October 2010

Somerset schools to get fibre-optic broadband network

Somerset will get high-speed internet access  Continue Reading

Video chat use grows 72% in UK businesses

Virtual meetings, video chat and video conferencing are outpacing traditional methods of communication as businesses find virtual ways to conduct face-to-face meetings.  Continue Reading

Spending Review in a nutshell: what might be relevant to IT

The parts of the Comprehensive Spending Review that could be relevant to the technology industry: Cuts of 28% in local government were confirmed, at a rate of 7% a year until 2013-14.  Continue Reading

What the CSR means for IT in the public sector

As expected, there are big cuts for central and local government. They said one third for central government, and that will certainly have an impact on IT spending as they look to make the savings. ...  Continue Reading

Spending Review: HMRC forced to generate 15% in savings

Chancellor George Osbourne has announced that HM Revenue & Customs will need to find 15% in savings, and technology will play a significant part in the process....

Video: Android, iPhone, Palm & Windows Mobile 7 Compared

A few years ago, mobile phones differed massively. You chose a phone for it's size, functionality, camera and user interface. Then, on the 7th of January 2007, the iPhone was released and as Apple ...  Continue Reading

Steria latest to sign MoU on government IT services

IT service provider Steria is the latest in an increasingly long line of IT providers to sign up to the government's memorandum of understanding (MoU)  Continue Reading

and the winners are...

Highlands and Islands, North Yorkshire, and Cumbria and Hereford  Continue Reading

Spending Review: the impact on IT

ComputerWeekly.com investigates the IT impact of the spending review.  Continue Reading

Apple iPhone iOS4 - The best OS out there?

As far as operating systems go, Apple's is probably the most simple and straight forward. You have a grid of apps that do various things. And that's it, simple.  Continue Reading

The future of the Internet - a new dawn or a phantom menace?

So, to Lille today to attend IMRG's inaugural EbizEU conference. The theme is e-commerce strategy, with a number of speakers looking to the future of cross-border e-retail.The keynote pitch was ...  Continue Reading

How many of the 500,000 government job cuts will be in IT?

Danny Alexander's accidental, or maybe deliberate gaffe, that revealed about £500,000 job cuts in the public sector must have sent shivers down the spine of people all over Britain. The government ...  Continue Reading

Spending Review: public sector job losses could lead to insider threat

James Nunn-Price, an associate partner in Deloitte's UK security practice, discusses how security could be impacted by the fallout from the Spending Review >>  Continue Reading

Malicious spam on the rise, Google figures show

Google reports that spam is down on last year, but contains more viruses than it did a year ago.

Third-quarter spam levels are down 24% from last...

BNP Paribas rolls out enterprise architecture framework

Financial services company, BNP Paribas, is rolling out company-wide framework for enterprise architecture, in a move that will ensure that IT projects match the needs of the business more closely.  Continue Reading

Spending Review: UK is a great place for business

We're seeing a fair amount of industy comment around the Spending Review. Perhaps IT has a role to play... CloudApps deputy chairman, Stephen Kelly says: The current economic system has proven ...  Continue Reading

HCL posts storming results

Indian IT giant HCL Technologies ...  Continue Reading