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August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15
HMRC to transfer 250 Capgemini staff in-house ready for Aspire contract end

HMRC’s Aspire outsourcing contract will be replaced by slowly bringing staff in-house to give the department more control over IT
August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15
Sage Summit 2015: The move to cloud technology and the death of ERP

Accountancy software firm Sage has released new cloud-based software, highlighting the gap between the use of cloud and on-premise in the workplace and declaring a move away from traditional ERP
July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15
MPs examine visa rules over immigration for software and digital skills

Home Affairs committee launches an inquiry after the number of skilled worker visas issued reached its monthly cap for the first time
July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15
Bilingual coders earn £4,500 more than single language colleagues

Coders that know more than one coding language earn an average of 10% more than single language colleagues, reveals Greythorn report

July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15
Salesforce eager to support startup culture sweeping Europe

Salesforce’s head of startup relations shares why it’s partnered with accelerator Startupbootcamp
July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15
Women in IT meet prime minister David Cameron's gender pay gap news with scepticism

The prime minister’s announcement that firms with more than 250 employees will have to disclose salaries has been met with concerns over how and when results will be published
July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15
Vodafone scheme to help SMEs get online

Vodafone is to trial a series of digital workshops for SMEs aimed at equipping them with a stronger online presence
July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15
TechUK paper urges industry to collaborate in closing the IT skills gap

TechUK paper puts forward recommendations to government and industry on closer collaboration to close the IT skills shortfall
July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15
Bright Little Labs inspires children through Detective Dot role model

Interactive books aim to inspire a generation of coders to investigate where possessions come from and how they’re made
July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15
Computer Weekly reveals the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2015

This year's list of the 50 most influential women in UK IT has been revealed. Find out which female IT leaders are making a difference to the digital economy

July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15
Most influential women in UK IT 2015: Rising stars

Judges of most influential women in UK IT hail five females as rising stars. Special thanks to the Salesforce Foundation for extending their support to our 2015 Rising Stars
July 01, 2015 01 Jul'15
UK universities revise computer course guidelines to boost ranks of cyber warriors

UK universities revise course guidelines to transform computing degree courses and ensure that undergraduates learn cyber security skills
June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
CIO Interview: Ian Bell, CIO, Cambridgeshire Police Service

The CIO of Cambridgeshire Police Service talks about the constabulary’s move to digital for collaboration and information sharing in its effort to increase efficiency
June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15
Case study: Model railway company Hornby overhauls payments with Braintree

Hornby’s head of digital strategy explains how the firm chose Braintree as its online payments platform following its website migration last year
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Bet365: A company betting on its own technology innovations

While many sites make great use of agile development, run on the cloud and are built on Java and JavaScript, Bet365 is doing IT its own way
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process
June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15
BCSWomen hosts Guinness World Record attempt with marathon app-building event

BCSWomen hosts app-building event to encourage over 1,000 young people to simultaneously build Android apps in a Guinness World Record attempt
June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15
Case study: What the enterprise can learn from Etsy's DevOps strategy

Jon Cowie, operations engineer at online marketplace Etsy, advises enterprises on how to develop a DevOps-friendly business culture
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Europe’s startups should collaborate like Silicon Valley firms

Europe should take a leaf out of Silicon Valley’s book on openness and collaboration, according to speakers at Startup Village 2015
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Digital services not saving government departments money, says NAO

Government departments are not making the savings digital services were aiming to deliver
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
Apps for Good Awards 2015 finalists unveiled

18 student teams are to face an expert judging panel in the Apps for Good final ceremony held at the Barbican, London
June 08, 2015 08 Jun'15
John Lewis incubator sees first round of second-year pitches

More than 20 startups have presented their pitches to John Lewis executives in the first round of this year’s Jlab accelerator
June 03, 2015 03 Jun'15
HMRC looks for transformation partner ahead of Aspire end

HMRC is seeking transformational help ahead of the demise of its Aspire contract in 2017.
June 02, 2015 02 Jun'15
Most Influential Women in UK IT - introducing the Hall of Fame

