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• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Kuato Studios teaches JavaScript through gaming

  How Kuato Studios is inspiring children to code through gaming

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Government seeks £110,000 director for Parliamentary Digital Service

  Parliament is recruiting a digital director for the revamped Parliamentary Digital Service in a role offering a salary of £110,000 a year

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  TechUK tasks future government with making the UK a digital leader

  TechUK has launched a digital manifesto detailing how the next government must turn the UK in a digital leader

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  TfL contactless payments go live

  TfL’s contactless card payment scheme goes live today, enabling customers to pay for London transport on contactless bank cards

• 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

  Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

  Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus

• 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 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  WikiLeaks reveals Australian police are using surveillance software

  Australia's New South Wales police are using spyware that has been linked to repressive states, according to leaked documents

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Claims against Post Office IT system approach completion

  Investigation into sub-postmaster claims against the Post Office over problems with its Horizon accounting system coming to an end

• 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 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Google denies breach after hackers leak millions of user logins

  Google denies claims cyber criminals stole users' data and downplays the threat after a hacker purportedly leaked 4.9 million Gmail logins

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  SVC2UK sends 17 female UK tech CEOs to Silicon Valley

  UK CEOs head to Silicon Valley for mentorship from US female IT leaders

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Pupils missing out on digital technology’s full potential

  Pupils missing out on potential of digital technology as teacher are not “computer savvy” finds Virgin Media Business survey

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Research reveals the inner psychology of IT professionals

  IT professionals are creative, flexible and strategic but can find it difficult to fit in with corporate culture, says psychology research

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent

  An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

• 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

  Fresh questions raised over Post Office IT system's role in fraud cases

  A leaked report has revealed more details about the role of the Horizon accounting system in sub-postmaster fraud cases

• 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

  Virtual backup appliance pros and cons

  Computer Weekly examines virtual backup appliances that run backup and restore from a virtual machine

• 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

  Tobacco giant outsources IT to Wipro

  Philip Morris International has outsourced IT infrastructure management to Indian services firm Wipro in a five-year deal

• 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 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  Ransomware on the rise, warns cyber threat report

  The first half of 2014 saw an increase in online attacks that lock up user data and hold it for ransom, reports F-Secure Labs

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  King's College, UCL and LSE back £900,000 national datacentre project

  A consortium of universities, including LSE, UCL and King's College, is backing a national datacentre for academics

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  EasyJet sheds 'scrum' image with hybrid IT

  EasyJet’s reservation system could not provision for allocated seating, so the airline added a feature on Azure

• 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 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Nude celebrity hack forces changes at Apple and 4Chan

  Apple and image-sharing site 4Chan take security measures after celebrity iCloud accounts were compromised and photos leaked

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Barclays bank launches biometric authentication

  Barclays bank plans to launch biometric readers that read users' finger veins to authenticate customers

• 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 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

  Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Aberdeen to get city-wide gigabit network

  Aberdeen will this month become Scotland’s first city to be fully covered by a high speed fibre network

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Locking Russia out of Swift "unlikely and complicated", says analyst

  A senior analyst at Celent has said cutting off Russia from Swift is unlikely to be effective

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Online fashion retailer Asos seeks CIO

  Asos.com is looking to appoint a CIO following the departure of Pete Marsdon after two years in the role

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation

  Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Why bare metal cloud is in vogue

  Bare metal services have been around since 2009 but cloud is witnessing renewed interest in it thanks to new offerings

• 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

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Nato set to clarify stance on cyber attack

  Leaders will discuss changing the mission of collective defence with respect to cyber attack at this week’s Nato summit

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

  Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Nude celebrity pictures posted online after alleged iCloud hack

  Hundreds of nude images of female celebrities have been leaked, allegedly after Apple’s iCloud service was hacked

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  UK wants Russia blocked from using financial messaging system

  The UK is pushing for a ban on Russian businesses using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) network as a sanction in reaction Russia’s role in the current crisis in Ukraine.

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Brighton & Hove Albion deploys free Wi-Fi at Amex Stadium

  Brighton & Hove Albion picks The Cloud and Ruckus to supply a new Wi-Fi solution at the American Express Community Stadium

• 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 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Windows Server 2003 EOL: HP seeks to cash in as IBM-Lenovo deal yet to close

  As enterprises look to refresh their infrastructure, HP is playing the stability card to win deals as IBM and Dell are mired by uncertainties

• 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 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Spanish bank spends €500m on contactless ATMs

  CaixaBank has commissioned Fujitsu to build 8,500 ATMs that will be contactless