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Mobile apps and software

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Six experiential retail businesses chosen for Jlab

  The businesses and startups that will take part in John Lewis’ 2019 Jlab programme have seen selected following a pitch day

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Central Saint Martins hosts Three’s 5G trial for London Fashion Week

  Three’s trial 5G network will enable the world’s first augmented reality fashion show at Central Saint Martins, while consumers can test out a prototype network at its flagship store

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Apple Business Chat powers Npower’s smart meter switch

  Energy supplier is using Apple Business Chat to help users through the process of switching onto new smart gas and electricity meters

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  Legacy systems holding banks back from meeting demand for instant accounts

  Banks are struggling to meet customer demand to open accounts instantly because of legacy IT systems and processes

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Click & collect will grow 45% over next five years

  Clothing and footwear lead growth as UK’s click & collect market is set to hit £10bn by 2023, research suggests

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Vodafone announces winners of Techstarter accelerator

  Vodafone has announced the winners of its startup accelerator programme, aimed at helping young companies developing technology for social good

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Lloyds Bank rolls out open banking functionality to mobile app customers

  Lloyds Bank customers can now see current accounts from multiple banks through their mobile banking app

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  Marks & Spencer launches charging banks as part of startup partnership

  Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced it will be adding battery charging banks to its stores as part of startup partnership

• February 04, 2019 04 Feb'19

  Don’t bank on Google Bank, bank on banks becoming Google-like

  The journey to Google bank is happening as the UK 's Lloyds Bank signals its intent to move to a platform inspired by the workings of the Google engine room

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Cisco Live Europe: Intent-based networking meets the IoT head-on

  Networking and communications technology supplier Cisco plans to bring intent-based networking techniques to bear on the internet of things

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Santander announces latest branch closures as digital channels take over

  Bank to close 140 more UK branches as in-branch transactions fall and digital banking accelerates

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  NHS England launches public roll-out of NHS App

  The all singing and dancing NHS App is now being rolled out publicly across England following a private beta phase with more than 3,000 patients

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  Scottish Police Authority awards £21m mobile services deal to EE

  EE will oversee a three-year deal to transform police mobile capabilities in Scotland, alongside Motorola Solutions, Samsung and BlackBerry

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Siemens connects to world’s largest UCC deployment

  German technology powerhouse Siemens AG reveals how it unified communications and collaboration for hundreds of thousands of employees worldwide

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  More than half of customers will shop for food online by 2021

  Just over 40% of customers currently do their grocery shopping online, but with that number expected to rise to more than half by 2021, are retailers doing enough to meet customer expectations?

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Banking apps overtake online banking

  Mobile apps are the most popular channel for banking as consumers swap online platforms for smartphone software

• January 08, 2019 08 Jan'19

  CES 2019: Here plugs Alexa into in-car navigation service

  Here, the former Nokia mapping unit now owned by a consortium of German carmakers, is to integrate Amazon Alexa with its navigation and location services

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  SMEs urged to get on board with Network Services 2 framework

  Suppliers have until the end of January 2019 to sign up to the new government network services purchasing framework

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Top 10 HR technology stories of 2018

  Companies are turning to artificial intelligence, robotic automation and chatbots to take the drudgery out of human resource management

• December 27, 2018 27 Dec'18

  Top 10 retail tech stories of 2018

  Computer Weekly looks at what 2018 had in store for the retail industry – what technologies were retailers rushing to adopt and which brands fell behind?

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Ancient Britain comes to life at Bath’s 5G testbed

  The West of England Combined Authority is running a 5G Smart Tourism project at Bath’s world-famous Roman spa

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Paris latest city to join Tech Global Advocates

  The city of Paris is the latest to join the Tech Global Advocates network, offering a life raft to fintechs in the UK that want to retain customers across Europe

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  BT upgrades InLink street kiosks for deaf, speech-impaired people

  BT has added a next-generation text service to its InLink street kiosks to make the service more accessible to people who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired

• December 07, 2018 07 Dec'18

  Quarter of all UK shopping now happens on mobile devices

  UK’s high-street spend is the lowest across Europe as mobile devices account for a growing portion of online shopping

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  UK competition watchdog concerned with PayPal’s fintech acquisition

