Internet technology
Internet technology has transformed businesses and public services, and as a result has also revolutionised the IT department. Web trends such as e-commerce, social media, Web 2.0 and cloud computing are essential elements of any successful IT strategy. We follow the latest developments and help IT managers choose the right products for their organisation.
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News
21 Nov 2024
US Department of Justice wants Alphabet to sell Chrome browser
The regulator is looking to put a stop to what it sees as the search engine giant’s anti-competitive practices Continue Reading
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20 Nov 2024
Apple addresses two iPhone, Mac zero-days
Two zero-day vulnerabilities uncovered in Apple’s operating systems could have allowed for arbitrary code execution and cross-site scripting attacks Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2015
Sungard follows Apple, Facebook and Microsoft's lead with Irish datacentre plans
Sungard teams up with Digital Realty to create new Irish datacentre Continue Reading
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01 Jul 2015
Gigaclear to bring gigabit broadband to 4,500 Essex properties
Fibre broadband supplier Gigaclear wins a contract to deploy a network in Epping Forest as part of Superfast Essex’s Rural Challenge Project Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2015
West Yorkshire extends BT BDUK contract in £13m deal
West Yorkshire Combined Authority will extend the Superfast West Yorkshire BDUK scheme to 28,000 more properties by 2018 Continue Reading
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30 Jun 2015
Do not leave digital government development to Whitehall, says Chi Onwurah MP
Whitehall should not be left with sole responsibility for the government drive to building a digital future, says shadow Cabinet Office minister Chi Onwurah Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2015
BT rejects Sky calls for Openreach competition inquest
BT hits back after Sky asks telecoms regulator Ofcom to initiate a full investigation into Openreach Continue Reading
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29 Jun 2015
Cisco launches IoT System for enterprise and smart cities
Cisco unveils 15 products to address the growing complexity of internet of things deployments Continue Reading
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Photo Story
27 Jun 2015
Wimbledon and IBM double up to take on digital
Wimbledon describes how it has used IBM technology to overhaul its website, mobile and social media strategies to improve fan experience. Continue Reading
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Opinion
26 Jun 2015
Three things you may not know that DNS data can tell you
Big data tools can help network administrators gather new insights into security and performance from DNS data Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2015
Universal Credit costs leap by more than 20% to £15.8bn
Figures reveal increase in lifetime cost since changes to the plan made to 'reset' the troubled welfare reform programme Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2015
CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service
The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2015
Digital government 'a chance to build a new state', says Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock
Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock says the move to digital government is a “chance to build a new state” in a speech outlining his priorities Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jun 2015
Using data analytics to deliver more personalised customer service
Personalisation has been the goal for many retailers, but can the emergence of big data analytics be the solution they are looking for? Continue Reading
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25 Jun 2015
Case study: Model railway company Hornby overhauls payments with Braintree
Hornby’s head of digital strategy explains how the firm chose Braintree as its online payments platform following its website migration last year Continue Reading
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23 Jun 2015
Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs
Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2015
Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data
RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service Continue Reading
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E-Zine
16 Jun 2015
What's slowing down your network and how to fix it
In this week's Computer Weekly, network performance problems are a common occurrence – we look at the likely causes and the way to fix them. Our latest buyer's guide takes a focus on DevOps, the combining of agile operational and development processes. And we find out how Apache Spark can help with real-time big data analytics. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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15 Jun 2015
NHS e-Referral system goes live, despite 33 issues and GDS warning
NHS England has launched its replacement hospital appointment booking service, even though it has known errors and failed to follow government digital guidelines Continue Reading
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11 Jun 2015
Is HMRC making tax more taxing for non-digital taxpayers?
Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has made tax data accessible online – but how should it cater for those unable (or unwilling) to use digital services? Continue Reading
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10 Jun 2015
OnApp helps small public cloud firms take on AWS, Google and Microsoft
The OnApp Federation marketplace will help smaller firms compete more effectively with the public cloud giants, it is claimed Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2015
Boots cuts 700 jobs in bid to restructure and improve tech
Cosmetics firm Boots has announced it will be cutting 700 non-store roles in an attempt to invest in technology and simplify back-office operations Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2015
Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy
Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture Continue Reading
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09 Jun 2015
HMRC denies reports of Verify causing users problems
HMRC has denied that problems faced by the public attempting to claim marriage tax breaks are caused by the Gov.uk Verify scheme Continue Reading
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08 Jun 2015
John Lewis incubator sees first round of second-year pitches
More than 20 startups have presented their pitches to John Lewis executives in the first round of this year’s Jlab accelerator Continue Reading
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E-Zine
01 Jun 2015
Google’s big data vision
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine Google’s 11-year big data journey from MapReduce to Cloud Bigtable, the internet giant’s latest NoSQL database service. We look at the role of mobile technology in helping to join up health and social care in the UK. And John Lewis IT director Paul Coby talks about the IT challenges of creating an omni-channel retailer. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
29 May 2015
CIO interview: Billie Laidlaw, RSPCA
RSPCA CIO Billie Laidlaw explains how the charity's cloud-first approach to IT procurement benefits the animals in its care Continue Reading
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Feature
29 May 2015
Marseille: Europe’s networking gateway to Africa
The city of Marseille in southern France is fast becoming a hub for datacentre and network operators who want low latency connections to Africa. Continue Reading
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News
29 May 2015
Top six enterprise IT priorities in the Nordics
The future of enterprise IT looks bright in the Nordic region, with growing focus on datacentre investments, national cloud and automatisation Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2015
CIF cloud certification scheme wins European Commission's backing
Cloud Industry Forum's Code of Practice has been added to European list of trusted certification schemes Continue Reading
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E-Zine
26 May 2015
CW Nordics – May 2015 Edition
Nordic countries top list of digital nations in the EU, outperforming others in the areas of broadband infrastructure, IT skills, web use, business digitisation and tech-based public services. Continue Reading
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26 May 2015
EMC plots managed cloud push with $1.2bn deal to acquire Virtustream
Storage giant claims latest purchase will reinforce its hybrid cloud proposition for enterprises Continue Reading
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20 May 2015
Government cloud adoption hit by ongoing legacy tech investments
IT supplier Eduserv wants government departments banned from investing in legacy tech to drive up cloud adoption Continue Reading
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20 May 2015
BT and BDUK failed to make costs transparent, says report
A major report on BDUK commissioned by DCMS identifies a number of failures around the transparency of the scheme’s costs Continue Reading
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19 May 2015
Vodafone returns to quarterly revenue growth
A minute rise in quarterly sales gives mobile network operator Vodafone hope that its financial situation is now stabilising Continue Reading
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19 May 2015
Google slashes public cloud prices to undercut rivals
Google cuts cost of its public cloud services to pass on hardware savings in line with Moore's Law Continue Reading
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15 May 2015
Joanna Shields appointed junior minister
Former Tech City CEO Joanna Shields appointed parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Continue Reading
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13 May 2015
Retailers still not delivering omni-channel experience, says Accenture
Research by Accenture finds customers think retailers could provide a more unified approach across all platforms Continue Reading
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12 May 2015
Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems
Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told Continue Reading
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Feature
11 May 2015
Benchmarking social business and collaboration tools
A complete social business strategy requires more than publishing social media guidelines for employees. CIOs need to rethink the enterprise as a social ecosystem Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2015
Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry
Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years Continue Reading
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07 May 2015
Huawei opens European Research Institute
Huawei opens doors of European Research Institute in Leuven, Belgium Continue Reading
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05 May 2015
VCE takes wraps off "hyper-converged" VxRacks to fast-track users to the cloud
EMC-owned converged infrastructure specialist expands portfolio of cloud-enabling platforms Continue Reading
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01 May 2015
Home Retail Group grows profits 15% with mobile and online channels
Mobile and online initiatives at Home Retail Group – parent company of Argos and Homebase – drove a 15% growth in its yearly operating profit Continue Reading
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29 Apr 2015
Vodafone sends network in a backpack to Nepal earthquake zone
Vodafone’s charitable arm, the Vodafone Foundation, deploys instant mini networks to help restore communications in quake-hit Nepal Continue Reading
