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Recently returned from the sunny climes of the Algarve at this year’s round up of IT reprobates at Netevents (congrats, as ever, to the Netevents team for a) organising the event and b) surviving ...

Everywoman is giving people an extra two weeks to put women forward to be considered for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Now in its ninth year, 2019’s awards focus on the theme ...

Who are the UK companies trying to have a share of the trillions of pounds that will be created by the Blockchain industries

This year’s Computer Weekly diversity in technology event focused on the importance of inclusivity in attracting and retaining diverse talent. Inclusivity can mean many things to many people, and ...

Uzi Eilon is chief technology officer at cloud-centric continuous testing company Perfecto. As CTO of a test automation specialist, Eilon says he has seen software application developers have to ...

CreditLadder is helping renters build up their credit scores and helping the rental industry get good renters

Among the findings of the Committee of Inquiry (COI) that looked into the massive SingHealth data breach was the startling fact that a non-IT staff was tasked with managing the server which was ...

Much like every other industry, retail is becoming consumed by technology adoption to the point where the two are no long separate sectors. “Every company is a technology company” is a phrase heard ...

If you were to make a list of things least worthy of your tears, the wistful tale of a man who sold his soul to Facebook for billions of dollars would surely nestle somewhere between, say, Tim Cook ...

In this guest post Anna Faelten, associate partner at EY, talks about the difference in investment between male and female run startups, and how we can start to close this gap. According to data ...

Cloud computing happened, then the Earth cooled. Actually, cloud computing happened and then we started to look at ways of engineering this service-based approach to computing into our existing and ...

As part of its Infor Inforum conference and exhibition held in Washington DC this September, industry-specific cloud applications company Infor and #YesWeCode today announced the launch of GenOne. ...

This blog from Computer Weekly’s business editor, Clare McDonald, discusses the technology innovations that are evolving the retail sector, including the technology retailers are adopting, the ...

IBM named its AI engine Watson after its first CEO, Thomas Watson. Salesforce called its play in the AI game Einstein, alter Albert, obviously. Much of SAP’s machine learning and AI is encapsulated ...

Quocirca's Print 2025 Spotlight report Digitisation: the key to SMB success reveals that SMBs are accelerating their digitisation initiatives through the use of digital workflow services and ...

The fintech industry is maturing to the point that it now has subcategories, find out about some of the companies making hay in the sector.

The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ...

It’s hard to believe, but it has been four years since the Computer Weekly Developer Network set foot on Texan soil for a Spiceworks SpiceWorld event. As we have detailed before, Spiceworks is a ...

This is a guest blogpost by Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer, Tableau Data analysis is only as good as the quality of your data. Anyone who has ever analysed data knows that the information ...

CloudBees are (is) a bunch of busy social bees (presumably why the firm called themselves that). The enterprise DevOps company used the DevOps World | Jenkins World event to announce CloudBees ...

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been conducting a review of digital identity since taking over policy responsibility from the Government Digital Service (GDS) in ...

An insurtech company set up a few years ago has dislodged 130 year old global insurance giant Allianz in BMW deal

The art of 3D printing has suffered a setback in Kuwait, after pressure from hysterical clergymen forced the closure of its local Doob 3D store with accusations of idolatry. The company offers a ...

If banks and big tech firms go head to head for customers fintechs will benefit because the banks need them if they are to have any chance of winning the customer satisfaction battle

Developers using Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘engines’ to automate any degree of decision making inside their applications will want to ensure that the brain behind that AI is free from bias and ...

Singapore’s National Environmental Agency (NEA) is roping in Alphabet life sciences research outfit Verily’s technology to separate male mosquitoes from female ones in an ongoing project to tackle ...

Pardon us… your company doesn’t have a technology experimental division? Okay sorry, it might be called the prototyping department, the Proof of Concept (PoC) laboratory, the exploration ‘foundry’, ...

What do you do when the coders you want would rather manage than code?

Document exchange and transaction management company Amalto has come forward with early adopter options for its Platform 6 enterprise application framework. This developer toolset is designed to ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Johan Karlsson in his capacity as senior consultant at Perforce Software. Perforce is known for its version control ...