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By Tom Jowitt GitHub’s business-focused service has been upgraded to version 2.8, and comes with a host of new features designed to help developers deal with business projects. GitHub Enterprise offers the ability for developers to manage their work directly from GitHub repositories thanks to ‘Projects’, and also gives a more streamlined code review and […]

By Roland Moore-Colyer PayPal has joined forces with Apple to enable payments to be made through voice commands to the Siri virtual assistant. iPhone and iPad users with Siri on their devices can simply request money to be sent to another user through a voice command such as “Hey Siri, send Bill £50 using PayPal,” […]

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 […]