

More than two million voice recordings and e-mail addresses and password data for more than 800,000 accounts linked to an internet-connected toy have been leaked online

UK fintech investment down in 2016

Investment in UK fintech went down in 2016 but is still ahead of 2014 numbers, according to figures from FinTech Global

White boxes set to shift server buying habits

Traditional server providers still have the lion’s share of the on-premise datacentre market, but original design manufacturers are now a major force

Coadec suggests increase in software development apprenticeships

Not-for-profit Coadec urges the technology industry and government to increase the number of available software development apprenticeships in the UK to tackle the growing skills crisis

Old code haunts Cloudflare with memory leak scare

Ancient software has been blamed for a major memory leak affecting hundreds of thousands of web pages delivered via Cloudflare’s CDN

Welsh university offers fintech degree

Wrexham Glyndwr University becomes the latest education provider to launch a course in financial technology

Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years

At IBM’s Watson lab, customers marry the power of AI with the IoT

IBM formally inaugurated its Watson Internet of Things headquarters in Munich, Germany in February, and Computer Weekly went to meet the customers and partners who are using Watson AI to deliver on the promise of the IoT