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• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Operators preventing dual SIM handsets

  Acer claims that although its new handset offers dual SIM capabilities for the business user, mobile operators will stop the feature coming to market to protect revenues

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Interview: Helen Milner CEO, Tinder, on the digital divide in Britain

  Eleven million people across the UK are struggling to connect to the internet. Not because of problems with hardware, bad connectivity, or even rural broadband challenges, but because they either don’t know how, or are too poor to get online

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Welcome Break speeds up payments transactions

  Welcome Break has upgraded its entire payments system to improve the speed of services to customers and streamline end-of-day management transactions

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Case study: South Tyneside NHS Trust deploys Huddle on iPads for board meetings

  South Tyneside NHS Trust has begun its paperless journey by moving its board meetings to the cloud using Huddle for iPad

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  EE connects commuters via 4G

  EE has announced plans to expand its 4G network to aid commuters, and will be recruiting more than 1,000 new customer service staff over the next 24 months

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  UK start-ups get ready for Mobile World Congress 2014

  With the world’s biggest mobile trade show just days away, we talk to some of the representatives of the UK start-up industry representing us on the show floor

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Care UK to introduce 4G to 4,000 employees

  Advanced Mobile Communications has won a multi-million pound contract to provide EE’s 4G connectivity to Care UK’s 4,000 employees

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Well-defined mobile strategies needed for business growth

  Businesses with ambition to grow must have a formalised and well-defined mobile strategy

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Smartphone sales decline in mature markets

  Smartphone sales slowed significantly in developed markets in 2013, according to research firm Gartner

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  The challenges of implementing Camden’s digital strategy

  Camden Borough Council's digital strategy sets out how technology will support and enable the local authority grow and develop

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Telehealth startups cluster around Kent

  Telehealth technology startups cluster around Kent in industry move to provide digital health solutions for the UK’s aging population

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Newcastle and Buckinghamshire councils win O2 Local Government Digital Fund

  Newcastle City Council and Buckinghamshire County Council have won a share of prize money from O2 which will be used by the councils to tackle social challenges using technology

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Government tasks startup to build flood volunteering website

  A new website to help victims of the UK flooding disaster has been launched today

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  OTT providers fail to win trust of users

  Despite over-the-top providers like Skype and Whatsapp getting all the attention, users want their mobile operators to be more involved with these services and provide a solution they can trust, according to a new survey

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Rugby Football Union installs mobile commerce technology

  The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is implementing a mobile commerce services in its Twickenham stadium

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Head of BBM becomes latest BlackBerry casualty

  Andrew Bocking is leaving the ailing mobile manufacturer as BlackBerry Messenger is integrated into the enterprise business

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Intelligent Energy uses Polycom to implement unified comms

  Intelligent Energy – a developer of clean energy technology – is using Polycom’s communications technology to deliver a unified system for conference calls as it expands globally.

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  CIO interview: The Met's Richard Thwaite on its Total Technology IT strategy

  Metropolitan Police CIO Richard Thwaite on getting the business and IT suitably aligned as the force embarks on a four-year IT strategy

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy

  The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Sony sells PC business in favour of smartphone push

  Sony announces plans to reform its PC and TV divisions by selling off its PC branch to Japan Industrial Partners

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Samsung to open 15 UK stores with Phones 4u

  The mobile manufacturer will team up with the retailer to open 15 Samsung-focused stores across the UK

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Case study: Transport for London modernises website with HTML5

  Transport for London has re-engineered its website to move with the times. TfL's head of online, Phil Young, explains the design principles

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Google Q4 revenues and profits up 17%

  Google reported fourth quarter revenues of $16.86 and profits of $3.38bn, both up 17% compared with the same period in 2012

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Data security is not their responsibility, say 23% of employees

  Almost a quarter of employees believe that data security is not their responsibility, according to a survey by security management firm Absolute Software

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Lenovo buys Google’s Motorola Mobility in $3bn deal

  Google has announced the sale of its Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese computer maker Lenovo in a $3bn deal

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Are businesses turning to Windows Phone instead of BlackBerry?

  It's been a year since BlackBerry tried to reclaim the smartphone market with the BB10 operating system and the Z10 and qwerty Q10 handsets

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  ARM aims at Intel’s stronghold with 64-bit standard

  Intel hopes new baseline standard for ARM v8 chips will help it flex its muscles in the datacentre

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust deploys iOS devices

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed 300 iOS mobile devices onto its network to improve patient care processes

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  DECC IT overhaul follows government digital standards

  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is accustomed to large outsourcing contracts, yet it is the first department within government to move away from a single supplier approach, to a new multi-sourcing model across all its core ...

