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Robots should be ideal at home or in the workplace, right? These fully co-operative, obedient and reliable machines should make all our lives easier, right? They can’t think for themselves, they ...

Open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has joined the Eclipse Foundation - and it has done so for a reason. Hazelcast’s primary focus will be on JCache the Eclipse MicroProfile ...

It’s that ‘wonderful’ time of year, when people all across the land exchange presents, meal invitations and predictions for what the open source landscape might look like in the months ahead ...

In this guest blog post, Naser Ali, head of solutions marketing for EMEA at Hitachi Vantara, explores the use cases and benefits for using cloud bursting in the enterprise. When NASA needed to ...

Congratulations to everyone on Computer Weekly’s 2017 list of the most influential people in UK IT – our task of choosing 50 people becomes harder every year. It’s clear from analysing this year’s ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by John Pocknell in his capacity as senior product manager at Quest. Pockell has been with Quest Software since 2000, ...

Mendix Atlas UI is a low-code tool intended for software application developers who find themselves bereft of any perceptible level of ‘front-end’ development or UI design skills. Atlas can be used ...

The hype over digital transformation is tapering off. Organisations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are now confronting the realities of rolling out digitalisation initiatives, many of which are ...

Digital networking and collaboration software company TeamViewer has reached the version 13 iteration of its central product. In terms of basic function, TeamViewer is a software product designed ...

The sole purpose of phone software updates is now universally regarded as a means of accessing the latest batch of emojis that may have been introduced, and somewhere in California, plans were in ...

Organisations that need an app to solve a business challenge can offer a cash reward to entrepreneurs that find the answer

Hitachi Data Systems is no more. It has been rolled into a new division, Hitachi Vantara. That is, HDS, with its largely enterprise-focused data storage products has been joined with the Internet ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ted Dunning, chief application architect, MapR Technologies. I am a foreigner to the UK. I am an engineer. These characteristics are what shaped the first impressions I ...

In a guest blogpost, Peter Pugh-Jones, head of technology at SAS UK & Ireland, reflects on how the analytics industry is evolving and what organisations need in a data-driven economy. Forty ...

Opening a bank account can be completed on a smartphone so why are some banks expecting customers to carry out manual processes, including visiting a branch?

More and more developers are now writing SQL code as part of their roles – for example, research shows that 75% of developers now work in teams responsible for both the application and the ...

Open source cross-platform developer and graphic designer focused user interface specialist Qt (now known as the Qt Company) has this month come forward with Qt 3D Studio. Emanating from its ...

A UK startup has lost its next round of funding as it was about to launch, as a direct result of Brexit

Mozilla is on a mission… and it’s a mission designed to ‘empower’ software application developers with tools to help create more STT apps. STT you say? Yes, that would be speech-to-text ...

The jury may currently be quite firmly “out” on whether software application developers are attracted to so-called low-code platforms. Does a software engineer have to think of themselves as coming ...

In this guest post, Jon Topper, CTO of DevOps consultancy, The Scale Factory, flags his four favourite announcements from Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) week-long Re:Invent partner and customer ...

Can corporate managers translate desired business outcomes into network performance requirements?

Helpdesk technicians in IT departments around the world will rejoice at Amazon’s announcement of a corporate version of its voice-enabled assistant Alexa for use in the workplace. It cannot now be ...

Hang on - a conference preview in 2017, are we not done on events season already? Well yes, developer conferences do actually happen in January, if you’re Alresco Software they do. Alfresco is an ...

In the fast-expanding world of ubiquitous personal data, sometimes it feels like we’re living in an enormous global beta test to work out what’s acceptable and what’s not. This week, Google was hit ...

Bank branch closures and branch staff cuts will be the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the disruption to the sector be brought by fintech

At a recent media event in Singapore, the CEO of Boston-based AI tools supplier DataRobot blamed the media for hyping up the potential of AI, and over-stating the technology’s impact on jobs. After ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Ben Slater in his capacity as chief product officer at Instaclustr. Instaclustr positions itself as firm offering ...

A new research report from Quocirca, Damage Control – The impact of critical IT incidents, shows the scale of the challenge faced by organisations as they struggle to address the volume of ...

Banks need to use software robots to ensure small on line and mobile banking glitches are fixed before the inevitable Twitter frenzy.