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• July 27, 2017 27 Jul'17

  Meg Whitman steps down from HP Inc board

  Whitman has served as chairperson of HP since the separation of HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in November 2015

• May 23, 2017 23 May'17

  Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

  Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

• April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17

  Spending forecast shows early signs of on-premise server demise

  The datacentre equipment market appears to be indicating the long-term impact of cloud computing on server sales

• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  CIOs: Is a PC refresh really necessary?

  IT departments are preparing to migrate off Windows 7. Manufacturers are ready with a range of new PCs at this year's CES

• December 29, 2016 29 Dec'16

  Top 10 desktop, tablet, smartphone and mobile device stories of 2016

  2016 was the year Microsoft pushed out a major Windows update, Linux celebrated its 25th anniversary and female personae took over AI

• October 12, 2016 12 Oct'16

  PC market in longest period of decline since records began, says Gartner

  PC shipments across the globe enter an unprecedented period of decline, Gartner reveals

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  CIO Interview: Elly Resende, CIO, Rio 2016 Olympics

  As Rio de Janeiro gets ready to host the Olympics, Computer Weekly speaks to the man in charge of its IT

• April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16

  BBC turns micro:bit computers into IoT devices

  The BBC and Nominet demonstrate a new use case for the micro:bit computer and hope to turn Britain’s schoolchildren into internet of things pioneers

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  IT specialist sentenced for stealing NHS computer equipment

  A former NHS IT worker is convicted of stealing hospital computer equipment from Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation trust and selling them on eBay

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  Intel share price drops despite strong results

  Despite growth in Intel's key datacentre and IoT businesses, investors remain concerned by falls in its core PC chip business amid market declines

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  PC sales decline but Europe benefits from Windows 10 release

  Windows 10 help PC sales in Europe, but tablets and the strong US dollar make a negative impact

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Ministry of Defence CIO explains defence as a platform

  Mike Stone took to the stage at the Microsoft Future Decoded event to explain the Ministry of Defence’s plan for defence as a platform

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  A tale of two HPs: Hewlett-Packard splits into two digital businesses

  The two Hewlett-Packard (HP) businesses are both digitally aligned. HP Enterprise is pushing hybrid clouds; HP Inc is taking the road to 3D printing

• October 12, 2015 12 Oct'15

  Dell set to buy storage company EMC

  Two years after his audacious bid to reinvent the company he founded by re-privatising it, Michael Dell has put in a bid for storage giant EMC

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Microsoft launches Surface Book, its first own-brand laptop

  Software giant Microsoft announces a range of new Windows 10 devices, including smartphones, a tablet – and Surface Book, the company's first laptop device

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Teachers teaching teachers – how Google for Education fuels collaborative learning

  Google’s head of education explains why the use of technology in classrooms is critical and how Google’s education technology is sparking collaboration between teachers

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Lenovo to cut jobs as it faces 'severe' challenges

  Lenovo says the last quarter saw “severe challenges” in its main PC, tablet and smartphone markets

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Use technology to improve NHS, say patients

  Almost 70% of the population believes technology should be used in the NHS to improve patient outcomes and efficiency, says Trustmarque

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  MoD shells out £1.5bn on two IT contracts

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) signs two IT contracts costing more than £1bn, which it hopes will save money over the next 10 years

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• April 30, 2015 30 Apr'15

  Windows 10: Why you should work around PC price hike

  IT departments planning a PC refresh to tie in with Windows 10 can expect to pay more due to the strong US dollar

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  NCR promises 40% annual savings with thin-client cash machines

  NCR has developed smart thin client cash machines to replacing ageing Windows XP-based ATMs

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  Atomic Weapons Establishment to build supercomputer for Trident simulations

  The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) builds HPC cluster based on SGI ICE XA system to support Trident programme

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  IT priorities 2015 – IT budgets on the rise as economy recovers

  Almost three-quarters of IT managers in the UK expect their IT budgets to increase or stay the same in 2015

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Microsoft revenue drops due to “restructuring”

  Microsoft’s year-on-year net income has dropped by around $695m due to “integration and restructuring” plans, according to the firm’s fiscal statement

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  IBM revenue declines as company shifts to higher value deals

  IBM has reported a 12% decline in profits for the fourth quarter of 2014 following the sale of its System x business to Lenovo

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Avaya brings contact centres to Google Chromebooks

  Avaya and Google team up to streamline customer service agent workflows by enabling desktop contact centres on Chromebooks

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Hero Group uses vMotion to replace SAN and servers with Nutanix

  Baby food, fruit and cereal bar company Hero Group has migrated its Holland operations over to a single virtual platform

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman

  At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Ministry of Defence consolidates with green datacentre

  The MoD is aiming to reduce its IT carbon footprint with the construction of a new datacentre to replace the existing host site in Bath

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  ABN Amro re-signs IBM for 10-year, multibillion-euro IT contract

  ABN Amro has extended its multibillion-euro outsourcing deal with IBM by another 10 years

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  HP results disappoint ahead of split

  HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline

• November 18, 2014 18 Nov'14

  Intel merges PC and mobile divisions

  Intel plans to merge its profitable PC group with the loss-making division that sells chips for smartphones and tablets

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework

  Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  PC shipments remain steady as market segments shift

  PC sales in the third quarter of 2014 declined by just 0.5% year-on-year according to research firm Gartner

• 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 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview

  Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Surface Pro 3: An enterprise IT review

  The latest version of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is the company's most compelling alternative to Apple. But how does it fit into corporate IT?

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Intel unveils first 14nm processor aimed at mobile computing devices

  Chipmaker's first processor based on 14nm micro-architecture will be thinner, cooler and aimed at tablet PCs

• August 11, 2014 11 Aug'14

  Intel watches ARM as low-powered computing thrives

  As the PC market continues to decline, ARM is proving that non-x86 chips have a long and prosperous future

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  PC sales bounce back as XP drives hardware refresh

  Desktop and laptop upgrades, driven by the migration away from Windows XP, has bolstered PC sales in Europe

• 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

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost

  A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  TCG releases TPM 2 specification for improved security

  The Trusted Computing Group has published an updated specification for the Trusted Platform Module

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Interview: Prepare for the end of the silicon era

  IT breakthroughs are governed by the insights of Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965. IBM fellow Bernie Meyerson believes Moore’s law no longer holds true