Computer Weekly has launched its Most Influential Women in UK IT Hall of Fame to recognise lifetime achievement
May 26, 2015 26 May'15
Civil Servants point to lack of skills as barrier to IT procurement

Adoption of IT for public services is held back due to a lack of skills, despite civil servants agreeing IT is a necessity, according to techUK
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
GDS will not scale locally with continued bespoke approach

If the Government Digital Service (GDS) continues to develop bespoke digital services, the progress it has made to date will not scale at a local level, Eddie Copeland, head of technology at the Policy Exchange, has warned
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Reflect Digital founder shares road to success

Founder of Kent-based digital agency shares her journey from a £3k business to £500k
May 18, 2015 18 May'15
Socitm to launch women in IT network

Society of Information Technology Management on the hunt for partners to help launch women in IT network
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
CA Technologies rallies workforce to support younger generation

CA Technologies launches Europe-wide programme to get workforce behind closing the Stem skills gap
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Selling tech as a lifestyle will attract more females says HDS

Dev Patel of HDS says we need to sell the lifestyle of the tech industry to appeal to more women
May 08, 2015 08 May'15
Temp and permanent IT staff still in demand, reveals KPMG report

KPMG report shows IT sector has third-strongest demand for staff out of nine industries
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
IT staff on the rise despite slow business volume growth rate

New business volumes rise at slowest rate since mid-2013 but hiring predictions for technology staff are on the up
April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15
Met Police offers up to almost £200,000 for CIO role

The Metropolitan Police is offering up to almost £200,000 to fill its CIO position, which has been open since February 2015
April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15
30% Club launches technology group

30% Club adds technology arm, which will be chaired by Melissa Di Donato of Salesforce
April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15
Animator Ashling Lindsay crowned UK’s coolest techie

Pink Bottle Productions founder wins title of UK’s coolest techie as selected by student judging panel
April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15
Finland is the place to be for ICT

Finland stands out as the top country in ICT, according to the European Commission Digital Economy and Society Index
April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15
UK startups facing too many challenges, say entrepreneurs

Startups need more support if London’s digital economy is to develop, according to business leaders at Westminster Policy Forum
April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15
Cyber security boot camp launched to boost skills

Sans Cyber Academy unveils eight-week security boot camp after businesses demand more cyber security specialists
April 10, 2015 10 Apr'15
AWS promises to lower skills barrier to machine learning for developers

AWS wants to make it easier for developers to use data stored in its cloud for machine learning purposes
April 07, 2015 07 Apr'15
UBS innovation lab moves into Level39

Level39 will host the UBS innovation lab to support fintech startups
April 01, 2015 01 Apr'15
Martha Lane Fox unveils Dot Everyone

Lane Fox uses Dimbleby Lecture to reveal national institution idea putting women at the heart of the technology sector
March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15
More than a fifth of world’s billionaires studied engineering at university

Approved Index analysis finds 22% of Forbes’ 100 rich list studied engineering at university
March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15
Photo editing app firm BeFunky transforms into female-weighted team

Photo editing app company BeFunky set out to recruit the best talent it could find and unintentionally landed a team largely comprising women
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
HP Helion Rack looks to speed up enterprise private cloud adoption

HP wants to take the heavy lifting out of moving to the private cloud by offering enterprises pre-configured and tested infrastructure packages
March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15
IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015
March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15
Mobile devices better suited for digitally excluded

Digitally excluded find tablets and smartphones easier to use and more intuitive, according to Tinder Foundation and Vodafone UK report
March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15
BIS sets out to assist development of digital sharing economy

The government has set out a number of proposals to assist in the development of the £9bn trade body Sharing Economy UK
March 10, 2015 10 Mar'15
Wise chair Trudy Norris-Grey urges greater awareness of roles for women in IT

Chair of Wise Trudy Norris-Grey talks to Computer Weekly about raising awareness of opportunities for women in technology
March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15
Smart meter project in danger of outright failure, government warned

A report from the Energy and Climate Change Committee has warned that plans to install smart meters across the UK by 2020 are veering off-track
March 02, 2015 02 Mar'15
Lean IT Association unveils lean certification

LITA reveals Lean IT Certification Scheme for training providers wanting to teach the principles of Lean