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03 Jan 2024
Artificial intelligence to the front in Sweden’s National Technology Strategy
Sweden focuses in on artificial intelligence in its latest far-reaching national IT strategy Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2023
Atos selected for UEFA Euro 2024 IT contract
IT services company Atos will deliver on-site and remote IT services for next year’s international football event in Germany Continue Reading
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04 Feb 2015
Offshoring data is biggest barrier to government in the cloud
Offshoring data is the biggest obstacle to putting government services in the cloud, according to a survey of MPs and peers Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2015
Post Office CIO would talk to any subpostmaster about IT problems, promises CEO
The CEO of the Post Office defended the organisation’s support for users of its accounting system in a select committee inquiry into alleged problems Continue Reading
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03 Feb 2015
EC3 announces industry partnership in fight against cyber crime
Europol's European Cybercrime Centre has partnered with security firm AnubisNetworks to help fight the global threat of cyber crime Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2015
Government network services tender deadline slips again
Crown Commercial Service pushes back deadline for tender submissions to Network Services framework to give suppliers more time to prepare Continue Reading
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30 Jan 2015
IT sector outdoing rest of economy despite rise in IT supplier insolvencies
Insolvencies among information and communication suppliers increase by a fifth as the economy continues to pull out of recession Continue Reading
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28 Jan 2015
Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis
The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers Continue Reading
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23 Jan 2015
Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives, says Gates Foundation
Mobile banking can help the poor change their lives and two billion people who don’t have bank accounts store money by phone by 2030 Continue Reading
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22 Jan 2015
A closer look at Google Container Engine
In just 12 months, Docker has transformed from a simple open-source container management project into a powerful platform Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2015
MPs force inquiry into Post Office subpostmaster mediation scheme
MPs force inquiry into Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters claiming to have been wrongly punished for false accounting Continue Reading
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20 Jan 2015
Virgin Atlantic Airways outsources digital transformation to Tata Consultancy Services
Virgin Atlantic Airways (VAA) outsources IT to Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services as the airline creates digital services for customers Continue Reading
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19 Jan 2015
Google to buy Softcard in latest round of financial services empire building
Google is in talks to acquire mobile phone payments system Softcard as it increases its financial services capabilities Continue Reading
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16 Jan 2015
Blackburn with Darwen Council renegotiates Capita outsourcing deal
Blackburn with Darwen Council is renegotiating its £200m 15-year outsourcing deal with Capita as it tries to save millions of pounds in its budget Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2015
Quantum key distribution is the future for secure comms
Quantum teleportation is a technology that will ultimately replace encryption as the foundation of communication security Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2015
Supplier relationship management lessons from the car industry
IT can learn a lot from the car industry, which has transformed supplier relationship management Continue Reading
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15 Jan 2015
Amatis Networks waves goodbye to LUN woes and deploys Tintri hybrid flash
Managed service provider Amatis Networks deploys Tintri hybrid flash to slash latency and cut time-consuming LUN storage management overheads Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2015
Attackers bypass conventional security, says FireEye study
Hackers breach most conventional, signature-based security technologies, with 27% involving advanced threats Continue Reading
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12 Jan 2015
Services provider Tech Mahindra adds banking IT expertise to its portfolio
Indian IT services supplier Tech Mahindra adds consultancy skills and gains finance customers after buying banking services firm Sofgen Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2015
User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?
Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2015
How to make applications resilient on AWS
Cloud services are susceptible to network and other outages. There is no silver bullet to boost the resilience of an AWS-hosted application Continue Reading
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09 Jan 2015
IBM still a bellwether despite industry departure from traditional IT services
Reports that IBM is reducing its offshore workforce are the result of cloud computing, automation and artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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08 Jan 2015
Forrester: IT maintenance saps budget as tech spending increases
Technology spending is set to rise modestly, but the majority of IT spending will still go on maintaining existing systems Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2015
Alibaba bank and WeBank show Google and Facebook the way
Technology can drive traditional banks to reform, says Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the launch of China’s first online-only bank Continue Reading
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07 Jan 2015
Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing
In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2015
Microservices: How to prepare next-generation cloud applications
A microservice architecture promotes developing and deploying applications composed of autonomous, self-contained units Continue Reading
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06 Jan 2015
Google under fire over Windows zero-day disclosure
Google has come under fire for publishing a proof-of-concept attack exploiting a flaw in Windows 8.1 before Microsoft had released a security update Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2015
Tablet growth slows as consumers hand down devices
Sales of tablets are expected to slow down during 2015 Continue Reading
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05 Jan 2015
Deal between RBS and CA over IT failure will remain secret
