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• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  UK hands Indian IT suppliers competitive boost in trade deal

  Trade deal will exempt IT workers from India from paying National Insurance contributions for three years

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation

  Indian heritage IT services firm opens office in Canary Wharf and sets is sights on growing its UK public sector business

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  Fujitsu UK staff will get bonus despite Post Office scandal fallout

  Employees will receive bonuses as Fujitsu UK reaches sales target - suggesting that its pause on bidding for public sector business has had limited impact

• April 28, 2025 28 Apr'25

  HMRC predicts IR35-related £20m annual tax loss due to business size classification changes

  HMRC predicts that changes made by the government to the classification criteria used to decide if businesses should be considered small or medium-sized entities will cost the Treasury £20m each year in IR35 non-compliance

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Tariff turmoil is making supply chain security riskier

  Many businesses around the world are taking the decision to alter their supplier mix in the face of tariff uncertainty, but in doing so are creating more cyber risks for themselves, according to a report

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Post Office gets extra £136m towards tech transformation as clock ticks on Horizon

  Latest handout means government has given the Post Office more than a quarter of a billion pounds in ‘further’ funding, with half destined to support its technology transformation

• April 01, 2025 01 Apr'25

  Scottish support group for Post Office scandal victims launched

  Support group calls on former subpostmasters in Scotland who have been affected by Horizon errors to come forward

• March 31, 2025 31 Mar'25

  Top 1,000 IT service providers in scope of UK cyber bill

  The government’s proposed Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is set to include regulatory provisions covering both datacentre operators and larger IT service providers

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Air New Zealand takes off with digital transformation deal

  The airline aims to become a digital leader with TCS’s help to improve fleet management, crew scheduling and ground services through the use of artificial intelligence

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society

  Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit to discuss how the technology can work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competing imperatives mean there is no guarantee these visions will...

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  Major strike by Fujitsu staff at ‘cash cow’ HMRC

  Fujitsu staff working at government department will strike for 22 days in protest over pay offer

• March 13, 2025 13 Mar'25

  Supercars team BJR taps Extranet Systems for racing edge

  As the demands of motorsports grow, Supercars team Brad Jones Racing turns to IT specialist Extranet Systems to manage crucial areas such as security, backup and disaster recovery

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  Government announcement on Fujitsu talks add ‘vague words’ and no interim payment

  Peer James Arbuthnot says he is ‘disappointed’ that there was no mention of an interim payment in announcement of government’s latest talks with Fujitsu

• February 27, 2025 27 Feb'25

  Peer demands Fujitsu cough up £300m interim payment towards Post Office scandal bill

  Kevan Jones tells fellow peers in the House of Lords that Fujitsu should also be barred from bidding for public sector contracts

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  IoT and SaaS will underpin government legislation introduced to protect rivers

  Tech platform will enable water companies, regulators and the public to monitor pollution levels in rivers

• February 21, 2025 21 Feb'25

  Fujitsu’s £600m-plus prize with His Majesty’s ‘cash cow’ in 2025

  Controversial supplier continues to reap the rewards of government IT contracts despite its participation in ‘ghastly fraud’

• February 18, 2025 18 Feb'25

  MSP cuts costs with Scality pay-as-you-go anti-ransomware storage

  Autodata gets Scality as-a-service for on-site immutable storage via Artesca, to allow customers to rapidly recover from ransomware and at the same cost per terabyte no matter the volume

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  Fujitsu public sector boss says supplier has advantage in HMRC bid despite Post Office scandal

  Fujitsu public sector boss is banking on huge deals with HMRC despite Post Office scandal, after another lucrative year

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  IT supplier helps address ‘overwhelming’ volumes of data from space

  CGI is building on its decade-long relationship with the European Space Agency, and as more and more satellites entering orbit, its role in processing data is not set to diminish

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  India Budget: Tech takes centre stage with AI and infrastructure boost

  India has earmarked significant investments in artificial intelligence, global capability centres and digital public infrastructure while boosting training and education in its latest budget

• January 28, 2025 28 Jan'25

  Concerns over Fujitsu billing application used at SSE Airtricity in Republic of Ireland

  Under-scrutiny IT services firm has escalated fears over problems with one of its applications, used at a Republic of Ireland energy firm, to its headquarters in Japan

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  TCS to inject AI and quantum computing into aerospace through French delivery centre

  Indian IT services giant opens IT delivery centre that will focus on technology that can address the challenges of the aerospace sector

• January 24, 2025 24 Jan'25

  Labour’s first digital government strategy: Is it déjà vu or something new?

  Labour won the 2024 general election on a platform of change – and its technology cheerleader insists the new digital government strategy is all about change. Have we heard it all before or is this time really different?

