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Government unveils £200m tech centre network details

The government has published plans to spend £200m on a network of high-tech manufacturing centres Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Update: Who takes the blame for the Lloyds TSB duplicate payment error?

Over 200,000 people were affected by a glitch at Lloyds TSB, when an error with its merchant system duplicated payments on New Year's Eve. Jenny Williams investigates. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Ofcom frees spectrum for better data, internet access

From Thursday UK mobile network operators will be allowed to offer data services over their 2G networks, giving consumers better indoor and outdoor access... Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

$21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud

Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

TPI and Compass come together

The US owner of sourcing consultancy TPI has acquired Compass Management Consulting, to increase the transformational services it can offer. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

CES 2011: Tablets expected to dominate Vegas show

Tablet-style computers are expected to dominate the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show that kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday. About... Continue Reading

2010 review: Top 10 IT skills and careers stories

In Computer Weekly's review of the best of the IT year in 2010, here we look back on the top 10 IT skills stories of the year. Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

FTC clears £5bn Intel acquisition of McAfee

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US has approved Intel's $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant, McAfee. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Government shelves FiReControl

The government’s costly and overrunning FiReControl project has been axed. FiReControl has been cancelled because of serious delays with the EADS contract (now Cassidian) which began in 2004 and cost £225m. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

FireControl project could be axed before Christmas

The government's controversial FireControl project could be flagged for review today. The Fire Brigade's Union (FBU) said it was expecting an announcement from fire minister Bob Neil later today, in which it hopes the project designed to reduce the number of fire service control rooms from 46 to nine will be shelved. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Will John Suffolk be the last government CIO?

Government CIO John Suffolk effectively leaves his post at the end of this month - although I understand that he will still be on the public payroll until the end of March next year - but there ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Martha Lane Fox calls for ‘revolution’ in online government services

Digital champion Martha Lane Fox has published a report calling for a centralised government internet address to replace 750 websites. In a review... Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Photos: Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2010 - The winners

Who’s the 2010 blogger of the year? What is the best gadget blog on the web? All these questions will be answered. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: Highlights of the Blog Awards 2010 party!

The 2010 Blog Awards ceremony went with a bang! Here are some highlights of the night. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Sign up for the CARE IT adventure challenge

Computer Weekly has teamed up with charity CARE International to launch the first IT Adventure Challenge event Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Unified Comms for the smaller business

Bob Tarzey from Quocirca looks at how smaller businesses can benefit from deploying unified communications Continue Reading

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• Bob Tarzey

UKtech50: The most influential people in UK IT

Computer Weekly can today announce the first ever list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT. Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Photos: The Greatest IT films of all time

Following the release of The Social Network, ComputerWeekly.com looks at the greatest IT films of all time. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Stuxnet "most likely" to have originated from Israel

The cyber security world is alive with gossip about Stuxnet. The virus has been described as one of the most sophisticated yet created, containing an unprecedented four zero-day vulnerabilities in ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Six reasons why the NHS National Programme For IT failed

Like many men, I don't go to the doctor very often. The last time I did, I was with my GP for 25 minutes: five minutes discussing my symptoms and 20 minutes helping her to understand how to use her new computer system to record my symptoms, her diagnosis and book the next appointment. Together, we experienced a system that was slow, cumbersome, insufficiently explained and poorly implemented. Continue Reading

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• Alistair Maughan

"Up to now the use of IT in the NHS has not been a success story"

Many thanks to Chris Potts for this wonderfully timely and ironic spot from the annals of Department of Health history. Click here to read a document published in 1998 by the Labour government, ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Photos: A history of the demise of the NHS IT programme

The controversial NHS National Programme for IT "is no longer needed", according to the Department of Health. Computer Weekly tracks the demise of the project in pictures. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate

Cloud computing will not solve the data center industry's problems. Thanks to compliance issues, cloud computing will never get off the ground for commercially viable companies, and cloud providers will evaporate. Continue Reading

Flipbook: Helpdesk calls from hell

Here are some classic helpdesk calls to lighten the day. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Six business continuity management (BCM) lifecycle guidelines

Presenting six steps that you cannot afford to ignore while drafting an effective business continuity management lifecycle. Continue Reading

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• R Vaidhyanathan

Could FiReControl be the next IT project to go?

