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Home Office needs to boost capability to fix UKBA IT

The Home Office must improve its internal capability to fix the siloed IT systems behind the soon-to-be-scrapped UK Border Agency Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

UK government sets up cyber security fusion cell

A cyber security “fusion cell” for cross-sector threat data sharing aims to put government, industry and information security analysts side-by-side Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation

Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services Continue Reading

Employees ignore security rules, say infosec pros

Most information security professionals believe corporate employees wilfully ignore security rules, survey at RSA Conference 2013 reveals Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Yahoo buys UK teenager’s app for £18m

Yahoo has acquired Summly – an app created by a UK teenager – for £18m, making him one of the world’s youngest self-made millionaires Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Apple buys WifiSLAM for $20m

Apple buys indoor mapping start-up WifiSLAM for $20m to boost its location technology and compete with Google’s indoor capabilities Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Securing the hypervisor: expert tips

There are many potential security issues with the various components of a virtualised infrastructure, and nowhere is this more of a concern than with the hypervisor platforms that host virtual systems and application instances Continue Reading

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• Dave Shackleford, Voodoo Security

Malware in counterfeit software to cost business $114bn in 2013

Dealing with malware in counterfeit software will cost global enterprises an estimated $114bn in 2013, says research firm IDC Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

The history of OpenFlow

Computer Weekly takes a look back at the beginnings of the software-defined networking protocol and the technology behind it Continue Reading

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• Steve Evans

Agile Project Management for Government

Brian Wernham shows how an agile approach can incrementally deliver large mission and safety critical technology solutions. Continue Reading

Six security issues to tackle before encrypting cloud data

Concern about security and privacy is likely to drive adoption of cloud encryption, but there are six security issues businesses should tackle Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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 Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Hampshire signs broadband contract with BT

Funding from the council, BDUK and BT will provide over £13m to bring superfast broadband to at least 90% of the county by 2015 Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Farewell to Logica brand as CGI completes UK integration

The Logica brand will disappear next week as buyer CGI migrates the services supplier's UK IT to CGI's own global system Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Case study: Hamilton Fraser embraces BYOD with MobileIron

How insurance firm Hamilton Fraser is using MobileIron to enable employees to bring their own devices while following company policy Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

ARM CEO Warren East steps down

Warren East, CEO of semiconductor firm ARM, is retiring from the company after almost 12 years in the leadership role Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

AstraZeneca appoints new CIO David Smoley

Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has appointment David Smoley as chief information officer Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

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 Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

The Great Deverticalisation - part 3: New skills and structures in the public sector

Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply? Continue Reading

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• Mark Thompson & Jerry Fishenden

Government mandates 'preference' for open source

The government has, for the first time, mandated a preference for using open source for future developments Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Samsung launches Galaxy S4 with improved software and Knox security

Samsung's latest smartphone, the Galaxy S4 – which was released in New York – aims to boost software and Android OS security Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders

Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’ Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

US authorities investigate hack of Michelle Obama and other high-profile people

US authorities are investigating hackers who allegedly stole financial information belonging to US first lady Michelle Obama Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

O2: ‘We have not lost a single customer to EE’

O2’s head of enterprise says no customers have been drawn to EE's 4G and expects a challenge to entice them even after all operators launch Continue Reading

Warwickshire Council adopts Gmail

Warwickshire County Council is to complete a full Gmail roll-out across its 4,500 users next month, in a move that will deliver £250,000 in savings Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Journey 2016: Enterprise without boundaries

This report from Atos assess how major trends including the birth of the total data economy, a cashless society, social and shared innovation will start to reshape business and society by 2016. Continue Reading

Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh

Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system. Continue Reading

Phishing emails sent in pairs to lend authenticity, says training company

Phishing emails are now being deployed in pairs to create the illusion of authenticity, says security awareness training company PhishMe Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Microsoft releases four critical security updates

Microsoft is to release four “critical” patches in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update, according to the advance notice. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Hilary Reynolds latest universal credit programme director to move

Universal credit programme director Hilary Reynolds has moved off after just four months, the latest senior figure to leave the programme Continue Reading

AstraZeneca opts for co-operation after IBM falls out

AstraZeneca has changed its approach to outsourcing to encourage co-operation with suppliers after its deal with IBM failed to deliver Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Midlands health trust trials BlackBerry 10 OS on PlayBook with Z10 roll-out

The Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust tests the Blackberry 10 operating system (OS) for a mobile fleet deployment Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Wired vs wireless in the enterprise

