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  • Why are we waiting?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 06 Feb 2025
  • Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...

  • DeepSeek: Moving beyond muscle car AI

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Jan 2025
  • The largely held belief that Nasa spent millions developing a space pen that could write in zero gravity, while cosmonauts just used a pencil, is a myth. But there are plenty of examples in recent ...

  • A Galaxy of AI opportunities

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 24 Jan 2025
  • Looking back at the 1980s, one of the hot items that everyone seemed to want was the Filofax. This glorified leather diary was regarded as the must-have accessory for busy people, or those who ...

  • Spot the difference: National Data Strategy/National Data Library

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 Jan 2025
  • The Labour government appears to be taking every opportunity to emphasise that it has a plan for growth. This is set against the backdrop of the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president and the ...

  • Looking ahead at long, mid and short term IT plans

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 13 Dec 2024
  • The news that Google researchers have demonstrated quantum technology that can scale exponentially, without incurring massive error overheads, is seen by many as a breakthrough in this emerging ...

  • Greater industry collaboration will help move customers to the latest tech

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 06 Dec 2024
  • The annual UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect in Birmingham at the start of December, gave a little insight into the challenges SAP faces. It clearly costs loads of money to support each variant ...

  • Risk of Trump and Big Tech deregulation

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 Nov 2024
  • With reports that Brendan Carr has been appointed by Donald Trump to head up the Federal Communications Commission in the US, there are concerns that this signals greater deregulation. Speaking ...

  • The greatest happiness is digital success

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Nov 2024
  • The annual gathering of IT chiefs in Barcelona for the Gartner Symposium is a place to share ideas and attend sessions where the analyst firm pitches a new concept. This time it is the idea of the ...

  • Linux enters the cold war

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 01 Nov 2024
  • The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community. While ...

  • UK broadband is failing

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 Oct 2024
  • Getting married and moving home are said to be among the most stressful things people experience. There are plenty more, but a particularly frustrating experience not on that list is attempting to ...

  • Trusting the Cybercab with software quality

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Oct 2024
  • “We expect software to work perfectly,” the CEO of Dyntatrace, Rick McConnell proclaimed at the opening of the company’s European Innovate event in Amsterdam. This should not be an aspiration, but ...

  • Shift big bang education to lifelong training for job security

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 12 Sep 2024
  • In the UK, kids start off in primary school to prepare them for the two years of secondary school that culminates in the Big Bang GCSE exams. Then, two years later, those that stay on at sixth form ...

  • Resetting our relationship with data

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Sep 2024
  • We need to have an open and honest debate about data, data collection and, just as important, the timely disposal of the information when it is no longer needed.While there are many good reasons ...

  • An era of post Moore's Law computing?

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Aug 2024
  • Every now and then Computer Weekly asks the question of whether Moore’s Law is still relevant. Gordon Moore presented his vision of how computing would evolve in an article published in April 1965. ...

  • Accessibility and digital exclusion

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Aug 2024
  • Imagine if one day in your job, you have to ask someone to find the radio button on  a Windows PC or a Mac that you are supposed to click, because your screen reader is unable to tell you where it ...