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APAC consumers expect human-like service from chatbots

Consumer expectations of chatbots in Asia-Pacific have risen in tandem with improved performance of AI applications over the past year, a new study has found
Ukraine CERT leaders touch down in London for talks

The UK’s NCSC has been hosting Ukrainian cyber security leaders for a round of bilateral talks on improving resilience
Yorkshire Water taps Connexin for smart water delivery framework

Leading north of England water provider reveals partners for its advanced customer metering programme to reduce leakage, improve services and help customers save money on their bills
David Anderson KC to review UK surveillance laws

Home Office commissions independent review of the Investigatory Powers Act, known as the snoopers’ charter. It will include a review of bulk datasets and government access to internet connection records held by phone and internet companies
Uptime Institute predicts slowdown in cloud migrations in 2023

Datacentre resiliency think tank Uptime Institute claims cost pressures and unmet expectations around cloud benefits may lead some enterprises to pause or slow down their migration plans this year
Nokia, Telefónica successfully test 25G PON technology in Spain

Noting ever-increasing consumer bandwidth demands and the need to support applications such as the metaverse, operator announces demo of new FTTH technology to offer new business services on same network as home connectivity

How to design enterprise applications that are composable by default

Gartner presents a composable business index to help IT leaders assess and advance the agility of their applications
Securing low Earth orbit represents the new space race

The barriers to launching satellites into low Earth orbit are falling fast, and that brings new cyber security challenges
Top trends in tech, and retail’s early adopters

Computer Weekly identifies the retail industry’s early adopters of what McKinsey & Co deems the top tech trends

Aerospike spearheads real-time data search, connects Elasticsearch - Open Source Insider

Aerospike is a real-time data platform company. In an era when real-time data streaming companies are fond of giving away promo t-shirts emblazoned with phrases like - Is Batch Dead? - (spoiler ... Continue Reading
Making renewables safer: How safety technology is powering the clean energy transition- Green Tech

In this guest post, Wendy McMillan, sector chief executive for safety, at Halma, outlines how safety technology is powering the clean energy transition. We are undergoing the largest energy ... Continue Reading
Qlik-Talend proposed acquisition indicates marriage broker role for private equity?- Data Matters

The acquisition of France-based data integration supplier Talend by Sweden-founded data visualisation firm Qlik has to be interesting at an intra-European market level. Non-US IT suppliers are thin ... Continue Reading
Armo goes CNCF sandbox, wider platform offering emerges- Open Source Insider

Armo is cybersecurity company. The company developed an end-to-end open source Kubernetes security platform known as Kubescape. Kubescape has now been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing ... Continue Reading

Europe’s cyber strategy must be clear about open source

Europe’s cyber security policy on open source is lagging behind the US, and despite growing government awareness of the issues, that poses a problem
Composable IT and ERP data - how to bring the two together

Composabiity offers IT leaders an approach to developing an enterprise software strategy that can meet flexible business requirements
What will be trending in technology in 2023?

This year will be a bit year for IT spending despite the prospects of recession, inflation and rising costs. But companies will focus more on technology that delivers measurable pay-offs