March 2014

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  DevOps is a real job, it's official

  DevOps is a real job now, it's official  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Samsung and Code Club hold MP drop-in day

  Samsung and Code Club hold drop-in event to brief MPs on coding taught in schools  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Russian ministers ditch iPads over security concerns

  Russian ministers have ditched their Apple iPads in favour of Samsung tablets because of security concerns  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  Twitter expects Turkey to lift ban after court ruling

  Twitter expects the ban on its service to be lifted in Turkey after a local court issued a stay of execution on last week’s banning order  Continue Reading

• March 27, 2014 27 Mar'14

  TV, phone, tablet, watch - are we smart yet?

  So, is the tablet then the new centre of attention?  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Development Tools Spend - Wholesale Trade

  Wholesalers' expenditure on software development tools is £40 per employee. This is half the national average. For smaller wholesale trading companies, the spend is comparable with the all UK ...  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Soho hotdesking el cheapo

  A largish company in Soho has just moved offices and now has a hot desk policy. Only issue is that there aren't enough desks for everyone. The only people guaranteed to have a desk is those with ...  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Case study: Logicalis helps Birmingham and Loughborough universities with networking challenges

  Computer Weekly European User Award Supplier of the Year winner Logicalis explains how it developed modern infrastructures for two universities  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  OFT's thinly veiled report to Tories that capitalism doesn't work

  Milton Friedman will be turning in his grave as a report published this week seems to imply that his laissez-faire economic stance doesn't work. The OFT's report into government procurement of IT ...  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  CRM critical to digital transformation in India

  Indian businesses integrate customer relationship management (CRM) investments with digital initiatives as customer interaction expands rapidly  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Blinkbox serves videos through Microsoft Azure

  On-demand video service, BlinkBox, has used Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure as a service to support video encoding and storage  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  UK plans to professionalise infosec are too rigid, says (ISC)2

  (ISC)2 has raised concerns about aspects of government plans to professionalise information security  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Code Kingdoms teaches children to program through gaming

  Graduates aim to teach children coding through gaming after Entrepreneur First encourages “great idea”  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Asia Pacific ranked badly by Gartner on privacy and security for offshore IT

  Gartner research of nine countries in Asia Pacific for offshore IT delivery rated all of them either ‘poor’ or ‘fair’ on the data/IP security and privacy criterion  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Government predicts 2013 IT savings will exceed £500m

  The government expects IT savings in 2013 to exceed the previous year’s £500m savings, said government CTO Liam Maxwell  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations

  TechUK criticises a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging anti-competitive behaviour and collusion between public sector IT suppliers  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  ICO updates corporate plan for better data protection

  The latest corporate plan from the ICO promises a fresh approach to handling public concerns about data protection  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Download: BBC Unified Communications

  Steve Shepherd, head of IT and business alignment at the BBC, explains how the BBC is using unified communications technology to simplify its telecommunications infrastructure, in this presentation for Computer Weekly’s 500 Club for IT leaders.  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Facebook pays $2bn for virtual reality company Oculus

  Facebook announces it will buy virtual reality firm Oculus VR for $2bn and adapt the VR technology to communication and media applications  Continue Reading

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  Labour calls for mandatory cyber breach reporting

  The Labour Party has called for another UK defence review to consider creating a statutory requirement for firms to report serious cyber attacks  Continue Reading