Dispatch from the Super Internet

GoToMeeting adds AI transcription features, Amazon Alexa integration

Android apps: Best of the best

Amazon develops transgender resources for employees

GDPR exposes breach reporting flaws

UK government cyber security standard welcomed

10 macOS 10.14 Mojave secrets

Cloud storage: Amazon vs Azure vs Google vs IBM Softlayer

Home Office criticised over ESN review progress

Openreach starts full-fibre roll-out in Exeter

DevOps done right: Securing grassroots support for a top-down DevOps enterprise push

British Muslim considers appeal after court rules repeated terrorism stops are legal

Sometimes you just gotta take a broader view

The best travel apps for Android

UK biometrics strategy criticised for lack of content

BlackBerry's Android upgrade track record should give anyone pause

Manufacturers, technology and the fourth industrial revolution

MacOS Mojave: How to use Quick Actions in Finder

PizzaExpress launches augmented reality football game

TfL partners with Siemens to revamp traffic network for connected cars

First Lorca cohort to focus on security orchestration

IT decision-makers increasingly opt for cloud-native architectures

Google courts Hollywood creative community with Los Angeles cloud datacentre region

UK tech startup wants businesses to share their surplus compute capacity to run its cloud

Almost 30% of LGBT+ young people choose to avoid a Stem career

Throwback Thursday: Essential, defined

Review: The BlackBerry KEY2 gets things done

“You’re reviewing a BlackBerry?” my 16-year-old asked, incredulously. “What is this — the 1980s?”

First of all, kid, you need to check your timeline: BlackBerries first came out in the ‘90s, not the ‘80s. Second of all, well, yeah. Point taken. This is not a phone for teenagers. This is a phone for Getting Stuff Done.

BlackBerries are not cool. They may actually be the definition of anti-cool, although the company would vastly prefer the word “iconic.” When the folks from BlackBerry and TCL (the Chinese company that actually builds the device) debuted the phone for the press a few weeks ago, scarcely a sentence was uttered that didn’t include some form of the word “icon.”

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Ticketmaster warns of third-party data breach

Want a more digital workplace? You’ll have to overcome resistance to tech

Lorca will help drive UK cyber exports, says ex-GCHQ boss

BBC launches online archive for 1980s Computer Literacy Project

Nationwide Building Society to fund tech statups to the tune of £50m

Mingis on Tech: BlackBerry's Key2 phone is for 'masters of the universe'

Brexit a greater risk to UK financial system than cyber attack

Government must challenge popular smart city misconceptions

MacOS Mojave beta first look: Stable, powerful and about you

Cyber criminals 'infect and collect' in cryptojacking surge

Technology key to keeping staff happy

Brent Council tenants to receive full-fibre broadband service

How (not) to speed up the system

Why Microsoft’s big bet on deep learning could go bad

HSBC puts humanoid in New York branch

AI and other tech key to post-Brexit success, says Matt Hancock

TeenTech announces its 2018 award winners

The always-connected Chromebook: What's different this time

SSE Enterprise Telecoms bids to solve UK’s backhaul problem

How the internet of things and edge data impact data storage

British Muslim challenges use of intelligence databases for repeated police stops

CIO Leadership Live with Douglas Blackwell, CIO at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey | Ep 12

In this episode, host Maryfran Johnson talks with Douglas Blackwell, senior vice president and CIO at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, about digital transformation in the healthcare industry, including voice enablement and cutting-edge digital tools.

Apple's iOS 12 Public Beta is available now: First thoughts

Hospitality industry under siege from botnets

Urgent!

What is Quick Base? A low-code database platform for citizen developers

Windows Update Survey: What do you think about Microsoft’s patching regime?

