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 Wipro Limited has appointed Amit Choudhary as Chief Operating Officer and member of the Wipro Executive Board.  Amit will be responsible for improving organisational operational efficiency, helping drive sustainable growth. He will manage Global Business Operations, Delivery Excellence, CIO, CISO, and the Enterprise Risk Management functions.  “Amit brings an incredible …

Dynabook UK has completed its successful selection for the provision of client PC hardware and related services to the National Desktop and Notebook Agreement (NDNA). Under the NDNA framework, Dynabook will be working directly with its current partner and leading circular IT provider, Stone Group, while also forming two new …

DivideBuy is partnering with CRM) platform, Salesforce to speed onboarding for DivideBuy’s merchants and partners. DivideBuy’s merchants will be able to refer their own partners to DivideBuy and receive large scale instant onboarding that will enable them to offer quick POS finance solutions to wider customer bases. Teresa Byrne, Chief …

CellPoint Digital provides a payment orchestration platform for gaming merchants that deal with multiple currencies, global audiences and for those that need subscription based payments all in one platform. We speak with Kristian Gjerding, CEO of Cellpoint Digital about how this technology fit the gaming space. Here’s what Kristian Gjerding …

TD SYNNEX’s apprenticeship programme has been ranked sixth in this year’s Rate My Apprenticeship poll. The national scheme rates employers based on marks provided by apprentices themselves. “At a time when skills are at a premium, the TD SYNNEX apprenticeship programme is helping to bring more confident and talented people into …

Bitdefender has unveiled Chat Protection for mobile-based instant messaging applications, an alert system users that identifies if malicious links are received or sent during live sessions over popular chat applications. You’ll find this new feature integrated into Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android through Bitdefender Scam Alert technology. If a malicious …

UK-based online marketplace, OnBuy, is currently undergoing a major recruitment drive amidst the current unsettled economic climate. This is a drive to bolster the company’s product roadmap. CEO, Cas Paton, explains: “There’s never been a more exciting time to join Onbuy. We’ve had an amazing journey over the past 6 …

Zyxel Networks’ new ‘Connect and Protect’ solution filters out any unsafe web content and prevents users from accessing dangerous websites. It ensures that logged-on users cannot access the data streams of others, preventing malicious actors from spying on or stealing the information of other users. All security functions are predefined, and the …

Chillblast’s Director, Ben Miles highlights some of this year’s leading edge hardware releases. It’s been an incredibly newsworthy couple of years for the IT industry, with the working-from-home revolution and renewed interest in PC gaming pumping demand for consumer hardware to record levels. What’s been less exciting is the hardware …

TD SYNNEX is now supplying Amazon’s consumer products lines, including Firesticks, Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers. Ryan Thomas, business unit director – consumer electronics at TD SYNNEX, UK, said: “Amazon Hardware is a great addition to our growing line-up of popular consumer products and comes at exactly the right time. …

 N-able, Inc. has  appointed Troels Rasmussen as General Manager of Security Products. Rasmussen has been with N-able for over four years and, in that time, served in various functions that have endowed him with a holistic understanding of the business, complemented by years of helping companies work through their digital …

CompTIA is currently undertaking the mission to create a resource-rich source of information and support for anyone interested in starting, staying and succeeding in a career in technology. CompTIA President and CEO Todd Thibodeaux revealed the association’s new initiative, Project Agora, during his state of the industry remarks at EMEA …