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• 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

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  IT expert in Microsoft monopoly case faces £2.5m legal fight

  A computer expert who advised the European Commission in its investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft faces £2.5bn legal battle

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University

  Three years after joining the Open University, CIO David Matthewman continues to push a strategic programme to deliver value and innovation

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia

  Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Reed jobs site chooses SAP Business ByDesign

  Reed.co.uk recruitment agency has chosen cloud-based SAP Business ByDesign as part of an overhaul of its business applications strategy

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Ferrari swerves SAP, adopts Infor LN to meet Chinese demand

  Italian sports car maker Ferrari has turned to Infor ERP technology to respond to Chinese and Middle Eastern customer demand

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  European bank IT investment lags US and Asia-Pacific equivalents

  Banks in Asia-Pacific and North America will increase their IT spending significantly more than those in Europe

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Defra plans £80m agile CAP system

  The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning a single integrated £80m Common Agricultural Policy system

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data

  The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  G-Cloud powers Huddle’s public sector sales growth

  Cloud collaboration firm Huddle saw its public sector sales double to 30% of all revenues this year due to uptake generated through the CloudStore

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

  Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Post Office wants to get to bottom of IT system allegations

  A system that set out to modernise the Post Office in 1996 is under the spotlight after claims that Horizon accounting system is error prone

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  CIOs must hunt and harvest digital opportunities

  It is time for CIOs to focus on the outside world instead of internal IT, according to Gartner

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Gartner predicts the demise of the desktop PC refresh cycle

  Data from market analyst Gartner paints a bleak picture of the PC industry, suggesting the era of desktop replacement cycles has ended.

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  Post Office announces amnesty for Horizon evidence

  The Post Office is calling for evidence from people who have used the Horizon IT system which some have blamed for accounting discrepancies

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  NATS says BI key to five-year investment plan

  The UK’s air traffic control business NATS will make business intelligence (BI) a priority investment over the next five years

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical

  SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Disable Java to protect from latest zero-day

  Security researchers are warning of a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Java, including the latest Java 7 update 10

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Are software audits good for your health?

  The Business Software Alliance's claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers is a wake-up call to CIOs

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  VoIP awareness up but user numbers remain low

  A report from Ofcom claims four in five consumers know what voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is, but just 29% use the technology

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Barclays' Linux programme not a snub to suppliers

  Barclays says it is not snubbing any supplier by developing a private cloud infrastructure and using Linux to cut software development costs by 90%.

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Parliamentary commission calls for electrified banking ring fence

  A parliamentary report on plans to separate retail and investment banking calls for legislation to prevent breaches of the ring fence

• January 04, 2013 04 Jan'13

  Executive brings own software which is adopted by business

  Rochdale Development agency (RDA) has started using cloud based Huddle collaboration software after a development officer started using it at work.

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Ubuntu Linux adapted for Android smartphones

  The open source Ubuntu operating system, a distribution of Linux, has been adapted to run on smartphones

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Post Office admits that Horizon system needs more investigation

  Campaigners have forced the Post Office to look again at a computer system blamed for sub-postmasters being wrongly accused of false accounting

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Home Retail Group cuts call costs with SMS automation

  Home Retail Group, whose brands include Argos, Homebase and Habitat has cut telephony costs by rolling out an automated text messaging service across its three call centres.

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch co-operates in HP fraud probe

  Former CEO and founder of Autonomy Mike Lynch says he will co-operate with a US investigation into fraud alleged by parent firm HP

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 business software articles of 2012

  The main thrust in enterprise software this year has been the introduction of a new Windows OS, programming model and user interface.

• December 27, 2012 27 Dec'12

  Top 10 financial services IT stories in 2012

  The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months, despite continued tough market conditions.

• December 18, 2012 18 Dec'12

  Mott MacDonald rolls out Microsoft software globally

  Engineering firm Mott MacDonald is rolling out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy

• December 14, 2012 14 Dec'12

  Mazars outsources access management

  Global accountancy firm Mazars has outsourced the management of access to Oracle and Sharepoint applications for 6000 global staff