News Archive | October 2016

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October 31st
- Google's AIs learn how to encrypt their own messages
- FBI reopens Hillary Clinton emails case in election twist
- Firms fear startups will wipe out their business models
- EU has "serious concerns" over WhatsApp data sharing
October 28th
- 550,000 Red Cross blood donor records leaked due to "human error"
- Internet users 'unlikely' to use hacked companies again
October 27th
- Qualcomm set to acquire NXP Semiconductors
- Another emergency patch fixes 'critical' Flash player flaw
- Microsoft shifts its focus on tools and devices for creative professionals
- AWS wants to help you move to the cloud without downtime
- Nokia beats rival Ericsson in Q3 earnings report
- Councils spend more on 'mindfulness' than on IT security
October 26th
- IT departments must stop being a “Ministry of No” and face shadow IT
- Slack uses Watson AI to troubleshoot users' IT queries
- Vodafone fined £4.6m for failing to top up pay-as-you-go customers
- Intel debuts Atom E3900 Series for IoT
- Microsoft boss says it missed the boat on mobile
October 25th
- John Lewis startups get £200,000 in funding
- Smartwatch sales slump 52% as hype wanes
- Facebook might stop censoring some newsworthy content
- Apple fixes bug that lets hackers take control of iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac
- UK MPs call for Obama to stop Lauri Love's extradition
October 24th
- VMware transitions beyond vSphere business
- Was Mirai malware behind Dyn DDoS attack?
- Brexit pushes Microsoft enterprise prices up by 22%
- AI can predict 79% of human rights trial verdicts
- Intel Haswell chips open to malware flaw
October 21st
- Vodafone sets narrowband IoT rollout date for 2020
- Five ways to get rid of your old phone
- Slack now counts four million daily users
- 75% of companies 'lack enough security staff'
- London City Airport promotes its CIO to COO
- LGA demands cheaper broadband for poorest people
October 20th
- UK banks slammed over lack of two-factor authentication
- Stephen Hawking: AI could be either the best or the worst thing ever
- 100% 4G coverage 'will reach UK by 2020'
- Brexit hits global IT spending for 2016
- Amazon sets sights on providing broadband
- Dell EMC consummates union with HCI
October 19th
- Dell EMC gears up for industry 4.0
- Foundation aims to ship 100 million micro:bits
- Dell EMC reveals new enterprise security portfolio
- HPE confirms staff redundancies as it aims to be "nimble"
- Rackspace announces latest version of Compass
- 90% of businesses think it's too hard to delete customer data
- Gov appoints its first director general for digital
October 18th
- First details of Dell EMC Partner Program revealed
- Dell EMC World kicks off
- HPE previews new partner specialisations
- 'Dyre' malware resurfaces, targets Australian banks
- Samsung may only release one smartphone in 2017
- UK's National Crime Agency joins fight against ransomware
- IBM almost ends loss streak with gains in cloud
- Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph Storage now available on ARM v8-A
- Telefonica and VMware tie up on VDC IaaS
- Met Police rolls out body cameras
- Julian Assange cut off from accessing internet
October 17th
- GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 "unlawfully" collected data for over a decade
- Ancient Ghost Push malware 'threatens 57% of Android devices'
- AI will help Royal Navy warships detect combat threats
- Germany bans Tesla from advertising Autopilot feature
October 16th
- TES Global calls up Contino for help moving to AWS
October 14th
- UK banks 'hide hacks to avoid bad PR'
- IBM, Google and others rival Intel with OpenCAPI development
- Google Pixel vs Samsung Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 7
- Acronis appoints new distribution sales manager to drive Europe strategy
- HP will cut up to 4,000 jobs by 2019
- 'System failure' grounds United Airlines flights
- Apple might be about to buy a magic keyboard company
- Western Digital announces it's shipped 10m helium HDDs
October 13th
- Ocado deploys email AI to improve customer service
- This software wants to protect your connected car from IoT hacking
- Google DeepMind just learned to read the London Underground map through memory and basic reasoning
- Google plans first undersea network between LA and Hong Kong
- PC shipments continue to nosedive
- Google 'plans to recommence work on London HQ'
October 12th
- Government ‘must reskill UK workers to survive AI automation’
- Dell EMC launches new enterprise storage
- Fujitsu to cut almost 2,000 jobs to save money
- Symantec: Another hacking group is targeting SWIFT users
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be available from 1 November
- TfL hopes to ease traffic with crowdsourced data
October 11th
- Level 3 appoints CTO and CIO
- Verizon wants to help you migrate to Oracle’s cloud
- Syncplicity makes files more accessible with SyncDrive
- BlackBerry Priv review: Could it be Blackberry's saviour?
- Arrow now offering Red Hat’s hybrid cloud solutions in UK
- Facebook launches its business messaging service, Workplace
- NHS 24 now delayed until December 2017
October 10th
- Theresa May 'bans Apple Watch from UK cabinet meetings'
- US officially accuses Russia of leaking DNC emails
- Apple and Samsung dispute moves to Supreme Court
- NHS trusts targeted in ransomware strikes
- Facebook pays £4.1 million in UK tax
- Turkey blocks Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive after RedHack leaks
- Apple re-awarded $120m in Samsung spat
October 7th
- Snapchat 'is planning a $25 billion IPO'
- Windows Troubleshooting Platform 'is serving malware'
- AT&T and AWS team up with consolidated cloud offering
- Mozilla and Google block The Pirate Bay
- False flags making it harder to find root of cybercrime
October 6th
- Companies up spending on cybersecurity
- DCMS calls on business to help fight growing skills gap
- Fujitsu ponders selling off PC business to Lenovo
- Yahoo email scandal could derail Safe Harbour replacement
- Amazon creates 300 jobs at new Daventry distribution centre
- New strain of ransomware mimics Locky
- Samsung acquires next-generation AI assistant Viv
- University of Birmingham chooses Brocade as network partner
- Francis Maude fears for future of GDS
October 5th
- Is Salesforce taking on Watson with Einstein AI capabilities?
- Diversity in tech: Why it's OK to be different
- Steve Jobs died five years ago today
- Google Pixel hands-on: Android's newest premium smartphone
- Canalys Channels Forum: Michael Dell talks channel
- 4G coverage outside London: which regions fare the worst?
October 4th
- Salesforce hones in on services and ISV growth
- Johnson & Johnson warns that its insulin pump can be hacked
- Three and TalkTalk urge Ofcom to cap mobile spectrum ownership at 30%
- Microsoft opens up Azure datacentre in France
- Facebook confirms interest in building Denmark data centre
- Sophos cuts ties with Quadsys, after reseller hit by guilty verdicts
- Users can already buy drugs and guns on Facebook Marketplace
- Chancellor Philip Hammond promises £220 million investment in UK tech sector
- Government takes fight to hackers with National Cyber Security Centre
- ICO says UK should adopt EU-style data protection rules post-Brexit
October 3rd
- What Google's Android antitrust punishments would look like
- Nutanix becomes most successful IPO this year