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As we know, an Application Programming Interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. The API defines the correct way for a developer to write a program ...

Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is ...

GUEST BLOG: In this guest post Mark McBride-Wright, founder of EqualEngineers, talks about how the #MeToo campaign has impacted the technology industry  The #MeToo campaign has become one of the ...

There is an impending storm heading towards corporate IT, and the outlook doesn’t look sunny for cash-strapped, time-constrained IT departments. Just like in 1999 with Y2K, there is an absolute ...

Tibco has been through a good many changes over the last half decade -- as a result, the company's product set needs some deconstruction, clarification and extrapolation. Where better to do that ...

First, there’s business. Then, there’s business that also operates with socially-charged philanthropy-fuelled magnanimously-enriched humanitarian awareness designed to help channel a proportion of ...

Question: In what kind of world do tech reporters gravitate toward log file machine data analytics conferences three years in a row in preference over (perhaps what might be) some of the other ...

Enterprise technology learning platform company Pluralsight used its ‘Live’ 2018 user, partner and customer conference this month to detail a set of new products and host what is now its second ...

We know what blockchain is by now. Blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger system for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data as a decentralized database that is ...

Enterprise technology learning platform company Pluralsight used its ‘Live’ 2018 user, partner and customer conference this month to detail a set of new products, announce an increase in its ...

What’s all this about deepfakes? We can’t move lately for the sinister imagery that accompanies this ubiquitous news item designed to make baby boomers put down their Oat So Simple. While the likes ...

From Huawei’s Kirin 970 system-on-chip (SoC) that packs in a neural processing unit to Google’s new Edge TPU that performs machine learning tasks on IoT devices, the use of dedicated chips to speed ...

I recently looked at the Hays Index for 2017 to put the UK skills situation into international context. I strongly recommend reading the  report on "Regional dynamics of the Global Labour market - ...

When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically on the technology and infrastructure – what it means for software and systems development in an age when the ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Bryony Hill, Technical Data Scientist at Nominet, discusses the misconceptions around being a data scientist.  When I tell people I’m a data scientist, ...

As every good competent and loquacious speaker knows, no true gift of the gab is ever reasonably achieved without first visiting the Irish city of Cork to kiss the Blarney Stone. But there’s more; ...

It’s not every be company that gets to call its annual conference and user symposium after itself. IBMference doesn’t work, Dellevent is silly and Oraclefest sounds too much like a German bierhaus ...

Essentially open source Business Process Management (BPM) software company Bonitasoft has introduced its Bonita 7.7 iteration release. This is BPM software with Intelligent Continuous Improvement ...

The creation of tech startup Trint by a journalist brings home the importance of intimacy with a business problem

In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains ...

Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines?

What a season of technology events this is. Well, to be clear, what a season of technology events awaits us through the 'fall' period in 2018. All the tech symposia and conference proceedings about ...

What’s being ‘pushed to’ open source this last weekend or so? Answer: quite a lot. There’s a whole smörgåsbord of openness out there… but one project emanating from Redmond stands out for sure. ...

Australia's eCorner has signed a deal with Macquarie Cloud Services to help it use public cloud services to fend off growing competition from larger US providers. The Sydney-based e-commerce ...

Before we start, we need to understand how to pronounce cloud application development company Skuid. Go on, we dare you… we double dare you. Did you say skew-id, skood or scho-eey-dee? Wrong, it’s ...

New England headquartered application development company Progress is flexing its programmer credentials this month. The Massachusetts-HQ’d firm has now come forward with its Progress Spark ...

In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS, advises enterprises to start small to achieve big change in their organisations with cloud. The success of ...

When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how they would like the world to be rather than how it actually is. This often means they fail to connect as well as they could with the ...

Sainsbury’s is trialling its first ever till-free supermarket, entrusting us with the task of scanning our own items via our smartphones. This comes as good news for those of us who feel the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem, who explains why his sector needs its own ‘General Query Language’. In the same way that SQL helped facilitate the growth and ...