NHS collaborates with private health on sharing patient data

Norway’s National Security Agency warns IT industry about security obligations

Microsoft expands datacentre footprint in Norway

Liberty Global picks Cisco to transform customer service ops

Data locked in legacy systems curbs digitisation plans

Visa reveals causes of payment chaos

Barclays banks on DevOps to support 'all-in' move to AWS public cloud

Projects receive funding to help digitise manufacturing

Electricity problems in Amsterdam could hamper datacentre growth

VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy

World Cup 2018: Apple’s AirPods play a beautiful game

Nordic and Baltic states agree on joint approach to AI

UK privacy groups join call on EU to halt comms data collection

Most infosec pros would trust hacker-tested products

Openreach extends Gfast broadband roll-out

IoT could be the killer app for blockchain

Adapting to the rise of the holistic application

Mobile spectrum sharing is vital for UK 5G roll-out, says report

Well, one of the problems anyway

Apple rejects claim of iPhone brute force hack

Why mobile satellite is flying high

Assessing the hyperscale squeeze on G-Cloud's SMEs

BEIS and DfE not addressing Brexit impact on Stem skills, says PAC

Surge in number of women in IT contracting roles

Vexata doubles capacity in NVMe flash storage VX family

Big Win10 1709 patch reinforces twice-a-month patching pace but, oddly, nothing new for 1803

UK cyber skills in demand, says Dorset firm C3IA Solutions

The macOS 10.14 Mojave new screenshot tools guide

UKCloud invests £25m in building secure cloud platform for top secret government data

Apple pushes privacy theme in Safari for iOS 12, 'Mojave'

Finished, redefined

IBM early findings on disastrous TSB core banking system migration released

Firms look to automation for cloud security

SME provider takes on Cambridgeshire public sector network contract

CW500 interview: Andrew Chapman discusses how to run successful IoT projects

CW500 interview: Chad Naeger discusses how to run successful IoT projects

CW500 interview: Miranda Sharp discusses how to run successful IoT projects

Making sense of Google's podcast flip-flop

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich resigns over past relationship with fellow employee

Infosec pros expect increase in nation state cyber attacks

CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft

Nokia outsources IT infrastructure and application services to HCL

Government sponsors diversity cyber academy

How and why you should use text clippings on your Mac

Lloyds Bank cuts 450 jobs to make way for digitisation roles

HR projects are leading company moves to digital tech, say business leaders

How Apple plans to tweak device management this year

Though it didn't make the WWDC keynote, Apple did get unveil some changes to the device management features used by business and schools for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and even Apple TVs. Those tweaks and updates were discussed at a developer session that took place earlier this month, and they highlight areas IT admins should be focusing on now before the arrival of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave this fall.

Apple Business Manager arrives

One fairly new option that's already available in this area is the Apple Business Manager, which was unveiled in the spring and went live to U.S. customers earlier this month. (It will roll out internationally in the coming months.)

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Throwback Thursday: Get the picture?

Younger employees 'main culprits' for security breaches

How NHS visa cap exemption could help boost tech sector

CW ASEAN: Banking on buckets of data

CW ANZ: Object storage hits a sweet spot

Need for speed: designing a modern campus LAN

Teradata sues SAP over Hana for stealing trade secrets

Vodafone to start 5G trials this autumn

Ethical AI requires collaboration and framework development

CIO interview: Mike Young, Centrica

Mobile operators appeal for dark fibre access to back 5G

Why software giants are failing

Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020

San Francisco 49ers add pace to the team with NVMe flash from Datrium

Oracle full-year results show 6% growth, but cloud revenue opaque?

Apple ‘raised the bar’ for enterprise IT

Banks already looking for EU-based IT staff for post-Brexit operations

Dutch organisations must unite to fight DDoS attacks

Is Microsoft already killing off Windows 7?

Why do we even bother paying these IT guys, anyway?

Chief data officers go to summer school

Most small businesses fail to act after a cyber attack

The best workplace perks in IT

The offerings run deep at Computerworld's 2018 Best Places to Work in IT. Comprehensive health insurance is just table stakes.