What are the pros and cons of wired and wireless connectivity, and what does the future hold for the corporate environment? Continue Reading

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• Steve Evans

Hardware fault causes more RBS service outages

RBS and NatWest customers experienced disruptions to online and telephone banking services after hardware fault. Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham Continue Reading

KFC brings free Wi-Fi to customers

KFC teams with The Cloud to give customers free internet connectivity. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

"Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

"Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs Continue Reading

Case study: Birmingham NEC boosts Wi-Fi network

Birmingham NEC has deployed Xirrus technology to bring high-bandwidth wireless connectivity to visitors and staff Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

What is RSA's build, buy, partner strategy?

Computer Weekly takes a closer look at RSA's build, buy, partner strategy Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Businesses must fundamentally change or 'die'

Firms need to embrace technological change or face being left behind, according to executives from Amazon and Salesforce Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Logicalis saves 2e2's UK managed services arm

Logicalis has taken over the European business of defunct IT services supplier 2e2, which went bust in January 2013, owing millions to creditors Continue Reading

How to tackle big data from a security point of view

Before leaping into big data, companies must be clear what they are trying to achieve, otherwise their investment will be wasted Continue Reading

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• Peter Wood, First Base Technologies LLP

How to configure Mac OS X Server

How to secure Mac OS X Server using global password policies and data loss prevention Continue Reading

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• Rob Buckley

UK teams up with Estonia to develop digital public services

The UK government has signed an agreement with Estonia to work together on developing digital public services Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

RSA 2013: Suppliers need to prepare for new security vulnerability handling standards

Software makers and online service providers need to prepare for two ISO standards on vulnerability handling processes due by the end of 2013 Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Health records should be protected like bank details, says BCS

The BCS and NHS say people should protect their online medical records in the same way they look after their bank details Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Booking.com embraces mobile apps

Head of mobile marketing for Booking.com talks about mobile strategy and accumulating more than 10 million downloads in less than two years Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Fifth of all IT services firms could disappear by 2014, says Gartner

Up to 20 of the world’s top 100 IT service providers could disappear by 2014 because of the tough economic conditions, says Gartner Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

RSA 2013: Obama cyber order will have significant effect, says DoHS

President Barack Obama’s executive order on cybersecurity is a “very big deal” says Mark Weatherford, deputy under-secretary for cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS). Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Will the Nokia portfolio win over the world?

As the former leader of the mobile market tries to entice customers to use its handsets, we ask whether the strategy will succeed Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

The Great Deverticalisation - part 2: The power of open

The public sector has the opportunity, through the power of 'open', to take the lead in creating organisations for the future success of UK plc Continue Reading

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• Mark Thompson & Jerry Fishenden

Mozilla announces handsets for Firefox OS

Alcatel, LG and ZTE will be the first mobile manufacturers to bring Firefox OS handsets to the market Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Universal Credit has the hallmarks of another IT failure

Charities, housing associations and consultancies have warned that the Department for Work and Pensions’ £2.2bn Universal Credit programme has all the hallmarks of another public sector IT disaster. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Music companies critical of Google’s anti-piracy efforts

Music companies have accused Google of failing to fulfil a pledge not to give prominent rankings in search results to websites offering illegal music downloads. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

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) Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Top technologies that can make your datacentre green

Energy-efficient technologies that can reduce running costs in the datacentre and across the business Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Bad outsourcing decisions cause 63% of data breaches

Bad outsourcing decisions nearly two-thirds of data breaches investigated by security firm Trustwave in the past year Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Google battles BT in patent row

Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement Continue Reading

Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme

Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Boots to roll out contactless payments nationwide

Boots is to roll out contactless payments across its stores nationwide, in a deal with payment providers Visa Europe and Streamline Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Barclays bank cuts UK jobs

Barclays will cut jobs in the UK as part of a total reduction of 3,700 staff after reporting a substantial drop in profits for the last 12 months Continue Reading

HMRC alerts businesses to impending real-time PAYE changes

HMRC is notifying businesses about impending real-time information (RTI) changes to the PAYE payroll system Continue Reading

How to find the most vulnerable systems on your internal network

Most corporate networks share common vulnerabilities, but many could be mitigated with education in “hacker thinking” for technical staff Continue Reading

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• Peter Wood, First Base Technologies LLP

