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Cloud computing software
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April 09, 2015
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Apr'15
Nano Server: Microsoft debuts simpler Windows Server for the cloud era
Microsoft finally confirms details about Nano Server, its stripped back Windows Server operating system designed specifically for cloud apps
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April 08, 2015
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Apr'15
HP rebuffs public cloud market exit reports
Hardware giant reinforces commitment to public cloud, but analysts claim it needs to be clearer about its off-premise strategy
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April 08, 2015
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Apr'15
Oracle Retail expands cloud services portfolio in wake of Micros buy
Oracle introduces six cloud services to help retailers get to grips with loss prevention, customer engagement and inventory management
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April 08, 2015
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Apr'15
UK law firm McMillan Williams moves to Interxion datacentre to support growth
UK law firm McMillan Williams Solicitors taps up co-location provider Interxion to support plans to expand its number of high street branches
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April 07, 2015
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Apr'15
CIO interview: Bill Wilkins, First Utility
First Utility's CIO explains how it is using cloud and smart meters to give the big six a run for their money in the energy market
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April 07, 2015
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Apr'15
Digital agenda streamlines public sector in Norway
While governments are eager to toot the horn of digitisation, real-world effects are still a few and far between, but Norway is aiming to change this
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April 02, 2015
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Apr'15
Fears about Prism's long-term impact on cloud declared "overblown"
Forrester claims the fallout from the 2013 Prism surveillance scandal has had a minimal effect on the cloud industry
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April 02, 2015
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Apr'15
Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics
Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce
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April 02, 2015
02
Apr'15
Microsoft and Accenture push Azure hybrid cloud platform for the enterprise
Accenture, Microsoft and Avanade talk up hybrid IT, promoting a platform that allows enterprises to exploit cloud with existing infrastructure
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April 01, 2015
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Apr'15
Google Drive for Work users to benefit from tighter document security controls
Search giant is stepping up security around its cloud productivity platform, with new controls limiting document sharing and deletion
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March 31, 2015
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Mar'15
Interoute bags private equity funding to support datacentre growth
Cloud services giant plans to use private equity funding to support its M&A activity and push ahead with its datacentre growth plans
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March 31, 2015
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Mar'15
Skyhigh Networks' research highlights cloud collaboration dangers
Skyhigh Networks urge cloud users to be careful who they share their business data with in the cloud
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March 30, 2015
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Mar'15
KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption
Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients
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March 30, 2015
30
Mar'15
Google appeal ruling should send shivers through US tech companies
What are the implications of Google's legal defeat in London and the UK court's hardening attitude towards privacy breaches?
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March 27, 2015
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Mar'15
Google Cloud Launcher accelerates off-premise open-source app deployments
Google hopes to make it easier for users to deploy open-source apps in its cloud through the release of its Google Cloud Launcher tool
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March 27, 2015
27
Mar'15
Amazon Cloud Drive targets Dropbox and Google with unlimited storage
Amazon's cloud storage service to offer unlimited storage at cheaper rates than Dropbox and Google
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March 27, 2015
27
Mar'15
Talk Talk moves HR systems to cloud
Managers now have accurate information on their workforce numbers, salary and overtime costs
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March 26, 2015
26
Mar'15
Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security
Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought
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March 26, 2015
26
Mar'15
ProfitBricks ignites cloud pricing war with AWS, Google and Microsoft
IaaS player promises to undercut rivals on price, but analysts question sustainability of business model
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March 25, 2015
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Mar'15
HP's push to build EU-wide "one-stop shop" for cloud gathers pace
HP talks up growing momentum of its Cloud 28+ project in Europe
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March 24, 2015
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Mar'15
RSA Group taps up AWS to hit 2016 cloud targets
The global insurance group behind More Than hopes to move all its websites to the cloud by 2016, with a little help from AWS
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March 24, 2015
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Mar'15
Amazon Web Services hosts Nasa climate-change images in the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) follows up pledge to support climate change research by publishing 85,000 Nasa images in the cloud
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March 24, 2015
24
Mar'15
Dutch bank ING puts HR services in the cloud
Finance company ING is using cloud-based software from ServiceNow to deliver HR services to its 25,000 staff in the Netherlands
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March 24, 2015
24
Mar'15
Nordic nations dominate Europe's digital league table
The EC's Digital Economy and Society Index ranked Denmark, Sweden and Finland as first, second and fourth most digital European nation
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March 23, 2015
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Mar'15
CIF opens up membership to users in cloud skills push
The Cloud Industry Forum opens doors to IT professionals to help them acquire industry recognition of their off-premise knowledge and skills
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March 23, 2015
23
Mar'15
Microsoft contests Iowa's plans to adopt Google cloud services
Microsoft files a law suit claiming its cloud products were overlooked in the process of moving systems of the US state of Iowa to the cloud
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March 23, 2015
23
Mar'15
Microsoft's Nano Server: What to expect from this leaner, meaner Windows Server
With Microsoft reportedly set to announce a stripped-back version of Windows Server, what can IT leaders expect to see?
