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• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  How one red team exercise averted a new SolarWinds-style attack

  Palo Alto Networks shares details of how its red teamers found and sealed a customer vulnerability that could have led to another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Nordic central banks drive fintech and digital currency

  Banks are working together through a cross-border financial technology development hub

• September 08, 2021 08 Sep'21

  Estonian government opens its digital heart to tech testers

  Tech startups are being invited to build and test their products and services on the Estonian government’s IT estate for free, in return for use of the software developed

• August 26, 2021 26 Aug'21

  AppNeta achieves AWS Outposts Ready designation

  Networking monitoring firm gains certification from cloud giant’s managed device and datacentre services division in a move that it says will demonstrate to customers that it has been fully tested to help deliver a truly consistent hybrid experience

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  UCAS renews IT services contract with Infosys to drive automation

  IT cost optimisation and enhancing services for students are among the main goals for the UK's Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  How Bet365 addressed Apple’s iOS App Store policy changes

  Apps on the iOS app store need to be more ‘Apple like’, with a common user experience. We find out how Bet365 achieved app portability

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  How Australia’s Octopus Deploy is simplifying DevOps

  Brisbane-based startup Octopus Deploy recently secured $172.5m in venture funding to advance its goal of simplifying software deployments for DevOps teams

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  Thames Valley Police drops ERP system after spending £14m

  Thames Valley Police exits tri-force programme to develop new enterprise resource planning software for the police

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  GoStudent: Europe’s newest edtech unicorn

  Europe’s biggest ed-tech unicorn reaches unicorn status and tests sector traditions

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Global fintech investments reach new heights

  The global financial technology industry is emerging from the pandemic-triggered slowdown with record levels of investment to fuel further growth

• August 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Unit4 doubles down on APAC business

  Supplier of mid-market ERP systems Unit4 is investing in a research and development centre in Jakarta as part of efforts to win market share from established players

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Executive interview: Chris McShane, MD, Halfords Mobile Experts

  Cycling and motoring retailer Halfords has developed its own service management software, which it is now taking to market

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Technical debt is holding back innovation

  Technical debt is limiting seven in 10 companies in their capacity to innovate, according to a global study

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Thousands wrongly given criminal convictions after computer error

  HM Courts and Tribunals Service report reveals that computer error wrongly assigned guilty pleas to more than 5,000 defendants

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Executive interview: Lee Porte, chair, Cloud Foundry Foundation TOC

  Cloud Foundry wants more non-IT industry code contributions and its technical oversight committee has a new chair who wants to ramp up user focus

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Running a virtual hackathon

  DWP Digital recently organised a virtual hackathon. We find out how it went, and the key takeaways

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Gaming could reduce the gamble for users of online finance

  Financial gaming platform designed to educate the increasing number of amateur traders

• July 26, 2021 26 Jul'21

  Malicious actors turn to obscure programming languages

  Using new, lesser-known or otherwise uncommon programming languages to code new malwares can help skirt cyber defences

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Fujitsu uses quantum-inspired algorithm to tackle space waste

  A UK Space Agency project is being used to showcase how a quantum-inspired algorithm can work out the best way to manage space debris

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Volvo: Our friends in software

  We speak to Volvo’s head of software platform about the company’s strategy to build a software-defined car

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Fintech sector continues to attract investment as Revolut hits $33bn valuation

  Revolut has become the most valuable financial technology firm in the UK after its latest round of investment, with plans for a ‘superapp’

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  UAE offers ‘golden visas’ to coders as part of national IT skills programme

  The United Arab Emirates is offering visas to coders across the world as it attempts to attract talent to support its economic diversification

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  AI to have biggest impact on fintech development over next five years

  Artificial intelligence will become the most influential technology in the fintech sector over the next five years

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Klarna’s alumni thrive with new ventures after witnessing path to success

  Former Klarna employees are using their experiences with the fintech giant to create the next wave of Swedish tech startups

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  AWS launches bug-busting programme for developers

  Amazon Web Services is inviting customers to probe their code for software bugs and vulnerabilities using its CodeGuru console

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  How containerisation helps VW develop car software

  Volkswagen’s R&D centre is working with Red Hat to use containerisation to improve how it develops and tests software for the control systems in cars

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Tech features high on McKinsey’s disruption list

  The management consulting firm has published a list of innovations that could disrupt business models, with many related to IT

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  Accenture supports tech bootcamp for people facing barriers to employment

  Accenture is donating almost half a million pounds to help a tech training prgramme targeted at young people outside education

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  How Ubisoft is embracing the cloud

  Game developer Ubisoft has been tapping cloud computing to overcome the constraints of game development and create gaming experiences that live on for years to come

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Pandemic a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to reshape security

  The volume of remote working has made it hard to paint an accurate picture of the true state of enterprise cyber security, but it presents an opportunity to change things up

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Build 2021: Microsoft targets multicloud developers

  Company has previewed new capabilities to Azure application services, giving developers greater freedom of where to deploy workloads

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Build 2021: Code abstraction and automatic code generation

  Microsoft’s annual software developers’ event, Build, opened up with the company’s CEO painting a picture of opportunity for software developers

