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• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  European hotspots rip off Wi-Fi users

  Almost all mobile workers have had personal experience of costly Wi-Fi, a survey has found

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Worldwide mobile payment value to jump 44% but NFC plunges

  The value of mobile payments made globally in 2013 will be 44% higher than last year, at $235.4bn, but near-field communications (NFC) transactions value dropped 40% after disappointing adoption

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Costs of NPfIT significantly greater than benefits, says Department of Health

  The defunct NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) realised £3.7bn of benefits but cost £7.3bn, says the Department of Health

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Bet365's move to HTML5 is more than a gamble

  Online gaming site Bet365 has starting using HTML5 to build a rich user experience on its website

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  SAP buys e-commerce company Hybris to move into CRM market

  SAP is moving into the CRM market with its purchase of Hybris, a Swiss customer relationship management (CRM) supplier

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

  Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Human error causes most data breaches, Ponemon study finds

  Human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, according to a study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Whitehall should use Twitter to engage public in open policy-making, say MPs

  Government should use Twitter for an ‘open policy’ approach, says the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC)

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  UK millennials consider tech skills crucial to securing a job

  Telefonica survey reveals 76% of young people in the UK see technology skills as key to future success

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

  After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Universal Credit will cost taxpayers £12.8bn

  The government’s review of major projects revealed the flagship Universal Credit programme will cost nearly six times more than previously billed

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Universities can help London push for more tech innovation, says Boris Johnson

  Boris Johnson pushes for London to become "entrenched" in tech innovation and startups

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Argos uses GIS to support multichannel strategy

  Argos deploys a location analytics tool to support multichannel strategy to wind down some leases and focus on online and click and collect

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  AMD launches low-power server processors to rival Intel's Atom

  AMD has launched Opteron X-Series low-power server processors that it claims “beat the top-performing Intel Atom processor”

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

  ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  UK cloud firm Iomart sees annual profits soar by 56%

  Cloud computing company Iomart has reported a pre-tax profit up 56% to £10.7m for the year ending March 2013

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  CERN uses ITIL to rethink facilities management

  CERN, the particle physics laboratory, is using IT service management to support operations outside the IT function

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  France Telecom changes name to Orange

  The mobile operator will embrace the Orange branding globally, despite dropping it in the UK after merger with T-Mobile

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Stratfor hacker pleads guilty

  US hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to accessing computers of law enforcement agencies and government contractors illegally

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Syrian hackers deface Sky Android apps

  Syrian hackers have defaced several of Sky’s Android apps, forcing the broadcaster to remove them temporarily from the Google Play store

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Bolton and Wigan get PSN in £47m outsourcing deal

  Bolton and Wigan councils have signed a seven-year £47m outsourcing contract, which will deliver a ‘PSN ready’ network to the region.

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  BT and Intel invest in lab to research into future cities and telecoms technologies

  A research laboratory has been launched by BT and Intel to develop networking technologies and smart city capabilities.

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

  University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Million Pound Startup competition launches to attract worldwide companies to London

  Million Pound Startup – a global competition to bring tech companies to London’s Tech City – has launched today

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge

  The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

  Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  O2 questions CWU redundancy claims as union threatens action

  Mobile operator O2 questions Communication Workers Union (CWU) claim of 600 redundancies in outsourcing deal with Capita

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  UK ISPs block access to pirate sites

  UK internet service providers have begun blocking access to two sites accused of breaking copyright laws

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  O2 selects Capita for 10-year customer service outsource

  Mobile operator O2 is outsourcing management of its customer services centres to Capita in a 10-year deal expected to be worth about £1.2bn

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology

  CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Contactless payments exceed five million in March

  Some 5.3 million contactless transactions totalling over £39m were made in March 2013 using Visa contactless cards

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

  Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Privileged accounts key to most APT attacks, says Cyber-Ark

  The theft, misuse and exploitation of privileged accounts is becoming an increasingly key tactic in advanced persistent threat attacks

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Oops! The risks of using social media at work

  Recent tribunal cases show the risks that employers and employees run when using social media services

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Most IT environments immature, Microsoft reveals

  Most business IT environments are immature, analysis of data from Microsoft’s Cloud Security Readiness Tool has revealed

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  HSBC axes 14,000 jobs

  HSBC is to lay off up to 14,000 global staff in a cost-cutting move likely to include redundancies among the bank's back-office IT employees

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Microsoft declares conformance with ISO 27034-1

  Microsoft has declared conformance with ISO 27034-1, the first part of an international standard for secure software development

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Cyber criminals hack Washington court system

  Hackers gain access to the personal data of 160,000 US citizens after compromising Washington State court service servers

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech

  Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team

  Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Lean analytics to change business decision making

  Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  BT profits rise in Q4

  Profits for BT reached £1.67bn in the fourth quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, a 4% rise from the same period the year before

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  SAP customers could save billions through consolidation

  SAP consolidation offers big savings, and HANA is expected to be a big part of the future of business IT, says HCL executive

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Domino’s Pizza plans to move web services to the cloud

  After using cloud for testing and development apps, Domino’s Pizza is now looking to move its web services to the cloud

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Case study: TKAB adopts mobile for Swedish railways

  The winners of cloud innovation of the year in Computer Weekly’s European user awards for networking tell us how they have used the Appear IQ mobile platform to boost efficiency and its transport service

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Virgin Media tentatively names new CEO

  Liberty Global – the US firm buying out Virgin Media – has named Tom Mockridge as CEO, if the merger is approved by shareholders

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud

  SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

  Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop