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Philip Hammond’s Spring statement, as UK chancellor, reached, predictably, for the rhetoric of the so-called fourth industrial revolution. Not for the first time. Whenever he gets the chance to say ...

Is it that shocking that people will be paying for buses using cryptocurrency within seven years?

An IoT developer is now 'a thing' - well, a person, a defined entity and a software engineering sub-discipline. In the rush and drive to provide this genre of programmer/developers with tools and ...

It is not surprising that telemarketing jobs will be taken by robots but the fact that modelling jobs are 98% likely to be done by robots in 2035 is.

The software industry is always focused on acceleration and speed - but typically we're thinking about processor performance and code execution effeciency. But now, we are turning our focus to ...

IT apprenticeships fell in the UK last year which is worrying given the IT skills shortage

Yesterday, the government reluctantly agreed to share with the public a series of documents on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) controversial Universal Credit programme. I say ...

Software truth #1 is: there is a global shortage of software application developers and skilled software engineers at all levels. Software truth #2 is: users often have trouble communicating their ...

Of course, the retail and consumer markets in general have been analysis bonkers for decades, but what about IT security, cyber or otherwise? It's not a case of collecting info from a single ...

This is the age of women in technology and male appreciate of feminism and the drive for equality (although of course the first computer programmer was indeed a woman), so should we be using the ...

Each year March 8 represents International Women’s Day, a day dedicated both to celebrating women and pushing for greater gender equality. For 2018 the theme of International Women’s Day is ...

Cloud-based customer relationship management software supplier Donorfy has taken the initiative in putting data protection officers nationwide out of their misery and compiling what can only be ...

Challenger banks are becoming the innovative digital arms of the traditional banks they set out to disrupt. Job done then?

Despite the potential of ‘digital transformation’ and IT in general, many organisations find the reality a little disappointing. Development takes longer than expected, quality is lacking and what ...

Databricks styles itself as an analytics software company with a ‘unified’ approach – the unification is this sense is supposed to suggest that the software can be applied across a variety of ...

Machine data analytics company Splunk has acquired security orchestration firm Phantom Cyber Corporation. Phantom is more widely known as a SOAR player – Security, Orchestration, Automation and ...

Automation is driving software application development architectures, but its shape, form and process is rarely defined with any clarity. In real terms, we might explain automation’s application ...

The details in the Prime Minister's speech, including that dismissed as Geekspeak in the mass media, helps explain what is really at stake in the negotiations and why the BBC and the Online ...

The Prime Minister has called on a former banker to review the UK skills system. Expect fireworks when the implications are understood.

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 4: IoT projects risk failure without careful consideration of data management processes and analytics. Their ultimate goal after all is to glean valuable information ...

If you happen to be an ardent Brexiteer, a true believer in the UK government’s desire for “innovative solutions” to avoid a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, we have good news for you. The ...

Association football as we know it descended into farce at the hands of the use of fledgling video assistant referee (VAR) technology throughout Tottenham and Rochdale’s FA Cup replay tie at ...

From 25 May this year, organisations across the ASEAN region will have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will apply to any company that collects the personal data ...

The Ofcom review of the BBC role in reflecting, representing and serving the British public is central to the survival of both democracy and the establishment.

In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of cloud services provider Fordway, shares his top tips on what IT departments can do to curb public cloud overspend. As the costs of public ...

Virgin Money was one of the earlier challengers to traditional banks and is now creating a digital bank to keep up with the times

Interesting, timing wise, because a lot of conversations recently with vendors have revealed how much discontent there is with the classic web conferencing tools, such as WebEx and GoToMeeting. ...

Uncontrolled Brexit is an existential threat to the British Establishment and the Westminster lobbying community

German softwarehaus SAP has pointed to a changing set of models which could (and for many arguably should) change the way software is bought. In the world of composable cloud-based componentised ...

Mobile World Congress is a love it or hate it affair. Three days of treading what is now Europe’s largest technology conference ought to be enough to put anybody off for life, yet most of us seem ...