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Lack of developer attention to cloud security prompts alerts

  The personal data of over 100 million Android users may have been put at risk through a variety of cloud service misconfigurations

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Edging closer to composable business

  Covid-19 forced organisations to try radical new things. Building apps from pre-built functions is one that Mulesoft believes has longevity

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  IBM demonstrates ‘120x speedup’ in target quantum application

  A simulation of the molecule lithium hydride, which even on a quantum computer takes 45 days, can now be run in just nine hours, researchers claim

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Running a bees and spirits business on low-code

  We look at how a small honey and gin producer has adapted and grown its business without requiring external software development expertise

• April 28, 2021 28 Apr'21

  Microsoft results get a pandemic jab

  Covid-19 has stimulated businesses to digitise more, and this is reflected in Microsoft’s latest results

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Grafana Labs switches open source licensing to stem strip-mining tactics

  Public cloud providers have been accused of strip-mining open source products, offering them as managed services, cutting a valuable revenue

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  UK fintech investment hits new heights as government announces increased support

  The UK fintech sector saw high levels of investment in the first quarter of this year, with increased support from the government

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  YouGov incentivises sharing of personally identifiable information

  YouGov Safe is a new service to help organisations target consumers more precisely, where people can select how much personal data they wish to share

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Why Microsoft’s $19bn acquisition of Nuance makes sense

  Microsoft regularly demos real-time speech-to-text transcription and has just spent $19bn on bolstering its voice capabilities

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  IT leaders get the green light to spend on digitisation

  According to Gartner, the pandemic has pushed IT to the top of the business agenda, and long-term IT integration is key to success

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  US court issues Google API with Java ruling

  US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Bank BJB Syariah taps DevOps

  Indonesia’s Bank Jabar Banten Syariah is adopting DevOps and microservices to speed up delivery of applications

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  How far has open banking come in Europe?

  Open banking is a relatively new concept, having come into effect in Europe only in the last couple of years. So what is the state of play?

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

  DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management

  Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Interview: Paul Douglas, Scottish Water

  Building an enterprise architecture involves balancing near- and mid-term goals with longer-term business objective, cost and technical challenges, says Paul Douglas, lead enterprise architect at Scottish Water

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Intel puts chips on everyone’s menu

  Digitisation and geopolitical tension between the US and China may be behind Pat Gelsinger’s news about building fabrication plants in the US and Europe

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Laying the groundwork on quantum roadmap

  IBM has plans to develop a 1,000-plus qubit quantum computer system within two years. We look at how it is preparing software developers

• March 19, 2021 19 Mar'21

  Coronavirus leads to legacy modernisation cloud boost

  Organisations are making the move to migrate legacy IT to the cloud, and the right skills and sufficient time and budget are the key to success

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  APAC leads in open source adoption

  APAC organisations are using open source software to modernise their infrastructure and develop containerised applications, though security concerns linger on

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Huawei opens developer lab in Singapore

  Huawei’s Digix lab will provide software development resources to those who are building mobile apps for Huawei’s mobile platform

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Poor data leads to IT squabbles and work stress

  Covid-19 has boosted IT in business, but IT workers feel they are overworked and are often in conflict with colleagues. Can better data help?

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  How software developers can make more dough

  There are subtle differences across Europe in developer salaries, depending on experience and demand for front-end, full-stack or front-end roles

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Covid-19 drives growth in low-code development tools

  The pandemic and lockdowns have led to remote work and increased online activity, and businesses have needed to develop new applications rapidly

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

  The ENIAC was a computer built for the US Army to calculate missile trajectories during the Second World War, but it was finally delivered in February 1946

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Century-old insurer uses low code as digital demands increase

  Lloyds of London insurance and reinsurance broker Miller breaks from the past by adopting low-code software development platform

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Nurture software developer heroes

  Developer teams have been put under immense pressure to drive through digital transformation change, and they are now experiencing stress and burnout

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  IBM and Microsoft close the gap to mainstream quantum computing

  Recent developments from IBM and Microsoft suggest that cloud-based enterprise computing may become mainstream in just a few years

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Yorkshire Building Society migrating application development to improve customer satisfaction

  Yorkshire Building Society is moving to new application development platform to support the creation of customer-friendly online services

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Inside Grab’s DevOps practices

  A senior software engineer at Grab offers a peek into the DevOps practices at one of Southeast Asia’s technology unicorns

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Executive interview: Antony Roberts, Audi

  The head of digital at Audi UK discusses how the luxury car company has revamped its online presence as it shifts gear to drive online sales

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  How Globe Telecom is doubling down on cloud

  The largest mobile operator in the Philippines has moved its legacy systems to the cloud and there is more to come as it looks towards deploying cloud radio access networks and cloud-native applications

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  London received quarter of all European tech funding in 2020

  Technology startups in London raised near-record levels of venture capital investment last year despite uncertainty related to Brexit and Covid-19

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  Major facial-recognition supplier builds system to identify masked faces

  Facial-recognition supplier claims new system can accurately identify masked faces, therefore promoting public health during the pandemic. But questions remain about whether its existing UK law enforcement clients will be deploying the technology

