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• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Vodafone confirms five Midlands cities for 4G

  Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield will all get Vodafone’s 4G services from the end of September

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  BT to shut down dial-up in September

  BT tempts its customers over to broadband services, although also offers PlusNet narrowband alternative for those outside of its footprint

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Internet of things to power classroom education

  Businesses and academics have joined forces in an £800,000 project to extend the internet of things into the classroom

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Interview: Martin Russell, head of IT services, Just Eat

  Just Eat's head of IT services, Martin Russell speaks to Computer Weekly about his experiences of switching to Google

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Online retailing means the industrialisation of analytics

  Figleaves founder and eCommera chief scientist Michael Ross argues that online retailing requires a new type of action-oriented business intelligence

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Multimillion-pound broadband project axed in Yorkshire

  Despite millions of taxpayer’s pounds sunk into the Digital Region project in South Yorkshire, the councils involved decide to drop it to save £12.5m

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  ICO to investigate London bins that track smartphones

  Information Commissioner's Office is making enquiries into bins in London that track passing smartphones to target advertising to owners

• August 08, 2013 08 Aug'13

  Bloomberg signs up to Ubuntu Edge hybrid

  Financial analytics service Bloomberg has bought into Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu One vision for a hybrid PC/mobile device.

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  ICO to investigate sale of online dating profiles

  The UK’s data protection watchdog is to investigate the sale of 10,000 online dating profiles to the BBC’s Panorama programme

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  UK to block online porn by default

  The UK is to block online pornography by default to all new internet users, David Cameron is to announce

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Facebook to acquire UK startup Monoidics

  Facebook is to acquire UK startup Monoidics, which makes code verification and analysis tools and specialises in detecting coding errors

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Google competition proposals not good enough, says EC

  Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia wants Google to readdress fears that it is abusing its market domination for its own gain

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  GDS tracks 'digital by default' progress of top 25 government services

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches website to track progress of the 25 services targeted as the first to go online under the digital strategy

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Tech firms target piracy profiting websites

  Tech firms including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join an initiative targeting websites that profit from piracy by cutting off advert revenue

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed

  Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  More than one-fifth of UK firms hit by DDoS attacks in 2012

  More than a fifth of UK firms experienced a disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in 2012

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  National broadband projects key to UN goals

  The Broadband Commission claims national projects are the best way to ensure the benefits of the internet are enjoyed by all

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Mark Hall may quit Whitehall after being snubbed for HMRC CIO role

  Mark Hall, the acting CIO at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has not been given the job full-time and may quit government

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Anne Boden, COO, Allied Irish Bank - on moving to private cloud

  AIB’s private cloud has meant a tenfold reduction in the number of Oracle databases and gives the bank internal technological ability and development flexibility to respond to a changing and demanding market

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  O2 extends 4G backhaul with Virgin Media Business

  Mobile operator O2 will use Virgin Media Business’s superfast fibre network to bring capacity for its 4G roll-out later in 2013

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Ofcom proposes cuts to wholesale broadband charges

  The telecoms regulator wants to reduce the wholesale price BT charges to smaller ISPs, which it hopes will lead to price drops for broadband and landline packages

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  DCMS to force BT’s hand on rural broadband gaps

  Maria Miller sets up a meeting to answer calls from local broadband providers and try to make BT identify where they will be needed to connect the final 10% of the UK to superfast fibre

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Pete Marsden, CIO, Asos.com

  As online fashion retailer Asos.com continues to expand, its IT strategy is focused on new international locations and keeping up with web retail

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Senior MPs flout EU cookie law

  Two years after the EU cookie regulation and UK law came into force, not all UK websites are compliant, including the sites of 13 senior MPs

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Biffa uses software-as-a-service for self-service and automation

  Waste management firm Biffa deploys IT service management software-as-a-service (SaaS) to increase user self-service and automation

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HR technology booming as businesses turn to the cloud

  Over the next 18 months, 60% of companies plan to roll out HR technology solutions, says analyst group Bersin by Deloitte.

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  IT departments to shrink dramatically within five years as cloud takes over

  IT professionals will need to rethink their careers as corporate IT departments undergo a radical restructuring over the next five years

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Serco outsources IT infrastructure and transformation

  Business service provider Serco contracts SunGard for its UK IT infrastructure that will help Serco increase its cloud services

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Bet365's move to HTML5 is more than a gamble

  Online gaming site Bet365 has starting using HTML5 to build a rich user experience on its website

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Steve Monaghan, IT & e-commerce director, Waterstones

  After a year of turmoil caused by migration away from HMV, the IT team at Waterstones is finally finding room to think about strategy

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  France Telecom changes name to Orange

  The mobile operator will embrace the Orange branding globally, despite dropping it in the UK after merger with T-Mobile

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Contactless payments exceed five million in March

  Some 5.3 million contactless transactions totalling over £39m were made in March 2013 using Visa contactless cards

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

  Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Oops! The risks of using social media at work

  Recent tribunal cases show the risks that employers and employees run when using social media services

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  BT profits rise in Q4

  Profits for BT reached £1.67bn in the fourth quarter of its 2013 fiscal year, a 4% rise from the same period the year before

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Virgin Media tentatively names new CEO

  Liberty Global – the US firm buying out Virgin Media – has named Tom Mockridge as CEO, if the merger is approved by shareholders

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

  Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  BMW outsources web platform roll-out to Accenture

  German car manufacturer BMW has contracted Accenture to manage the implementation of its new web platform

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  Schuh takes first steps to in-store Wi-Fi

  Shoe retailer Schuh signs a contract with The Cloud to offer free Wi-Fi to customers

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Case study: The DANTE link for Euro academics

  The best technology innovation winners of Computer Weekly’s European User Awards for Networking on how DANTE brings together researchers from far and wide with Infinera solutions

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  UK online businesses neglect mobile strategy

  Online businesses are failing to implement mobile strategies, according to a report from Barclays bank

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

  After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Google reaches deal with EU competition authorities

  Google has reportedly reached a deal with European Union (EU) competition authorities over concerns about its business practices

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Google has another go at allaying EU competition concerns

  Google has submitted a fresh set of proposals to address European concerns about its business practices and avoid punitive action

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Why CIOs need to become tax literate

  Digital technologies can have significant ramifications for corporate taxation. IT teams need to be aware of the issues, says PwC

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Case Study: 192business switches to tokenisation to speed up business processes

  Online payment card verification firm 192business uses tokenisation to speed up its processes and protect credit card details from fraud

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Will the iPad ever be a true corporate device or will Microsoft usurp it?

  The iPad is used in enterprises today but will it ever be a true corporate device or just one that IT departments create workarounds to support?

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending

  The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Yahoo buys UK teenager’s app for £18m

  Yahoo has acquired Summly – an app created by a UK teenager – for £18m, making him one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires