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The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot. I think a strong ...

It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ...

One thing that is also clearly understood is that, even with an outsourced, “in the Ether” service, such as a public/private cloud, the EMEA market – with its geo-cultural fragmentation – is a very ...

The Windrush scandal has revealed many disturbing things about government policy that have nothing to do with IT. But the issues raised amply demonstrate the importance of technology considerations ...

Cloud communications software company Twilio has announced Twilio Programmable Wireless. This is programmable cellular communications software that offers APIs to power web-connected Internet of ...

Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there's a bit ...

At Huawei’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen this week, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its predictions about what the future holds from a technology perspective in its Global Industry ...

A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ...

What the cloud computing industry needs is an increasing number of platforms, right? Okay perhaps not, platform plays are already many and multifarious in their nature and the formally defined ...

Fintech is being deployed by traditional banks as they fight to reduce their cost bases as challengers win customers at a lower cost

Cloud security firm Qualys, like every vendor today, is pushing the automation mantra. The company’s Web Application Scanning (WAS) 6.0 now supports Swagger version 2.0 to allow developers to ...

Consumers are set to become much more aware of the privacy settings on the websites they use

Hive Connected Home products are great and the support is outstanding, but they will crash... or at least ours did and here's what we hope is an interesting analysis in terms of trying to work out ...

Developers need to know more about workflow automation, it appears. As analyst ‘thumb in the air’ pontificating predictions have ‘suggested’, the workflow automation market is expected to reach ...

Pishing is when you get fed plenty of booze and then start mouthing-off, reveal a few secrets, passwords and PIN

The farming industry is arguably one of the last frontiers in digital transformation efforts, but not so in Australia, which has one of the biggest agriculture sectors in the world. Since 2013, ...

The British Army marches on its stomach, fights for king, queen, god and country, upholds itself as a bastion of exemplary standards and is never afraid to say ‘stop it, that’s silly’ if things get ...

Tim Berners-Lee is rightly famous as the originator of HTTP, a fundamental of the World Wide Web as we know it. But according to some, HTTP is old hat. It has helped create a web full of dead ...

Red Hat changes its tagline from time to time, but this year the firm appears to happy being labelled as 'the world's leading provider of open source solutions' -- perhaps, with Microsoft and so ...

It’s the week of the 2018 London Book Fair at Olympia, and the worrying news has reached Downtime that our jobs are indeed under threat from the rise of the robots, with the publication of the ...

As cybercrime becomes ever more widespread and the actors involved diversify, targeted organisations must become more sophisticated and timely in their ability to detect and respond.

In this guest post, Craig Stewart, vice president of product management at cloud integration provider SnapLogic, spells out why the more traditional transport operators need to take a leaf out of ...

What will happen to London's high streets when robots replace the people that buy all the flat whites?

There’s DevOps and there’s DevSecOps -- heck, come to think of it there’s even DevLoBDOps (Developer Line of Business Database Operations). Of all the DevOps subsets, Microsoft SQL Server tools ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Conning, Managing Director of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS). The forthcoming 25 May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ...

Social media platforms will face increasingly stringent regulations which might limit their scope as governments clamp down on data abuse

Google has attempted to shine a light on Application Performance Management (APM) technologies built in what the company calls ‘a developer-first mindset’ to monitor and tune the performance of ...

On April 6th at the launch of the Apprenticeships Anthology Sir Gerry Berragan, the Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships outlined progress over the past year and updated his 10 ...

I met Mike Bracken, the first leader of the Government Digital Service (GDS), in 2011, not long after he had started the job, for an off-the-record briefing about his ambitious plans to overhaul IT ...

HTC has been forced to apologise and remove an advert starring Olympic diver Tom Daley, which wrongly suggests its HTC U11 device can be submerged any deeper than one metre. Smartphones are ...