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Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based non-profit focused on open source Artificial Intelligence (AI). OpenAI has worked on open source AI advancements in areas ...
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 ...
There’s a problem with architecture modernisation -- and it’s a big problem. As many as 99% of IT executives are said to currently report challenges with architecture modernisation -- but what does ...
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TSB enables customers to open an account with a selfie
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 22 Jul 2019TSB has integrated biometric ID technology into its mobile app to enable people to open accounts with a selfie
BRM is now a ‘thing’... and it’s not in fact meant to relate to the noise that children make when they pretend to rev up the imaginary engines on their toy cars, instead, it stands for Business ...
The BT share price looks set to drift down to under a £pound. That would leave it unable to invest other than from cash flows and Government subsidies. It would also be unsaleable because of the ...
I went to a Code Club and polled the children in attendance to find out their opinions on technology careers, and I was surprised by their answers. There is a debate among those in the technology ...
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Esme Loans sprouts from firm foundations: Fintech interview 24
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Jul 2019Esme Loans has emerged from an RBS innovation initiative and after a controlled launch is ready to scale its business
Networks Generation
Juggling Might Not Have Changed, But Load-Balancing Has!
Broadband Testing 18 Jul 2019I recently completed a report for a long-time client, Kemp Technologies, in the area formerly known as L-B/ADC - i.e. Load-Balancing/Application Delivery Control. It really hit home, during the ...
GUEST BLOG: As companies continue to face an enormous digital skills gap, Helen Wollaston, Chief Executive of WISE, the campaign for gender balance in science, technology, engineering and maths ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Latest UK fintech investment figures reflect the evolution of the sector
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Jul 2019Investment patterns in the UK fintech sector reveals how the businesses in it are maturing
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Apollo 11: The human factor in autonomous systems
Managing Editor 15 Jul 2019“Once you put someone in orbit, it is a lot harder to fix it if something goes wrong,” says Paul Kostek, a senior Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member and senior systems ...
Current UK digital skills policy is disjointed and unsustainable. Help set the agenda for harnessing our native talent instasd of relying on imported skills.
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2019With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...
People use headphones while they’re at work, get used to the facts. Now then, some of those people are call centre workers, some of them are air traffic controllers, some of them are telesales ...
Things changed at BlackBerry, more than once, to be fair. The company that used to be known as Research in Motion (RIM) decided to drop the somewhat incongruous name and some bright spark in ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
We shouldn't need to debate online identity again, but it's right that we do
Editor in chief 11 Jul 2019The latest select committee report by MPs into the progress of digital government in the UK has resurrected a question that has reared its head on several occasions in the past – do we need a ...
This month saw the Church of England release its own Digital charter, intended to improve the online community’s “common sense, kindness and sound judgement”. Now, you can sit there and have a go ...
Pentaho is still Pentaho, but these days it’s a product line and accompanying division inside of Hitachi… and not just plain old Hitachi Ltd, but Hitachi Vantara -- a company branding exercise that ...
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People that have never heard of the cloud enjoy cloud services, so why should open banking differ?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 10 Jul 2019Open banking has some way to go before and banks' shouldn't pin all their hopes on Millennials
Front end engineer at Red Ventures is Edward Granger and he’s not happy -- so what’s his problem? Granger says he doesn’t like the term ‘code smell’, which is being increasingly popularised. But ...
StorageBuzz
StorOne's $799 per month storage array leasing offer: How does it stack up?
Storage Editor 09 Jul 2019Looking at the promise from StorOne to offer its software-defined storage for $799 a month – that’s about £640 – for 15TB of file, block or object storage capacity, I thought I’d compare it with ...
The recent spate of band reunions and Glastonbury illustrates the longevity of rock music. But the software industry seems to be stuck on finding the next big thing. Who would ever describe Windows ...
By goodness and by golly, hasn’t AI already thrown up its own set of buzzphrases? Many of them have come about as a result of the bias that was an inherent part of initial systems development in ...
