Internet technology
Internet technology has transformed businesses and public services, and as a result has also revolutionised the IT department. Web trends such as e-commerce, social media, Web 2.0 and cloud computing are essential elements of any successful IT strategy. We follow the latest developments and help IT managers choose the right products for their organisation.
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News
16 May 2025
BT to bring gigabit broadband to hard-to-reach Swansea Bay areas
UK’s leading comms provider inks £10m contract to deliver full-fibre to nearly 1,800 sites across the south coast of Wales, bridging connectivity gaps in Pembrokeshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Carmarthenshire Continue Reading
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Opinion
15 May 2025
Can 'god-like technologies' be prevented from harming a generation of children?
US lawyers representing families of children harmed by social media are at the vanguard of fighting back against the impact of technologies that may be causing lifelong damage Continue Reading
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News
24 Aug 2021
How Zendesk is gearing up for growth in APAC
Zendesk has its eye on Japan and the enterprise segment while building up its partner ecosystem to grow its business in the Asia-Pacific region Continue Reading
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News
23 Aug 2021
Veeam survey: Big cloud impact on backup and disaster recovery
Backup specialist finds cloud eclipses on-site compute for all workloads while DR makes big strides in the cloud despite concerns about complexity and security Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2021
Facebook vows to replenish more water than it consumes across its global operations by 2030
Social networking giant is following in Microsoft’s footprints by setting itself a goal of becoming a water-positive entity by 2030 Continue Reading
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News
19 Aug 2021
Challenger banks make reputational gains in business banking
The business banking sector is a big target for digital challengers and some are already building good reputations in the market Continue Reading
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News
17 Aug 2021
What will be the bank branch balance in the digital age?
Will the traditional banks be permanently disadvantaged by the need to retain bank branches or could they turn it to their advantage? Continue Reading
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News
16 Aug 2021
NAB partners AWS, global banks on open finance
Australia’s NAB teams up with three other banks and AWS to run an open global finance challenge that will see participating teams prototype new digital banking services Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Aug 2021
Linode: developers like cloud, but worry about CSP ‘values’
Linode is not afraid to be a bit different, or so it appears. The firm takes an open stance on sensitive issues and even uses a quirky company descriptor. Those not familiar with the Philly ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Aug 2021
Why Confluent Kubernetes is a data-in-motion play
Open source is all about data, obviously… but we’ve seen these last few months really amplify the notion of data-in-motion. It wasn’t so long ago that Confluent for Kubernetes arrived, a platform ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Aug 2021
Yellowfin cans (embeds) contextual analytics BI for developers
Clearly big tuna fans, Yellowfin is an analytics vendor that combines action-based dashboards, automated discovery and what it likes to call ‘data storytelling’, which is presumably some form of ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Aug 2021
Global fintech investments reach new heights
The global financial technology industry is emerging from the pandemic-triggered slowdown with record levels of investment to fuel further growth Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2021
Banks could be blocked from closing branches through FCA legislation
UK financial services regulator the Financial Conduct Authority considers legislation that could block some bank branch closures to ensure citizens have easy access to cash Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Aug 2021
The control plane has landed
The era of control planes has started. That’s what Upbound, the company behind the open source Crossplane project (now donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in full) thinks. Why ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Aug 2021
Apple unveils plans to scan US iPhones for child sex abuse images
Apple will introduce child sexual abuse material detection for US users later this year, but some experts are worried that the technology could be repurposed to scan phones for other kinds of content Continue Reading
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News
05 Aug 2021
Around 75% of minority tech employees don’t feel a sense of belonging at work
Research by Capgemini found just over three-quarters of global tech employees who are women or ethnic minorities don’t feel a sense of belonging at work Continue Reading
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News
05 Aug 2021
Unit4 doubles down on APAC business
Supplier of mid-market ERP systems Unit4 is investing in a research and development centre in Jakarta as part of efforts to win market share from established players Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2021
M&S launches initiative to hire software engineers
Supermarket and department store M&S has launched an initiative designed to help it find software engineering talent Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Aug 2021
