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• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Co-operative Bank to close quarter of branches, with tech picking up slack

  The Co-operative Bank is closing about a quarter of its remaining branches and digital technology will replace them

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  DWP starts national Universal Credit IT rollout

  The next phase of the national IT rollout for the controversial Universal Credit programme has started

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  Apple beefs up security for FaceTime and iMessage

  Apple has extended its two-step authentication to iMessage and FaceTime, but security experts say more could be done to protect users

• February 13, 2015 13 Feb'15

  HSCIC sets out five-year plan to make UK a world leader in healthcare apps

  Health and Social Care Information Centre sets out technology strategy to make UK a world leader in health and social care apps

• February 12, 2015 12 Feb'15

  Cabinet Office’s Maude: local GDS ‘very high priority’

  A local authority version of the Government Digital Service (GDS) is “very high priority”, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  ShopDirect selects IBM managed service with SoftLayer hybrid cloud

  Shop Direct is using IBM’s SoftLayer hybrid cloud in a 10-year outsourcing deal to provide analytics, mobile and social applications

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Is the Digital Services Framework making agile procurement difficult?

  Suppliers of agile development services to government have spoken out against the Digital Services Framework, used for commissioning firms to work on public projects

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Sweeping trend towards digital banking forces RBS branch closures

  Royal Bank of Scotland "taken aback" by ever-increasing take-up of digital banking and announces additional branch closures across UK

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  FCC’s Tom Wheeler offers up net neutrality plan

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may rule in favour of a strong regulatory environment to preserve the open internet

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  GDS creator Francis Maude steps down as MP

  Cabinet Office minister and creator of the Government Digital Service (GDS) Francis Maude will step down as an MP after nearly 30 years in parliament

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Santander offers corporate clients cloud storage

  Santander’s cloud storage offer to corporate clients shows how banks could fight back against the IT giants encroaching on their market

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Sprint 15 confirms plans for government as platform

  A cross-government approach to public service provision would drive platform-based government, heard this year’s digital overview Sprint 15

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Apple and Google are big but banks have advantages, says Santander boss

  Chairman of Spanish banking giant Santander is confident banks can fight off the challenge in financial services from tech giants

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  HM Revenue & Customs receives record number of digital self assessments

  This year saw the largest recorded number of digital self assessment registrations, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  Media industry operates on a shoestring IT budget, says BT

  The media industry struggles to invest in technology, because investors are concerned with making new television and film content