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Based in London, Planet Computers is the mobile handset manufacturer behind the  Gemini PDA and the new Cosmo Communicator. Computer Weekly reviewed the very delightful Gemini PDA device here and ...

Imagine you’re a skilled, ambitious IT professional living outside the UK and you want to maximise your earning potential and your exposure to the latest technology. You’re assessing where in the ...

UPDATE: Since this post was first written, SUSE has canceled the SUSECON 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak -- we will aim to report on whatever virtual resrouces are made available in ...

Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) called for feedback on potential competition issues associated with an upcoming allocation for the 26GHz spectrum which ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

In this guest post, Dale Vile, CEO and research director at IT market watcher Freeform Dynamics, tells CIOs not to be afraid to change the course of their cloud plans as their IT and business needs ...

IR35 has claimed its first big name, after Eamonn Holmes failed to convince the courts he’s a freelancer in his case against HMRC. For the humble freelancer, the introduction of the kaleidoscopic ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Andrew C. Oliver. Oliver is a former OSI board member, co-founder of Apache POI and present director of product marketing and ...

The finalists for the 2020 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony and everywoman Tech Forum in March 2020. Every year the woman’s network, everywoman, ...

Anchore is on the up. The container workflow, analysis and security company has a foundation in open source and is now being backed by funding led by tech venture capital firm SignalFire.  But we ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ali Ghodsi in his capacity as co-founder and CEO at data science, big data processing and machine learning company ...

Ricky Gervais often compares social media abuse to a “tramp” shouting at you from a bin. The only problem with that is, when you lift the tin lid on that swirling vortex of cyber vitriol, rising ...

Some of your data is on your device/machine. Some of your data is in a datacentre… gently being drip-fed to you depending upon which application/cloud/web service you are using. Some of your data ...

The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a project designed to support best practices with a key eye on the security of critical open source software projects. The CII team ...

Veeam has taken the wraps off the latest iteration of its software to speed up backup and recovery, along with other features to help enterprises better manage their data in a hybrid cloud ...

Joe Drumgoole is deep in thought.  MongoDB’s director of developer relations has just opened a piece of internal research that suggests as few as 29% of Europe’s developers take full responsibility ...

The tech industry loves big tech events and for the host cities, these huge events represent a massive boost to the local economy. Thousands upon thousands of customers, sales people, and industry ...

The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Lucy Taylor, data analyst at Nominet, talks about her career path and how she moved from dancing to data analytics, whilst giving advice to other women ...

In what must be one of the most inappropriate gestures in the history of human life, adult website CamSoda has offered free webcam sessions to the 3,600-plus passengers currently quarantined aboard ...

Some events start with training workshops, some start with partner days, others use fancy terms for extra-curricular activities like 'unconference' (often held at the end), while others still ...

The first ‘wearable’ technology innovation is argued to have arrived sometime around the 13th century with the development of the first eyeglasses. In between that time and now we’ve had hearing ...

Earlier this week, SAP acknowledged that many of its customers are going to take far longer to move to S/4Hana, its next generation ERP system. For over 20 years, Computer Weekly has looked at the ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Evgeny Shadchnev, co-founder and CEO of Makers, explains why lists like the UK Women in Software list are important for the future of digital   I am ...

This is a guest post by Zhang Dixuan, Atlas datacentre domain general manager at Huawei’s intelligent computing business department The quest for knowledge has driven us to discover the highest ...

Dynatrace used its annual Perform conference to detail the expansion of its digital experience management capabilities. This includes advanced analytics (and segmentation) of mobile app user ...

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

On 17 December 2019, the US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, dismissed the 2018 class action case brought by the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund ...

Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...

Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) company Dynatrace held its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was front and ...