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June 30
- Apogee staff to tackle gruelling 100-mile cycle
- John Lewis kicks off accelerator programme with five start-ups
- Maindec and CSA Waverley become MCSA
- Samsung Galaxy S7 vs S7 Edge vs S6: Rumours for the Galaxy S8 begin to surface
- Google’s submarine internet cable spanning the Pacific ocean goes live
- Mobile ransomware attacks increased fourfold in last year
June 29
- Red Hat adds management support for Google Cloud
- Red Hat improves container support with enterprise platform upgrade
- Tintri reveals ‘laser-focused’ channel strategy
- Mozilla uses emoji to teach about encryption
- techUK outlines five-point post-Brexit plan
- Qualcomm looks to get into augmented reality with new chips on Project Tango
- Pinterest launches new online shopping tools
- The UK has the fastest mobile internet speeds in the world
- Apple sued for $10bn over iPhone, iPad and iPod IP infringement
- Two-thirds of used disc drives on Craigslist and eBay contain sensitive data
- 65% of enterprises already use IoT technology
- Information Commissioner signs off with overview of year
- US authorities may demand travellers share social media info
June 28
- CloudLock acquisition offers key to Cisco security strategy
- House of Lords hits out at Snooper's Charter
June 27
- Teachers fired after using Slack to insult pupils
- Help fight sex trafficking by taking photos of hotel rooms
- Intel to sell off cyber security division: reports
- Hackers behind Locky and Dridex start spreading new ransomware
- Is Google planning to release its own smartphone?
- Hackers take over Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s social media
- Oracle's policies document gives notice of 10-hour outages
- Data protection laws will not change following Brexit vote
- Safe Harbour replaced with EU-US Privacy Shield
June 24
- Google project allows millions to march along in virtual Pride parade
- Kayleigh Bateman profile
- Young people must be encouraged to adapt for digital future, experts say
- SAM Labs profile
- Brexit makes it harder to attract top talent, say start-ups
- Google Ventures looks to invest in security and Europe
- Boston Dynamics unveils newest 'robodog', SpotMini
- FBI can hack computers with no warrant, US court rules
- MapR updates channel programme
June 23
- Silicon Valley commits to inclusive recruitment
- MoD taps up its own staff for security work
- IT Pro is 10! We celebrated by celebrating industry successes
- Dropbox scans sticky-notes and searches your receipts
- Smart cities must democratise technology to succeed
- Should working robots be considered "electronic persons"?
June 22
- British firm addresses channel partner recruitment
- How should the tech industry vote? EU referendum pros and cons
- Game Developer Barbie sells out online
- Read Google's five rules for human-friendly AI
- CloudFlare blames Telia Carrier for internet outages
- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg covers webcam with tape
June 21
- Dell sells off software business
- Capita acquires Trustmarque
- Ed Vaizey: Leaving the EU 'will put UK skills at risk'
- Capita buys Microsoft partner Trustmarque for £57m
- Red Hat's Ansible-native tool manages your Docker Linux containers
- Samsung outlines aim to be one of the 'top three' 5G firms
- Apple blocks buggy Flash Player versions
- Twitter acquires London AI start-up Magic Pony 'to improve Periscope and Vine'
June 20
- Dell spins off software division to private equity firms
- Major internet outage reported across Europe
- Robots to outnumber humans within 20 years, Brits predict
- UK customers are safe from Acer credit card hack, company says
- Hacker makes off with $60 million in cryptocurrency
- CEO's pay should be linked to security performance, says government committee
- Fifth of London tech companies still have no female board members
- Bank of England develops distributed ledger proof of concept using PwC's blockchain
- Enfield Council adopts IPsoft's Amelia platform
June 17
- IBM Watson drives 3D-printed autonomous bus around Washington DC
- Salesforce considered LinkedIn purchase
- UberEats struggles to meet demand on launch day
- Apple fights ruling to ban iPhone 6 sales in China
- eBay hires Uber's head of diversity as part of inclusion push
- Bluetooth 5 promises double speed boost for IoT
- Google announces European research centre
June 16
- NetApp takes a swing at Flash rivals
- Outsourcery calls in the administrators
- Samsung bolsters cloud ambitions by acquiring Joyent
- Anonymous hackers flood ISIS Twitter accounts with gay porn after Orlando shooting
- HPE announces OpsBridge analytics-driven IT software
- Could blockchain hold the key to secure personal identities?
