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• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy

  The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015

  The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure

  The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m

  Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

  Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks

  IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Ivor Nicholson, Nottinghamshire County Council

  Nottinghamshire County Council is facing £77m in cuts by 2018 and by rolling out new services, it plans to save £8m through technology alone

• March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15

  US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers

  US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

  A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track

• March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15

  Group claiming links to Isis hacks small business websites

  The FBI is investigating the hacking of a number of SME websites in the US and Europe by people claiming affiliation with Islamic State

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses

  New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database

  Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Latest new UK bank launches virtually

  Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  £700m spent on Universal Credit yet to deliver value for money, say MPs

  The Department for Work and Pensions has spent £700m on Universal Credit so far, but has yet to convince MPs it is value for money

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  UK consumers lack confidence in data protection, study finds

  UK consumers do not believe businesses or governments do enough to protect their data, according to to Symantec’s State of Privacy report

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  PrivDog SSL compromise potentially worse than Superfish

  Some versions of PrivDog software designed to block online ads compromise internet security in a similar way to Superfish

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  CIO interview: Paul Coby, IT director, John Lewis Partnership

  Technology is an essential ingredient to the success of John Lewis, and the retailer is ploughing £100m into IT initiatives in 2015

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  DWP starts national Universal Credit IT rollout

  The next phase of the national IT rollout for the controversial Universal Credit programme has started

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Baidu Chinese search engine share price falls on disappointing results

  China’s Baidu search engine share price fell by more than 8% in after-hours trade after quarterly revenue came in $11m below expectations

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  Lloyds Bank accepts ID documents uploaded on social media

  Lloyds Bank group customers can upload identification documents on technology used in social media, reducing the need to visit a branch

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Darknet technologies have legitimate security uses, says researcher

  Darket technologies have legitimate security applications for business, says security investigator

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android

  Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Halifax launches online banking for children

  Halifax has launched an online banking service aimed at helping 11 to 15-year-olds better manage their money

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting

  A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Developing software for smartwatches - how Hailo approached the problem

  One of the developers for black cab booking app Hailo talks about the challenges of developing for wearables such as smartwatches

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Cancer Research UK trials contactless donations

  Cancer Research UK installs four smart charity shop windows to enable contactless donations

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Younger users prefer biometrics to passwords

  Younger bank customers would rather use biometrics than PINs and passwords for security, according to Visa Europe

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Microsoft Azure had more downtime in 2014 than main cloud rivals

  Microsoft Azure suffered more downtime than its main rivals in 2014, according to detailed analysis

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Tesco embarks on image recognition technology for product placement

  Tesco is looking to pilot image recognition software to improve product placement in its stores

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Atom Bank could be first real threat to traditional banks

  Digital-only bank could be the first real challenge to high street banks if it turns its low-cost operating advantage into better rates for customers

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  N3 network outage knocks NHS users off internet

  An internet gateway fault causes problems for users of the NHS N3 network

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Technology should complement traditional merchandising, says Hershey’s

  Retailers adopting innovative technology need to consider how it might affect traditional ways of merchandising at the point of sale

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Levi Strauss & Co thinks mobile first

  Levi Strauss & Co, the company known for Levi’s denim jeans, is thinking mobile first as part of its omni-channel retailing strategy

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  John Lewis to trial location technology for click and collect

  John Lewis plans to trial a micro-location technology to improve its click and collect service

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  UK outdone by superfast European broadband

  Britain’s fall down the average broadband speed rankings continues, according to web watchers Akamai

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Alibaba bank and WeBank show Google and Facebook the way

  Technology can drive traditional banks to reform, says Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the launch of China’s first online-only bank

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Cool and funky bank to launch in UK soon

  The UK launch of a web 2.0 and social media-based bank in the UK is imminent as Germany’s Fidor Bank applies for UK licence

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue

  Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Why are retailers breaking online delivery promises?

  The Christmas period has seen a wave of UK retailers’ technology failing to meet the basic needs of customers