May 2016
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May 08, 2016
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Computer Weekly@50: What was happening in IT in May over the years
CW@50: What was making the news in May? Continue Reading
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May 08, 2016
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May'16
May 13, 1982: The ops who keep track of 1,220 trains a day…
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May 07, 2016
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Has BT made a splash or just restated business as usual?
The Guardian's Nils Pratley called BT's announcement of 6 billion of investment "just coasting": adding EE's investment commitments (to meet the conditions of its spectrum licences) to those of BT ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Technology entrepreneurs: Tech is part of everything
A panel of technology entrepreneurs gave advice to teenage girls about starting tech companies, and admitted there’s a reason people are “falling into tech” Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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The Final Countdown: The last EMC World before Dell Technologies
The last EMC World has concluded in Vegas. What was there - and what is the progress of the Dell-EMC merger? Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Swedbank boosts customer service with a virtual assistant
Nuance Nina will offer basic frontline support for online customers Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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May'16
Attack the government over broadband, but do it properly
This morning I came close to running a story that would have claimed the government had u-turned on a pledge to provide superfast - 24Mbps and above - broadband to every home in the country by ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Socitm looks at GaaP potential for local public services
The Local Digital Coalition is “well-placed” to extend government as a platform (GaaP) services – such as gov.uk Notify, Pay and Verify – says Socitm Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Microsoft unveils SharePoint integration – but is it enough?
SharePoint harks back to a pre-cloud era and Microsoft is desperate to modernise it with cloud integration – but can it compete with pure cloud rivals, Box and Dropbox? Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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May'16
CIO interview: Henrik Iversen, Monjasa
The head of IT at Danish oil and shipping company Monjasa tells Computer Weekly about making IT part of the decision-making process and managing personal development Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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May'16
Network visibility remains the key to safe digital transformation, says Cisco
Accessing analytics to deal with incidents is the future of information security, according to Terry Greer-King Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Basho: why the IoT needs a time series database
NoSQL databases (if plural is permissible through versioning) company Basho is in update mode for its Riak TS product, which is now freely available on an open source basis -- for free. Basho Riak ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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May'16
Security Think Tank: Identifying, attracting and keeping the right IT security talent
What strategies can organisations use to ensure that they are able to hire the information security professionals they need and that good candidates are not being missed or overlooked? Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Finally - progress on a UK digital infrastructure for the next 50 years
BT demonstrated this week the depths of its sensitivity to Ofcom’s threat to break up the telecoms giant. Ofcom’s communications market review, published in March, set out its desire to see fibre ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Ford to invest $182m in PaaS firm Pivotal to support connected car push
Ford steps up involvement with Pivotal, and sets out plans to expand the use of Pivotal’s software development kit across its IT and product development teams Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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CW ANZ: May 2016
The Australian payments system is being transformed with mobile banking and programmable tap-to-pay terminals now ubiquitous and a major shake-up of the national payments system underway. It’s clear the country’s biggest banks aren’t afraid of ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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CW ASEAN: May 2016
The Asean region is home to 700 million people with a combined GDP of US$2.6trn, with expected growth in average annual healthcare spending between 2014-18 around 11% of GDP. Healthcare organizations in the region are undergoing a great ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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May'16
Safe sec
Yes it was World Password Day on 5th May and nonagenarian actress Betty White finds that passwords annoy the "f" "beep" out of you. Perhaps that's why the UK director general for cyber security at ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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US TV network HBO branches out into tech journalism
HBO has started publishing fictional tech news on Google; a move set to cause headaches for IT journos used to trawling the search giant’s news pages (or Computer Weekly, ahem) for their daily ... Continue Reading
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May 06, 2016
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Ransomware emerges as a top cyber threat to business
Security researchers at Kasperky Lab and FireEye confirm that the upward trend of ransomware is continuing and has emerged as a top threat to business Continue Reading