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Business document information company Abbyy has launched Mobile Web Capture, a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers to add real-time image and data capture to mobile web-based onboarding ...

The technology industry likes to use the CRM acronym; it is normally used to shorten Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies. But CRM now means something else too; in these cloud-native ...

Lloyds Banking Group launches the latest edition of its open banking journey

We need to look at software feature management and define the term. But first, some context is needed to understand what kind of companies are operating in this space. CloudBees describes itself as ...

Tibco has made a direct developer play designed to drive recognition of its technologies in areas where programmers are looking to build cloud-native applications. Known for its integration, API ...

Agile developers tend to view data modeling as a bottleneck preventing them from delivering value. This is the view held by Pascal Desmarets, founder and CEO of Hackolade, a Belgium-based startup ...

Diversity in the tech industry is vital if the UK is to prosper, but how do companies build it into their DNA?

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Greenhalgh in his role as UK & US managing partner at Delaware. Spelled in lower case, delaware is a software ...

The fifth series of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror landed on Netflix this month, and we were surprised to find it’s moved away from making terrifying technology predictions to ...

It’s hard to know whether to pronounce software infrastructure company Wind River as wind (as in eaten too many beans, that thing that makes sails billow out) or wind (as in snakey, twisty) river. ...

Currencycloud offers emerging fintechs make chiild's play of building a payments infrastructure

Cisco is not a cables, hubs, switches and routers (did someone say token ring adapter?) focused networking company, Cisco is a software company focused on developers - right? Well, such is the ...

In this guest post, Paul Mercina, director of product management, at datacentre hardware and maintenance provider ParkPlace Technologies offers a step-by-step guide about how, what and when to move ...

Wordpress platform company WP Engine wants to be known as the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP) company. Is that experiences for Wordpress end users, customers, partners or plain old ...

In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a "moral vacuum" by ...

There are many magic rings in this world… and none of them should be used lightly. This is true. It is also true that organisations in every vertical are now having to work hard and find automation ...

Last week shares in the tech giants plummeted following reports that US regulators from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission were looking at investigating their business. On the ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

London Tech Week needs to promote London to the rest of the world because Brexit is creating major uncertainty about the city's future

The report of the Independent Panel to the Review into the funding of Further and Higher Education was not just about Student loans and University Funding . But most of the 370 submissions came ...

Three months ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) appointed the first ever director of digital identity, Lisa Barrett – tasked with taking on the troubled Gov.uk Verify programme. Barrett ...

The absorption of iTunes as we know it into three new entertainment apps – Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV – has sent us down yet another nostalgic rabbit hole. It’s the app we’ve come to ...

Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your readers or listeners react to what you write or say. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time, swapping one word or ...

HSBC is taking advantage of fintech to test out features before fully integrating them into the main mobile app

Elastic (the company known for the Elasticsearch open source text search and analytics engine and the Elastic Stack data analysis and visualition toolset) will now acquire Endgame. Endgame is a ...

UK consumers are increasingly opening multiple bank accounts

Talend senior product manager David Talaga spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network this month to talk about data, programming, computer vision systems, advances in AI and garden weeds. Using ...

Software application developers are, generally (somewhat unfortunately) mostly white, male, pretty standard guys with good educations, a predilection for pizza and often somewhat questionable ...

For all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), and the excitement around some of its potential – personal assistants that develop a personality, robot-assisted micro surgery, etc. – it is ...

Bank branches are no longer needed for that hum an touch

Data analytics company QuantumBlack is this month celebrating the launch of Kedro, its first open source project for data scientists. But what is Kedro? Kedro is a development workflow framework ...

The recent story reported in Computer Weekly about Revlon’s SAP woes, illustrates the importance of tech due diligence. Its CTO, Chau Banks, who previously worked as CIO at New York & Company, ...

The instant clustering aficionados at Instaclustr have created an anomaly detection application capable of processing and vetting real-time events at a uniquely massive scale – 19 billion events ...

This year will be the first time I visit Infosec with no agenda. Or to be more precise I will have a Community Safety rather than a Cybersecurity Skills Agenda. This has caused me to take a cool ...

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become one of the new darlings of the cloud computing-centric world of interconnected, interlaced, interlocked technologies that we use today. As the ...

Chinese cloud giant Alibaba Cloud has launched a global programme in Singapore to guide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the city-state that are looking to expand their business into ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

The Pokémon Company has revealed its development of Pokémon Sleep, an app that will track players’ sleeping time and incorporate the data into its gameplay. In his quest to make sleep entertaining, ...

I added a comment on Dominic Rabb's inclusion of degree apprenticeships in his call for Fairness and Choice to my recent blog on the IfA apprenticeship review.  In his opening campaign letter Rory ...

Oracle may not always be viewed positively in open source circles, the company’s approach to Java and wider open platform still draws headlines a decade after it took up a position of stewardship ...

I remember when first testing Gigabit Ethernet (Packet Engines and Foundry Networks for the record) and thinking: "how do we harness this much bandwidth - maybe take a TDM approach and slice it? ...

Amazon's annual shareholder meeting appears to have highlighted a disconnect between what its staff and senior management think its stance on facial recognition tech and climate change should be. ...

The Statutory Review of the Digital Apprenticeship standards  inherited by the Institute for Apprenticeships answers less than half the question. Much of the question (e.g. allowable costs) is ...

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, SAP playing the cloud platform long game. So much so, that the firm has openly agreed that Oracle database instances running on its SAP Cloud Platform is ‘just ...

How many new applications, tools, devices, and cloud services have you introduced into your environment over the past few years? Now think about how much you got rid of over that same period, i.e. ...

DataStax closed out the final day of its 'Accelerate 2019' conference by focusing on a selection of platform-level developments including its community development stream. Nate McCall, project ...

The Makers Academy coding bootcamp recently put together a list of 30 women in the software industry to showcase the sector’s female talent. Out of the many women who were put forward for ...

DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth started out as a database administrator (DBA), so one would hope that he knows how to build, compile, manage and deploy in all senses of those terms, right? Bosworth ...

What happens when the Amazon rainforest, globally cherished as the lungs of the planet, asks a company that named itself after it not to enjoy exclusive use of the .amazon domain extension? Where ...