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London often plays second fiddle to Las Vegas, Barcelona, Hannover and more in terms of where the best developer events are held.

High street retailer Argos has joined the board of Go On UK. The cross sector charity aims to help the 11 million adults who lack basic online skills to get online.

Recruitment experts Mortimer Spinks have launched a Women in Technology app for the iPad, based on the results of the joint Mortimer Spinks and Computer Weekly Women in Technology 2013 Survey.

Workshare, Raspberry Pi in association with BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, and Tower Hamlets Integrated Youth and Community Services (IYCS) have joined forces to bring coding and an awareness ...

When the name Amazon comes up in a conversation with an IT services firm there is never a bad word said about the company. Amazon has become the go to company for raw cloud computing resources.Most ...

In US local government politics it is common for candidates to use their broadband plans for the community to win the support of those concerned about local jobs and property values. We may be ...

Rackspace's huge expansion in Crawley will see the the first data centres fully based on Open Compute

IBM used its presence at Mobile World Congress 2014 to show off its new charcoal grey stand emblazonments, press the obligatory flesh and generally crowbar the name "Watson" into as many ...

Due to an event clash I can't make the everywoman leadership academy, near Southbank, this year but I'm sure the Computer Weekly representative attending in my place will find it just as useful as ...

Apprentices are more loyal to employers and are less likely to move than graduates, according to reseller ANS Group.

A Linux debugging tool more efficient than GNU debugger (GDB), really?

My technology career has allowed me to travel to many interesting places, but the best part about my job today is that I actually get to help save lives and impact the world around us with the help ...

With BYOD promising so much I don't think any companies I have spoken to in the last year don't have a BYOD plan. The concept of BYOD and its benefits is easy to grasp, but putting it in place and ...

I suspect we are about to see current broadband roll-out plans overtaken by a perfect storm, as market forces compensate for regulatory failure in the wake of an economic crisis triggered by events ...

Two different product categories in IT security are coming together and upping the ante in the area of real time security analytics

Large pharmaceutical manufacturing companies have an expenditure of £3,200 per employee on computer services. The corresponding all UK value is £1,500. Across all employee sizes the national outlay ...

Cisco open sources corporate firewall software

Online careers hub CareerPlayer along with Bloomberg, American Express, PwC, and Microsoft have partnered to launch a women in technology campaign.

A few weeks ago Apps for Good announced the launch of the apps that won its 2013 awards and having gone through the winners I wanted to highlight just how brilliant these ideas are.

I met up with the new UK head and the outgoing head at T-Systems today to get a bit of an update.Sam Kingston leaves T-Systems today and is taking on the role of COO at Ukraine based software ...

Staff at Birkbeck, University of London, are taking part in a €3,284,000 European project to raise the status of women in scientific and technical organisations, with a focus on encouraging more ...

Social media has changed the world. Lovers today are in constant contact with smiley faces and messages going back and forward 24:7.This is hard work for many. So one company has developed an App ...

OpenStack vendor Mirantis is clearly unperturbed by such naysaying and has just carried out a test on OpenStack 4.0 (Havana) deployed on IBM SoftLayer.

Microsoft scales up TypeScript in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

The Vodafone Foundation will be holding a Connected Women Summit in London on 3 March 2014.The summit aims to examine the impact of mobile technology on the lives of women. The event will focus on ...

I picked this nifty gadget up during Showstoppers at the MWC conference in Barcelona. This phone case/band uses a substance called D30 to reduce impact to your phone when you drop it. The band of ...

Over the last year the news has been filled with stories of Lenovo's success and it seems that they are slowly climbing their way to the top of the technology ladder. The company even saw its ...

Everyone is at panic stations since the revelations of Edward Snowden and the sneaky spying by governments on our communications. But the industry that has been providing the data to the state are ...

The UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats has closed*, and we now wait for the acid test of the Cabinet Office commitment to open standards.The outcome of this process ...

While mobility and the cloud are transforming today's workplace, many businesses still operate a hybrid mix of paper and digital workflows. The transition to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) places ...

Discussions between the Computer Weekly Developer Network and CA Technologies at Mobile World Congress this week lead to some real world feedback in terms of where the portmanteau-labeled ...

General insurance firms commit over £300 per employee on system software. This is nearly 3 times that of the whole UK value. Mid sized general insurance companies have the largest outgoing at £500 ...

With Sony recently bowing out of the PC market in favour of pushing its smartphone arm, we expected big things from any new devices announced at MWC. It seemed that the new Xperia Z2 is really an ...

DrupalCamp 2014 is taking place 28 February - 2 March at the City University London, where computer science students will gather to learn about Drupal open software.

