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This is a guest blog by James Richardson, business analytics strategist at Qlik and former Gartner analyst. England's dreaming ... By the mid-1970s rock music was dominated by "prog-rock" and long, ...

Following through its logical naming convention, Box used Box Dev to launch Box Developer Edition, an edition of Box for developers.

Project management has often been viewed as a pain in the proverbial. Are new approaches going to change this and make systems become far more central to how people carry out their day-to-day tasks?

There's no getting away from the fact that the quaint Berkshire town of Slough has an image problem, with the general perception being that it's an ugly place with a funny smell. That's not us ...

The name Lucas Hinch may not be immediately familiar to you, but we sense he may go on to become a folk hero in computing circles, in light of his dramatic approach to PC tech support. Having grown ...

With all the hype surrounding the Apple Watch, it is easy to forget that health and fitness watches are not a new thing. Runners, cyclists and triathletes have been using smart wearables for years, ...

UK corporations and government have slipped into a cosy understanding about the coalition's transparency policy.

The coalition government sought to catalyze the dissolution of big public bodies by publishing their contracts.It wanted to "transform" lumbering government departments employing lots of people in ...

The coalition government's habitual redactions of crucial information from major contracts is seriously contrary to declared transparency policy. But its redactions can also get a bit silly.

Women Who Code will be holding its first hackathon on June 6th at the University of Ulster's Belfast Campus.

Soon after Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude began his parliamentary career in 1983, he co-founded a group of Conservative MPs whose ideas where so pariahic they dubbed themselves the ...

Sourcegraph aims to answer the challenge here with a search engine and code browser designed to help developers find the code they need.

The coalition government's programme to reform government under its programme of digital transformation was going to replace the big suppliers who did most public sector IT with an ecosystem of ...

Technology threatens to disrupt NHS institutions and hasten their privatization. Yet the Labour Party reckons it has a plan to "save the NHS". It had better be a good one.

DataStax is a firm that dedicates itself to providing a commercially-supported version of the open source Apache Cassandra database.

Some bots have good intentions when they visit your web site, but many do not. How do you tell good bots from bad bots and control or block them?

Teradata has launched what it calls its 'Software-Defined Warehouse' as an enhancement to the firms own-brand Teradata Database.

Bots do many useful things on the web, but all too often they are up to no good. This two part blog starts but looking at bot-driven denial of service and the growing problem of short duration ...

A criticism often levelled at IT education is that by the time you come to apply the skills, they might be out of date. Why learn technology skills when that technology might not be in use in a ...

How real time data supply has changed

If Contracts Finder had operated in the 19th Century it would have credited the Great Western Railway not to Isambard Kingdom Brunel but to [Redacted].

There has been debate over the number of pre-orders made for the soon to be available Apple Watch, with an estimate coming in at over two million - more than the number of Android wearables sold in ...

Who is going to be the big digital winner after the 2015 general election? Congratulations to anyone involved with smart ticketing on public transport - you're in for a good time. The one area that ...

wearable devices could have a positive impact - it's no longer only phones that have to be smart.

Software consultancy Scott Logic has published a series of 'A Day in the Life' employee stories to give an insight into what it is like to work technology.

This year's BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium was the 8th, and was the biggest in the event's history. This was my first ever Lovelace Colloquium, and I'm sorry to say it was only as a ...

Kick boxing code monkey goes shopping: judo hits Xamarin

In the real world we've seen centuries of wars, largely the result of old empires fading and new contenders arising. And the world of IT show similar parallels, albeit on much reduced timescales ...

CEO of Neo Technology Emil Eifrem guest blogs below for the Computer Weekly Developer Network to explain what, really, we mean by the notion of the graph database. TechTarget's own definition ...

Your hashtag moments of zen are as follows: developers, women, android, women_in_tech, hackathon, droidcon, female_developers

The software helps developers manage what the firm calls the "proliferation of API calls" in the modern age of apps and the Internet of Things (IoT).

The joint Mortimer Spinks and Computer Weekly women in IT survey is now live for the fourth year.

most organisations should no longer just be thinking 'mobile', but also 'wearable' when considering how employees, customers and partners interact with IT

In consequence, if you wish to develop products and services for the IPV6 world (e.g. for "Smart Buildings" or the "Internet of Things") you can be at a severe disadvantage unless you can get space ...

Last month, I wrote in this blog about the problems that caused the new rural payments digital service to be withdrawn from use by farmers and replaced by paper forms. The system was one of the 25 ...