• December 30, 2020 30 Dec'20

  Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 software development stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories of 2020

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Agility key to pandemic recovery, say APAC CFOs

  Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region call for financial transformation to bring about the agility that their organisations need to tide over the pandemic

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  AWS eyes mainframe workloads

  Amazon Web Services is doubling down on efforts to help its partners address the growing demand for capabilities to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Tesco uses Netcall to speed up insurance claims process

  An in-house team has used a low-code platform from Netcall to develop an application for Tesco Underwriting

• December 06, 2020 06 Dec'20

  China lags US in computer vision

  China trails the US in the field of computer vision despite making inroads in computing and research, new report finds

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  CIO interview: John Davison, First Central Group

  For the last nine years, John Davison has provided an IT strategy to drive business operations. Automation is the next phase of that strategy

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  Singapore government remains ‘juicy target’ for cyber attackers

  The government is baking security into the design and implementation of its IT systems and looking to increase bug bounties to fend off cyber threats

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  IT Priorities: APAC enterprises readying recovery budget

  Enterprises in Asia-Pacific are investing in cloud and other key technologies to not only survive but thrive in the post-pandemic world

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

  Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing

• November 20, 2020 20 Nov'20

  University of Melbourne to advance digital health

  Australia’s University of Melbourne has established a research outfit to build and clinically validate healthcare technology solutions

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Tim Berners-Lee startup releases decentralisation tech to enterprises

  Roll-out of Inrupt’s decentralised privacy technology to four large organisations is helping the startup to develop explicit use cases, which it hopes will prove the tech and lead to faster adoption

• November 02, 2020 02 Nov'20

  Finnish government rolls out digital projects to support SMEs

  Finland is set to create network of technology hubs that will support SMEs in the country, as well as create links across the EU

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Why Malaysia’s AmBank is embracing open source and DevOps

  AmBank Group is tapping open source, DevOps and data science to improve customer service and develop bespoke services for a broader market

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Saudi Arabian authorities work with Chinese IT giants on digital goals

  Saudi Arabia has signed two agreements with Chinese IT suppliers as it strives to deliver its ambitious programme to diversify its economy

• October 22, 2020 22 Oct'20

  Nordic CIO Interview: Teemu Salmi, Stora Enso

  Working with startup communities helps to drive digital transformation at one of the world’s largest forest industry companies, Stora Enso

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts

  Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs

• October 19, 2020 19 Oct'20

  London’s fintechs continue to attract investment

  The capital’s fintechs continue to attract large volumes of venture capital funds despite the global economic slowdown

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  DBS to deploy IBM z15 mainframes

  Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to run and modernise mission-critical applications on z15 mainframes

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Inside VMware’s Kubernetes playbook

  Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda talks up the evolution of the container orchestration platform and efforts by VMware to help enterprises get the most out of the technology

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  GitHub makes code vulnerability scanning feature public

  Code-scanning service is now out of beta and generally available, helping teams to bake security into their code at the development stage

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  VMworld 2020: VMware partners to accelerate enterprise applications

  A partnership with Nvidia promises to expand AI acceleration to other business apps. It also aims to make Kubernetes enterprise-ready

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Quantum is years away, but business case can be made today

  Business leaders are being urged to start thinking about how their organisations could solve complex problems with quantum technology

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Over two million Brits using open banking

  Data shows more than two million people in the UK are now taking control of their financial data through open banking

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Green Cargo extends Rimini contract to keep legacy SAP backend running

  Mainframe and SAP to provide systems of record, with real-time data for new digitisation initiatives, built on multi-cloud, RPA and low-code platforms

• September 17, 2020 17 Sep'20

  WikiLeaks partners developed software to redact 400,000 Iraq War Logs

  Psychologist and co-founder of NGO the Iraq Body Count told a court that Julian Assange insisted on stringent redaction of hundreds of thousands of documents which revealed civilian deaths in the Iraq war

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Risky development practice leaves company access keys exposed

  Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development

• September 15, 2020 15 Sep'20

  Nutanix bolsters Kubernetes playbook with managed service

  Karbon Platform Services claims to ease container deployments in public and hybrid cloud environments in the emerging Kubernetes platform war

• September 08, 2020 08 Sep'20

  How low-cost computing gets kids into tech

  We speak to a teenager about the joys of programming a Raspberry Pi and the startup he has formed around a Pi-based medical device

• September 07, 2020 07 Sep'20

  Artificial intelligence keeps HSBC ATMs stocked with cash

  HSBC is using artificial intelligence technology developed in-house to help it make sure ATMs are appropriately stocked with cash

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  How Certis is digitising security operations

  Certis has developed more than 50 applications in a year to help employees do their jobs better and has set up an AI centre to tap the potential of robotics and video analytics in security

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  UK to build commercially available quantum computer

  The UK government is backing a quantum computing project that will provide businesses with access to the technology

• September 01, 2020 01 Sep'20

  UBS streamlines software product development with GitLab

  The bank hopes to double the speed of software development, testing and deployment to support applications for clients