Joe Curtis
Latest articles by Joe Curtis
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Gov outlines £1.9bn cybersecurity counter-attack
By Joe Curtis published
News Chancellor will highlight legacy IT systems as a security hole for UK firms
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Will Brexit price Apple’s MacBook Pro out of enterprise IT?
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth Apple hauls up MacBook Pro price by 45%, despite IT budgets shrinking
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Apple Hello Again Event: What we want to see
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth What will Apple announce tonight?
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Microsoft unveils new Surface Studio All-In-One
By Adam Shepherd, Joe Curtis published
In-depth Microsoft unveils rumoured desktop Surface for designers
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John Lewis startups get £200,000 in funding
By Joe Curtis published
News Retail tech firms offered contracts after completing accelerator scheme
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Foundation aims to ship 100 million micro:bits
By Joe Curtis, Clare Hopping published
News Micro:bit Educational Foundation may release new version of device in 2017
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UK's National Crime Agency joins fight against ransomware
By Joe Curtis published
News No More Ransom hopes to publish new decryption tools with 13 new members
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How to handle personal data (without getting hacked)
By Joe Curtis published
In-depth The IT Pro Panel asks how you can handle personal data safely
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Gov 'must reskill UK to surviva AI automation'
By Joe Curtis published
News Committee inquiry criticises government’s lack of leadership on digital skills
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Verizon wants to help you migrate to Oracle’s cloud
By Joe Curtis published
News Telco offers secure and speedy data transfers into another cloud
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Facebook launches its business messaging service, Workplace
By Ingrid Fadelli, Joe Curtis published
News Facebook takes on Slack and Yammer with enterprise collaboration tool
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Sophos cuts ties with Quadsys, after reseller hit by guilty verdicts
By Joe Curtis published
News Sophos kills connection to reseller, five of whose staff hacked competitor's email
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Pokémon Go’s Google Cloud was hit by 50x expected server traffic
By Joe Curtis published
News Developer Niantic teamed up with Google to ramp up capacity to meet demand
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How Everbridge saved South Western Ambulance Service £80,000
By Joe Curtis published
Case Studies Cloud communication platform helps trust improve incident response
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BlackBerry ends its 20-year history of hardware production
By Joe Curtis published
News Canadian firm will outsource smartphone manufacturing to focus on software
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New Raspberry Pi OS offers RealVNC remote access
By Adam Shepherd, Joe Curtis, Clare Hopping, Caroline Preece published
In-depth Now you can remotely manage your Raspberry Pi project from a tablet or PC
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Dropbox lets EU businesses store data in Germany
By Joe Curtis published
News But Brexit causes uncertainty over UK customers’ data location options
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Three outsources customer services to Capita
By Joe Curtis published
News The £70m deal allows Three to use Capita’s analytics to improve service
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A nation state is learning how to take the internet offline
By Joe Curtis published
News Bruce Schneier: DDoS attacks are targeting companies that host the web
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Documentum co-founder: OpenText sale will hurt customers
By Joe Curtis published
News John Newton claims customers will lose out after $1.62bn acquisition
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Intel to spin off McAfee in $4.2 billion private equity deal
By Joe Curtis published
News Intel to sell controlling share of its security division to TPG
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Apple iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review: First look
By Joe Curtis published
First look The iPhone 7 is here – is it any good?
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MoD and NHS sign up as first tenants of Microsoft’s UK cloud
By Joe Curtis published
News Microsoft's UK datacentres let you store data locally
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