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Zillah Moore, Director at Tunstall Healthcare discusses the impact that technology has had on healthcare, its role in safeguarding our services during COVID-19, and the benefits that technology has provided. The NHS and the healthcare industry has been irrevocably changed by the COVID-19 crisis. Over the past few months, the …

Philip Bridge, President at Ontrack offers some important tips on how to prevent the loss of important data on PCs and laptops Data loss is any process that results in your stored data being deleted, corrupted or made unreadable. It can be caused either intentionally or unintentionally and can occur …

Husayn Kassai, CEO and Co-Founder of Onfido investigates how tech and healthcare are merging to re-introduce ‘normality’ post pandemic. Up until recently, that sense of ‘normality’ was beginning to return for the UK public. Now, with the UK entering into a national three-tier lockdown system, what ‘could have been’ feels …

Zoho is partnering with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to provide Customer Relationship Management, IT Service Management and e-Commerce solutions to solve problems for large businesses.  Zoho’s portfolio of more than 45 applications is built on one technology stack so that services including AI, unified search, powerful analytics, and many others …

AppsFlyer has released The State of Gaming App Marketing – 2020 Edition, a report examining the growth of the mobile gaming industry during the first three quarters of 2020. The report analysed 9.2 billion app installs to provide marketers an in-depth analysis of global data-driven insights, industry trends, and growth …

XM Cyber, a specialist in breach and attack simulation (BAS) advanced cyber risk analytics and cloud security posture management, and Ivanti, is integrating its Ivanti patch management technology with the XM Cyber BAS platform. The enhanced solution is a result of XM Cyber’s partnership with Ivanti in which it has …

Christmas spending is forecast to decrease by £9.674bn during the six weeks leading up to Christmas this year due to the impact of lockdown, according to a new report. The VoucherCodes.co.uk Shopping for Christmas 2020 report, carried out by the Centre for Retail Research (CRR), suggests that new restrictions meaning non-essential stores are closed …

CommScope Holding Company, Inc., has announced John “Jack” Carlson as Chief Commercial Officer. Carlson will lead the company’s global organisation of go-to-market professionals, including direct and indirect sales, customer experience and marketing. He will be responsible for the development and growth of CommScope’s sales and marketing operations, executing on the …

Go Instore is launching a free consultation service to help support retailers and advise on how they can make up for their lack of physical footfall with digital footfall while forced store closures are in place. The announcement comes as the UK enters a second national lockdown forcing all non-essential stores …

Selena Cooper, Director of Partners, at UKCloud looks at how digitisation is transforming healthcare. Digitising healthcare is often regarded as a sure-fire way of enhancing services provided to patients and clinicians. Yet, with plenty of moving parts and many health and care-specific challenges, it’s not as simple as buying a …

The Remote Company has released a new service called MailerSend’s that helps businesses create and manage transactional email loads. Transactional emails currently require a process of creating messages that involves time-consuming work for both developers and marketing teams. Every request and change from various teams must go through the development team, …

Barracuda has acquired Fyde, a ZTNA provider based in Palo Alto, Calif., and Porto, Portugal to expand the Barracuda CloudGen SASE platform with ZTNA capabilities. The Fyde solution is available immediately as Barracuda CloudGen Access to businesses of all sizes. It will be available in the coming weeks for Managed …