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Is Data the Answer To Business COVID-19 Recovery?
As businesses of all sizes build their strategies for COVID recovery, data will play a vital role. As the commercial landscape has changed, information is critical to creating new secure and robust processes and trading environments to ...
The road to recovery: Using data to keep selling
Nigel Cullington, Head of Marketing for Upland Software’s ESM Cloud, explains how data can help companies continue operating during the pandemic.
The Tech Of Health: How Wearable Technology Is the Key To Long-Term Fitness
News that Amazon has moved into the wearable health and fitness area with its Halo Band, Silicon UK considers the technologies and services we can all access to improve our health and stay fit. Wearable health has been an option for se ...
IBM Hit With Another Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Big Blue once again accused of axing older staff, after another age discrimination lawsuit is filed against grandfather of tech industry
COVID Education: How Tech Is Transforming Learning
As schools return, Silicon UK considers how technology has been used to keep students connected to their teachers and, what the future of education could look like. As hybrid working looks set to become the norm for businesses, will we ...
Apple Responds After Spotify Criticises Apple One
Spotify condemns Apple One as anti-competitive behaviour, but Apple insists its subscription service can save customers money
Google Drive Outage In United States
Thousands of Google Drive users across the United States were unable to access the cloud storage platform for a number of hours on Tuesday
Visualizing Data: How Data Insights Could Be About To Change
Gartner recently noted a shift away from data dashboard. Is this a trend that will continue? As businesses collect vast quantities of information from their customers and commercial partners, how can this data be visualized for insight ...
The Tech Of Charity
How do charities use technology to manage their organizations and, raise their funds? In an environment dominated by COVID-19, how can charities leverage technology to maintain fundraising and offer new ways of giving?
The Tech Of Crime Part 2: Policing And Data
Much of the work being done today to fight crime is analyzing the vast quantities of data every police force now collects. How are these big datasets being analyzed? And how are the insights gained impacting on practical policing?
The Tech Of Policing: Part 1: The Digital Police
In this first part of a three-part series, Silicon UK considers how UK police forces are using technology today? With significant advances from drones to AI-based data analytics, constabularies have an array of tools to choose from. Ho ...
COVID Commerce: How Retailing Will Be Reshaped By The Pandemic
COVID-19 may have changed the retail landscape forever. What will retailing look like in a post-COVID-19 world? Will the high street be able to survive and, how will retailers evolve their strategic use of the omnichannel?
A Pandemic Of Data Sharing?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the use of apps and other trace and track technologies have not delivered on their promise. Strong personal data regulation, coupled with public suspicion about how their data is collected and then u ...
BYOD Becomes WFHD
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has been a part of the tech landscape for over a decade. Thanks to COVID-19, this has changed to Work From Home Device (WFHD) with all the issues this has presented to businesses. Discover how your business ...
Google Offers Not To Use Fitbit Data To Avoid EC Probe
Attempt to avoid a formal European Commission antitrust investigation, see Google confirm offer to not use Fitbit health data for targetted ads
The State of LawTech
What is the current state of LawTech? LawtechUK, will this year, pilot a government-backed LawTech R&D programme - the Lawtech Sandbox - to help accelerate the digital transformation of the UK's legal sector. What could this mean for b ...
Immunity Passports: Identifying The Infected
As the UK wrestles with its ability to use technology to trace and track COVID-19 infections, will immunity passports become a reality? Will this technology be able to consider the potential risks and downsides - inclusion vs elitism, ...
Silicon UK In Focus EXTRA: Does More Data Equal Better Health?
Rabia has a background in immuno-genetics with a passion for bridging the worlds of science, business and technology. She completed her BSc in Biology and Economics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She went on to complete a ...
Does More Data Equal Better Health?
Healthcare, like many other sectors, is moving through technological change. All of the technologies in development need patient data. The healthcare sector already collects masses of information, but much of this is unstructured and n ...
Can More Data Save Our Climate?
As IoT and IIoT continue to rapidly develop, could this explosion in data collection result in vast improvements to how we manage climate change? When every aspect of our environment can be tracked and analyzed, does this allow more pr ...
Data capital: Mining for gold in the data decade
Across the globe, organisations large and small are starting to harness the power of data. Data capital will be viewed as one of a company’s most important assets, becoming an engine of commerce and innovation for the 21st century.
Coronavirus: Folding@Home Volunteers Merge Home PCs For Fastest Supercomputer
Folding@Home volunteers utilise home PCs to create world's fastest supercomputer to help tackle deadly Coronavirus pandemic
New IBM CEO Takes Over, New Cloud Boss Appointed
Big Blue appoints new cloud boss Howard Boville, as new CEO Arvind Krishna takes over the running of the IT industry veteran from Ginni Rometty
IBM’s Outgoing CEO Ginni Rometty Pockets $20m
Nice golden handshake for long-serving CEO and chairman Ginni Rometty, after she ends stint at IBM with $20.1 million payout
The Spooky Network: Is the quantum network the future of the Internet?
Perfecting the quantum computer could finally be in reach. Data and communications are now an enterprise’s most precious asset. If a quantum network could be developed, what would this mean for businesses?
Redcar Council Still Crippled By Ransomware Attack
Pen and paper still being used. Northern local council admits its IT systems are still down, 19 days after a ransomware attack
FinTech Part 2: Building the FinTech Ecosystem
How are FinTech companies innovating? What's the tech that sits behind the development of their apps and support networks, and what these advancements might mean for wider industries and consumers.
Digital Pollution: Cleaning Your Digital Footprint
As businesses strive to reduce their emissions, their digital services and processes are often forgotten. Taking a comprehensive approach to digital emissions is now a priority. 2020 will see a shift in how digital pollution is managed ...
Google Acquisition Of Looker Data Sciences Approved
Alphabet unit completes $2.6bn acquisition of Looker Data Sciences after approval from British competition watchdog