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July 29, 2015 29Jul2015 Photo Story

Welcome to Windows 10: Unify devices

July 29, 2015 29Jul2015 Photo Story

Welcome to Windows 10: Universal apps

July 29, 2015 29Jul2015 Photo Story

Welcome to Windows 10: The verdict

July 29, 2015 29Jul2015 Photo Story

Welcome to Windows 10

Microsoft is launching the latest version of the Windows operating system. We look at the enterprise fetauress Continue Reading

July 28, 2015 28Jul2015 E-Zine

Taking a classic brand into the digital age

In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how Hornby, the iconic model railway company that also owns Scalextric and Airfix, is moving these classic brands into the digital age. With the release of Windows 10, we ask if businesses should upgrade. ... Continue Reading

July 27, 2015 27Jul2015 News

MPs examine visa rules over immigration for software and digital skills

Home Affairs committee launches an inquiry after the number of skilled worker visas issued reached its monthly cap for the first time Continue Reading

July 27, 2015 27Jul2015 In Depth

SaaS criteria to track for business outcomes

Organisations should evolve their SaaS selection criteria to focus on newer metrics that are better indicators of supplier performance Continue Reading

July 24, 2015 24Jul2015 News

Contactless card fraud highlights need for 2FA

A Which? report on contactless card fraud highlights the need for multi-factor authentication for payments, say security experts Continue Reading

July 24, 2015 24Jul2015 News

GDS targets three million new users of Gov.uk Verify service in next 12 months

Roll-out of the system for logging in to digital public services is taking longer than expected, but user numbers are expected to grow significantly in 2015 Continue Reading

July 23, 2015 23Jul2015 News

Bilingual coders earn £4,500 more than single language colleagues

Coders that know more than one coding language earn an average of 10% more than single language colleagues, reveals Greythorn report Continue Reading

July 23, 2015 23Jul2015 News

Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns Continue Reading

July 23, 2015 23Jul2015 In Depth

All-flash vs hybrid flash for virtual desktop storage

With massive random I/O and a huge bias towards writes, virtual desktop storage – especially for the more feature-rich VDI 2.0 – requires the speed of all-flash and hybrid flash storage Continue Reading

July 22, 2015 22Jul2015 News

IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps Continue Reading

July 22, 2015 22Jul2015 News

Jeep hack raises questions about responsibility for security

The hack of a Jeep raises the question whether users or car manufacturers should be responsible for protecting against cyber attackers Continue Reading

July 22, 2015 22Jul2015 News

Investment in the internet of things boosts revenue for manufacturers

A TCS report reveals executives plan to increase spending on IoT initiatives to boost business Continue Reading

July 22, 2015 22Jul2015 News

TLC flash storage: What it is and what it's good for

We run the rule over triple-level cell (TLC) flash: What it is, how it performs, what it's good for, why it's a competitor to disk, and how it's all been made possible Continue Reading

July 22, 2015 22Jul2015 News

Mobile operators must adapt data plans to address video boom

Over 52 million terabytes of data traffic will transit worldwide mobile networks this year alone, up by more than 50% on 2014, according to statistics from Gartner Continue Reading

July 21, 2015 21Jul2015 News

Salesforce eager to support startup culture sweeping Europe

Salesforce’s head of startup relations shares why it’s partnered with accelerator Startupbootcamp Continue Reading

July 21, 2015 21Jul2015 News

Software audits cut government IT bill by £85m in 2014/15

Annual accounts for the government purchasing agency show at least £220m in technology related savings Continue Reading

July 21, 2015 21Jul2015 News

Information security governance maturing, says Gartner

Increasing awareness of the impact of digital business risks, coupled with high levels of publicity regarding cyber security incidents, is making IT risk a board-level issue, says Gartner Continue Reading

July 21, 2015 21Jul2015 News

Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter

IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 In Depth

Business cases emerge from growing pains of Hadoop 1.0

The hype around the early generation of Hadoop is giving way to the reality of business programmes based on Hadoop 2 and Apache Spark Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 News

UK considers 10-year jail sentences for online piracy

The UK government is considering new measures to increase the sanctions for criminals who infringe the rights of copyright holders for large-scale financial gain Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 News

Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 E-Zine

How the internet of things could save the honeybee

In this week’s Computer Weekly, with bee populations being decimated, we find out how the internet of things could save the honeybee and secure crop production. Amid fears that artificial intelligence could end human innovation, we hear from the ... Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 News

Openreach CEO defends current operating model

Openreach CEO Joe Garner says that separating the organisation from BT would make no sense in light of improvements to its service Continue Reading

July 20, 2015 20Jul2015 News

Hackers threaten to expose ALM’s dating and cheating site users

A hacking group, calling itself The Impact Team, claims to have compromised Avid Life Media’s user databases, source code repositories, financial records and email system Continue Reading

July 17, 2015 17Jul2015 News

United Airlines begins bug bounty payouts

United Airlines has paid out the maximum award to two hackers, which means the flaws are likely to be remote code execution vulnerabilities Continue Reading

July 17, 2015 17Jul2015 News

UK man arrested for hacking into US government computers

Briton Lauri Love is accused of hacking into various US agencies, including the US army, Nasa, the federal reserve and the environmental protection agency Continue Reading

