The Department for Transport (DfT) is embracing digital transformation by migrating its first in-house developed application to Google’s Cloud Platform. The department has moved its Latest Earnings Networked Nationally Overnight (LENNON) application to Google’s public cloud platform in an attempt to move away from legacy data centres into a more flexible and scalable environment. LENNON is […]
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Microsoft opens first Africa Azure data centre
Microsoft has unveiled its first data centre in Africa, showcasing new facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg for customers wanting to access the company’s Azure cloud service. The move will enable local businesses to take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud for building apps and services, while also attracting significant revenues for the global tech firm as […]
Majority of UK police forces lagging behind on cloud
The majority of police forces are still heavily reliant on legacy infrastructure to access and manage their apps and services, according to new data. Although the government has pushed for all of its divisions to take a cloud-first attitude, the police service has seemingly not taken this advice and 75% are yet to migrate to […]
NBA to offer content across all Alibaba platforms in expanded deal
The National Basketball Association will offer fans in China original programming and an easier way to buy league gear through e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the league announced on Wednesday. For the first time, NBA China will create content for Alibaba users. Game highlights, classic games and the new content – along with league […]
U.S. Democrats unveil legislation to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules
Democrats in Congress unveiled a bill on Wednesday to reinstate net neutrality rules repealed by the Federal Communications Commission under U.S. President Donald Trump, the latest salvo in a more than decade-long battle over how to regulate internet traffic. The bill mirrors an effort last year to reverse the FCC‘s December 2017 order repealing landmark […]
India’s mobile data is cheapest across the world
A large data-hungry base of smartphone users and a fierce price war between the country’s telcos has made India home to the cheapest mobile data price in the world. One gigabyte (1GB) of data costs $0.26 in India, compared to an average $6.66 in the UK and $12.37 in the US, finds a global analysis […]
AI is the most profound tech of this era, says Salesforce
As machines make deeper inroads into the workplace, tectonic shifts are taking place in the job market. The Future of Jobs report 2018 presented at the World Economic Forum identified some roles that are declining and others that are emerging. The job roles losing the race to machines and algorithms include data entry clerks, assembly […]
Zuckerberg says Facebook’s future is going big on private chats
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world’s biggest social network sees its future in intimate online chats. Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook profile that within a few years direct messaging […]
House Panel questions FB’s ‘Opacity’, tells it to engage more with EC
The parliamentary committee on information technology on Wednesday asked Facebook about the steps it has taken to deal with fake news on its platform, and told the social media company that it seemed “unwilling to be scrutinised” despite having made “mistakes” in the recent past. Facebook executives conceded that the platform did not “always get […]
On Facebook, BJP takes giant early lead in ad spend
It’s early days yet, and the numbers are very small compared with what will ultimately be spent, but BJP is miles ahead of the rest in political ad spend on Facebook. According to data made available by the social media company for the month of February, BJP and its affiliates made up for over 50% […]