The government has spent the last couple of months casting a critical eye over large-scale IT projects, and it's looking increasingly likely that FiReControl could be next to be hit. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

NHS National Programme for IT set for major changes

The controversial £12bn NHS IT project looks set for an overhaul as a result of a major reorganisation of the health service Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

A plan for crisis communication : Need of the hour

Plans should be in place for communicating with employees in the event of a disaster. An effective plan for crisis communication is critical to this end. Continue Reading

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• Bhaven Haria

Worshipful Company of Information Technologists receives Royal Charter

The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT), the City of London’s 100th livery company, celebrates its receipt of a Royal Charter. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Google Maps allows users to see which homes are for sale

Google Maps users will be able to search for listings from estate agents and property websites directly on the maps from today. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

WWF-UK cuts IT costs and reduces carbon footprint

The recession has put pressure on charities to cut their overheads. As a result, not-for-profit environmental group WWF-UK had to cut its costs. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

BSkyB and HP/EDS settle on £318m in damages

HP has agreed to pay BSkyB £318m in damages six months after a UK court ruled that HP-owned EDS had misrepresented its capabilities in delivering a CRM system. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Royal Mail postpones Horizon roll-out after outages

A pilot of the new Horizon Online system at Royal Mail has been scaled back after connectivity problems and outages. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Goodbye ID cards - is it time to say hello to identity banks?

As expected, the new government has scrapped the controversial and unwieldy identity cards project created as a flagship of Labour policy. Labour's problem was that it never properly explained why ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Hacker McKinnon to stay in UK, for now

Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon will stay in the UK for the foreseeable future following home secretary Theresa May's decision to adjourn a judicial review of his case due next week. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Photos: The 2010 Election in pictures

The Election has been long and hard for all three parties with each leader vying for our attentions. We sum up the campaign in a bid to help you make up your mind. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Competition: Win tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Finals

Computer Weekly has teamed up with Mahindra Satyam to give away FIFA World Cup™ match tickets, including two tickets for the FIFA World Cup™ Final itself. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Gatwick gears up for complete IT overhaul

Gatwick Airport was recently sold to Global Infrastructure Partners, which is planning an overhaul of the entire operation. Technology will be a big part of that, with nearly all the systems needing attention. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Budget for innovation: Case study - standardising Dell

This case study is part of a Computer Weekly roundtable on budget for innovation where IT leaders discussed the balance between spending on maintenance and innovation. Continue Reading

Microsoft loses appeal on Office XML patent dispute with i4i

Microsoft has lost an appeal in its dispute with i4i over XML support in Office 2003/2007, following a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Chinook Mk2's safety-critical backup system was faulty

Software supplier EDS found so many anomalies in fuel-control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter that it became concerned that the Ministry of Defence and RAF would ignore the potential importance of each flaw because of the high volume of errors, a confidential report reveals. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

What was the 'dangerous' flaw in safety-critical Chinook system?

Defence contractor EDS - now part of HP - warned the Ministry of Defence that flaws in a Fadec safety-critical system fitted to the Chinook Mk2 helicopter could cause it to malfunction, months before a fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

EDS report on 'dangerous' Chinook software published for the first time

Computer Weekly is publishing, for the first time, a technical analysis of the software installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter, the Chinook model which featured in the RAF's worst peacetime crash. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Winter Olympics sets marker for London 2012

It has been difficult to miss the fact that the Winter Olympics are being held in Vancouver, Canada. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

What Larry wants, Larry gets: what next for acquisitive Oracle?

Several years ago, I sat next to then-Oracle UK managing director Ian Smith at an industry event. At the time, the software giant was pursuing an aggressive and increasingly contentious purchase of ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Photos: The technology driving air traffic control

Controlling air traffic is one of the world’s more stressful jobs. But despite the apparent complexity of the task, and the high-tech appearance of the equipment, it’s still a job that relies completely on the ability and skill of its staff. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Virus sculptures from computer waste

Sculptor Forrest McCluer brings a new twist to the term "computer virus" by constructing 3D representations of biological viruses using old computer parts. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Senior airmen question safety of Chinook software

Three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society have questioned whether the Chinook Mk2, of the type which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, was airworthy. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

MoD renews attack on dead Chinook pilots despite software flaw disclosures

The Ministry of Defence has renewed its attack on the dead pilots of Chinook ZD576, after the publication of documents that revealed a "dangerous" flaw in software installed on the type of helicopter that crashed. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Chinook computer flaws - ex-ministers speak out

Former Defence ministers are calling for a new inquiry into the crash of Chinook 576, after new disclosures of a "positively dangerous" flaw in software...

