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• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  MEP quits as thousands protest ACTA signing

  A European MP has resigned after thousands of people in Poland protested against the international anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA)

• January 27, 2012 27 Jan'12

  Selfridges IT chief moves on to British Car Auctions

  Duncan Gray, formerly the group IT director at luxury retailer Selfridges, has been appointed as the new chief information officer at British Car Auctions (BCA).

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Gartner identifies trends in CIO spending in 2012

  Chief information officers are facing an austere 2012. Spending on IT will rise on average by just 0.5% worldwide, but IT budgets in the UK, Europe and North America are declining.

• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  ICT curriculum for GCSE is scrapped

  The government is to scrap the teaching of GCSE ICT in schools this September, with plans to replace the subject with the “rigorous” teaching of computer science and programming subjects.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• November 29, 2011 29 Nov'11

  Standard Life overhauls IT department and cuts jobs

  Insurer Standard Life is to axe a number of IT staff following a review of its IT and operations division.

• November 21, 2011 21 Nov'11

  Centrica CIO quits to join HP

  David Bickerton, the global chief information officer at Centrica, has resigned from the utilities giant to join Hewlett-Packard.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Computer Weekly wins digital publishing award

  Computer Weekly has won a prestigious publishing industry award for the product development of the year.

• November 09, 2011 09 Nov'11

  Adobe to change mobile Flash player strategy and axe European jobs

  Adobe plans to abandon its Flash player for mobile browsers and cut 750 jobs across North America and Europe as part of a reorganisation.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  City University London unveils scholarship for information leadership course

  City University London has launched its IBM Enterprise Computing scholarship to award a place on its Masters of Information Leadership (MIL) course.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Open University expands computer-aided teaching portal for educators worlwide

  The Open University has completed the second stage of a £2.5m Department of Education funded initiative to deliver computer-aided teaching to the classroom.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Survey finds UK IT jobs concentrated in London and south-east England

  With software houses and the financial services sector creating by far the most permanent IT jobs, career opportunities are being condensed into south-east England.

• October 28, 2011 28 Oct'11

  Software skills survey reveals SQL highest in demand followed by C programmers

  The latest survey from Salary Services Limited (SSL) has revealed the software skills most in demand in the latest quarter of 2011.

• October 06, 2011 06 Oct'11

  Technology industry figures pay tribute to Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs

  Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the ...

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Callcentre workers steal £400k from TUI Travel

  Four callcentre workers stole over £400,000 from their employer TUI Travel by paying customer refunds to themselves when processing claims.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  Gartner: Best defence against social media threats is monitoring and education

  Blocking social media in the enterprise encourages bad behaviour by employees but does not prevent access, warns Gartner.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  HP webOS lay-offs could affect European employees

  Hewlett-Packard could lay off European employees as part of the company's decision to discontinue its webOS hardware division, including the Touchpad tablet range.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  Visa Europe opens its doors to IT trainees on Higher Apprenticeship programme

  Visa Europe has recruited 14 IT apprentices through its Higher Apprenticeship programme, launched in April 2011. Most will study for a foundation degree and "level 4" diploma while working in the company's technology division.

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  PricewaterhouseCoopers takes 40 graduate IT interns on security and testing teams

  Consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has selected 40 graduate interns for its IT department. The trainees will work with PwC's information security and testing teams.

• September 07, 2011 07 Sep'11

  CIO interview: Mike Bracken, UK government director of digital

  Whitehall is not exactly known for being at the bleeding edge of technological innovation. But as the newly appointed government director of digital, Mike Bracken is set to change that perception. In an exclusive interview, he discusses the ...

• September 01, 2011 01 Sep'11

  Undergraduate interns help Jaguar Land Rover research in-car intelligence

  Rob Watts and Jess Cummings are second-year undergraduates demonstrating future car technology for Jaguar Land Rover through an internship programme called Extreme Blue at IBM's UK research facility in Hursley

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  The business architect role is vital to business process transformation

  If you have not yet heard the term "business architect", you soon will, write John Rymer and Alexander Peters of Forrester Research. Whether business architects report into the business or IT, this emerging role will help usher in organisations' ...

• August 26, 2011 26 Aug'11

  Lack of soft skills training is curbing IT career progression

  Employers are failing to provide IT professionals with the business...

• August 24, 2011 24 Aug'11

  CompTIA+ provides young IT pro with career boost

  Dujon Walsham is a 23 year old IT consultant who has worked on high-profile projects such as the IT infrastructure to capture programmes for ITV Player. His current job involves helping companies like eBay and British Airways adopt cloud computing ...

• August 24, 2011 24 Aug'11

  RBS pay leak reveals the contractors paid £2,000 a day

  A blunder by recruitment company Hays has revealed contractors at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) earn £2,000 per day.

• August 23, 2011 23 Aug'11

  BT services division takes 15 school leavers for IT apprenticeships in recruitment drive

  BT Engage has taken on 15 school leavers to embark on three-year IT apprenticeships.

• August 23, 2011 23 Aug'11

  Why major IT projects are more likely to fail than any others

  Major IT projects are 20 times more likely to fail than other business initiatives because project managers are ignoring unpredictable events, says a major research study by Oxford University.

