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• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Progress made on Lloyds Bank's Project Verde segregation

  Lloyds Banking Group has reported good progress in its project to enable the systems for the new standalone TSB bank which will be sold off when complete

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Case study: How SAP runs Cape Town

  For the past 10 years, SAP has been running the city of Cape Town, South Africa

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn

  O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

  Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

  After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

  The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions

  Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  IT rationalisation must be combined with layoffs for long-term savings

  Long-term IT cost reduction requires more than just server consolidation and cuts to software licences, says Gartner

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Mott MacDonald rolls out unified communications

  Global engineering firm Mott MacDonald signs Tata Communications for a five-year unified communications deal worth over $20m

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  UK financial regulator FCA probes RBS IT failure

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) probes an IT failure at Royal Bank of Scotland that also affected NatWest and Ulster Bank customers

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

  Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever

• April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

  Vendors form OpenDaylight Project for SDN

  Networking industry's big names form OpenDaylight Project - an open source framework for SDN - under Linux Foundation’s umbrella

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  British Library archives the web

  The British Library is to archive 4.8 million UK websites and one billion web pages, following statutory changes to copyright legislation

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  BMI Healthcare assesses mobile devices for hospital consultants

  Healthcare provider BMI Healthcare is evaluating mobile device management to give consultants flexible access to patient records

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  More IT problems at RBS

  RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers using mobile apps were locked out today after another IT failure at the banking group

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending

  The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation

  Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Yahoo buys UK teenager’s app for £18m

  Yahoo has acquired Summly – an app created by a UK teenager – for £18m, making him one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  Apple buys WifiSLAM for $20m

  Apple buys indoor mapping start-up WifiSLAM for $20m to boost its location technology and compete with Google’s indoor capabilities

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief

  Former programme director of Universal Credit, Malcolm Whitehouse, has denied the mega-project is at odds with agile development

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects

  Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat

  Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  Case study: Hamilton Fraser embraces BYOD with MobileIron

  How insurance firm Hamilton Fraser is using MobileIron to enable employees to bring their own devices while following company policy

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

  In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Government mandates 'preference' for open source

  The government has, for the first time, mandated a preference for using open source for future developments

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Samsung launches Galaxy S4 with improved software and Knox security

  Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 – which was released in New York – aims to boost software and Android OS security

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders

  Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

  John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh

  Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system.

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Hilary Reynolds latest universal credit programme director to move

  Universal credit programme director Hilary Reynolds has moved off after just four months, the latest senior figure to leave the programme

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Midlands health trust trials BlackBerry 10 OS on PlayBook with Z10 roll-out

  The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust tests the Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) for a mobile fleet deployment

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Hardware fault causes more RBS service outages

  RBS and NatWest customers experienced disruptions to online and telephone banking services after hardware fault.

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

  Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

  Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Businesses must fundamentally change or 'die'

  Firms need to embrace technological change or face being left behind, according to executives from Amazon and Salesforce

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Are CIOs losing relevance or will they just change their spots?

  The CIO is an evolving role and changes in technology and budgets, mean it is shifting more towards governance

• March 04, 2013 04 Mar'13

  Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

  Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  UK teams up with Estonia to develop digital public services

  The UK government has signed an agreement with Estonia to work together on developing digital public services

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Booking.com embraces mobile apps

  Head of mobile marketing for Booking.com talks about mobile strategy and accumulating more than 10 million downloads in less than two years

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Nokia Siemens Networks unveils Liquid Applications

  New technology enables data-rich applications to be run from base stations, reducing latency in mobile networks

• February 24, 2013 24 Feb'13

  Mozilla announces handsets for Firefox OS

  Alcatel, LG and ZTE will be the first mobile manufacturers to bring Firefox OS handsets to the market

• February 24, 2013 24 Feb'13

  Universal Credit has the hallmarks of another IT failure

  Charities, housing associations and consultancies have warned that the Department for Work and Pensions’ £2.2bn Universal Credit programme has all the hallmarks of another public sector IT disaster.

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme

  David Pitchford, executive director of Major Projects Authority heads up the Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Google battles BT in patent row

  Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme

  Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  Barclays bank cuts UK jobs

  Barclays will cut jobs in the UK as part of a total reduction of 3,700 staff after reporting a substantial drop in profits for the last 12 months

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  HMRC alerts businesses to impending real-time PAYE changes

  HMRC is notifying businesses about impending real-time information (RTI) changes to the PAYE payroll system