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• Tony Collins

Chinook computer was 'positively dangerous' say newly-disclosed MoD documents

A computer flaw in the type of Chinook helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, killing all 29 on board, was known to be "positively dangerous", according to military documents that have not been published until today. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Photos: The Noughties - Technology events of the last decade

ComputerWeekly.com looks back over the past decade and pinpoints the events that marked each year in the technology industry, Continue Reading

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• Heidi Foster

A glimpse of future technology from IBM Hursley

Hurlsey is IBM's biggest software lab in Europe. We find out what future technologies the boffins are working on. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

NHS IT scheme to be scaled back

The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Gary McKinnon must face US trial, home secretary tells parliament

Home secretary Alan Johnson has said the US is the proper place for self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon to be tried, scotching any further hopes that the...

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• Ian Grant

17 days of Christmas book give-away

ComputerWeekly.com is celebrating the 17 days of Christmas by giving away a book a day for the next 17 working days before Christmas. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Photos: Highlights of the Blog Awards 2009 party!

The blog awards were held in Shoreditch House, here are some highlights Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2009: The winners

The winners and runners-up of the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2009 were announced on 25 November at an awards celebration at Shoreditch House. Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Post Office theft case deferred over IT questions

A sub-postmistress accused of theft from the Post Office has had her case postponed until next year to allow experts time to investigate the accounting system at her branch. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Copy of IT Blog Awards 2009: last call for nominations

You have until 27 October to vote for your favourite UK IT blogs. Continue Reading

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• James Garner

Photos: Snapshots from inside an exploding star

Physicists at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago have used the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to model the extreme physics of a supernova explosion. Continue Reading

Photos: Hunting for water on the moon

NASA's LCROSS mission is the latest in a series of attempts to divine water on the moon – some have hinted that our nearest neighbour may be something of a watery oasis, while others suggest that view is just a mirage. Continue Reading

Photos: Reclaiming the night sky

Iranian photographer Babak Tafreshi has won the 2009 Lennart Nilsson scientific photography prize. According to the award panel, his images "reclaim a night sky that most modern people have lost" – see some of them here. Continue Reading

Where will NASA send its astronauts next?

A White House-appointed panel has rated five visions of the future of US human space flight. Continue Reading

Photos: The IT Rich list 2009 - Cash, clicks and computers

This list was compiled using the Sunday Times Rich List and only includes people working in the technology industry and those that reside in the UK. So who's number one? Is it the Virgin or the 'bloke off the telly'? Continue Reading

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• Faisal Alani, UK at eBay

Israel carves a niche in IT security

IT security, risk, governance, continuity and compliance technologies are fast becoming some of Israel's top exports.

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Photos: Top ten fake celebrities to follow

There’s been a long and varied history of people pretending to be someone else on the internet. Continue Reading

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• Heidi Foster

Photos: Conspiracy and Censorship on the internet

Take a look at some of the most alarming cases of censorship that have taken the net by storm, how netizens have dealt with this issue, or how it was beaten back down. Continue Reading

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• Heidi Foster

Photos: Top ten places to run an IT company

The top 10 places in the world for IT companies to operate, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s third annual Benchmarking IT competitiveness report. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: Devastating human impact of toxic technology waste

Gangs of criminals, posing as computer recycling firms, are dumping hundreds of containers full of broken computer equipment in the developing world every week. Up to 900 containers a week are arriving in Africa and Asia from Western Europe and the US, according to e-waste experts. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Gravity experiments in space

The International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity research has been under way for decades. Here is a round-up of some of the most notable experiments. Continue Reading

Photos: Ten financial casualties following Lehman Brothers collapse

The collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers after 150 years of operation a year ago this week shattered the foundations of the financial system that world stability relies on. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

EDS v Sky: the most significant judgement in an IT case ever?

