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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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 ...
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Nearly a third of UK tech startups are setting up presence in mainland Europe because of Brexit
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 21 Feb 2019A third of UK startups are readying themselves for Brexit by setting up operations on mainland Europe
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 ...
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Astrophysics and music production skills give Bud a different approach: Fintech interview part 16
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 21 Feb 2019Fintech 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 ...
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Fractal Analytics defines 'speed reference' for AI engineering & design
20 Feb 2019Artificial 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 ...
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Upgraded Bank of England system that gives more fintechs the same rights as banks, due in 2025
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 20 Feb 2019While fintechs get their platforms up and running in months the Bank of England’s core system replacement will take best part of a decade.
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Cybersecurity needs both psychologists and field marshals
Freeform Dynamics 19 Feb 2019Many 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 ...
Open Source Insider
Rubrik Build open source cloud data management for 'any' contributor
19 Feb 2019Rubrik 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 ...
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Forget all the fancy stuff and apply AI to paying invoices, says Previse: Fintech interview part 15
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Feb 2019While self driving cars and robotic co-workers take the limelight businesses can benefit from the seemingly more mundane application of machine learning
When IT Meets Politics
Fit for whose purpose? Submit your views on the Initial National Cybersecurity Skills Strategy
Winsafe Ltd 18 Feb 2019The 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 ...
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Fintech reveals that Brexit induced fall in pound’s value hits migrant workers in UK
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 15 Feb 2019Cross border payments Fintech identifies migrant workers in UK losing out because of falling pound
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
NHS takes a small digital step into the 21st century - with bigger ones to come
Editor in chief 15 Feb 2019Here 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 ...
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HSBC to turn off mobile app after it finds life in open banking features
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 13 Feb 2019HSBC'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 ...