  Competition and Markets Authority fears $2.2bn deal could reduce competition for payment services in the UK

• November 26, 2018 26 Nov'18

  Unprecedented actions by Commons committee augur badly for Facebook

  House of Commons’ serjeant-at-arms effectively arrested the CEO of a US software company and frogmarched him to Parliament, where he was told he would be imprisoned if he failed to hand over papers on Facebook

• November 23, 2018 23 Nov'18

  ASOS launches digital assistant to help customers find right size

  Online fashion retailer ASOS has launched an artificially intelligent assistant to help consumers find the right size of clothing before they place an order

• November 22, 2018 22 Nov'18

  IKEA to focus on digitisation and convenience shopping

  Swedish furniture brand IKEA will be cutting jobs and focusing on smaller stores and its digital pipeline in a bid to usher in a new era of business transformation

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Lincolnshire Police signs 10-year cloud control room tech refresh deal with Motorola Solutions

  Lincolnshire Police is embracing cloud technologies within its control room environment as it strives to improve the efficiency of its operations

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  Russian banks to introduce contactless ATMs

  Russian banks have introduced their first contactless ATMs, which customers can link to via smartphones and wearable devices

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  The Gym Group flexes its muscles with data analytics

  No-frills fitness company The Gym Group is using analytics technology to find insights from its financial, HR and membership data, as it limbers up for rapid expansion in the UK

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  NHS issues guidance for instant messaging use in acute settings

  As NHS staff are increasingly turning to messaging apps to communicate with each other, the government issues guidance saying only tools meeting the NHS encryption standard should be used

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  M&S admits online remit “well behind” competitors

  Food and clothing retailer Marks and Spencer has admitted its website and online fulfillment capabilities are behind that of its competitors, but it is seeing progress since implementing changes

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Fintechs advised on how to work with big banks

  Advice backed by the government for fintechs on how to engage with traditional finance firms is published

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Lloyds Banking Group shaking up its workforce to reflect digital times

  Lloyds Banking Group is revamping the roles of thousands of staff as it becomes digital

• November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

  NatWest pilots digital bank for SMEs

  App-based banking platform offers small enterprises other business tools on top of a current account

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  How Birchbox uses social media for personalisation and discovery

  The UK marketing director of subscription service Birchbox told the Retail Week Tech conference about the retailer’s use of social media and data to offer customers a personalised service

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  Jlab 2019 to focus on experiential shopping

  Each year, John Lewis hosts a number of retail startups intent on using technology to transform the industry. Next year they will be aiming to change the customer experience in-store

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Robotic delivery service hits the streets of Milton Keynes

  Following extensive testing and a limited commercial roll-out in campus enterprise environments, Estonian robotics firm Starship Technologies is launching a direct-to-consumer robot delivery service in Milton Keynes

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  How Bahrain plans to become a regional fintech hub

  Bahrain is a small island with big plans for its financial technology industry

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  IoT R&D projects missed out on £10m of government funding

  A series of delays and disruption caused chiefly by changes in project ownership meant the government’s IoT UK Research and Innovation Programme failed to use a quarter of its allocated budget between 2015 and 2018

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market

  Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nordic banks target SME customers with fintech services

  Traditional Nordic banks are slimming down workforces as they turn increasingly to technology-based service delivery, and some are linking up with small fintech companies to deliver online products.

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain

  Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Russians using less cash after accelerated use of electronic payments

  Russians are increasingly using electronic payments rather than cash, a recent study by Sberbank has found

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Home Office ‘seriously’ considered ESN shutdown

  New disclosures from those responsible for the troubled Emergency Services Network project have revealed that, contrary to previous denials, the Home Office came close to pulling the plug earlier this year

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

  Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Nordic CTO interview: Anders Johanson, Husqvarna

  Husqvarna is on a journey to transform itself into a product and services company by using the latest digital technology and Anders Johnson is a driving force behind it

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  ASOS launches voice shopping on Google Assistant

  Online fashion brand introduces voice shopping service to help customers navigate its thousands of products more easily

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Ofcom says government should lead on internet regulation

  Representatives from the telecoms regulator tell House of Lords that the government should build a framework for internet regulation that other bodies can follow and enforce