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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 […]

By Tom Jowitt The German government continues to tighten its tech-related security with the introduction of “spy-proof” tablets that combine security technologies from both Samsung and BlackBerry. The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 tablets will be utilized by German government agencies that deal with classified information. Secure Tablets The Canadian firm said that the SecuTABLET is […]

By Tom Jowitt The United Kingdom remains a major target for criminals as security specialist Imperva reveals South Korea continues its run as the main source of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The latest DDoS Threat Landscape Report from Imperva also found that the United Kingdom continues to be the second most targeted nation […]

By Tom Jowitt The arrest comes just days after the British accounting software giant admitted that it was investigating a case of “unauthorized access” to customer data. Police Arrest Sage, of course, is one of the last remaining independent British software giants. It specializes in business software, having made its name in accounting and payroll […]

By Matthew Broersma The European Union is looking to extend some of the privacy rules that currently apply to telecommunications companies to cover internet-based services such as Skype and WhatsApp in a way that could restrict their use of encryption, according to reports. The EU’s plans could also oblige digital services to allow users to […]

By Nicholas Fearn A report published this week by law firm Nockolds claims Wales has the fastest growing digital economy outside London. The analysis shows that the total number of digital and technology businesses operating in Wales jumped by 9.2 percent last year, in comparison to 11.6 percent in the British capital. Last year, there […]

By Tom Jowitt Malwarebytes has published in-depth research into the enterprise ransomware problem, and the findings make for shocking reading. The survey examined how 500 CIOs, CISOs and other senior IT staff at firms with 5,400 staff in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany are coping with the ransomware problem. And the […]