Articles by Graeme Burton
Ocado to build robotic fulfilment centre in Japan in new deal with retail chain Aeon
Ocado has signed another technology deal - this time taking its advanced warehouses and robotics technology to Aeon in Japan
Oyster card accounts locked with users asked to reset passwords
TfL acts for a second time following August security breach - again blaming the risk of credential stuffing
Ocado to open mini customer fulfilment centre in Bristol
Ocado's mini-CFC is expected to achieve productivity similar to the company's full-size warehouses
Google sued over alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising
Inform claims Google used anti-competitive practices to shut it out of the online advertising market
Xerox threatens (again) to take its HP Inc buyout offer direct to shareholders
'Your refusal to engage in mutual due diligence with Xerox defies logic,' Xerox CEO John Visentin tells HP Inc
Tim Berners-Lee launches 'Contract for the Web' to govern internet giants and governments
Google, Facebook and others sign-up to Berners-Lee's 'global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone'
General Election 2019: Conservatives promise full fibre for every home by 2025 and R&D incentives for cloud computing
Promise of £5 billion funding to underpin full-fibre pledge alongside boost to cloud computing with shake-up of R&D credits
Russia passes law forcing 'locally produced' software onto people's devices
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General Election 2019: Labour manifesto promises free fibre and fines for Facebook over online bullying
Social media companies to face "legal duty of care" to protect children online, NCSC role to be reviewed and extended, and Charter of Digital Rights promised
Microsoft updates privacy policy following intervention by EU data protection watchdog
Microsoft amends cloud privacy policy following investigation by European Data Protection Supervisor
Labour plan to nationalise BT Openreach and provide 'free' fibre broadband for all
TalkTalk pulls sale of FibreNation business and BT shares fall following new Labour giveaway offer
Oil giant Pemex falls victim to $5m ransomware in attack linked to gang behind Dridex
Pemex falls victim to DoppelPaymer ransomware linked with same group that was behind Dridex and BitPaymer
Labour Party targeted in DDoS attack
Attack may be linked with complaints from activists that the portal for ordering election leaflets had failed
Amazon Echo Show, Sony Smart TVs and Netgear routers all cracked in Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019
Pwn2Own 2019 contestants share a total of $315,000 in this year's Pwn2Own contest in Tokyo with Team Fluoroacetate crowned 'Master of Pwn'
AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X will cost less than £600 when it is released on 25th November
Ebuyer reveals surprisingly low UK price for Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD launches third generation Threadripper offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads for £1900
AMD claims up to 90 per cent improvement boost for third-generation Threadripper compared to Intel's $2,000 Core i9-9980XE
Uber could licence Waymo self-driving technology following expert review
Uber warns that its future is dependent on the development of self-driving technology - and that it trails rivals in autonomous vehicles
Morrisons: £55m payout over 2014 'grudge' leak of payroll data 'grossly unjust'
Morrisons tells Supreme Court that it should not be held vicariously liable for payroll data leak by senior IT internal auditor Andrew Skelton
Patients turned away at King's College Hospital after patient records system goes down
Consultants unable to see patients as Sunrise-EPR patient records system goes down for a second time in recent months
Uber self-driving vehicle accident that killed pedestrian blamed on software flaws
Uber's autonomous vehicles behind 37 crashes in the previous 18 months
Azure Arc will enable Microsoft cloud users to manage resources across AWS and the Google Cloud
Azure Arc will bring 'Azure services and management to any infrastructure', claims Microsoft
US to licence Huawei suppliers "very shortly", says US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Number of US suppliers to Huawei "frankly more than we would've thought", admits Ross
Google to buy Fitbit in $2.1bn deal
Google promises to give Fitbit users the opportunity to delete their data, should the deal be approved by regulators
Homebase adopts low-code development to roll-out shopfloor mobile apps