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 ...
A new popup store has opened in Westfield London to use data collected from social media to sell only products that are trending in real time. By partnering with tech firm Nextatlas, the store will ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech pioneer helps to give fintech treatment to debt financing after Fidor sale
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Jul 2019The founder of digital bank Fidor has turned his attention to fixing the inefficiencies of debt processing at banks through technology and empathy
This is a guest post by Rosie Cairnes, regional director at Skillsoft ANZ When most people hear the term blockchain, they immediately think of bitcoin, the most widely known of the hundreds of ...
DevOps happened, right? So then, users (both Dev… and Ops) now find themselves in a place where they need to manage their digital identities inside increasingy connected systems. This much we can ...
Business process services company Wipro and technology consulting firm Moogsoft has snuggled up in bed, by which of course we mean formed a partnership. Moogsoft’s developer credentials stem from ...
Neneh Cherry’s Glastonbury performance gained some unexpected attention from the tech world at this year’s festival, after the laptop playing the evergreen singer’s backing visuals crashed and ...
Fintech makes the world go around
What do the fintechs think of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 03 Jul 2019Fintechs welcome Facebook Libra but realise the scale of the social media giant's challenge to make it work
Developers use databases -- no surprise there. But, crucially, developers aren’t DataBase Administrators (DBAs), so they tend to prefer database platforms that can provide them with as much ...
Three years ago I blogged on why I made the mistake of voting Remain. I would still prefer the UK to be a member of a reformed, multi-track, democratically accountable European Union. But that is ...
We’re expanding our blockchain cryptocurrency vocabulary all the time. As such, Loopring may be the next term you add to your technology lexicon. Loopring is an open source and multilateral token ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tal Lev-Ami in his capacity as co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. California and Israel based Cloudinary provides ...
1) DCMS kicks the can down the road - again The deadline for submissions to the DCMS consultation on On Line Harms is July 1st. The NAO report politely savaging the UK failure to join up its ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Byron Calmonson, director at The Resourcing Hub discusses what the future of work will look like, and whether the next generation are ready for it. The ...
This is a guest blog post by Tom Dailey, chief international legal, policy and regulatory officer at Verizon The regulatory and policy landscape is a really important topic for all businesses given ...
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The ID Co passport to travel the internet: Fintech interview 23
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Jun 2019The ID Co is offering businesses technology that has the potential of getting a mortgage approval in seconds
While enterprises are expected to be one of the early beneficiaries of 5G networks that promise low-latency connectivity for driverless vehicles and factory machinery, consumer use cases of the ...
Toronto residents are grappling with a quandary posed by the plans of Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a smart city on its eastern waterfront. It’s always fun to learn about Google’s ...
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Scepticism and the challenges beyond for Facebook’s Libra
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Jun 2019Facebook faces major hurdles to make Libra a success even if it overcomes the rampant scepitisim
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Carreiro in his capacity as CTO of ParkView at Park Place Technologies -- the company is a specialist in datacentre ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why database admins should embrace automation
Managing Editor 25 Jun 2019There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ...
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London Tech Week opinion 4: Beyond the unicorns
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 25 Jun 2019Don'y forget the tech SMEs amid the noise being made by the unicorns
It's hard to recall a recent presentation from a vendor that didn't include the AI or Machine-Learning buzz-phrases. I'm not just talking IT here - coffee vending machines probably also incorporate ...
Software is a multi-faceted thing. Because of this core reality, we often talk about elements of software code as layers in a fabric, or indeed (to use a more literal term and one that proliferates ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mea culpa: Trendy isn’t the same as important
Freeform Dynamics 21 Jun 2019I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...
Eyes on APAC
Alibaba Cloud earns validation from Singapore banking association
TechTarget 21 Jun 2019Alibaba Cloud said it has become the first public cloud supplier in the industry to obtain the Outsourced Service Providers Audit Report (OSPAR) validation by the Association of Banks in Singapore ...