The Court of Appeal has ruled Aria Technology’s efforts to avoid £300,000 tax bill after HMRC found £750,000 of the firm’s input tax was not creditable.
The ruling marks the third consecutive loss in court for the company over its efforts to avoid paying its full VAT bill.
Lord Justice Singh dismissed ATL’s appeal against HMRC’s 2008 assessment of ATL’s tax bill.
A new ITU standard highlights that compliance with the Paris Agreement will require the information and communication technology (ICT) industry to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45 percent from 2020 to 2030.
The standard will support ICT companies in reducing GHG emissions at the rate necessary to meet the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°c above pre-industrial levels.
Salesforce has spruced up its CRM abilities by writing a $1.33 billion cheque for Vlocity in an all-cash deal.
According to GlobalData the move will mean that Vlocity’s capabilities can he used to further strengthen its platform offerings and enhance its presence across key industry verticals, where Vlocity has its customer base.
Sunil Kumar Verma, Lead ICT Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company said Vlocity has a strong presence across several verticals, which include energy, health, insurance, utility, government organisations, communications, media and entertainment. The acquisition means that Salesforce will gain access to key customers of Vlocity, which include Deutsche Telekom, ENGIE and British Gas.
Hosted security provider Morphean has called for greater collaboration between the physical security and IT communities to meet urgent security and intelligence challenges
A study of 1000 IT decision makers across Europe has revealed that physical security systems are not optimised according to 77 percent of respondents, and 20 percent have identified physical security as a priority for improvement in 2020. While nearly half of IT managers reported currently using a cloud-based video surveillance (VSaaS) or access control (ACaaS) solution, a further 36 percent are considering such a solution with a majority of 79 percent anticipating instalment within one year.
 Hosted security provider, Morphean, calls for greater collaboration between the physical security and IT communities to meet urgent security and intelligence challenges
A study of 1000 IT decision makers across Europe has revealed that physical security systems are not optimised according to 77 percent of respondents, and 20 percent have identified physical security as a priority for improvement in 2020. While nearly half of IT managers reported currently using a cloud-based video surveillance (VSaaS) or access control (ACaaS) solution, a further 36 percent are considering such a solution with a majority of 79 percent anticipating instalment within one year. The Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) market is expected to reach USD $5.93 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 22.0 percent buoyed by its low cost set up, the flexible scalability on offer and the increasing demand for real-time and remote access to video surveillance data. For the IT security professional already working with cloud systems and services, the growth in connected digital devices through the IoT is resulting in a growing appetite for physical security, such as network cameras, to enhance existing IT systems and assist business intelligence gathering. Rodrigue Zbinden, CEO of Morphean SA, commented: “When looking at the data from our survey, we can infer a number of significant conclusions. Firstly, that while adoption of physical security systems hosted in the cloud is strong, they are not presently optimised to their full depth of intelligence gathering capabilities which the IT department seeks; and secondly, while there is a significant market to be served in the coming year, a language barrier between physical security installers and IT resellers may hamper progress.” The language barrier to adoption Rodrigue Zbinden continues, “As the in-house IT department becomes increasingly involved in the purchasing process and on-boarding of network connected surveillance and access control devices, greater collaboration will be required between IT resellers and physical security installers. In effect, the fast and effective provision of these systems that are fully optimised and fit-for-purpose, requires cooperation between the IT and physical security industries that are speaking the same language.” Greater collaboration needed between IT resellers and physical security installers The increased appetite for hosted security presents an opportunity for IT resellers and physical security installers to work with businesses to help them improve their physical security, while also educating them on the potential business intelligence benefits offered by surveillance and access control solutions when integrated in the cloud. Through partnering, both sides can deliver optimal system set up protecting both the physical environment and the cybersecurity of systems through a comprehensive overarching solution that will better serve the needs of the market. The results of Morphean’s independent survey of 1000 IT decision makers within companies from UK, France and Germany with more than 50 employees revealed:
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More than two-thirds of IT decision-makers say workplace technology is outdated, according to SCC’s inaugural ‘IT Insights Report’ on Workplace Productivity.
The first in a new series of reports commissioned by SCC – which surveyed a panel of 550 IT decision-makers from 11 public and private sectors – shows 69 percent of respondents agree with the statement. Within this, 90 percent of respondents from police forces agreed – the largest segment by some distance.
