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October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
Some IT contractors earning more than £700 a day

Research shows 40% of contractors reach the average annual IT salary within three months
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
GE opens up on how its move to the AWS public cloud is progressing

The multi-national conglomerate claims to have migrated more than 2,000 apps to the AWS cloud, as its digital transformation efforts continue apace
October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17
All EU countries sign up to implement digital-by-default services

Declaration reaffirms commitment to bring public sector services into the digital age and improve citizens’ interaction with government
October 05, 2017 05 Oct'17
Singapore’s public sector finds agility and speed in AWS

City-state’s government has been able to meet peak demands and address security issues through a cloud-based web-hosting platform powered by Amazon Web Services
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
Computer Weekly announces the Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017

Computer Weekly has announced the list for Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017, including this year’s winner Sherry Coutu
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017: Rising Stars

Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choice for this year’s female Rising Stars of the UK technology industry
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
Role models best way to increase diversity, says Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2017 Sherry Coutu

The winner of Computer Weekly’s 2017 Most Influential Woman in UK IT award, Sherry Coutu, says role models are the best way of addressing the diversity imbalance in the technology industry
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
What is the future of Windows Server?

At its annual Ignite event, Microsoft presented a number of features that give an insight into its strategy

October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
How Australia is tackling cyber crime

Telcos such as Telstra and industry associations in Australia are chipping in to help enterprises that are being targeted by cyber criminals with phishing and social engineering exploits
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
Yahoo breach affected 3 billion accounts

Yahoo’s personal data breach affected three billion user accounts, the company’s new owners have revealed
October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17
Dubai Land Department launches interactive app

Mashrooi app will track real estate project progress and allow users to compare construction against developers’ plans
October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17
Cyber security industry key to solving skills gap

In the face of a growing shortage of cyber security skills around the world, the security industry itself needs to do more to attract people
October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17
Tech entrepreneur aims to take digital skills to refugees

Tech entrepreneur Emma Sinclair hopes to raise £150,000 to run an education programme for displaced young people in a Unicef programme that aims to develop skills that might otherwise be lost
October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17
CIOs moving to revenue-generating roles

Gartner survey shows changing role for CIOs to cover revenue generation and deriving value from data, and spending less time on traditional IT delivery

October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on why empathy is essential for technology innovation

Speaking at the London launch of his Hit Refresh book, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed how a shortfall in empathy nearly cost him a job at the firm in the 1990s
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
Peer-to-peer CDN improves customer experience for Equinix

Datacentre and colocation services provider Equinix cut page load times at its customer information resource library using a developing peer-to-peer model of content delivery networking
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'

Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
Hard Brexit would see UK tech exports fall by £1.7bn

UK manufacturers including those in the technology sector will lose billions of pounds of export revenue if the government completes a hard Brexit
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Microsoft Azure joins Géant's Europe-wide IaaS mega-framework

Microsoft joins Géant's bid to create a cost-effective and accessible cloud procurement hub for Europe's education and research community
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
WannaCry an example of pseudo-ransomware, says McAfee

The global WannaCry and NotPetya attacks were both examples of pseudo-ransomware, according to McAfee researchers
September 28, 2017 28 Sep'17
Large scale IoT deployments double in 12 months

Vodafone’s fifth annual look at the IoT market reveals that the percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices has effectively doubled in the past year
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
RHB Bank rolls out chatbot for loan applications

The Malaysian lender hopes to improve the loan application experience and grow its personal loan business by 60% through a new chatbot
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
Global hacker botnet tops 6 million hijacked devices

A year after the first Mirai botnet attacks, the global botnet has grown, with many countries and cities unwittingly hosting large number of bot-infected devices
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
UK-EU talks have failed to raise confidence of IT leaders

IT decision-makers are no more confident about how Brexit will affect them despite this year’s general election and talks between the EU and the UK
September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17
Mac OS passwords at risk of theft, researcher warns

Some Apple Mac users are at risk of password theft due to a zero-day vulnerability discovered in some versions of the operating system
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Cage director found guilty of terrorism offence after refusing to disclose passwords

Muhammad Rabbani, international director of Cage, is convicted of an offence under the terrorism act after refusing to disclose his mobile phone PIN and laptop password under Terrorism Act
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Microsoft Ignite kicks off with cross-platform SQL and on-premise Azure

