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Experience is everything, or so we’re told -- this is the age of the experience economy and millennials and Gen-Z’ers will (allegedly) now even turn down (or leave jobs) if they’re not ‘getting the ...

Fintech Bud is using a diverse range of skills to help banks like HSBC understand and create customer services based on open banking rules

Nothing even vaguely amusing has happened in the world of technology this week, cutting off the lifeblood of this blog at its source. We watched on as MPs announced their newfound independence and ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for human decision-making software company Fractal Analytics this week held its ai.lcy (pronounced: AI-el-see-why) event in London. The event, which is the third of a ...

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei held its London-based Mobile World Congress pre-brief for those members of the press not lucky or brave enough to take on the Catalan capital's annual ...

While fintechs get their platforms up and running in months the Bank of England’s core system replacement will take best part of a decade.

Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But after a recent security exercise involving IBM’s new lorry-mounted SOC (security operations ...

Data breaches are rarely out of the headlines and compliance pressure, such as the introduction of GDPR, means security remains high on the corporate agenda. Cyber threats and data breaches are no ...

Next month will be the 30th anniversary of the world wide web. In 1989, who would have thought the web would touch every aspect of people’s lives - not only in a good way but also in ways that seem ...

Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform. The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) isn't perfect, we know this much to be true. Inside the IT industry (if not outside, as well) we know that the IoT just kind of 'happened' and that the levels of ...

While self driving cars and robotic co-workers take the limelight businesses can benefit from the seemingly more mundane application of machine learning

The meeting illustrated the difficulty of the task the DCMS team will have reconciling the need of MoD and GCHQ for patriotic cyberwarriors and the need of the rest of us for the skills to protect ...

Cross border payments Fintech identifies migrant workers in UK losing out because of falling pound

Here is our quote of the week: “We spend £8m a year on paper. We spend £2m a year on envelopes. We can save lives, save staff time and cut costs by using an extraordinary piece of technology that ...

As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei. When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu. Sensu Go is ...

Tech gossip doesn’t get steamier than the richest person in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, being blackmailed with his own dick pics by The National Enquirer. But why would he mind who has to ...

HSBC's exploration of open banking functionality with fintech Bud has identified what customers want

The term “digital” is only referenced twice, in the 87 minutes of GE’s Q4 2018 earnings call that took place at the end of January. In a transcript of the call, posted on the Seeking Alpha ...

IBM used its Think 2019 conference this month to announce Code and Response, a $25 million, four-year initiative to put open source technologies developed as part of coding challenges in the ...

OK - so that's probably not the perfect headline to be announced by anyone who whistles through their teeth... Been having some interesting conversations recently around the idea of zero trust ...

Lloyds Bank IT outage he latest to hit UK consumers as banking systems wobble under pressure

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Patricia DuChene, GM EMEA and VP of Sales at Wrike, discusses the fine line between diversity and inclusion, as well as lessons she's learnt during her career  ...

Positive discrimination if the lack of investment in fintechs founded by women is to become a thing of the past

Furnace is a free and open source platform for the creation of streaming data (you may prefer to say data streaming) applications.   Launched by the warmly named Furnace Ignite Ltd, Furnace itself ...

In the run-up to Valentine's Day, toothpaste brand Closeup has teamed up with MullenLowe, a Singapore creative agency, to discover if love can overcome all boundaries (even firewalls), with a ...

Senior director of platform strategy at ‘mass customisation’ specialist company Cimpress is Eugene Hsu. Hsu argues the point that modern software architectures have changed the nature of the build ...

Monzo is testing out a business banking proposition with 1000 customers as it plans to be an SME finance management hub

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nathan Wright in his role as SwaggerHub product marketing manager and API evangelist at SmartBear. SmartBear Software is ...

Software developer bootcamp Makers has launched its first annual Women in Software Power List, nominations for which are now open. In partnership with Level39, the Women in Software Power List is ...

Banks are under pressure to transform digitally but is it fair to set Google as the destination?

A recent pop event at Lloyds Bank in London hosted by DominoData has highlighted one of the age-old ailments of IT. It is the illness of being misaligned with the business. The latest example of ...

It’s understandable that people express cynicism when a politician – particularly one with a clear ideological bent – proclaims that “digital” or “technology” can solve the core Brexit issue of the ...

Finastra is an IT supplier build on very old foundations but fintech disruption has forced it to extend beyond them

Data analytics firm MapR Technologies has sealed the cellophane on the MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) at its 6.1 version iteration. The toolpack is meant to give developers (and data scientists, unless ...

For years now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been hounded to add a feature that allows users to amend their typo-laden tweets, but do we really need more ways to take the platform so seriously? Take ...

Oh yes, AIOps… hadn’t you heard? That’s Ops (as in Ops, operations… as recently ‘shown some love’ by DevOps) driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a world where many of the core operational ...

The finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2019 Judges have decided on the finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in ...

Money transfer company InstaRem is an example of something worth remembering after a Bachelor party

Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ...

The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ...

NanoVMs has announced the first unikernel tool for developers that loads any Linux application as a unikernel. But hang on… what is a unikernel? The company says that unikernels are unique single ...

Could BBVA follow Lloyds Banking Group onto the Google inspired banking platform from Thought Machine

This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down with Mike Duensing, CTO at Skuid to discuss the state of the developer nation in microservices. Skuid (pronounced squid) is a low-code cloud-based UX ...

BT has announced plans to train another 3,000 apprentices  on top of 3,500 engineers, including apprentices, hired last year. The announcement included an update on BT’s plans for new and upgraded ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Clare Young, head of delivery at dxw digital discusses how tech careers are portrayed and what the industry needs to do to attract more women into tech.  ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Dr Joanne Phoenix, interim executive director at Sensor City asks how far we've really come in eliminating gender bias In recent years, we have seen a ...

Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...

Gay dating app Scruff has had to ban pictures of users in their underwear because Google Play kept suspending it. This is welcome news for those of us who eat pizza every single day and can’t be ...