About Catherine
Catherine Knowles
News Editor
Catherine has a keen interest in all areas of technology and storytelling in our digital age. Having worked with a number of businesses and people across media, education, publishing and communications, Catherine has a definite respect for common sense, great content and turning ideas into reality.
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Android PromptSpy malware harnesses Gemini for stealth
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endpoint protection
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mdm
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phishing
PromptSpy Android malware taps Google's Gemini AI to navigate screens, lock itself in recent apps and thwart users' attempts to remove it.
8x8 unveils Smart Assist to boost AI contact centres
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uc
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digital transformation
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cx
8x8 debuts Smart Assist, embedding real-time AI guidance and automated summaries into its contact centre workspace to speed agent workflows.
Infobip named top RCS for Business vendor by Juniper
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uc
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digital transformation
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cx
Infobip tops Juniper RCS for Business 2026 leaderboard, hailed as leading Established Leader on reach, innovation and operator ties.
Study reveals middle managers falter under pressure
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hcm
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cartech
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recruitment
Middle managers' performance collapses by up to 70% under reputational risk and fuzzy authority, Interactive EQ's 2026 index finds.
Tata & OpenAI forge major AI partnership for India
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digital transformation
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hyperscale
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dc
Tata and OpenAI strike a sweeping India-focused AI pact spanning enterprise tools, new data centres and youth skills programmes.
Cayosoft posts 76% ARR surge on identity recovery boom
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saas
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dr
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hybrid cloud
Cayosoft posts 76% ARR jump for 2025 as identity recovery demand soars and it wins major public sector and enterprise customers.
WaveMaker unveils agentic AI platform for app teams
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devops
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digital transformation
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supply chain
WaveMaker launches an agentic AI app platform letting teams turn Figma designs and prompts into governed, production-ready code at scale.
Liquibase boosts Snowflake control plane governance
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devops
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hyperscale
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martech
Liquibase Secure 5.1 adds modelled change control for Snowflake's control plane, tightening governance across access, data sharing and execution.
Survey finds AI core to Wall Street research workflows
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data analytics
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digital transformation
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fintech
Wall Street analysts lean on AI for core research and big time savings, but trust, security and integration fears still slow wider rollout.
Komprise unveils KAPPA to prep unstructured data for AI
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saas
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storage
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hybrid cloud
Komprise launches KAPPA, a serverless engine to enrich and orchestrate unstructured data at scale, priming file estates for AI use.
Ubigi, Tripsora tie eSIM data to AI travel planning
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uc
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data protection
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network infrastructure
Ubigi teams with Tripsora to fold travel eSIM data into AI trip planning, promising savings of up to 75% and fewer roaming bill shocks.
SUSE buys Losant to boost open source industrial IoT
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virtualisation
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manufacturing
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hybrid cloud
SUSE acquires Industrial IoT platform Losant, vowing to open source the tech as it expands from edge infrastructure into automation software.
Evergreen accelerates MSP deals with UK B Corp buy
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digital transformation
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cx
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martech
Evergreen seals 47 deals in 2025 and snaps up its first UK B Corp MSP, Optimising IT, to deepen global managed services expansion.
Aeris & Palo Alto link SASE to secure global IoT fleets
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uc
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firewalls
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digital transformation
Aeris links its IoT Watchtower with Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE 5G to unify zero-trust security and connectivity for global IoT fleets.
Simbian unveils AI agent for continuous pentesting
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data protection
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devops
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application security
Simbian launches an AI Pentest Agent that runs continuous, adaptive penetration tests, promising faster, context-aware vulnerability detection.
Qodo 2.1 adds AI-driven rules for smarter code review
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devops
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martech
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application security
Qodo 2.1 debuts an AI-driven rules layer that learns from code history to enforce consistent standards and analytics-led code review.
12Port unveils AI session intelligence for PAM security
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data protection
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pam
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mfa
12Port adds AI-powered session intelligence to its agentless PAM platform, promising real-time detection and disruption of risky admin activity.
Marketers boost budgets as LLMs emerge as key audience
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digital transformation
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martech
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digital entertainment
Marketers plan to raise content budgets for 2026 as large language models rapidly become a primary audience and core performance metric.
Gr4vy adds Sardine tools to unify fraud & payments
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biometrics
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fintech
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cx
Gr4vy integrates Sardine fraud and AML tools into its payments orchestration platform, offering merchants unified risk and routing in one layer.
StackAdapt links with Experian to power UK ad targeting
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data protection
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martech
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personalisation
StackAdapt partners with Experian to plug its identity graph and UK audience segments into the ad platform, boosting first-party data targeting.