Ian Young's Blog: January 2019

Throughout enterprises large and small, collaboration apps and services are breaking down silos, connecting colleagues in more effective ways and resulting in stronger employee engagement. These tools are enabling companies to transition to a purely digital world and transform business operations with relative ease.

The collaboration category is of increasingly keen interest today as enterprises seek out every competitive advantage and method to cut costs, improve communications and reduce points of friction throughout their organizations. There are many flavors of collaboration tools in the enterprise today, including group-chat apps, shared work areas, videoconferencing services, web meeting platforms, group task-management apps, and more.

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UK financial services regulator to link top banker bonuses to IT performance

Security Think Tank: Walk before you run

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Chrome to take ad blocking worldwide in July

The 15-minute Chromebook tune-up

The rise of DevSecOps

Apple’s biggest challenge isn’t selling iPhones

O2 powers customer-centric network with Nokia AI

Businesses fail to apply encryption technology effectively

Nottingham Building Society boosts storage and saves power with Nexsan deployment

Digital Realty and Equinix drive bulk of colocation market M&A activity in 2018, research shows

Thousands of known errors on controversial Post Office computer system to be revealed

How to quit smoking in 90 days

Google Keep cheat sheet

Google Keep lets you create notes and to-do lists that sync across your computer and phone or tablet. It's remarkably handy in a variety of ways. You can tag and search all your notes so they’re easy to find later. You can share your notes with other users and collaborate on them. You can record voice memos, and Keep will transcribe them as text notes. You can include images in your notes, and if text is shown in an image, the image shows up in search results. You can create time- or location-triggered reminders based on your notes.

Keep is included in G Suite and is available free for individual users as well. You can use it as a web app in a browser on your computer (Chrome and Firefox are supported, as are IE/Edge on Windows and Safari on macOS); it’s also available as an app for your Android or iOS mobile device. To use Keep, your device must be signed in to your Google user account, such as a corporate G Suite account or a Gmail account.

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Security Think Tank: Apply different techniques to safeguard against rogue code

NHS plans for a digital future

Monday, 14 January 2019

Less than half of firms able to detect IoT breaches, study shows

Apple’s AirPower wireless charger may already be in production – and shipping soon

Tick-tock: The year-long Windows 7 countdown by the numbers

Resources to help you modernize your SharePoint intranet

Mobile and broadband markets fail digitally excluded groups

Security Think Tank: Combine SDN, containerisation and encryption to halt rogue code

Why CIOs need to reshape desktop IT for Windows 7 end of support

Tech usage in school more likely in UK than Germany

Top UK hacker-for-hire jailed

Not that I ever doubted you...

How to integrate blockchain with legacy systems (and whether you should)

Blockchain offers enterprises a new method for transacting over a distributed, trusted network, but plugging the technology into existing databases, ERP systems and a client/partner base is no small task. And in many cases, it isn't even needed.

While few production blockchains have been deployed, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) was still one of the most-hyped technologies of 2018. It's not just hype; the blockchain market is expected to skyrocket in value from $708 million in 2017 to $60 billion by 2024.

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Security without borders

Saturday, 12 January 2019

How Google plans to reinvent the user interface

Friday, 11 January 2019

AI application overlooked in cyber security research

Artificial intelligence qualification helps law firm implement AI-powered business systems

AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change

Tech event calendar 2019: Upcoming shows, conferences and IT expos

An enterprise take on Apple’s ‘Project Marzipan’

Venture capital funding for UK tech startups drops 28% in 2018

MS releases KB 4476976, a test Win10 1809 cumulative update, to the Insider Preview Ring. Bravo!

Norway's government gives green light to fintech sandbox

Why full-Chromium Edge means end times for IE

It's not the tool -- it's how you use it

Mingis on Tech: Bent iPads and a bad quarter – Apple, WTF?

The tech world’s best CEO? Microsoft’s Nadella, hands down.

Security Think Tank: How to use SDN, containers and encryption – and some warnings

Microsoft takes community approach to artificial intelligence in Sweden

Thursday, 10 January 2019

Nestle phases out Salesforce Chatter, deploys Facebook's Workplace

The 15-minute Android phone tune-up

Storage 101: Structured data and its storage needs

Right to be forgotten is not global, says EU court adviser

RSC and Science Museum to lead future audience AR/VR demos

Security Think Tank: Creative thinking key to meeting emerging security challenges

Podcast: Storage and compliance priorities in 2019

How to create and open compressed files on iPhone, iPad

More than half of customers will shop for food online by 2021

UK firms say £6.6bn annual security testing cost too high

Global hyperscale datacentre growth boom set to continue into 2019, Synergy Research shows

Enterprises are increasing the human workforce while deploying AI

20TB hard drives expected in 2019 as Seagate HAMR is tested by NetApp

CW Middle East: Bahrain aims to be fintech hub

Throwback Thursday: Yeah, but it worked!

