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• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Digital Catapult creates open source permissions platform to track creative IP

  The Digital Catapult innovation centre launches an open permissions platform to allow creatives to track where their content has been used

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  Why Apple is wooing open source developers with Swift

  Apple is among the most closed of tech companies, yet it is serenading open source with its Swift programming language

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Virgin Media uses Salesforce to build omni-channel sales

  Virgin Media is using Salesforce to offer a single customer view irrespective of the channel the customer uses to talk to the company

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  Lawmaker Vaizey hails UK role in resolving datacentre sovereignty issues

  Digital economy minister talks up government’s work in supporting the growth of the UK’s technology sector

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  SuiteWorld 2016: The way retailers use ERP is shifting, taking on an external focus

  NetSuite manager for commerce products looks at how consumers are forcing the retail world towards an experience-led business models

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

  Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices

• May 18, 2016 18 May'16

  The network is the application: Why APIs are agents of change

  Sun Microsystems once described the network as the computer. Today, applications are beginning to offer the real network value

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Foxy Leicester City FC won Premiership with data analytics

  Leicester City Football Club was the surprise winner of this season’s English Premier League, thanks, in part, to data analytics

• May 13, 2016 13 May'16

  Public cloud uptake rises, but Europe still lags behind the US

  Okta research finds the most popular cloud applications in all regions are mail, sales and marketing, social media and document storage

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  Future Retail Contest: Using tech to tackle retail’s biggest problems

  IC Tomorrow’s Future Retail Contest aims to help the retail industry tackle some of its business issues by leveraging retail-focused startups

• May 10, 2016 10 May'16

  Tel Aviv: A smart city where community engagement is the measure of success

  Israel’s capital is using the latest technologies as a way of placing the needs of local citizens at the heart of regional government

• May 09, 2016 09 May'16

  Post Office apologises as system goes down

  The Post Office computer system failed on 9 May 2016, leaving sub-postmasters unable to open branches

• May 06, 2016 06 May'16

  Swedbank boosts customer service with a virtual assistant

  Nuance Nina will offer basic frontline support for online customers

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Gulf Air creates private cloud to support open-source big data engine

  Airline is using a private cloud and open-source software to enable it to analyse social media and understand what consumers think about it

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  IBM develops quantum as a service

  IBM starts the ball rolling on what it would mean to program a universal quantum computer

• May 04, 2016 04 May'16

  Shell the latest multinational to insource IT offshore

  Oil giant Shell is the latest large business to announce plans to insource its IT operations at a delivery centre in Bangalore, India

• April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16

  Tech-savvy Asean populations shake up enterprise IT, says AIA CTO

  A young, urban and tech-savvy population in the Asean region has forced enterprises to rethink their IT strategies

• April 28, 2016 28 Apr'16

  Disrupting IT in the Nordics, from banks to taxis

  IT is dramatically changing traditional industry sectors in the Nordic region. Computer Weekly examines the transformation

• April 27, 2016 27 Apr'16

  Mobilising a workforce drives up performance and productivity

  Mobile workers are also more creative, satisfied and loyal, says EIU study

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  GE launches Predix-power application for the industrial internet

  GE’s digital division is now a fully fledged software business with the introduction of an asset performance management system

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Indonesian internet users turn to smartphones to go online

  Organisations with a cyber footprint in Indonesia must understand most internet users in the country access online content and services on smartphones

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  France takes the lead in the global open data race

  The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  UK economy faces digital divide, CBI warns

  A report from the Confederation of British Industry and tech giant IBM paints a bleak picture of UK businesses' adoption (or not) of digital technologies

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal

  Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  Singapore online grocer RedMart uses cloud ERP to drive growth

  Online retailer RedMart turned to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) when its existing system struggled to keep up with business growth

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  DevOps advocates bust myths around use of agile software development in enterprise

  Continuous software delivery experts set out why enterprises could be missing out by shunning DevOps

• April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16

  European Commission formally objects to Google’s Android dominance

  Pre-installing Google Search and Play on devices is anti-competitive and limits consumer choice, claims EC

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  Singapore SME makes HR analytics affordable for other small companies

  A small supplier in Singapore is offering other SMEs a SAS-based HR software shared service

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  Capgemini to build 100-strong team of blockchain specialists

  The IT services firm is building a team of 100 blockchain experts as banks start to consider the technology as the future of financial services

• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  UK poised to lead global fintech sector, says Tech City chair Eileen Burbidge

  Tech City chair and venture capital expert says the UK is in a position to become a world leader in financial services and sheds light on how cloud can provide failing firms with a stay of execution

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  Activist Lauri Love faces order to disclose encryption keys

  The UK’s National Crime Agency takes an unusual legal step to force a former university student accused of hacking to disclose encryption keys

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  BBC outsources finance and accounting technology to IBM

  IBM will take over the BBC’s accounting and payroll services from SopraSteria in November 2016 as part of a five-year contract

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business

  VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Pfizer collaborates with IBM to use IoT to support Parkinson's treatment

  Pfizer and IBM plan to work together on using IoT to monitor patients remotely to help in drug development and clinical therapies for Parkinson’s disease

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  CIO interview: Jean-Christophe Lalanne, CIO, Air France-KLM, on why WANs win business

  Operating at locations around the world, the WAN is key to business success for airline Air France-KLM, says its global CIO, Jean-Christophe Lalanne

• April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

  SimpliVity adds Hyper-V support to hyper-converged products

  Hyper-converged appliance maker adds Hyper-V support to VMware ESXi capabilities and upgrades OmniStack software to support workload optimisation on SimpliVity clusters

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Centrica deploys large scale Hortonworks cluster to boost business

  Utility company Centrica is looking at how to grow the business by harvesting data lakes

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  OSNexus unlocks Ceph object storage in QuantaStor v4

  Software-defined storage maker OSNexus adds Ceph-based object storage to its QuantaStor product, adding it to block and file storage from ZFS, Gluster and Ceph

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Businesses urged to update Apple software to dodge zero-day attacks

  Security experts are urging Apple Mac, iPhone and iPad users to update their operating systems to avoid data-stealing attacks that exploit a new zero-day vulnerability

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  The Israeli companies disrupting mobile technology

  Israel's high-tech startups are developing innovative technology that will bring new capabilities to consumers and mobile phone operators

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Metcalfe’s law of connections will drive digital business value

  Robert Metcalfe, the co-inventor of Ethernet, proposed that the value of network cards increases as the number of networked devices grows

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Danish utility NRGi goes offshore for IT platform transformation

  Danish utilty NRGi has outsourced its IT to Indian services supplier Wipro as it attempts to transform its operations amid increased competition

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  GDS preps guidance for third-party suppliers to deliver 'government as a platform'

  Government Digital Service (GDS) chief insists "pragmatic extensions" to outsourcing contracts implies nothing permanent in push for "government as a platform" (GaaP)

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Android Pay UK launch announced by Google

  Google is entering the UK mobile phone payments market, with Android Pay expected to be available in months

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  AWS and Microsoft UK datacentre plans could upset SME-rich Digital Marketplace, Kable warns

  SME G-Cloud providers told to brace themselves for increasing competitive threats from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle once their UK datacentres open

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  AWS at 10: How the cloud giant shook up enterprise IT

  A decade on from the launch of its first cloud service, the UK managing director of Amazon Web Services reflects on its first 10 years in business

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Fintechs want to take one-third of traditional banks’ business

  Banks know they could lose large chunks of business to fintech firms, but if the challengers have their way, it will be more than expected

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Atom Bank to offer artificial intelligence-based customer support

  Digital bank is integrating AI into its mobile banking app for customers to access support