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24 Apr 2015
Google reports 12% revenue increase
Google misses analysts' $17.5bn target but reports 3.7% profit increase through growth in mobile ad sales Continue Reading
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E-Zine
24 Apr 2015
The National Trust's great IT renovation
In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the CIO of the National Trust, Sarah Flannigan, about her £40m IT strategy to transform one of the UK's favourite charities. We examine best practice in how to set up applications on Amazon Web Services. And we talk to a UK challenger bank about how technology will shake up the sector. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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24 Apr 2015
Amazon first-quarter results value Amazon Web Services at $5bn
Amazon's Q1 results confirm Amazon Web Services – AWS – as its most profitable business, valuing the cloud services provider at $5bn Continue Reading
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24 Apr 2015
Poor customer engagement at banks opens door to competitors
Customer experience levels at banks have failed to improve for the second year in a row and customers are more likely than ever to leave their bank Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2015
Zurich Insurance turns to augmented reality to train 10,000 managers
The £74bn turnover company aims to harness the capabilities of augmented reality to train 10,000 employees in 170 countries Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2015
HSBC website mistake guides customers to porn
HSBC’s Hong Kong website accidentally featured an out-of-date link that directed people to a porn site Continue Reading
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22 Apr 2015
Nationwide extends video link service to 100 more branches
Nationwide Building Society has expanded the use of video conferencing equipment for customer consultations Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Apr 2015
What’s slowing down your network and how to fix it
When using the network feels like wading through molasses, finding the cause can be a difficult process Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2015
Equinix opens new Slough datacentre to answer CIO cloud demands
Equinix's UK MD explains why its chosen to increase its datacentre footprint once more in Slough Continue Reading
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16 Apr 2015
Retailers should think of consumers as “omni-customers”, says OVS Spa
Retailers should refocus their strategy to treat consumers as “omni-customers”, according to the director of e-commerce for Italian brand OVS Spa Continue Reading
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10 Apr 2015
AWS promises to lower skills barrier to machine learning for developers
AWS wants to make it easier for developers to use data stored in its cloud for machine learning purposes Continue Reading
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09 Apr 2015
BBC Engineering restructures to support flexible media needs, says CTO Matthew Postgate
The BBC's technology department, BBC Engineering, will restructure to more effectively provision TV, radio and news, says CTO Matthew Postgate Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2015
Over-the-top services worth $14bn to carriers by 2020
A study conducted by Juniper Research suggests that content paid for by carrier billing will be a lucrative money-spinner for communications providers Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Apr 2015
Microsoft Office 2016 Preview: A first look
We dive into Microsoft’s latest Office, now in public preview for enterprise Office 365 accounts Continue Reading
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News
02 Apr 2015
Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics
Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce Continue Reading
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01 Apr 2015
'Bored' RBS investment chairman Rory Cullinan resigns after daughter's Snapchat message goes public
Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment bank chairman Rory Cullinan leaves after a Snapchat message to his daughter appeared in Instagram Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2015
Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth
Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans Continue Reading
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31 Mar 2015
IT is more important than marketing for banks
IT spending will grow at the expense of other areas such as marketing as optimism in financial services increases Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2015
Rural payments service failed GDS assessment but still went live
The troubled rural payments digital service failed its most recent assessment by the Government Digital Service, but was still launched to farmers Continue Reading
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30 Mar 2015
KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption
Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2015
Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud
Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs Continue Reading
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27 Mar 2015
MPs slam Defra for making rural payments 'digital by default'
MPs have slammed the government’s decision to make rural payment claims from farmers a 'digital by default' service Continue Reading
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25 Mar 2015
UK government adds five authentication providers to Gov.uk Verify identity management system
The Government Digital Service (GDS) adds five authentication providers to the Gov.uk Verify identity and access management scheme Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2015
Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud
Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands Continue Reading
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24 Mar 2015
Google warns of fake digital certificates
Google has warned of unauthorised digital certificates issued for several of its domains that could be used to intercept data traffic Continue Reading
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23 Mar 2015
Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server
With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see? Continue Reading
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20 Mar 2015
What went wrong with Defra's rural payments system?
