Recent Blog Posts

Whether you can pronounce the company’s name or not, it’s for sure that Huawei (say: wah-way) has become a significant presence in the smartphone market today. Now with corporate ambitions to ...

In 2018 Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates (TLA) and Global Tech Advocates (GTA), won the Male Agent of Change Award at the 2018 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Everywoman introduced ...

How a serial entrepreneur and a former soldier plotted to take on the car insurance price comparison sites

As if smartphone devices aren't already taking over our lives enough, a US company has launched a miniature phone to act as a companion to your main device. In a world where smartphones are ...

In this guest post Byron Calmonson, director of the resourcing hub, claims the only way to ensure diversity and inclusion in an organisation is to set measurable targets.  Are you getting fed up ...

Virgin Money will be the next banking brand to be integrated into the CYBG digital platform

During a discussion at Tech by Retail Week in summer of 2018, the co-founders of the unmanned moving store Moby Mart talked about how they believe the “store of the future” will be solar powered, ...

Anyone who plays a part in promoting diversity in the technology industry will have heard of unconscious bias training, and earlier this year I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to take ...

San Francisco headquartered software analytics company New Relic has acquired Belgian container and microservices monitoring firm CoScale. Neither firm is essentially open source in its core ...

There’s code optimisation, which, obviously, is a process where software application developers focus on an existing code base and work to improve it in terms of its total number of executable ...

Unsurprisingly, whatever the IT genre and whatever the weather, cloud is always on the horizon right now. One of several top meetings I had last week within IP Expo's confines was with Morteza ...

Finetch Akoni brings corporate treasury capabilities to the SME sector with Google functionality the Holy Grail

Amazon has had to rein in the artificial intelligence it was using to help vet job applicants after picking up on its male chauvinist tendencies. As is the case with its human bigot counterparts, ...

Last week's IP Expo at EXCEL wasn't all bad news; we escaped the first night into proper London, to a brewery disguised as a pig restaurant and then, naturally, to a (posh) curry house. Well, it is ...

Me and Load-Balancers (the artist wot became known as the Application Delivery Controller at some point in its life, even though it always did this anyway) go back a long way; 20 years basically, ...

India is an opportunity and a threat when it comes to any tech focused sector and the UK government wants to ensure it is a friend in Fintech.

Depending on your perspective, Gov.uk Verify is now either secure in its future at the heart of the UK’s emerging digital identity ecosystem, or it has one foot in the grave and is on the way to ...

This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank As the world adopts ...

Technology marketplace company Spiceworks has detailed how it thinks new Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities can be used to drive a 'new personalisation factor' at the connection point ...

Application Programming Interface (API) development company Postman has conducted a state of APIs survey. Well, an API dev tools company would, wouldn’t it? Questioning its 5 million community ...

How many times have you heard people tell you that ‘deadline for submissions is midnight on Tuesday’ (or insert weekday of your choice)..? Sysadmin guru and technology commentator extraordinaire ...

Low-code application development company Appian has conducted its Future of Work survey through IDG. Before looking at the ‘findings’, let’s remember the three cynical forewarnings that should ...

Technology 'marketplace' and collaboration platform company Spiceworks held its annual developer, customer, partner and related tech-practitioner conference this month in the Texan capital city of ...

Banking IT professional speaks out against worrying software development methods used in the UK

In this contributed blog post Leon Brown, owner of Nextpoint, talks about the role exclusion pays in the technology industry's diversity gap. Attracting and retaining skills required to develop and ...

Read how UK insurtech Wrisk was born and raised

The UK government has condemned Russia’s military intelligence service for a variety of cyber attacks in its routinely stern way, but at this point, we might as well be told about this kind of ...

Technology events generally host ‘inspirational’ speakers at some stage, usually on the last day. After the product keynotes, the technical sessions, the platform updates, the CTO breakdowns and ...

A Singapore startup that has developed a blockchain-based platform to connect farmers with global markets has turned to SAP’s S/4 Hana Public Cloud for its digital core. Called CrowdFarmX, the ...

Developers need thought leadership, it’s a fact. It is for this reason that software application development focused tech vendors often employ futurists, evangelists and advocates. Computer Weekly ...