The details of the financial settlement between RBS and CA Technologies in relation to a massive IT failure will remain secret Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2014
Price cuts and posturing in the public cloud war
The price battle among commodity cloud players is set to rage on, but how much impact is it really having for enterprise customers? Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2014
Digital technology to open up core banking market
The challenges of digital banking will open core banking software market to more suppliers as banks attempt to keep up Continue Reading
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19 Dec 2014
Accenture and BT to battle for NHS email contract
The NHS has shortlisted two suppliers for its email system, with BT and Accenture still in the mix Continue Reading
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18 Dec 2014
MP accuses Post Office of acting "duplicitously" in IT investigation
MPs claim Post Office was being "high handed" towards MPs and running a "flawed, deteriorating" accounting system Continue Reading
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17 Dec 2014
US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges
US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries Continue Reading
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16 Dec 2014
MPs to debate subpostmaster IT injustice claims
Debate about the Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters will be held in Westminster Hall Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2014
DECC publishes annual report on delayed smart meter scheme
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published its annual report on the roll-out of smart electricity and gas meters Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2014
IoT will drive a middleware boom
Spending in middleware is expected to exceed $16.3bn, driven by a shift towards agile mobile application integration Continue Reading
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11 Dec 2014
The state of mobile back end as a service
Common mobile application services are increasingly being hosted on central back-end servers – but what does that mean for the enterprise? Continue Reading
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10 Dec 2014
Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on
A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting Continue Reading
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09 Dec 2014
Banks are opening up IT to third parties, as hackathon demonstrates
National Australia Bank (NAB) opened its IT to its internal tech team and independent developers to access innovation Continue Reading
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08 Dec 2014
MPs blast Post Office over IT system investigation and remove backing
Post Office scheme to redress sub-postmaster grievances over IT system is failing, say MP group supporting alleged victims Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2014
Cyber criminals are targeting smartphone supply chains, warn researchers
A new mobile trojan dubbed “DeathRing” is being pre-loaded onto smartphones somewhere in the supply chain, warn researchers Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2014
UKtech50 2014 - The most influential people in UK IT
Computer Weekly has announced the fifth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT Continue Reading
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03 Dec 2014
Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014
Chosen by the Computer Weekly team from people we’ve met over the past 12 months, here are our five rising stars of 2014 Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2014
HP is ‘coming back strong’, says CEO Meg Whitman
At the HP Discover event in Barcelona, CEO Meg Whitman addressed the future for customers following HP's split into two businesses Continue Reading
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02 Dec 2014
Danske Bank latest to take offshore IT in-house
Danske Bank is the latest company to transform its offshore IT strategy by setting up a captive centre in India next year Continue Reading
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01 Dec 2014
Networking technologies emerging in the enterprise
We look at the latest networking technologies on offer, and those being adopted in the enterprise Continue Reading
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27 Nov 2014
How resilient is the public cloud?
The recent downtime that affected some Azure services following an update illustrates the precarious balance CIOs face in the cloud era Continue Reading
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26 Nov 2014
HP results disappoint ahead of split
HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline Continue Reading
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25 Nov 2014
Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide features list 2015
The Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide maps the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial to help decision-making. Continue Reading
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24 Nov 2014
Mature Indian offshore IT services firms take larger chunk of market as US giants collapse
Indian IT services firms increased their share of UK private sector IT and BPO contracts from 4% to 25% in a five-year period Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2014
EDF extends IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini
Utilities company EDF Energy has extended its IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini by another two years Continue Reading
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21 Nov 2014
Russian webcam-spying site highlights common security failing
A Russian website collecting images from internet-connected cameras highlights a common security failing, say security professionals Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2014
Microsoft releases emergency security patch for Windows and Windows Server
Microsoft emergency patch fixes a Windows and Windows Server vulnerability hackers are exploiting to compromise networks Continue Reading
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19 Nov 2014
Oracle: Five guaranteed cost-saving initiatives
There are plenty of pitfalls when dealing with Oracle licensing. here are five money-saving tips from The ITAM Review Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2014
Worldpay processes billionth contactless payment
Supermarkets account for most contactless payments as payments company Worldpay processes its billionth contactless payment Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2014
Lufthansa confirms €1bn mega-outsourcing deal with IBM
German airline Lufthansa confirms seven-year outsourcing contract with IBM worth €1.25bn Continue Reading
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18 Nov 2014
Intel merges PC and mobile divisions
Intel plans to merge its profitable PC group with the loss-making division that sells chips for smartphones and tablets Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2014
Can Microsoft change its spots?
Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO of Microsoft, the company has become steadily more open and cross-platform Continue Reading
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17 Nov 2014
CIO success is all about winning friends and influencing people
If Gartner’s predictions are true, CIO working practices have to change to keep IT relevant Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2014
AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine
AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference Continue Reading
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13 Nov 2014
UBS move to Oracle HR in the cloud hits big delays
Swiss bank UBS has hit major delays migrating to a cloud-based HR system Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2014
Network firewalls as relevant to data security as ever, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed
Network firewalls are as relevant to data security today as they were 20 years ago, says industry pioneer Gil Shwed Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2014
What to expect from AWS re:Invent 2014
Amazon is all set to unveil new services and features at its AWS re:Invent 2014 Continue Reading
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11 Nov 2014
Drinks maker Edrington outsources SAP enterprise resource planning operation to Atos
Glasgow-based distiller Edrington outsources its ERP development, support and hosting to IT services firm Atos Continue Reading
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10 Nov 2014
Future Decoded event raises questions on digital risk
Is technology good for society or bad? This was one of the issues covered at the Future Decoded event in London Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2014
Why national roaming may not be the answer to mobile not-spots
Industry suggests alternative strategies as government threatens to force mobile operators to allow national roaming Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2014
Interview: The IT powering animated movie-making
Video special effects require similar processing to oil and gas, but lack the budget, says head of technology at Illumination Mac Guff, Bruno Mahe Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2014
Tackling bloatware in the age of cloud-based apps
Microsoft Office general manager Julia White on Office 365 security and making cloud apps easier for users Continue Reading
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29 Oct 2014
Banks see technology firms as biggest threat, says Infosys
Google, Apple and Facebook the biggest threat to banks as technology firms offer consumers financial services Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2014
Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment
Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy Continue Reading
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28 Oct 2014
Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework
Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations Continue Reading
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27 Oct 2014
Met Police trials analytics to fight gang crime
The Metropolitan Police is experimenting with analytics software to help predict which criminals are likely to re-offend Continue Reading
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24 Oct 2014
Amazon reports tough quarter despite sales increase
Amazon reported a 20% year-on-year increase in third-quarter sales to $20.58bn, but also posted a net loss of $437m Continue Reading
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23 Oct 2014
Finance IT group wants to push forward banks' cloud discussion
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) calls on industry to decide on the core banking systems to move to cloud platforms and share Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2014
Firms lack technology for workforce of the future
European businesses will rely increasingly on freelance, geographically dispersed employees as they vie to attract the top skills to their organisations over the next 5 years. Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2014
De Beers transforms global IT infrastructure in outsourcing deal with HCL
South African diamond company De Beers transforms its global IT infrastructure in an outsourcing deal with HCL enabling industrialised services Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2014
Social media for communication inside the enterprise
Companies have long used social media technology such as Facebook and Twitter to reach more customers – but how are businesses using it internally? Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2014
Drones a threat to privacy, says former GCHQ chief David Omand
The use of drones in the UK raises significant safety, security and privacy concerns, according to a report from ex-head of GCHQ, David Omand Continue Reading
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20 Oct 2014
IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit
IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2014
FBI director James Comey joins call for online surveillance tools
FBI director James Comey has reiterated the need for online surveillance and joined calls for more tools to do so Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2014
Local government outsourcing shrinks workforce 35%
The number of staff directly employed by a fifth of local authorities will reduce 35% by 2020 as a result of outsourcing Continue Reading
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17 Oct 2014
Google shares down on mixed third quarter results
Google's share price dipped around 3% in response to mixed financial results for the third quarter Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2014
Backup and disaster recovery in the age of virtualisation
One of the benefits of using virtual machines is the scope for improved backup. We look at the product offerings from traditional and new suppliers Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2014
Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things
GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts Continue Reading
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13 Oct 2014
UK ranks third in right to be forgotten requests to Google
The UK has made the third-highest number of requests for links to be removed from Google's search results Continue Reading
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10 Oct 2014
Symantec splits storage and security
Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split Continue Reading
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10 Oct 2014
Fear and loathing could hold back UK internet of things, says KPMG report
More than two-thirds of UK consumers fear growing number of interconnected devices make it too easy for things to go wrong Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2014
Tim Berners-Lee: Data sharing needs accountability
The question of how much data an individual should share was a key theme of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote at IP Expo Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2014
Malware being used to steal cash from ATMs
Criminals are using malware to steal cash from ATMs without debit and credit cards Continue Reading
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08 Oct 2014
The challenges facing HP as it splits in two
HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT Continue Reading
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07 Oct 2014
Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries
Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation Continue Reading
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03 Oct 2014
Google could face $100m lawsuit over nude celebrity pictures
Lawyers of celebrities whose private pictures were published by hackers are threatening to sue Google Continue Reading
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02 Oct 2014
Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Lloyd's Register goes mobile with Oracle
Lloyd’s Register Group tells delegates at the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference how it developed a mobile working application for clients and staff Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2014
European firms far from ready for new data rules, study shows
As European authorities aim to ratify revised data protection rules by 2015, many firms have a lot to do to comply Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2014
Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion
Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2014
Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview
Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system Continue Reading
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01 Oct 2014
Oracle Openworld 2014
Every September, San Francisco plays host to Oracle’s user conference, where customers, users and developers descend on the city to learn the latest on the supplier’s products and services. Continue Reading
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30 Sep 2014
Cyber Essentials for public sector IT suppliers: pros and cons
What are the pros and cons of the Cyber Essentials Scheme certification mandated for public sector IT suppliers? Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2014
Almost three-quarters of big companies to increase outsourcing
Investments in outsourced services will increase at almost three-quarters of global businesses Continue Reading
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29 Sep 2014
Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs
Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative Continue Reading
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26 Sep 2014
BlackBerry Passport: A first look
BlackBerry has changed the rules for phablets, with a an almost square device, promising 25 hours of battery life are highly readable screen Continue Reading