It is now about a year since the trial in the dispute between BSkyB and EDS drew to a close. At the time, judgment was expected within a couple of months. The absence of a judgment becomes more conspicuous by the day. We can surely expect a verdict this side of Christmas. Can't we? Continue Reading

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• Clive Seddon
• David Barker

Photos: Not every NASA project gets the green light

Facing budget and technical concerns, NASA may abandon the development of its Ares rockets. Here, amateur space historian Henry Spencer looks back at other big NASA projects that never got off the ground. Continue Reading

The first ever 20 domain names registered

As news breaks that the oldest domain name is sold, here is a list of the first 20 names to be registered, according to the forrester. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Labour rejects review of Chinook crash

Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, has ruled out ordering a new inquiry into the controversial Chinook crash, which left all 29 people on board dead, including... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Tories commit to Chinook crash review

The Tories have made it party policy to appoint a senior judge to review a finding of gross negligence against the two deceased pilots of a Chinook Mk2 helicopter which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Apollo 11: The computers that put man on the moon

It is hard to appreciate the technical challenges involved in putting a man on the moon, but 1960s computer technology played a fundamental role. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Photos: Solar powered plane ready for take off

Solar Impulse HB-SIA, the world’s first aircraft the first aircraft designed to fly around the clock without using fossil fuel or polluting the planet, was unveiled at a Swiss military airfield last week. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Air France Airbus pitot sensor linked to two fatal crashes

Faults similar to those on an Air France Airbus that crashed into the sea on 1 June were major factors in two little-noticed fatal losses of passenger... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Final cockpit moments with blocked pitot sensors

Two fatal crashes of passenger aircraft show that it is dangerous for pilots to have conflicting information and warnings in the cockpit.

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• Tony Collins

Solution: 34 is the key to the magic square

Since the square is known to be magic, we can assume from basic "magic theory" that the missing numbers are those absent at the moment from the series 1 to 16. The main insight then required is to spot that the third column from the left must contain both 2 and 3, in order to achieve the 34 constant (because 1 and 4 are already positioned). Continue Reading

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• Jim Howson

Chinook crash: critical internal memo on software flaws

Computer Weekly is publishing, in full for the first time, an MoD memo that is the clearest evidence yet that software problems made the helicopter unsafe to fly at the time of the accident. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

UBS to cut thousands of jobs

Swiss bank UBS will cut about 10,000 jobs to save up to £2.3bn by the end of next year with more highly skilled IT workers to flood onto a finance sector...

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Spend on NHS NPfIT of £5.1bn exceeds initial budget

Taxpayer spending so far on the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has risen to £5.1bn, which is more than the scheme’s original total lifecycle cost. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Photos: Renault F1 aerodynamics and design for 2009

Ever wanted the inside track on what goes into redesigning an F1 car? Well this gallery should stear you in the right direction. Continue Reading

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• Eric Doyle

Deduce the location of the remaining domino tiles

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• Jim Howson

Photos: Digital program brings polar history to life

Images relating to two British icons, the glorious failure Scott of the Antarctic, and that leader without parallel, Ernest Shackleton, went online today at noon. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Exclusive: Computer Weekly publishes 'secret' gateway review

This is the first publication of an entire gateway review by an online news service. Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

Photos: Toxic tech waste poisoning Africa

Greenpeace has found the UK’s tech waste is being dumped in developing countries instead of being recycled. Around 500,000 tonnes of tech waste in the UK are unaccounted for every year. By using GPS technology to track a TV intended for recycling, the charity has shown how waste from the UK is poisoning countries like Nigeria. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Poor factory conditions for tech workers

A recent investigation by the National Labour Committee has found “prison-like” conditions in a Chinese factory supplying Dell, Microsoft, HP, Lenovo and IBM. The Meitai Plastics and Electronic Factory is in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province in south China. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Mobile Healthcare in developing countries

Mobile technology has the potential to revolutionise health care in developing countries, particularly in the area of heath awareness schemes and training health care professionals. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Added critical data protection for SMBs

New technology aiming to solve small and medium size businesses’ perennial problems with protecting business critical data Continue Reading

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• Joe O’Halloran, Computer Weekly

Snow show - snow photos from Computer Weekly

With heavy snowfalls across much of Britain, and London experiencing its heaviest snow for 18 years, here's a collection of some of the snowy scenes spotted by Computer Weekly staff and readers. Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly Staff

Tearfund uses technology to support disaster relief

Charity Tearfund, which provided relief for victims of natural and man-made disasters, is using technology to enable its 1000 workers to access applications from anywhere. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: 2012 London Olympics – the challenges facing IT

The London Olympics 2012 venues and the IT supporting them. Continue Reading

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• Rebecca Thomson, Computer Weekly

Photos: Royal Family and Beckhams census from 1911

The online census reveals the details of the 36 million people living in England and Wales in 1911. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Photos: Depressed Robots we have come to love

The 19 of January, we're told is the most depressing day of the year. To celebrate this momentous day, we've picked out the most depressing robots. Continue Reading

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• Heidi Foster