New whitepaper launched to help the retail industry keep up with AI tech evolution

09 July 2025

Retail Express has released a new whitepaper to help retailers plot a path to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in retail. Titled ‘Retail’s Journey To AI’, it provides a comprehensive guide to AI integration in retail, presenting AI as a journey that retailers can undertake to gain critical advantages in efficiency, customer experience, and market competitiveness.

AI represents a transformative opportunity for retail, enabling better decision-making and operational efficiency. AI will provide the analytics that will support and even secure retail's future with a new way of doing business. However, AI adoption isn't optional but essential for competitive survival, with the guide emphasising that it is critical for retailers to take those first steps, however small, towards AI today.

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TCCA and Wray Castle launch the Critical Communications Institute

09 July 2025

For anyone connected with critical communications, there is now for the first time, a range of training courses to meet all requirements. From new entrants to the sector using narrowband to those adopting 4G/5G critical broadband networks and those on the periphery, the Critical Communications Institute features a suite of specialist training solutions to help professionals understand, design, build and optimise the critical communications networks of today and tomorrow.

The courses have been designed in partnership with TCCA, the global member-led organisation representing the critical communications sector, and are delivered by Wray Castle, the long-established telecoms training experts. The focused, practical and highly relevant courses cover the latest critical telecoms technologies including mission critical narrowband TETRA, mission critical broadband, LTE and 5G technologies, tailored to the precise needs of critical industry sector users such as those in public safety, utilities, transport, energy and mining.

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Research from ESET highlights urgent need for greater cybersecurity investment

09 July 2025

Amid escalating cyber threats and a series of high-profile breaches, new findings reveal concerning gaps in UK businesses’ cybersecurity preparedness.

According to ESET’s recent research, 15% of UK organizations still do not allocate any budget to cybersecurity measures, and nearly a quarter (23%) do not plan to increase their investment over the coming year. This raises serious questions about their resilience in facing today’s increasingly sophisticated cyber landscape.

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UK businesses face revenue losses and strategic reassessment amid network instability

08 July 2025

A recent IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Expereo, ‘Enterprise Horizons 2025: Technology Leaders Priorities: Achieving Digital Agility,’ reveals the significant impact of network instability on UK businesses.

Over a third (33%) report revenue losses of up to £4 million due to outages or poor network performance, while a concerning 18% have experienced losses exceeding £4 million. These disruptions follow a series of high-profile IT incidents over the past year, including cybersecurity breaches and connectivity failures.

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