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Apple shares down on flat profits

  Apple share fell almost 9% in after-hours trading despite reporting record quarterly revenue of $57.6bn for the quarter ending 28 December 2013

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  NHS Scotland has more time for patients thanks to mobile technology

  NHS doctors and nurses are using the latest mobile technology across Scotland to speed admin and spend more time with patients

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Google, Samsung sign 10-year technology cross-licensing deal

  Google and Samsung have signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement to reduce "the potential for litigation"

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  CIO interview: Julian Payne, head of ICT, Science Museum Group

  The Science Museum Group has just completed a merger with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Beginning in 2012 and took two years to integrate all business and IT functionality with the group

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Qualcomm buys up Palm patents from HP

  Mobile chip maker Qualcomm is to take over almost 2,500 patents from HP, picked up from its acquisition of Palm

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Samsung profits fall in Q4 2013

  Electronics firm Samsung sees profits fall 11% quarter on quarter – the first decline it has seen in two years

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Nokia ends 2013 in decline

  All of Nokia's divisions see falls in sales and profits, but its CEO remains positive the remaining businesses will flourish in the future

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  CIO interview: Richard Warner, CIO, LV

  The IT industry is swarming with buzz words, from big data and the internet of things to social collaboration and consumerisation of distribution. Yet despite the hype around them making some doubt their importance, the CIO of insurer LV, Richard ...

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

  Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Mobile users will provide data to 100 apps a day by 2017

  Mobile users will provide personal data streams to more than 100 apps and services a day by the year 2017, research firm Gartner predicts

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Ofcom to allow superfast broadband for travellers

  Communications regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead for vehicles such as boats, planes and trains to provide passengers with superfast broadband

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  IT mobility trend continues in 2014

  More than half of enterprises plan to issue employees with mobile devices in 2014, a Computer Weekly survey has found

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  More consumers using mobiles to make purchases

  UK shoppers spent 138% more through mobile devices in 2013 than the previous year, according to research from IMRG and Capgemini

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  High street banks to offer Vocalink Zapp mobile wallet

  HSBC, First Direct, Nationwide, Santander and Metro Bank have all signed up to Zapp. According to Zapp, 60% of UK merchants will be able to take advantage of Zapp payments

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  UK IT spending will outpace rest of Europe in 2014

  UK IT budgets will grow by 3.6% in 2014, second only to Germany

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Cabinet Office attempts to defuse PSN compliance tensions

  The Cabinet Office has updated the public services network (PSN) programme to make it easier for councils to meet security requirements

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Half of Britons opt for pay as you go

  Many Britons are ditching contract phones in favour of a pay as you go (PAYG) deals, according to research by a UK money-saving website

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Desktop strategy in 2014 to focus on mobile business

  A shift in IT strategy in 2014 is expected to lead to a move away from the desktop to supporting mobile technologies in European enterprises

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  2013 saw worst global decline of PC shipments in history

  PC shipments have seen their steepest decline in the history of the PC market, according to analysts at Gartner

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  O2 to stop supporting its mobile wallet

  Mobile operator O2 will stop supporting its mobile wallet after 31 March and plans to invest in alternative m-commerce initiatives

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  Record online sales saw growth of almost 20% over Christmas

  Sales of non-food goods online grew 19.2% in December compared to the previous year

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  First steps on the Cabinet Office technology transformation journey

  Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has led the drive to change how technology is used across government, yet within his department IT is poor

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Fairfax bails out BlackBerry with another $250m

  The mobile manufacturer’s largest shareholder ploughs another $250m into the firm, buying up more of its debts and giving BlackBerry some extra cash to play with.

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Mobile retail payments to hit $707bn by 2018

  Payments on mobile and tablet devices are expected to account for 30% of all online retail by 2018

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Android set to reach one billion users in 2014

  Google’s mobile operating system will be in the hands of one billion users before the year is out, according to new figures from Gartner

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Samsung expects profits to fall

  Samsung Electronics has announced it expects profits to fall in the fourth quarter of 2013

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  BlackBerry hires ex-HTC exec to lead devices

  In the latest in a raft of new hires by BlackBerry CEO John Chen, the company appoints Ron Louks as its head of devices and emerging solutions

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Google brings Android to cars with Open Automotive Alliance

  The internet giant teams up with Audi, GM, Honda, Hyundai and Nvidia in a bid to introduce its mobile operating system into cars

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Samsung launches Smart Home ecosystem to connect home devices

  Samsung has launched a connected home ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  ARM developer: Raspberry Pi not enough to get kids coding

  Sophie Wilson was the designer of the Acorn Micro-computer and creator of the programming architecture for the original ARM chip

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Startup profile: Novoda

  Novoda is a service-based startup company which operates out of two offices – in London and Berlin. It develops Android software for companies wishing to have an application on the Google Play Store

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  John Lewis online sales soar over Christmas period

  John Lewis has seen online sales for the five-week trading period over Christmas increase by 22.6% on last year

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Barclays to pilot smartphone cheque deposits

  Barclays Bank will pilot a scheme allowing customers to pay cheques into their accounts via pictures taken on their mobile phones

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2013

  Smart retailers are realising they must adopt a multi-channel approach to their business, making instore, online, and mobile a seamless experience for the customer

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Mike Ives, IT director, University Hospital Southampton

  University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) has upgraded its wireless infrastructure to enable staff to become more efficient by having a great choice of mobile devices across the hospital.