It's a contemporary mystery. Why, when the trend towards ever-greater mobile device use is such a prominent one, do the mainstream backup software suppliers almost all fail to provide for such use ...

I have been writing quite extensively recently about how traditional banks are in trouble. They are unpopular and their IT estates are out of date. In this article I wrote recently a contact said ...

Europe - Satellite image - PlanetObserver (Photo credit: PlanetObserver)If you have to travel for business - or indeed pleasure - you will know the pain to your wallet of using your mobile abroad. ...

This week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has seen a slew of new devices hit the show floor, ranging from the high end market dominators like the new Samsung Galaxy S5 through to the entry ...

Providing a standard way for all these various methods of authentication being used has been a long time goal to provide higher levels of reassurance to online service providers. The latest attempt ...

Where does John's advice to his friend appear on any of the mainstream "security awareness programmes"? Who do you trust to give similar advice to your local silver surfers club and, more ...

After all of the fuss that was made about Microsoft acquiring Nokia's mobile phone arm, the Finnish giants have gone and released a phone running Android as opposed to Windows 8 Phone. Among the ...

Co-location is a great idea - some of the high capital costs are shared amongst a larger group, and you can just concentrate on the IT. However, there are more things to be considered...

Samsung has been very busy this year, having already launched a new range of products in January at CES in Vegas. They definitely saved the best until last though, as the new Samsung Galaxy S5, ...

The time has come for thorough review of the role of Ofcom as a competition regulator if we really do want open, competitive access to the on-line world and of the role of BDUK if we want that ...

Microsoft's call to its friends in the software community to contribute to the government's consultation on open document formats seems to have worked. Although, perhaps not as Microsoft intended. ...

I read this article recently and thought it quite interesting. It is from last July so not really hot-off-the-press, but worth noting. Indian IT services forms are constantly criticised for taking ...

In the physical world, 'security' for any business involves a whole spectrum of defensive measures; choosing a safer location, putting up warning signs and notices, monitoring and cameras, locks, ...

At this point I should, however, add that I personally would have much more faith in the security of an exercise done by a phamarceutical or insurance company in co-operation with Experian than one ...

The company has been apparently quite happy to remodel and reinvent itself to move with the shifts of the market over the decades since its formation in the mid-1970s.

Legal services firms devote over 4% of their turnover on IT & telecom expenditure. This is more than twice the all UK average. The larger the legal firm the more it spends on IT & telecom ...

I wondered how many "Digital Leaders" would agree with all of the above principles and recommendations but put them into practice, partiucarly with to regard to ensuring that their data is not ...

Earlier this week I attended the excellent Stevenson Science lecture at Royal Holloway University on "The Birth of Machine Cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park" given by Dr Joel Greenberg of the ...

A legal pinch forced NHS England to delay its "care.data" system, Computer Weekly can reveal.

The political unrest in in the Ukraine is beginning to worry major UK banks that have work carried out in the Easter European country.I was chatting to a contact who works in banking IT and he told ...

Canterbury Cathedral. View from the north west circa 1890-1900 (retouched from a black & white photograph). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)For better or worse, filthy content is only ever a click ...

Larger air transport companies fall below the all UK values in their expenditure on development tools per employee. Overall air transport firms spend around £70 per staff member.

Perhaps our most valuable ally is, however, market forces. The "pay-per-click" advertising bubble looks set to burst under the weight of fraud and we know that consumers who actively exercise ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Jaime Ryan, director of product management & strategy at CA Technologies.

Windows 8 has been slowly seeping into our lives over the last few years, and yet I still feel overwhelmingly confused when I come across laptops running the no-longer-new OS. This Fujitsu ...

We all know political parties and their politicians are some of the most frustrating characters we will come across in our lives. They rarely say what they mean, shout like school children in their ...

IT services providers not focussed on maximising revenue or growing deal sizes. Whatever next? John Keppel president Northern Europe at Information Services Group explains in this guest ...

I find all this talk about making kids code a little strange. I'm no coder, but as a teenager, I remember taking coding books out of the library and transcribing them onto a BBC Micro in BBC Basic. ...

The rumbling, growing row over the NHS England Care.data service has become an instruction manual for how not to handle data privacy in the digital age.For anyone not aware of the issue, Care.data ...

Should cloud focused software application developers and DevOps professionals trouble themselves with the mechanics of application streamlining?

Birds Eye is hoping its newest product will be a viral hit. Potato Mashtags are set to feature shapes including one of the most popular key symbols of the social media age - the hashtag. A pack of ...

As readers of my previous blogs will know, I am passionate about encouraging young people to consider a career in the IT industry. So naturally, I jumped at the invitation to speak with a group of ...

