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• 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 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  PayPal targets financial platform dominance

  The man tasked with making PayPal a giant of financial services told an audience of investors that software is eating into the sector

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  Sharing Economy UK launched to champion digital businesses

  New trade body brings together digital businesses that encourage consumer and business asset-sharing, such as Airbnb and ZipCar

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Net neutrality lobby victorious after FCC ruling

  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopts new rules to support net neutrality and preserve the open internet

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  TSB is investing in bank branches, not closing them

  TSB is countering the industry trend of branch closures in the light of increased digital services by opening 30 new branches

• February 26, 2015 26 Feb'15

  One-third of UK broadband connections are superfast, says Ofcom

  One-third of the UK’s broadband connections now meet Ofcom’s definition of superfast, according to new research

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  University of Cambridge says peer-to-peer lending will become mainstream

  Financial transactions made on online lending platforms in Europe reached €3bn in 2014 and could hit €7bn this year

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  BT claims 1.5 million Scottish properties passed with fibre-to-the-cabinet

  Superfast broadband roll-out in Scotland has hit another landmark in terms of homes and businesses passed, say its backers

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  Digital challenger bank Starling loses its CTO

  The CTO of digital bank Starling has left the company before it has even been granted a banking licence

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Wales tenders for Superfast Cymru broadband extension

  Welsh government opens tender process for Superfast Cymru Infill Project to address premises that BDUK will not pass

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Scaling appropriately an issue for digital startups, says report

  Digital startups often scale their customer bases too quickly before they have had time to implement the appropriate infrastructure

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Altnet Gigaclear gets funding boost to expand network

  Oxfordshire-based fibre broadband provider Gigaclear bags its second institutional shareholder and plans to expand network

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Virgin Media pumps £3bn investment into UK broadband

  Virgin Media makes major financial commitment to extend digital infrastructure to millions more homes and businesses

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Baidu Chinese search engine share price falls on disappointing results

  China’s Baidu search engine share price fell by more than 8% in after-hours trade after quarterly revenue came in $11m below expectations

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Digital minister Ed Vaizey hints EC could allow state aid for broadband in cities

  Digital economy minister Ed Vaizey hints European Commission (EC) may relent stance over state aid for superfast broadband in cities

• February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15

  Why peer-to-peer lending is such a threat to banks

  Consumer trust for finance firms has never been high, and since the financial turmoil at the end of the previous decade it has reached rock bottom

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  BT and Huawei send 400Gbps down Dublin-Belfast pipe

  The first successful trial of cross-border ultrafast transmissions heralds the commercial deployment of 400Gbps broadband in Ireland

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Santander offers corporate clients cloud storage

  Santander’s cloud storage offer to corporate clients shows how banks could fight back against the IT giants encroaching on their market

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Newport to get resilient fibre ring for community safety projects

  As part of a wide-reaching regeneration plan, Newport City Council deploys resilient fibre optic network to support community safety

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Apple and Google are big but banks have advantages, says Santander boss

  Chairman of Spanish banking giant Santander is confident banks can fight off the challenge in financial services from tech giants

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  2Mbps broadband not good enough, says Efra Committee report

  The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s inquiry into rural broadband roll-out deems BDUK’s target speeds insufficient

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Government failed to make best use of publicly-owned networks

  The Cabinet Office has published a map detailing where it could make better use of its infrastructure to benefit businesses and consumers

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Darknet technologies have legitimate security uses, says researcher

  Darket technologies have legitimate security applications for business, says security investigator

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  BT pledges ultrafast 500Mbps connections for all

  BT announces pilots of G.fast technology and promises universal ultrafast broadband within a decade

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Google sees 2014 revenues hit $66bn

  Google has seen its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2014 increase by 15% year-on-year.

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Full steam ahead for P&O Ferries e-commerce website

  P&O Ferries has seen a 20% increase in users of its new e-commerce website, which it launched in December 2014

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Scotland sees startup growth, but Wales lags behind

  Scotland’s technology sector has seen a large growth in startup companies since 2009

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Nesta invests in apprenticeships website for young people

  Nesta has invested half a million pounds into a website to help young people connect with employers and colleges to find apprenticeship schemes

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Argos to open digital stores in Sainsbury’s supermarkets

  Argos has teamed up with Sainsbury’s with plans to open digital stores within 10 existing supermarkets.