A £154m system to process payments to farmers has been forced to resort to paper forms. What went wrong – and is this a digital disaster? Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2015
BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy
The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK Continue Reading
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19 Mar 2015
Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015
The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2015
Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure
The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2015
Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m
Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015 Continue Reading
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18 Mar 2015
Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business
Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Mar 2015
Wi-Fi in the sky: The good, the bad and the ugly
With in-flight internet options spreading around the world, which services should discerning business travellers try, and which should they avoid? Continue Reading
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13 Mar 2015
IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks
IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems Continue Reading
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12 Mar 2015
CIO interview: Ivor Nicholson, Nottinghamshire County Council
Nottinghamshire County Council is facing £77m in cuts by 2018 and by rolling out new services, it plans to save £8m through technology alone Continue Reading
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11 Mar 2015
US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers
US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015 Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2015
Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned
A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track Continue Reading
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09 Mar 2015
Group claiming links to Isis hacks small business websites
The FBI is investigating the hacking of a number of SME websites in the US and Europe by people claiming affiliation with Islamic State Continue Reading
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06 Mar 2015
Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses
New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar Continue Reading
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05 Mar 2015
Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database
Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support Continue Reading
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04 Mar 2015
Latest new UK bank launches virtually
Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence Continue Reading
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News
25 Feb 2015
£700m spent on Universal Credit yet to deliver value for money, say MPs
The Department for Work and Pensions has spent £700m on Universal Credit so far, but has yet to convince MPs it is value for money Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2015
UK consumers lack confidence in data protection, study finds
UK consumers do not believe businesses or governments do enough to protect their data, according to to Symantec’s State of Privacy report Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2015
ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit
Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers Continue Reading
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24 Feb 2015
PrivDog SSL compromise potentially worse than Superfish
Some versions of PrivDog software designed to block online ads compromise internet security in a similar way to Superfish Continue Reading
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E-Zine
23 Feb 2015
Banks take the fight to the web giants
In this week's Computer Weekly, with internet giants like Google, Apple and Facebook offering banking services, Santander is leading the fightback by launching a cloud storage service; but can it win? Our latest buyer's guide looks at cloud-optimised IT. And we examine how the economic trends will affect CIOs this year. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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19 Feb 2015
CIO interview: Paul Coby, IT director, John Lewis Partnership
Technology is an essential ingredient to the success of John Lewis, and the retailer is ploughing £100m into IT initiatives in 2015 Continue Reading
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News
16 Feb 2015
DWP starts national Universal Credit IT rollout
The next phase of the national IT rollout for the controversial Universal Credit programme has started Continue Reading
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12 Feb 2015
Baidu Chinese search engine share price falls on disappointing results
China’s Baidu search engine share price fell by more than 8% in after-hours trade after quarterly revenue came in $11m below expectations Continue Reading
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Opinion
11 Feb 2015
What is government as a platform and how do we achieve it?
There are lots of discussion going on at the moment about digital “platforms”, and the impact they might have on UK public services Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2015
Lloyds Bank accepts ID documents uploaded on social media
Lloyds Bank group customers can upload identification documents on technology used in social media, reducing the need to visit a branch Continue Reading
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10 Feb 2015
Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks
Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom Continue Reading
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09 Feb 2015
The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same
In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little Continue Reading
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06 Feb 2015
Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures
Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2015
FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet Continue Reading
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05 Feb 2015
Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects
As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Feb 2015
Cloud storage: The top five things that go wrong – and how to avoid them
Cloud storage provides cost savings and ease of management, but there are pitfalls – and here are the top five things that can go wrong Continue Reading