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March 20, 2015
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Mar'15
Why CIOs should become chief integration officers in 2015
IT leaders risk being relegated to a “care and feeding” role if they do not take the initiative, says business advisory firm Deloitte
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March 19, 2015
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Mar'15
Current account comparison from Gocompare announced in Budget 2015
The government used the Budget to announce changes in the banking sector that will increase consumer and business choice
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March 18, 2015
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Mar'15
Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payment system
Facebook has introduced a feature to its Messenger app that enables people to transfer money to their friends in a few clicks
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March 18, 2015
18
Mar'15
Ford drives connected car journey with Microsoft Azure
The Microsoft Azure cloud will be used to power Ford's new software delivery and vehicle monitoring service
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March 18, 2015
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Mar'15
Oracle talks up cloud revenue growth in the face of flat Q3 sales
Database giant Oracle hails a rise in cloud sales, as overall revenue remains flat in the third quarter - for which it blames a strong US dollar
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March 18, 2015
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Mar'15
Red Nose Day 2015: How Comic Relief used cloud to bank a record £78m
Comic Relief CTO Zenon Hannick explains how the charity used cloud to process a record number of donations during Red Nose Day 2015
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March 18, 2015
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Mar'15
Six technology companies to hasten the demise of retail bank giants
UK retail banks are under pressure from regulation, costs and increasing competition
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March 17, 2015
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Mar'15
Adobe Document Cloud seeks to end enterprise reliance on paper-based forms
Adobe plans to roll out a cloud-based digitised document hub to make it easier for enterprise users to manage and process forms
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March 17, 2015
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Mar'15
Post Office could be the Carphone Warehouse of banking industry
Atom Bank is latest digital bank to propose Post Office branches as places where customers can make transactions
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March 16, 2015
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Mar'15
Deal close with banks to maintain services in remote locations
The government is close to agreement with the British Bankers Association on a set of rules for banks to follow before closing branches
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March 13, 2015
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Mar'15
IBM could create blockchain-based digital payments infrastructure for central banks
IBM has held informal talks with some central banks about building an infrastructure that can provide them with bitcoin-like digital payments systems
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March 13, 2015
13
Mar'15
Google squares up for new AWS cloud battle with Nearline beta launch
Google unveils AWS Glacier challenger, which promises business users unlimited storage and fast data retrieval times
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March 12, 2015
12
Mar'15
Interception errors had serious consequences for individuals
Law enforcement and security services made 12 serious technical and nine human surveillance errors last year
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March 12, 2015
12
Mar'15
Rewrite 'absurdly complicated’ surveillance laws, say MPs
The Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee has presented the Prime Minister with proposals to reform privacy and intelligence laws
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March 12, 2015
12
Mar'15
CIO interview: Ivor Nicholson, Nottinghamshire County Council
Nottinghamshire County Council is facing £77m in cuts by 2018 and by rolling out new services, it plans to save £8m through technology alone
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March 11, 2015
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Mar'15
US government CIO tells cloud buyers to get tough on suppliers
US Department of Labor CIO Dawn Leaf shares her learnings from helping 19,000 employees move off-premise at Cloud Expo 2015
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March 11, 2015
11
Mar'15
Connected Data targets business with Transporter cloud file sharing family
Connected Data’s Transporter for Business appliances enable cloud file sharing services for employees from a preconfigured box
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March 11, 2015
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Mar'15
Microsoft and Cisco cloud partnership yields app deployment platform
Microsoft and Cisco claim new cloud platform will allow service providers to take advantage of DevOps-style app deployment speeds
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March 10, 2015
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Mar'15
Security professionals look to workload security in the cloud
The first Cloud Security Spotlight Report shows broad cloud adoption and move towards workload security
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March 09, 2015
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Mar'15
Multi-supplier cloud environments bad for business agility
