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• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Boris Johnson calls for ‘London Visa’ to attract tech experts from around the world

  The mayor of London submits a plan to the Home Office proposing a “London Visa” to attract businesses to the capital.

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Lloyds website continuity hit as TSB launches

  Lloyds Banking Group websites, including the new standalone TSB, have been hit by problems on TSB launch day

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

  British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home

• September 06, 2013 06 Sep'13

  Chuggers drive up direct debit failure and charity costs

  Pedestrians approached by street fundraisers are deliberately giving incorrect direct debit details, costing charities up to £50 each time

• September 06, 2013 06 Sep'13

  NSA and GCHQ unlock online privacy encryption

  UK and US intelligence agencies have unlocked the technology used to encrypt online services, including email, online banking and medical records.

• September 05, 2013 05 Sep'13

  Direct debit failures costly to businesses

  Businesses risk losing money and customers due to mistakes made when setting up direct debit and credit payments

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  Diageo to change how it manages APIs to support digital strategy

  Diageo is contemplating introducing a lightweight middleware layer to better manage the APIs that govern the software services it uses

• September 04, 2013 04 Sep'13

  Check software use and transfer rights to avoid licence misuse

  Software licences can easily trip up organisations, putting them at risk of compliance action

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  IT budgets in India are fastest growing in Asia Pacific

  Indian organizations are increasing their IT budgets more than any other country in the Asia Pacific region with 19% increasing IT spending by more than 10% in 2013, according to Forrester research.

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  How the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone business will affect Microsoft

  Microsoft forges ahead with Steve Ballmer's vision to focus on hardware, software and services, with the $7.2bn acquisition of Nokia

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Disinfecting PCs false security, says security expert

  Many companies proud of their ability to identify and clean malware infected machines are missing a trick, says veteran security expert

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Android-based mobile malware rises – but what is the risk to Indian businesses?

  Mobile-dependent Indian businesses must secure networks against viruses as McAfee reports a large jump in Android-based malware

• August 30, 2013 30 Aug'13

  How networks and data win Formula One races for Mercedes AMG Petronas

  Tata Communications joins the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team to bring speedy connectivity worthy of its cars

• August 30, 2013 30 Aug'13

  Three promises unlimited 4G in December

  The smaller of the UK’s mobile operators claims its 4G offerings will be worth the wait

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  VMware announces first Nicira-based SDN product

  VMware takes its first steps into the networking market following its acquisition of the software defined networking firm Nicira.

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Bet365 improves latency and peering by updating network infrastructure

  Online gambling site Bet365 upgraded its network and improved its latency to deliver a fast, smooth and reliable experience to its customers

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store

  Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to shut down dial-up in September

  BT tempts its customers over to broadband services, although also offers PlusNet narrowband alternative for those outside of its footprint

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  The end of the Ballmer era for Microsoft

  Microsoft’s eccentric CEO will step down from his role with12 months, so what does that mean for the future of the firm?

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Box.com forges new cloud security model

  Service providers and consumers need to move to a security model better suited to the cloud computing, says Box.com

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  SAP user groups welcome 'partial termination' licensing changes

  SAP customers can now partially terminate licenses and will not be required to pay maintenance on unused licenses

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Charlie McMurdie joins PwC’s cyber practice

  Charlie McMurdie, former head of the Metro Police central e-crime unit, is joining business consultancy firm PwC as its senior crime adviser

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Case study: Keeping it private at Beth Israel Deaconess after the Boston Marathon Attacks

  Doctor and healthcare CIO shares his lessons learned from the Boston Marathon attacks and how to protect patient data

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Internet of things to power classroom education

  Businesses and academics have joined forces in an £800,000 project to extend the internet of things into the classroom

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  How DWP and Universal Credit failed to work with SME suppliers

  Less than 1% of DWP IT spending on the Universal Credit programme has gone to SMEs – how are big suppliers continuing their dominance?

