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It's Friday (okay  this is the Internet and this is here forever, but it's Friday at the time of writing)... and that means we all wish we could take the day off, work a four-day week (or less ...

This is a guest blog post by Jane Zavalishina, CEO, Yandex Data Factory Well-established enterprises like retailers or manufacturing companies now have an abundance of data at their disposal. ...

UK-based cloud datacentre and comms firm Node4 gets a clean bill of health this month by virtue of its new NHS Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) compliance rating. Developers working on ...

During the conference call on Apple’s third-quarter earnings, CEO Tim Cook touched on the company’s decision to pull out VPN (virtual private network) apps from its China app store. The reason: ...

Previously on Downtime, we saw Mark Zuckerberg rule out AI’s potential for disaster with all the casual oblivion of a scientist in the opening part of a film of that very genre. Elon Musk, as ...

In this guest post Jess Wade from Imperial College London describes her experience at an event designed to encourage millennials to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mat Mathews in his capacity as co-founder and VP of product management at Plexxi -- the firm is a specialist in converged ...

This is a guest blog post by Larry Augustin, CEO, Sugar CRM The way we engage with technology is changing constantly and there’s hardly a day that goes by where we don’t hear about Artifical ...

Embedded analytics firm Jinfonet Software has hit the 14.5 version release of its JReport product. Developer focused from the start, the message to programmers from the J-loving Marylanders behind ...

There's an uprising in the Middle East, but this time it's no Arab Spring... or if it is, it is a new beginning for the software application developers native to the region. The Arabic-speaking ...

As a central bank, industry developer and regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) relies on a broad set of transactional, behavioural and social media data to craft policies and drive ...

The general election has passed by, new ministers are in place, and so the Government Digital Service (GDS) is coming back out of its shell. As it embarks on a new parliamentary cycle, GDS is a ...

Open source languages company ActiveState has hit beta on its commercially supported Ruby distribution. Ruby is an open source interpreted object-oriented programming language designed to be ...

Some surprisingly vapid musings on the future of artificial intelligence (AI), live streamed by Mark Zuckerberg whilst smoking some brisket in his back garden, have been brushed aside by Elon Musk, ...

The UK ICO hardly ever issues fines for data leaks and when it does, the fine involved is rarely anywhere near the maximum it could be.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been widely embraced as a key means of engineering the mechanics of the new interconnected service-based cloud-centric components-rich software ...

The openSUSE Project has released openSUSE Leap 42.3. With this release we can see that the community version is now more closely aligned with the 'shared core' of SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12 ...

Data engineering departments and their corresponding software application development shops have got the message regarding the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by now, right? ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brian Dawson in his capacity as DevOps evangelist at CloudBees -- CloudBees describes itself as the 'hub' of enterprise ...

Build once, deploy everywhere. We've heard it all before haven't we? Discussion now surfaces on a 'new' type of application. One that is being the progressive web app (or PWA, if you must). So what ...

Ask business leaders to state which industry they feel is being most disrupted by the digital revolution, and they are likely to list sectors such as retail, media, music, movies, entertainment, ...

Over a quarter of Aussies are now ready to use an internet-connected device, like a virtual assistant or connected fridge to make payments on their behalf, according to a new YouGov study ...

Supply chain automation company Sonatype produces what it calls its Software Supply Chain Report every year (now in its third) in an attempt to highlights alleged 'risks' lurking within open source ...

There's on old saying in communications - when you have no news, do a survey. As contrived, manipulated and affected as these things typically are, the Computer Weekly Developer Blog now has ...

An office building in Washington DC has lost its Knightscope K5 security robot after it obliviously face planted into the premises’ water fountain centrepiece. It’s the most ambitious television ...

Not exactly labelled as open source, but free nonetheless... API specialist Postman is offering its Postman 5.0 version with many of its paid Pro-version features now free for limited-quantity ...

The current surge of fake news is driven by the generation of clicks (worthwhile and/or genuine or not) in support of pay-per-click advertising models.

To Shenzhen, China, where tech entrepreneur Zhao Shuping has had cold water poured on his business after his sharing economy start-up Sharing E Umbrella rented 300,000 umbrellas to damp locals, and ...

This is a guest blogpost by Yasmeen Ahmad, director of Think Big Analytics, Teradata. In recent years, the hype of big data has fuelled board and executive level awareness of the value to be gained ...

GitHub is asking for feedback and collaboration from its user community in updating its Terms of Service and other site policies.  The web-based version control and data hosting organisation is ...