Microsoft quietly cuts off Win7 support for older Intel computers

Android's sharing system is morphing into an unpredictable mess

Tech firms partner to double female and BAME founders by 2020

Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services

Visa reveals 'rare' datacentre switch fault as root cause of June 2018 outage

Government’s broadband service obligation derided by industry

Surface web used in private data sales

CIO interview: Michael Cole, European Tour and Ryder Cup

Deloitte: Apple’s Health Records an ‘inflection point’ for healthcare

MPs see risk to critical infrastructure as top threat

NHS trust dumps creaking EMC SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

Which iPhones, iPads support Apple's iOS 12?

UC Berkeley puts blockchain training online; thousands sign up

Public cloud giants' use of ODM datacentre kit continues to soar, Synergy Research shows

Think of it as meeting the needs of the company

Getting hands-on with industrial control system setups at RSA | Salted Hash Ep 31

Host Steve Ragan is joined on the RSA 2018 show floor by Bryson Bort, CEO and founder of SCYTHE, to talk about the ICS Village, where attendees can learn how to better defend industrial equipment through hands-on access to the equipment.

Microsoft becomes devoted to open source developers

Which Macs will run Apple's macOS Mojave?

NVMe over Fabrics brings benefits of NVMe to shared storage

Girls taking key stage four computing subjects down 30,000 from 2014

Brexit Britain be warned, there are countries better geared to take the world's tech talent

Rubrik CDM 4.2 extends data protection to Amazon cloud storage

Bank uses AI to select job candidates

Win10 Update Facilitation Service joins Update Assistant V2 to make sure you get patched

Apple’s iOS 12 will save thousands of American lives

DevOps done right: How to break down the IT department silos without alienating developers

Wait, how can you be unclear on the concept of HEAT?

Good work, and good works, at Cloud for Good

Pariveda Solutions: Everyone has a path to VP

Workday is a great place to work, and it wants to stay that way

Plante Moran: One firm, one focus on innovation

Dignity Health: Compassionate patient care and passionate IT

Best Places to Work in IT 2018

Making sense of Microsoft’s cloud developer platform

Here comes BYOSD (bring your own smart display)

Google moves to end website installation of Chrome extensions

IPsoft’s digital worker is part of a shift in human productivity

Why has Apple put Mac users in the Mojave desert?

Win10 (1803) declared 'fully available,' throwing Windows Update for Business under the bus

How Ocado built an online grocery delivery platform business

Datacentre industry must stop doing itself down on sustainability, says EUDCA board member

Microsoft proclaims Windows 10 1803 enterprise-ready in record time

Failure, redefined

Nordic healthcare services provider outsources IT infrastructure

Apple wins praise for adding 'USB Restricted Mode' to secure iPhones

Which Android phones get regular security updates? Here's a hint

Is your company part of the GDPR 'mobile loophole'?

Government Geospatial Commission opens up OS MasterMap data

Encryption is under attack, says Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson

StorageCraft to unveil unified storage, backup and cloud appliances

AI is key to keeping IBM compliant with GDPR

WWDC: Industry experts praise Apple's Health Records API

Case study: Mercedes F1 team makes gains with Pure Storage all-flash

Nominations open: Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2018

Ofcom satisfied with progress on BT Openreach split

Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre

Cyber attack warnings highlight need to be prepared

Throwback Thursday: Well, no, not exactly

CW Europe: Lufthansa’s HR IT project takes off

Take-up of Transport for London’s BYOD scheme leapt last year

NCSC urges action after Dixons Carphone breach

Bank of England to set minimum service requirements after TSB and Visa outages

Everything you need to know about Apple's iOS 12 Screen Time beta

Everything you need to know about Apple's iOS 12 Screen Time beta

Advanced network supports new learning model at Northampton Uni

Datacentre DIY: Can the hyperscale cloud giants afford to ditch their colocation partners?

DCMS sets out plans for National Data Strategy

Microsoft previews Office 2019 for Mac

Tips on reducing IT expenditure

Alexa for Business: What it does, how to use it

Not so fast!

Chrome OS: Tips, tools, and other Chromebook intelligence

Dixons Carphone admits 'falling short' on data protection

How to get smarter missed call reminders on Android

The way blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are governed could soon change

Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city

IT teams should rework supplier contracts to free up budgets

CityFibre wins key decision in fake fibre case

Investigators close Nokia extortion probe without finding a motive or making an arrest

Insurer Beazley meets global challenge to secure mobile workforce

Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

WWDC: Accessibility has become a requirement

Privacy Shield under threat by US non-compliance

Microsoft walks away from Windows 7, Office 2013 support forums

Good thing they didn't do any programming, huh?

RIP Macintosh: 1984–2018

How the Spanish cybercriminal underground operates | Salted Hash Ep 30

Host Steve Ragan reports from the RSA 2018 conference, talking with Liv Rowley, an intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, about Spanish cybercrime, an underground community that poses persistent security risks.

BT announces “unhackable” quantum-secured network

Email-based cyber attacks gathering momentum

How National Geographic uses tech to captivate its audience

London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018

WWDC: When Apple Watch became a platform

Industry must do more to open up cyber security profession

Intel Optane DIMM aims at persistent storage on the motherboard

Is DevOps the best approach to software development?

6 tips for planning SharePoint hub sites

Supply shortages continue to blight EMEA-wide server market, Gartner data shows

Is 5G more than just another generation of mobile?

Microsoft axes support on Answers Forum for Win 7, 8.1, Office 2010, 2013, many Surfaces

Security Think Tank: Data flow visibility is essential to security

Rigged demo, defined

Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration guide

All good things must come to an end, and the reign of Windows 7 as an actively supported, good-enough operating system is no exception. While it may feel like you just finished the heavy lifting of migrating your Windows XP machines to Windows 7, it turns out that Windows 7 is now almost nine years old, at least two and a half versions behind Windows 10 (depending on whether you consider Windows 8.1 to be a version of Windows all its own), and approaching end of Microsoft support in 2020.

All of this is to say that you need a plan. Except in some edge cases, it makes little sense to spend the time and money to migrate from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, since that only buys you a couple more years of supportability. The smart money is on moving to Windows 10, buying everyone expensive Macs, or, gasp, deploying Linux on the desktop. And while small businesses might be able to buy everyone MacBooks or move to Linux, large companies with lots of software investments in the Microsoft stack will continue running Windows, thus leaving Windows 10 as the only option.

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SAP banks on “intelligent enterprise” at Sapphire 2018

Coinrail cyber heist highlights need for exchange security

Irish government vows to ease planning procedures for datacentre investors

An audience with Matt Hancock, secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport

Why dual-screen laptops are twice as good

How to get Apple's iOS 12 or macOS 'Mojave' betas

Windows 10: A guide to the updates

WWDC: Where Apple AI met computer vision

BYOD for mobile ‘a year away’ for Williams F1

WWDC 18: Where Apple AI met computer vision

Thriving fintech, AI sectors give boost to UK tech funding

Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

Security Think Tank: Focus on data protection, but do not rely on DLP alone

WWDC: What's in iOS 12 and macOS 'Mojave' for IT?

Apple users got their first peek at iOS 12, macOS Mojave and watchOS 5 on Monday at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, with Apple highlighting the features and functions that will be included when the platforms are updated this fall. The target audience, naturally, is developers.

But many of the changes highlighted this week will affect business users and the IT departments that support them. Here's a look at some of the issues IT should have on the radar.

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Businesses must report cyber crime, panel urges

BT’s Gavin Patterson quits under shareholder pressure

For sale: New PCs, never used

3 huge ways Android's gesture navigation just got better

Android and antitrust: The EU's Google case explained

Cyber security focus too much on tech, says Domino’s CISO

Nation state cyber attacks affect all, says former GCHQ boss

Newcastle Council to show off smartest street in Britain

WWDC: iOS 12 — An enterprise perspective

5G transformative for UK plc, but potential impacts still vague

European CIOs establish committee to drive IT value in business

Apple's Health Record API released to third-party developers; is it safe?