Disaster recovery for SMEs: Five key areas to consider
We look at key disaster recovery considerations for SMEs, including why backup is not enough, how to create a disaster recovery plan, best-practice DR testing and DR as a service Continue Reading
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E-Zine
03 Aug 2021
The fears and benefits of virtualising reality
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the mingling of virtual and physical worlds and find positive applications and worrisome implications from augmented reality. We find out how to run a virtual hackathon during the pandemic – pizza still included. And we look at how to improve performance of your private cloud. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jul 2021
Investigatory Powers Tribunal finds UK spy agencies unlawfully collected personal data
Campaign groups Privacy International and Liberty are gearing up to bring further legal action after a court found that UK spy agencies unlawfully collected phone and internet records Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Jul 2021
From incubation-to-graduation: CNCF ‘graduates’ Linkerd service mesh
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tells us that it’s on a mission. That mission is to build not just cloud-native software, that part should be obvious, right? Its self-stated mission is ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Jul 2021
Gaming could reduce the gamble for users of online finance
Financial gaming platform designed to educate the increasing number of amateur traders Continue Reading
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News
27 Jul 2021
TikTok sets up cyber security hub in Dublin
Dublin-based cyber centre will oversee the security of TikTok’s users across Europe Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Synology: Data's 'move' to distributed intelligence
Composable IT is increasingly being discussed across the industry, but the adoption and implementation at enterprise level can be challenging even for the best. This is a guest post for the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - YourBase: It depends on dependencies
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yves Junqueira in his position as CEO at YourBase – a software testing acceleration platform that automates the test ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Jul 2021
Plans to address legal but harmful content ‘threaten free speech’
House of Lords report criticises the government’s forthcoming Online Safety Bill for imposing duty of care on tech platforms to deal with ‘legal but harmful’ content, which it says threatens freedom of expression online Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jul 2021
New thinking and systems required to tackle online fraud in retail
Online fraud is a growing problem for retail, but are merchants doing enough to update systems and how should they change their actions to address it? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - IFS: Move over monoliths, microservices ahead
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Antony Bourne in his role as SVP Industries at IFS -- IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for companies around ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Jul 2021
Nordic banks join forces to compete with fintechs
Collaboration will be key for traditional Nordic banks to retain business amid intense competition from tech companies Continue Reading
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20 Jul 2021
Video commerce and livestreaming make waves in retail
The growth in e-commerce during the pandemic is well documented, but the fragmented retail environment has also helped video commerce and livestreaming rise to prominence Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Hadean: Alignment to a common abstraction
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aidan Hobson Sayers, technical director at Hadean. Hadean was founded in 2015 with a mission to democratise supercomputing ... Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Jul 2021
Storage-as-a-service: Consumption models from the big six
We look at the big six storage makers’ consumption model offers, which allow customers to pay for on-prem hardware and cloud storage capacity on a pay-per-use basis, within limits Continue Reading
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News
19 Jul 2021
Privacy Shield: One year on and companies are still grappling for answers
Activist lawyer Max Schrems and Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Hogan Lovells, look for common ground in a problem with no easy answers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Couchbase: all board the unified control plane
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rahul Pradhan in his role as senior director for product and engineering in the cloud division at Couchbase. ... Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Jul 2021
Briefing: Cloud storage performance metrics
We look at some of the key storage performance metrics that determine what your applications will get from cloud storage, plus cloud essentials that are beyond simple measurement Continue Reading
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News
15 Jul 2021
UK government publishes skills-focused anti-disinformation plan
Online Media Literacy Strategy aims to train teachers and care-givers in understanding disinformation so they can help others in safely navigating the internet Continue Reading
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News
15 Jul 2021
Fintech sector continues to attract investment as Revolut hits $33bn valuation
