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The open-source movement continues to gain traction in 2013 among core groups

Buildings & landscape services companies spend £25m on software. The largest amount, some £10m, is devoted to application packages followed by £8m expenditure on customised software. System ...

The British Library's wifi network was found to have denied access to an online copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet because the text contained "violent content". A user wanted to check a line of the play ...

CompTIA is aiming to allow the world of ICT to do the same, by providing an internationally recognised benchmark which shows solution providers meet an industry approved level of service and ...

It was the least surprising news of the year. BlackBerry is up for sale, the Canadian mobile phone company finally admitting to the inevitability that everyone else recognised ages ago, with a ...

This graph from Thomson Reuters shows the most popular integrated suite accountancy software used by accountancy firms

North Korea's first smart phone has shades of Big Brother about it. Korean leader, Kim Jong-un revealed the phone, the Arirang, at North Korea's may 11th.

Box for Android -- key among the refreshed features is a new navigation drawer and an account toggling facility.

There aren't many times when we confuse the building and construction of physical buildings with the building and construction of software applications.

Fujitsu has launched three business-ready laptops in their mid-high range E Line. The 13, 14 and 16-inch notebooks are from first impressions feel streamlined, and include a Fujitsu red accent to ...

It would be reasonable for organisations in any level of government, or working for them, to demand use of certified providers. That would also benefit from a clearly defined process for what ...

Wholesale trade companies spend £350 per employee on hardware. This is similar to the all UK value for all industry sectors. There are notable differences by size of organisation. Wholesale traders ...

BOX argues that the education industry is seeing the same technology trends as other industries

The Cabinet Office said it will not renew most of the large IT outsourcing deals coming up to the end of their terms in 2015.In its latest report on spending with SMEs the Cabinet Office also said, ...

Progress Software continues is unabashed assault on the cloud developer space with new data connectivity and application capabilities as part of its Progress Pacific application ...

A survey by graduate careers site, targetjobs.co.uk has found that only 4% of female students are put off a career in IT due to gender imbalance within the industry.

Large electricity & gas supply companies spend one third of their IT & telecom budgets on external software. Just over a quarter is dedicated to IT & telecom staff with a similar amount ...

I've had an issue with laptop bags for quite some time. Either they're too bulky, heavy, not in anyway attractive, or look so much like a corporate laptop bag they should have been embroidered with ...

This is a guest blog by Clare McDonald.Since the advancement of mobile technology, an office environment has become less and less important in business. Everyone would rather use their mobile or ...

The drive to bring open source technologies into focus for public services and the NHS in particular has been a recurring theme for more than half a decade now.

The UK government is distancing the Romans from its G-cloud initiative in an attempt to distance itself from now defunct group of infrastructure builders.The latest version of G-Cloud has done away ...

It's fair to say that I didn't take the conventional route to becoming a web developer, but the statistics would show that considering I'm female it's surprising I found any route at all. Now that ...

GFI Software has published the worst "face-palm" moments in IT.Here are Downtime's top three from the list:"The project lead on another client engagement read an article about Java saying it was ...

In the second in our new video interview series, showcasing the diverse roles and opportunities available to women within the industry, Katrina Collier, Speaker, Trainer & Writer on Social ...

The first round of UK engineering students have arrived in India to begin their training with Indian IT services firm Wipro. The programme, a three-month technology induction course followed by six ...

So, what's really going on with the Universal Credit IT programme?If you trust journalistic warning bells - and believe the saying that there's no smoke without fire - then there has to be ...

The MinnowBoard is an Intel Atom processor-based raw materials (i.e. motherboard only) unit aimed at the low cost, hobbyist and embedded computing markets.

But time is running out and we need to expedite the process of "harvesting" and cross-linking the good work that is being done before the current erosion of trust and confidence in the on-line ...

"How many Bradley Mannings are copying your supposedly secure big data, from whcih clouds, to publish to the world?" Apparently 1.5 million Americans have similarly security clearances to Bradley ...

A techy toilet which is controlled via an Android app has a hardware flaw meaning that it can be controlled by any phone with the application. The My Satis toilet, manufactured by Japanese firm ...

In technology terms we use the word zombie to refer to malicious bots set up by hackers to forward transmissions (often spam and viruses) to other computers on the Internet. But there is a new kind ...

Inspired by our top 25 Most Influential Women in UK IT Katrina Collier ( http://www.winningimpression.com/blog/about-your-social-recruitment-trainer/ ), Speaker, Trainer & Writer on Social ...

Printing companies with 50-99 employees devote 3% of their turnover on IT & telecoms. This is the largest portion for all manufacturing sectors with a 50-99 head count. Next in line are ...

Forget "the right to be forgotten". Your data, whether accurate or not, is already out in the wild in a global village - where nothing is ever truly forgotten. Where is the right for your youthful ...

The Ministry of Defence has refused to rule out the possibility that a controversial fibre-optic BT comms line between US military bases in the UK and Africa carries command and control signals ...

