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Malicious software developers love a good hacking opportunity, this much is already known -- they are even happier when they find a "coder's backdoor" left open for what would usually be two reasons.

Progman is a provider of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) design software used in Building Information Modeling (BIM) from Turku in Finland.

IBM z Systems mainframes, unlikely champions of open source?

The British Infrastructure Group's report was rushed, it was fudged, it poorly presents good arguments, and ultimately it damages the case for an independent Openreach.

Avast Software was kind of 'one of those Central and Eastern Europe' (CEE) security firms along with the other usual suspects that most of us can name... and then, it kind of became something more ...

The CWDN blog is really not interested in funding, corporate ventures, mergers, buy-outs or even corporate parties (unless we are invited, obviously)... this much should be said.

Society is increasingly interconnected and dependent on reliable, resilient and ubiquitous on-line communications: from smart consumer devices and buildings to telemedicine and care. People will ...

Cloud enthusiastic digital natives are now gaining business management positions, whilst shadow IT is becoming an accepted norm. The choice IT departments face is no longer whether or not to adopt ...

In this guest post, Pete Koehler, technical marketing engineer for PernixData, explains why datacentre operators need to get a handle on the Working Set concept to find out what's really going on ...

This a guest blogpost by James Richardson, business analytics strategist, Qlik I find solace in the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of reality. In layman's terms, the idea, first proposed by ...

There's that bit (quite a few bits actually) during the Red Hat Summit conventions every year when the middleware team gets really excited about its product set.

Software application developers working with the kinds of embedded computing devices that we now class as citizens within the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) can be forgiven for getting somewhat ...

As part of the NRF Big Show 2016 in New York, e-commerce platform provider Demandware took me on a tour of some of the retailers in the Big Apple using its technology. The level of technology usage ...

BT has one of its main contact centres in a tower block in Swansea city centre - it's the highest office building for miles around, just a short stroll to the sea front. From its upper-floor ...

F5 Networks is a firm aiming to stake a claim for itself. The Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and network technology firm is now on its second annual State of Application Delivery survey. ...

Last Friday, just after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the government published a series of responses to a number of European Commission (EC) consultations around the Digital Single Market.Personally, ...

How do you end up being a 'significant software provider' in the still-shifting world of hybrid cloud?

It must be 15 years since the first time I wrote the phrase, "Privacy will be one of the defining challenges of the internet age". In the intervening years, that challenge has grown enormously. ...

Two seat sports cars could regain top billing for those entering their middle ages as a US state gets tough on drone enthusiasts.The sports car industry has been suffering since the popularity of ...

As a regular train user, what better way to waste time on a delayed service, than delve into a bit of analytics on the daily commute. First, trains are less busy on Monday - because most of us ...

Automotive 'aftermarket' technical information company Autodata has released a new batch of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

Polycom has just announced a new developer zone called Sandbox.

Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced Zulu Embedded now available to download on the Wind River Marketplace.

In the contributed blog post, Kayla Lamoreaux, Workfront's solution architect, explains her best and worst moments as a woman in the technology industry. When I decided to pursue a career in tech, ...

A business should not be interested in technology for technology's sake. It is dependent on the information that it needs to make decisions and that create revenue. Securing this information as ...

We know that Red Hat is a major player in the open source enterprise space (on many levels) and Ansible was (and still is) a company (now an internal Red Hat brand) that makes "agentless" ...

Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) aims to address by concatenating all the network access channels and managing them as a single virtual channel for any kind of WAN traffic.

The New Year has started off highlighting an old problem: Lack of central support for local government's digital transformation. Mostly filled with delegates from local councils, the room at the ...

This is a guest post by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, Splunk As is the way, it is time for looking forward to 2016 technology and predictions as to how IT and business will evolve over the ...

In a guest blogpost, Emil Eifrem of Neo Technology says graph databases detect sophisticated scams and fraud rings in real timeBefore PayPal came along, online commerce was fraught with security ...

Few people seem to remember it now, but back in 1998, Bowie did indeed set up his very own ISP, BowieNet

Founder of development community platform Gitter explains why developer forums could help out other industries in the future. Open source software communities such as GitHub are designed to allow ...