Telstra research suggests companies that rely on three or more cloud providers could find it harder to respond to business changes
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March 09, 2015
09
Mar'15
Cloud-based CivilisedBank latest challenger bank to hit UK
CivilisedBank will attempt to use cloud-based technology to challenge the dominance of the high street giants
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March 06, 2015
06
Mar'15
Online freelance platform dominated by IT requests in Nordic region
Online freelance marketplace is fast becoming IT workers' go-to job board for lucrative contracts
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March 05, 2015
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Mar'15
Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database
Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support
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March 04, 2015
04
Mar'15
Alibaba emerges as AWS challenger after US datacentre opening
Chinese internet giant outlines US datacentre plans as it prepares for cloud battle with AWS, Microsoft and Google
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March 02, 2015
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Mar'15
Volvo develops car-to-car social networking for road safety
Volvo has begun a pilot involving 1,000 vehicles for car-to-car communications to warn drivers of dangerous road conditions
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February 27, 2015
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Feb'15
TSB is investing in bank branches, not closing them
TSB is countering the industry trend of branch closures in the light of increased digital services by opening 30 new branches
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February 25, 2015
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Feb'15
University of Cambridge says peer-to-peer lending will become mainstream
Financial transactions made on online lending platforms in Europe reached €3bn in 2014 and could hit €7bn this year
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February 24, 2015
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Feb'15
ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit
Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers
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February 20, 2015
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Feb'15
Digital challenger bank Starling loses its CTO
The CTO of digital bank Starling has left the company before it has even been granted a banking licence
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February 18, 2015
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Feb'15
Scaling appropriately an issue for digital startups, says report
Digital startups often scale their customer bases too quickly before they have had time to implement the appropriate infrastructure
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February 11, 2015
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Feb'15
Lloyds Bank accepts ID documents uploaded on social media
Lloyds Bank group customers can upload identification documents on technology used in social media, reducing the need to visit a branch
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February 10, 2015
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Feb'15
Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks
Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom
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February 06, 2015
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Feb'15
Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures
Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK
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February 05, 2015
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Feb'15
Santander offers corporate clients cloud storage
Santander’s cloud storage offer to corporate clients shows how banks could fight back against the IT giants encroaching on their market
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January 30, 2015
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Jan'15
Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT
The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content
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January 30, 2015
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Jan'15
Google sees 2014 revenues hit $66bn
Google has seen its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 increase by 15% year-on-year.
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January 30, 2015
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Jan'15
Full steam ahead for P&O Ferries e-commerce website
P&O Ferries has seen a 20% increase in users of its new e-commerce website, which it launched in December 2014
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January 30, 2015
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Jan'15
Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind
Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009
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January 29, 2015
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Jan'15
Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android
Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released
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January 29, 2015
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Jan'15
Nesta invests in apprenticeships website for young people
Nesta has invested half a million pounds into a website to help young people connect with employers and colleges to find apprenticeship schemes
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January 29, 2015
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Jan'15
Argos to open digital stores in Sainsbury’s supermarkets
Argos has teamed up with Sainsbury’s with plans to open digital stores within 10 existing supermarkets.
