Recent Blog Posts

The 2001 prediction of a collapse of confidence in the veracity of anything on-line is now happening and will continue until trustworthy technologies are routinely deployed.

Serverless computing is making a lot of headlines, but it has limitations, drawbacks and provisos. Before any developer team (or indeed, more likely, any DevOps team) considers widespread adoption ...

The tensions over privacy, surveillance, data sharing and civil liability between "ordinary humans" and those promoting big data business models could be used to politicians to take the heat out of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Pascal Desmarets in his capacity as founder and CEO of Hackolade -- the company's software combines the 'comfort ...

When one is confronted by a criminal or terrorist demanding a ransom in exchange for a loved one who has been held hostage, the general rule of thumb is not to pay up and go to the police. That’s ...

It’s been over a year since US robotics designer David Hanson made Sophia an internet phenomenon with a video in which he accidentally prompts her to agree to destroy all humans. The UK got a ...

Let’s not beat about the bush because we already know that software runs the world – and that this means that every company is now a software company. So resounding is this truth that we must now ...

Software needs to go to the bathroom and make sure it has a clean and open backend. This is the mandate and call to arms now being laid down by open source document-oriented data model database ...

The impact that bad-bots are having on financial services organisations and how they can be mitigated is covered in Quocirca’s latest e-book in its Cyber-Security Threat Series.

MongoDB staged its 2017 user, developer, customer and partner showcase convention in the US city of Chicago this June. Essentially open source at the backbone, MongoDB is a database company built ...

The word ‘investment’ is often put next to IT spending and budgets in order to make the costs sound palatable. Organisations want a ‘return on investment’, many try to measure it and some even ...

In one throwaway line, largely ignored among the wider Brexit comments in his Mansion House speech today (20 June 2017), chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond exposed the true scale of the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Watson, CEO of Altia-ABM. It reflects his experience and judgement. Specialist financial analysis software is now a crucial tool in the investigation and prosecution ...

Inspect-a-Gadget heads to London Tech Week to meet UMA, a conversational AI chatbot for the workplace. “It’s good to talk,” assured Bob Hoskins in the famous ’90s ads. The campaign - credited with ...

The data driven enterprise needs APIs to interconnect its applications and ease-of-use to ensure broad access to data

While British Airways counts the cost of its May bank holiday system outage - £80m and growing so far – much of the datacentre industry has listened to the supposed cause of “human error” and ...

In this guest post Shirley Wood, training and support director at education technology solutions organisation, Jisc, looks at the positive efforts being made to encourage more women into tech While ...

Dries Buytaert is the founder and project lead of Drupal an open source platform for building websites used by 2% of the world's websites with 35,000 active contributors. Buytaert is ...

It is time to take a different view of the politics of left and right. We sinisters (from Leonardo  da Vinci to Bill Gates) have always been in the forefront of change, cutting through the defences ...

Microsoft has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF). The firm comes in with gold member status confirmed from the start. Cloud Foundry's mantra is ‘ubiquitous and flexible’ cloud computing. ...

Do human resources (HR) software application developers build 'healthy' applications? This is the question. To be clearer - we talk about 'application health' all the time in terms of a piece of ...

Do Human Resources (HR) software application developers build 'healthy' applications? This is the question. To be clearer... we talk about 'application health' all the time in terms of a piece of ...

More countries are rushing to make their cities smarter, by driving the use of technology – though that may not always be fully appreciated by citizens. Take Singapore, one of the poster boys for ...

Among those ever present first world problems is how to keep your phone charged - especially if you are out on the razz. The University of the West of England may have just the answer. It has ...

Digital intelligence company New Relic has added extra functions to its eponymously named Digital Intelligence Platform. The company has brought forward what it calls a so-called Health Map. ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ciaran Dynes, senior vice president of Product, Talend. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a bit like Brexit for some: you secretly hoped the day was never ...

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is making a costly mistake by ruling out in-flight Wi-Fi, argues iPass' Patricia Hume. It’s just under a year since the United Nations declared that internet access ...

Open source (and enterprise commercial) software operations company Puppet has rolled out its 2017 'state of DevOps report' resulting from a survey of some 3,200 technical professionals. The ...

Kainos electoral registration software and DUP constituency MPs is the undoubted winner. IT industry lobbyists are the biggest losers.

Information management company Veritas Technologies is targeting the headaches that the firm suggests might be thrown up by running multi-cloud operations. Hybrid cloud deployments featuring a mix ...