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We’ve all been in Amanda Holden’s shoes. One minute, someone’s sending you a petition explicitly linking 5G to Covid-19; the next, you’re accidentally sharing it with 1.9 million Twitter followers. ...

COVID 19: Accelerating the need for business transformation in the print industry Quocirca recently conducted a snapshot online survey between 31st March and 7th April 2020 to understand the impact ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ilkka Turunen in his role as global director of solution architecture at Sonatype. Turunen describes himself as a software ...

The UK is apparently the number one target for covid-related on-line fraud but doorstep fraudsters are targeting those who do not go on-line with “testing” and “decontamination” services.

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 ...

A UK firm is behind a new drive to provide the planet with the world’s first supply of carbon-neutral laptops. Circular Computing specialises in ‘remanufactured’ laptops. As a comparatively new ...

While questions are being asked of the government over its coronavirus exit strategy, one thing is clear: large parts of the UK workforce are able to work remotely, thanks to the efforts of IT ...

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 ...

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 ...

The proportion of special constables to full time police has fallen over the past 20 years from 16% in 1996 to 9% in 2019. The trend is distorted by the Metropolitan Police where the proportion ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Kelvin Lim, chief operating officer of Innovative Global Solutions & Services 2020 was supposed to be the year for rapid transformation in the global semiconductor ...

In the past couple of weeks, nearly a million people have signed up for Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Never has the UK government’s move to a digital-first world ...

Not all software is equal. Some software is just software i.e. it’s application (apps), components or perhaps even mircoservices. Some software is higher-level software i.e. it’s platform-level ...

The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget team has already played with the Gemini PDA by Planet Computers in a story that provides some level of validation for this ‘invention’, because humans need a ...

Perhaps no more than a decade ago, the notion of ‘smart cities’ probably implied thoughts of which metropolitan areas could be said to have the greatest density of schools, colleges and ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ben Schein, from Domo, where he talks, in a very personal mode, about going over to the dark side, from a user organisation to a vendor, and has advice for other ...

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 ...

WordPress website builder company Elementor has launched a new people-focused offering (i.e. there’s a human element here, we’re not just talking about users) known as Elementor Experts. This ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Danese Cooper, VP of strategic initiatives at NearForm. NearForm is an open source development company specialising in ...

There is much to think about while we are in lockdown if we want to live in a relatively free, safe and democratically accountable society afterwards, for however long it takes us to rebuild ...

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 ...

Every day, we plug our smartphone into a power charging cable and (if we use Android on a Huawei Mate device, as is the case here) we watch the screen show a graphical representation (as depicted ...

“There’s nothing more unpleasant than watching grown-ups joining in with TikTok.” The words of Downtime less than two months ago. But as the government furthers its restrictions on UK life, the ...

Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent spell of sunny weather, after weeks of torrential rain, brought the masses out. A lovely Spring weekend. If only so. As television and online images revealed, “It was like a bank ...

Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced the general availability of its Zulu release of OpenJDK 14 builds. The builds are compliant with the Java SE 14 standard.   The company ...

The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning

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 the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, technology vendors all over the world have been touting their wares to help individuals, businesses and medical workers tide over this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social distancing is a bit of a busman’s holiday for Downtime, but just to be safe, we’ve alienated everyone we know. We haven’t really known what to do with ourselves since being advised to stay ...

Low-code software company OutSystems has announced a community-based app development programme to help combat the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and its effects digitally. The company is offering ...

In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why developers might not be best-placed to run your company’s cloud. Just because ...

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 ...

As major cities around Europe enter the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, people will increasingly rely on online services to stay in touch and to order groceries and other essentials. On ...

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 ...

"Wasn't cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?" joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s cloud division. We all ...

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 ...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was a step towards making good on the new government’s promise to be “unashamedly” pro-technology. Offering £22bn in annual funding for research and ...

This is a guest post by Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist at Zoho For many, artificial intelligence (AI) is a distant and incomprehensible concept associated only with science fiction movies or ...

OpenUK, the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in Britain, today announced a new competition for children at what is known as age ...

The Advertising Standards Authority has scorned Spotify for letting an It Chapter Two advert crop up in a classical lullaby playlist. Restful tots kicking back to Erik Satie would have been ...

Most years, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team looks forward to attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code ...

Low code heavyweight Appian has augmented its core platform with an amalgamated (i.e. integrated) automation offering focused on Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The ingeniously named Appian RPA ...

Quocirca’s Cloud Print Services 2020 report reveals the opportunities for managed print service (MPS) providers and their customers in transitioning to a cloud-based print infrastructure.  The ...

In this guest post, John Whelan, CEO of cloud-based accountancy software provider My Digital Accounts, sets out why umbrella companies should be seizing on the incoming IR35 reforms in the private ...

Jack Dorsey faces a battle to remain Twitter CEO, as the ruthless activist fund that just bought a 4% stake in the company continues to push hard to get rid of him. Elliott Management, headed by ...

The remarkable levels of secrecy and avoidance of scrutiny around the Gov.uk Verify digital identity scheme continue – and if anything, seem to have reached new levels of absurdity. Last week, ...

The effect of corporate and individual responses to the Covid-19 problem is to expedite changes in demand that make a nonsense of Ofcom's recent market reviews. They also overtake most of the ...

As more cases of the coronavirus are found in the UK, businesses are going to have to face the very real prospect that encouraging people to go into the office, raises the risk of the virus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company's explainable AI engine Davis now 'automatically ingests' ...

You can’t take your eyes off Elon Musk for a moment. Such is the rate of Downtime content generated by tech’s OG attention seeker, we once attempted to retire from indulging his antics altogether. ...

Let’s be clear about this… this is a product review, but it’s also a ‘use case’ review. The ViewSonic VX3276-2K-mhd 32" Entertainment Monitor was put under testing scrutiny by the Inspect-a-Gadget ...

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ...

I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...

So, the past few days has seen some serious deadlines and finals come and go. And, no, we're not going to talk about the rugby (yet). In the world of IT, the "Brexit" of our industry, AKA "Digital ...

Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...

BT’s press office has reported some “worrying” findings as part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, designed to “close the digital skills knowledge gap that exists between parents and children”. ...