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The ability to mix the virtual world of digital content and information - text, sounds, images and video - with the physical world of three-dimensional space we inhabit has long appealed. Science ...

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses ...

Disruptive business models in the world today will be the ones that are the norm in Mars tomorrow.

In Southeast Asia, Huawei and Alibaba are already household names to those who have either bought something online from Alibaba-owned Lazada or used Huawei’s Leica-branded P10 smartphones to take ...

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data ...

Many experts – and many articles in Computer Weekly – have warned of the potential for social and cultural disruption and unrest as a result of the digital revolution. Does it feel to you, too, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j Google's dominant search engine has always been driven by smart software. But around 2012, the search giant quietly transformed the way users ...

This is a guest blogpost by Greg Kefer, vice-president, marketing, Infor. Blockchain is arguably, one of the most hyped technologies around. Despite the fact that Gartner believes that 90% of ...

There was a time not too long ago when backup software pretty much only handled one scenario, ie backing up physical servers. Then came virtualisation. And for quite some time the long-standing ...

Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for an insensitive Facebook Spaces broadcast in which his cartoon alter ego takes a chirpy virtual reality tour of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. Facebook’s cause ...

The number of women in tech is still much lower than the number of men in the industry with many highlighting issues such as lack of mentors, lack of role models and imposter syndrome as factors ...

Hardcore technologists will be found in all departments in businesses because most will become tech companies at core.

Load balancing and application services used to rely on traditional (i.e. old fashioned) appliance-based web application firewalls. That day has now passed, according to Avi Networks... a firm ...

This is guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Ben Newton, analytics lead at Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic, a firm known for its cloud-native machine data analytics platform ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) appears to have a very different view of how the IR35 tax avoidance reforms are affecting the public sector compared to many of the IT contractors Computer Weekly ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eric Sigler in his capacity as head of DevOps at PagerDuty. Pager Duty offers what it calls a Digital Operations Management ...

Chapter 11 is never a good look for a tech supplier, whatever the reason for it. In the case of unified communications and network solutions supplier Avaya, it wanted to buy time to restructure its ...

Six years after launching Computer Weekly’s annual search for the most influential women in UK technology – and perhaps 20 years since we started writing about the issue of diversity in IT – ...

The term "Uber moment" now be taken to mean the point at which a digital disrupter finds its business model needs to change to tow the line

If you live in Singapore and have started using the newly-minted parking.sg app developed by the government to pay for street parking at public car parks, you may have noticed something in fine ...

People are trying to work out why Siri thought Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit Despacito was the Bulgarian national anthem. But the chance to enjoy the error for yourself has come and gone. Indeed, ...

UK should be ready to fill holes in its white collar workforce with robots a real alternative

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix has announced new capabilities for its Acropolis File Services (AFS) software. This is new technology and it has only been around for a couple of quarters. In that ...

The Google Cloud Platform challenges tier-1 public clouds as well as the hybrid cloud concept

There are software application development professionals in every industry from oil & gas to cake baking, obviously. There are core characteristics and functions that will bind all developers ...

Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ...

Veritas dates back to the early 1980s but disappeared for 10 years to become part of Symantec, with its NetBackup and Backup Exec leading the way in the data protection market. But, in 2014 Veritas ...

Much of the rhetoric about the EU-GDPR, which comes into force in May 2018, relates to the danger of data breaches and the huge fines that may be imposed when they occur. What is the reality?

Software application developer-focused revision (and version) control system company Perforce Software has nipped down to IKEA and bought itself Sweden-based Hansoft Technologies. Hansoft is ...

The consumerisation of IT and digital disruption are transforming how business and people use IT. But it has also changed how we think about IT and as a consequence how we write about it.