#LDNTechWeek: Lloyds is spending £1bn just to help it understand its customers
It’s a tired old adage that the customer is always right. But Lloyds bank is so convinced that its increasingly digital customers will use its prod…
Only 30 government staff work on UK’s corporate data breaches – and 10 other things we learned from the TalkTalk case
The Culture Media and Sport Committee (CMSC) released a pretty whopping report yesterday prompted by the massive TalkTalk data breach. As it points…
#LDNTechWeek: Fashtech – the ultimate solution looking for a problem
Yesterday, London Tech Week opened with a panel on fashtech, that’s fashion technology to the uninitiated, although that might not make the c…
Twitter buys Magic Ponyfor $150m (yes, seriously) and it’s kind of AI big deal
In a boon for UK startups on the opening day of London Tech Week, it’s been announced that Twitter is buying local machine learning outfit Ma…
#LDNTechWeek: What on earth has F1 got to do with making toothpaste? McLaren explains
London Tech Week kicked off this morning, despite the rain, with a short introduction from Ed Vaizey MP, followed by a panel on fashion technology,…
This week at NS Tech: #LDNTechWeek, Brexit and more…
Every week we scour the headlines to find a few key stories you need to know about in enterprise tech, some upcoming trends and events, and even so…
Q&A: NHS England’s new drive for open data standards in healthcare
Speaking this week at the NHS Confederation’s annual conference, Stephen Dorrell, the organisation’s chair, said: “To improve the…
So your next customer is going to be a dog, apparently
Yep, pets are the next consumers, that’s according to PhD researcher Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, who’s studying a new area of animal-comput…
“Blockchain for good – a beginner’s guide”
Julio Alejandro is founder and CEO of Humanitarian Blockchain Blockchain is a ‘magical notebook’. Its mechanism hardly destructible. Everything wri…
10 big excuses that show the UK’s digital transformation ain’t gonna happen
Most companies, big and small, are aware that their continued use of Outlook 2007 is starting to get a bit embarrassing and their database is……
Samsung buys Joyent in attempt to capture the cloud
It’s no secret that the cloud is happening, with an estimated global spend of $16.5bn last year, 32 per cent growth on 2014. Now is the time …
Eric Schmidt thinks getting sued is actually part of Uber’s business strategy
A quick Google for ‘Uber lawsuit’ reveals just how many pages and pages have been written about the company’s apparent fight for …
Data breaches are now a $4m ‘cost of doing business’
Companies across the world now spend an average of $4m (£2.8m) on every data breach they suffer, with the majority of cash spent on incident forens…
Service is an AI chatbot startup that’ll be knocking on your door soon
Every business person is also a customer and, perhaps even more so than your average human, has very little time to spend trying to get cash back f…
All Apple’s enterprise innovations unveiled at WWDC, including iOS 10 updates and Cisco for work
Apple has opened up more of its native functionality than ever before so that people who build apps can offer more iOS services for their own produ…
Microsoft adds LinkedIn to its professional network
Barbara Speed is a technology and digital culture writer at the New Statesman and a staff writer at CityMetric. This story was first posted here Li…
Government criticised for delayed digital skills strategy as 12.6m still lack basics
A lack of basic skills training for 12.6 million digitally excluded people, SMEs obstructed from hiring international talent by arbitrary visa rest…
This week at NS Tech: Symantec buys Blue Coat, Apple’s WWDC and more…
Every week we scour the headlines to find a few key stories you need to know about in enterprise tech, some upcoming trends and events, and even so…
IT4IT is a push for sexy new IT architecture standards – and it’s got a powerful advocate in HPE
“I’ve not had an office in years!” declares probably the most jovial man you’ll ever find at a conference called The Servic…
“Here’s 3 scary ways people will exploit cloud apps in your business”
Ed Macnair is CEO of cloud security firm CensorNet In today’s collaboration-happy workplace, applications like Box, Google Drive and Dropbox have b…
#Infosec16: 6 security trends for 2016
With Infosec, of course, comes data. NS Tech has trawled through a few of the studies to pull out six trends for businesses to watch over the comin…
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