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The term accessibility might read better if the English language had decided to spell it accessability -- or perhaps even access-ability -- given its use to describe products or services or ...
Budgets in IT general do not grow at a rate that can sustain stellar financial performance across the IT industry. However, Gartner’s latest spending forecast has reported that worldwide software ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Hubris over Horizon? Post Office shocks High Court with accusation of bias
Editor in chief 22 Mar 2019The Post Office likes to describes itself as “the nation’s most trusted brand”. Anyone following the latest developments in the increasingly heated High Court case about its Horizon IT system would ...
CW Developer Network
Infor tunes into (and visualises) high-fidelity self-orchestrated data
22 Mar 2019Infor builds business cloud software, this much we know. But this is software that is ‘specialised by industry’... a term used to convey its custom-aligned tuning to specific industry use cases ...
Earlier this week, open source software company Suse announced that it is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region following its acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus. ...
With eight days until the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team enjoy hardcore programming discussion, truly vibrant open communities where code commits fly around in a swarm, well-cooked ...
Vote Leave’s band of zip-wiring cowboy builders has been handed another fine: this time for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited texts to the poor sods who entered their contest to win £50m if ...
Ahead in the Clouds
What the Myspace data loss debacle tells us about how the internet values creative content
Senior Editor, UK 20 Mar 2019The news that Myspace lost 12 years of user-generated content during a botched server migration has prompted a lot of debate this week, which Caroline Donnelly picks over here. When details of ...
US telecoms stalwart AT&T is expanding its Application Programming Interface (API) marketplace connectivity points. The AT&T API Marketplace (it’s an online store zone, not a real market, ...
Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company. The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency. News this month sees the ...
Progress puts forward another (arguably weighty) hand in the low-code game this week. The Boston, MA-based application development firm has upped the spec on its Progress Kinvey platform with extra ...
The question is in the title already: do we need a global IT event calendar? Why do we ask? Simply because this short piece could have been called May the 6th be with you (as in May the 4th [force] ...
Luxury wrist-worn supercar key manufacturer Senturion has revealed it will release seven limited edition £211,550 pieces, fashioned from some asteroid, later this year. But who’ll get them? They ...
All developers like software management controls (or at least they should) -- largely because they need code to work effectively and see that it operates at the right level of performance and to ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Hear from some of the women shaping UK fintech
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 13 Mar 2019Find out what needs to done to increase diversity in fintech from some of the women shaping the industry
Everything (in software) these days is about automation and low-code, no-code platforms with AI-enriched cloud-based intelligent data analytics services, right? Bringing at least two of those ...
You may have a ‘personal attitude’ when pushed to certain limits in a social situation, but what kind of ‘total enterprise attitude’ (TOA - not a real acronym, but it could be) to cybersecurity ...
The privately held Nginx will be acquired for a total enterprise value of approximately £500 million. Nginx points to its open source community as one of the most attractive elements of the ...
Software application developers will always be looking to create the next big thing (Twitter etc.) and come up with a killer app to forge their name in history. So what’s trending next? A recent ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Web @ 30: Thank you for global connectivity
Managing Editor 11 Mar 2019For the last three decades since its introduction, the web has informed, educated and entertained society. It has given musicians, artists and businesses of any size connectivity to a global ...
Yes it’s March, not last Christmas… but there’s still time to look at the state of software for the year ahead. If anything, getting to the first quarter of this year’s post-apocalyptic Brexit ...
Lumigo, a Tel Aviv based startup, has announced the release of its serverless intelligence platform for developers. Software application developers with an appreciation for the higher (cloudier) ...
Improving crop yield using artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic as researchers and tech suppliers cast their sights on an industry that isn’t exactly the forerunners in applying ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Nationwide Building Society creating digital platform with fintech 10x
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 Mar 2019Nationwide Building Society creating business banking platform with 10 X
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry is an open source project with an open contribution ...
Government-funded agricultural project 5G RuralFirst has made an app that allows you to track the daily activities of a cow of your choice, live from its home on a connected farm. Opportunities to ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
WWW @ 30: Why the Web needs to remain open
Managing Editor 06 Mar 2019While the internet existed way before the Worldwide Web (WWW), the web changed everything. Its success has as much to do with the simplicity of using an HTTP web browser, as the fact that it was ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
NAO hammers another nail into Gov.uk Verify
Editor in chief 06 Mar 2019It’s not commonly known outside Whitehall that by the time the National Audit Office (NAO) – Parliament’s independent spending watchdog – publishes a report, it will have been through several ...
