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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

• 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

• 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

• March 11, 2015 11 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

• 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

• March 11, 2015 11 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

• March 10, 2015 10 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

• March 09, 2015 09 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

• 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

• 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

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database

  Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support

• 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

• March 02, 2015 02 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

• February 27, 2015 27 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

• February 25, 2015 25 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

• February 24, 2015 24 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

• February 20, 2015 20 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

• February 18, 2015 18 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

• February 11, 2015 11 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

• February 10, 2015 10 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

• February 06, 2015 06 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

• February 05, 2015 05 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

• January 30, 2015 30 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

• January 30, 2015 30 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.

• January 30, 2015 30 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

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 29, 2015 29 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

• January 29, 2015 29 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

• January 29, 2015 29 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.

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 27, 2015 27 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

• January 26, 2015 26 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

• January 26, 2015 26 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

• January 23, 2015 23 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

• January 21, 2015 21 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

• January 21, 2015 21 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

• January 21, 2015 21 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

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Starbucks launches wireless charging in the UK

  Starbucks has launched wireless charging points in 10 shops in London

• January 20, 2015 20 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

• January 19, 2015 19 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

• January 19, 2015 19 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

• January 19, 2015 19 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

• January 15, 2015 15 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

• January 14, 2015 14 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

• January 14, 2015 14 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

• January 14, 2015 14 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

• 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

• January 13, 2015 13 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

• January 13, 2015 13 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

• January 13, 2015 13 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

• January 12, 2015 12 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

• January 09, 2015 09 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

• January 08, 2015 08 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

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Sainsbury’s experiences biggest online Christmas

  Sainsbury’s claims Christmas 2014 was its biggest to date for online groceries

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Startups selected for London’s Fintech Innovation Lab 2015

  Seven financial technology startups have been selected for the annual Fintech Innovation Lab

• January 06, 2015 06 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

• January 05, 2015 05 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

• December 31, 2014 31 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

• December 29, 2014 29 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

• December 24, 2014 24 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

• December 23, 2014 23 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

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Why are retailers breaking online delivery promises?

  The Christmas period has seen a wave of UK retailers’ technology failing to meet the basic needs of customers

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 public sector IT stories of 2014

  From a near-independent Scotland to continued problems with Universal Credit, it’s been a bumpy year for UK public sector IT

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust digitises 450,000 patient records

  Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed an electronic medical records system to digitise its patient records

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  £1m grant handed to IoT competition winners

  A £1m grant has been given to seven startup companies that won a competition to create innovative internet of things projects

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Oracle reports strong cloud growth for second quarter of 2014-15

  Oracle's cloud revenue grew by 45% to $516m in the second quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal year, making up 5.4% of total takings

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Fears over the IT security of new banks are overblown

  Challenger banks such as PayPal are perceived to be less secure than traditional banks when protecting personal data. But is this the case?

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Delta rushes to fix ticket security vulnerability

  A security vulnerability with Delta Airlines mobile e-tickets potentially allowed people to access other travellers’ boarding passes

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Technology needed to help ambulance services cope with increased demand

  The future of the ambulance and emergencies services needs more investment in networking

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Banks use lots of cloud services but are unaware

  A survey of US banks has revealed that banks underestimate the scale of cloud use on their networks on a massive scale

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  November online retail sales break new records thanks to Black Friday

  Online sales in November rose 37% month-on-month, the largest October to November increase in IMRG Capgemini’s 14-year history

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Incubators and accelerators provide UK startups with boost

  Startups which take part in incubator or accelerator programmes are more likely to be successful than those who don’t, says research from O2.

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Back-office digitisation more profitable than front-end for banks

  European banks investing in back-office digital technologies are reaping high profit margins

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Digital governments meet in London to commit to best practices

  Digital governments from across the world are meeting in London today as part of the inaugural D5 summit

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  36% of UK smartphone users abandon slow retail sites

  Retailers need to make sure their online and multichannel services meet customer expectations in the run up to Christmas

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  NHS must partner with industry to embrace technology

  Healthcare providers must share expertise from the technology industry to make serious change, says NHS foundation CEO David Dalton

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  Government aims for 90% digital take-up by 2020

  The government aims to have 90% of the UK’s online population using digital public services by 2020

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Is a local GDS the answer to local authority transformation? Lessons from the Labour digital review

  Labour’s digital government review touches on a number of issues, but what’s the future of GDS – and could it be scaled to help local authorities?

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  Former Allied Irish COO to launch iTunes-style bank

  Former Allied Irish Bank COO Anne Boden is to create digital bank in 2015, with the aim of changing banking in the same way Apple changed music

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service secures email for public sector collaboration

  The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has secured its information exchange with Egress Switch encryption

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  NetApp: Hybrid cloud storage is a big deal; flash is not

  At its Berlin Insight event, NetApp says hybrid cloud is the big storage story, with flash set to disappear from prominence

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Asda opens technology centre in Leeds

  Asda opens a technology centre in its Leeds head office to provide a more streamlined service for online customers

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  HM Revenue and Customs hopes electronic forms will save £800,000 by March 2015

  Taxpayers completing forms for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be able to do so online by the end of 2014

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Interview: 'Government is the best digital startup in London'

  Computer Weekly interviews Ministry of Justice chief digital officer Paul Shetler about transforming government public services

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Anna Barsby, CIO, Halfords

  Since joining Halfords as CIO, Anna Barsby has faced significant business challenges, including a risky cloud upgrade

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  The Marketing Store uses Netsuite to align supply chain and processes

  The Marketing Store - the brains behind McDonald’s Happy Meal toys - is using NetSuite to align its supply chain and business processes

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  DVLA partners with Tech Hub to launch Swansea startup incubator

  The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency partners with startup incubator Tech Hub to launch a new digital work space in Swansea

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Amazon unveils Docker-friendly container service and EC2 instance

  Amazon has launched its free, Docker-friendly EC2 container management service

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  NHS England unveils plans to deliver digital by 2020

  NHS England commits to patient-facing digital services by 2020 in its Personalised Health and Care framework paper

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  Ministry of Justice searches for IT staff to join digital team

  The Ministry of Justice is recruiting people to join its team tasked with designed digital public services

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  UBS move to Oracle HR in the cloud hits big delays

  Swiss bank UBS has hit major delays migrating to a cloud-based HR system

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell says Microsoft “conversation has changed”

  CTO Liam Maxwell says the government's relationship with Microsoft has changed after meeting CEO Satya Nadella