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Archives for May 2021
IoT And The Healthcare Revolution
IoT and healthcare is not a new concept, and it has been slowly finding its place in our healthcare system for years. One of the contributing factors in slowing the revolution has been the patient. The very person it is aimed at helping. Shifting the role of medical providers from person to digital format is […]
CyberSprinters game gives kids a head start, says NCSC
By Published: 25 May 2021 14:30 With debate ongoing over the efficacy and legitimacy of child protection provisions contained in the government’s Online Safety Bill, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a new education game for seven to 11 year-olds to help educators and youth workers teach younger children the basics of cyber […]
Build cloud-native applications that run anywhere
The global population of developers is estimated to reach 71.5 million in 2030, an increase of 44.5 million developers from today1. Each new developer brings their ideas and innovations that they’d like to share with the world. It is our mission to empower this next generation of developers with world-class tools and cloud services that […]
Threat of group GDPR legal action haunts CISOs
The spectre of group legal settlements following a serious data breach haunts 90% of security leaders, while 85% are more concerned about the threat of regulatory fines, according to an Egress report commissioned to mark the third anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The study, conducted by OnePoll, interviewed 250 security leaders and […]
McAfee to change terms of auto-renewing consumer plans
Consumer users of McAfee’s antivirus products who found their service contracts auto-renewed for another year will now be able to end their contracts and obtain a refund for the remaining months, following a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) judgment. The right to a refund will also be backdated for those who were refused refunds in […]
Challenges in selecting the right IoT development vendor
The internet of things (IoT) has been gaining sharp momentum in the post-Covid scenario, says Yash Mehta, an IoT and Big Data Science specialist. Almost every business vertical such as manufacturing, transportation, utilities, healthcare and consumer electronics has started implementing IoT in its business processes. This has put IoT product development firms in a position […]
Pandemic-fueled cloud rush causes cost optimization woes
As the COVID-19 pandemic and economic factors drive more workloads to the cloud, enterprises that don’t adopt robust cost optimization practices do so at their peril. “I think we’re in a perfect storm of factors that are going to exacerbate complexity and make cloud cost optimization more important than ever,” said Owen Rogers, an analyst […]
UK the ‘most digitally advanced country in Europe’
A McKinsey survey of over 20,000 European citizens revealed that 86% of Brits have used e-commerce or online services in the past six months. The report suggests that this makes the UK the most digitally advanced country in Europe, ahead of France (82%) and Germany (65%), and only behind India (88%) and Brazil (97%) on a global scale. Around […]
Sabre Systems IT outage hits global airline operations
Sabre Systems experienced an outage on Friday 21 May that impacted a number of airlines around the world and interrupted their scheduled flights. Sabre is a third-party IT system used for check-in, boarding and flight bookings. The outage affected global airlines including Virgin Australia, Jet Blue, Alaskan Airlines and American Airlines. A spokesperson for Virgin Australia confirmed the company had experienced an outage […]