July 16, 2015 16Jul2015 News

Women in IT meet prime minister David Cameron's gender pay gap news with scepticism

The prime minister’s announcement that firms with more than 250 employees will have to disclose salaries has been met with concerns over how and when results will be published Continue Reading

July 15, 2015 15Jul2015 News

The obstacles to software-as-a-service adoption in banking

Security tops the reasons why banks don't use software as a service for banking-specific applications Continue Reading

July 15, 2015 15Jul2015 News

Huawei to implement 4.5G network for Shanghai Disney

Huawei signs world’s first 4.5G network co-operation agreement to implement a smart city network at the Shanghai Disney resort Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

Anyone still running Windows Server 2003 is now at risk

Businesses still running Windows server 2003 are vulnerable to attack from hackers looking to exploit security holes Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

Banker’s startup experience feathers the nest for Starling Bank

Starling Bank founder Anne Boden relates how her time with startups outside traditional banking convinced her to build a digital bank from scratch Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

Vodafone scheme to help SMEs get online

Vodafone is to trial a series of digital workshops for SMEs aimed at equipping them with a stronger online presence Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

Land Rover praised for recall over software security bug

BT Security head Mark Hughes says Land Rover's recall of vehicles to fix a software security flaw is a sensible step to address evolving criminal threats Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget

Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain Continue Reading

July 14, 2015 14Jul2015 News

Symantec bets on simplicity, cloud and mobile

Symantec is not trying to be all things to all people, but is instead focusing on threats and protecting information in the mobile and cloud environments Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 13Jul2015 News

Huawei joins European 5G research project

Huawei commits to pan-European 5G Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) plan to strengthen five separate 5G research projects Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 13Jul2015 News

TechUK paper urges industry to collaborate in closing the IT skills gap

TechUK paper puts forward recommendations to government and industry on closer collaboration to close the IT skills shortfall Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 13Jul2015 In Depth

Better user acceptance testing through log management

Application log management provides insight into application behaviour, which can be used to build better software and gain a better hold of user acceptance testing Continue Reading

July 13, 2015 13Jul2015 E-Zine

The most influential women in UK IT 2015

In this week's Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 50 most influential women in UK IT – and talk to this year's winner, Citrix vice-president Jacqueline de Rojas. Also, we look at how ARM chips are making inroads into the datacentre as... Continue Reading

July 10, 2015 10Jul2015 News

UK sales teams are the most exposed to cyber attacks, study reveals

UK sales staff, callcentre agents and customer services teams are among the most highly targeted by cyber attacks, yet few firms give these groups IT security training, a study shows Continue Reading

July 10, 2015 10Jul2015 News

Bright Little Labs inspires children through Detective Dot role model

Interactive books aim to inspire a generation of coders to investigate where possessions come from and how they’re made Continue Reading

July 09, 2015 09Jul2015 News

CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

Computer Weekly reveals the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015

This year's list of the 50 most influential women in UK IT has been revealed. Find out which female IT leaders are making a difference to the digital economy Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

Most influential women in UK IT 2015: Rising stars

Judges of most influential women in UK IT hail five females as rising stars. Special thanks to the Salesforce Foundation for extending their support to our 2015 Rising Stars Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

Symantec uncovers Morpho cyber espionage operation

A cyber espionage group has targeted high-profile technology, internet, commodities and pharmaceutical companies in the US, Europe and Canada, reports Symantec Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

BA opens up API on flight information

British Airways offers an open application programming interface (API) for flight information to encourage developers to create value-added travel applications Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 In Depth

Still running Windows Server 2003? Don’t panic

Many organisations are facing the prospect of running Windows 2003 server unsupported. Where do you go from here? Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

Rolls-Royce signs up to supercomputing on-demand from HPC Midlands

Rolls-Royce is the first company to sign up to a supercomputing brokerage scheme, giving it access to £60m worth of high-performance computing Continue Reading

July 08, 2015 08Jul2015 News

MtGox chief Mark Karpeles arrested for fraud

Former chief Mark Karpeles is under arrest on suspicion of $1m fraud and involvement in the disappearance of 650,000 bitcoins Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 News

Manchester City group joins forces with SAP to further global goals

The City Football Group, which includes Manchester City, has teamed up with SAP to further its global development goals Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 News

Dashlane bullish about the future despite LastPass hack

Password management firm Dashlane is confident its business model will evolve and continue to be relevant even if passwords eventually disappear Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 News

Campaigners call for independent inquiry into Post Office Horizon IT system dispute

George Freeman MP repeats Post Office claims that a report found no flaws in the Horizon IT system – but campaigners respond by calling for an inquiry Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 E-Zine

CW Europe – July 2015 Edition

The economy in central and eastern Europe (CEE) is starting to recover, which means investment in IT across the region is also starting to return. This issue of CW Europe investigates how the boost in IT is changing the role of the CIO, from ... Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 E-Zine

The IT behind Angry Birds

In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the CIO of Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the gaming phenomenon Angry Birds, about how he supports a global business with a five-person IT team. We assess your options for moving off Windows Server... Continue Reading

July 07, 2015 07Jul2015 News