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Salesforce.com has no ERP offering in the pipeline
Cloud provider Salesforce.com claims to have no current plans to move into the enterprise resource planning space currently occupied by incumbents SAP and Oracle News | 22 May 2012
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CloudStore 2 launched ahead of supplier accreditation
The second iteration of the government’s CloudStore has gone live ahead of suppliers from the first framework having been accredited to sell products on the first G-Cloud framework. News | 21 May 2012
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CW Buyer's Guide: IT Tools
This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department. News | 18 May 2012
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Adobe Muse offers websites without code
The software helps users build websites without them having to know HTML News | 11 May 2012
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European copyright ruling good for IT innovation, say lawyers
The top European court's ruling on copyright is good news for innovation, say lawyers News | 03 May 2012
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales helps put UK research online
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is to help the government make taxpayer-funded research in the UK freely available to the public online News | 02 May 2012
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IT suppliers struggle to meet customers' cloud expectations
IT suppliers are struggling to transform their business models to meet customers' expectations of cloud News | 24 Apr 2012
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Facebook profits fall; buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550m
Social networking giant Facebook reported a fall in profits for the first three months of this year as its anticipated IPO gets nearer. News | 24 Apr 2012
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Amazon launches software marketplace on AWS
Amazon claims its new online store will make it easy for customers to find, compare, and start using cloud software. News | 19 Apr 2012
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Microsoft bolsters patent arsenal in $1bn deal with AOL
Microsoft is to acquire most of AOL's patents in a deal worth $1.06bn that covers more than 800 technological innovations News | 10 Apr 2012
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Do not delay, EU data protection changes on the way
Three or four years is plenty of time to get ready for the new data protection framework in Europe, but the clock is ticking Feature
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Computer Weekly / TechTarget IT priorities survey 2012
Learn which IT priorities are at the top of UK IT managers lists for 2012. Coverage from across our network includes cloud, budget cuts, networking, security, disaster recovery and more. IT priorities survey
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Microsoft: Is computing more trustworthy 10 years on?
Microsoft is marking the 10th anniversary of its Trustworthy Computing group (TwC), but has any significant progress been made since 15 January 2002 when Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent an email memo to all employees, identifying trustworthy compu... Analysis
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Interview: From Apollo Mission to agility manifesto
One of the 17 original authors of the agile manifesto was Jim Highsmith who, after a previous tenure at NASA, now works as an executive consultant at ThoughtWorks. Feature
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Case study: Nokia rethinks HR with web portal
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has reduced its HR costs by between 20% to 30% after rolling out a web-based HR portal for its 60,000 employees. Case Study
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RightNow: Oracle and next-generation CRM
In his opening keynote presentation at the RightNow Summit 2011 in Newport, Greg Gianforte, RightNow founder and chief executive officer, presented his view of device-aware CRM. Feature
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Buyer's Guide: The companies using social networking in their CRM processes
Customer relationship management (CRM) aims to acquire a greater understanding of the customer and social networking sites can capture and track customer sentiment in real time. Here are five case studies of organisations using social networks for CR... Feature
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Case study: Why and how International Personal Finance moved into the cloud
Home credit provider International Personal Finance (IPF) has embarked on a 12-month project to move its IT infrastructure into a private cloud which will cut costs by millions of pounds and make its planned expansion easier. Feature
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Spotlight profile: Sapior - risk-free data sharing
Sapior is a provider of web-based services that de-risk the collection, linking and processing of sensitive data. Its on-demand browser-based service allows users to avoid the costs and breach risks of maintaining a central database. The company says... Feature
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Spotlight profile: Stickyworld - real-time digital communication
StickyWorld is a web platform for display, dialogue and decision-making. It is a project management, design review and exhibition platform mainly for education, design professionals, buildings maintenance, property marketing and development. However,... Feature
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UK courts show the way on piracy
The UK courts are taking the right approach to online piracy, says John Moffat, senior attorney at Avidity IP Opinion
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Top tips for avoiding fraud on the internet
The Serious Organised Crime Agency estimates that online fraud costs internet users £3.5bn per year. Follow these 12 tips on how it can be avoided. Privacy & data protection
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A touch of SaaS: Feeling the benefits for mobility
As internet connections get faster and devices get smaller and more portable, we have seen a sea-change in the definition of a “mobile” workforce. Opinion
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Is time running out for internet domains?
