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If you believe the hype, the IoT is already rampaging across businesses around the world. However, talking to end users gives a totally different picture - there is a massive chasm between those ...

Donald Trump's counselor and strategist Kellyanne Conway caused uproar online this week when she implied that former president Barack Obama may have used a microwave oven to spy on her boss. Conway ...

This is a contributed post which is wholly attributed to the team at GitHub, 'the home of developers' as they would like to be known. Widening open source Software developers love open source ...

Most organisations are looking for ways to foster collaboration and grow team productivity. How this is achieved is less obvious. For a while it has been assumed that if you throw sufficient ...

Security researchers say they have discovered an open source code vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638) in Apache Struts 2 – (report). Apache Struts is a free and open-source MVC framework for creating ...

The otherwise obscure topic of taxation for the self-employed hit the headlines this week after chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond announced in his latest Budget a rise in national ...

Regular readers will know the deep commitment to quality journalism that Downtime embodies. As the cutting-edge blog of the Computer Weekly stable, within the office tales are legion of the lengths ...

Should software application development professionals be tasked with finding out where, when, how, why and on what cloud form factor their applications should exist upon at any one single given ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Simon Poulton of CA Technologies — Poulton is ebulliently vocal about his passions for virtualisation, cloud, mobility ...

Identity cloud provider company Okta has snuggled up with identity management company Stormpath. Who brings what to the party? This new union is designed to bring forward Okta Identity Cloud as ...

Brexit means Brexit and BlackBerry means enterprise-level application of the secure communications and mobile productivity platform technologies now that the company's once oh-so-consumer level ...

Old-style enterprise content management is no longer fit for purpose. Organisations need to be able to manage far more than a subset of their information assets, and need to reach far beyond the ...

MongoDB is an open source NoSQL cross-platform document-oriented database company favouring dynamic schemas. The firm has this month announced a new free developer-focused tier for its ...

GitHub is launching a new offering (pitched at businesses of varying size and scale) with extra advanced features, which is intended to change the way software is developed (and, crucially, scaled) ...

The Amazon cloud storage outage provides a neat reminder about the role humans continue to play in the delivery of online services, but - when things go wrong - end-user sympathy for the plight of ...

High performance computing (HPC) has not historically been seen as a good candidate for colocation. However, things change - now may be the right time to consider such a move.

Small form factor smartphones combined with high-speed wireless networks are changing the way emerging economies operate. It is time for commercial, government and NGO entities to change the ways ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Simon Poulton of CA Technologies -- Poulton is ebulliently vocal about his passions for virtualisation, cloud, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Kirk Krappe, author, CEO and chairman of Apttus The thing about technology evolution that the movies don’t quite tell you is that it desperately relies on adoption. The ...

The very best thing about the government digital strategy is that it exists. The areas covered by the strategy are vitally important for the UK’s economic future – not only for our digital economy ...

The question of build vs buy was the fundamental question posed, framed and postulated by Jeff Lawson in his role as CEO of Twilio during a keynote address delivered at this year's Mobile World ...

If you haven’t met Handle yet, Handle’s the latest robot to be delivered by the benign storks at Boston Dynamics, an intensely creepy subsidiary of not-so-proud parent Google. How does one describe ...

There were plenty of amazing products launched and on display at ISE2017 in Amsterdam in early February. But in the background buzz there was a common theme of an industry in transition. While many ...

Digital rights management (DRM) capabilities are often embedded in third party software products via partnerships agreements. One DRM supplier, Seclore, has made such OEM relationships its main ...

Dutch semiconductor specialist continues its drive at Mobile World Congress in the Catalan capital of Barcelona this week with a series of announcements no doubt saved up specially for the ...

Inspect-a-Gadget reflects on how the heady days of smartphone innovation and excitement are long gone from Mobile World Congress 2017

NXP Semiconductor works across a number of indusrty verticals, but the Dutch headquartered firm specialises in automotive semiconductors and automotive cybersecurity. The firm has previous ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin, chief evangelist at DataStax -- the company develops and provides support for a commercial edition of the ...

Here we are, it’s 2017, on-demand and pay-as-you-go software is all the rage, cloud is the rising and soon-to-be dominant IT architecture, and yet we’re still talking about software suppliers ...

A lemur face recognition tool has been developed by a team of computer scientists to identify between and keep track of individual members of the species and boost conservation efforts. For too ...