Microsoft announces completion of cross-platform SQL Server, GDPR compliance for Office 365, plus Azure Stack
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
Amazon launches Middle East region

Amazon opens its latest delivery hub in Bahrain to serve customers in the Middle East
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
NotPetya attack cost up to £15m, says UK ad agency WPP

Advertising giant was one of many companies hit in June 2017 by malware distributed through Ukrainian accounting software
September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17
FSA connects 220 abattoirs to fibre for food safety monitoring

Food Standards Agency picks Exponential-e to revitalise connectivity across 220 sites as it strives to improve operational efficiency and compliance processes
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
Uber fails to get licence to operate in London renewed

Transport for London has rejected Uber's application for its licence renewal, citing a lack of corporate responsibility as the reason
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
CIO interview: Russell Harte, group technology director, DFS

The furniture store’s group head of IT speaks to Computer Weekly about how customer experience can be used internally
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
Malware hidden in CCleaner targeted tech firms

Major tech firms were targeted by malware hidden in Avast’s Piriform CCleaner software, researchers have found, leading to speculation that it may have been state-sponsored espionage attack
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
Nation-state actors responsible for most cyber attacks

Companies of all sizes may find themselves faced with highly capable state-sponsored cyber attacks, but steps can be taken to shore up defences
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Most UK councils hit by cyber attacks

A study has revealed that most UK local authorities have suffered cyber attacks in the past year, showing local government is a key target for cyber criminals and that legacy software is a top security concern
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Cyber crime a significant risk to individuals and organisations

Cyber crime is still a significant risk to individuals and organisations, a report claims, with the top threats including business email compromise, ransomware, and banking and mobile malware
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Why businesses should tackle the digital workplace

IT chiefs should make implementing the digital workplace core to their company’s digitisation strategy, says analyst Gartner
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Blockchain tests delivering results and IBM seen as leader

Businesses that have invested in trials of blockchain technology will repeat their investments
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Oracle announces simplified pricing model for cloud computing

Ahead of Oracle’s OpenWorld 2017 event, Larry Ellison announces simplification of cloud pricing, attached to increased automation in database and middleware
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Veritas takes stock of data management play

Software supplier Veritas says it has delivered on its promises but there is still work to do in realising its data management vision
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Public sector cloud use still too focused on ‘low-hanging fruit’ IT projects, finds research

Public sector cloud adoption continues to rise, but wide-scale digital transformation success remains elusive, claims Cloud Industry Forum research
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Outlook outage: Microsoft blames European Hotmail downtime on load-balancing fault

Microsoft claims connectivity issues that blighted Outlook and Hotmail users for much of Monday 18 September have now been largely resolved
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Banks across Europe cut thousands of staff and branches as IT replaces them

Banks across Europe cut jobs and close thousands of branches as IT shakes the industry
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
More than 40% of people in UK do not have digital skills required for most jobs

The digital skills gap is set to widen as many in the UK are without the basic skills needed for most positions, with jobs increasingly requiring above-average digital skills
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
HMRC builds blockchain proof of concept for UK border

HMRC‘s Mike Potter says department has built blockchain proof of concept to coordinate interventions at the border, and highlights the need for an ‘API economy’ in Whitehall
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Oracle 2017-18 Q1 results: Cloud revenue jumps by 51%

Oracle’s first quarter 2017-18 results show jump in cloud revenue of 51%, boosted by NetSuite acquisition. Executives continue to be bullish on cloud growth, and the AI makeover of core database is flagged
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
HMRC confirms Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright as new CDIO

HMRC has tasked Microsoft corporate vice-president Jacky Wright with helping the department achieve its goal of becoming one of the world's most digitally advanced tax authorities
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
GDS is ‘sidelined’ and government as a platform ‘is dead’, says Francis Maude

Former Cabinet Office minister cites diminishing of Government Digital Service role as he criticises civil service resistance to change
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
BT offers enterprise customers flexible bandwidth for peak usage

New element of BT IP Connect Global WAN service will enable businesses to dial their network capacity up and down at will
September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17
Government aligns data laws with GDPR

The UK government announces details of its data protection law that will align with the EU’s GDPR