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If Jamie Oliver (other celebrity chefs are available) launched a service named Tastiest Ever Chef, you might not think it that unusual… but it’s a brand naming convention that we don’t often find ...

As part of the 2020 Computer Weekly diversity and inclusion event, in partnership with Spinks, we ran a number of workshops in the leadup to the day covering a range of different topics relating to ...

Babel is a term long associated with language and many of us have read the Tower of Babel pages on Wikipedia and elsewhere. When doing this, if nothing else, you can get some bible study in and ...

Welcome to our last edition of Tech in APAC for the year. One of our key stories in November was a piece we did on Snowflake, which made its debut in September on Wall Street as the biggest ...

Deep in the Inspect-a-Gadget lab, our elves don’t always get out and see the light of day that much; they’re quiet reflective characters who sometimes prefer the dim light of the backlit keyboard ...

Within appropriate boundaries governing personal security, identity protection, data governance and information sharing compliance, there’s a strong argument for making all facial recognition ...

Google wants to help the programming community work more confidently with open source software. The search-cloud-platform tech giant has developed a new scorecard system intended to allow software ...

The decision to delay over £3 billion of spend is one that deserves "robust" scrutiny by the hundred or so MPs whose parliamentary majorities may depend on improve on-line access to education, ...

If there is something a CIO could do to enable the business to increase its earnings by 5%, everyone would be listening. McKinsey recently highlighted the difference in performance between those ...

This week we are heading back to 2006, when we reported on that sadly-perennial favourite: IT access security, and more specifically, Managing Access Securely. As our contribution to the bit of fun ...

The FT’s ever-excellent, San Francisco-based Richard Waters has reported on a prospective acquisition of Slack by Salesforce. Slack, notes Waters, has evolved from being a chat app to a broader ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe, VP of systems engineering for EMEA region at Nutanix. Tribe contends that today, none of us can attend a ...

This dystopian shambles of a year has reached a new, personal low, after a PR email revealed that a robotics company based in Reading has completed its first successful trial of a VR-controlled ...

The stuff of legends? The original Ali Baba for sure, but the tech firm Alibaba is also hoping to go down in the history books. TechTarget’s Aaron Tang has already detailed some of the firm’s most ...

This has been a shot in the arm for those who have long overlooked their health.

In this guest post, Tony Jacob, vice president of design and construction for Europe, Middle East and Africa at colocation giant Digital Realty predicts what the next decade holds for the ...

After months – some would say years – of frustration and delay, tech suppliers have largely welcomed the latest government initiative to establish a digital identity ecosystem in the UK. The ...

Software intelligence company Dynatrace enjoys tracing, dynamically, obviously. As such then, the fourth generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath captures, ...

Champion of continuous intelligence Sumo Logic spends its time looking inside the state of the modern application technology stack, including changing trends in cloud and application adoption and ...

All laptops are pretty much the same today, right?  Open the packaging and you get your basic clamshell unit, a power cable and adapter, a little warranty leaflet that you leave in the back of the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Iron Mountain’s VP of Digital Solutions. In it he writes about a new study suggesting Covid-driven digitisation of business processes could be ...

OpenUK is the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in the UK - so yeah, pretty open all round. The organisation has now joined the ...

With just a couple of weeks left of 2020, it is worth reflecting on what IT professionals can take away from this year. First and foremost, the hard work put in by IT staff, enabled many, many ...

To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The office print ...

As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a weekly stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives.  This week I look at a report we produced back in August 2006, the ...

The Labour Party has called for emergency laws to prevent social media companies from playing host to anti-vaccine content. You’d’ve thought the ruling elite would have already got the memo to ...

As Tears For Fears would say: everybody wants to rule the world…  … but as Equinix, Inc. would say: everybody wants to scale to the breadth of potentially web-scale operational scope and the best ...

Whenever anyone tells you that technology needs an ever-increasing injection of agility, you would be forgiven for a) possibly starting to yawn - but also b) predominantly thinking about the ...

Question: how do you build a hybrid cloud strategy? To start with, it’s a good idea to think about having Kubernetes at the core, to enable the orchestration of container workloads around the ...

Jetstack wants to be seen as a ‘proper’ open source company i.e. not just a corporate beast with an ‘open technologies’ department that is guilty of open-washing its wares by popping the off bit of ...

Let’s go back to basics and step back in time. When you’ve had a pair of (now considered ‘retro’) Sennheiser headphones in your teens (example shown here) the experience tends to leave you with a ...

Shipa is a cloud native application management framework company. Ketch enables developers to deploy cloud native applications to Kubernetes without a single YAML file, so no Kubernetes expertise ...

The rise of the virtual workplace and its implications for inclusivity and Generation Z.

This is a guest blogpost by Kevin Hurd, Founder & CEO, Digital Hive. In 2015 Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella famously said: “every business will be a software business”. And it’s hard to argue ...

It’s the time of year when many IT leaders will be setting budgets for 2021 and trying to persuade their boardroom why they should have more money to invest in technology. After the year we’ve all ...

Version control is important. There now - we’ve said it, do you feel better now? Revision control or source code control are also important, mainly because they’re all the same thing i.e. the ...

People who use the free Google Drive service for personal use to store, share and collaborate on documents, will be aware that the company has been slowly shifting consumers to pay for cloud ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Laurent Homeyer, retail and hospitality industry advisor in EMEA & APJ, Workday, explains how retailers can properly plan their strategies during the ...

In this edition of Tech in APAC, we cover the top news headlines in the region for the month of October. Early in the month, we published an interview piece with Joe Beda, one of the co-creators of ...

We’re not ashamed to admit we don’t understand how the graphic tweeted by Boris Johnson to congratulate president-elect Joe Biden came to faintly display “Trump” in the background. Downing Street’s ...

The Inspect-a-Gadget team elves are a confirmed bunch of gamers.  Having started gaming life with TV Pong games back in the late 1970s and then graduating to the Atari 2600 in the 1980s, we’ve also ...

Nobody ever stops to ask why infrastructure configuration compliance and automation company Puppet, is called Puppet. But of course, it’s obvious, a ‘real world’ puppet’s core infrastructure is ...

Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or caving. Spelunking Spelunkers dive down into the depths of the earth to look for the lower substrate layers that make up our planet. ...

As workplaces increasingly pivot to virtual presence and digital collaboration, how can we stay connected?

If there were ever proof needed that we’re a planet going to mobile-first technologies, then surely we need look no further than the extension of GitHub to mobile.  Officially known as GitHub for ...

A new Huawei smartphone is always a bit of an occasion - and it’s usually an occasion that comes with the top brass from HQ flying into town to book out London’s ExCeL centre with an accompanying ...

In this guest post, Kyle Myers, director of environmental health, safety and sustainability at colocation giant CyrusOne on why the colocation community needs to look beyond carbon reduction ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Taariq Lewis, CEO and founder of  Promise  -- the company delivers onchain credit reputations, for the world, using digital ...

AI is used to find hidden meaning in large datasets. What if an AI system could truly understand an end-to-end business process. What if an AI system could optimise a business process autonomously? ...

No coach potatoes in residence this month at Couchbase, or so it appears.  The self-styled multi-cloud-to-edge NoSQL database company (yeah, it’s a mouthful) has announced version 2.8 of Couchbase ...