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• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Comic Relief’s digital challenge: talent, data and the No Make-Up Selfie

  Social media campaigns such as the No Make-Up Selfie and the Ice Bucket Challenge threaten charities such as Comic Relief with their digital reach

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service ready to go live

  Government expected to launch first service using digital identity assurance in "next couple of weeks"

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  B&Q launches online kitchen planning and design tool

  The DIY retailer debuts its B&Q Spaces planning and design tool which allows customers to plan their kitchen, bathroom and bedroom projects online

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Housing associations launch shared internet service from BT

  BT promises housing association tenants lower internet costs through new scheme

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Tim Berners-Lee: Data sharing needs accountability

  The question of how much data an individual should share was a key theme of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote at IP Expo

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Timberland focuses on online customer experience

  After internationalising its e-commerce offering across Europe, Timberland's next priority is refining its online experience

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

  L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Mothercare uses mobile to engage with customers, not just to sell

  Mothercare is continuing to use mobile to improve customer service and engage with users

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Lloyd's Register goes mobile with Oracle

  Lloyd’s Register Group tells delegates at the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference how it developed a mobile working application for clients and staff

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Toms expands global e-commerce

  Footwear retailer Toms relaunches e-commerce websites with Oracle platform to grow and improve customer experience

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Nationwide roll-out of Universal Credit to start in early 2015

  Controversial welfare reform programme to be accelerated nationwide for single people only, using much-criticised IT systems

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Visa loses mobility director to Apple

  Mary Carol Harris, former director of mobile for Visa Europe, has left the firm to take up a position at Apple

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Lloyds creates online appointment booking in attempt to save branches

  Lloyds Bank has introduced a system which allows customers to book in-branch appointments online

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Stephen Hale, head of digital, Department of Health

  “I want to make digital less of a novelty,” says the Department of Health’s head of digital Stephen Hale

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology

  Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  John Lewis sales reflect omni-channel growth

  John Lewis and Waitrose have attributed an increase in sales and customers to their growing omni-channel offerings

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  UK retailers must invest more in digital technologies

  The UK’s biggest retailers are ‘under-investing’ in in-store digital technologies

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Google faces fresh EU pressure over advertising practices

  European Commission calls for “new solutions” to address complaints that Google's online search advertising is anti-competitive

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings

  Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Suppliers discuss Emergency Services Network with Home Office

  Suppliers have attended an event held by the Home Office to discuss details of the new Emergency Services Network

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Ocado’s technology under fire, causing share price to fall

  Ocado’s IT has come under fire in a financial analyst's report that claims the market has over-valued the retailer's automation technology

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Former bank chief launches financial trading app

  A trading social network on Apple’s App Store hopes to attract more than 100,000 consumer traders as members by the end of 2014

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  BDUK arrives on the Isle of Wight

  The Isle of Wight inaugurates its first rural fibre cabinet delivered by BDUK as the project finally crosses the Solent

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Government sees 820,000 voters register online

  Over one million UK citizens have registered to vote over the last two months, with around 820,000 opting for a new online registration service

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  PayPal launches one-touch payment technology for mobile apps

  PayPal and Braintree have launched an open beta for developers to allow app makers to accept PayPal payments with one touch

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Banks slow to change despite growing competition

  The banking sector faces major challenges in transforming IT to meet the digital needs of customers

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Click and collect drives e-commerce growth for Asda

  Shoppers at Asda are continuing to choose to buy their groceries online and pick them up in-store

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

  Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Amazon launches credit card reader for small businesses

  Amazon has launched a card reader and mobile app for small businesses

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Company Magazine ditches print to go online only

  The womens’ monthly publication Company Magazine has announced it will become a standalone digital brand from October

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Sacked BBC CTO wins unfair dismissal case

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has won his case for unfair dismissal against the broadcaster

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Manchester has the second largest Wi-Fi network in the UK

  The city of Manchester is now home to the second largest Wi-Fi network in the country as it completes a network extension

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Contactless payments continue to rise

  Contactless transactions have increased by 189% since May 2013, according to Visa Europe.

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Russian blogger law comes into action

  A new information security law which places restrictions on Russian bloggers and social media users has come into force today

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Paddy Power hit by data breach in 2010

  Gambling firm Paddy Power owns up to 2010 data breach after recovering a compromised dataset in Canada