Homebase plans to roll-out a series of low-code applications in belated digital transformation
ICO to police: Live facial recognition 'raises serious concerns'
ICO calls for a statutory code of conduct to stop police misuse of live facial recognition technology
Hackers linked to China compromised telecoms network to monitor world leaders' messages
Chinese intelligence targeting 'upstream data entities', such as telecoms companies, in order to compromise world leaders' communications
Twitter bans political advertising
"Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse," CEO Jack Dorsey declares in 'sub-tweet' aimed at Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
Business 5.0 is coming: The convergence of AI, IoT, blockchain, APIs, smart contracts and hybrid computing
Convergence of a plethora of new technologies will be key to the 'programmatic enterprise' of the future, says McKinsey and IBM advisor John Straw
Facebook strikes deal with ICO over Cambridge Analytica
Facebook to pay £500,000 fine without admission of responsibility
AMD posts highest quarterly revenues since 2005, but results still disappoint
AMD quarterly sales highest since 2005, claims CEO Dr Lisa Su, driven by rising sales of Ryzen and Epyc CPUs
Microsoft nicks $10bn JEDI Department of Defense cloud contract from AWS
Amazon 'surprised' to lose out to Microsoft in monolithic military cloud contract
Cloud computing helps Microsoft increase revenues by 14 per cent in first quarter results
Strongly rising cloud and services revenues - including from LinkedIn - more than offset lower product sales
Blockchain could kill off the City of London and the taxes that pay for the NHS
Blockchain will render the City of London irrelevant, taking with it the personal and corporate taxes that effectively fund the NHS, warns Business 5.0 expert John Straw
IBM disputes Google claims of 'quantum supremacy'
IBM accuses Google of over-hyping its quantum computing claims
Microsoft introduces Secured-Core PCs with built-in firmware protection
Micrososft's Secured-Core PCs intended to put a stop to UEFI rootkit shenanigans
Amazon Echo and Google Home apps can spy on users and phish for passwords
Lackadaisical security around apps for Amazon and Google personal assistants could enable malicious attackers to v-phish for passwords or eavesdrop on households
Microsoft's EU contracts non-compliant with GDPR, warns European Data Protection Supervisor
Result of ongoing investigation raises 'serious concerns' over Microsoft's compliance with data protection rules, EDPS indicates
Russian hackers hijacked Iranian cyber-attack infrastructure to launch attacks on the UK
Turla, linked to Russia's FSB security agency, hacked Iranian tools and infrastructure to mask its attacks on the UK, US and Middle East
Microsoft SQL Server 11 and 12 backdoor, accessible with 'magic password', linked to Chinese APT
ESET researchers attribute sophisticated MS SQL Server backdoor tool to China's Winnti Group, also known as APT17
Avast targeted in suspected new supply-chain attack
Avast reveals details of new attempted supply-chain attack just two years after CCleaner compromise
Equifax used default 'admin' user name and password to secure hacked portal
Lawsuit claims that Equifax IT security was negligent and that the company made 'false and misleading statements' about its IT security and data protection compliance
'Psychological safety' the most important factor in successful teams, claims veteran technology team builder Tom Geraghty
A work culture in which failure is encouraged helps teams to experiment, work better together and will be more adaptable to change, argues Geraghty
Thoma Bravo to buy Sophos in £3.1bn deal
Thoma Bravo offer has been 'unanimously recommended' by the board of Sophos
Bill McDermott quits as CEO of SAP
Bill McDermott to be replaced by Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein as co-CEOs
One-in-five IT pros 'affected by mental health concerns' due to work pressures
Rate of mental health concerns three times higher in 'unsupportive' companies, according to survey by recruiter Harvey Nash
Vodafone to run first European OpenRAN technology tests in the UK
OpenRAN to be trialled by Vodafone in 120 rural areas across the UK
BA customers given the green light for class-action lawsuit over 2018 data breach
Half-a-million BA customers affected by 2018 Magecart security breach can join class-action lawsuit, High Court rules
US, UK and Australia demand that Facebook stop plan to introduce end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp
End-to-end encryption will 'hinder or prevent' serious criminal investigations, authorities claims