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Akri is a Greek village in the north of the country in the Elassona municipality. Akri is also a new (as of Oct 2020) open source project initiated by Microsoft to connect ‘leaf devices’ like ...

Ireland-based Siren didn’t just make ten one louder, the company has pushed its open source investigative intelligence analytics technology to version 11.0 this month. Siren 11.0 is designed to ...

Red Hat, Inc. is still just that i.e. Red Hat, Inc. Now nestled under the IBM parent umbrella, the company appears to be very much its own entity.  Some media reports have even suggested that Red ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Layla Porter, senior developer evangelist at Twilio, talks about how in many cases developers are now self-taught.  Coding is becoming an in-demand skill ...

Time was when the Computer Weekly Developer Network wouldn’t pass a 12-month without attending a veritable handful of Adobe developer events, seminars, conferences, use case tutorials and all ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Carol Leaman, CEO of Axonify, talks about her journey into the technology sector, and how others can consider a career in tech too. As a young girl ...

Keen to stress its multi-tool abilities, MongoDB these days calls itself a modern ‘general purpose’ database platform company. The firm is stressing its general (i.e. width and breadth) ...

We recently noticed a feature on the BBC’s website titled The man who taught Uber how to say sorry. After a frantic scan of the article, we learned the name of this man, and can therefore sadly ...

Are you a so-called ‘urban adventurer’ at heart? That’s what Huawei sub-brand company Honor wants you to be with its latest smartwatch.  Actually, you could be an office-based user (oh okay, it’s ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ben Tomlinson, Personally Identifiable Information Security Officer and Marketing Manager at Atlas Cloud. Data is arguably now the most valuable resource on earth; the ...

There are those who write papers predicting the future. There are prophets whose followers demonstrate and delay change by getting in its way. Far rarer are those who envision the future and gently ...

If there is one constant that seems to be an ailment of the tech sector it is the fact that the same problems seem to crop up time and time again. “Never reinvent the wheel,” as the saying goes. ...

Dynatrace has presented an enhanced, bi-directional automatic integration between its own Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform and the ServiceNow Now Platform.  The union is intended to deliver ...

This is a guest post written by John Mertic in his role as ODPi program Director at The Linux Foundation -- founded in 2000, the foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around ...

This is a guest post by Tom Kellermann, head of cyber security strategy at VMware Carbon Black 2020 has been a year like no other. The global pandemic has quickly changed work and business as we ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt spends his webcam chat for the Wall Street Journal Tech Live event insisting we should all be grateful to the tech giants, despite the fact they’ve become, by his own ...

A recent survey from price comparison site, comparethemarket.com, has highlighted the subtext, which obscures a host of unfair assumptions made in the depths of computer systems. These assumptions ...

International Pronouns Day, which falls on the third Wednesday of October each year, aims to make it an everyday occurrence for people to educate themselves about, and respect, people’s personal ...

Open source database software and services company Percona is not your usual tech firm. It’s annual developer, DBA, data architect convention is a relaxed affair with a no-frills (but rich in ...

Tel Aviv headquartered Frontegg is a curiously named company. Does it translate to something special in native Hebrew? Did the company want a name that was completely new and unique? Did the ...

The lion’s share of the product analysis carried out by Inspect-a-Gadget is typically hardware-based. They’re things, devices, tools, machines and extensions i.e. the focus here is gadgets - that’s ...

It’s autumn/fall conference season again, so pack your bags. Okay, we’re kidding (obviously), it is indeed autumn/fall conference season, but the only bag you’ll need to pack is one filled with ...

It may be an anniversary that passed people by in the current bizarre climes, but "good old" Ethernet recently celebrated its 40th birthday. I don't think any vendors released a special 40Gbps ...

Thirty years ago, the UK IT scene was led by two dominant suppliers – the global giant, IBM; and the British tech champion, ICL. Snapping at their heels were Hewlett-Packard (HP), Digital Equipment ...

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, chief technology officer, Unit4 For decades now, users of enterprise resource planning software have been trained to believe that all the action must take ...

Complex elements of our existence can sometimes benefit from fragmentation. Fragmentation can be viewed as a way of breaking apart bigger, more complex and often more interwoven elements of ...

IBM’s decision to spin out its Global Technology Services business is an example of a business trying to remain relevant in the era of cloud computing. In the 1990s, the company pivoted to global ...

In a year of mass disruption to business networks, global & domestic supply chains, information exchange mechanisms (and indeed life itself), many technology vendors have gone to pains to ...

It was the summer of 2017, and a stock photo taken in Girona two years earlier was about to go global. That same summer, an Atlanta photographer walked through the doors of a dance studio to help ...

Digital overload from video collaboration The pandemic has created a surge of both personal and professional video conferencing. Zoom has seen use of its platform skyrocket as a result of the ...

Oracle is all about data, obviously. But the Oracle of this decade (and recent history) is more specifically all about data and information observability, autonomous control, analytics, diagnostics ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source insider team is fond of cloud-native open source distributed shared-nothing architecture multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software... … but only if it’s ...

Sonatype describes itself as the company that scales DevOps through open source governance and software supply chain automation. Quite a mouthful, yes, but the firm is extremely developer-focused ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network has been running a series of guest posts from technical authors who understand the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) not ...

Element, the open source company behind the Matrix-based messaging and collaboration app, is acquiring Gitter from GitLab.  Element is the main source of investment for Matrix; the open network for ...

The more complex and high-end a product, the more complex, convoluted and potentially cumbersome the install and usage experience. That would be the general summation of many of the devices we’ve ...

The ailing Gov.uk Verify digital identity system was given a Frankenstein’s monster-like burst of energy back in April, when the lockdown-induced surge in Universal Credit applications brought ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

A smart chastity cage that can only be controlled via its app was vulnerable to hackers putting almost 40,000 penises on lockdown, research has revealed. Sex toy manufacturer Qiui muses on its ...

At the end of September, 15,841 cases of coronavirus, over an eight day period, were lost due to an IT glitch. The bug meant that there were long delays in contact tracing staff reaching people who ...

In this edition of Tech on APAC, we’ll cover the top news headlines in the region for the month of September, starting with a notable win by Microsoft in Australia’s cloud market. In mid-September, ...

We’re conscientious souls here in the Inspect-A-Gadget lab i.e. we like to back-up.  With a couple of aging PCs that have been put through their paces (and ejected from a couple of airport scanner ...

This is part one of a two-part contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider with part two linked here. This analysis of the role of open source in APIs is written by Postman CEO ...

This is part two of a two-part contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider with part one linked here. This analysis of the role of open source in APIs is written by Postman CEO ...

Nutanix is the cloud software company with a pedigree in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions that wants to ‘make computing invisible anywhere’ - as the t-shirt slogans might read. The company ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

We users use Artificial Intelligence (AI) almost every day, often without even realising it i.e. a large amount of the apps and online services we all connect with have a degree of Machine Learning ...

After the best part of two decades of gradual change in the world of the networking infrastructure, WiFi and mobile notwithstanding, the past few years have seen more upheaval than at any time ...

The trouble with smartphones - apart from the fact that some people drop them and break the screen, lose them in taxi cabs or generally misplace them throughout day-to-day life - is that they’re ...

Automation is everywhere.  You can almost see it on the technology industry’s next batch of branded conference t-shirts… if, of course, we ever get to a point where we can start to re-engage at the ...