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Education and training policy must better distinguish between core educational and academic skills (which rarely change over time) and vocational and technology skills (where traditional methods ...

Progress has (logically enough) filled its week with a bushel of product announcements to coincide with its NEXT 2018 conference, which was staged this month in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the ...

Alliteratively named Robotic Process Automation (RPA) player Automation Anywhere has opened its bot store to developers. Touting the availability of cognitive IQ bot technologies, the ‘let’s use a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Ben Newton in his role as director for operations analytics marketing at Sumo Logic in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we ...

Progress staged its NEXT 2018 conference in Boston, Massachusetts this May 2018 with a specifically upfront developer focus in almost all of its product updates. A company that has reinvented ...

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider talks to Patrick McFadin in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. DataStax is a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra – ...

Progress has announced the release of NativeScript 4.0, an open source framework for delivering cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps. NativeScript apps are built using JavaScript, or by ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network spoke this month to Eric Mizell in his role as VP of solution engineering at OverOps. OverOps is California and Tel Aviv headquartered software analytics that ...

Progress staged its ‘Next 2018’ conference and exhibition programme this week in a blustery Boston, Massachusetts. The event was designed to showcase the ‘current version and iteration’ not just of ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Aricent’s AVP of technology and innovation Shamik Mishra in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the ‘holistic’ ...

Nobody’s been able to get in contact with Downtime’s marketing manager since our discovery of a GDPR-themed Spotify playlist back in March, but his driving licence was found by the Royal Thai ...

By now, many consumers in Asia and elsewhere would have received at least a couple of e-mails from merchants asking for consent to continue receiving marketing messages under Europe’s General Data ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is running a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the 'holistic' application. Not perhaps a formally defined technology industry ...

Every time a robot does something that humans deem to be suspicious, a debate is sparked about when artificially intelligent beings will take over the world. There have been more than enough films ...

In this guest post, Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group discusses the problems faced by women in the Stem industries. The gender pay gap reporting process has left many companies facing difficult ...

Enterprise identity firm Okta used its Oktane 2018 conference and exhibition to release a number of new products and explain what it means by the term 'contextual' access management in relation to ...

Okta's technology is used by developers to put a pre-architected layer of authentication into software applications used on traditional desktop, web or mobile environments. As a result of the above ...

The BBC cover of a report from the Environment Agency warning of serious water shortages by 2050 while sufficient to supply 20 million consumers is being wasted prompted an attack of déjà vu. ...

In this contributed blog post, Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates explains that the UK's tech ecosystem has the potential to be the best in the world, as long ...

Alfresco Software has updated its open source process automation, content management and information governance software. The immodestly named Alfresco Insight Engine creates dashboard-style ...

In an information technology landscape full of platforms, the ‘data science platform’ is now an official thing – but what is it, or what is one? The curiously named John Snow Labs company is a ...

London should not be seen as competition for fintechs in the North and they should not try to emulate London's fintech model

Mozilla has partnered with Open Tech Strategies for a research project, reviewing the open source industry and studying Mozilla projects closely. Open Tech Strategies is a services consultancy that ...

The government announced this month a brand new method for submitting divorce applications: it can now all be done online! The digital route is intended as a less stressful option than the fusty ...

E-commerce in Asia-Pacific is booming, with 71% of consumers in the region already shopping online. But so is the risk of fraud, with one in five consumers falling victim, according to new report ...

Every company wants to be a platform company, this is one of life’s great software industry truths. Once you have a ‘platform play’, then other applications (or application components and other ...

It’s the bearded one’s 200th birthday this year. Much of the mainstream media has marked the occasion, including the Financial Times, that pre-eminent “capitalist” newspaper. Why should Computer ...

After yet another set of lacklustre earnings and with over 10,000 staff facing the axe, embattled BT CEO Gavin Patterson needed a quick win. Today's launch of new consumer offerings from both BT ...

Software application developers up and down the land are poised to start rolling out, deploying and integrating (so-called) digital transformation initiatives involving defined and purposeful ...

, This morning I received an e-mail with extracts from a Gartner press release saying: “Infrastructure and Operations skills (I&O) gaps will cause 75% of organizations to experience visible ...

There will be a law that reduces the number of required fields in online reforms to reduce the amount of unnecessary information given to organisations.

Last week, the Government Digital Service (GDS) dedicated a whole day to talking about what it’s up to, at its first Sprint event in two years. About time too, many observers said, since GDS seemed ...

The open hybrid cloud lies ahead of us, this is the way of things. This truism (if indeed it is one) is impacting the way firms like Red Hat are building out virtualisation technologies. Red Hat ...

I would be tempted to move to a bank that offered higher interest rates even though it had just had an IT disaster

We need more chatbots and we need them to be more intelligently fueled by AI and machine learning and big data analytics functions, obviously. We also need more chatbot tools for developers to ...

The 2018 conference for Wise, a campaign for gender balance in technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem), highlighted some of the key failings of the Stem industries when it comes to gender ...

In this guest post, Jon Topper, CTO of DevOps and cloud infrastructure consultancy The Scale Factory, on how the growing maturity of Kubernetes dominated this year’s Kubecon. KubeCon + ...

I had to rethink my conceptions about the future of bank branches after I visited one

There’s rather a lot going on in government IT at the moment. Last year’s ambitious transformation strategy set challenging aims of overhauling back-office systems across Whitehall, building an ...

Are Britain’s internet service providers (ISPs) coming up short when it comes to helping their less tech-savvy users protect themselves against the scourge of telephone scams and online fraud? In a ...

A growing number of Asian airlines are looking to the hybrid cloud to reduce IT costs. In October 2017, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) embarked on a massive project with TCS to migrate its core datacentre ...

Electronic music producer Arca has partnered with a leather company to create some BDSM headphones. It’s a big moment for experimental music, after a week that saw one of its own go so far as ...

Young people will start disconnecting from connected world as risks outweigh benefits

This is a guest post co-authored by Zach Katsof, director of intelligent communications at Arkadin; Holger Reisinger, SVP of large enterprise solutions at Jabra; and Alan Shen, VP of consulting ...

There’s application components and there’s containerisation and there’s all forms of compartmentalisation designed to separate out ‘discrete’ functions of application design in order to align with ...

We know what APIs are now, so what is API health? Firstly, to recap, an API (Application Programming Interface) forms the communications links and bond between different elements of a software ...

In this contributed blog post, Mark Settle, CIO of Okta, talks about millennials and how they have changed the technology industry. The millennial generation, born between the early 1980s to the ...

Guangzhou-based drone company EHang has broken the world drone display record for the most drones used at an airborne show, but the decidedly indifferent Chinese media preferred to point out the ...

The smartphone sales results are in: Android continues to bite chunks out of Apple in UK and France, while iPhone X is eating Android in the East.  The latest ComTech Smartphone OS Market Share ...

In this guest post, Jack Zubarev, president of application virtualisation software provider Parallels, sets what IT departments can do to get the most out of their virtual desktop deployments. The ...