Cloud outfit Datto has teamed up with Intel on its Datto RMM, its remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform.
Datto and Intel customers will now have direct capability from Datto RMM to remotely and more securely control devices “out-of-band”, meaning the hardware is either powered off or the operating system is unresponsive. This introduces a level of access to support endpoints that MSPs would otherwise struggle to achieve using traditional remote control tools.
McAfee has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Light Point Security.
McAfee plans to integrate Light Point Security’s browser isolation technology into McAfee Secure Web Gateway, complementing its existing comprehensive inbound and outbound protection for all web and cloud traffic.
Upon the close of the acquisition, the Light Point Security team will join McAfee.
Blue Prism announced the addition of GLYNT.AI, Kuzen and PMG to its Technology Alliance Program (TAP) as affiliate partners.
The big idea is to extend Blue Prism’s reach by making their software accessible to customers via Blue Prism’s Digital Exchange (DX), an intelligent automation “app store” and online community.
The latest capabilities on the DX include enabling chatbots, data extraction and analysis of documents and unstructured data. With just a few clicks, users can drag and drop these new capabilities into Blue Prism’s Digital Workforce—no coding required.
DSG Retail Limited (DSG) has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for a cyberattack that may have affected as many as 14 million people between July 2017 and April 2018.
Malware on 5,390 tills at DSG’s Currys PC World and Dixons Travel stores is thought to have given cybercriminals unauthorised access to the details of 5.6 million payment cards used in transactions and the personal information of approximately 14 million people, including full names, postcodes, email addresses and failed credit checks, from internal servers.
Ultima has appointed Tamsin Ashmore as its new CFO.
Before joining Ultima, Ashmore was Global Finance Director Film and TV VFX Segment at Technicolor.
She has also held senior finance positions at BT, Merlin Entertainments and Unilever.
Ultima CEO Scott Dodds said: “Tamsin brings with her strong experience in managing significant business transformation across different sectors, not just technology.”
More than 80 percent of IT decision-makers say working from home or a location different to their main place of work has increased in the past two years, according to SCC’s inaugural ‘IT Insights Report’ on Workplace Productivity.
The first in a new series of reports commissioned by SCC – which surveyed a panel of 550 IT decision-makers from 11 public and private sectors – shows remote working has dramatically increased, as has the number of devices people use for work.
More than 80 percent of IT decision-makers say most people within their organisation now work using multiple devices, including tablets and mobile phones, in addition to laptops and PCs, as advancements in technology make it more relevant to broader roles. 82 percent believe their colleagues want to be able to work on the move with the support of a mobile device.
Cybercriminals are viewing the channel as an attack point to spread ransomware, according to the BlackBerry Cylance 2020 threat report.
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) in particular are firmly in the sights of the cybercriminals.
The report said: “Advanced persistent threat groups and other adversaries released updated malware and displayed innovative attack techniques throughout 2019. Their focus on improving encryption routines and concealing malicious payloads through steganography raised the bar for security researchers and threat detection solutions.”
The Office for National Statistics has reported a noticeable uptake in retail sales in the month of January, providing much-needed reassurance for high street retailers that there is still considerable consumer demand for physical retail.
According to the ONS, the number of goods sold in Great Britain rose by 0.9 percent overall, but food retailers and department stores saw an impressive pickup, with purchases increasing by 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent respectively. The news no doubt represents some much-needed reassurance for high street retailers, who have been contending with steadily decreasing sales throughout 2019.
Some industry commentators have declared that the UK’s high street is destined to disappear in the coming years as online retail continues to gain ground, and shoppers turn to faster, more convenient options. However, these figures would seem to suggest that the high street and physical retail in general still has much to offer.
Fintech TransferGo has warned that while technology talent may come through the UK’s tough new anti-immigration laws will hurt business.
Daumantas Dvilinskas, CEO of TransferGo, said that whilst technically the new immigration rules might allow technology talent through, there are wider implications that the country needs to have a think about.
He said that the UK was asking the world’s best and brightest to prove their worth by arbitrary standards of the value set by the British Government, based on language skills, academic performance and income. In doing so, we are implicitly saying that people who don’t meet those criteria don’t have value to Britain.
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