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Sky to reorganise news desk for digital age

  Sky News is planning to reorganise its digital and television news operations to address the changing digital world

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Harrods invests in digital to entice customers

  Harrods is investing in digital screen and publishing technologies to engage with its customers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  River Island takes part in retail tech startup accelerator

  River Island is the latest company to get involved with a technology startup accelerator

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Future of parliament report calls for digital engagement and online voting

  A report outlines how parliament should embrace digital technology to be more transparent, inclusive and better able to engage the public

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  How can we build a flexible single digital market in the EU?

  EU should address mobility and data security as well as innovation through fair competition to expand digital growth, says UK report

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  High-tech giants warned of breakdown in trust at Davos summit

  Technology sector risks banking-style crisis following collapse in public trust in IT giants, Davos summit warned

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Senior judge calls for technology to transform courtrooms

  A senior judge has called for the introduction of technologies such as video and online filing to bring the criminal courts into the 21st century

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  IBM looks to Bitcoin blockchains for internet of things platform

  IBM sets out proof of concept for its ADEPT platform, using Bitcoin’s blockchain back-end to distribute the internet of things

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: BCBG Max Azria checks out customer engagement chic

  Fashion retailer BCBG Max Azria is stepping out in omnichannel chic with digital in-store solutions and localised web presence

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Starbucks launches wireless charging in the UK

  Starbucks has launched wireless charging points in 10 shops in London

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Obama pledges to push cyber security reforms

  In his State of the Union address, the US president pledges to urge Congress to pass legislation to improve US cyber security

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Canary Wharf Group opens third tech startup space

  London’s Canary Wharf Group has opened a third dedicated space to technology startups as part of its Level39 initiative

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  GDS hints at future approach to government-as-a-platform

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) has hinted at a new approach to meet Whitehall’s government-as-a-platform goals

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone sign net neutrality pledge

  EE, Virgin Media and Vodafone are last of the UK’s major internet service providers to sign up to Open Internet Code of practice

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Intel's mobile communications revenue freefalls

  Intel’s mobile and communication revenues plummet 85% in 2014 full-year financials but PC and datacentre earnings on the up

• January 16, 2015 16 Jan'15

  Public sector may get encrypted connections over PSN in defiance of PM

  Civil servants risk clash with Number 10 following remarks made by PSN chief technology officer James Duncan

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Ugg Australia trials RFID smart mat to digitise its stores

  Ugg Australia is trialing a smart mat system which allows shoppers to view more products electronically

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Gamestop’s Technology Institute engages digital customers in stores

  Gamestop has been investing in its store and digital channels through the Gamestop Technology Institute (GTI), which it launched in March 2014

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  TGI Fridays rolls out tablets and trials social media check-in

  TGI Fridays rolls out Microsoft tablets across its restaurant chain and experiments with data from social media check-in technologies

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Tesco embarks on image recognition technology for product placement

  Tesco is looking to pilot image recognition software to improve product placement in its stores

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  N3 network outage knocks NHS users off internet

  An internet gateway fault causes problems for users of the NHS N3 network

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Technology should complement traditional merchandising, says Hershey’s

  Retailers adopting innovative technology need to consider how it might affect traditional ways of merchandising at the point of sale

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Levi Strauss & Co thinks mobile first

  Levi Strauss & Co, the company known for Levi’s denim jeans, is thinking mobile first as part of its omni-channel retailing strategy

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  John Lewis to trial location technology for click and collect

  John Lewis plans to trial a micro-location technology to improve its click and collect service

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Solihull council launches digital strategy

  Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council has launched a digital strategy which outlines how it will engage with citizens across multiple channels

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Cabinet Office searches for CDO to lead digital and tech team

  The Cabinet Office is looking to create a digital and technology team, with a chief digital officer (CDO) at its helm

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Retailers need to plan for online peaks and troughs

  Almost a third of British online shoppers experienced problems with their orders over the Christmas period

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  UK outdone by superfast European broadband

  Britain’s fall down the average broadband speed rankings continues, according to web watchers Akamai

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Samsung CEO talks internet of things

  Samsung president and CEP BK Yoon told audiences at CES that the internet of things is not as distant as we think

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Car companies showcase automotive digitisation

  Autonomous automotive technology has stolen the limelight from the usual fodder of gadgets at CES in Las Vegas

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  UK startup harnesses technology to compete with high street banks

  Online startup, awarded banking licence, can now target customers of traditional banks

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Sainsbury’s experiences biggest online Christmas

  Sainsbury’s claims Christmas 2014 was its biggest to date for online groceries

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Should we redefine the boundaries of smartphone markets?