Motorola invented the very first mobile phone in 1973 - these guys have been around the block a few times, so Google's $12.5bn acquisition of the company last year may not have been the most ...

Computer Weekly's Gadget Guide on smartphones gives you a round up of all the latest smartphone news, previews, and reviews from Inspect-a-Gadget. If you're researching the wide range of ...

IriScan Mouse is a very clever little gadget from the company who bought you IrisNotes - the pen which types up as your write. This new addition to the Iris family is a mouse with a miniature ...

Back in 2009 I wrote a few articles about a practice in the IT outsourcing industry that sees workers made redundant in favour of cheaper staff offshore being expected to train their offshore ...

Software application developers don't always get it right. Project skew can take a product off in one direction or another and it can be hard to get it back on track.

Congratulations to Mark Parry! Mark has won the Logitech Business BCC950 Conference Cam with his winning caption for the image below: "As the Custard Cream presentation moved into its third hour, ...

Wi-Fi Signal logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)As regular readers will know, case studies are a big thing over here at CW and we love to share with our readers not just new technology releases but how ...

IT is a colossal industry that affects almost every aspect of modern life.With salaries 1 and employment 2 on the rise, IT remains a great industry to enter. However, despite its pervasive nature, ...

Will we ever kill once and for all the idea that the private sector can do anything the public sector can do, but do it better and cheaper?We're in a strange spiral at the moment where the ...

IBM's latest PowerLinux server arrives this week along with new software and middleware for big data, analytics and Java applications in open cloud environments.

In this guest blog, Stuart Drew, vice president financial services at Indian IT services firm at HCL Technologies, explains why an increased focus on the customer is leading to greater investment ...

Land transport companies spend less on computer services, across all employee bands, than their all UK counterparts. This is most marked for large organisations where land transport firms have half ...

Thank you to Ian Grant for blogging on the Small Firms Broadband Voucher scheme. It is a very clever concept and it is also very sensible to, for once, do a small scale pilot first. I note that ...

Regional free seminars to inform SMEs on the "Cyber Threat" to their business and give some simple steps on how to protect against the threat and, perhaps more importantly, how to provide ...

Makers of the euphemistically termed "casual sex matchmaking app" called "Bang With Friends" are facing legal action over its name from games studio Zynga. But not for the reason most people would ...

I blogged yesterday about some troubled outsourcing contracts tahtb have hit the news recently. They paint a negative picture of outsourcing.These included NHS Direct's plan to pull out in its ...

I did not know whether to cry or cheer when I read John Naughton's article on the death of the Internet as we know it The time has come for those who want us to trust the on-line to work together ...

Outsourcing is so well accepted by businesses and government today that the risk associated with handing an important task to a third party is one that organisations are willing to take in their ...

Open Java CMS (content management system) company Magnolia is now offering a free online training course programme.

All those concerned to see access to higher speed broadband rolled out to their area should contact their local councillors and suggest they ask their officers for a copy of the letter and to put ...

As vendors now work hard to refine their offerings for each and every business disciple, we are seeing a proliferation of carefully aligned message sets intended to examine the more granular ...

I would like to believe that the culture of confidentiality and cosy deals, that crept in on the back of outsourcing and PFI and which has led to the public sector, particularly central government, ...

Flash memory is poised to take a large portion of the storage market. However, there are still many misunderstandings and different approaches to how flash-based arrays can be put together. Violin ...

Sam Kingston is leaving his role as UK head at Deutsche Telekom owned IT services company T-Systems after a five year spell. He is currently weighing up an alternative international role at ...

Image via CrunchBaseNo-one likes to break up a relationship. The agonising over how best to say it, whether to break out the "it's not you, it's me" type clichés or be brutally honest and risk ...

The aim of this blog post is to try to iron out some misunderstandings in two common terms in storage. Two terms that are actually really rather connected; storage virtualisation and ...

Online (Dropbox-style) storage company Spideroak has detailed news of its Crypton open source data security project.

Companies undertaking head office activities are expected to experience the fastest growth in system software spend during 2014. The growth is projected to be 15%. Close behind are gambling & ...

I was deeply shocked and saddened to hear about the death of Barnaby Jack, one of the most brilliant and effective security researchers I have ever encountered. He researched vulnerabilities in ...

Two weeks ago, the Google Campus in East London played host to a fantastic careers fair aimed at giving young girls more exposure to STEM related careers. Organised by Business in the Community, ...

English: Huawei Technology in Shenzhen, China (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The BBC today 'revealed' Huawei was the company behind TalkTalk's net filtering system known as HomeSafe. The service allows ...

According to a union contact, employee relations organisation Acas offered to come into negotiations between Capita and union Unite and its members to prevent a strike today in Capita's IT services ...

When Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller ("The men who built America") followed similar business strategies (targetting long term market domination rather than profitablity) the ...

The UK has long been hooked on IT outsourcing - far more than any of our European neighbours. But is that enthusiasm on the wane?In recent weeks, market research from several analyst firms have ...

FTTC is unavailable to us, despite being wired into a fibre enabled exchange (Shoreditch) and not one authority, provider, regulator, or council seems to give a hoot. As a small business providing ...

This is a guest blog by Clare McDonald.It's been a busy month for Nokia. The firm has announced its latest 4G smartphone - the Lumia 625. The device was unveiled just a week after its new "camera ...

Allegations that BT is involved in an assassination programme in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen may come as a surprise to anyone more familiar with the image it likes to portray in television ...

It really could be the world's most expensive sock. A company called Sensoria Fitness has just knitted the world's first sock with a built-in sensor for runners. The $119 sock uses smart fabric ...

It's amazing how quickly things change in IT. Things go from cool to unpopular overnight. And it's not just the technology itself but the IT bods in the industry.I was chatting to an analyst this ...

Here's a curious observation taken from a conversation with a colleague yesterday who'd just arrived back from UCL with one of their Engduino devices...

Medium sized business services companies have IT & telecom staff costs which vary considerably by sector. At the top end, management consultancies invest over £6k per employee whilst for ...

It's a fact of life, space and interplanetary technology installations prefer open source. Reports from the Linux Foundation earlier this year confirmed that the International Space Station's (ISS) ...

We all have our little fears when it comes to the bedroom and living up to expectations. We want our partners to, well, enjoy themselves during our encounters, not be so bored they work through the ...

Earlier this week Ubuntu's CEO, mark Shuttleworth unveiled a crowdfunding model to get people to buy into his concept of a converged PC/smartphone device.The appeal hit its first million within ...

This is a guest blog by Clare McDonald.Nokia has divulged details about their new smartphone release, the Lumia 1020. The future of the Finnish firm has been furiously debated, and it hasn't been ...

Providing bosses at IT service providers don't get ill and require NHS treatment the cuts and efficiency drive in the NHS might be good for them. IT analyst company Ovum is talking about the ...

As the second largest hub for creative and digital talent in the UK, it comes as no surprise that Manchester has grown to represent a thriving community of start-up businesses. You can't move for ...

A rather tiny bit of storage news this week illustrates the changes taking place as part of the flash revolution, and also where its leading edge lies. The news is that Fusion-io has submitted ...

More-over the 2/3 rd of Small Firms who have websites but decline to transact on line because of fear of fraud are all too rational in their choice. Given that most of the Nominet community of ...

IBM has just released news of its zEnterprise BC12 (lovingly nicknamed the "zBC12" for short) mainframe analytics, cloud and mobile computing tasks.

Scientific American has an interesting article "How Would the U.S. Respond to a Nightmare Cyber Attack?" based on a recent crisis exercise. It's a good question as well as a well overdue exercise. ...

Any self-respecting science needs to understand its past. Today's young people are digital natives, and at The National Museum of Computing we can demonstrate to them that they are living through ...

The Open Source Insider blogs likes open source champions, the Apache Cassandra project chair fits that profile.

In this blog I regularly write about the meetings I have with suppliers. I have recently written a few articles about some of the less well known suppliers from India which are focused on growth in ...

I recently switched allegiances away from Google. It started when Java stopped working on Chrome and I ended up removing it entirely from my Windows 7 desktop PC, and I installed Opera instead.I ...

Research company AppNation has put forward estimates for the size of the "applications market" going forward to 2017.

Mineral manufacturers spend £40 per employee on development software tools which is the same as for all UK manufacturers. There is a significant difference however when comparing the outgoings by ...

Dominant ICT suppliers are still blocking government attempts to share its £16bn public ICT spend with small companies, according to a Cabinet Office SME advisor.Industry's own initiative to bring ...

Computer Weekly's Gadget Guide on tablets gives you a round up of all the latest tablet news, previews, and reviews from Inspect-a-Gadget.If you're researching the wide range of tablets in the ...

Flash memory is changing how enterprise storage is viewed and implemented. However, with the market in its early stages, different approaches are in the market...

What do you mean you don't associate 360-degree panoramic video conferencing and "teleprescence" with software application development, what on Earth is wrong with you?

I've not bothered to comment so far on the numerous news reports on the NSA's PRISM programme. It's not because I have no views, but simply because it's revealed nothing surprising to the security ...

Follow the Pope's Twitter account and you will be granted "indulgences" which reduce the time Catholics will have to spend in Purgatory before ascending to heaven. However, it's not quite as simple ...

We're bringing more and more tablets into the workplace and into our home, but have your arms ever got tired from holding your iPad, or have you got frustrated trying to type flat on your Nexus? If ...

MPs on Parliamentary select committees do enjoy starting a good meme. Thanks to Bernard Jenkin MP, chair of the Public Administration Select Committee, it is commonplace to describe the group of ...