Month: December 2016
Met Police still has 19,000 Windows XP desktops in use
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has told V3 that it still has 19,500 desktops running Windows XP in use across the force. This is a decrease of 7,500 from the 27,000 that were running Windows XP...
Ofcom reveals duct and pole sharing proposals for fibre broadband
News UK recruits 170 IT staff in seven months
News UK, the publisher behind The Times and The Sun newspapers, has recruited 170 technology staff in just seven months. Speaking to Computing recently, News UK CTO Christina Scott, formerly Chief Information...
Apple Watch sales fall 71 per cent but Tim Cook claims Christmas bringing a boost
Apple Watch sales only just crept over the one million mark in the third quarter of 2016, with the company bagging less than five per cent of the wearables market. IDC data claims Apple sold 1.1 million...
Lincolnshire NHS Trust reveals Globe2 ransomware attack forced operation cancellations
An NHS Trust in Lincolnshire that had to cancel operations for four days in October has revealed that a ransomware attack was to blame for the incident. In a statement Northern Lincolnshire and Goole...