Fife Council upgrades WAN to offer ultrafast broadband services

Germany races to boost cyber defences after breach

BT faces tussle to keep EU contracts after Brexit

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Windows 10 quick tips: How to share a single PC

Microsoft upgrades Teams mobile app to woo frontline workers

2FA bypass tool highlights top business security vulnerabilities

Mercedes-Benz collaborates with Nvidia on in-car supercomputer

Banking apps overtake online banking

Enterprise iPhones will soon be able to use security dongles

Apprenticeships have to change to be successful, says expert panel

Security Think Tank: The security role of SDN, containers, encryption and SDP

AWS ‘does not dominate’ cloud market, claims Amazon’s UK public policy chief

FireEye gears up email security for emerging threats

Patch Tuesday updates for Win7, KB 4480970 and KB 4480960 knock out networking

Interview: Andy Berks, digital product director, ASOS

Details, details

Mingis on Tech: As blockchain hype cools, a 'trough of disillusionment' for 2019?

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Second Lorca cohort to focus on supply chain security

Windows 10 1903 to seize 7GB of user storage space for smoother upgrades

7 Android trends to watch in 2019

Smart speakers set to own the consumer ecosystem

IT professionals in London could see roles shipped to EU as result of Brexit

Intel readies 10nm chips for AI, 4G and a new PC platform

Apple has a chance to transform enterprise communications

Exxon joins IBM’s quantum committee as Q System One goes commercial

CES 2019: Here plugs Alexa into in-car navigation service

Growth of on-premise tech hit by enterprise cloud demand in 2018, Synergy Research shows

Microsoft tries to take on the Chromebook once more

Protego Labs launches serverless app security tool

After Apple's guidance revision, time to focus on enterprise

Microsoft spins off security, compliance bits from Microsoft 365's priciest plan for E3 customers

Can't stay, gotta fly!

Downtime deterrent: Trustpilot SRE on using infrastructure as code to prevent site outages

Technology innovation in music

Security Think Tank: Meeting the security challenge of multiple IT environments

AWS secures cloud hosting role in UK government Crown Marketplace programme

First 5G smartphones may have massive price premium

Monday, 7 January 2019

Blockchain craze helps push up related salaries

Boards need to be active partners in cyber defence

CES 2019: Apple’s other trade show

BlackBerry licenses security tech to IoT device makers

Microsoft is yanking patches already. Make sure automatic update is disabled.

Security Think Tank: Use SDN, containerisation and encryption tools to boost security

Parents claim soft skills are needed for future of work

Top 4 enterprise tech trends to watch in 2019

Windows 10 1809 adoption remains in the cellar

In 2019, look for AI-enabled mobile devices – and a UEM push

Perfect, redefined

IT profession to get one of the biggest pay rises this year

UK contactless card fraud doubles

Almost half of containers in production have vulnerabilities, study finds

Friday, 4 January 2019

Apple wants to stop you from using dangerous USB-C devices

Modern IT underlines need for zero-trust security

Data breaches affected more than a billion people in 2018

Apple wants to stop you using dangerous USB-C devices

German politicians’ data leak shows need for global action

Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief

Phishing attacks hidden by custom fonts

JP Morgan looks for someone to lead its blockchain developments

Forget IT -- this guy obviously belongs in sales!

Thursday, 3 January 2019

Chrome Remote Desktop: The easy way to access a remote computer

Google yanks option to restore Chrome's older UI; users decry 'ugly' new look

Great R packages for data import, wrangling and visualization

M&A in action: How Majestic Wine paired with Naked Wines to fuel cloud-led digital transformation

IT regulators and practitioners need common language

Intel admits chip security has a long way to go

Apple’s big miss: It’s time to stop messing around

Fortinet to lead cyber security discussion at WEF annual summit

New year, same old users

AR and VR bring a new twist to collaboration

Businesses are finding a wide variety of applications for augmented reality and virtual reality tools, from training to rapid prototyping to enhancing marketing materials. Add that demand to consumer interest in the technologies for entertainment, gaming, retail showcasing, and more, and it’s not surprising that IDC has predicted that the overall AR and VR headset market is set to grow from 8.9 million units in 2018 to 65.9 million units by 2022.

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