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BlackBerry Live kicked off in Orlando, Florida this week with a bang; a new QWERTY Q5 handset and significant updates to its messaging tool BBM stole the spotlight. However, BlackBerry Enterprise ...

Two years ago I wrote that the storage industry was apparently ripe for huge change. The nub of my argument was that storage is a sector of the IT supplier world in which customers are forced to ...

It came as no surprise to hear last week that the GB smart meter implementation programme (GB SMIP) has had its target of having smart meters in UK homes has been put back a year.The project, which ...

Reports emanating from BlackBerry's annual developer conference confirm that the firm is planning to offer the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) service on other platforms.

BlackBerry's third handset to sit on the BlackBerry 10 operating system was announced today at BlackBerry Live in Orlando, Florida. The mid-range Q5 device sports a QWERTY keyboard and is aimed ...

The government's G-Cloud has its critics, who like to cite the relatively few millions of pounds of spending put through the programme as being tiny compared to the annual £16bn government IT ...

Big enterprise data vendors can't say enough about in-memory computing and the databases serving these new development streams right now -- but how much usage goes on in the real world.

I have yet to own a Samsung phone but have taken great joy in the past few years at having them on loan to get to grips with. Admittedly I favour the giant Galaxy Note range over the more popular ...

I recently met up with the CEO of finance software maker Microgen. One of the things we talked about was outsourcing. Microgen does a lot of its development work in Poland. The story behind this is ...

The Care Quality Commission wants public approval for a plan that will use health data to help private companies make inroads into the NHS.The scheme will see the NHS care watchdog repositioning ...

A shot in the arm for enterprise Linux -- Linux space is also now strengthened by Bromium, Chelsio, Fusion-io, nexB and ownCloud all joining the Linux Foundation.

The Communications Workers Union (CWU) said it will use all actions at its disposal, including strike, to oppose call centre outsourcing at O2 if reports are accurate.I missed this late last month ...

In space, no one can hear you scream at the Windows 8 Metro screen.

Small legal services concerns with 50-99 staff spend £150m on IT and telecom services. One third of that expenditure is on IT and telecom professionals whilst a quarter is on telecom services. A ...

The result should be a win-win for business and consumers as BT gets the take-up that will enable it to return to its pre-1997 investment trajectory and Sky (and others) bankroll the condtruction ...

Plane taking off (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I recently moved home and had the joyful stresses of trying to move my broadband service. Despite phoning three weeks in advance to organise what should ...

Reuters reports news this week of Amazon.com launching an Android application store in China offering "paid" and free applications.

New software application development stream possibilities have come to light this week after news from Intel as the firm announces its Silvermont microarchitecture.

Two different ranking lists in the outsourcing sector struck me this week because they both lacked the name IBM within them. Both had reasons for not including IBM but it does put into question the ...

David Moyes, Manager of Everton Football Club. Everton Played Club America after FC Dallas beat Colorado (Major League Soccer) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)We have all made the odd social network faux ...

We're proud to this week launch our second annual quest to select the 25 most influential women in UK IT.The issues affecting women in technology have only become more important and high profile in ...

It's become something of a common public perception that Dell is a company in crisis. Fourth-quarter revenue down 11%, profit down 31%, and its founder engaged in a battle with investors to delist ...

Cognizant announced its results this week and reported sales worth over $2bn in a quarter for the first time ever. The company said its social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) services ...

If so, it becomes a take-over target for who-over can organise a deal with HM Treasury to cover the pension fund liabilities and Cabinet Office to cover the Critical National Infrastructure ...

Oracle is combining the back end database zone that it is known well for with some front end application-centric advancements hinged around simplified remote access to enterprise apps through ...

Small, medium and large market research companies spend around £70 per employee on software development tools. This is less than that by the very small concerns with under 50 staff. Apart from ...

I received an email from a male reader, recently, who wanted to air his opinions on female managers. I wanted to share with WITsend to gauge your thoughts on his comments.

Next I should say a word of praise (and I should say it is genuine praise) for BT's skills activities in support of its core business. BT is one of the few organisations that takes its ...

What makes up a successful gender-free brand that appeals to a mainstream audience of adults, instead of just half of a possibly lucrative audience?

I blogged yesterday about ISG's list of the top 20 IT service providers in the first quarter of 2013. This is in terms of contract value sold in the quarter. I focused in the fact that IBM was not ...

In this contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network, principal consultant Paco Hope at software risk management company Cigital explains his security-centric approach to software ...

Hence my regular plea to implement the recommendations of the Fulton Report because relying on private sector expertise is no substitute and the current Civil Service learning framework is a joke ...

Have you taken the Mortimer Spinks and Computer Weekly Women in Technology Survey 2013, yet? Working in partnership with Mortimer Pinks, Computer Weekly would like to invite you to take our survey.

