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• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Prince’s Trust uses Oracle for digital transformation

  Youth charity launches new website, customer relationship management system and reporting system

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Fintech growth rates explode in Australia

  Financial technology companies in Australia are growing at high rates and come as a warning to the nation's enterprises that are yet to join the digital revolution

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Lack of digital skills is killing off startups, reveals Rakuten survey

  A lack of digital skills is one of the main reasons so many startups in the UK are failing, study shows

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Suppliers lay the groundwork for IoT in Czech Republic

  ICT suppliers are putting in place the technology infrastructure that will enable towns and cities in the Czech Republic to harness the internet of things

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Australian cities are getting smarter

  The smart city phenomenon is taking off in Australia, where there's the space and the will to make it work.

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Partnerships key to digital innovation

  Competition has become a team sport in the digital era, with companies joining forces to get to grips with the latest innovations, a report has found

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  How IoT will impact the Asean cloud landscape

  IoT deployments are in their early stages in the Asean region, but experts predict as take-up of IoT apps increases it will have a big impact on IT infrastructures in the region

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Young companies lead digital readiness in Finland

  Startup businesses are leading the way in Finland when it comes to having the right customer-facing technologies in place

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Singapore’s Smart Nation vision entices startups and IoT developers

  The Singapore government is pitching to make the tiny Asean city-state a centre for the development of smart city and internet of things technology, and wants to bring UK startups to its shores. Computer Weekly meets Steve Leonard, the man in charge...

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Startup support network Tech London Advocates expands into Nordics

  Startup support network Tech London Advocates is launching a sister organisation covering the Nordic and Baltic countries

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Secret report into rural payments IT problems points finger at RPA CEO

  The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is withholding a highly critical report into IT problems that led to the withdrawal of the £154m farmers' digital service

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Retailers will never have pure play, says Watchfinder founder

  Founder of luxury second-hand watch reseller Watchfinder explains that retailers will never have an entirely online or offline business

• October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15

  Police arrest teenager over TalkTalk hack

  Police are interviewing and searching the home of a 15-year-old boy in Northern Ireland in connection with a hack attack on TalkTalk that was feared to have exposed personal details of four million customers

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Net neutrality laws have dangerous loopholes, says Tim Berners-Lee

  As the European Parliament prepares for a key vote on net neutrality, web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has warned that stronger amendments are needed to close a number of worrying loopholes

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Transforming Singapore Post through modern technology

  When Singapore Post realised it had to change its business model to survive, it appointed its first CIO to front the technology transformation

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Christina Scott, CIO, Financial Times

  As a leading global media firm, the FT is at the forefront of digital change – not to mention a new owner that means bringing IT back from its former parent

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Ex-government digital chief Mike Bracken brings GDS colleagues to Co-operative Group

  Mike Bracken, former government digital chief, has outlined his plans for digital transformation in his role at the Co-operative Group

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  TalkTalk warns customers about personal data breach

  TalkTalk has warned customers their personal data may have been compromised in the second cyber attack on the firm in 2015, with some data left unencrypted

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  How the Cabinet Office is using open data to tackle youth unemployment

  The Cabinet Office invited IT professionals and young people to a Job Hack event with the aim of using open government datasets to help more young people into work

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Mobile accounts for a quarter of Argos sales, but overall sales decline for Home Retail Group

  Mobile sales grew to account for a quarter of Argos's total sales, according to parent company Home Retail Group’s half-year results

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  SHA-1 could be undermined before the year’s out

  Low-cost graphics processing in the cloud could enable hackers to create fake security certificates to exploit e-commerce sites

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  Mobile commerce catching traditional e-commerce in Asean

  Consumers in the Asean region are increasingly using their mobile devices to make online purchases, according to a study by Visa

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  Tech City UK visa scheme helps startups get the right skills

  British government makes it easier for highly skilled IT professionals from outside the European Union to get visas to work for UK technology startups

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  Retailers miss vital data about customers' website experience

