IT management

Overhaul A-levels and improve teaching to boost science and tech student uptake, says Royal Society

An overhaul of A-levels and better teaching are needed to boost the numbers of young people progressing to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects in higher education, according to an influential new study. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Atos Origin boosts profit despite fall in sales

IT services company Atos Origin has announced full-year profits of €337m (£283m), a 6.7% year-on-year increase. However, overall sales fell by 3.5%... Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Barclays Bank boosts IT staff and project spending

Barclays has boosted its technology staff and budget, according to the bank's full-year results released today. Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote

Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Intellect presses government to promote IT in UK economic growth

The government has agreed to promote the role of technology in leading the UK's economic growth, following a meeting with IT industry body Intellect. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Business Software Alliance fines company £24,000 for unlicensed Microsoft software

Label company System Labelling has been fined £24,800 for using unlicensed Microsoft software. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility

Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Ten safest places to offshore your IT

Here are the ten safest cities to offshore your IT in 2011 Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Case study: Salvatore Ferragamo steps into the future with SAP

Italian shoe and other luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is standardising on SAP ... Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

BMW's Aida project on song with DS's V6 PLM system

BMW has selected Dassault Systèmes' V6 product lifecycle management (PLM) software for its cars' future electrical, electronics, and embedded software (E/E)... Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

Mobile hacker attacks will damage business in 2011

Businesses cannot afford to ignore mobile hacking attacks as they are proving extremely lucrative over shorter periods, a study of mobile threats has found. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

ID card database is destroyed

The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

IT departments are unable to support employee devices

Security concerns are holding companies back from allowing staff to use their own technology at work. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Mobile workers practise lax security

More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering. Continue Reading

Review: Internet Explorer 9 - in pictures

Microsoft has released the latest version of its popular web browser Continue Reading

Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday outlines five critical vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in its monthly security update for February Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures

More than 50 postmasters are planning legal action against the Post Office to reclaim money they paid to the Post Office after being accused of theft and false accounting. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

AXA in £150m settlement for software glitch

Financial services giant AXA will be forced to pay millions of pounds to clients after it emerged that errors in trading software were hidden by three of its subsidiaries, prompting bad performance in investment portfolios. Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Businesses must learn how to defend against cyberattack, says McAfee

Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Ten most dangerous places to offshore your IT

A report published by the Brown-Wilson Group details which locations are the most risky places to outsource. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

IT services contracts spiked in final quarter of 2010

The total value of worldwide IT services contracts signed in the final three months of 2010 was 66% higher than the previous three months, according to research from Ovum. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Barclays offshores back-office and call centre jobs to India

Barclays is cutting almost three hundred UK back-office jobs and sending the roles to India. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

OFT to investigate e-book pricing

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is launching an investigation into e-book pricing. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

O2 to apply for e-money licence to support NFC payments

O2 will apply for an e-money licence this year, signalling its commitment to support contactless payments in the UK in the near future. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

EC plans could open up ICT procurement for SMEs

Technology start-ups and SMEs could benefit from European Commission (EC) plans to improve SME procurement. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Yahoo blames Microsoft implementation for Windows Phone 7 data charges

Yahoo has spoken out after being blamed for excessive data charges experienced by some Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

BBC criticised over £133m digital project

The early stages of £133m BBC technology project with Siemens have been criticised for not offering value for money. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Staffordshire Council rolls out £23m public sector network

Staffordshire County Council is to implement one of the country's first Public Sector Networks (PSN) in a £23m contract with communications provider Kcom. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Public sector outsourcing grows in the UK as commercial deals fall again

Public sector contracts accounted for 77% of the total outsourcing spending in the UK in 2010, according to the latest report from consultancy TPI. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Vodafone restores services to Egypt after mobile shutdown

Mobile operator, Vodafone, has restored mobile phone services in Egypt after a 24-hour shutdown. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

SMEs still lack data backup

Many small business lack data recovery plans, despite a recent uptake in cloud adoption, according to a survey. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

LinkedIn reveals plans for an IPO

Professional networking site LinkedIn has revealed plans to raise up to $175m (£110m) in an initial public offering (IPO). Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Zuckerberg's Facebook page hacked

The personal page of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was hacked and an unauthorised update was placed on it Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Can Lenovo become the top UK corporate PC manufacturer?

