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After Brexit, we have a legacy government - so let's build a new one based on digital technology
- Editor in chief 27 Jun 2016 -
Brexit silver linings exist for UK technology - but they are hard to find
- Editor in chief 27 Jun 2016 -
Where are all the women in UK technology?
- Editor in chief 24 Jun 2016
Nobody today has the faintest idea what our government is going to look like or how it will work in a post-Brexit world. We are at least two years, possibly more, away from a settled policy ...
If there’s one thing you can credit the UK tech sector for, it’s a generally long-term view of the future. In this time of huge Brexit uncertainty, that pragmatism is perhaps the main cause for ...
Since Computer Weekly launched its list of the most influential women in UK IT in 2011, the number of initiatives championing and encouraging women in technology has grown enormously. Through ...
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Remaining in the EU is essential if the UK wants to be a global technology leader
- Editor in chief 15 Jun 2016 -
The voter registration website crash - fingers point to software problems ...and the Foreign Office
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2016 -
HPE has its day in court, only years too late
- Managing Editor 07 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 -
Media, retail and now finance show that technology fragments, not disrupts, markets
- Editor in chief 13 May 2016 -
Finally - progress on a UK digital infrastructure for the next 50 years
- Editor in chief 06 May 2016
Here at Computer Weekly, we want what’s best for the UK tech sector and the people who work there – that’s why we believe that remaining in the European Union (EU) is vital at such a critical time ...
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 ...
HPE's complaint against Oracle is about some pretty old technology. Years ago, HP, as it was then called, worked with Intel to develop a new range of native 64-bit microprocessors, the Itanium.
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 ...
The pace of digital transformation in financial services is – at last – speeding up. The sector has resisted such change and for a while was largely protected as a result of the 2008 crash when the ...
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 ...
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Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016 -
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EC's anti-competitive stance is laudable, its action over Google & Android is laughable
- Editor in chief 20 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
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 ...
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As a football fan, one of my primary experiences of European antitrust law comes through watching the English Premier League on TV.Once upon a time, I paid Sky Sports for a subscription and saw any ...
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 ...