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• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  UK retailers must invest more in digital technologies

  The UK’s biggest retailers are ‘under-investing’ in in-store digital technologies

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Salesforce builds green datacentre in France for European users

  Cloud CRM specialist Salesforce is building its second European datacentre in France, powered 100% by renewable energy sources

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Wider public sector needs better understanding of cyber security

  Local government, the NHS and the wider public sector needs to have a better understanding of the threat of cyber security

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company

  The Weather Company is a huge advocate for cloud-based technology, and everything it has built is cloud-enabled

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  'Bungled' Army 2020 IT recruitment contract loses £70m of savings

  Mismanaged IT contracts lead to further setbacks in Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Army recruitment drive

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Camden Market launches social Wi-Fi system to track footfall

  Free Wi-Fi connectivity is available to shoppers in Camden Market in London, which also provides real-time data on users

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Home Office has "long way to go” to fix police IT and procurement

  Police IT is going to take a long time to fix, according to home secretary Theresa May

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NHS England informatics head wants more CCIOs

  NHS England director wants to see a chief clinical information officer in every NHS provider and clinical commissioning group

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Prescribing digital videos could help NHS deal with chronic diseases

  Videos and digital interactions with patients are being prescribed as part of a pre-trial to see if they encourage patients with chronic diseases to better manage their conditions

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  HSCIC and MOJ first to procure on government managed email framework

  The Health & Social Care Information Commission and the Ministry of Justice to procure managed email using a new government framework

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Natural Resources Wales takes to the cloud with Microsoft

  The Welsh envoronmental public body adopts Microsoft cloud functionalities including Office 365 and Azure

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Applications open for government Digital and Technology Fast Stream

  Applications are open for the 2015 Civil Service Fast Stream, which offers digital graduates an opportunity to work in government

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Suppliers discuss Emergency Services Network with Home Office

  Suppliers have attended an event held by the Home Office to discuss details of the new Emergency Services Network

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Local government calls for a local GDS

  Local government needs a local version of the Government Digital Service (GDS) with dedicated in-house digital teams, says Socitm

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Chinese MSN Messenger service ends in October 2014

  Microsoft will switch off Windows Live Messenger (WLM) for its last users in China at the end of October 2014

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Bristol council migrates to the cloud to aid mandated cost savings

  Bristol City Council is moving its ICT estate onto the cloud to help meet wider cost savings mandated by the government

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  GDS launches research lab for testing digital services

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has revealed a digital research lab to allow departments to test their online services

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Ocado’s technology under fire, causing share price to fall

  Ocado’s IT has come under fire in a financial analyst's report that claims the market has over-valued the retailer's automation technology

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Microsoft slashes Azure SQL database-as-a-service prices by half

  Microsoft will reduce the prices of its Azure SQL Database – a relational database as a service – from November onwards

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Foreign Office spends £92,574 on social media training

  The FCO has spent £92,574 on social media training since 2010, according to a freedom of information request

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Government sees 820,000 voters register online

  Over one million UK citizens have registered to vote over the last two months, with around 820,000 opting for a new online registration service

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Land Registry automates document registration using Abbyy

  The Land Registry has been automating the way changes are made to its register which documents the ownership of land in England and Wales

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  The internet of things: Britain's next big opportunity

  Tech City's Gerard Grech talks about the IoT phenomenon and a startup competition that is intended to accelerate technologies

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  IoT-enabled devices to top 40 billion by 2020, say researchers

  The number of active wireless connected devices will exceed 40.9 billion by 2020 – more than double the current total

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Case study: Borough of Poole uses Huddle for child adoption meetings

  The Borough of Poole has been using Huddle to enable local government teams to collaborate securely on issues of child welfare

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Banks slow to change despite growing competition

  The banking sector faces major challenges in transforming IT to meet the digital needs of customers

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Labour commits to GDS and says it wants to keep contractors

  The Labour party has said it will build on GDS's work and retain the team's staff if it wins the 2015 general election

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Consumers spending £1bn more online than last summer