Any initiative to encourage young people to embrace technology is a good thing, and the fact that coding will become part of the national curriculum in September is a welcome move, but we simply ...

The XEROX PARC had a relatively low resolution screen and it was found that an angled mouse cursor was easier to distinguish on the screen

The BBC is now planning its future after a ten year deal, originally with Siemens Business Services (SBS), comes to an end next year. Back in 2004 the BBC signed a massive IT outsourcing deal with ...

The traditional boundary between chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) is blurring as marketing and technology increasingly overlap. One area where better alignment ...

SAP has renamed its TechEd conference series as d-code.

Accountancy firms commit £80 per employee on customised software. By organisation size the outlay is greater for smaller concerns. Indeed those values also exceed the corresponding UK norms.

For the past decade the real enemy of security practitioners has not been the hackers and malware that threaten our systems but the numerous best practices, compliance demands and audit actions ...

Getting excited about IT is not an option for children as it is part and parcel of their life. Getting excited about understanding how to contribute to it wisely and use it well is what needs to be ...

The EU is pressing ahead with a new Data Protection Directive and "Regulation", both fine-tuning approaches designed for the age of mainframes - as relevant to the privacy of the users of today as ...

The latest iteration of the Barbe doll merchandise range sees everybody's favourite blonde girl step into a new role as a software application developer.

There has been a lot of discussion lately on the topic of teaching school children how to code. Some controversy has ensued - as ever - around some of the initiatives, but there is little ...

So how much reality is there in stories suggesting that many organisations have made significant Hadoop investments, but most projects are still experimental?

In December Dice.com published a special edition of their Hiring Survey that outlined the employment picture according to nearly 900 technical hiring managers and recruiters. The results it reveals ...

An obsessed gamer (as if there were any other kind) in Kansas very nearly put himself the running for a Darwin Award for those who remove themselves from the gene pool in a silly way.He risked his ...

Like any major technological advancement the use of cloud computing will drastically change the employment landscape. In this guest blog post Kalyan Kumar, chief technologist at Indian IT services ...

Walk into any coffee shop today and you will be surrounded by mustached hipsters, sipping their extra shot lattés and tapping away on their tablet of choice. Coffee cup (Photo credit: ...

CA has had a slightly chequered past. New CEO, Mike Gregoire, has a job to do in re-inventing the company for the 21st century. Is he up to the task?

Valentine's Day is upon us, and as we text, email, PM, snapchat, IM and tweet our loved ones a special message, we realise the importance of communication in this technology-centric age. Many a ...

Horton sees Red and goes killer

English: Huawei Technology in Shenzhen, China (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I attended an event at The Ritz yesterday - you have got to love making a posh place look untidy - hosted by Huawei, giving an ...

Banks are haemorrhaging jobs at the moment. Only yesterday Barclays announced 12,000 cuts in 2014. IT is usually hit hard when these cuts are made. This is worsened by the fact that at the same ...

Public administration's software outlay amounts to over £2bn. Application packages is the largest component with around a third of the spend. System software and custom software each absorb about a ...

I should add that I did some checking after the event and discovered that those who claim that age verification is too expensive and complex for widespread use are usually unaware of how cheap and ...

Over half (55%) of tech-savvy senior citizens want new digital options for managing their health services remotely, according to research from Accenture.

This week I spoke to Gridstore, a startup that offers storage arrays that integrate with the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation environment and with on-board smarts it claims boosts I/O for Hyper-V ...

I have blogged recently about the role of IT outsourcing and more specifically offshoring in recent IT failures at banks. A contact of mine had this to say on the subject. "Most of the issues I've ...

I suspect that, were a survey to be done, more of the population (not just parents and grandparents) would say that the security services were not doing enough surveillance and spending too much ...

Earlier this month I took a look at the HDX 4500, a piece of conferencing equipment that doubles up as a desk monitor, so you can take part in several conference calls every day without ever having ...

A new native integration arrives this week between open source business analytics tool Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) with Storm and YARN.

Staff working in first class lounges are constantly having to deal with people that are "significantly richer than yow." It is hard to be polite to people that can afford to throw away their money ...

A victim of its own success, Vietnamese Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen had started to receive death threats from gamer fans who had found the game too addictive

Has consumerisation of IT finally extended to video conferencing for the office?

The FDM everywoman awards are upon us again! Where has the last year gone?Each year the FDM everywoman in Technology Awards aim to uncover female role models and champion female talent within the ...

One of the things we love to do at The Lovelace is to put together a range of speakers that showcase the amazing careers women can have in computing, and the many different routes available to us. ...