Computer Weekly readers are now entitled to a discount when registering for the everywoman in Technology Leadership Academy.

Cisco Systems Austin Building 4 (Photo credit: wesleyt)Cisco has been the biggest name in networking for as long as I can remember. It encompasses the old "never get fired for buying" adage more ...

The EMEA region saw $762m worth of IT services contracts signed at the beginning of this year. This was a 20% fall in contract values in the first three months of 2013 compared to the same period ...

"Big data with real time analytics equals ACTIONABLE insight for a two-second advantage."

Mozilla accuses Gamma International of producing spyware that "passes itself off" as Firefox.

The fastest growing sector for custom software in 2013 is research & development. Organisations in this segment are increasing their spend by some 30%. Next in line are veterinary concerns who ...

For International Girls in ICT Day Little Miss Geek visit schools for its Wearable Tech Event. Supported by Microsoft and Dell the aim of the day was to inspire the next generation of girls to ...

We are all scarily dependent on our smartphones. When my phone gets down to 5% battery life as I leave the office, I get that panicky feeling rise up in my chest. What would I do if it went ...

IBM held its Impact 2013 conference, exhibition and unconference in Las Vegas this week

Two years from this week, it's the next General Election.Unless the Coalition collapses before 7 May 2015, the election date is fixed and immovable. That means there are just 24 months left for the ...

Image via CrunchBaseModern Britain is often losing its head over 'political correctness gone mad,' but it seems Facebook has more important bonces to deal with. Up until this week the social ...

Here at Computer Weekly we provide premium content for readers, free of charge. This includes detailed reports about IT services providers.The latest one is about CSC, but we have published many ...

We been struck by the remarkable similarity between Lord Empy 's speech in the House of Lords on the gaps in IT education In the UK on 26th March, and a speech by COO and consultant, Yva Thakurdas, ...

Bill Goodwin, fresh from Bowie's retrospective at the V&A Museum, considers one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians influence on computer storage technology.

US IT outsourcing specialist, CSC's UK business, its primary source of international sales since the 1970s, has declined steadily since 2005. Most of its major UK contracts - including the Atomic ...

Air transport companies, with over 1000 staff, dedicate 2.5% of their turnover on IT & telecom products and services. This matches that for all large UK organisations. For smaller sized ...

Sonatype's annual Open Source Development Survey asserts to be the "largest of its kind" surveying (as it claims) more than 3,500 developers, architects and IT managers - all of who currently ...

Somerset County Council has dodged questions over the reason why it imposed the blockade that caused its Southwest One outsourcing venture with IBM to fail.Its answers would have revealed, on the ...

Researchers at IBM used a scanning tunneling microscope to move the thousands of carbon monoxide molecules - two atoms stacked on top of each other - in order to make a film about a boy and his ...

With unemployment rising, uncertainty and increasing university fees; we find a generation now caught up in a "financial time warp" as they still find it increasingly difficult to access credit ...

2013 INFORMATION SECURITY BREACHES SURVEY_external.jpg Outsider attacks also increased substantially over the past year, UK government's annual cyber security survey reveals. Small businesses have ...

The number of security breaches affecting UK business continues to increase, according to the UK government's annual cyber security survey. The rise is most notable for small businesses; they're ...

I have been writing quite extensively recently about the increasing use of automation software in business. Businesses are increasingly automating low level IT and business process tasks through ...

When the Martians land on Earth and Google search a few major IT companies as their primary route of knowledge, they may find IBM's "About Us" pages a little perplexing

Thorsten Heins (Photo credit: Official BlackBerry Images)I am still not a convert to tablets. I tried out the iPad and found it to be no more than the most expensive Twitter client I have ever ...

CA is busy trying to re-invent itself - again. Under new CEO Michael Gregoire, it could be re-invigorated: the challenge is to pull its software arsenal together in a meaningful manner.

There have been a few high profile examples of big businesses dumping their IT service partners to start doing it themselves. General Motors' decision to take work back in-house from HP is a good ...

IBM revs up automotive vehicle system M2M. Well, our traditional view of the car is dead if we accept that the Internet of Things has made its way into the new breed of cloud-connected cars.

"The GDS should increase its behavioural research to see what prevents capable internet users from using online public services more. Our research suggests there are reasons other than lack of ...

English: The A968 at Watlee on a very wet day Driving rain and gale force winds - not driving weather. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Night driving can be an unnerving prospect at the best of times, but ...

Many would argue that this sets the scene for the UK economy to witness a major skills crunch in the next few years unless education in the sector improves and evolves.

I blogged last week about innovation in Financial services. One of the things that speakers spoke of was that it is very difficult to outsource innovation. In this guest blog UK head at IT services ...