Do Samsung's cutting-edge edges give it the edge?After a disappointing run of results for its mobile division driven in part by indifferent response to recent product launches, Samsung needed to ...

Cloud computing, big data and mobile are driving enterprises to redefine their software stack.

They appear to expect a small group of incumbents operators to pay for bottleneck removal and network build that may even reduce their revenues - with government subsidy making up the differnce. ...

Question: Which Google search returns 366 million hits? Answer: 'Lessons Will Be Learned'. OK, not all of these hits refer to safeguarding but you get the point; this hackneyed phrase has become ...

This is a guest blog by Michael Corcoran, SVP & CMO at Information Builders Having recently attended the Gartner BI and Master Data Management Summits in London, it is clear that now is an ...

A Queen quote might be appropriate - "is this the real life, is this just fantasy?"

The traditional education model of lecture-based learning and exams is changing as more distributive approaches hit our educational institutes.

IBM is offering its Bluemix platform up for the NASA Space App Challenge virtual event to help developers build applications that contribute to space exploration.

Those struggling to access rural broadband services can thank their lucky stars that they don't have to deal with monkeys.

In short there is much to be done. So who can we expect to do it. Those who believe that Government, alias politicians, is competant should listen again to Martha Lane Fox's Dimbleby Lecture and ...

Now the task is to deliver not just the standard but to ensure that the implementation helps win more (and more profitable) business for those who take the protection of their on-line users (and ...

The industry's jolly japes on April Fools' Day miss the point of April Fools' Day

Stone Group's Simon Harbridge and security consultant Jay Abbott of Advanced Security Consulting recently got together to discuss the worrying issue of security in schools and how technology helps ...

How internal culture can prevent a project management methodology from scaling A short while ago I was at a roundtable with two retailers, BooHoo.com, a soon to be multinational online retailer, ...

Some players see publicity and support for the NSPCC Childline campaign announced on Tuesday  as a potential threat to the "freedom" of the Internet. Others see it as an opportunity to rally ...

Following International Women's day recently I really wanted to pass on experiences from my career in technology that I think would be helpful to the aspirational women looking to carve out a ...

Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoons are often too close to workplace reality for comfort. A favourite strip from his book "I'm not anti-business, I'm anti-idiot" (another sentiment many would readily ...

If you set a group of year nine pupils a challenge, it is striking how creative they can be. In a brainstorm, it always impresses me how they are able to immediately think laterally and ...

Microsoft previews future Visual Studio 2015 product line

OpenScholar is a Drupal-based content management system designed specifically for academic use, created by Harvard University and released under an open source license. So what? Well okay you so ...

Everyone is caught up in the BYOD revolution, and the flexibility it brings mean more people are emailing from anywhere using whatever gadget they have on them. Unfortunately it seems that ...

A press release came through to the Downtime inbox in the lead-up to Easter warning consumers to be aware of fake branded chocolate bars being sold, presumably over the internet or otherwise. An ...

It's great to see so much debate taking place on social media - and hopefully in the real world - following Martha Lane Fox's Dimbleby Lecture broadcast on BBC1 last night. Regardless of what ...

On the first official day of the general election campaign, it is opportune to pose the question of what the future of open data might be. The good news is the future of the movement to open up ...

I keep hearing about a BCSWomen Guinness World Record attempt from the women in IT community, so here are some details to share with you on how to get involved.

Software application development professionals working on security related technologies touching so-called cryptocurrencies will be aware of the block chain (or blockchain).

Rumour and speculation is the fuel that much of the tech journalism world runs on, and for press officers working at firms like Google, responding to it all must be a wearying experience. So much ...

Cisco has hit on a novel way to stop the US National Security Agency (NSA) from tampering with its networking kit by sending its customer orders to the wrong address. The shady US surveillance unit ...

Facebook's outstanding international reputation for information ownership and privacy develops one stage further this month.

Most smartphones lack smart users a survey by mobile security firm Lookout has revealed, with 52% of people who claimed to be security savvy admitting they do not read privacy policies for mobile ...

At this year's Retail Business Technology Expo I was introduced to a company called DisplayData, which put me on to a nifty little device called an electronic shelf label, or ESL. Electronic ...

SmartBear has acquired the Swagger API open source project from Reverb Technologies.

The coalition government broke its transparency pledge to publish all public contracts in full. It has attempted to backtrack, claiming it never really intended to publish all its contracts in the ...