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Retailers must distinguish between smartphones and tablets, says IBM

  Mobile and online shopping increased this Boxing Day, according to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark.

• December 28, 2013 28 Dec'13

  Top 10 mobile stories of 2013

  It is clear that 2013 has been another huge year for the world of mobile. There have been phone, tablet and phablet launches, ups and downs, and a noticeable increase in the bring your own device trend that cannot be ignored

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Cheques to be payable by smartphone

  Plans to allow bank customers to cash cheques by smartphone are soon to be put in motion

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Apple and China Mobile launch iPhone deal

  Apple has signed an iPhone distribution deal with China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 gadget reviews of 2013

  Here is a roundup of the top ten Inspect-a-gadget reviews to help you decide what to get for Christmas, or what to grab during the January sales

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  OFT asks to observe government selection of open standards for documents

  The Office of Fair Trading asked the government if it could observe the sensitive process of selecting open standards for document formats

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  BlackBerry posts huge losses as CEO promises enterprise focus

  BlackBerry posts more disappointing results for its third fiscal quarter, but CEO remains optimistic for the firm’s future in the enterprise market

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Fujitsu set to lose three government outsourcing deals

  A number of outsourced contracts with Fujitsu will not be renewed by government over the coming year

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  Cabinet Office commissions PSN working group

  Conversations between Socitm and the Cabinet Office over the compliance issues around the public service network (PSN) for local government continue

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  BlackBerry names new enterprise chief

  John Sims joins the struggling mobile firm from SAP to lead its enterprise services division

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  John Lewis trials transactional tablets and debuts on Google Street View

  John Lewis has announced a range of shopping technologies it will be trialling over the Christmas period

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Peugeot deploys 10,000 BlackBerry Z10s

  Car maker Peugeot is deploying 10,000 BlackBerry Z10 smartphones across its Spanish and French operations

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Foreign Office agile crisis response IT system goes live

  The Foreign Office’s new crisis response IT system, Crisis Hub, is now live.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  CIO Interview, David Southern, CIO WWF UK

  UK CIO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), David Southern, describes a technology refresh at its Woking HQ

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  London Fire Brigade engages public with risqué social media campaign

  London Fire Brigade (LFB) captures public interest with 'Fifty Shades of Red' social media campaign, saving substantial costs of advertising

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data

  Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  BlackBerry CEO promises to ‘go back to enterprise roots’

  As the mobile firm releases a BlackBerry Enterprise Service update, CEO John Chen promises to return to a corporate focus

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Nokia wins patent battle against HTC in UK court

  HTC has until Friday to appeal a UK court decision for Nokia that could stop it selling its flagship HTC One smartphone in the UK

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Case study: Advantage Travel Centres implements UC infrastructure for mobile workers

  Advantage Travel Centres has implemented unified communications (UC) to improve the connectivity of mobile employees

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Interview: Steve Furber on UK chip innovation

  ARM chip designers Stephen Furber and Sophie Wilson will be honoured at the Economist Innovation awards on 3 December 2013

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Study shows IT department losing control of technology innovation

  With innovative technology increasingly developed outside the IT department, CIOs need to start working with other departments

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Global real estate firm gets edge with cloud and mobile upgrade

  Real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield has achieved competitive advatage by embracing cloud and mobility

• November 28, 2013 28 Nov'13

  Ex-Nokia employees launch Jolla smartphone

  The Finnish engineers give us an insight to what could have been at Nokia with this limited launch of the new smartphone running the open source Sailfish OS

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Richard Williams, CIO, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, London Market

  CIOs need to have the courage to seek out innovation, says Richard Williams, CIO at insurer Mitsui Sumitomo

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Banks must engage effectively with customers via Twitter

  Retail banks must take advantage of social media to engage with customers, said digital banking experts.

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Many enterprises not getting value of consumerisation, says IDC

  There is still a wide variety of approaches to mobility and consumerisation within the enterprise, says IDC

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  Microsoft admits RT mistake

  Microsoft has admitted that its RT operating system may have confused people, who expected full blown Windows.

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Argos brings O2 Wi-Fi to 735 stores

  The retail giant is rolling out Wi-Fi to all its stores in time for the Christmas rush

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  Nationwide first to launch Visa V.me, despite RBS trial

  Nationwide Building Society is offering a digital wallet to its customers after launching Visa’s V.me service - 18 months after the service was made available in the UK

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  4G connections to hit one billion by 2017

  Research from the GSMA predicts one in eight mobile connections will be 4G within the next four years

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  BlackBerry continues executive shakeup

  The mobile manufacturer ousts another two c-level executives, whilst another board member resigns

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Apple acquires Kinect developer PrimeSense

  Apple has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli motion-sensing firm PrimeSense