- Data breaches costing businesses £2.53m per incident
June 15
- Facebook updates social network with suicide prevention tools
- Flash flooding takes down TalkTalk web services
- Manchester Digital pledges to grow tech sector in the north
- Symantec to pay $4.65 billion to acquire Blue Coat
- Trump data held by Democrats was 'hacked by Russia'
- Zuckerberg says telepathy is the future of communication
June 14
- Tenable and ServiceNow partner up for security services
- BT to provide public sector ICT services
June 13
- Brother UK MD Phil Jones awarded MBE
- Microsoft buys LinkedIn
- NetApp: “We’ve got our mojo back”
- Apple vs FBI: NSA reveals why it couldn't hack San Bernardino iPhone
June 10
- IBM and Portico join forces on digital cloud services
- Ingram Micro offers Dropbox Business on UK Cloud Marketplace
- Cyber attacks on SMBs 'cost UK economy £5.36 billion'
- How HPE helped Dropbox leave AWS servers to build its own
- Twitter freezes accounts in the wake of password leak
- Tesco Mobile offers customers discounts in return for ads
- PC sales threatened by power of detachable tablets
June 9
- TfL and Twitter launch live alerts for Tube and rail customers
- AmazonFresh grocery service takes on UK supermarkets
- Apple outlines plan to take smaller revenue cut from ‘reliable’ apps
- Yandex puts data and analytics services into SAP HANA
- AI employment crunch is "fanciful", claims HPE exec
- Passenger drone being tested in Nevada
June 8
- HPE wants to bring heavy-duty analytics to the IoT
- Gov delays EU referendum voter deadline until midnight Thursday after website crash
- 444 MPs push Investigatory Powers Bill forward into House of Lords
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan release date and features: Is it worth upgrading?
- Microsoft targets .NET Core with new bug bounty rewards
- Collaboration makes flexible workers happier
- Government backs HutZero cybersecurity pre-startup
- A fifth of companies don't tell us about data breaches
June 7
- SCC banks on services for growth
- Dimension Data names new UK & Ireland MD
- Raspberry Pi thin clients are "good for the industry", says inventor
- Three tries to stop Vodafone and BT buying too much spectrum
June 6
- Axl Rose claims copyright infringement in bid to remove 'fat' photos from internet
- Microsoft’s new AI tells stories based on your photos
- Mitsubishi Outlander hybrid car can be wirelessly hacked
- Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts have been hacked
- Google's big red button should stop AI becoming too powerful
- Secret documents reveal MI5 and GCHQ's close relationship
- App & iTunes Store news: Apple makes it easier to discover content with redesigned App Store
June 3
- Visa unveils new contactless payment ring
- Instagram to add tools for business
- 36% of ex-employees are breaking the computer misuse act
- Uber brings Deliveroo-style UberEats service to UK
- IBM and Cisco take IoT insights to the edge of the network
- Oracle employee claims company wasn't accounting properly
June 2
- Brexit: SCC chief warns EU exit will damage economy
- Brother team throws itself into charity challenges
- SolarWinds acquires LogicNow
- Vivaldi 1.2 adds custom mouse gestures and smarter tab options
- $45 million cyber theft gang busted in Russia
- Microsoft makes Dona Sarkar head of Windows 10 Insider Program
- Q&A: Rob Bamforth
- UK businesses are not ready for GDPR
- Outlook and Hotmail email accounts hit by spam attack
- iPhone shipments to fall in 2016, while Android makes gains
June 1
- Does your smartphone mean more to you than your folks?
- European data protection supervisor says Privacy Shield not robust enough
- Microsoft signs deal to pre-install apps on Android handsets
- Archive 360 eyes greater Office 365 adoption