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By Duncan Macrae More than half of UK businesses (54 percent) plan to employ a chief IoT officer within the next year. This is especially so in the education (63 percent), retail (63 percent) and telecomms (64 percent) sectors, research commissioned by cyber-security specialist Webroot and data center organization IO has revealed. IoT Investments This […]

By Michael Moore Global mobile watchdog GSMA has unveiled its Embedded SIM Specification, which it says will help accelerate the growth of the connected car market by providing a framework for manufacturers to follow when developing new devices. This new specification, which already has the backing of major manufacturers such as General Motors, Jaguar, Land […]

By Duncan Macrae A significant number of businesses are looking overseas for IT talent to supplement local skills and knowledge. This is one of the key findings from an international study by IT resourcing specialist Experis. International Workers The research investigated different approaches to resourcing from companies around the world across a variety of IT […]

By Tom Jowitt A strike by lecturers and researchers has halted IT classes at 14 institutes of Technology across the Republic of Ireland. It comes as the country heads into a general election later this month, in which the state of the Irish economy features heavily. Strike Action The one-day strike by 4,000 lecturers and […]

By Steve McCaskill The European Commission (EC) has called on member states to plan the reassignment of 700MHz frequencies for mobile broadband by 2020 to help accommodate growing demand for data, cross-border application and the arrival of 5G networks. The proposals would require all 28 members of the European Union to make their plans public […]

By Ben Sullivan Up to 80 percent of IT pros in the United Kingdom have moved or are planning to move some of their workloads onto OpenStack, according to a study by SUSE. But despite this heady uptake, those quizzed are also worried about how difficult it is to install private cloud and OpenStack, and […]

By Ben Sullivan Europe’s NaviSite has been chosen by engineering solutions provider Costain to provide hybrid cloud hosting services for a technology that weighs the loads of vehicles and their abnormal loads in England. Ready to be implemented by Highways England, the Electronic Service Delivery for Abnormal Loads (ESDAL) platform helps alert highways authorities, structure […]

By Michael Moore Barclays customers’ long wait for Apple Pay support could be over by early April after an email claiming to be from the bank’s CEO suggested support will roll out by mid-April at the latest—nearly a year after the contactless payment system launched in the United Kingdom. Ashok Vaswani told Oli Foster-Burnell that […]

By Steve McCaskill Industry body TechUK has called for the election of a “truly digital” Mayor of London that will promote the capital’s technology firms, and encourage the sector’s growth through the establishment of favorable conditions for investment. Londoners will vote for their next Mayor on May 5, when the Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith and […]

By Matthew Broersma The government’s chief scientist has urged the United Kingdom to take an active role in developing distributed ledgers—such as the “block chain” technology that drives the digital currency Bitcoin—for use in the public and private sectors. Bitcoin’s block chain is the best-known implementation of a distributed ledger, forming a permanent record of […]