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• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  How Deutsche Telekom plans to challenge AWS and Google in the cloud

  German telco Deutsche Telekom wants to evolve into the public cloud and plans to beat sector giants such as Amazon and Google at their own game

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  TNT continues outsourcing push

  TNT continues to outsource as it strives to free up resources to focus on its core competency, signing a five-year BPO deal with Accenture

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Metropolitan Police picks Innopsis to lead network procurement

  London’s Metropolitan Police Service signs public-sector networking association Innopsis to lead engagement on network procurement

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  NHS IT system for GP data upload slammed for delays and overspend

  National Audit Office report highlights problems that led to four-year delay and a system that did not work when completed

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Accenture uses Avanade cloud for NHSmail

  Accenture to deploy a cloud-based email system for NHS staff using a combination of Microsoft software and Avanade cloud technology

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  Facebook wins first round in European privacy battle

  Facebook has welcomed a Vienna court’s rejection of a 25,000-strong class action lawsuit against the social networking firm for allegedly breaching European privacy laws

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans

  Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  UK universities revise computer course guidelines to boost ranks of cyber warriors

  UK universities revise course guidelines to transform computing degree courses and ensure that undergraduates learn cyber security skills

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Post Office signs IBM for IT overhaul

  MP James Bridgen reveals the Post Office intends to outsource an IT transformation to IBM as part of its drive to serve customers using modern technology

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Finland's Tieto buys Norwegian enterprise software company

  Tieto acqures Software Innovation to boost its business in Norway

• July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15

  Gigaclear to bring gigabit broadband to 4,500 Essex properties

  Fibre broadband supplier Gigaclear wins a contract to deploy a network in Epping Forest as part of Superfast Essex’s Rural Challenge Project

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  West Yorkshire extends BT BDUK contract in £13m deal

  West Yorkshire Combined Authority will extend the Superfast West Yorkshire BDUK scheme to 28,000 more properties by 2018

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Connection voucher scheme opened to businesses across West Sussex

  Small businesses in West Sussex will be able to apply for £3,000 broadband connection vouchers after the extension of an existing scheme across the county

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP

  Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Post Office looking to replace controversial Horizon system with IBM, says MP

  Days could be numbered for controversial Post Office computer system at the centre of miscarriages of justice, according to one MP

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows Server 2003 end of support: Five options to choose from

  Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ends in July. Should you upgrade to a newer version of the operating system or choose an alternative?

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  BT rejects Sky calls for Openreach competition inquest

  BT hits back after Sky asks telecoms regulator Ofcom to initiate a full investigation into Openreach

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities

  Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments

• June 29, 2015 29 Jun'15

  The rise of general-purpose AI and its threat to humanity

  Socially aware general-purpose artificial intelligence in the form of a dog could be the ideal form factor to take over the world

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 winners revealed

  The winners have been announced for the Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015. See who made the top spots

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Norway’s DNB was inspired by Danish bank for new app

  DNB in Norway has taken inspiration from Danske Bank in Denmark when creating its latest payment app.

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Dutch court orders Facebook to identify revenge porn poster

  Facebook has a legal obligation to provide information about a user who posted a revenge porn video on the site, a Dutch court has ruled

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Universal Credit costs leap by more than 20% to £15.8bn

  Figures reveal increase in lifetime cost since changes to the plan made to 'reset' the troubled welfare reform programme

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service

  The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

  Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  John Swainson, president of Dell Software, argues the case for rethinking datacentres

  Having previously worked for Silver Lake, CA and IBM, Swainson now heads the company’s software business

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Case study: Model railway company Hornby overhauls payments with Braintree

  Hornby’s head of digital strategy explains how the firm chose Braintree as its online payments platform following its website migration last year

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Box ties up with IBM to boost enterprise credibility and global reach

  IBM and Box have forged a global partnership to integrate their existing products and services, and develop new ones for secure collaboration

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  NetApp adds AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays

  NetApp boosts its SSD array portfolio with the addition of AFF All-Flash FAS 8000 series storage arrays built on Data ONTAP, but still no sign of FlashRay general availability

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  IT professionals give Windows 10 Start button the thumbs up

  A survey of European and North American IT professionals has found that the return of the Start button is the most enticing feature in Microsoft's latest operating system

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Waitrose uses ServiceNow for business continuity planning

  Luxury retail brand Waitrose deploys ServiceNow to cope with business continuity across its supply chain

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

  While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Icelandic startups beat the odds

  Iceland is punching above its weight in IT and the technology sector is becoming a more important element of the country's economy

• June 22, 2015 22 Jun'15

  Government Digital Service insists Verify safe despite claims of vulnerabilities

  An academic paper suggests the Gov.uk Verify system could be used as a spy network, but the Government Digital Service (GDS) insists this is not the case

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

  Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

  Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

  Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business

  The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  MoD kick-starts procurement for new armed forces tactical communications system

  The Ministry wants to replace aging Bowman Communications system with cutting edge networking kit by 2026

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  The diagram that scares the next generation of banking IT professionals

  The next generation of IT professionals in the banking sector will face the same legacy headache as their predecessors

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  FBI investigates US baseball team over rival's hacking allegations

  FBI investigations, into claims a US baseball team stole data from a rival, highlights cyber crime perpetrated by competitors – not just anonymous criminals

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  DD4B cyber extortion gang ramps up operations

  Cyber criminals using DDoS attacks to extort funds from victims are carrying out more attacks despite a $26,000 bounty

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked

  Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  BCSWomen hosts Guinness World Record attempt with marathon app-building event

  BCSWomen hosts app-building event to encourage over 1,000 young people to simultaneously build Android apps in a Guinness World Record attempt

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Council dodges £300,000 NetApp outlay with Atlantis flash caching

  Somerset local authority avoids spending £300,000 on extra hard drives for its NetApp arrays and pays half that for Atlantis ILIO flash caching software that runs VDI from RAM

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  NHS e-Referral system goes live, despite 33 issues and GDS warning

  NHS England has launched its replacement hospital appointment booking service, even though it has known errors and failed to follow government digital guidelines

• June 15, 2015 15 Jun'15

  Wipro contemplates £1bn acquisition of UK outsourcer Equiniti

  Wipro is reported to be considering the acquisition of UK business process outsourcing company Equiniti