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Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.

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  • The greatest happiness is digital success

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Nov 2024
  • The annual gathering of IT chiefs in Barcelona for the Gartner Symposium is a place to share ideas and attend sessions where the analyst firm pitches a new concept. This time it is the idea of the ...

  • Linux enters the cold war

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 01 Nov 2024
  • The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community. While ...

  • UK broadband is failing

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 Oct 2024
  • Getting married and moving home are said to be among the most stressful things people experience. There are plenty more, but a particularly frustrating experience not on that list is attempting to ...

  • Trusting the Cybercab with software quality

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Oct 2024
  • “We expect software to work perfectly,” the CEO of Dyntatrace, Rick McConnell proclaimed at the opening of the company’s European Innovate event in Amsterdam. This should not be an aspiration, but ...

  • Shift big bang education to lifelong training for job security

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Sep 2024
  • In the UK, kids start off in primary school to prepare them for the two years of secondary school that culminates in the Big Bang GCSE exams. Then, two years later, those that stay on at sixth form ...

  • Resetting our relationship with data

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Sep 2024
  • We need to have an open and honest debate about data, data collection and, just as important, the timely disposal of the information when it is no longer needed.While there are many good reasons ...

  • An era of post Moore's Law computing?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Aug 2024
  • Every now and then Computer Weekly asks the question of whether Moore’s Law is still relevant. Gordon Moore presented his vision of how computing would evolve in an article published in April 1965. ...

  • Accessibility and digital exclusion

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Aug 2024
  • Imagine if one day in your job, you have to ask someone to find the radio button on  a Windows PC or a Mac that you are supposed to click, because your screen reader is unable to tell you where it ...

  • Can regulators rein in Google's excesses?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Aug 2024
  • The ruling against Google in a case of anti-competitive practices, filed by the US Department of Justice, reveals the extent to which Google will attempt to thwart legislators. Court documents show ...

  • CrowdStrike reveals Windows weakness

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 24 Jul 2024
  • The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is delivered as a “template instance”. This is data stored in a ...

  • New government, new approach to IT?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Jul 2024
  • There is a long shopping list of policies the incoming government needs to execute to drive the UK forward over the next five years. And while it may not seem like a high priority, getting the IT ...

  • An industry-wide agreement is needed to identify AI-generated content

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Jun 2024
  • With the UK general election coming on July 4th, there is very real concern that this election and others around the world are being influenced by artificial intelligence-powered (AI) content ...