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BT: ‘5G will make mass IoT deployments across the UK a reality’

Chris Sims is the MD of Strategy for BT Enterprise. He leads BT’s 5G strategy for businesses and public sector organisations in the UK.

Cisco Warns Of Flaws In Data Centre Kit

Samsung Galaxy Fold ‘Ready’ For Launch

Alphabet Board Dismisses Sexual Harassment, Diversity Proposals

Facebook To Face Senate Scrutiny Over Libra Digital Currency

Authorities react to Facebook’s digital currency, as US Senate Banking Committee sets up to scrutinise it

IBM’s $34bn Purchase Of Red Hat Gains EU Blessing – Report

Big Blue reportedly gains European approval to acquire open source cloud giant Red Hat

Porn Age Checks To Be Delayed – Again

UPDATED – Government confirms six month delay to porn age checking after it fails to inform Brussels

IoT Device Popularity Poses Home Security Risk – Avast

Research from Avast warns the rise in IoT devices puts homes at greater risk of cyber-attack

Foxconn factory Shenzhen China 2005 - by Steve Jurvetson from Wikimedia

Apple Mulls Manufacturing Shift From China – Report

Trade war repercussions as Apple reportedly explores moving 30 percent of production away from China

Firefox Users Urged To Update Browser

Mozilla advisory urges update after discovery of zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild

Google Begins Rollout Of Chat – Android Rival To iMessage

Google bypasses carriers and will begin deploying iMessage rival for Android users in the UK and France

Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report

Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered

Oxford University Gets £150m Investment For AI Ethics

University’s largest ever donation from American billionaire will fund research into AI ethics

5G: A Retail Revolution?

With fast mobile broadband, low latency, edge computing and the Internet of Things about to become a reality thanks to 5G, what this mean for the retail sector?

Final Decryption Tool Published As ‘GandCrab’ Ransomware Developers Retire

The malware was distributed via a highly successful affiliate nework that saw it at one point accounting for half of all ransomware infections

Ad Industry Unites With Social Media Giants To Safeguard ‘Digital Safety’

Google, Facebook and Twitter work with major consumer brands and ad buying agencies on coordinated self-policing amidst calls for stricter regulation

Facebook Launches Libra Cryptocurrency For Global Payments

Digital asset aims to put financial transactions into the hands of millions without bank accounts, but with access to a mobile phone

Cisco Warns Of Flaws In Data Centre Kit

Cisco warns of two critical flaws affecting its equipment commonly used in data centres

BT: ‘5G will make mass IoT deployments across the UK a reality’

Chris Sims is the MD of Strategy for BT Enterprise. He leads BT’s 5G strategy for businesses and public sector organisations in the UK.

IBM’s $34bn Purchase Of Red Hat Gains EU Blessing – Report

Big Blue reportedly gains European approval to acquire open source cloud giant Red Hat

Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report

Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered

BT: ‘5G will make mass IoT deployments across the UK a reality’

Chris Sims is the MD of Strategy for BT Enterprise. He leads BT’s 5G strategy for businesses and public sector organisations in the UK.

IoT Device Popularity Poses Home Security Risk – Avast

Research from Avast warns the rise in IoT devices puts homes at greater risk of cyber-attack

Google Begins Rollout Of Chat – Android Rival To iMessage

Google bypasses carriers and will begin deploying iMessage rival for Android users in the UK and France

Russia Acknowledges ‘Possibility’ Of US Attacks On Power Grid

The remarks follow US reports that US military hackers have placed malware within Russia’s power grid, creating the potential for a devastating attack