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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
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 ...
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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 -
Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016 -
About the blog
21 Apr 2016 -
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
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 ...
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 ...
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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 -
The future is here, now - if only our political and business leaders had the vision to see it
- Editor in chief 10 Mar 2016
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 ...
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 ...