The world’s political leaders are taking an unusually intent interest in the technical system of Internet domains’ naming and numbering (the DNS). Opinion
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Let the taxman pay your software development costs
On the back of government consultation, tax relief for companies involved in development activity is set to become even more generous and software development companies should ensure that they are taking advantage of this valuable relief, writes Sama... Opinion
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Security zone: Extending compliance to the cloud
Most security and compliance mandates were simply not designed with cloud environments in mind – an unfortunate state of affairs as a huge amount of our data is about to go "cloudwards". Opinion
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Software engineering, but not as we know it
With the further developments of the Chartered Information Technology Professional status, or CITP, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, encourages us to reconsider our understanding of our profession, writes Jon G Hall. Opinion
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Review: WikiLeaks - Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy
The one enduring thing Wikileaks has taught us is that the internet works, if you know what you are doing. Opinion
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Don’t let techno-babble cloud your judgement
Robert Morgan believes businesses must fully understand what cloud computing actually is and what it means to them as 2011 inevitable brings with it a new wave of cloud hype in the outsourcing sector. Opinion
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Youngsters driving the cloud to tipping point, says Rangaswami
Cloud has reached tipping point in enterprise and the younger generation of employees are driving it. JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.com, talks... Opinion
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Review of IntelliJ IDEA, a Java IDE
IntelliJ IDEA is a Java IDE from the Czech company JetBrains, that has survived thanks to a design philosophy centred on being smart but not annoying. Photo Story
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CW500: Andy Beale, technology director, Guardian News & Media
In this CW500 Club video, Andy Beale talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud. Video
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CW500: Peter Ransom, chief information officer, Oxfam
In this CW500 Club video, Peter Ransom talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud. Video
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CW500: Martin Taylor, head of infrastructure and service delivery, Mitchells & Butlers
In this CW500 Club video, Martin Taylor talks to Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick to share his practical advice on how to move to the cloud. Video
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Photos: 20 years of websites - the defining moments of the web
Tim Berners-Lee published the first ever website on 6 August 1991 - we look back at some of the key milestones of the past 20 years that have helped to make the web such a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Photo Story
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Review of Visual Studio Lightswitch
A review of Visual Studio Lightswitch, Microsoft's simplified self-service development tool. Photo Story
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Review: Visual Studio ALM
The benefits of making software development more transparent Photo Story
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The Condor interactive build-a-bike website
An interactive “build-a-bike” facility features on a new website designed by Alienation Digital for high-end custom cycle specialists Condor Cycles Photo Story
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Video: Revealed: The best and worst IT service providers of 2010
Interview with Lee Ayling, managing director, UK information technology advisory, Equaterra Video
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Photos: Putting the PGA Ryder Cup 2010 golf tournament on the web
The Celtic Manor Hotel in Wales is hosting the PGA Ryder Cup 2010 golf tournament next month. In anticipation of an explosion of visitors to its website during the 2010 Ryder Cup, Celtic Manor Hotel management took the decision to upgrade its existin... Photo Story
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Salesforce.com has no ERP offering in the pipeline
Cloud provider Salesforce.com claims to have no current plans to move into the enterprise resource planning space currently occupied by incumbents SAP and Oracle News
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CloudStore 2 launched ahead of supplier accreditation
The second iteration of the government’s CloudStore has gone live ahead of suppliers from the first framework having been accredited to sell products on the first G-Cloud framework. News
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CW Buyer's Guide: IT Tools
This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department. News
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Adobe Muse offers websites without code
The software helps users build websites without them having to know HTML News
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European copyright ruling good for IT innovation, say lawyers
The top European court's ruling on copyright is good news for innovation, say lawyers News
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales helps put UK research online
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is to help the government make taxpayer-funded research in the UK freely available to the public online News
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IT suppliers struggle to meet customers' cloud expectations
IT suppliers are struggling to transform their business models to meet customers' expectations of cloud News
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Facebook profits fall; buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550m
Social networking giant Facebook reported a fall in profits for the first three months of this year as its anticipated IPO gets nearer. News
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Amazon launches software marketplace on AWS
Amazon claims its new online store will make it easy for customers to find, compare, and start using cloud software. News
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Microsoft bolsters patent arsenal in $1bn deal with AOL
Microsoft is to acquire most of AOL's patents in a deal worth $1.06bn that covers more than 800 technological innovations News
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