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Mobile phones a waste of time
- Senior analyst 22 Jan 2015 -
Data thieves face the music
- Business Editor 22 Jan 2015 -
No patch for stupidity
- Senior analyst 16 Jan 2015
While many people are obsessed with their mobile phones and never put them down for a minute, research shows that for many others they are just a waste of time. In fact, the average Brit will spend ...
We found out this week that the younger generation are pretty lazy when it comes to protecting their payment data, with 20% of 16 to 24-year-olds having shared their PIN with a third party. With ...
Proving the computer security lament that there is no patch for human stupidity, three UK students have been stung in a Skype scam. They admitted to North Yorkshire Police that they accepted a ...
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Big wee data
- Managing Editor 16 Jan 2015 -
The get-fit solution for tech obsessives
- Editor in chief 16 Jan 2015 -
UKIP knocked off internet in update screw-up
- Security Editor 06 Jan 2015 -
Goodbye Clip Art, goodbye memories of my youth
- Business Editor 05 Dec 2014 -
Mum's (not) the word
- Business Editor 05 Dec 2014 -
Go away, Black Friday, nobody likes you!
- Security Editor 27 Nov 2014 -
Aha! Partridge was right. Norwich is cool.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2014
Hammersmith Hospital has just begun a molecular analysis programme, which will take a close look at what makes up urine. Apparently the machine doing the analysis produces as much data per day as ...
Researchers in Germany claim to have found a way to generate electrical power from walking. Coming in the same week as news that a lack of exercise is a bigger threat to public health than obesity, ...
Panic on the streets of Clacton, panic on the streets of Rochester, after the official website of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) dropped off the internet this morning, leaving the party's ...
First it was MSN Messenger, now it's Clip Art. Clearly the powers-that-be at Microsoft have no soul. And no memory of what it was like to be a teenager in the noughties. If they did, they wouldn't ...
Organisers of Parklife festival have been fined £70,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office after sending festival goers promotional text messages claiming to be from their mothers. The ...
Please, please, please, make it stop.
A bus company has chosen is putting Norwich on the IT map through a trial to send bus users adverts from local retailers.FirstGroup has put low energy Bluetooth beacons on buses in Norwich which ...
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Metro bank goes to extremes in customer satisfaction battle
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 25 Nov 2014 -
A new breed of banking IT failure
- Business Editor 25 Nov 2014 -
Drones - another reason not to trust estate agents?
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Google arrives in Streatham, but for how long?
- Managing Editor 20 Nov 2014 -
Dutch bloke gets cash injection
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Nov 2014
Downtime believes Metro Bank has crossed a line in the battle to improve customer satisfaction.Banks are throwing online apps customers as well as introducing iPad wielding staff into branches to ...
Online money transfers and banking apps are on the rise, leading to so many branch closures that even bank robbers have given up visiting branches these days. It's a good job they have as well, as ...
The use of drones in business is looking to become a regular occurrence in the near future, and this month Amazon proposed plans to test its prototype same-day delivery drones in the UK. But use of ...
Apparently the UK's first 'Google House' is being kitted out in a flat in Streatham. Will Davies, head of property maintenance firm aspect.co.uk said the "normal flat", on a very normal street, is ...
A Dutch cryto -currency fanatic has taken the start-up term "cash injection" a little more literally than expected. Martijn Wismeijer, who runs a company called MrBitco.in in Amsterdam, has put NFC ...