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As we have noted here, open source grew, it proliferated... and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development -- but the issue of ...

Samsung may have rattled through a number of new technologies in its CES 2020 keynote, but Ballie quite simply stole the show. The very next day, Downtime interviewed several etymologists to try to ...

There’s a new UK government, one with a comfortable majority, and it’s clear it wants to use that advantage for radical change. The new prime minister says the government has “a mission to ...

Open source grew, it proliferated... and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development. If you don't accept the options offered ...

GraphQL (query language) was the brainchild of Facebook and was open sourced in 2015.  Many of the apps and websites we use are built on GraphQL, including Twitter, AWS and GitHub. Kelly Goetsch, ...

The UK has the opportunity … [to become] ... a neutral arbitrator for services that are trusted by all ... [but] ... we must first demonstrate leadership in facing down those who believe they have ...

Software application developers need testing services, this much we know already. But what form factor should those code testing services come in? Should testing come in in a packaged -as-a-Service ...

So here we are in 2020, and almost everything is still working as normal. The apocalyptic Y2K bug that caused such a thrill 20 years ago found its sequel in Y2.02K, but rather than nuclear reactor ...

I first visited Morocco in 2002… a time when things often went from A to B on the back of a wooden cart, usually pulled by a donkey. Many aspects of Maroc life are still done the old way as we head ...

In yet another example of the risks of supply chain vulnerabilities, Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (Mindef) recently disclosed that the confidentiality of its personnel's personal data could have ...

What's better than one trip with the ruggedised (ruggedized) reporter? Answer: hopefully it's obvious i.e. it's a chance to find that the ruggedised reporter rides again. Our first trip out road ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, David Parry-Jones, VP EMEA at Twilio, explains why more people need to engage with the coding curriculum to gain coding skills, and why creativity is ...

This is a guest blog post by Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer, ThoughtSpot. Nothing illustrates the double-edged nature of data use more vividly than the recent general election in the UK. ...

This is a guest blogpost by Adam Kinney: Head of Machine Learning and Automated Insights at Mixpanel When it comes to data, machine learning (ML) is one of the hottest industry trends. But while ML ...

Over a decade ago the EURIM-IPPR study into “Partnership Policing for the Information Society” identified that the police would never have more than a fraction of the resources necessary to address ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Rhonda Textor, head of data science at True Fit talks about the changes she had to make to her hiring practices to close the data science diversity gap I ...

DataStax has taken the Christmas wrapping paper off of DataStax Luna, a subscription-based support offering for open source Cassandra.   The company says it is offering this service due to the ...

We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...

Draft Bill will enable government to deliver on ambitious manifesto commitment to ‘legislate to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online’

This is a guest post by Simon Piff, vice-president of security practice at IDC Asia-Pacific The essence of IDC’s predictions for 2020 is about efficiency, velocity and productivity in this era of ...

There are not enough words to fully express the depth of scandal and outrage that should accompany the conclusion of the High Court case that finally and completely found that the Post Office ...

In this guest post, Ivaylo Vrabchev, head of professional services at IT services management company, HeleCloud, shares his round-up of the most eye-catching announcements from this year's AWS ...

The manifesto … focussed on fairness, public service delivery and "place"- e.g. using infrastructure and R&D spend to bring jobs and services to the regions ... But the biggest change [will ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Yaara Letz, partner consulting engineer at Tyk, explains why women in tech need to carve out their own career path rather than wait for diversity and ...

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man": regardless of whether you think God likes them or is pleased with their views on: Brexit, Climate Change, How to manage the ...

It’s winter in Northern Europe, so we’re cold. But, despite the cold, the Inspect-a-Gadget team still needs to keep connected and stay online on the move. So then... coats, hats, scarves and gloves ...

The man behind State Snaps, a set of social media pages with over a million followers, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for getting his cousin to try to steal a domain name at gunpoint. In ...

In 2004, Computer Weekly received a letter from Alan Bates, a former subpostmaster in Craig-y-Don, a coastal suburb of Llandudno in north Wales. It’s that long ago that the letter arrived ...

The shortage of Intel processors is having a knock-on effect on IT’s ability to upgrade whatever legacy Windows 7 PCs still remain in the organisation onto new Windows 10 hardware. At the time of ...

Cloud-native infrastructure company Fairwinds recently launched a SaaS product for DevOps teams so that they can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters. The almost-eponymously named called Fairwinds ...

Official estimates suggest 65,000 people made the trek out to Las Vegas this year for the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent user and developer conference, and among them were five tech-savvy ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Neil Avery, lead ...

The Linux Foundation’s promotion and hosting of Delta Lake is an interesting development. Delta Lake (wait for it… the clue is in the name) is a project focusing on improving the reliability and ...

Open source security and license compliance management company WhiteSource has brought dependency update company Renovate into its stable. All of Renovate’s current commercial offerings will now be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jack Zampolin in his capacity as director of product at Tendermint Inc. Tendermint is the company behind the eponymously ...

When Computer Weekly set out to compare and analyse the tech and digital policies in the major political parties’ manifestos for the 2019 General Election, the article extended comfortably to ...

Self-styled continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic has reached beta on two new analytics services that extend its Cloud Flex offering (a credit-based licensing strategy). Interactive ...

Software integration and analytics company Tibco has added Apache Pulsar as a fully supported component in its own messaging brand, TIBCO Messaging.  By way of definition and clarification then... ...

Every company is now a software company, this much we already know. But now, every company wants to be a developer company, well… that’s the emerging message from some of industrys newer and more ...

Inspect-a-Gadget has been on the road -- it’s been a busy tech conference season and so all the normal home comforts have had to be forgone for a good part of the autumn period. Upon getting back ...

There wasn’t much fanfare around Amazon Prime’s midweek maiden voyage into Premier League football coverage. We’d have missed the delectable choice of fixtures altogether had we not opened the app ...

Dynatrace is a company that specialises in the monitoring and control of enterprise-scale application performance, the underlying infrastructure layer and the experience of users. It does this at ...

Autumn (or Fall, depending on your level of Americanization) was a busy period… so busy in fact that the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog saw a number of milestone advancements go whizzing ...

We live in a world of data, this much we already know. But in that world of data, some of it is structured well-ordered [database] information, some of it is semi-structured information that falls ...

Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا‎) is a poor woodcutter from the One Thousand And One Nights stories who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase Open Sesame.  Ali Baba, the ...

We live in a world of data analytics and software application development designed to function with ever-increasing levels of intelligence functionality based upon insight derived from analytics ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team speaks to Todd M Moore in his role as IBM VP ‘opentech’ & developer advocacy (and) CTO for developer ecosystems following the Open Source Summit ...

It’s not uncommon for cloud-first companies to participate in open source communities – after all, they have benefited from the very same open-source technologies that power their businesses. In ...

We are promised forests of magic money trees instead of plans to use technology to do more for less ... Meanwhile most on-line health systems are "As user friendly as a cornered rat"

Every year when Computer Weekly announces its UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK technology, it’s an opportunity to look at what the names that feature tell us about the latest ...