  The labels "mature" and "emerging" markets may no longer be relevant to describe smartphone sales, according to an analyst

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  Startups selected for London’s Fintech Innovation Lab 2015

  Seven financial technology startups have been selected for the annual Fintech Innovation Lab

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  CES 2015: LG launches G Flex 2 and predicts a ‘better’ future driven by IoT

  LG’s vision of a "better" and "more beautiful" future will be driven by innovation in the home-centric sector of the internet of things

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Online shoppers boost Christmas sales for John Lewis

  Online shopping accounted for 36% of all John Lewis sales over the 2014 Christmas period

• December 31, 2014 31 Dec'14

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2014

  It’s been a busy year for retail as the industry proves it is leading the way in the adoption of technology innovations

• December 30, 2014 30 Dec'14

  Defra: Broadband opens countryside up to cultivate startups

  Defra has said economic productivity could grow faster in the countryside than in urban areas over the next decade because of faster broadband

• December 29, 2014 29 Dec'14

  Top 10 healthcare IT stories of 2014

  It’s been a rocky year for technology and the NHS, succumbing to a marketing blow for its Care.data project and pushing back its e-Referral Service

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue

  Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Monsoon Accessorize provides multi-channel promotions via e-receipts

  Monsoon Accessorize is using data from both in store and online to provide personalised customer offers on emailed receipts

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Why are retailers breaking online delivery promises?

  The Christmas period has seen a wave of UK retailers’ technology failing to meet the basic needs of customers

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 public sector IT stories of 2014

  From a near-independent Scotland to continued problems with Universal Credit, it’s been a bumpy year for UK public sector IT

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 broadband stories of 2014

  Computer Weekly takes a look back at the biggest broadband stories of 2014

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust digitises 450,000 patient records

  Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed an electronic medical records system to digitise its patient records

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Up to half of home and small business internet users at risk from router bug

  An estimated 50% of home internet users are at risk from a bug affecting their routers

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Government chief scientific adviser: 'Don’t trivialise the internet of things'

  Government chief scientific adviser publishes report on the internet of things, making several policy recommendations

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  £1m grant handed to IoT competition winners

  A £1m grant has been given to seven startup companies that won a competition to create innovative internet of things projects

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  Government scraps national roaming in £5bn "not spot" pledge

  Government strikes £5bn ‘landmark’ deal with UK MNOs to address mobile "not spots"

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Delta rushes to fix ticket security vulnerability

  A security vulnerability with Delta Airlines mobile e-tickets potentially allowed people to access other travellers’ boarding passes

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Technology needed to help ambulance services cope with increased demand

  The future of the ambulance and emergencies services needs more investment in networking

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  November online retail sales break new records thanks to Black Friday

  Online sales in November rose 37% month-on-month, the largest October to November increase in IMRG Capgemini’s 14-year history

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  Ofcom names HM Treasury’s Sharon White as chief executive

  Sharon White, second permanent secretary at the Treasury, will take the wheel at Ofcom in March 2015

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  Google bank would be held back by lack of security trust

  Consumers trust banks more than tech firms to protect personal details, but the likes of PayPal could form strong competition

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  BT to buy EE for £12.5bn

  BT announces intention to buy mobile network EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange, rejecting a takeover of O2

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Incubators and accelerators provide UK startups with boost

  Startups which take part in incubator or accelerator programmes are more likely to be successful than those who don’t, says research from O2.

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Cheque use plummets in the UK

  There were one and a half billion fewer cheques written in 2014 than in 2004, but 44% of consumers and 64% of businesses still use them

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  JCDecaux partners with Vodafone to build small cell networks

  Vodafone joins outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux to deploy small cell technology on billboards to increase network performance

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Back-office digitisation more profitable than front-end for banks

  European banks investing in back-office digital technologies are reaping high profit margins

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  Digital governments meet in London to commit to best practices

  Digital governments from across the world are meeting in London today as part of the inaugural D5 summit

• December 09, 2014 09 Dec'14

  36% of UK smartphone users abandon slow retail sites

  Retailers need to make sure their online and multichannel services meet customer expectations in the run up to Christmas

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  GCHQ web surveillance does not breach human rights, says UK security court

  Data interception of citizens by the UK intelligence services complies with the Human Rights Act, according to Britain's top security court

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  NHS must partner with industry to embrace technology

  Healthcare providers must share expertise from the technology industry to make serious change, says NHS foundation CEO David Dalton

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014