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Interview: Martin Russell, head of IT services, Just Eat

  Just Eat's head of IT services, Martin Russell speaks to Computer Weekly about his experiences of switching to Google

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  UCAS adopts public cloud to process university admissions

  Ten days before the A-level results, UCAS adopted a public cloud infrastructure to scale up its IT and to make admission process efficient

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Online retailing means the industrialisation of analytics

  Figleaves founder and eCommera chief scientist Michael Ross argues that online retailing requires a new type of action-oriented business intelligence

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Multimillion-pound broadband project axed in Yorkshire

  Despite millions of taxpayer’s pounds sunk into the Digital Region project in South Yorkshire, the councils involved decide to drop it to save £12.5m

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Less than 1% of Universal Credit IT spend goes to SMEs

  Despite a 25% target, less than 1% of IT spending for government’s flagship Universal Credit programme has gone to small businesses

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  ICO to investigate London bins that track smartphones

  Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into bins in London that track passing smartphones to target advertising to owners

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  Case study: How Premier Inn uses mobile analytics

  Premier Inn's mobile app has been downloaded more than two million times and 77% of room bookings are made via the app

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Government to put 50% of all new IT spend through SMEs

  The government wants to put half of all new IT spending through small IT suppliers – doubling the previous target

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  Enterprises spend more on third-party datacentres than in-house ones: Uptime survey

  Uptime Institute’s annual datacentre industry survey reveals shift in IT spend away from enterprise-owned datacentres to outsourced options

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Government opens fourth iteration of cloud framework G-Cloud 4 for business

  Cabinet Office has opened the fourth iteration of UK government cloud – G-Cloud 4 to accept tenders from new cloud suppliers and existing ones

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Bloomberg signs up to Ubuntu Edge hybrid

  Financial analytics service Bloomberg has bought into Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu One vision for a hybrid PC/mobile device.

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Vodafone announces 4G launch date

  Vodafone becomes the third mobile operator to confirm the launch of its 4G network, which will go live on the same day as O2

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  Foreign direct investment to underpin Indian cloud computing

  Will the 100% FDI allowance in the telecoms sector help cloud computing reach Indian companies reliant on mobile connectivity?

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Datacentres are a key focus for government’s Green ICT Delivery Unit

  With the growing use of online services for government transactions, datacentres are a key focus of the government’s green IT strategy

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Capita and Barnet deal to be completed after campaigner’s court appeal fails

  Outsourcing contracts worth over £470m will be signed off by Barnet Council after a Court of Appeal ruled that the deal was lawful

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Websites hacked to show child abuse images

  More than 25 business websites worldwide have been hacked to show illegal images of child sex abuse

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  Microsoft concedes to BSkyB over SkyDrive trademark

  The tech giant admits defeat and will be forced to rename its cloud storage service after losing a court battle in the UK

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Office 365 now available on Android

  Following the release of Office Mobile for iPhone, Microsoft has launched Office Mobile for Android

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  ICO to investigate sale of online dating profiles

  The UK’s data protection watchdog is to investigate the sale of 10,000 online dating profiles to the BBC’s Panorama programme

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google datacentres awarded ISO 50001 certification

  Google has obtained ISO 50001 certification for its energy management systems in six datacentre facilities across the US

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Continual vigilance key to security, says Damballa

  UK businesses must update their approach to cyber security to look for signs of compromise continually

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Dutch banking regulator approves use of AWS public cloud in the financial sector

  Dutch banking watchdog approves use of AWS cloud in websites, mobile apps, retail banking platforms, HPC and credit risk analysis

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  FireEye partners with Phishme for multi-layered security

  Security technology developer FireEye has partnered with phishing awareness training firm PhishMe to offer a multi-layered approach to securing information networks

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Hailo taxi app maker drops Sage for NetSuite OneWorld

  Taxi cab app maker Hailocab has switched from Sage Line:50 to NetSuite OneWorld, in a bid to speed up accounts reconciliation