Joe Curtis
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Slack outage: Slack gets knocked down, but gets up again
By Joe Curtis published
News Workers everywhere forced to use email, or even to walk over to someone's desk

Rural businesses demand better 4G coverage
By Joe Curtis published
News Ofcom must demand better service from mobile operators, CLA says

HMRC amasses five million UK citizens' voice recordings
By Joe Curtis published
News Tax office creates "mass ID scheme" by the back door, Big Brother Watch claims

Apple offers free fixes for faulty MacBook keyboards
By Joe Curtis published
News Tech giant relents after lawsuits and petition demand it to fix its troubled design

SAP stole our trade secrets to build HANA, alleges Teradata
By Joe Curtis published
News Vendor files suit against SAP for 'violating antitrust laws' to build its data-processing platform

HP Inc loses Personal Systems chief
By Joe Curtis published
News Ron Coughlin leaves the tech giant, with commercial PC boss replacing him

App Maker gives end users a low-code way to automate tasks
By Joe Curtis published
News LoB users can build their own apps to fill holes missed by traditional CRM and HCM

Questions you still need to ask SAP about indirect access
By Joe Curtis published
Analysis SAP believes it has solved customers' concerns around indirect access, but some unanswered questions remain

IBM expands cloud availability with 18 new zones
By Joe Curtis published
News UK, Germany and Japan get new datacentres as IBM makes IoT push
Privacy Shield should be suspended, say MEPs
By Joe Curtis published
News Committee cites Cambridge Analytica scandal and CLOUD Act as obstacles

Mayor of London hails capital's AI firms
By Joe Curtis published
News Sadiq Khan outlines plans to use more data and urges startups to solve social challenges

SAP reveals C/4 HANA, its bid to reinvent CRM
By Joe Curtis published
Analysis ERP giant still can't convince major industries to buy its front-office tools over Salesforce's kit

Quantum computing could help fight terrorism, says UK gov
By Joe Curtis published
News Counter-terrorism strategy embraces tech, but warns of future extremist digital capabilities
The 10 worst excuses for male-dominated company boards
By Joe Curtis published
News Hampton-Alexander Review brands firms' excuses as "pitiful and patronising"

Give DCMS responsibility for GDS, urges think tank
By Joe Curtis published
News Former Cabinet Office minister says "it's time to reboot" government digital efforts

Facebook and Google already face GDPR complaints
By Joe Curtis published
News Just days into GDPR, tech giants already face legal tussle over consent
Greenwich University fined £120,000 for sensitive data leak
By Joe Curtis published
News Data breach exposed students' health data via unsecured microsite

Rackspace releases its own managed Kubernetes service
By Joe Curtis published
News Currently available only on Rackspace, it's coming to managed versions of AWS, Azure and more

Gatwick Airport modernises network in a $15m deal with HPE
By Joe Curtis published
Case Studies How CIO Cathal Corcoran ensured the 18-month project avoided a bumpy landing

Q&A: HP's George Brasher talks innovation in legacy markets
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth The UK & Ireland MD charts a course for welcoming, and retaining, more women in tech

Up to 270 women's 'lives shortened' due to NHS IT error
By Joe Curtis published
News Jeremy Hunt reveals coding mistake led to 450,000 missed screenings

Don't panic if you miss the GDPR deadline
By Joe Curtis published
Opinion With less than a month to go, many organisations are expected to remain non-compliant

Google's G Suite redesign draws on AI to kill email clutter
By Joe Curtis published
News Confidential mode also aims to protect personal data and reduce risk of user error
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