Revolut has become the most valuable financial technology firm in the UK after its latest round of investment, with plans for a ‘superapp’ Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Jul 2021
APAC datacentres gear up for the future
Datacentre operators in the Asia-Pacific region are dabbling in advanced power and cooling solutions, along with machine learning and edge computing, to keep pace with growing demand for their services Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jul 2021
The ephemeral stack - commercetools: Why GraphQL is the 'glue' for composability
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kelly Goetsch in his role as chief product officer at commercetools -- a cloud-based headless commerce platform that ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jul 2021
The ephemeral stack - Coralogix: First composable thinking, THEN composable tech
This post is written by Ariel Assaraf in his capacity as CEO at Coralogix -- a stateful streaming analytics platform that produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Jul 2021
UK fintech investments recovering from lost year
Fintech investments have bounced back in the first half of this year after a Covid-19-hit 2020 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jul 2021
The composable stack - Veritas: Building an ephemeral-persistent balance
This is a guest post by Anthony Cusimano in his role as solutions evangelist at Veritas Technologies -- a company known for its work in cloud storage, backup & recovery services, data ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
13 Jul 2021
Driving intelligence – behind the scenes of Volkswagen’s in-car software
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes of Volkswagen’s in-car software R&D centre. The UK’s largest supercomputer has gone live in Cambridge – we find out how it will transform healthcare research. And we talk to DWP’s digital chief about the restructuring of its IT capabilities. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Jul 2021
Brands opt for headless e-commerce vs. traditional commerce
For large enterprises, headless commerce breaks down websites into user-friendly modules marketers can update. SMBs can also use it, paired with WordPress and other simple tools. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jul 2021
What’s your contingency plan for when ‘online’ stops working?
Last week I had the misfortune to spend just over an hour and a half listening to a crackly loop of recorded announcements. They were remarkably dull, even before I’d heard them several dozen ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jul 2021
The ephemeral stack - LGN: Composable datacentres for ‘edge’ AI
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Warner in his capacity as CEO and co-founder of LGN -- a company known as a developer of artificial perception ... Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Jul 2021
Tech and new experiences tackling trouble at t’mall
UK shopping centres are under pressure, but new concepts, tech-infused spaces, and fresh approaches to consumer engagement are revitalising the sector Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jul 2021
The composable ephemeral stack - Polymath: Blockchains in the ether
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Dossa in his role as chief technology officer at Polymath -- the company is known for its technology that provides a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Infor: The composition complexity conundrum
There’s that strange moment when you walk into an enterprise technology ‘show floor’ after the breakfast, keynotes, handshakes (hand sanitiser application) and the point where you grab a free ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
08 Jul 2021
Why identity is the central problem for the future of the internet
As debate rages over who has the right to control user identities online, is the concept of decentralised identity about to have its day? Continue Reading
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E-Zine
08 Jul 2021
CW Middle East: Pandemic speeds up edtech revolution in Gulf
One of the lessons the Covid-19 pandemic has taught governments across the world is that education providers can still teach when their premises are inaccessible. Read how organisations in the Gulf region’s education sector have been quick to adopt the latest education technology, known as edtech, to help in this endeavour. Also read in this issue how Indian IT services company TCS is bringing together universities, businesses, tech startups and government to work on sustainability challenges. Continue Reading
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News
07 Jul 2021
Flexify brings virtualisation layer to multi-cloud storage
Cloud storage virtualisation provider allows application access via S3 API calls to a single destination while capacity can be in numerous clouds with migration between them Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2021
Google Cloud ties up with AI Singapore on skills training
Google Cloud is working with Singapore’s national AI programme to build up the country’s talent pool in machine learning and AI Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2021
Ocado sees 19.8% increase in retail business revenue
Online retailer’s half-year results show a significant increase in revenue for its retail business, with numbers reaching £1.2bn Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2021
Bank of England searches for new CIO amid once-in-a-generation project
The Bank of England is recruiting a head of IT during a period of major change in its core IT system Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2021
Nordic fintech could lead the world
