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• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Ofcom to allow superfast broadband for travellers

  Communications regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead for vehicles such as boats, planes and trains to provide passengers with superfast broadband

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  EE routers vulnerable to ‘incredibly easy’ hack

  A blogger claims to have found a flaw in EE’s BrightBox broadband routers that could leave sensitive information accessible to hackers

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  HMRC to recruit 50 digital specialists in the North East

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is looking to recruit more than 50 digital specialists to work at a new digital centre in the North East

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  Tech firms lobby to keep open tax avoidance loopholes

  Big US tech firms are lobbying the OECD not to close tax loopholes they exploit to pay less tax in the UK and elsewhere

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  BSkyB and Vodafone in talks for new broadband services

  Sources claim BSkyB and Vodafone are in discussions around forming an alliance to compete against BT with broadband and PayTV services

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Internet at risk of 'cybergeddon' says WEF

  Internet is at risk of fragmenting amid concerns over spying and cyber crime, says World Economic Forum

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Case study: Berkshire NHS adopts 4G for home visits

  The Foundation Trust enables its nurses to access and update patient records on the move with 4G mobile Wi-Fi from EE

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Olympics executive named new BDUK chief

  Chris Townsend will lead the government’s rural broadband project, including pilot schemes of alternative technologies for areas that are hardest to reach

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Cabinet Office attempts to defuse PSN compliance tensions

  The Cabinet Office has updated the public services network (PSN) programme to make it easier for councils to meet security requirements

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  HSBC boss to take over BT Openreach

  BT confirms Joe Garner will take over as the CEO of its Openreach division when Liv Garfield steps down in February

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Former WTO chief leads debate on future of European spectrum

  The future of the UHF spectrum band will be discussed by industry leaders over the next six months before presenting proposals to the European Commission

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Startups selected for FinTech Innovation Lab 2014

  Seven startups have been selected for this year’s FinTech Innovation Lab in London.

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Free Wi-Fi coming to Edinburgh buses and trams

  Today sees the tender close for a government-funded project to bring free Wi-Fi to Edinburgh’s public transport network.

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Predictions 2014: How CIOs plan to spend their 2014 IT budget

  Computer Weekly asks IT experts what they believe will be the biggest areas of IT investment in 2014, and how different industries will be spending their IT budgets.

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  £8m competition seeks tech to rejuvenate high street

  A competition has been launched to find new technology that will encourage people to shop on the high street

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  Record online sales saw growth of almost 20% over Christmas

  Sales of non-food goods online grew 19.2% in December compared to the previous year

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  First steps on the Cabinet Office technology transformation journey

  Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has led the drive to change how technology is used across government, yet within his department IT is poor

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Eurotunnel signs deal with EE and Vodafone

  EE and Vodafone have signed a 10-year contract with Eurotunnel to enable customers to use their mobiles in the Channel Tunnel

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Tesco sales decline, but multi-channel efforts are paying off

  Tesco has reported disappointing sales, with a 2.4% drop in overall like-for-like sales over the Christmas period

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Sky forced to update porn filter

  Sky has been forced to update its porn filter after it was found to be blocking legitimate file-sharing sites

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  “Digital government” on track to save £500m

  The government has announced it is on track to save £500m of taxpayer’s money by improving IT efficiency and tackling IT waste

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Sainsbury’s sees 10% increase in online sales

  Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has seen the online delivery arm of its business grow by over 10% in the past quarter

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Samsung launches Smart Home ecosystem to connect home devices

  Samsung has launched a connected home ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Startup profile: Novoda

  Novoda is a service-based startup company which operates out of two offices – in London and Berlin. It develops Android software for companies wishing to have an application on the Google Play Store

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  John Lewis online sales soar over Christmas period

  John Lewis has seen online sales for the five-week trading period over Christmas increase by 22.6% on last year

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 mobile networking stories of 2013

  Computer Weekly takes a look back over the past 12 months at the biggest headlines in the mobile networking industry

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2013

  Smart retailers are realising they must adopt a multi-channel approach to their business, making instore, online, and mobile a seamless experience for the customer

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 networking stories of 2013

  Computer Weekly looks back at the biggest headlines in the networking industry over the past 12 months

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  OFT asks to observe government selection of open standards for documents

  The Office of Fair Trading asked the government if it could observe the sensitive process of selecting open standards for document formats

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Fujitsu set to lose three government outsourcing deals

  A number of outsourced contracts with Fujitsu will not be renewed by government over the coming year

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Met Police IT strategy expected 9 months late

  A new Metropolitan Police IT strategy is to be released in January nine months later than recommended by a critical report into the force’s IT

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks

  A British citizen has applied for a judgement against Facebook in a case that will test the right of tech firms to give UK personal data to the NSA.