Fintech makes the world go around
NatWest fintech loan platform partners Microsoft for data warehouse and AI chatbot
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 06 Mar 2019NatWest fintech loans platform tapping Microsoft data warehouse expertise to support its rapid decision making
Fintech makes the world go around
Innovate Finance launches initiative to get teens into fintech
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Mar 2019Innovate Finance wants to establish a long term pipeline of fintech talent
Fintech makes the world go around
NatWest launches its baseline open banking feature
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Mar 2019NatWest is the latest bank to offer its baseline open banking service
WITsend
FDM everywoman finalist profile: Laurelin Chase, student at Clacton County High School
Business Editor 04 Mar 2019WOMEN IN TECH PROFILE: Laurelin Chase, student at Clacton County High School and FDM everywoman in technology awards finalist in the “One to Watch Award” category, talks about the role models that ...
All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, ...
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FDM everywoman finalist profile: Nelly Kiboi, software engineer, American Express
Business Editor 04 Mar 2019WOMEN IN TECH PROFILE: Nelly Kiboi, software engineer at American Express, and FDM everywoman in technology awards finalist in the software engineering category, answers questions about her role ...
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FDM everywoman finalist profile: Megha Prakash, founder of Earthmiles
Business Editor 04 Mar 2019WOMAN IN TECH PROFILE: Finalist in the FDM everywoman in Technology Awards Innovator Award category, Megha Prakash, founder of Earthmiles and Earthmiles@Work answers questions about her role and ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Helen Lamprell, General Counsel and External Affairs Director, Vodafone UK, talks about how technology can be used for social good We are living in an age of ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
GDPR: Irish Data Protection Commission may show where the WWW is heading
Managing Editor 01 Mar 2019The Irish Data Protection Commission's (DPC) annual report makes interesting reading, given that the World Wide Web is celebrating its 30th birthday this month. People regularly give away vast ...
In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, CTO at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why the emergence of Amazon's managed Kubernetes service is such good news for the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Yoyo on its way up: Fintech interview part 17
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 Mar 2019Fintech Yoyo is on its upward trajectory as mobile phones take centre stage in people's lives
Typically, web developers who run multiple websites or multiple online web applications and associated web services have to open browsers of every website or app to view Google Analytics stats. ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bhanu Singh in his role as SVP of product management and cloud operations at OpsRamp. OpsRamp is a specialist in ...
The Full Spectrum
MWC 2019: Our planet is dying - is it time to ditch Mobile World Congress?
Security Editor 28 Feb 2019This year, my flight from London's Stansted Airport to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, plus two days of hour-and-a-half commutes through horrendous traffic between my hotel and the conference ...
Try as we might to steer clear of the nutty content made on short-form video app TikTok, it seems to be seeping further into public consciousness by the day, and it’s now becoming a valuable ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Substantive reform to education needed to address the skills gap blighting fintechs
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Feb 2019TrueLayer talks about the deeper causes of fintech skills shortages beyond Brexit uncertainty
Fintech makes the world go around
Brexit self-harm means London no longer the Holy Land for all fintech talent
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Feb 2019Fintechs in London and the UK will face increased challenges finding the right staff as Brexit makes other European hubs even more attractive
Fintech makes the world go around
Fidor bank future clearer next month as split from BCPE nears
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 25 Feb 2019Digital challenger bank Fidor is close to splitting from BCPE, with clarity expected next month
Companies change their ‘descriptor intros’ (not an official term, but it should be) all the time. Ribbon Communications has tuned its message accordingly, given that the firm was only formed in its ...
When IT Meets Politics
Will Advertisers and Insurers hold Social Media Platforms to Account after Governments fail
Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2019The Shareholder Backlash Most digerati appear to be in a state of denial over the scale and nature of the damage being done by the abuse of social media. It is fuelling family breakdown, mental ...
Inspired by the cafes in Silicon Valley that developers hang out at to meet fellow coders and potential employers, Google has opened a similar space at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore ...