As the closing date for entering the British Computer Society’s IT Industry Awards approaches, Warwick Ashford talks to two of the moderators of this year's awards, to find out more about the selection process.
Highlights include an exploration of proposed changes to Government data security measures following two recent reports criticising HM Revenue and Customs for its poor handling of data, which resulted in the loss of two computer discs containing 25-million child; and the trend among multinational companies towards outsourcing to single voice and data services suppliers.
Avivah Litan, information and security analyst at research firm Gartner, talks about the effectiveness of chip and pin bank card technology in combating fraud and the risks that may result from the introduction of faster payments.
Computer Weekly magazine is having a makeover - but we're not stopping at a new look. Brian McKenna discusses the new approach to Computer Weekly's magazine and website with Warwick Ashford, in this week's weekly round-up podcast.
Our regular weekly UK IT news round-up, for the week ending 9 June 2008. Includes a report from Warwick Ashford on the drop in numbers of computing students at UK universities and colleges and fears of a looming IT skills shortage.
Accenture's CIO Frank Modruson talks to Computer Weekly's Bill Goodwin about Accenture's moves to exploit social networking technology within the business to maximise employees' collaborative potential.
In this interview, Cliff Saran speaks to Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine, who believes that there's a lot wrong with the way the web works today.