  Mark Felix from John Lewis says retailers should do more to use the data they collect about how customers use websites to hone their online experience

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Intel revises down growth forecast for datacentre business division

  Chipmaker Intel blames the weakening macroeconomic situation – with continued delays in hardware refresh cycles – in its datacentre business forecast revision

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Retail sector will be London’s next big tech drive, says Tech London Advocates

  Retail technology industry predicted to follow in the footsteps of the financial technology sector by producing London’s next generation of industry-changing startups

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  How easyJet uses digital to drive competitive advantage

  The CIO and head of digital at easyJet tell Computer Weekly price is not the only way to gain competitive advantage in the airline industry

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Apprenticeships could stop potential employees falling through the net, says Bellrock

  The chief technology officer of facilities management company Bellrock explains why apprenticeships should be used to stop potential IT workers moving to other industries

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  DWP looks to Facebook and LinkedIn for social services' digital future

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says it intends to learn from social networking firms and use external data to better understand people's lives

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Amsterdam aims to become a top European startup hub

  Amsterdam is selling itself to the startup community as a nice place to live with a high standard of living, and one that opens doors to the continent

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Dyn debuts SaaS-based datacentre performance monitoring tool

  Internet monitoring firm explains how it is using SaaS to help retailers deliver a consistent internet shopping service to customers via their websites

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  National Coding Week 2015 – older people can learn programming skills too

  National Coding Week took place from 21 to 25 September 2015 with a programme of activities helping adults in the UK master technical skills

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  Worldwide #peacehack hackathons use technology to promote peace

  A number of simultaneous hackathons have been held across the globe to promote the use of technology to encourage peace

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  JLab’s 2015 startups explain how the accelerator has helped them

  Finalists of the John Lewis JLab accelerator explain what experience they have gained on the programme

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  The next steps for digital government - a question of accountability

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) enters a new phase, with the departure of chief Mike Bracken and a different relationship with Whitehall in the future

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Smart peep-hole maker Peeple announced as 2015 Jlab winner

  John Lewis accelerator JLab announces Peeple, a smart peep-hole producer, as its 2015 winner

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Universal Credit digital service moves into the cloud

  New system under trial in south London has been migrated to an IaaS platform ready for further roll-out

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Monique Shivanandan, Aviva

  Aviva’s CIO, Monique Shivanandan, talks agile working, digital disruption and changing the culture of a complex 300-year-old company

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Richard Norris, head of IT and business change at Reliance Mutual Insurance

  Digital transformation is reshaping the 104-year-old business, as the insurance sector undergoes sweeping change

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Surrey University 5G lab puts UK plc at forefront of mobile innovation

  At the launch of Surrey University’s 5G Innovation Centre in September 2015, mobile experts said the lab will put the UK at the heart of networking development

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Apple's Irish datacentre build hit by possible planning permission appeal delay

  A "valid appeal" has reportedly been raised in response to Galway County Council's decision to grant conditional planning permission for Apple's Irish datacentre build

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  UK and US governments announce digital collaboration

  The US and UK have announced plans to work together on digital government initiatives

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  NHS-approved healthcare apps found to be leaking unencrypted user data

  A study into the data security of NHS healthcare apps highlights serious privacy shortcomings

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Lloyds Banking Group launches scheme to develop digital talent

  Lloyds Banking Group has formalised a graduate programme to develop digital banking skills, with 29 graduates embarking on the two-year scheme

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  What next for NHS Care.data plan after its leader Tim Kelsey quit?

  Tim Kelsey, the driving force behind the Care.data project to set up an NHS patient records database, has quit - but what does his departure mean for the troubled programme?

