November 2015

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  East Riding of Yorkshire Council to get digital customer service platform

  Council takes a platform approach to customer services in a five-year deal with Civica  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Was enough Stem funding announced in the autumn statement?

  The IT industry is facing a growing skills gap, so what does it think about the announcement of the Department for Education’s budget during the 2015 spending review and autumn statement?  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  U-boat defences deployed to bring broadband to Orkney Islands

  A series of causeways built to protect ships at anchor from German U-boats are being pressed into use to bring fibre-optic cables to remote parts of the Orkney Islands  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Gartner urges CIOs to scrap 'five-year plan' approach to datacentre investments

  Enterprises should adopt a nimbler, “rolling” datacentre upgrade strategy so they can respond quicker to changing market trends, according to Gartner  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Airwave to fight Home Office in court over ESN award

  Emergency services communications operator Airwave takes the government to court over the awarding of Lot 3 of the ESMCP to EE  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Will the Paris terror attacks push the French government to compromise data protection for security?

  The Paris terrorist attacks could prompt the French government to relax data protection law – but the EU General Data Protection Regulation will forestall that  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Deloitte 2015 Global CIO Survey -- Creating Legacy

  This report assesses the leadership strengths and priorities of CIOs, drawing on interviews and a survey of 1,200 technology leaders.  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Will publicity for Northamptonshire Open Market Review help open up UK broadband market?

  Similar maps for the City of London and the Greater London Boroughs could start a gold rush among those who would see just how many opportunities there are to make money out of providing fibre to ...  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Five key checks to ensure a business is ready for cyber attacks

  Top of any company’s cyber security checklist should be ensuring that the cyber security strategy is taking all changes in the operating environment into account, says BAE Systems  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Store Wars - The Purse Awakens

  Plastic cards have long been the payment instrument of choice, but perhaps these are not the final devices we should be looking for, and we should move along to something new?  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Does the Investigatory Powers Bill go far enough?

  All organisations with investigatory powers should route their requests through a well-identified and authenticated "Single Point of Contact" (SPOC) with staff trained to keep the results secure. ...  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Five million customers’ details exposed in VTech hack

  A toymaker's database compromised by hackers reportedly included the personal details of more than 200,000 children worldwide  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  What type of CIO do you want to be?

  There are three types of CIO, a major global research study has revealed. Which type would you like to be – trusted operator, change instigator or business co-creator?  Continue Reading

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  CIOs aim for CEO role as technology transforms businesses

  Computer Weekly reveals exclusive research from Deloitte on the changing role of the CIO  Continue Reading

• November 29, 2015 29 Nov'15

  #HROS project: putting the open source into HR

  The #HROS project was launched in back in May of 2015 to bring the worlds of human resources (HR) and open source (OS) together, hence the name: HROS.  Continue Reading

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  First businesses connect to Edinburgh’s gigabit network

  The first businesses have begun to connect to Edinburgh’s council-backed CORE fibre network  Continue Reading

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  UK immigration rules fly in the face of cyber security skills shortage

  Despite the UK’s shortage of cyber security skills, recent changes to immigration rules make it no less difficult to hire skilled workers from outside the European Union  Continue Reading

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  How to avoid being caught out by ransomware

  Businesses are still getting caught by ransomware, despite the fact that there are fairly straightforward methods to avoid it  Continue Reading

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Telefonica embarks on enterprise cloud push with Huawei

  Telco will work with Chinese networking supplier to offer enterprise access to OpenStack-based public cloud services  Continue Reading

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Natural language generation progresses from robo-journalism to finance

  While the robots are coming for journalists, might natural language generation also make inroads into financial, legal and medical analysis?  Continue Reading