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Software quality company SmartBear has reached the 12.5 iteration release of its TestComplete tool. This release features new Xamarin.Forms and Electron support - so that’s good for cross-platform ...
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft have joined an open source initiative designed to help users transfer data across multiple online platforms services without facing privacy issues. ...
Rapid Application Development (RAD) gets its own acronym, so why doesn’t [rapid application] debugging? Tel Aviv and Palo Alto headquartered Rookout thinks it should. The company’s rapid production ...
Compuware has been busy. Along with its usual weekly basket of supermarket essentials, the firm has announced a product acquisition, unveiled enhancements to its automated unit testing tool Topaz ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ides Vanneuville, director of systems engineering EMEA at Avi Networks. Vanneuville asserts that the next wave of business ...
Singapore-based Global eTrade Services (Gets) has launched an open trade blockchain (OTB) network to boost cross-border trade between China and the rest of Asia. Aligned with China’s Belt Road ...
Aston Martin unveiling plans for a “sports car of the skies” will presumably cause some headaches for those James Bond fans of the school of thought that nothing about the franchise should ever ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London Fintechs: Could Saudi Arabia be your next stage growth opportunity?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Jul 2018Saudi Arabia is selling itself as a fintech hub with an environment for startups to flourish, but are fintechs ready to set up there?
BlueK8s is a new open source Kubernetes initiative from ‘big data workloads’ company BlueData -- the project’s direction leads us to learn a little about which direction containerised cloud-centric ...
Data Matters
Era of the Smart Factory: how can manufacturers get to the future quicker?
Enterprise Applications Editor 17 Jul 2018This is a guest blogpost by Antony Bourne, Industries President at IFS Businesses are constantly told they will go bust if they do not digitally transform and quick, but for manufacturers it’s not ...
In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an audio headset supplier taking over ...
Fintech makes the world go around
When was 28% of tech startups considering leaving London ever good news?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 Jul 2018It might not be fake Brexit news but it is outrageous spin.
When IT Meets Politics
Injecting evidence into the On-line Child Safety Debate
Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 20181 in 10 of those who video chat with strangers have been asked to change or undress on camera … we need open and honest debate, not obfuscation and claims that these are technical matters, too ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Disaster recovery and business continuity: A best practice guide
Senior Editor, UK 13 Jul 2018In this guest post Paul Timms, managing director of IT support provider MCSA, shares his thoughts on why enterprises can ill-afford to overlook the importance of business continuity and disaster ...
Open Source Insider
GitHub Enterprise 2.14 is ‘open goodness’ behind an enterprise firewall
13 Jul 2018GitHub Enterprise 2.14 has arrived this week. This latest version of the web-based code repository and version control system also of course now features collaborative functions, options for bug ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Venture capitalists fears for London’s fintech future is the starkest of warnings
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 13 Jul 2018Fintech is nothing without VC funding and the UK risks losing a significant share
When Theresa May’s unstoppable reshuffle tour eventually reached as far as grinning app namesake Matt Hancock, he found himself thrust from his role as secretary of state for digital, culture, ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The sacking of a robot revealed the need for robot probation periods
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 12 Jul 2018Businesses need to give robots a probabtion period for different roles andd must be prepared to bring out the P45
Ahead in the Clouds
How people, processes and technology determine DevOps success
Senior Editor, UK 11 Jul 2018In this guest post, Eran Kinsbruner, lead technical evangelist at DevOps software supplier Perfecto, talks about why success in agile software development hinges on getting the people, processes ...
The new DCMS secretary of state may not have much experience when it comes to digital, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't give him a chance. One thing's for sure though: Whether you want to call it ...
Information access and identity management controls have never been more in the data developer news-stream as they are today. Software Defined Networks (SDN) have a massive part to play in terms of ...
Yes this is a software column (blog), but a) this is summer b) all hardware has an element of embedded software in it and c) some of these stories just need to be told … oh okay and d) it’s the ...
Many open source enthusiasts (practitioners, paragons, partisans, preachers and protagonists) will have heard of Drupal. For those that haven’t, Drupal is an open source content management ...
This might best be achieved by engaging sponsors via sector/market/problem specific practitioner workshops to distil current good practice into draft guidance that could be used by those who will ...