Couchbase went all bullish this week and said that its Multi-Dimensional Scaling capabilities in release 4.0 of Couchbase Server are the best thing since sliced bananas.

Been doing a few catch-ups with old vendor friends recently; one was Brocade - and more of this next month - which has a REAL SDN/NFV story - and another was NetScout; networking monitoring!!!! ...

The failure of the rural payment digital service last week - and its subsequent replacement by paper forms - is not the IT disaster some would claim, but it is an embarrassment for the Government ...

Consistency, widespread availability and encouragement to use video regularly will have a real impact on adoption and if this is mixed with induction education to build early familiarity and ...

This group is a community-led industry-supported open source reference platform for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV).

Five years after prime minister David Cameron stunned new-age computer policy wonks with his election pledge to publish all government contracts "in full", it looks like the only thing he issued in ...

Telecommunications is rife for hacking, or at least that's what people say.

When it comes to kicking back after work, most people open a bottle of wine, binge-watch a favourite show on Netflix and/or hit the gym to work off some of the day's frustrations. Not anti-virus ...

I have been asked to try to put together a group to provide guidance for parliamentary and council candidates on how they could/should support local community groups (from Parish Councils to City ...

Here's a couple of things to do with your new smart watch:You can check if your heart is still beating during the 25th PowerPoint slide in your boss's presentationWhen you get mugged, you are now ...

No one should be in any doubt that technology can enable people to work together anytime, anywhere any place and on any device. But although the UK's flexible working policy has been in effect ...

Downtime experienced the full effects of the solar eclipse today with its network inadvertently failing. Since London is all cloudy, the best views were those on the live stream from other parts of ...

Should the Cabinet Office teams succeed in their efforts to deliver processes a that work reliably, efficiently and securely, they have a future. Should they not ....Meanwhile the battle between ...

Mark Grimshaw, chief executive of the Rural Payments Agency is either an imbecile or a charlatan, if Farmers Weekly is anything to go by.He's been telling the agricultural press that his agency's ...

This is the first installment of a three-part series that speaks to navigating the challenges for tech startups in working with universities to accelerate innovation and business goals.

It's rare that I'm inclined to congratulate George Osborne, but recognition is due to the Chancellor for making his latest budget the most tech-friendly ever. Every year, Computer Weekly is ...

Tutanota is a German open source encrypted email startup lauded as a direct alternative to Google Gmail

"Budget 2015 announces that, following a successful trial, the Government will implement "Gov.UK Verify" - a new way for people to prove their identity on-line when using government services - ...

There has been plenty of hype surrounding the internet of things (IoT) and especially super smart things such as the iconic Nest (now Google) thermostat. While many of these devices are ...

The Internet of Things, The Internet of Everything, The Internet of Connected & Embedded Things and The Internet of Data...

This is a guest blog by James Richardson, business analytics strategist at Qlik, and former Gartner analyst So what happens now that data discovery is the "new normal"?* Well, I'm no prognosticator ...

The challenge with UC is it needs to be applied everywhere and consistently which leads to a need for significant investment in a broad range of elements - software for UC clients, diverse hardware ...

As already reported on the Computer Weekly Developer Network, the team at Software AG is using this year's CeBit 2015 exhibition and conference in Hannover Germany to talk cloud.

Will .UK remain as untrustworthy as at present, offering neither reasonable confidence that you are dealing with an organisation or individual subject to UK law nor that your anonymity will be ...

Xerox photocopiers are still on the market -- as are the company's multi-function systems, digital production printing presses and other products.

Software AG: Cloud migration Cloud-to-Ground & Cloud-to-Cloud

Inspiring women about IT is the responsibility of us all, says Emer Timmons, President, BT Global Services UK, finalist in the 'Leader of the Year - in a corporate organisation' category at the ...

Despite the capital's prominence as the home of silicon roundabout start-ups, Shoreditch design houses, and global banks and insurance companies, the UK's boom in IT job creation is more than just ...

The 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action brings opportunities to the international community to renew their commitment to the gender cause and mobilise the public ...

SpacePortX in Manchester are holding an open day this Friday, to invite people from the tech and startup scene to view its space and hear about its mission.

Saga - that well-known organisation famed for its popular use in taunts against your over-50 friends - is encouraging its elderly audience to get into the social media mindset before it's too ...

By admission of its own IT leaders, insurance companies are less advanced when it comes to IT security than banks. There are plenty of reasons to catch up.