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Ofcom threatens BT with fines over repairs

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom tells BT Openreach to fix faults with telephone and broadband services in two days or it could face fines

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  BT launches proceedings against Scotland's NHS over SWAN project

  Telecoms giant BT has launched a court case against the Scottish health service after failing to win the contract for the Scottish Wide Area Network project

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  BBC publishes PwC report into its failed £98m Digital Media Initiative

  The BBC has today published a report by PwC into the broadcaster’s failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI)

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Greater Manchester signs penultimate BDUK contract with BT

  Eight councils in Greater Manchester sign a £15m contract with BT to bring 39,000 homes high-speed broadband by March 2016

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  GCHQ told to tighten reins on Huawei security centre

  A report commissioned by David Cameron has called for tighter controls on Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Centre amid fears around the company’s ties with the Chinese government

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Is BT ‘embedding secret spy equipment’ in routers?

  UK telecoms giant BT is accused of enabling GCHQ and the NSA access to customer data through its routers used in millions of homes and businesses across the UK. BT claims it is just a conspiracy theory. Computer Weekly looks at both sides

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  John Lewis trials transactional tablets and debuts on Google Street View

  John Lewis has announced a range of shopping technologies it will be trialling over the Christmas period

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Foreign Office agile crisis response IT system goes live

  The Foreign Office’s new crisis response IT system, Crisis Hub, is now live.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Cable theft causes three-day broadband outage in West London

  Customers of BT, TalkTalk and Sky broadband in West London have been suffering outages for three days after an attempted cable theft in the capital

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Copyright compromise keeps UK internet archive offline

  When the UK unveils its internet archive, it will be in an incongruous setting: the reading room of a library.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  EE holds title for most complained about broadband

  With more than double the average number of complaints, EE – previously Orange Broadband – has been named the most complained about broadband provider by Ofcom for the fifth consecutive quarter

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  CIO Interview, David Southern, CIO WWF UK

  UK CIO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), David Southern, describes a technology refresh at its Woking HQ

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  BT launches scheme to get Plymouth residents online

  BT teams up with local charities and government organisations to put £330,000 into helping Plymouth residents get online and learn digital skills

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  NAO slams Universal Credit for not achieving value for money

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed to achieve value for money during the development of the Universal Credit IT system.

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  London Fire Brigade engages public with risqué social media campaign

  London Fire Brigade (LFB) captures public interest with 'Fifty Shades of Red' social media campaign, saving substantial costs of advertising

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Can HP Moonshot deliver blue-sky energy management in datacentres?

  New servers that have more in common with laptops than datacentre hardware are being developed to tackle the energy time bomb

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Government’s digital strategy is progressing, but inconsistently

  A review into the government’s digital strategy has been made one year after it was first published.

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  UK prepares to launch internet archive without internet access

  The UK is preparing to launch its official internet archive without internet access, after the publishing industry put restrictions on its release

• December 10, 2013 10 Dec'13

  Microsoft adds security to user accounts

  Microsoft has followed up its recent general statement of intent to protect customers from government snooping with details of stronger security.

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  DCMS offers small businesses broadband grants

  The government allocates £100m of the Urban Broadband Fund to enable small businesses in 10 cities across the UK to get faster internet connections

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  PM David Cameron opens Cisco’s startup centre IDEALondon

  Cisco’s innovation centre in London has been officially opened by Prime Minister David Cameron this morning on the third anniversary of Tech City.

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  EE launches 300Mbps 4G mobile network in Tech City

  EE's superfast mobile network goes live in Silicon Roundabout, bringing speeds of up to 300Mbps to the Tech City digital hub

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  DCMS puts transparency before BT’s commercial interests

  The head of telecommunications policy at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport claims the need for transparency in the BDUK roll-out is more important than BT’s commercial interests, but admits government needs to do better in pushing for more...

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA

  A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising stars 2013

  Computer Weekly announces the top ten people who have the potential to shape the future of the UK technology industry

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  VillageBroadband brings superfast Wi-Fi to rural Northamptonshire

  The community project turned company serves up 10-15Mbps Wi-Fi to 3,500 residents in rural parts of the East Midlands county

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  EE connects 10 more locations to 4G

  A further 10 towns and cities will go live today, with the mobile operator promising 19 more will get the faster mobile connectivity by Christmas

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Insurance firms invest £25bn in UK infrastructure

  UK’s biggest insurance firms will invest £25bn into infrastructure projects including broadband roll-out and railway networks

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Oxford Brookes revamps network with Juniper

  Oxford Brookes University signs Juniper Networks to overhaul its infrastructure and modernise services for students and staff

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Peter O’Rourke, director of IT, University Campus Suffolk

  Peter O’Rourke, IT director at University Campus Suffolk, is looking to students to shape the university’s IT infrastructure

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Martha Lane Fox resigns as UK Digital Champion

  The government has announced the resignation of Baroness Martha Lane Fox as UK Digital Champion

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Google could face Dutch fine over privacy policy

  Google could face a fine after Dutch authorities find the firm’s 2012 privacy policy violates local data protection law