With its focus on AI software for unstructured content, Boston-based Indico has now come forward with a new open source project focused on simplifying the use of transfer learning with natural ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Just as government starts to get better at major IT projects - enter, Brexit
Editor in chief 06 Jul 2018Slowly, slowly, the UK government is getting better at big IT projects. Thanks to Whitehall watchdog, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), we’re able to track the improvements in major ...
By Kimberly Chua In recent years, airlines have been able to trying to lower operating costs by taking advantage of internet-of-things (IoT) devices and satellite connectivity to gather real-time ...
Our embrace of so-called 'open data' is coming to the fore, but what is it, why does it matter and what role should it play in the wider development of enterprise technology infrastructures? ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Trainline shaking up rail travel beyond making trains run on time
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Jul 2018Trainline's data scientists are applying the latest technologies to vast data sets to make train journey ticket prices easier to navigate
Gavin Williamson unwittingly summoning Siri on his iPhone whilst updating Parliament on the fight against Daesh has marked him as national security’s weak link, which couldn’t really be any less ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Workplace software as an occupational hazard
Freeform Dynamics 04 Jul 2018The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Known as 2018 SOC, government agencies use the system to classify workers and, with a bit of ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London fintechs managed by Oracle's Brussels arm: a shock a few years ago, but not today
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 04 Jul 2018Not that surprising in this day and age that a large software company puts its European fintech resources in a city other than London
Slightly cheesy with a dash of spin perhaps? But API (Application Programming Interface) development is now a real 'thing', so should we look more deeply into what API development involves? For ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network shamefully missed its chance to attend MongoDB World 2018 for the USA leg of the schema-fluid developer-focused database company’s contribution to this year’s ...
In this guest post, Jo Morfee, co-founder of Innovate Her, discusses the UK's digital skills pipeline and how to encourage more girls to be part of it One of the main factors impeding technology ...
Diversity matters, in all walks of life, obviously. Data diversity is also an issue because data comes in many ‘types’, that is - structured, unstructured, semi-structured, big, dark, geo-tagged, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Millennial versus Mature – who's the real IT security risk?
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jun 2018Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had weaknesses though, mostly ...
Networks Generation
IT On A Budget? Still Plenty Of Investment Money Around...
Broadband Testing 29 Jun 2018IT is often two-faced and never more so than when it comes to the financial health of the industry. Speak to one set and they'll tell you how tight it is, scrapping for every penny of profit, and ...
Who’s your daddy? -- sang the Zombies in their 1967 hit Time Of The Season. Then came Ray Winstone in Scum in 1979, he was certainly the daddy. Fast forward to 2018 and who’s the daddy? Secure ...
Somewhere deep in cyber space, a clutch of the internet’s more eccentric alt-right YouTubers have collaborated to join Ukip for a bit of attention, and the dotty old right-wing Eurosceptics have ...
The last visit to Unified Comms (UC) expo in London reinforced a view that this sector is slightly misnamed. The attempt a few years ago to tack ‘and collaboration’ (UC&C) onto the end seemed ...
What’s better than data analytics? Well, one answer is Marmite mixed with peanut butter and orange marmalade, obviously. MapD Technologies thinks it can go one better. The company’s spin doctors ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Who is right on blockchain Gartner or Deloitte, or even both?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Jun 2018It is hard to tell the real status of blockchain take up because there is so much background noise
Most of the skills in short supply can be acquired and assessed within days or weeks provided employers and those in their supply chains come together to agree standards and organise co-operation ...
German technologyhaus Software AG has for some time now openly focused on technologies that populate the Internet of Things (IoT). The man steering much of the company’s development in this space ...
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs for web and mobile applications. The company’s core product is called Channels, developers use it to create ...
There’s applications and application delivery… and then there’s the arguably more upmarket notion of Adaptive Release Orchestration & Continuous Delivery (AROCD - not a real acronym). Placing ...
Software-und System-Entwicklung (or, SUSE, to you and me) has been active this month and opened the box on SUSE CaaS Platform 3. SUSE CaaS is the acronym for the open source operating system ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Why next-generation IaaS is likely to be open source
Senior Editor, UK 22 Jun 2018In this guest post, Chip Childers, CTO of open source platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry, makes the case for why the future of public cloud and IaaS won't be proprietary. Once upon a time, ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Public scrutiny of IT failures is fundamental to IT success
Editor in chief 22 Jun 2018MPs on the Treasury select committee have been doing everyone in IT a favour lately. Thanks to pressure from their investigations, we’ve had near-unprecedented access to the real stories of what ...