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Mobile apps and software

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Retailers buy into Zapp mobile wallet

  Large retailers such as Sainsbury’s and House of Fraser will allow customers to pay using the Zapp mobile wallet service.

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Timberland focuses on online customer experience

  After internationalising its e-commerce offering across Europe, Timberland's next priority is refining its online experience

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Mothercare uses mobile to engage with customers, not just to sell

  Mothercare is continuing to use mobile to improve customer service and engage with users

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Barclays concludes first round of fintech accelerator

  Barclays has finished the first round of its financial services technology (fintech) startup accelerator, following a demo day

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Ben Hine, technology director, UKTV

  UKTV director Ben Hine says every piece of the company's technology has been replaced over the last four years

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Lloyd's Register goes mobile with Oracle

  Lloyd’s Register Group tells delegates at the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference how it developed a mobile working application for clients and staff

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Toms expands global e-commerce

  Footwear retailer Toms relaunches e-commerce websites with Oracle platform to grow and improve customer experience

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Visa loses mobility director to Apple

  Mary Carol Harris, former director of mobile for Visa Europe, has left the firm to take up a position at Apple

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Lloyds creates online appointment booking in attempt to save branches

  Lloyds Bank has introduced a system which allows customers to book in-branch appointments online

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

  SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Customer loyalty biggest challenge for banks

  Banks have cited customer loyalty as their main concern, according to a survey by financial services firm Temenos

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Stephen Hale, head of digital, Department of Health

  “I want to make digital less of a novelty,” says the Department of Health’s head of digital Stephen Hale

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology

  Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  John Lewis sales reflect omni-channel growth

  John Lewis and Waitrose have attributed an increase in sales and customers to their growing omni-channel offerings

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  UK retailers must invest more in digital technologies

  The UK’s biggest retailers are ‘under-investing’ in in-store digital technologies

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Barclays bank launches biometric authentication

  Barclays bank plans to launch biometric readers that read users' finger veins to authenticate customers

• September 02, 2014 02 Sep'14

  Apple and FBI launch iCloud hack investigation

  Apple and FBI investigate the breach of Apple’s iCloud causing fresh business concerns over cloud security

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Nude celebrity pictures posted online after alleged iCloud hack

  Hundreds of nude images of female celebrities have been leaked, allegedly after Apple’s iCloud service was hacked

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Brighton & Hove Albion deploys free Wi-Fi at Amex Stadium

  Brighton & Hove Albion picks The Cloud and Ruckus to supply a new Wi-Fi solution at the American Express Community Stadium

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Former bank chief launches financial trading app

  A trading social network on Apple’s App Store hopes to attract more than 100,000 consumer traders as members by the end of 2014

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Government sees 820,000 voters register online

  Over one million UK citizens have registered to vote over the last two months, with around 820,000 opting for a new online registration service

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  PayPal launches one-touch payment technology for mobile apps

  PayPal and Braintree have launched an open beta for developers to allow app makers to accept PayPal payments with one touch

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Click and collect drives e-commerce growth for Asda

  Shoppers at Asda are continuing to choose to buy their groceries online and pick them up in-store

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Amazon launches credit card reader for small businesses

  Amazon has launched a card reader and mobile app for small businesses

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Company Magazine ditches print to go online only

  The womens’ monthly publication Company Magazine has announced it will become a standalone digital brand from October

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  USB-connected devices present cyber vulnerabilities

  Connecting devices to computers using a USB port could lead to security breaches, say Berlin-based researchers

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Manchester has the second largest Wi-Fi network in the UK

  The city of Manchester is now home to the second largest Wi-Fi network in the country as it completes a network extension

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  BT Business brings 4G to SMEs

  BT Business has launched a range of plans for small businesses that include free access to 4G and unlimited BT Wi-Fi

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Contactless payments continue to rise

  Contactless transactions have increased by 189% since May 2013, according to Visa Europe.

• July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14

  IT needs to improve network infrastructure for future of retail

  IT departments need to up their game and improve networks for the retail sector which is on the brink of massive technology change

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  CIO interview: Rorie Devine, CTO, Hailo

  A technology overhaul is taking place behind the scenes at cab-hailing smartphone app Hailo as the company extends its international reach

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  BBC 4G broadcast research wins support of Huawei and EE

  BBC Research and Development has teamed up with Huawei and EE to explore the role of 4G mobile networking in the future of broadcasting

• July 18, 2014 18 Jul'14

  Microsoft ditches Android after four-month fling

  Microsoft pulls the plug on its short-lived Nokia X Android devices as it prepares to make 18,000 employees redundant

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  BBC News commits to digital investment amid loss of 220 jobs

  BBC News has announced a restructure where it will invest more into digital transformation and original journalism.

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Ed Vaizey gets digital industries role in Cabinet reshuffle

  Culture minister Ed Vaizey has been promoted to the post of minister for digital industries in this week’s Cabinet reshuffle

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

  IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 07, 2014 07 Jul'14

  Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner

  Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Connected cars standard by end of 2018

  Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups

  BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014

• June 19, 2014 19 Jun'14

  Facebook launches Slingshot to rival Snapchat

  Facebook has launched its limited lifetime messaging app Slingshot in the US to rival Snapchat

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

  With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Register to vote online goes live

  The latest online transactional service from government has gone live as part of the ‘digital by default’ initiative