December 2013

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Tech City: 27% of London job growth comes from technology

  Over a quarter of the job growth in London comes from the technology and digital sector, according to Tech City Investment Organisation  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  EE launches 300Mbps 4G mobile network in Tech City

  EE's superfast mobile network goes live in Silicon Roundabout, bringing speeds of up to 300Mbps to the Tech City digital hub  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Download: Moving from the back office to front lines

  This report draws input from the 4,183 CxOs we interviewed as part of IBM’s first study of the entire C-suite  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Download: Moving from the back office to the front lines

  This report draws input from the 4,183 CxOs we interviewed as part of IBM’s first study of the entire C-suite  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Microsoft to protect customers from government snooping

  Microsoft has announced it is to take measures to increase the security of customer data to protect against government snooping  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Microsoft leads major disruption of ZeroAccess botnet

  Microsoft, the FBI and Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have disrupted ZeroAccess, one of the world’s largest botnets  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  What advice would you give to an aspiring CIO?

  Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick hosted a panel debate on the future of IT leadership at the recent Azzurri Connect user conference in London.  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  What technology trends will change your role the most?

  Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick hosted a panel debate on the future of IT leadership at the recent Azzurri Connect user conference in London.  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  How will your relationship with your colleagues change?

  Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick hosted a panel debate on the future of IT leadership at the recent Azzurri Connect user conference in London.  Continue Reading

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  How does your organisation manage mobile IT consumerisation?

  Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick hosted a panel debate on the future of IT leadership at the recent Azzurri Connect user conference in London.  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development

  The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  RBS could change the face of UK banking if it took a radical approach to its IT overhaul

  While Royal Bank of Scotland's IT is under intense scrutiny after its latest failure this week, don't underestimate the fact that every retail banking CIO in the UK is thinking, "There but for the ...  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  BCS launches Barefoot Computing teacher training project with £1m cash injection

  BCS launches computer science teaching project with further £1m injection to prepare teachers for the new curriculum  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Skyscape Cloud Services opens its doors for undergraduate placements

  Cloud provider to take on 10 apprentices in large-scale cloud and virtualised computing environments  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  So when do employees start following security rules?

  As security needs are rapidly transformed, when do enterprises feel that they are getting on top of information security?  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Skills and supporting businesses top Autumn Statement 2013 agenda

  Supporting young businesses and fixing the skills gap was a recurring theme during today’s Autumn Statement in the House of Commons  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Can Europe give the world cloud coverage?

  This month’s issue of CW Europe investigates how Europe could become the “trusted cloud region” according to the European Commission (EC) after the Prism revelation. Read how the EC believes cloud providers in the region can turn this to their ...  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government begins selection of open standards for documents

  The government has begun the process to select open standards for documents  Continue Reading

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  DCMS puts transparency before BT’s commercial interests

  The head of telecommunications policy at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport claims the need for transparency in the BDUK roll-out is more important than BT’s commercial interests, but admits government needs to do better in pushing for more...  Continue Reading