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If age checking works well it will challenge some powerful vested interests - not all of them legitimate or reputable.

Richard Branson has overturned his Virgin Trains stooges’ decision to stop selling the Daily Mail, instantly pouring cold water over accusations that the billionaire who sued the NHS might be too ...

The demise of construction and services giant Carillion has brought fresh scrutiny of outsourcing in government. Frankly, you could find some event almost every year that brings fresh scrutiny of ...

Reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated -- said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is. The Java language and platform may have been (in some people's view) somewhat ...

Software and silicon design company Synopsys has just published an interesting report that classifies chief information security officers (CISOs) into four archetypes or what it calls “tribes”. ...

Is the future of secure cryptocurrency storage and payment simply "cash in hand"? Inspect a Gadget looks at how one firm's human microchip implant could help. We’ve all looked on with interest as ...

In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS and Tesco Bank’s former head of transformation shares his thoughts on what enterprises can do to address the ...

I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...

When people get their smartphone out and order transport, evening meal and even a place to stay at a few touches they don't think about the huge social and environmental changes that they are ...

There has been an undeniable popularisation of so-called 'low-code' programming platforms. This is a strain of technology designed to provide automated blocks of functionality that can be brought ...

The finalists for this year’s everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in February 2018. After sorting through applications from hundreds of candidates, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Klaus-Michael Vogelberg in his capacity as chief technology officer at financially-focused Enterprise Resource Planning ...

The recent launch of Microsoft's Azure Stack platform provides a means for organisations to create a far more flexible and consistent hybrid private/public cloud environment. However, unless the ...

In this guest post, Ron Vermeulen, go-to-market manager for north-west Europe at IT services provider, Comparex, runs through the process of finding and fixing cloud faults There is no doubt that ...

In some ways the Meltdown and Spectre flaws represent a risk that goes to the very heart of computing. This microprocessor flaw has resulted in major network, server, PC and mobile hardware firms ...

When a UK startup had its EU funding put on hold due to Brexit it could not wait, so it turned to crowdfunding and succeeded in getting the funds it needs

It had to happen. DevOps consolidated the developer and operations functions into one ‘workplace culture’ and so came together the previously separately plated chicken & waffles of the software ...

The latest data breach in Leicester City Council , putting some of the most vulnerable in society at immediate risk from potential local predators, illustrates why it is so important to implement ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gamil Jassin, a journalism Masters degree student at City, University of London. We all moan and groan about how bad the battery life on our phones is. Then, we keep ...

As sociable as Amazon’s smart assistant may at first appear, Alexa has never mixed well with Windows. Until now. Historically, Alexa has played nicely with smart speakers, TV sticks, robots, ...

In this guest post, Gordon Grosse, director of technical services at IT support and datacentre managed service provider MCSA, offers advice on how to choose the right public cloud provider for your ...

This is the second in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...

Hyundai, along with a handful of key investors, is pumping more money into Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing service in an effort to bring its mobility services to the region. The South ...

As the UK embarks oon a journey to open retail banking up to more competition it is time to stop talking about Google Bank?

Time now to check in with Downtime linchpin Sophia the robot, who’s been dazzling the world once again – this time at CES 2018. No, it’s not wig-cleaning day for Ray’s wife at Disney World’s “Hall ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ...

The Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities constitute the greatest test yet of the public cloud provider community’s data security claims, says Caroline Donnelly, while providing enterprise IT ...

IT is overloaded with slick marketing terms that have little or no substance behind them – the classic “solution searching for a problem” scenario but… just occasionally the complete opposite prevails

Every company is now a software company, this much we know to be true. If we accept this new truism, then a camera company must be a software company… or at least it must be a digital camera ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ...

Professor Giovanni Vigna has been lauded as the world’s fourth most influential researcher in cyber security and is the founder of Lastline, a malware protection company. He is responsible for ...

Some 20 teams of cyber security industry professionals and tertiary students in Singapore pitted their skills against one another in a competition aimed at plugging the cyber security skills gap in ...

It's time for a little open source history. The 'open source' label itself was created at a strategy session held by members of the group that we now call the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on ...

Complete this sentence to win a prize for your technology insight: “2018 will be the year of…” Rather like the missing word round in Have I Got News For You, the answers will range from the obvious ...

In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ...

Did anyone else notice how many people ruined the festive season’s pub visits by mistaking Bitcoin for something resembling an entertaining topic of conversation? Suddenly all these bozos you grew ...

The babel fish is around the corner but look out for the arrival androids that are indistinguishable from humans

The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ...

This is a guest blogpost by Shafi Rahman, principal scientist, FICO Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) generated countless news headlines and ideas that fascinate us. Its predictive ability ...

Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ...

The DevOps honeymoon is over - well, it could be... and here's one reason why. As we know by now, DevOps is a portmanteau term used to describe the notion of more connected, cyclical, integrated ...

I was tempted to write this blog post on Computer Weekly's Downtime blog, where we try to look at the lighter side of the world of IT. But I'm not entirely sure this is a joke. While budgetary ...

Did you know the UK government has a minister for identity? It’s Baroness Susan Williams, whose full responsibilities go under the grander title of minister of state for countering extremism. ...

In the fast-expanding world of ubiquitous personal data, sometimes it feels like we’re living in an enormous global beta test to work out what’s acceptable and what’s not. This week, Google was hit ...

A new research report from Quocirca, Damage Control – The impact of critical IT incidents, shows the scale of the challenge faced by organisations as they struggle to address the volume of ...

It would be churlish not to applaud the government’s pre-Budget commitments to the tech sector – an increase in funding to support tech startups and expanding visa availability for bringing in top ...

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank by market cap, has claimed the honour of having the world’s biggest banking API (application programming interface) platform with over 155 APIs that ...

The government’s digital minister, Matt Hancock, is a busy and enthusiastic advocate for the UK’s digital economy. In the past month alone, he’s given five speeches, published an independent review ...

There’s an interesting story doing the rounds this week that highlights some important issues around the UK government’s aim to have a cloud-first policy for IT purchasing. The original scoop, ...