It is entirely unsurprising that BT should turn to a man with insider knowledge to take the whee

What is a cloud computing 'storm' -- if such a term exists... and what are its implications for software application developers working in newly virtualised platform environments?

Ford Motor Company has for some time now been developing its open source Smart Device Link (SDL) middleware framework.

little is said about the practical problems of obtaining reliable and admissable evidence, let alone convictions, whether to protect children or those in inner city (and occasionally suburban) ...

This is the first attempt in 500 years to bring the surveillance activities of the state under rule of law instead of "the prerogative of the crown". More-over the UK is one of very few states ...

This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM It's that time again: prediction season. Many predictions have been made by the global research and intelligence companies. Gartner has ...

The combined revenue of the five biggest global corporate IT suppliers declined by more than $12bn over their past four financial quarters - at a time when the use of technology worldwide is ...

In early November 2015, insurance giant Aviva held its internal hackathon designed to allow the firm's employees to test out ideas for solutions that could potentially benefit Aviva's customers. ...

What to expect from NDC London 2016

Bish, bash, BOSH: Pivotal says 'I believe' in CloudCredo

In case you missed it, the big storage vendor news during the holiday was NetApp's acquisition of all-flash array maker SolidFire for $870 million. The move brings to a conclusion several years of ...

A common sited problem in teaching kids about technology is the difficulty in helping them make the connection between the tech they use and the code they're learning - something story character ...

Samsung's latest refrigerator promises to make grocery shopping easy and spice up life in the Kitchen.The South Korean tech firm announced its Family Hub refrigerator at the Consumer Electronics ...

Network related activities are the fastest growing part of Intel's business, and will continue to lead in the 2016-2020 timeframe.

...after dominating the PC space since 1981 Intel is facing the decline of the 'fat desktop' and shifting its attention to focus on cloud services.

The Bristol API (Transport) supports the Council's approach to opening up data sets, as it already does through the Bristol Open Data portal

The core to the strategy should be the removal of obstacles to co-operation across boundaries, inter-departmental, public- private, professional and sectoral before we go down in flurry of red ...

The OIC itself lists (among others) Intel, Samsung, Dell and Cisco among its ranks... a good spread for sure, but is it enough?

Creator of the open source Debian operating system Ian Murdock has died at age 42.

Hopefully, therefore, the omission is a mistake and not a capitulation to those opposed to the routine use of the low cost, anonymised, on-line age-checking processes that have been developed in ...

The story here is that yes, indeed, software is eating the world... but in a proprietary-only technical debt-ridden software world... that software sucks.

Manufacturers of touch-screen technology explain why the luxury market is buying into interactive in-store equipment. Elo Touch solutions is a touch-screen manufacturer that often finds itself ...

This contributed article from GirlsGoIT explains how the organisation is equipping girls in Moldova with IT and digital skills.GirlsGoIT was established to boost Moldova's entrepreneurship and ...

The English Trailblazer apprentice programme requires adherence to the Skills Funding Agency Qualifications Guide This bars (Para 19) using the vendor or commercial (including those organized by ...

In this contributed blog post, recent chair of the Women's Forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2015 Claire Cassar is CEO of HAUD, discusses the worldwide struggle for equality. As ...

Innkeeper: "Sorry our broadband has been so slow recently and we are in a mobile notspot so we haven't been able to get on-line to check the bookings". Joseph: "But on-linebookings.com assured us ...

In this contributed post, previous guest blogger Annabel Sunnucks, intern at CA Technologies, describes her experience at this year's Computer Weekly UKtech50 event.    In 2015 I was lucky enough ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Warren of Perforce Software.

DreamFactory is an open source firm dedicated to helping programmers manage REST APIs for mobile, cloud and IoT applications.

Heavy demands for research and consultancy have restricted my blog postings this year. It's a reflection of the unrelenting growth in anything connected with cyber security. My New Year's ...

It's been a busy year for Tableau Software -- the data visualisation firm has pushed out what amounts to more product updates than at any time in its past.

The CWDN blog picks just a handful of technologies as favourite nerd-must-haves for the forthcoming 'holiday' season.

This is a guest blogpost by Dr. Thore Rabe, vice-president Europe, Middle East, Africa - Isilon Division at EMC It is now well known that the digital universe, which comprises most businesses' data ...

