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• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Osborne announces seven university technical colleges

  UTCs and studio schools to equip young people with technical and vocational training for tech and engineering sectors

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Firms believe skills crisis could hit science, tech and engineering

  The Prince’s Trust and HSBC report calls for employers to support young people into employment

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Cyber Security Challenge UK takes on the internet of things

  The latest level of the Cyber Security Challenge will involve participants hacking devices connected to the internet of things

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  AstraZeneca rolls out IT self service using ServiceNow

  Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has rolled out ServiceNow self service IT to 51,500 staff globally in four months

• 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

  Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

  As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Emma Mulqueeny: 97ers generation are employing themselves

  Festival of Code brings young hackers together for Young Rewired State event to learn entrepreneurial skills

• 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

  Cameron announces £300m big data human genome database project

  Prime Minister David Cameron has announced £300m government support for a big data human genome mapping project in England

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Fingerprint scanners most popular alternative to banking passwords

  Fingerprint scanning technology is the most favoured biometric security alternative to passwords for UK bank customers

• 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

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Bitcoin mining firm CoinTerra signs multi-megawatt datacentre deal

  CoinTerra, the firm that provides the hardware and software that power the bitcoin blockchain ecosystem, signs a multi-megawatt datacentre deal

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  £700m government hosting deal limits bidders to North-East England datacentre

  Want to win the £700m Crown Hosting Service contract? You'll need a major datacentre near Newcastle to stand any chance

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Anaplan opens York office in search of engineering talent

  Anaplan turns to York for R&D engineers as companies struggle to find talent in California

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Tackle IAM with a risk-based approach, says KPMG

  A risk-based approach is the best way to tackle identity and access management, says KPMG

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Large Indian B2C firms lead analytics push

  Consumer-facing businesses in banking, telecoms and retail are leading adoption of analytics internally to support the business

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Hacker and UFO hunter Gary McKinnon launches SEO business

  Hacker Gary McKinnon has set up a search engine optimisation business after winning a 10-year battle against extradition to the US

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition

  AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

  Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Search firms meet EU regulators over right to be forgotten

  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have met EU data protection authorities to discuss the implications of the right to be forgotten ruling

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Amazon’s share price falls 6% on quarterly results

  Amazon’s share price fell 6% in after-hours trade after the firm reported a second-quarter net loss of $126m

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Crew Clothing fashions cloud-based marketing to engage buyers

  British luxury casualwear brand Crew Clothing chose cloud marketing to move from batch email marketing to a more timely and personal approach

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  TfL wastes millions on telecoms, says IIPAG watchdog

  Watchdog IIPAG criticises Transport for London (TfL) for its inefficient and fragmented telecoms contracts

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Facebook reports 138% jump in second quarter profits

  Facebook has reported second quarter profits of $791m, up 138% compared with the same period a year ago

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo

  A technology overhaul is taking place behind the scenes at cab-hailing smartphone app Hailo as the company extends its international reach

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Six cyber criminals charged in $1m Stubhub fraud

  The US has charged six members of an international cyber crime gang that defrauded Stubhub of $1m

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Italy gives Google 18-month privacy compliance deadline

  The Italian data protection watchdog has given Google 18 months to comply with EU privacy laws

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Microsoft attacks UK government decision to adopt ODF for document formats

  Microsoft has questioned the merits of the UK government’s decision to adopt ODF - but meeting minutes show OOXML was given due consideration

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  Hackers abuse Bitly API in novel attack, reports Websense

  A cyber attack targeting MSNBC highlights cybercriminals’ abuse of the public’s trust in news sites, says Websense Security Labs

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  EU funds project to boost European cloud computing market

  Cloudcatalyst project will assess cloud market in Europe, identify barriers to cloud adoption and provide tools to boost its growth

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Privacy key to UK business opportunity, says KPMG

  Finding the right balance between privacy and business insight could help UK firms take the lead in innovative online services, says KPMG

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BBC 4G broadcast research wins support of Huawei and EE

  BBC Research and Development has teamed up with Huawei and EE to explore the role of 4G mobile networking in the future of broadcasting

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BT’s secure link to Microsoft Azure goes live in Europe

  BT’s new, secure, high-performance connectivity to Azure public cloud has gone live in Europe three months after BT teamed up with Microsoft

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  Microsoft ditches Android after four-month fling

  Microsoft pulls the plug on its short-lived Nokia X Android devices as it prepares to make 18,000 employees redundant

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

  IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  BBC News commits to digital investment amid loss of 220 jobs

  BBC News has announced a restructure where it will invest more into digital transformation and original journalism.

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  System for seven-day bank account switching underused

  The IT system that underpins government’s regulation of seven-day bank account switching is being underused

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  NAO criticises GDS IT savings method

  The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the Government Digital Service over its approach to calculating public IT savings

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Total internet failure: are you prepared?

  A total internet failure could stop any business in its tracks, yet few are preparing for this possibility, KPMG has warned

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  CIPD ditches 20-a-day tape habit for Exagrid data deduplication

  HR professionals organisation the CIPD replaces tape backup with disk-based data deduplication backup hardware from Exagrid

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

  Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

  IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

  Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  iPhones not a security threat to China, says Apple

  Apple has denied allegations that location-tracking iPhone features pose a threat to China’s national security