IT expert in Microsoft monopoly case faces £2.5m legal fight

A computer expert who advised the European Commission in its investigation into anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft faces £2.5bn legal battle Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CIO interview: David Matthewman, CIO, Open University

Three years after joining the Open University, CIO David Matthewman continues to push a strategic programme to deliver value and innovation Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

BYOD with VMware

New Windows 8 tablets and laptops are great...but not exactly corporate. So why not run a Windows 7 virtual machine? Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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 Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Social media: A security challenge and opportunity

Generation Y workers are posing increasing security challenges to their employers as they share data unreservedly Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

EU cyber strategy aimed at boosting preparedness and cooperation

The European cyber security strategy addresses insufficient national preparedness and boosting co-operation in the region, says the EC Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Business avoids cloud over fear of government snooping

Almost half of IT professionals are deterred from keeping sensitive data in the cloud because of fear of government intervention and possible legal action, a survey has revealed Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Twitter strengthens login security after hacker attack

Days after a hacking attack, it has emerged that Twitter plans to strengthen its login security with two-factor authentication Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Raspberry Pi Model A computer goes on sale for £16

The latest version of the small single-board Raspberry Pi computer – Model A – has gone on sale in Europe at just £16 Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia

Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Process big data at speed

Low-cost solid state memory is powering high-speed analytics of big data streaming from social network feeds and the industrial internet. Continue Reading

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• Tony Baer

Five steps to turn Windows 8 into Windows 7

Windows 8 ships with new PCs, but many people prefer the old user interface. Here is a guide to getting it back. Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

How 3D printing impacts manufacturing

With the ability to create on-demand specialist tools, any initial investment in 3D printing technology could quickly pay for itself. Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Twitter resets a quarter of a million accounts after hacker attack

Twitter has reset the passwords of 250,000 accounts after detecting and shutting down a hacker attack last week. Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

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

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

The great deverticalisation – part 1: the street

Why do we persist in running vertically integrated organisations when standardising many of these processes would free us up to do things so much better, and more cheaply? Continue Reading

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• Mark Thompson & Jerry Fishenden

Amazon sales soar in 2012

Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011 Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Why has NAC, like DLP, failed to take off?

Why are organisations not investing in systems that are designed to keep malicious actors out of their networks? Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Procter & Gamble appoints new UK CIO as predecessor moves to Ipsos

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble has appointed a new UK CIO following the departure last month of previous incumbent, Dave Ubachs Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Encryption is safe bet, says SafeNet

Encryption is the only thing that can give peace of mind to CIOs and CISOs, says Dave Hansen, president and CEO of security firm SafeNet Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

Nokia bounces back in Q4

Nokia returned to profit in the fourth quarter of 2012, reporting profit of €439m and sales of over €8bn Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

ICO hits Sony with £250,000 data breach penalty

The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe £250,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act Continue Reading

The human face of Big Data

Former Time, Life and national Geographic photographer Rick Smolan visualises and navigates the world of Big Data. Continue Reading

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• Rick Smolan

European bank IT investment lags US and Asia-Pacific equivalents

Banks in Asia-Pacific and North America will increase their IT spending significantly more than those in Europe Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Defra plans £80m agile CAP system

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning a single integrated £80m Common Agricultural Policy system Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

BYOD: People pay for devices to use for work

Over half of employees buy their own devices for work use, according to new report from mobile device management specialist Good Technology Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why has DLP never taken off?

Why is data loss prevention (DLP) technology not being adopted if it provides the very protection most businesses need? Continue Reading

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• Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst

GDS must not become an outlier, warns Martha Lane Fox

The Government Digital Service (GDS) must not remain an outlier to the way the public sector delivers online services, says Martha Lane Fox Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data

The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

ZTE predicts major losses for 2012

Delayed projects and shrinking sales saw net profits plummet 240% at Chinese telecoms company ZTE in 2012 Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

G-Cloud powers Huddle’s public sector sales growth

Cloud collaboration firm Huddle saw its public sector sales double to 30% of all revenues this year due to uptake generated through the CloudStore Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

GE uses big data to power machine services business

GE, one of the UK's largest manufacturers, is using big data analytics with data generated from machine sensors to predict maintenance needs Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Met Police to equip officers with 30,000 mobile devices

The Metropolitan Police wants to roll out 30,000 mobile and tablet devices to officers this year to give better information on the beat Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

Post Office wants to get to bottom of IT system allegations

A system that set out to modernise the Post Office in 1996 is under the spotlight after claims that Horizon accounting system is error prone Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA