August 2015

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CW Nordics – August 2015 Edition

  5G technology from Ericsson could soon be used to improve communication and remote control operations in the mines of Sweden. A project designed to improve productivity and safety in traditionally dangerous environments is being run by Ericsson, ABB...  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Cloud storage service Wuala to close in November

  Seagate-owned cloud storage player confirms its closure and gives users three months' notice to remove their data from its servers  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Wye Valley NHS Trust to get open-source EPR

  Health trust signs five-year contract with IMS Maxims for its open-source electronic patient record system  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Q2 DDoS attacks double in a year, says Akamai report

  For the past three quarters, distributed denial of service attacks have doubled compared with the equivalent periods the year before, according to the latest Akamai security report  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  IaaS providers pin hopes on spending cut reprieve for G-Cloud 7

  G-Cloud suppliers are calling on the government to step up, rather than scale back, investment in the framework as spending cuts loom  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  DWP to tender for mainframe platform suppliers in contract worth up to £300m

  The Department for Work and Pensions is looking for mainframe services suppliers to help update IT systems  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Beyond Nine to Five

  In this extract from his book, Ade McCormack offers guidance to enable you to move forward in your career with the minimum of anxiety as digital technology fundamentally changes the nature of work.  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Cloud computing in schools: privacy under threat

  While IaaS and SaaS services are spreading in schools, the potential risks to the protection of students’ personal data are also growing  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Kjell Rune Tveita, If Skadeförsäkringar

  Kjell Rune Tveita's first job as CIO at Nordic insurance giant If Skadeförsäkringar was to integrate three companies across three countries  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hancock vows to support 'next phase' of GDS

  Cabinet Office minister says Government Digital Service will continue to drive “transformation across government”  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Android for Windows Mobile tools leaked on web

  A set of Microsoft tools to enable Android developers to port their apps to Windows Mobile has been posted online  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  First Darkode hacker suspect pleads guilty

  Eric Crocker of Binghamton, New York, is the first of 12 Darkode suspects to plead guilty to charges after the hacker forum was dismantled in an international operation  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Hyperoptic turns on gigabit service in Nottingham

  Urban FTTP supplier Hyperoptic has switched on its gigabit fibre broadband service in Nottingham  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CoreFit: a broadcast 4.0 application-inside-publishing model

  This is the age of the Internet of Things and the so-called 'wearable' technology device, this much we already know.  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Australian Cyber Security Centre sets baseline for businesses

  The ACSC wants more organisations to take responsibility for protecting their information resources and computer systems  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  More than 300,000 US taxpayers affected by data breach

  The IRS initially said hackers had used data from breaches of non-IRS sources to gain access to the agency’s Get Transcript feature from February to mid-May 2015 and harvest 100,000 records  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Virtualisation and storage: Five ways to do it better

  Server and desktop virtualisation bring many savings, but you have to work smart to ensure storage performs efficiently. We survey the top five pitfalls and how to avoid them  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Is Google's patent giveaway right for your tech company?

  Google is giving away free patents to tech companies through its Patent Starter Programme, but there are catches. This article assesses the pros and cons  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  The nails are inserted into the coffin of the BT Openreach Monopoly

  If BDUK learns from past experience and BT is forced to compete openly for the resultant business, we are likely to see a variety of different funding models emerge, including local partnerships ...  Continue Reading

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why  Continue Reading