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The voter registration website crash - fingers point to software problems ...and the Foreign Office
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2016 -
The incredible shrinking Hewlett Packard - where does it go next?
- Editor in chief 27 May 2016 -
Here's the obligatory 'What IT leaders can learn from Leicester City FC' story
- Editor in chief 20 May 2016
The government has not yet released an official explanation for the crash of the UK voter registration website earlier this week – but Computer Weekly has learned the likely cause. How ironic it ...
In 2011, Hewlett Packard’s annual revenue was $127bn, making it the largest technology company in the world by sales at that time – yet its market worth was a comparatively meagre $42bn. It had ...
As a football fan, it’s not often I get to indulge in a bit of technology-football crossover, but the Leicester City fairytale is too good an opportunity to miss. It seems it’s also a story that ...
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Finally - progress on a UK digital infrastructure for the next 50 years
- Editor in chief 06 May 2016 -
Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016 -
Liam Maxwell: The man who checks the homework
- Editor in chief 19 Apr 2016 -
Universal Credit shows it is time to make all major government projects open and transparent
- Editor in chief 15 Apr 2016 -
In the digital revolution, the Luddites are the ones in charge
- Editor in chief 07 Apr 2016 -
Are there more changes ahead for the Government Digital Service?
- Editor in chief 24 Mar 2016 -
What now for Universal Credit - and could Iain Duncan Smith quitting lift the veil of secrecy?
- Editor in chief 21 Mar 2016
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 ...
One of the questions most commonly asked of technology journalists is, “What’s the next big thing in tech?” It’s easy enough to answer – at the moment, you would point to emerging trends such as ...
Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude used to call Liam Maxwell "the man who checks the homework". First as an advisor to Maude, then as government CTO, Maxwell was responsible for making ...
After four years of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spending taxpayers' money on legal fees to prevent the release of key Universal Credit documents, the only surprise revealed by their ...
Between 1811 and 1813, English textile workers and weavers conducted a campaign of protests, sabotage and occasional rioting against the spread of new technology that threatened their livelihoods ...
As we all know, the Government Digital Service (GDS) was awarded £450m by George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last year. A business plan detailing how that money will be spent was due to be ...
Amid all the political fallout and the carnage within the Conservative Party since the shock resignation of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith last week, many observers have started ...
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The future is here, now - if only our political and business leaders had the vision to see it
- Editor in chief 10 Mar 2016 -
Blockchain will bring a radical rethink of banking - but not yet
- Editor in chief 04 Mar 2016 -
Will Ofcom break up BT? Probably not - but it must enable fibre broadband fit for the future
- Editor in chief 19 Feb 2016 -
Why are so many organisations bringing outsourced IT back in-house?
- Editor in chief 12 Feb 2016 -
We need coordination between old economy job cuts and digital economy job creation
- Editor in chief 18 Jan 2016
If you had the time-travelling opportunity to read the forthcoming issue of Computer Weekly magazine just a few years ago, you might have assumed it was a review of BBC Tomorrow's World. There's ...
Rarely has an emerging technology experienced both the levels of hype and the levels of anti-hype that exists around blockchain at the moment. For every supporter proclaiming the distributed ledger ...
Next week sees an announcement that will set the scene for the next 20 years of the UK's digital infrastructure. Ofcom's review of the communications market is due out within days and its potential ...
To outsource or to not outsource? That, for many IT leaders, has been something of a religious question for a long time. You're either a follower or you're not. But we are no nearer to answering ...
BT has one of its main contact centres in a tower block in Swansea city centre - it's the highest office building for miles around, just a short stroll to the sea front. From its upper-floor ...