• August 23, 2011 23 Aug'11

  One third of employees willing to change employer for flexible working arrangements

  A third of employees will seek employment elsewhere if employers fail to support flexible working via mobile devices.

• August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11

  UK business should educate internally to get the right IT security skills at lower cost

  UK businesses should look to internal training to meet future IT security needs rather than paying high prices by competing to recruit scarce skills externally, warn experts.

• August 17, 2011 17 Aug'11

  Atos employees to be investigated over Facebook remarks about disability benefit applicants

  Two Atos Healthcare employees are being investigated over allegations they made inappropriate remarks on Facebook about the people they assess for sickness benefit.

• August 11, 2011 11 Aug'11

  IT firm grows business five-fold after hiring apprentices

  Computer repair company D&J Henry says its business has grown five-fold after hiring apprentices.

• August 05, 2011 05 Aug'11

  US names former Microsoft executive as new Federal CIO

  The US has appointed former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel as its new government chief information officer.

• August 01, 2011 01 Aug'11

  Former government CIO John Suffolk joins Huawei as head of cybersecurity

  Former government CIO John Suffolk has joined China-based IT company Huawei as global head of cybersecurity.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  Highlights from 'A recipe for rip-offs' - the Select Committee report on government IT

  The Public Administration Select Committee has published a scathingly critical report on government's use of IT. We've chosen a selection of the highlights from the report.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  IT industry salaries rise 7.5% in 2011

  Salaries for IT professionals have risen by 7.5% to reach an average wage of over £46,000 in 2011...

• July 22, 2011 22 Jul'11

  British Computer Society – the case for change

  A year on from the BCS extraordinary general meeting (EGM), Amit Bhagwat looks at how BCS has evolved, why the EGM came about and gave the results that it did, what has followed since and, how BCS might consider its future from here.

• July 19, 2011 19 Jul'11

  Carphone Warehouse uses business process management to increase customer satisfaction

  Retailer Carphone Warehouse is claiming a 25% jump in its customer satisfaction ratings after investing in BPM software to help staff deal with sales, queries and complaints.

• July 14, 2011 14 Jul'11

  CIO interview: Phil Pavitt, HM Revenue & Customs

  HM Revenue & Customs CIO Phil Pavitt talks to Computer Weekly about the biggest and most challenging tasks in public sector IT. Pavitt discusses his overhaul of the department's IT; tackling spending cuts; public sector IT strategy and the role of ...

• July 13, 2011 13 Jul'11

  Central government staff lack skills in IT

  A significant proportion of civil servants lack skills in areas such as IT, a National Audit Office report has found.

• July 12, 2011 12 Jul'11

  Cisco to axe 10,000 jobs

  Cisco Systems may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, roughly 14% of its workforce, to combat weak profit growth, according to Bloomberg.

• July 11, 2011 11 Jul'11

  IT professionals get multiple job offers and double-digit pay increases as demand surges

  Demand for IT skills has increased as businesses begin to re-invest in IT and professionals with particular IT skills are receiving multiple job offers and double-digit pay increases if they switch employers.

• July 07, 2011 07 Jul'11

  Business analyst skills shortage continues as IT job market grows

  Business analysts are the IT staff most in demand for permanent and contract roles, according to KPMG.

• June 28, 2011 28 Jun'11

  Tory technology advisor Liam Maxwell appointed to government IT advisory post

  Top technology advisor to the Conservative Party, Liam Maxwell, has been appointed to a key IT advisory role in the Cabinet Office.

• June 27, 2011 27 Jun'11

  Unite members at Fujitsu’s Crewe site to strike

  Members of the Unite union at Fujitsu's site in Crewe have voted to take strike action over the alleged unfair treatment of a trade union activist.

• June 21, 2011 21 Jun'11

  Westminster City Council CIO David Wilde leaves for Essex County Council

  Westminster City Council chief information officer David Wilde is leaving at the end of this week to take up the equivalent role at Essex County Council.

• June 15, 2011 15 Jun'11

  E-Skills National Skills Academy for IT launches training subscription service for SMEs

  E-Skills UK's National Skills Academy for IT has set up a training subscription service aimed at small businesses and self-employed IT professionals.

• June 14, 2011 14 Jun'11

  IBM celebrates 100th birthday as workers send video calling for improved conditions

  International Business Machines (IBM) is celebrating its 100th birthday, founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation through a merger of four companies in 1911.

• June 14, 2011 14 Jun'11

  HP CIO Randy Mott leaves amid company management restructure

  Hewlett-Packard's CIO, Randy Mott, has left the company amid an organisational restructure.

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Outsourcing in the Ukraine: benefits and drawbacks

  The Ukraine offers highly skilled IT specialists at a low cost for companies looking to develop projects within Europe. But while the honesty of its people appears to be a key selling point, problems of corruption and the possibility of social ...

• June 02, 2011 02 Jun'11

  Birmingham Council's offshore move could trigger public sector outsourcing exodus

  Birmingham City Council is planning to offshore 100 jobs to India as part of an HR and IT services joint venture with Capita.