Will the Nordics become the fintech and open banking innovation capital of the world? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Cloudinary: Modularity with opinionated clarity
The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Doron Sherman in his capacity as VP of developer relations at Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Jul 2021
The composable ephemeral stack - Colt: The mission to transmission 2.0
The global technology stack is moving towards a more universally composable interconnected multi-layered (and multi-tenant) architecture where hybrid-multi-poly cloud resources are coalesced into ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Jul 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - HashiCorp: The fine line between independence & chaos
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Guy Sayar in his capacity as field CTO for EMEA region at HashiCorp -- the company is known for its modular DevOps ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2021
Nordic mobile wallets to merge onto single tech platform
Plans underway to merge the mobile wallets of various Nordic banks into a single public cloud-based technology platform Continue Reading
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News
01 Jul 2021
SAP claims ‘huge momentum’ for Rise in APAC
A top SAP executive claims the region is leading the way in the ‘Rise with SAP’ cloud transformation programme which has been bolstered with modular cloud enterprise resource planning offerings Continue Reading
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News
30 Jun 2021
LinkedIn denies exposure of 700 million user records is a data breach
Data relating to 700 million users of the LinkedIn networking platform has appeared for sale, but the firm says it is the victim of data scraping, not a security breach Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jun 2021
Lakehouse concept aims to merge data lake and data warehouse
Data lakes are big, amorphous and difficult to access, while data warehouses are costly and aimed at structured data. The data lakehouse aims at analytics in an age of unstructured data Continue Reading
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News
29 Jun 2021
E-commerce giant Shopify upgrades Liquid, dev tools
Buoyed by the pandemic e-commerce boom, Shopify rolls out upgrades for no-code, low-code and pro-code offerings for its web platform -- and rewrites APIs to make stores faster. Continue Reading
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News
29 Jun 2021
Bank branches will be a thing of the past in five years, say bankers
Traditional bank branches are likely to disappear from the high street in the next five years, but banking ecosystems will ensure customer service levels are high, say bankers Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jun 2021
Claranet cloud lead: Sharper developer tools needed for edge compute
We all know where the edge is, it’s that peripheral zone of data existence somewhere near the outer reaches of the western spiral arm of the galaxy in the Internet of Things (IoT). Given that we ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Jun 2021
Zopa Bank to make profit in its first year
Bank set up by peer-to-peer lending fintech firm expected to make a profit in its first year Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Jun 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Civo: Combatting container complexity
Civo (pronounced see-vo, not chi-vo) is a cloud native service provider known for its work with Kubernetes. The company thinks that around half of what it would identify as cloud developers are ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Copado: Orchestrating cloud-connected DevOps
Copado might sound like some type of tropical fruit drink, but it is in fact a DevOps specialist organisation that embraces cloud-native computing for what it calls a ‘true multi-cloud DevOps’ ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2021
CMA to probe Amazon and Google over fake reviews
The CMA has opened an investigation into Amazon and Google over possible breaches of consumer protection law Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2021
The dangers of binary arguments in a complex and relative digital world
In his 1983 book, Modern times: a history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000, historian Paul Johnson claims the modern world started on 29 May 1919, when astronomers studying a solar ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2021
Brighton tourists charged thousands of pounds for fairground ride after Worldpay glitch
Tourists at a Brighton attraction were overcharged by thousands of pounds due to a glitch at payment processor Worldpay Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2021
France TV repatriates backup and archive from public cloud
France Télévisions Publicité couldn’t always get to critical data, so decided to repatriate backup and archiving from the cloud to on-site locations, with help from a managed service Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2021
Reliance Jio teams up with Google on 5G and retail
India’s biggest telco will use Google Cloud to manage its 5G network and grow its commerce business Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Visa to acquire Swedish open banking fintech for €1.8bn
Payments giant Visa agrees to pay €1.8bn to acquire Tink, a specialist open banking fintech Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Google hands third-party cookies a stay of execution
Google’s proposed Privacy Sandbox initiative – which will see third-party cookies phased out in the Chrome web browser – has been pushed back to 2023 Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Online Safety Bill unfit for purpose, says new campaign group
