Month: October 2016

Financial services provider Mastercard announces its cardholders in the UK will be able to use a selfie as authentication to pay for goods

The Government Digital Service has signed up 19 local authorities to run pilot projects testing the Gov.UK Verify identify assurance platform. The first wave of pilots will cover the issuing of concessionary...

Cyber security experts assembled at the Splunk 2016 conference to discuss the gender gap in cyber security and what can be done to solve it

Many firms suffer a lack of flexibility and scalability in their IT estate, but few have so many regular change requirements as Paddy Power Betfair. The company grew quickly, partly by customer acquisition...

Software giant launches A Cloud For Global Good campaign in a bid to get the industry focused on creating off-premise environments that are accessible to all

Windows 7 saw a sharp rise in market share this month at the expense of Windows 8.x and, perhaps surprisingly, Windows 10, despite being seven years old. The latest figures from Net Applications’ Netmarketshare...

Google is set to take the wraps off its next smartphones, the Google Pixel and Pixel XL later today. However, thanks to an embargo-breaking staffer at Carphone Warehouse we now know exactly what to expect...

Ofcom has been urged to put a cap on the amount of spectrum any one mobile operator can own ahead of the release of 2017’s spectrum auction. An open letter sent to Ofcom CEO Sharon White signed by...

The latest global DDoS report from Neustar underlines the importance of investing in appropriate defences as the high volume of attacks looks set to increase

Salesforce has announced that it will pay $700m to acquire a digital marketing startup called Krux. The deal is just the latest in a long line of data marketing purchases made by Salesforce as the firm...