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Business leaders want better digital services from government, says research

  A survey of corporate decision-makers suggests executives waste an average of five hours per week using outdated online public services

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Employees crave digital skills, but organisations lack budget to teach them

  VMware survey on digital skills finds a large percentage of employees are keen to learn, but organisations are holding them back

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  More than half of 12-year-old girls say Stem subjects are too hard

  Accenture finds more than half of 12-year-old girls in the UK and Ireland think science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects are too hard

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Fidor bank launches in the UK

  Fidor bank launches its social media bank in the UK as the number of challenger financial services companies obtaining banking licences continues to rise

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Sainsbury’s hackathon showcases digital lab to improve customer services

  Sainsbury’s digital lab hackathon brings together the IT team and staff from the wider organisation to generate ideas to improve customer services

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Singapore general election reveals growing importance of social media

  Organisations in all sectors in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) countries are recognising the influence of social networking

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  The digitisation of Premier League football

  Premier League football clubs are ramping up their digital strategies this season

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Why insurer Axa is entering the retail e-commerce market

  Digitisation in insurance is usually associated with digital policy documents – but Axa is using technology to take a lateral approach to the indemnity business

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Health Service Executive in Ireland

  The Irish equivalent of the NHS is making great strides in digital healthcare and technology innovation

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  European Commission consults on the future of telecoms and broadband

  Twin European Commission (EC) consultations on the future of broadband and a review of the current telecoms framework will run until December 2015

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  John Lewis sales grow, but profit falls as restructuring shakes up the business

  The retailer reports a growth in sales, but blames omnichannel shift for a fall in operating profit

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  HP topples Cisco to become cloud infrastructure equipment market leader

  Hardware giant overtakes rival in the cloud infrastructure market as demand for servers, storage and private cloud-enabling kit soars

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Tennis governing body ATP outsources digital development

  The men's world tennis governing body, the ATP, signs Infosys to help it use digital technology to better engage fans and players

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Digital kiosks fail to stem Argos sales decline

  Retailer Argos reports a small increase in sales in comparison to its last quarter, but still suffers revenue decline year-on-year despite digital initiatives

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Big Lottery Fund gives £2m to digital champion project

  Non-profit organisation The Big Lottery Fund gives £2m to a project creating digital champions to help people without digital skills use the internet

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  BBC announces digital content season as part of Make it Digital initiative

  Six months on from the launch of its Make it Digital initiative to help children embrace technology, the BBC announces digital content season across its media channels

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service builds in-house PaaS to host government services

  Industry watchers query why the Government Digital Service (GDS) decided to build its own cloud platform, when many commercially available options exist

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  WhatsApp fixes security vulnerability

  Security researchers have praised Facebook's WhatsApp cross-platform messenger service for its quick response to a vulnerability disclosure

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Early plans for Universal Credit show DWP expected to complete project in two years

  An early plan drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for its Universal Credit scheme reveals unrealistic ambitions for the troubled project

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  One-third of schools admit to making no investment in coding training for teachers

  The current computing curriculum has been in place for a year, but the support given to teachers delivering these classes varies across the UK

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Philippines' roadmap aims for 500 startups by 2020

  The government of the Philippines is eager to emulate its success in BPO in the IT startup sector

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  School kids would rather study coding than a foreign language, says Ocado

  A year since computer science was added to the school curriculum Ocado discovers kids would rather learn to code than to speak another language

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  Myanmar internet gets boost with content delivery network

  Myanmar internet users will start benefiting from changes in the law that encourages foreign direct investment in communications infrastructures

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  BBC director general Tony Hall proposes an 'open BBC for the internet age'

  As the internet changes the way the public consumes content, the BBC proposes to make itself a platform for UK talent and an ongoing trustworthy source

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Get ready for Internet Explorer crunch time

  IT departments are being urged to get their heads down to tackle a major shift in browser support, affecting web-based enterprise software

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Top technology companies develop royalty-free media formats

  Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix have joined forces to develop fast, interoperable and royalty-free online media formats

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Why business should bet on open source

  Online bookie William Hill has deployed a stack of open-source tools to present time-sensitive web content

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  UK Amazon Marketplace sellers see 400 million orders in past year

  Online retail giant highlights popularity of Amazon Marketplace and the growing demand for faster delivery

