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By Steve McCaskill UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has declared the technology industry to be the “future of the British economy” and said he wants rapidly growing areas like the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to be areas the United Kindgom can take the lead. In essence, he believes technology […]

By Matthew Broersma Major British financial institutions are looking into hoarding bitcoins for use in buying off online attackers as the risk posed by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks grows, according to a prominent computer security expert. Banks are now looking into buying bitcoins in order to have a way of quickly dealing with online extortion, […]

By Steve McCaskill Vodafone is enhancing its Internet of things (IoT) network with the rollout of Narrowband IoT (Nb-IoT) and a roaming agreement with satellite broadband provider Inmarsat. NB-IoT is a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology, which makes it more efficient to connect devices that require long battery life or are in hard to […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer London’s City bankers and workers are being hit by a substantial amount of ransomware as the Square Mile comes under more cyber-attacks than many countries. According to threat intelligence data collected by security firm Malwarebytes, the city came under nearly 10,500 ransomware hits in little over a year, significantly more than any […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer British intelligence agencies have been bulk collecting UK citizens’ phone and Internet data illegally for over a decade, a ruling by the Investigatory Power Tribunal (IPT) has revealed. Addressing a case levied at the government intelligence agencies by Privacy International, the IPT ruled that the collection of bulk communications data (BCD) and […]

By Matthew Broersma British banks are “dramatically under-reporting” computer attacks due to their fear of bad publicity, according to several IT security firms who provide services to them. Staff from five computer security firms that provide services and advice to United Kingdom banks said they have seen first-hand examples of banks choosing not to report […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer The European Commission has agreed on an approach that ends roaming charges in the EU and does not impose a limit on its use. “Commission action on roaming prices has delivered for European consumers. Today’s draft rules ensure we can end roaming charges as of 15 June 2017 for all people who […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer Samsung’s Gear 360 camera is being put to use by Euronews to bring immersive virtual reality (VR) news reports to its viewers. Euronews’ VR project will be integrated into the normal news production workflow of its international newsroom, with the idea of producing content which is viewable in 360 degrees. The 360 […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer Liverpool has been ranked the top UK city for overall mobile performance, according to data from RootMetrics. The company, which specializes in real-world mobile performance data, ranked Liverpool as the best city for overall mobile performance: a combination of reliability, data connection speeds, call and text reception from O2, Three, EE and […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer Amazon is bringing its virtual assistant powered Echo speakers to the UK and Germany this autumn, launching the voice-controlled internet of things (IoT) hub beyond U.S. borders. Using the Alexa virtual assistant, users of the Amazon Echo can use voice commands to instruct Alexa to control IoT devices, create shopping lists and […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer Mobile operators could be forced by the European Commission to offer their customers 90 days of free roaming each year, if its draft plans on mobile roaming are put into action. Following lengthy negotiations with mobile telecom firms, in 2015 the Commission decided that roaming fees across EU member nations would be […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer Accenture has opened up applications for its Fintech Innovation Lab in London to help early-stage startups working on financial technology to scale up. Now in its fifth year, the Lab offers 20 successful applicants a place on a 12-week program to accelerate their product and business development through access to mentorship from […]