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Enterprise cloud users may have written off the spate between gaming companies Improbable and Unity as nothing more than industry in-fighting, but there are some cautionary tales emerging from the ...

There’s been a lot of excitement over the new NHS Long Term Plan. The plan sets out how the NHS will spend the extra £20.5bn a year, gifted to the health service by prime minister Theresa May as a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is heading to Las Vegas for the first of the technology industry's 2019 conferences -- and it's Dynatrace Perform 2019. Dynatrace is an Application Performance ...

London experienced a huge drop in tech investment in the year following the Brexit vote.

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...

The Singapore government’s Committee of Inquiry (COI) that looked into the unprecedented cyber attack on SingHealth’s IT systems released a public report this week, detailing security lapses ...

One common theme with recent product tests and vendor briefings and that is - automation. Not that there's anything new here per se; back in the mid-90s I remember working on an extensive project ...

Contactless card fraud is rising bit it is easily preventable

Red Hat inside IBM continues to look a lot like Red Hat… but just inside IBM. The [commercial] open source champions at Red Hat have clearly pressed on with ALL the firm’s various roadmap rollouts, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...

This year’s CES organisers have succeeded in preserving every male tech nerd stereotype by crumbling over a small reminder that real vaginas exist. The Osé personal massager’s upcoming innovation ...

If you think Brexit will be advantageous for the UK economy and the British people, this post is not for you. If your assessment of the available information, like mine, is that our economy will ...

There is life beyond London. Challenger bank Monzo creates hundreds of tech jobs in South wales

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Byron Calmonson, director at the resourcing hub, discusses strategies for 'smart recruitment' and how this will contribute to a more diverse and inclusive ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yana Yelina in her role as technology writer at Oxagile, a provider of software engineering and IT consulting services. ...

Royal Bank of Scotland wants to appeal to a younger audience as its launches is digital bank

As the UK's full-fibre broadband roll-out gathers pace through 2018 and into 2019, many people continue to believe gigabit services are unnecessary overkill. CityFibre's Caroline Hughes reckons ...

Okta is an identity management specialist, so if its techies attempt to table DevOps commentary then they (it, the company) are simply jumping on the Agile DevOps bandwagon and attempting to ...

Part of building a diverse technology workforce is creating an inclusive culture, which can be a challenge when a number of those at the top come from a position of privilege, and are not aware of ...

Google increases its credentials in the EU banking sector with payments licence

Icelandic fintech Meniga, grew from offering a personal finance tools to a company offering banks digital building blocks, is targeting UK growth.

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Lars Brunjes, director of education at IOHK, the blockchain research and development company behind top 10 cryptocurrency Cardano. Brunjes explains ...

Compliance is big... so big, in fact, that ‘they’ now have an Open Compliance Summit. The last Open Compliance Summit was held in Yokohama in Japan at the tail end of last year -- the The Linux ...

The Freeform Dynamics crystal ball has been given a polish for 2019. Here's a few of the upcoming events - and risks - that we glimpsed in it... Online privacy back in the headlines A year on from ...

“Nothing changes, on New Year’s Day,” sang U2 many years ago. This piece of self-evident wisdom doesn’t stop the world of tech punditry from excitedly making hyperbolic forecasts at the start of ...

Dublin is the natural choice for UK fitechs building an EU footing but there are alternatives

DevOps is a portmanteau (of developer and operations, obviously)... and DevOps is a workplace culture, an approach, a software development and release orchestration concept, a movement even. So ...

A new year begins, and the search continues for whoever was behind the Gatwick drones fiasco that grounded hundreds of flights over the Christmas period. Our first port of call would be Chris ...

Spanish banks now has more digital customers than Australia has people

I have a usability issue. My Huawei Mate 20 Pro smartphone is great, but I can’t write things on it… and, believe it or not, I am a writer. Last year I attended a conference in Washington DC and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...

Red Hat has, of course, been busy becoming the new IBM version of Red Hat since the firm's recent acquisition. That corporate reality hasn't stopped the open source platform company still pressing ...

Problems with quality, not just quantity threaten to derail full fibre roll out as they did cable TV roll out 25 years ago. Over the past couple of years broadband roll-out projects (BT, Virgin, ...

We all know the Internet of Things (IoT) -- it is the now widely accepted industry term used to describe a network of connected 'intelligent' devices that enjoy a degree on on board analytics and a ...

The big challenge for 2019 is not Brexit. It is the demographic time bomb. Britain can no more leave "Europe" than it makes sense to tie our economy to a protectionist "ever closer Union". I will ...

Anyone hoping that we would by now have greater clarity on GDPR will have been sadly disappointed. Large swathes of the Regulation have yet to be tested in a court, and many of the high profile ...

We have had a barrage of reports and articles telling us what the various types of Brexit deal really mean, None of them come remotely close to this for clarity and vision. That from the British ...

The plummeting prices of bitcoin may have dampened the mood of cryptocurrency investors, but that has not stopped proponents of the underlying blockchain technology from deploying real-world ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jason Gregory, senior product manager at online retailer ASOS, discusses the growing popularity of conversational commerce - how consumers are increasingly ...

So far only one of the presents we have ordered on-line this year failed to arrive - more than one e-mails telling us of delivery slots arrived after the parcel. It was therefore only chance that ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ...

Developers will want to know what’s next with cloud for 2019, obviously. Key among concerns will be the need to engineer new automation services driven by AI -- and (no prizes for guessing), 2019 ...

Open source news to end the week looks to the somewhat incongruous connection between Menlo Park California and Helsinki -- it can only be MariaDB Corporation with that HQ combo. Updates to end ...

Two and a bit years ago – I should remember, it was on my birthday! – I was presenting a panel debate on the latest Cybersecurity deterrents. With four vendors and two consultants on the panel, it ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider blog columns seek to uncover some of the most vibrant projects gaining traction and interest on GitHub through 2019 and onwards. As ...

In this contributed post, MJ Chun, director of product, Anki, explains why children need to be exposed to science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) from a young age. Coding was added to the ...

LF Networking (LFN) is the label used by the Linux Foundation to denote the coming together of seven top networking projects. In other (arguably more straightforward) words, LFN is an open source ...

The government recently announced plans that – despite facing delays and setbacks – a new Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be phased in from the beginning of 2019. It will replace the legacy ...

So it turns out the O2 mobile network failure that took out data access for some 30 million people this week, was caused by an expired software certificate – no great conspiracy, no programming ...

In this guest blog, Jennifer Major, head of  internet of things (IoT) at SAS UK & Ireland, discusses the obstacles and the opportunities involved creating diversity in analytics.  In the face ...