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  BT ensures Rothbury broadband project goes ahead

  While alternative operators in rural locations have to wait for locations before getting RCBF funding and starting their broadband roll-outs, BT is a step ahead in Rothbury

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Lee Valley Park integrates its leisure estate using Omnico

  Lee Valley Regional Park Authority has implemented an online management system to support its diverse range of leisure attractions in the South East

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  BT to launch self-install FTTC broadband on New Year’s Eve

  The telecoms giant promises a cheaper install option, allowing customers to set up their own broadband from the last day of 2013

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Commons speaker John Bercow sets committee to review online voting

  House of commons speaker, John Bercow, has announced a commission on digital democracy to investigate the use of modern technology within parliament

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  UK set to announce plans to tackle extremism online

  The government plans to order broadband providers to block extremist websites identified by a specialist unit set

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Richard Williams, CIO, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, London Market

  CIOs need to have the courage to seek out innovation, says Richard Williams, CIO at insurer Mitsui Sumitomo

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Banks must engage effectively with customers via Twitter

  Retail banks must take advantage of social media to engage with customers, said digital banking experts.

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  European Parliament closes Wi-Fi after man-in-the-middle attack

  A number of mailboxes have been compromised and users’ smartphones could be at risk following a man-in-the-middle attack on the European Parliament’s public Wi-Fi

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Argos brings O2 Wi-Fi to 735 stores

  The retail giant is rolling out Wi-Fi to all its stores in time for the Christmas rush

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Janet6 ‘offers the future’ for research networking needs

  Jisc takes back the network from a managed service provider to light up its own fibre and offer a future proofed service to researchers, universities, colleges and schools across the UK

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  4G connections to hit one billion by 2017

  Research from the GSMA predicts one in eight mobile connections will be 4G within the next four years

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Google and Microsoft to block searches for child porn

  Google and Microsoft have announced measures to make it more difficult to find child abuse images online

• November 15, 2013 15 Nov'13

  uMotif wins Cisco Big Awards 2013

  Digital health startup uMotif has won first place at the Cisco Big Awards 2013

• November 15, 2013 15 Nov'13

  Barclays cuts 1,700 jobs as customers turn to technology

  Barclays Bank is planning to cut 1,700 frontline jobs across the UK as customers increasingly turn to technology for banking

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cardiff chooses BT for free Wi-Fi project

  The Welsh capital signs a deal with BT in its bid to become a ‘super connected city’

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Fife Council saves £20m through flexible mobile working solution

  Fife Council has implemented a mobile flexible working programme that allows employees to use mobile devices to simplify business processes

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cisco forecasts revenue declines

  Networking giant Cisco expects revenues to fall by up to 10% this quarter as it fails to build momentum in emerging markets

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea

  Ikea's priority is to get closer to its customers using a multi-channel approach which combines digital and traditional methods

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Conservative Party slammed for erasing its internet history

  The Conservative Party has been widely criticised after Computer Weekly revealed it removed all its pre-General Election speeches from the web

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Peterborough becomes ‘gigabit city’ after council inks fibre network deal

  Peterborough City Council signs CityFibre for a privately funded fibre network offering 1Gbps to 80% of its businesses by 2015

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Sainsbury’s digital efforts pay off as online grows 15%

  Sainsbury’s online grocery channel has grown 15% year-on-year, resulting in an annual turnover of £1bn

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Virgin Media promises 152Mbps but at a price

  Virgin Media will launch the superfast 152Mbps packages in February 2014 but reveals its prices will rise by almost 7% for cable customers

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Superfast broadband is 'Cornwall’s HS2'

  A total of 82% of premises in Cornwall can now access superfast broadband as Superfast Cornwall aims to connect 95% by the end of 2014

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  EE criticises government for being fixed on fixed-line broadband

  As EE launches 4G Wi-Fi services across rural Cumbria, the operator’s CEO criticises the government for focusing too heavily on fixed broadband infrastructure

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  BT backtracks on broadband postcode publication

  BT tells Computer Weekly local councils' BDUK broadband data is too commercially sensitive to publish

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Retailers predict rise in m-commerce over Christmas period, says Barclays

  Retailers expect sales from mobile devices to rise in the run-up to Christmas 2013

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Daniel Heaf, CDO, BBC Worldwide

  As chief digital officer at BBC Worldwide, Daniel Heaf doesn’t believe in 'innovation for innovation’s sake' - it's all about the audience

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  CIO Interview: Michael Ibbitson, Gatwick Airport

  Gatwick Airport is replacing in-house IT with cloud services in a multimillion-pound modernisation programme

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Retailers fail to engage customers with lack of in-store tech

  Infosys study finds most customers who see digital channels will engage with brands but most stores do not have the technology

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Luxury brands can avoid social media, says former Aston Martin director

  Luxury brands do not need to jump onto social media sites to as part of their marketing and IT strategy