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Okay so yes, we’ve heard of so-called digital transformation, whatever that is supposed to mean. Ah alright then, digital transformation is the movement towards cloud-centric services-driven ...

Calamitous alt-right website Breitbart has been tricked into an email exchange with a prankster posing as Donald Trump’s recently dumped adviser Steve Bannon. Under the guise of Bannon, back in the ...

Bangladesh and Pakistan have the highest malware encounter rates around the world, followed by two other countries in the ASEAN region – Cambodia and Indonesia, according to Microsoft’s ...

Google announces Android Oreo with refined notifications, better battery life, updated emojis and ‘the biggest change to the foundations of Android to date’. Google has opened the packet on version ...

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei (pronounced 'wah-way') is about to stage what is billed to be one of its biggest ever exhibition, symposium, conference events to date. Combining what was ...

Software application development engineers (in all forms and guises) will always be interested in monetising the commercial aspects of their creations when and if they want to take them to market, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Partha Sen, CEO and co-founder, Fuzzy Logix Money laundering was back at the top of the agenda recently when, on 26 June, the European Union’s Fourth Anti-Money ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anson Kelly in his role as senior developer for independent car buying website carwow. Kelly discusses how software can be ...

Oracle bought Sun, for various reasons. Popular commentary on the subject puts the purchase down to Oracle's desire to have a more credible level of what might be called 'operational software' ...

Systems management and security software company Quest Software has announced its Toad Edge product. This is a commercial database toolset for software application development teams and database ...

Australia has always been ahead of the curve – at least in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region – when it comes to recycling of electronics goods. While most APAC countries are still coming to terms with ...

Gartner has revealed its 2017 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The highly-regarded annual report is seen by many professionals as an important indicator of which emerging technologies their ...

Amazon has confirmed that developers can now earn money for creating Alexa skills across more skill categories. Alexa is Amazon's intelligent personal assistant software designed to run in line ...

We need to ease the pain of transitioning to high quality, degree-linked, digital apprenticeships for the skills in current and future demand: "get three years ahead in your career not a debt and a ...

There are many truths in DevOps. We know that good DevOps will kill DevOps, ultimately. Or to be clearer, effective implementation of DevOps principles could help to ultimately dissolve and ...

James Damore thinks he was frogmarched out of Google for telling the truth. In reality, he wrote a 10-page memo, cobbled together from scraps of research chosen to fit his intense fear of gender ...

Android is set for an update and the next version is codenamed "O". The Google-developed mobile operating system has been in open beta for some time now, reaching alpha stage developer preview ...

There has been barely a passing public mention from the government about the need for new or redeveloped IT systems to support whatever trading and immigration regime the UK has when it leaves the ...

DevOps, as we know, is the portmanteau coming together of Developers and Operations to create an amalgamation of cultural philosophies, working practices and technology tools designed to make ...

In this guest post Dr Sunny Bains, editorial director of UCL ENGins and lecturer specialising in stories on emerging technologies in AI, computing, and telecoms, discusses why the Apple Watch is ...

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...

As the edge of network disappears, it is time to look for alternative approaches than those such as firewalls. It is time to look at securing data at the point of creation through managing ...

We have read a lot about the issue of women in technology lately, since the publication of a dubious “manifesto” by a male Google employee, postulating that women may be biologically unsuited to a ...

The FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards 2018, partnered with TechUK, is now open for nominations. Everywoman’s eighth annual women in tech event is searching for inspirational people who are ...

It has emerged we may have spent more than the past decade creating complicated, unmemorable passwords and changing them every few months for absolutely no reason. Bill Burr, the author of the ...

If there's one technical expression likely to induce nausea in most industry watchers it is (arguably) digital (or user) experience. Sometime even written as User eXperience (UX), this term is ...

Industry commentators love to talk about why so many of us think we dislike management consultants. Surely hiring a consultant means that, internally, something has failed and a firm needs advice, ...

European telco industry needs to get on the SD WAN bus, and work closely with the auto industry.

Enterprise identity form Okta is staging its annual Oktane user, customer, partner and Okta developer conference in Las Vegas later this August 2017 - hashtag #Oktane17. Okta is an authentication ...

This is contributed post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Max Gilbert in his capacity as software developer at Preston UK based web design agency Blue Wren - a firm that builds ...