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No matter what happens next, GDS's long-term future is not assured
- Editor in chief 29 Jul 2016 -
BT needs to go the extra mile, to keep the last mile
- Editor in chief 26 Jul 2016 -
How digital will Theresa May's government be?
- Editor in chief 20 Jul 2016
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 ...
Imagine this. It’s the early years of the 20th century. While many people still get around using a horse and trap, cars have become affordable and more and more people are buying them. It’s clear ...
Now that the UK government – well, apart from the Labour party - seems to be returning to some semblance of business as usual following the extraordinary political upheavals of recent weeks, the ...
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Open source collaboration is give and take
- Managing Editor 15 Jul 2016 -
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 -
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
Earlier this year, Computer Weekly had the privilege of visiting JP Morgan’s development centre in Glasgow.
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 ...
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.
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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 -
Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016
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 ...
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 ...