Apple's delayed Irish datacentre prompts calls to reform country's planning system

The latest delays in Apple's bid to open a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, has prompted calls for a revamp of how planning permission decisions in Ireland are handled

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Nearly half of UK SMEs spend less than £1,000 on cyber defences

Almost 50% of UK small to medium enterprises plan to spend £1,000 or less on cyber security in the next year and 22% do not know how much they will spend, insurance firm Zurich has revealed

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Parliament’s digital chief quits to become Arup CIO

Rob Greig is leaving in September for a new role in the private sector

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BT makes firm offer to meet USO broadband commitment

BT has made a firm offer to become the designated provider of the 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation broadband service

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Enterprises are upping security demands on SME suppliers

More and more enterprise-level organisations are assessing cyber security during supplier contract negotiations, a survey shows

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How the Met Office is handling a deluge of data

‘Lazy’ open source tools are helping the UK weather forecasting service open up unprecedented volumes of data to all

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Virgin America praised for cyber breach response

Virgin America’s detection and response to a data breach has been praised by security commentators

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