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Home Office develops Online Application Service for visas with Equal Experts

  The Home Office explains how its implementation of the Online Application Service for visas bagged it the 2015 Computer Weekly European User Award for Best Public Sector Project

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015 – How to use Facebook to grow your business

  Founder of online retailer Lolly Wolly Doodle told Sage Summit 2015 how she used social media platform Facebook to grow her startup fashion business

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

  Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken – why I quit

  Mike Bracken, the outgoing director of the Government Digital Service, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his departure from Whitehall

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Mike Bracken: I turned down an increase in GDS budget

  Outgoing government digital chief says he rejected the chance of extra funding and that his platform strategy is still on the table

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elizabeth Eastaugh, director of technology at Expedia

  Elizabeth Eastaugh is on a mission to add diversity to the software engineering community

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Peer-to-peer lenders galore apply for regulatory approval

  The number of companies applying to become authorised peer-to-peer lenders goes beyond expectations as the appetite for non-bank lenders increases

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  HMRC releases update on personal tax accounts

  A test version of HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) long awaited personal tax accounts has been launched to assess user needs

• August 07, 2015 07 Aug'15

  Battle lines being drawn for control of domestic internet of things

  A Gartner report suggests that ISPs will be fighting one another for control of the home IoT gateway

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Skyscape cuts cloud storage price by 50% for public sector IaaS users

  Cloud services provider cites growing public sector business as reason for latest round of price cuts

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  What will happen to digital government when GDS chief Mike Bracken moves on?

  The government’s digital chief Mike Bracken has announced he will be leaving, raising concerns over the future of digital government

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Huawei supplier ecosystem to help financial industry emulate internet giants

  Huawei targets the European finance sector, with a focus on the UK, through an ecosystem of niche IT suppliers

• July 29, 2015 29 Jul'15

  3D XPoint memory chips '1,000 times faster than NAND'

  Intel and Micron say new 3D chip technology is biggest breakthrough in memory technology in nearly 30 years

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  Digital adoption boosts GDP, says Accenture

  Digital technologies boost a country's competitive advantage and drive up its economic growth, Accenture has found

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  GDS targets three million new users of Gov.uk Verify service in next 12 months

  Roll-out of the system for logging in to digital public services is taking longer than expected, but user numbers are expected to grow significantly in 2015

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mark Dixon, Standard Life

  Insurance company Standard Life is looking at new digital projects as work needed to meet regulatory changes is completed

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  GDS unveils payments platform prototype in government-as-a-platform strategy

  New system would provide a standardised way to take payments from citizens for online public services

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Cabinet Office launches consultation for future of Digital Services Framework

  A supplier consultation has been announced to discuss changes to the Digital Service framework before an Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) is published

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Retail should invest in upskilling to close employee skills gaps

  A report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills suggests retailers will need to invest in upskilling to prevent a drop-off from older employees and appeal to the younger generation

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Stop telling patients not to Google – one man’s quest for joined-up healthcare

  Technologies such as Google, health trackers and social media will be contributing factors in the future of joined-up healthcare, says one digital healthcare advocate

• July 17, 2015 17 Jul'15

  Hunt elects Martha Lane Fox to develop NHS digital innovation proposal

  Jeremy Hunt has asked Martha Lane Fox to develop a proposal for more digital technology and innovation in healthcare

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  UK tech sector called to contribute to EC Digital Single Market consultations

  Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) says UK must feed back to the European Commission (EC) to inform the delivery of its Digital Single Market vision

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Specialist clothing brand Musto deploys Cybertill point of sale system

  Luxury sailing brand Musto signs payments company Cybertill to redesign its point of sale (POS) system for its multichannel operation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  GDS creates outcomes framework for digital inclusion

  Government Digital Service (GDS) launches Digital Inclusion Outcomes Framework to act as a template for digital inclusion evaluation

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Nordic region has most connected 'things' per person

  Study shows Nordic countries are leading the way in the internet of things, but are yet to use it for business transformation