Throwback Thursday: Breakfast Of Champions

Business not learning from past cyber security incidents

Security Think Tank: Understand data for risk-based protection

Financial Conduct Authority raises questions over TSB's IT regression testing

Microsoft deploys underwater datacentre off the coast of Orkney

Beyond Docker and Kubernetes: The container ecosystem continues to evolve

Windows by the numbers: Sanity returns as Windows 7 sheds user share

GDPR and backup: A potential minefield easily avoided

Digital Catapult partners with Cray to give AI startups supercomputing power

Understanding is key to security awareness, says specialist

We need to design for security and privacy, says Martha Lane Fox

EE confirms October 2018 UK launch date for first 5G live trials

The game-changing potential of smartphones that can smell

After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise

Security Think Tank: Ignorance about data is tantamount to negligence

His last name wouldn't be Murphy, would it?

The 7 most in-demand tech jobs for 2018

From data scientists to data security pros, the battle for the best in IT talent will wage on next year. Here’s what to look for when you’re hiring for the 7 most in-demand jobs for 2018 — and how much you should offer based on experience.

Big data skills shortages – and how to work around them

Sapphire 2018: SAP will take over CRM market, says McDermott

Cyber attacks not sophisticated, says Just Eat CISO

Skills gaps slow business cloud adoption, research shows

iOS apps on Macs? Gee, that feels familiar...

WWDC: Apple TV — The underestimated story

Interview: How a tech apprenticeship changed one man’s life

Scality boosts Ring with easy deployment and lower node count

Complex pricing hinders enterprise assessment of AWS, Google and Microsoft cloud IoT hubs

Mobile, IoT and cloud biggest drivers for Wi-Fi growth

Boards not asking right security questions, says Dido Harding

The top blockchain jobs you need to know about

Consulting: So simple!

Microsoft lost its antitrust suit almost two decades ago. What would be different if it had won?

Microsoft Teams: Its features, how it compares to Slack and other rivals

Application security more important than ever

The bumpy ride to digital transformation

Security Think Tank: Use data flow information to protect systems

Technology key to new UK counter-terrorism strategy

Microsoft takes over GitHub as it expands its open source plan

Cloud NAS offers file access across on-site and in-cloud

One-third of firms would pay ransoms rather than invest in security

Security Think Tank: Data governance is essential to data security

Cloud-based integration platforms underpin digital strategy

Apple patches Macs as it starts retirement clock for El Capitan

Visa blames hardware failure for UK-wide card payment system outage

Look, this isn't rocket science, it's networking!

Offensive AI unlikely in the near future, says Mikko Hypponen

Subpostmasters told to expect decision on alleged unfair prosecutions in August

Lessons from GE’s flight to digital platforms

May Windows and Office patches are now relatively stable, but Win7 NIC problems persist

Flaccid phone features foment ‘flagship fatigue’

Visa card payments system goes down across the UK and Ireland

WD-40 oils sales and finance processes in Europe with Epicor

Weight Watchers turns to Facebook’s Workplace to connect 18,000 workers

Revamped BHS website to close two years after department store collapse

Apple wants to build the next paradigm of user interfaces

Huge rise in TSB-themed mobile phishing attacks after IT meltdown

Ethical hacker, 86, rises to Santander’s challenge

BBC to show World Cup in virtual reality

Companies can skip a Windows 10 upgrade, but they have to hurry

Enterprises have a short-lived opportunity to slow the Microsoft upgrade train by skipping one of this year's Windows 10 refreshes, as well as one of the two slated to ship in 2019, according to Gartner and Microsoft's own support scheduling.

Because of a temporary six-month extension of support to the two feature upgrades Microsoft issued last year, corporations will be able to ease into the rapid release slate that the Redmond, Wash. developer has demanded customers accept. "Organizations wanting to deploy only one update in 2018 and 2019 and skip one may do so and have a lesser chance of their PCs falling out of support," said Gartner researchers Stephen Kleynhans and Michael Silver about the support supplement.

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Code review

Security Think Tank: Data controllers are essential in modern business environment

Security suppliers need to interact with community, says researcher