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Fujitsu staff at HMRC to strike for two days over pay

  More public image woes for Fujitsu as hundreds of staff to strike after colleagues at HMRC get significantly bigger pay rise

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Post Office scandal-stained Fujitsu orders staff to cut costs amid widening UK losses

  Japanese supplier reports a loss of £170m in the UK in its latest financial statement and orders UK staff to cut costs

• January 08, 2025 08 Jan'25

  Nato membership boosts Finnish civil and military tech startups

  Tech companies in Finland and Sweden that offer civil and military products are benefitting from Nato military alliance

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  Sir Alan Bates has ‘serious concerns’ over Post Office scandal compensation budget

  Campaigning former subpostmaster welcomed ‘positive’ select committee report but voiced concern over inclusion of legal costs in compensation pot

• December 30, 2024 30 Dec'24

  Post Office scandal campaigners awarded OBEs in New Year Honours List

  Former subpostmasters and campaigners Jo Hamilton, Lee Castleton, Seema Misra and Christopher Head honoured for their part in 20-year fight against the Post Office – along with former Computer Weekly reporter Rebecca Thomson

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  How NCS is tackling the enterprise IT market

  The technology service provider is counting on its government experience, global expert network and cyber security capabilities to penetrate the enterprise IT market

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  IaaS firm uses Pure Storage as a service for ‘virtual datacentres’

  Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres’ business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Post Office scandal in 2024 – part 1: A year in the mainstream

  Read this year’s 10 most read Computer Weekly articles about the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

• November 29, 2024 29 Nov'24

  Atos readies ‘adaptive and intimate’ Invictus Games IT service

  IT services company will ship 50 of its staff from Europe to Canada to work onsite at the tournament in February 2025

• November 28, 2024 28 Nov'24

  Fujitsu’s charity boss made redundant while Post Office scandal victims await support

  At a time when it could give something back to Post Office Horizon victims persecuted as a result of its faulty software, Fujitsu makes UK charity boss redundant

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Post Office scandal redress echoes Windrush compensation problems

  Campaigning former subpostmaster Sir Alan Bates met with Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) over financial redress scheme

• November 21, 2024 21 Nov'24

  Fujitsu snubbed on private sector deal with Centrica due to Post Office scandal backlash

  Centrica board said to be concerned about contracting Fujitsu due to its involvement in the Post Office scandal

• November 15, 2024 15 Nov'24

  Post Office to decide on Horizon before April, Fujitsu board considers final contract extension

  Chief transformation officer tells Computer Weekly about ongoing work on replacing controversial Post Office Horizon system and extending contract with Fujitsu

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Virtual wards to digital feedback: the Nordic approach to post-pandemic healthcare

  Post-pandemic healthcare is benefitting from Nordic tech foresight, with the country bringing digital change to the world’s health sector to allow for more remote care

• November 11, 2024 11 Nov'24

  Fresh concerns over NHS England registries procurement

  Clinicians and technologists behind a number of medical devices registries being brought together by NHS England on a new common platform have accused the health service of flouting public sector procurement regulations

• November 04, 2024 04 Nov'24

  Government’s £600,000 offer to Horizon scandal victims was 'political'

  The Post Office was blindsided by the previous government’s decision to offer £600,000 to all subpostmasters wrongly convicted of financial crimes as a result of Horizon failures

• November 01, 2024 01 Nov'24

  Outside IR35: What the Autumn Budget’s Employers’ NI changes mean for IT contractors

  The UK government used the Autumn Budget to announce an increase to the amount of Employers’ National Insurance Contributions companies will have to pay, which could have big implications for IT contractors

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Post Office scandal affected relationships of two-thirds of victims

  The Post Office scandal, regarded as the UK’s widest miscarriage of justice, destroyed the financial wellbeing of former subpostmasters, took away their liberty and inflicted grief on their relationships

• October 31, 2024 31 Oct'24

  Autumn Budget: Employment agencies to take on PAYE processing from umbrella firms from April 2026

  The government has pledged legislation to make employment agencies and end-hirers responsible for making sure contractors pay the right amount of tax, in a clampdown on non-compliant umbrella companies

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  No simple replacement for digital evidence rules, says Post Office Horizon trial judge

  Judge in Post Office Horizon trial says a more flexible approach to how digital evidence is used in court cases may be required as IT complexity increases

• October 30, 2024 30 Oct'24

  How FPT Software is expanding its footprint in APAC

  Vietnamese IT giant is experiencing rapid growth in the region, driven by its diverse workforce, focus on key technologies and ability to navigate a highly competitive IT services market

• October 29, 2024 29 Oct'24

  Tata Consultancy Services to deliver Irish pension scheme

  Indian IT services giant adds to its growing customer base in the pensions sector with Irish contract win

• October 24, 2024 24 Oct'24

  Warning shots fired as former subpostmasters have ‘useful’ meeting with Post Office CEO

  Acting CEO meets two campaigning former subpostmasters emphasising need for their input into the Post Office’s future direction, including its branch system development

• October 22, 2024 22 Oct'24

  Former Post Office IT boss alleged to have misrepresented alternative to in-house build

  Internal Post Office document reveals allegations that former transformation boss misrepresented off-the-shelf option to replace Horizon

• October 11, 2024 11 Oct'24

  Post Office believes it took £36m from subpostmasters with unexplained losses

  The Post Office wrongly blamed subpostmasters for unexplained account shortfalls and made them cover losses out of their own pockets - then banked the money itself

• October 10, 2024 10 Oct'24

  Post Office dragging its feet getting rid of tainted staff, despite government ‘green light’

  Former minister gave Post Office ‘green light’ to take robust action against existing staff with links to Post Office scandal wrongdoing

• October 09, 2024 09 Oct'24

  Under-fire Nick Read was unprepared for Post Office challenge

  Post Office boss Nick Read was not prepared for the task ahead of him when he joined the organisation as CEO in 2019