  Online shoppers are spending £1bn more online than they did last summer, partly due to buying holidays on the web

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Click and collect drives e-commerce growth for Asda

  Shoppers at Asda are continuing to choose to buy their groceries online and pick them up in-store

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Forrester: Top 10 facts about private cloud

  Cloud is an essential component of every enterprise technology management strategy but designing a robust cloud strategy isn't easy

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Amazon launches credit card reader for small businesses

  Amazon has launched a card reader and mobile app for small businesses

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Company Magazine ditches print to go online only

  The womens’ monthly publication Company Magazine has announced it will become a standalone digital brand from October

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  M&S deploys Microsoft Azure cloud to run festive ad campaigns

  Azure powered M&S's multi-million pound Christmas campaign Magic & Sparkle starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  BBC hands digital testing contract to Mindtree

  Multi-million pound contract awarded under the terms of the BBC Digital Services Framework initiative

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  House of Fraser rolls out beacon-enabled mannequins in Aberdeen

  House of Fraser is rolling out beacon-enabled mannequins that will allow the store to engage directly with shoppers or passers-by

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Android banking apps susceptible to hacking

  A vulnerability in Android applications built on the Apache Cordova platform has sparked new fears over mobile banking

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

  Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  Nationwide and Santander to take part in FinTech Innovation Lab 2015

  Nationwide and Santander will be supporting next year’s FinTech Innovation Lab in London, which is now open to receive applications

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Joanna Shields becomes a peer

  Former Tech City CEO and the prime minister’s adviser on the digital economy, Joanna Shields, has been awarded a life peerage

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Google to favour secure websites in search rankings

  Google is starting to favour secure websites and is ranking them higher on its search engine

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Sacked BBC CTO wins unfair dismissal case

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has won his case for unfair dismissal against the broadcaster

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Startup innovation workspace to pop up in Reading

  A Thames Valley pop-up innovation workspace for tech startups will open its doors in September

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Google executive to set up fintech investment fund in London

  Google’s UK's vice president of brand solutions, Dan Cobley, will be leaving the tech giant to start a fintech incubator

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Russian hackers steal over a billion usernames and passwords

  A group of Russian cyber criminals have attacked 500 million email addresses and gained 1.2 billion usernames and passwords

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Met Police awards £90m command and control integration contract

  The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has appointed Lockheed Martin as systems integrator of its new command and control system

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Bauer Media Group invests €100m in digital startups

  Bauer Media has set up a venture capital fund with plans to invest €100m in digital technology through startups likely to provide return on investment

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Camden Council’s BYOD adoption soars by 240%

  Camden Council has increased its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scheme by 240% over the last three years

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  US judge rules for Microsoft to release Irish email data

  A judge in the US district court has ruled against Microsoft, in its attempt to stop a US government search warrant over emails stored in Ireland.

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Welsh police to develop mobile app for witness statements

  Two Welsh police forces are to develop a mobile application that will allow officers to record and send witness statements while on the beat

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Five signs that Amazon is the new Microsoft

  Amazon’s business strategy is reminiscent of Microsoft's in the 1990s despite changes in market dynamics since then

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  HMRC’s Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle opens for business

  HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has opened the doors to its new digital headquarters in Newcastle

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Russian blogger law comes into action

  A new information security law which places restrictions on Russian bloggers and social media users has come into force today

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  Smart meters, digital channels and CRM are top priorities for British Gas

  Smart meters, digital channels and reducing customer complaints by implanting a new CRM system are top of the agenda for British Gas over the coming year.