Many European businesses now see targeted cyber-attacks as an inevitability that must be managed. New Quocirca research looks at the experiences of 600 European enterprises over the last 12 months ...

Mendix: 'analysability', it's now a thing

This is a guest blogpost by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, SplunkThey say you don't know what you don't know. It's the same with your data. Most organisations have data they know about, collect ...

In this guest post, Sarvesh Goel, an infrastructure management services architect at IT consultancy Mindtree, offers enterprises a step-by-step guide to moving to the cloud. There are many factors ...

This blog's news desk has seen 'findings' tabled as insightful as: mobility likely to be key driver in enterprise applications in 2016.

Crayon cracks software asset brainteaser with Puzzlepart

A dedicated HiLink Software Development Kit (SDK) will be arrive towards the end of 2016 with the 'LiteOS' operating system.

This is a guest post by Steve Gandy, CEO at MeetingZone.    Reading, and Bracknell, hotly followed by Oxford (near MeetingZone HQ) and Edinburgh, are officially the best cities to live and work in ...

Ahead in the Clouds recently attended a tour of IO's modular datacentre facility in Slough, along with a handful of PhD students from University College London (UCL). The event's aim was to open up ...

This time last year the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Skills had collected over a thousand pages of evidence. Over Christmas the members ploughed through the evidence and in February ...

A universal quantum computer uses quantum mechanics to process massive amounts of data and perform computations in powerful new ways not possible with today's conventional computers.

A geek's gift guide

This is a guest blogpost by Andy Leaver, vice president of international operations, Hortonworks  Mass advertising and campaign marketing are like the dodgy lettuce found somewhere at the back of ...

MPs are often at their most lyrically creative when they sit on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and are given free rein to criticise those they see as miscreants wasting taxpayers' money.So ...

Downtime knows it is talking to the faithful in recounting tales of mobile phone batteries that never last long enough and always run out of power at the most inopportune moments. But now, ...

Everyone loves a developer competition, right?

This is a guest blog post by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist at Qlik. In it, he speculates on what the analytics future may look like by 2021 (just don't hold him to it!) At this ...

I would like, belatedly, to add to my previous blog on the consultations on the Investigatory Powers Bill, the need not only to recognise that it applies to the tracking operations of Apple and ...

Mícheál Ó Foghlú, Red Hat CTO recently engaged in a discussion with the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog as to why we have seen such exponential growth in Node.js at this time.

SmartBear specialises in tools for collaborative development, functional testing, performance testing and performance monitoring across APIs, mobile, web and desktop.

The poor and gullible are indeed being ripped off giving a clear case for "robust" action by Ofcom to improve the quality/clarity of the information on offer (Para 3.11 in the section of the Draft ...

When Spectra Logic launched its DPE archive-class NAS in September it was a play at a space often targeted now by object storage products. So, I asked whether Spectra Logic had considered object ...

Microsoft will open source the Chakra JavaScript engine on GitHub next month.

The challenges of designing software that supports international business are many, manifold, multiplex and... crucially, multilingual.

Influence is a wonderfully subjective measure by which to gauge successful people in the UK technology scene. Influence can be negative as well as positive. You might be influenced by a particular ...

Named parameters brought forward from Objective-C are expressed in a clean syntax that makes APIs in Swift even easier to read and maintain

In November 2015 volunteer organisation Stemettes ran a campaign across multiple locations to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem). During ...

Neustar, a supplier of real time online information services, is re-thinking its priorities as it has had to re-align its business in the USA. The growth of the internet of things should see its ...

When we say Aruba, we now say Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

ViaSat's Neil Fraser argues for a broader mix of technologies to bring the internet into connectivity blackspots

As I suspected, my submission is out on a limb in its support for lack of clarity, on the grounds that the legislation must be "generic" if it is to be effective and not out out of date before ...

Nutanix has been called an upstart hyper-converged infrastructure vendor who gets its kicks taking a swing at virtualisation giant VMware with its own hypervisor offering.

Open source is a fantastic software development model, but it's as much about the people as it is about the license involved.

The question is therefore "How can Local Authorities best work together with suppliers to ensure these are used to meet the needs of those for whom they are responsible at a time when they too must ...

"Companies use Varnish Cache for speeding up a lot different things, not just websites", explains Per Buer, founder and CTO of Varnish Software.