News Archive | January 2016

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January 29th
- DDoS attack cripples HSBC online banking
- RBS 6 Nations hops on analytics train with Accenture
- LG plugs gap exposing info of millions of G3 users
- Driverless ‘Heathrow pods’ to be tested on London streets
- £130 million Google-UK tax deal could be squashed by EU
- Java plugin will cease to exist by September, Oracle says
January 28th
- Facebook users flock to mobile as numbers rocket
- Google's AI program masters 'Go' ahead of Facebook
- Privacy and security clash on Data Protection Day
- Mozilla patches 12 Firefox flaws
- Samsung profits hit by falling smartphone sales
- Facebook's AI engine becoming more intelligent than humans
- US insurance company loses almost one million customer records
January 27th
- Safari search bug caused frustration for users
- Government launches cybersecurity start-up initiative
- Lenovo makes security blunder with 12345678 password
- Department of Health chooses dxw for digital transformation
- EnterpriseDB launches Server and Enterprise Manager updates
January 26th
- Ofcom launches new broadband code to protect UK SMBs
- Oki C711WT review
- Are start-ups bad at hiring the right CEOs?
- 90% of enterprises will hire CDOs by 2019, says Gartner
- Are iPhone sales set for a record slump?
- Fire engulfs Foxconn's iPhone production factory
- WhatsApp will add encryption indicators so you know your chats are safe
- Harvard University given $28m for AI research
January 25th
- SMBs curse slow broadband speeds as a productivity drain
- Cloud firms will leave UK if Snooper's Charter is passed
- VTech restores online functions following hack
- Daimler held "concrete talks" with Apple and Google
- Google agrees to pay £130m tax bill
January 22nd
- Google 'paid Apple $1 billion to own search on iPhones'
- Tech North to offer girls free coding courses
- Symantec ditches reseller guilty of scamming PC users
- GCHQ VoIP software can be used to eavesdrop
- Irish National Lottery plagued by DDoS attack
January 21st
- Scheme launches to help SMBs design digital tools
- IBM has "long way to go" to halt revenue decline
- Algorithm will make Google Chrome 26 per cent faster
January 20th
- BETT 2016: Education minister Nicky Morgan to champion better use of pupil data
- Uber hails TfL’s move to scrap “bonkers” London cab proposals
- Theresa May wants civilians to tackle cybercrime
- BETT 2016: 'Not all teachers need to be human'
- HP announces updated Sprout Pro
- Demand for PCs, tablets and smartphones will fall in 2016
- ‘Worst passwords’ list 2015 topped by 123456
- Government urged to switch to blockchains
January 19th
- Asda website bug left millions of customers at risk of hacking
- Chinese VCs open £500m London start-up fund
- Apple failed to improve diversity much in 2015
- Amnesty International slaps tech giants with child labour accusations
- Frustrated developers sign GitHub protest letter
- Facebook launches anti-extremism initiative after backlash
- Firms will suffer if new Safe Harbour deal fails, Obama warned
January 18th
- 96,000 phishing scams target Brits
- Is IT spending about to bounce back from its record slump?
- UCL to invest £50 million into new tech research
- LastPass phishing hack could trick users into giving away their password
- AI ‘will make 5 million people redundant by 2020’
- IBM and University of Michigan develop human computer
January 15th
- People want to hack your smartwatch
- Wikipedia turns 15, receives $1m cash injection
- TalkTalk landline service restored
January 14th
- IoT sprawl will threaten security, warn analysts
- Nvidia blames Apple OS X for re-appearing porn glitch
- Anonymous takes down Nissan in dolphin culling protest
January 13th
- Apple to buy Time Warner, according to reports
- Seagate creates 10TB hard drive for cloud datacentres
- EU courts uphold company's right to read private messages
- PC demand plummets in record-breaking 10% decline
- Europol arrests suspect in Bitcoin extortion ring bust
- Theresa May refuses to say if UK spies access medical data
January 12th
- eBay security flaw 'put users at risk of phishing attack'
- Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley: 60% of women experience 'unwanted advances'
- Faithless fans can’t get no sleep after hacker data theft
- T-Mobile CEO apologises for foul-mouthed tirade against EFF
- Apple denies plans for "Move to Android" app
- ICO: Data thieves must face tougher punishments than fines
- NIIT Technologies wins £23m IT services deal with Ofcom
- Almost two thirds of businesses still using IE 8, 9 and 10
January 11th
- Star Wars' BB-8 turns to the dark side with rogue firmware update
- Martha Lane Fox launches competition for women-led start-ups
- Juniper Networks to ditch alleged NSA eavesdropping code
- Apple Music hits 10m subscribers
- WhatsApp users lured in by malware
January 8th
- BlackBerry to retire its OS after "losing community"
- Facebook: You don't need a phone number anymore
- Motorola brand name to be retired, confirms Lenovo COO
- 63% of consumers worried about how companies use their data
January 7th
- Security hole in Blackphone secure device patched
- VC investment in UK hits record £2.5bn
- Google Translate glitch brands Russia "Mordor"
- Huawei taking on Apple and Samsung in smartphone wars
January 6th
- Nationwide signs up BT to underpin digital activity in branches
- Ukrainian power grid downed 'by cyber attack'
- Government launches new IoT research hub
- Social network users play fast and loose with data privacy
- HSBC hails "steady return of service" to online banking
- Millions ‘bombarded with fake HMRC phishing emails’
- EU finally agrees on General Data Protection Regulations
January 5th
- Is Facebook afraid Google will kill its Android app?
- Nadella has little faith in smartphone market
January 4th
- CES 2016 predictions: What's coming up in this year’s show?
- Mark Zuckerberg will build his own AI butler in 2016
- EE CEO Olaf Swantee confirms he will step down after BT takeover
- EMC sharpens axe to slash workforce ahead of Dell merger
- Government weighing up cost of internet snooping
- Nadine emotional robot debuts in Singapore
January 1st
- BBC website knocked offline by large-scale attack
- Bletchley Park campaigner Sue Black awarded OBE