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• 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 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech

  Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team

  Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Case study: TKAB adopts mobile for Swedish railways

  The winners of cloud innovation of the year in Computer Weekly’s European user awards for networking tell us how they have used the Appear IQ mobile platform to boost efficiency and its transport service

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Microsoft to bring back the Start button in Windows 8?

  Amid lacklustre take-up of Windows 8 and a declining PC industry, Microsoft may be set to reintroduce the much-loved Start button in Windows 8

• 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 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  O2 hires BT for 4G backhaul

  Mobile operator O2 has signed a 10-year contract with BT to build a new high-capacity network for 4G services

• April 25, 2013 25 Apr'13

  Spam SMS messages drop following ICO penalty

  The number of spam SMS messages has significantly reduced since government regulator ICO issued £440,000 fines last year

• 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 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

  After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data

• 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 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

  Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  BMI Healthcare assesses mobile devices for hospital consultants

  Healthcare provider BMI Healthcare is evaluating mobile device management to give consultants flexible access to patient records

• 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

  More IT problems at RBS

  RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers using mobile apps were locked out today after another IT failure at the banking group

• 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

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  Apple buys WifiSLAM for $20m

  Apple buys indoor mapping start-up WifiSLAM for $20m to boost its location technology and compete with Google’s indoor capabilities

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  Case study: Hamilton Fraser embraces BYOD with MobileIron

  How insurance firm Hamilton Fraser is using MobileIron to enable employees to bring their own devices while following company policy

• March 19, 2013 19 Mar'13

  ARM CEO Warren East steps down

  Warren East, CEO of semiconductor firm ARM, is retiring from the company after almost 12 years in the leadership role

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Samsung launches Galaxy S4 with improved software and Knox security

  Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 – which was released in New York – aims to boost software and Android OS security

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  O2: ‘We have not lost a single customer to EE’

  O2’s head of enterprise says no customers have been drawn to EE's 4G and expects a challenge to entice them even after all operators launch

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Midlands health trust trials BlackBerry 10 OS on PlayBook with Z10 roll-out

  The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust tests the Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) for a mobile fleet deployment

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

  Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  KFC brings free Wi-Fi to customers

  KFC teams with The Cloud to give customers free internet connectivity.

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Case study: Birmingham NEC boosts Wi-Fi network

  Birmingham NEC has deployed Xirrus technology to bring high-bandwidth wireless connectivity to visitors and staff

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  350,000 different types of spam SMS messages were targeted at mobile users in 2012

  350,000 different variants of unsolicited spam SMS messages were accounted for in 2012, with 53,000 variants logged for December alone

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Booking.com embraces mobile apps

  Head of mobile marketing for Booking.com talks about mobile strategy and accumulating more than 10 million downloads in less than two years

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Will the Nokia portfolio win over the world?

  As the former leader of the mobile market tries to entice customers to use its handsets, we ask whether the strategy will succeed

• February 25, 2013 25 Feb'13

  Nokia Siemens Networks unveils Liquid Applications

  New technology enables data-rich applications to be run from base stations, reducing latency in mobile networks

• February 24, 2013 24 Feb'13

  Mozilla announces handsets for Firefox OS

  Alcatel, LG and ZTE will be the first mobile manufacturers to bring Firefox OS handsets to the market

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Google battles BT in patent row

  Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Boots to roll out contactless payments nationwide

  Boots is to roll out contactless payments across its stores nationwide, in a deal with payment providers Visa Europe and Streamline

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia

  Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Nokia bounces back in Q4

  Nokia returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2012, reporting profit of €439m and sales of over €8bn

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  BYOD: People pay for devices to use for work

  Over half of employees buy their own devices for work use, according to new report from mobile device management specialist Good Technology

• January 21, 2013 21 Jan'13

  ZTE predicts major losses for 2012

  Delayed projects and shrinking sales saw net profits plummet 240% at Chinese telecoms company ZTE in 2012

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Met Police to equip officers with 30,000 mobile devices

  The Metropolitan Police wants to roll out 30,000 mobile and tablet devices to officers this year to give better information on the beat

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  CIOs must hunt and harvest digital opportunities

  It is time for CIOs to focus on the outside world instead of internal IT, according to Gartner

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Gartner predicts the demise of the desktop PC refresh cycle

  Data from market analyst Gartner paints a bleak picture of the PC industry, suggesting the era of desktop replacement cycles has ended.

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  VoIP awareness up but user numbers remain low

  A report from Ofcom claims four in five consumers know what voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is, but just 29% use the technology

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Ofcom proposes early exit to combat price rises

  Regulator Ofcom says users should be able to leave mobile, broadband and landline contracts without charge if their provider ups the price

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Ubuntu Linux adapted for Android smartphones

  The open source Ubuntu operating system, a distribution of Linux, has been adapted to run on smartphones

• December 27, 2012 27 Dec'12

  Samsung requests US ban on Ericsson products

  Samsung has filed a complaint against several Ericsson products with the US International Trade Commission (ITC).

• December 14, 2012 14 Dec'12

  CIO interview: Kevin O’Connor, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

  As the new CIO at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Kevin O’Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company’s IT strategy

• December 07, 2012 07 Dec'12

  Citrix buys corporate MDM tool company Zenprise

  Citrix has bought mobile device management (MDM) company Zenprise for an undisclosed sum to boost its corporate mobile tools portfolio

• December 04, 2012 04 Dec'12

  iPads get IT into the boardroom

  Deutsche Börse, Standard Life and Resolution are three finance firms that have transformed board meetings using Apple iPads