David McClelland spends a weekend with the BlackBerry Q10, the brand new handset pivotal to the Canadian giant's future. But will the QWERTY-packing phone be enough to complete RIM's big reboot?

Smaller accountancy firms, employing under 100 staff, have expenditure per employee on application package software which is twice the UK norm. For concerns with 1000+ staff, accountants' outlay ...

SkySQL last week signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab forming one of the industry's newest and perhaps most logical business agreements.

We need to bring forward effective inter-operability standards for smart meters so that those who will benefit most from actively managing their demand for power do not have to wait for those will ...

I recently received this interesting infographic from TechSchool.com which provides some background on women in STEM today and what is being done to fix both gender disparity and the shortage of ...

When the immediacy of Twitter clashes with the "passion" (other words are available) of sports fans, there's a recipe for delightful mix-ups. In January 2011, American Ashley Kerekes (@theashes) ...

There is a lot of on-going discussion around the world about the current lack of women in IT. This inevitably leads to further debate around the lower number of IT qualifications amongst females ...

The NHS medical director's knee-jerk reaction to data on children's heart surgery in Leeds bodes ill for the wider hospital review he got under way this week.Yet another leak of misleading ...

Nominet UK has revealed some interesting figures, revealing how girls are still feeling uninspired to enter the IT industry.

Canonical has announced that its Ubuntu Server version 13.04 operating system is now listing as available for download. This latest version features high-availability (HA) for OpenStack deployments.

I was at an interesting event the other night with IT executives within finance firms. The subject of the meeting was innovation.The meeting was the first Computer Weekly CW500 in the City, a ...

Small retailers - employing 50-99 staff - spend £3,700 each on custom software. Outlay on application packages and system software is similar at £3,400 per company. Less than a third of that is ...

Travel can be a nightmare. Will cloud and big data - along with an open approach - make it a little less stressful?

CA World closes up in Las Vegas today with the firm having announced more acquisitions and product launches then perhaps even its top brass had expected and anticipated.

UK coding startup firm Codio has claimed that the "woefully insufficient" approach to IT teaching in Britain (and the rest of the western world) needs a shakeup.

FDM Group has launched a music video in a bid to stamp out the stereotype that IT pros are socially challenged geeks.

Canadian doctors have discovered that playing the video game Tetris, can be used to treat lazy eye. In an experimentTetris (Photo credit: Wikipedia) with 18 adults, it was found to be a more ...

It's clear today that the financial services sector has been protected from technological disruption as a result of the 2008 economic crash. While industries such as retail and media have been ...

I have focussed on the counter-productive nature of the proposals for Data Breach notification but I could have made similar points regarding the proposals on privacy by design, impact assessments, ...

I have written quite extensively about automation software and its impact on the offshoring and outsourcing sector. I met up with Nick Mottershead, the CEO at a company called Midvision, ...

The plight of the long distance lover has continued to improve over the years thanks to technology. From cheaper phone calls, free texts with WhatsApp, long, languishing emails and video ...

Financial markets and trading companies looking for an option to move towards implementation of HTML5 technologies for next-gen applications have a new avenue to explore.

CA World this week sees the company push harder than ever before towards the mobile space.

The latest research from ISG has revealed that contract restructuring contributed more to the EMEA outsourcing sector than new deals, in the first three months of this year.Renegotiations accounted ...

Employment agencies' largest spend category is staff which represents 60% of IT & telecom budgets. Computer services and telecom services expenditure each contribute just over 15%. Between ...

The CA World conference and exhibition is staged this week in Las Vegas in a market currently populated by what is an increasing number of large consolidated-via-corporate-acquisition (and growth) ...

NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh may have breached his own data safeguards when he used preliminary data to justify the suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds NHS Hospitals Trust on 29 ...

One of the criticism made of the late prime minister Margaret Thatcher during the recent coverage of her life and death was the way she abandoned communities that had once relied on former ...

A number of today's papers are reporting on the government's plans to offer up Royal Mail for private investment, and the implications for the Postcode Address File (PAF). Cabinet Minister Francis ...

The World Economic Forum's Networked Readiness Index (NRI), measures the capacity of 144 economies to leverage ICT for economic growth and the well-being of their populations

The index of 144 countries claims to be the most authoritative and effective assessment of the effect of ICT on the competitiveness of nations and the well-being of their citizens

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has taken a direct potshot at Windows 8 development by releasing an 'infographic' to play off Microsoft's proprietary world against the benefits of free and open ...

What have I missed? From all of the women in tech stories in my inbox, quite a bit by the looks of it.

IT graduates fail to land top jobs due to a lack of creativity, employment firm Connections Recruitment has suggested.

English: A Super Nintendo (SNES or Super NES) video game console, shown with standard controller. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Here at Downtime we know tech is not just for boys; there are many girls ...