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• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Universal Credit faces IT skills shortage risk after GDS withdrawal

  The withdrawal of the Government Digital Service (GDS) from work on Universal Credit is one of the major risks for the troubled project over the next 12 months

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  DWP to spend further £90m on Universal Credit IT system

  Department for Work and Pensions to spend £90m enhancing heavily criticised Universal Credit IT system – much of which will be thrown away

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Security Think Tank: Information security strategy should support the business

  How should Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA and GCHQ influence future information security strategies in the UK?

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Computer Weekly founding editor, Chris Hipwell, dies after short illness

  Chris Hipwell, the founding editor of Computer Weekly, the world’s first IT magazine, has died after a short illness

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Accenture: get ready for the smart tech revolution

  Consumers are gravitating towards wearable devices like smart watches to complement their digital lifestyle, a new study from Accenture has found

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Universal Credit IT suppliers to be left out of new digital system development

  HP, Accenture, IBM and BT will have 'significantly less' involvement in the digital system developed for full roll-out of the benefits scheme

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Infosec Skills, BCS announce winners of Cyber Security Challenge

  Stuart Pringle, Simon Robinson and Robert Wyllie have won over £2,000 of training and a place in the semi-final of the current UK Cyber Security Challenge

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Is cloud computing almost too good to be true for banks?

  The cloud’s most obvious benefits will enable banks to keep up with technology changes while reducing costs

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Samsung launches Smart Home ecosystem to connect home devices

  Samsung has launched a connected home ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Yahoo claims malicious ads under control

  Yahoo says the situation is under control after its advertising network served up malware to thousands of visitors last week

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  FireEye acquires Mandiant in $1bn deal

  Security firm FireEye has bought Mandiant in a deal worth just over $1bn

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Flash storage alternative MRAM takes another step forward

  MRAM, a likely successor to flash storage, takes a step toward easier manufacture and longer life with new structures theorised by scientists in Singapore

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Facebook faces lawsuit over monitoring private messages

  Facebook is facing a lawsuit that claims it scans the contents of private messages to profile the user’s online activity

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Indian IT market is booming with the sale of tablets

  Tablet sales in India in the third quarter of 2013 increased by 9% compared to the same period 12 months ago

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Mobile technology changing India but government must legislate

  Mobile technology is changing how Indian government and businesses operate but the regulatory environment must change if the country is to reach its potential

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Bank robberies down 90% thanks to technology, says report

  Robberies at British banks have fallen by over 90% in two decades, according to a report by the British Bankers’ Association

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Retailers must distinguish between smartphones and tablets, says IBM

  Mobile and online shopping increased this Boxing Day, according to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark.

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 storage stories of 2013

  Users tackle virtualisation and growth of data and suppliers battle over flash storage and software-defined storage, while big data and hyperscale emerge into the mainstream

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Snowden: 'A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy'

  Future generations will not have any personal privacy, said Edward Snowden during the Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Top 10 IT privacy stories of 2013

  Stories related to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about internet mass surveillance programmes by the US and the UK have dominated this year

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks

  A British citizen has applied for a judgement against Facebook in a case that will test the right of tech firms to give UK personal data to the NSA.

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  Oracle revenues rise as cloud services earn keep

  While the rise of big data technology companies has seemed to threaten Oracle, its latest results report indicate a better than expected increase in revenue

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  London Assembly launches Smart London Plan

  The London Assembly has released its Smart London Plan, which highlights how innovative technologies can be used to help sustain future growth of the capital

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  BT launches proceedings against Scotland's NHS over SWAN project

  Telecoms giant BT has launched a court case against the Scottish health service after failing to win the contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  BBC publishes PwC report into its failed £98m Digital Media Initiative

  The BBC has today published a report by PwC into the broadcaster’s failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI)

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Should you become an interim CIO?

  With the recovery of the UK economy still underway, one of the trends in IT management for 2014 is the continued demand for interim CIOs

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Greater Manchester signs penultimate BDUK contract with BT

  Eight councils in Greater Manchester sign a £15m contract with BT to bring 39,000 homes high-speed broadband by March 2016

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• December 16, 2013 16 Dec'13

  Nvidia delivers GPU grid to power Citrix virtual workstations

  Nvidia has released vGPU grid technology for Citrix XenDeskop and Xenserver to support remote, hardware accelerated graphics processing.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  EE holds title for most complained about broadband

  With more than double the average number of complaints, EE – previously Orange Broadband – has been named the most complained about broadband provider by Ofcom for the fifth consecutive quarter

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Avon drops SAP big bang transformation

  Cosmetics giant Avon has halted its multi-year SAP rollout due to a poor return on investment.

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Government seeks deputy CTO

  The government is seeking a deputy chief technology officer who will report to CTO Liam Maxwell

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Research reveals widespread mobile app hacking

  The top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked, research has revealed

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  NAO slams Universal Credit for not achieving value for money

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed to achieve value for money during the development of the Universal Credit IT system.

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Thirteen plead guilty to Anonymous DDoS attack on Paypal

  Thirteen people have pleaded guilty to taking part in DDoS attacks on eBay’s Paypal, organised by the Anonymous hacker group in 2010

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Ransomware looks set to increase, warns Sophos

  Cyber criminals are planning to produce new forms of ransomware on an unprecedented scale, according to IT security firm Sophos

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  DWP writes off £40m on Universal Credit but insists the IT is working

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is scrapping £40.1m of IT work on Universal Credit, and a further £91m will be written off over five years

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Over half of Indian CIOs to increase cloud budget

  54.8% of Indian CIOs will increase their cloud computing budgets in 2014, with software as a service (SaaS) the most common

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Computer system failure delays hundreds of UK flights

  Hundreds of flights at several UK airports were delayed or cancelled at the weekend because of a computer failure at National Air Traffic Services (NATS)

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Firm works with Google maps to provide fleet management software

  Greater Anglia rail company will roll out a taxi booking app in 2014 developed by fleet management software provider TDispatch and powered by Google Maps

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Nokia Solutions Networks HR rejects best of breed for best of platform

  Nokia Solutions and Networks has chosen a ‘best of platform’ approach for its global HR programme in the wake of a reduction in staff from around 80,000 to 50,000, consequent to a restructure in 2011

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Tech City: 27% of London job growth comes from technology

  Over a quarter of the job growth in London comes from the technology and digital sector, according to Tech City Investment Organisation

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development

  The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Skills and supporting businesses top Autumn Statement 2013 agenda

  Supporting young businesses and fixing the skills gap was a recurring theme during today’s Autumn Statement in the House of Commons

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Automation key to balancing agility and security, says AlgoSec

  Automated critical business application management enables a more agile business and enhances security, says security policy management firm AlgoSec

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA

  A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services