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  BT forges on with fibre roll-out but customer uptake weak

  BT rolls out fibre optic broadband across the UK at a steady pace but only 15% of fibre-ready premises sign up for the superfast internet service

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  PayPal launches UK startup accelerator programme in London

  PayPal's accelerator programme will select up to five technology startups from the UK and host them in the London offices for six months

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  UK technology sector sees strongest growth since 2007 crash

  KPMG survey finds 61% of technology businesses reporting improved revenues and expect this to continue

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Why Google could become the Amazon of banking

  Internet giants will not replace banks but will disrupt the sector through other services taking consumers away from traditional banks

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Joanna Shields joins the government’s digital revolution

  Chair of Tech City UK, Joanna Shields is joining the prime minister’s Digital Taskforce to represent the digital sector

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  53% of G-Cloud spend on is on SMEs

  Just over half of G-Cloud spend is with SMEs, according to June sales figures released by the Cabinet Office

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  British Legion launches online WW1 remembrance database

  The Royal British Legion is launching an online database to remember those killed in the First World War

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Dr Who visual effects studio builds desktop as a service for graphics

  Jellyfish Pictures, the visual effects and animation studio behind Dr Who and the Line of Duty link has developed a DaaS for GPU

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Carl Dawson to become IT director at M&S

  Marks and Spencer hires ex-Tesco internet retailing lead as IT director

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Contactless card payments to be accepted across entire TFL network

  Transport for London (TfL) will begin accepting contactless card payments from 16 September 2014.

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Five top UK tech startup clusters outside London

  Tech City UK has moved towards promoting the entire UK, rather than just the capital

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Online spending continues to increase thanks to fashion sector

  Consumers are spending more money shopping online, with clothing and footwear seeing the biggest increases

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Vince Cable welcomes £135m datacentre investment in Docklands

  Telehouse, London's colo and datacentre provider, to build a mission-critical datacentre in Docklands with £135m from parent firm KDDI

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  PayPal offers working capital to UK small businesses

  Payments giant PayPal has announced that it will be providing online cash advances to small businesses in the UK

• July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14

  Business Secretary calls for TSB’s funding to be doubled

  Business Secretary Vince Cable has urged the government to double the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) funding

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

  Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Technical glitch hits BBC iPlayer

  BBC iPlayer was affected by technical problems over the weekend, preventing some viewers from accessing TV on demand

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

  Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UK

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Growth in cloud and IoT lend momentum to European managed datacentres

  European datacentre services market will grow 16% up to 2018

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  BBC News commits to digital investment amid loss of 220 jobs

  BBC News has announced a restructure where it will invest more into digital transformation and original journalism.

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  London Co-investment Fund calls for tech investors

  The London Co-investment Fund (“LCIF”) is looking to select co-investment partners to build a £75 million+ seed fund for early startup technology companies.

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future

  Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help?

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Orange opens up to app developers and startups with Apigee

  Orange picks Apigee’s digital API platform to help developers and startups create services by levering data already held by the telco

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Dotforge launches in Leeds as UK’s first regional fintech accelerator

  Leeds has become home to Dotforge, the first financial services technology (fintech) accelerator outside London

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Lloyds Bank strives to boost digital skills for SMEs and charities

  Lloyds Banking Group pushes ahead with government-led initiative to increase digital capability of UK SMEs and charities

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

  Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  What IT challenges would an independent Scotland face?

  If Scotland votes ‘Yes’ for independence in September, what are the costs and challenges of building new government IT systems?

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  BBC Technology deploys private cloud for virtual local radio

  BBC Technology has developed a private cloud-based virtual local radio station built on commodity IT

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  Santander launches $100m London fintech fund

  Santander is creating a $100m venture capital fund in London for financial technology (fintech) suppliers

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  NHS Stockport CCG joins Huddle to combine health and social care

  The NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is using Huddle cloud collaboration software to deliver more joined up health and social care

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Blender maker adds ServiceNow ITSM to business mix

  Blender maker Vitamix has rolled out its ServiceNow IT service management (ITSM) beyond the improvement of its IT operation by automating tasks across the business.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

  Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Can UK fintech startups survive outside London?

  With London’s booming financial services sector the biggest in the world, the UK Fintech Industry Summit 2014 considered the prospects for startups elsewhere in Britain

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  CIO interview: “Stores still very much part of Argos IT strategy”

  Argos combines wants to deliver a shopping model as compelling for online and mobile as it is for traditional channels