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January 27, 2015
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Jan'15
Harrods invests in digital to entice customers
Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers
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January 27, 2015
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Jan'15
River Island takes part in retail tech startup accelerator
River Island is the latest company to get involved with a technology startup accelerator
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January 26, 2015
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Jan'15
Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting
A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public
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January 26, 2015
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Jan'15
Amazon acquires chip maker for cloud services business
Amazon is reportedly acquiring an Israel-based chip maker as part of AWS, which could mean the firm plans to design its own hardware down to the chips
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January 23, 2015
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Jan'15
Senior judge calls for technology to transform courtrooms
A senior judge has called for the introduction of technologies such as video and online filing to bring the criminal courts into the 21st century
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January 21, 2015
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Jan'15
CIO interview: Omid Shiraji, CIO at Working Links
Just a year into his first IT leadership role and Working Links CIO Omid Shiraji is already busy with a digital transformation programme
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January 21, 2015
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Jan'15
Case study: BCBG Max Azria checks out customer engagement chic
Fashion retailer BCBG Max Azria is stepping out in omnichannel chic with digital in-store solutions and localised web presence
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January 21, 2015
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Jan'15
UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing
The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit
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January 21, 2015
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Jan'15
Starbucks launches wireless charging in the UK
Starbucks has launched wireless charging points in 10 shops in London
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January 20, 2015
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Jan'15
Canary Wharf Group opens third tech startup space
London’s Canary Wharf Group has opened a third dedicated space to technology startups as part of its Level39 initiative
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January 19, 2015
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Jan'15
HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year
Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month
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January 19, 2015
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Jan'15
GDS hints at future approach to government-as-a-platform
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has hinted at a new approach to meet Whitehall’s government-as-a-platform goals
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January 19, 2015
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Jan'15
Microsoft Azure had more downtime in 2014 than main cloud rivals
Microsoft Azure suffered more downtime than its main rivals in 2014, according to detailed analysis
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January 15, 2015
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Jan'15
Ugg Australia trials RFID smart mat to digitise its stores
Ugg Australia is trialing a smart mat system which allows shoppers to view more products electronically
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January 14, 2015
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Jan'15
UK bank to launch after penning Oracle deal
Challenger bank Hampden will start operating in the first quarter of 2015 using a cloud-based banking platform from Oracle
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January 14, 2015
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Jan'15
Gamestop’s Technology Institute engages digital customers in stores
Gamestop has been investing in its store and digital channels through the Gamestop Technology Institute (GTI), which it launched in March 2014
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January 14, 2015
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Jan'15
TGI Fridays rolls out tablets and trials social media check-in
TGI Fridays rolls out Microsoft tablets across its restaurant chain and experiments with data from social media check-in technologies
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January 14, 2015
14
Jan'15
Tesco embarks on image recognition technology for product placement
Tesco is looking to pilot image recognition software to improve product placement in its stores
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January 13, 2015
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Jan'15
Technology should complement traditional merchandising, says Hershey’s
Retailers adopting innovative technology need to consider how it might affect traditional ways of merchandising at the point of sale
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January 13, 2015
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Jan'15
Levi Strauss & Co thinks mobile first
Levi Strauss & Co, the company known for Levi’s denim jeans, is thinking mobile first as part of its omni-channel retailing strategy
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January 13, 2015
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Jan'15
John Lewis to trial location technology for click and collect
John Lewis plans to trial a micro-location technology to improve its click and collect service
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January 12, 2015
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Jan'15
Solihull council launches digital strategy
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has launched a digital strategy which outlines how it will engage with citizens across multiple channels
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January 09, 2015
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Jan'15
Cabinet Office searches for CDO to lead digital and tech team
The Cabinet Office is looking to create a digital and technology team, with a chief digital officer (CDO) at its helm
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January 08, 2015
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Jan'15
Retailers need to plan for online peaks and troughs
Almost a third of British online shoppers experienced problems with their orders over the Christmas period
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January 07, 2015
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Sainsbury’s experiences biggest online Christmas
Sainsbury’s claims Christmas 2014 was its biggest to date for online groceries
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January 06, 2015
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Jan'15
Startups selected for London’s Fintech Innovation Lab 2015
Seven financial technology startups have been selected for the annual Fintech Innovation Lab
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January 06, 2015
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Jan'15
European Commission tenders for first cloud services
The European Commission (EC) has put out a tender for a framework to acquire its first cloud services
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January 05, 2015
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Jan'15
Online shoppers boost Christmas sales for John Lewis
Online shopping accounted for 36% of all John Lewis sales over the 2014 Christmas period
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December 31, 2014
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Dec'14
Top 10 retail IT stories of 2014
It’s been a busy year for retail as the industry proves it is leading the way in the adoption of technology innovations
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December 29, 2014
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Dec'14
Top 10 healthcare IT stories of 2014
It’s been a rocky year for technology and the NHS, succumbing to a marketing blow for its Care.data project and pushing back its e-Referral Service
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December 24, 2014
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Dec'14
Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue
Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform
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December 23, 2014
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Dec'14
Monsoon Accessorize provides multi-channel promotions via e-receipts
Monsoon Accessorize is using data from both in store and online to provide personalised customer offers on emailed receipts