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• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Enterprise Rent-A-Car European IT director Jeff King

  Enterprise Rent-A-Car European IT director Jeff King rose from the shop floor to an executive directing IT across Europe

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Qantas puts Oracle ERP in the cloud with Tata Consultancy Services

  Airline Qantas signs IT outsourcing services firm TCS to upgrade its Oracle ERP platform and move it into the cloud

• 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

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Spanish bank spends €500m on contactless ATMs

  CaixaBank has commissioned Fujitsu to build 8,500 ATMs that will be contactless

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• 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 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 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

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development

  Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has integrated software testing and development to support agile methodologies

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation

  In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  UK helping US military build intelligence software for drone targeting

  The UK has been helping the US military build software to share intelligence for weapons such as drones for the past 14 years

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform

  The Ministry of Justice has announced a five-year programme to update and replace technology used in courts and tribunals across the UK

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

  On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Executive interview: Microsoft targets the non-professional developers

  The developer community is changing. There are far more people programming now, says Microsoft's Tim O'Brien

• 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 05, 2014 05 Feb'14

  The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?

  The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Firm works with Google maps to provide fleet management software

  Greater Anglia rail company will roll out a taxi booking app in 2014 developed by fleet management software provider TDispatch and powered by Google Maps

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development

  The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Computer science graduates struggle to find work despite IT skills shortage

  Despite an IT skills gap, the UK’s recent computer science graduates are the largest group of unemployed graduates

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Tesco.com uses agile development offshore to roll out internationally

  Tesco used agile methodology, co-ordinating a team of 100 offshore developers, to roll out the Tesco.com website internationally

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

  British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  How the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone business will affect Microsoft

  Microsoft forges ahead with Steve Ballmer's vision to focus on hardware, software and services, with the $7.2bn acquisition of Nokia

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Why agile development failed for Universal Credit

  The DWP has ceased all agile development on the Universal Credit programme. Was agile not up to the job? Or was DWP not up to agile?

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Bet365's move to HTML5 is more than a gamble

  Online gaming site Bet365 has starting using HTML5 to build a rich user experience on its website

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief

  Former programme director of Universal Credit, Malcolm Whitehouse, has denied the mega-project is at odds with agile development

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

  In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme

  David Pitchford, executive director of Major Projects Authority heads up the Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• 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

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  DWP CIO Philip Langsdale oversees Universal Credit overhaul

  The Department for Work and Pensions CIO Philip Langsdale oversees an overhaul of the DWP’s flagship Universal Credit programme

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Software issues risk delaying Universal Credit by one year, according to reports

  The IT underpinning the government’s flagship £2.2bn Universal Credit programme is again being called into question

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  Gartner Symposium: RBS emulates Amazon with private cloud

  Royal Bank of Scotland has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Rigorous software testing gets Curiosity off to a good start

  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Gartner: Prepare for hybrid cloud pain

  Hybrid clouds are set for a big fall as businesses feel the pain of implementation

• July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12

  Nationwide hits major milestone in £1bn IT transformation

  Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year technology transformation project with the roll-out of a mortgage system to its branches

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  Banks break with in-house software in move to commercial systems

  Increased regulation, reduced profits and customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with off-the-shelf alternatives

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?

  Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  BAE assesses off-the-shelf application lifecycle management

  BAE Maritime Systems is assessing new tools from Serena Software to support mission-critical software development

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  CIO interview: Lukas Oberhuber, CTO, Simply Business

  Lukas Oberhuber is CTO at Simply Business, where he is making IT at the insurance company more agile to meet business demands

• March 27, 2012 27 Mar'12

  Retail and insurance lead two-speed IT spending

  More IT-based businesses are starting with greater investment in IT after the slowdown, but with lopsided demand as businesses increase spending at different rates

• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  Oracle and SAP worst for government ERP cost differences

  Oracle and SAP have been singled out as having the most inconsistent prices for ERP systems across government departments.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based agile testing

  IBM is acquiring cloud-based software testing company Green Hat to bolster its Rational product family.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Businesses take risks with faulty software

  Unearthing software faults once software goes live is storing up problems for businesses.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• May 13, 2011 13 May'11

  Government website pilot points to future public sector software development

  Alpha.gov.uk is a pilot for a website that could put all UK government digital services and websites on one URL

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  IT managers find Internet Explorer 9 fails to render websites and web applications

  With the development of Internet Explorer 9.0 near completion, ComputerWeekly.com has learned that thousands of sites and applications are incompatible with the new browser and its immediate predecessor.