July 2016

• July 31, 2016 31 Jul'16

  DWP director Kevin Cunnington set to take over as new head of Government Digital Service

  Kevin Cunnington, currently director general for business transformation at DWP, is taking over as the new head of the Government Digital Service  Continue Reading

• July 30, 2016 30 Jul'16

  Which is more important to the future of BT? Quadplay or a Converged Utility with EE?

  BT is unlikely to be able to fund both its quadplay ambitions and the investment needed to provide reliable, resilient and secure converged ubiquity its customers (including business) want. ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Researcher uncovers UK government threat to privacy

  Despite concerns about the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, a legal researcher has highlighted that existing legislation is a much bigger threat to privacy than most UK citizens realise  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Decision fundamentals: faster insight to execution

  This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Wells, chief technology officer, FICO In a previous blog post for Computer Weekly, I discussed six ways that companies can improve their decision making. With ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  AWS vs Google vs Microsoft: How the enterprise cloud war is hotting up

  With Amazon, Google and Microsoft all reporting strong growth on the back of cloud, we take a closer look at how they have achieved it  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  CIO interview: Gary Steen, chief technology officer, TalkTalk

  TalkTalk has overhauled security since its controversial data breach in 2015, according to CTO Gary Steen, and is investing in technology to beat its rivals on customer service  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Tableau 10 ups data visualisation developer-centricity

  Data visualisation company Tableau Software has officially announced Tableau 10. Not just a presentation layer technology (as it would appear to the untrained eye) the company has a serious set of ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Windows Mobile shrinks as Microsoft prioritises productivity and platforms

  Microsoft prepares to axe 2,850 jobs as it culls smartphone business and majors on productivity and platforms  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  No matter what happens next, GDS's long-term future is not assured

  No matter what happens next for the Government Digital Service (GDS), you can assume three things will be true: 1 - The Cabinet Office will make an announcement full of praise for GDS and express ...  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Amazon rides high on sales growth, especially in cloud services

  Amazon's share price climbed 2% on news of strong second-quarter sales growth boosted by a 58% year-on-year rise in sales of cloud services  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Mobile and video pay off for Google’s parent company Alphabet

  Alphabet ascribes strong second quarter financial results to long-term investments in mobile and video as demand for advertising through these channels increases  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  A quarter of UK developers are self-taught

  As the skills gap leaves firms scrambling for tech talent, self-taught developers are taking advantage of the need for skilled workers  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Universities give free cloud services to UK medical researchers

  The Universities of Bath, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea and Warwick are giving researchers free access to cloud-based compute resources to speed up scientific discovery process  Continue Reading

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  German digital bank Fidor acquired by French banking giant

  Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Oracle buys NetSuite, but vows to respect independence

  Oracle has agreed to buy NetSuite but the acquired company will retain autonomy says Oracle  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Vesa Erolainen, Pöyry

  Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Consumer identity management is the core of real CRM

  IAM + CRM is much more than simply IAM for external users, says Ivan Niccolai  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Revealed: The battle for GDS – how Whitehall mandarins are trying to carve up digital strategy

  Insiders say senior civil servants want to break up the Government Digital Service and return IT to its previous departmental model  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Six essential processes for keeping data secure

  Data security is increasingly vital for organisations as the countdown begins for compliance with new rules imposed by the EU’s general data protection regulation  Continue Reading

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Almost 60% of millennials search for jobs through company websites

  Research by Monster finds the younger generation react strongly to what they find on an employer’s website when looking for work  Continue Reading