Fujitsu has told staff it will no longer seek new business in its Republic of Ireland operation and will instead focus on fulfilling existing contracts. In an internal email, UK and Ireland boss Anwen Owen said the decision followed a review of the business performance and outlook in Ireland. Staff in Ireland will be affected. … Leer más
A former Liverpool youth footballer has been jailed for supplying drugs after a judge ruled that messages and data harvested by police from the EncroChat encrypted phone network can be lawfully used as evidence in the case. The case, known as Embossed II, was the “lead case” in a long-running legal argument over whether evidence … Leer más
Nationwide building society is recovering from an IT outage that caused significant difficulties for customers over a period of several hours, with account holders reporting problems making purchases and sending and receiving payments, including making mortgage payments and receiving salaries. The organisation, which on Thursday 21 March confirmed it had reached a formal agreement to … Leer más
Work, a lot of it, is taking place in laboratories around the world on 6G, the next generation of wireless communications. Work to create future 6G network specifications, with initial 6G networks built on the foundations of 5G, is being planned already by standards body 3GPP. Research organisations are busy looking at the capabilities of … Leer más
Former Post Office workers who experienced problems with the Post Office’s pre-Horizon Capture software are taking their campaign for justice to Parliament. Two former subpostmasters, whose lives were turned upside down after they suffered unexplained losses while using Capture, have secured meetings with a government minister and a senior civil servant at the Department for … Leer más
The idea behind DevOps is that it brings together development and IT operations – the Dev and the Ops – to make it easier to create and deploy software. Platform engineering builds on this with a team made up of product managers and engineers, creating and maintaining the shared infrastructure needed by developers. Tech analyst … Leer más
The NHS is broken. After years of chronic underfunding, the waiting list stands at more than 7.5 million, and over 40% of those people have been waiting for longer than the target of 18 weeks. The public healthcare sector is also struggling with recruitment. As of December 2023, there were over 110,000 vacancies in secondary … Leer más
Everywoman has announced the winners of its 2024 Everywoman in Technology Awards, sponsored by Bupa. Beginning in 2011, each year careers network Everywoman has announced a number of women deemed role models in their job and sector to attract other women into the technology roles. This year, 16 winners were chosen from a list … Leer más
The United States’ Department of Justice (DoJ), alongside 16 individual states and the District of Columbia, has launched an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of “broad-based, exclusionary conduct” that makes it harder for users to switch phones, undermines developers’ ability to innovate, and imposes “extraordinary” costs on the mobile ecosystem. Filed in the US District Court … Leer más
The government has announced measures to beef up the resilience of the UK’s 999 emergency call handling system. This comes nine months after communications regulator Ofcom launched an investigation into service operator BT following a UK-wide disruption to emergency call services on 25 June 2023 when 999 callers were unable to connect with the services … Leer más