Can Lenovo continue to grow to take on HP and Dell in the corporate arena? Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Software as a service can breed dependency so choose suppliers with care

SaaS is not utility computing: it matters who delivers it and how Continue Reading

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• Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics

Cybercriminals target data in transit

Cybercriminals are shifting away from basic "smash and grab" attacks targeting stored data to more complex methods of data harvesting in transit, security research reveals. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Virgin supplies London schools with 10Mbps fibre optic broadband

Virgin Media's business division is to supply a managed fibre optic network to London's Grid for Learning that will replace a broadband network supplied by Symmetrix, a Capita company. Continue Reading

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• Ian Grant

SAP reports 25% increase in sales

Sales of SAP software and related services grew 35% and 25% respectively during Q4 2010, compared to the same period in 2009. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Gartner outlines six money-making CIO profiles

A new generation of CIOs with skills to make the business money will replace traditional CIOs by the middle of the decade, says Gartner vice-president and researcher Ken McGee. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Spam level dips

The recent decline in global spam was the result of a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets and unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?

A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks? Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

HP to offer enterprise cloud on demand

HP has unveiled its enterprise cloud service compute strategy, which will offer UK users computing on demand from its Wynyard datacentre. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Bala retires from CIO role

S R Balasubramanian has retired from the role of CIO at Godfrey Phillips, but continues his professional activities through consultancy Continue Reading

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• Anuradha Ramamirtham, Principal Correspondent

Tight budgets will hit IT departments in 2011

Budget constraints will be the biggest challenge for IT managers in 2011 as UK companies are forced to cut costs Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Gartner: CIOs fail on staff career development

CIOs are getting better at reinvesting savings into new projects, but investment in skills and career development is still poor. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Parliament to debate cost-sharing element of Digital Economy Act

Secondary legislation on sharing the costs of the Digital Economy Act's measures to tackle online copyright infringement has been laid in Parliament. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Eli Lilly signs Cognizant deal

Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has signed a multiyear deal with Cognizant to provide a range of business services Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

EU Law needs to be tougher to tackle online piracy

The European Commission believes ISPs need to take urgent steps to combat online intellectual property theft. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Iran gets access to Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome

Google has announced that Iranians are to be able to download Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome, available for the first time following the easing of US export controls. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Carlsberg agrees probably its best outsourcing deal

Carlsberg has signed a five-year contract with Accenture for application services for its European brewery operations. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Indemnities in IT Contracts - What is the "standard" position?

Imagine the scene in one of the deals I was doing recently. It was a long negotiation on an IT deal which was nearing its conclusion and I was acting for the IT customer. One of the last issues to ... Continue Reading

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• Jimmy Desai

Government seeks £3bn traffic management technology agreement

The government is putting in place a framework agreement for traffic management technology worth up to £3bn. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Aurora Fashions CIO John Bovill quits following IT outsourcing deal

Aurora Fashions chief information officer (CIO) John Bovill has announced his decision to leave the women's fashion firm days after Aurora Fashions announced its move to outsource all its IT. Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

‘Pupils need better IT teaching, not more technology,’ say industry experts

Industry bodies have hit out against an outdated IT curriculum and unenthusiastic teaching staff Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

FDM seek 1000 graduates for training scheme

IT services provider FDM is recruiting 1000 graduates for its training scheme in 2011. Continue Reading

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• Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire

Exit clause in SLAs: 7 key pointers

An exit clause is a useful tool to close a deal when any agreed and important terms of a service contract are dishonored. Here are seven points to include in an exit clause. Continue Reading

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• S Shivashankar

Retail banks' IT spending to rocket over five years

Retail banks in all regions are increasing their IT spending by an average of 24% over the next five years but European banks will increase spending the least. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Microsoft January Patch Tuesday misses open security issues

Microsoft's January 2011 Patch Tuesday security update contains only two bulletins, but misses several open security issues. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Government departments criticised over data sharing mistake

Three government agencies have been criticised over a data sharing mistake that led to the wrongful disclosure of a woman's personal and financial information. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Security Zone: The ISO/IEC 38500 IT Governance Standard

IT governance means different things to different folks, yet it is generally understood to require alignment with best practice standards and methodologies. However, it can be really hard to see the wood for the trees due to the multiple frameworks, all of which can be applicable for organisations to demonstrate good governance. Continue Reading

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• Chris Power, Mazars UK

iGate acquires outsourcer Patni in deal worth $1.22bn

American IT services firm iGate has acquired Indian outsource company Patni in a deal worth $1.22 billion.

iGate said it would pay $921m to buy a 63%...

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Poor communication to blame for business intelligence failure, says Gartner

Between 70% to 80% of corporate business intelligence projects fail, according to research by analyst firm Gartner. Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

US government issues Twitter subpoena over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

Twitter has been issued with a subpoena by the US government to release the personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, including founder Julian Assange. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

LinkedIn could beat Facebook to an IPO

LinkedIn could be the first social network company to be floated on the stock market, according to reports. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Collaboration in the Cloud: everything to everyone, or too good to be true?

IT decision-makers are already looking to the cloud to support new IT delivery models - such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Continue Reading

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