Campaign group set up to oppose Online Safety Bill says the duty of care is too simplistic, cedes too much power to US corporations and will, in practice, privilege the speech of journalists or politicians Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jun 2021
The ephemeral composable stack - Grafana: dashing aboard for a clearer view
Grafana Labs specialises in what it calls ‘open and composable’ operational dashboards. That’s dashboards for viewing virtualized compute stack metrics, logs and traces - not dashboards in any ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Lloyds Bank to close 44 more branches
Banking group has announced the closure of a further 44 branches as customers increasingly use other channels for banking Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jun 2021
Contentstack: MACH’s got your back for great CX-craic
First, we had User eXperience (UX). Then, although it’s a still-nascent notion that’s not widely discussed, we had Developer eXperience (DX). Now, largely due to the nature of the web and the ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Sizing up Australia’s vibrant cloud market
Australia’s public cloud market is dotted with global and domestic players, with maturing adoption across public and private sectors Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
DataStax eyes growth in APAC
DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2021
NSPCC, IWF help under-18s scrub their nude photos from the web
Report Remove tool is designed to be used by under-18s to report nude images or videos of themselves that have appeared online Continue Reading
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News
21 Jun 2021
Opera house shuns cloud for Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure
The Royal Opera House considered moving all its infrastructure to the cloud, but a hybrid setup with Nutanix and Rubrik hyper-converged infrastructure came in 35% cheaper Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2021
Digital banks could dominate once baby boomers pass on their wealth
Traditional banks face challenges in the coming years due to an increasing number of millennials only using digital banks Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2021
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) continually expands
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is an open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The team has this summer said ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2021
Axiata doubles down on Google Cloud
The regional telecoms group plans to use Google Cloud’s compute, storage and networking services across the six telcos under its fold Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Jun 2021
Mobile operating systems: It's not about VHS versus Betamax
In the 1970s two rival video tape formats battled out for the hearts and minds of consumers. Movies were distributed on either VHS or Betamax. Eventually, VHS won. But today who uses video tapes? ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2021
Competition and Markets Authority turns attention to Google and Apple
Are the two dominant mobile operating system providers anti-competitive? The Competition and Markets Authority shines a spotlight on the two digital giants Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2021
Can modern app platforms take an inside track to outpace technical debt?
Information technology systems are like bank accounts. No, you don’t get a free pen and a fancy ‘touchless’ plastic card with your photo in the corner and an animal design of your choice… well, ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2021
Amazon Web Services launches space tech accelerator
Accelerator will see a cohort of 10 space startups use AWS to accelerate their research, development and growth Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Jun 2021
Video commerce and livestreaming make waves in retail
The growth in e-commerce during the pandemic is well documented, but the fragmented retail environment has also helped video commerce and livestreaming rise to prominence Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2021
G7 commits to action on ransomware, digital privacy
The G7 urges Russia to do more to hold criminal ransomware gangs operating from within its borders to account as it commits to more action on the issue Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2021
Vodafone announces key partners for Europe’s first commercial Open RAN network
Operator selects Dell Technologies, NEC, Samsung, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies to build what it says will be one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2021
HammondCare takes procurement to the cloud
The Australian health and aged care provider migrated its procurement and invoicing systems to the cloud in just six months to improve efficiency and security Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2021
FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators
Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2021
CMA secures commitments from Google on future of cookies
The Competition and Markets Authority is opening a consultation on commitments offered to it by Google to ensure its Privacy Sandbox proposals do not harm digital advertising markets Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jun 2021
Informatica & Talend crystallise new bonds to Snowflake
How much cloud data management does any single instance or any single organisation’s IT stack actually need? Don’t try and answer that, it’s a trick question. The answer is obviously impossible to ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Jun 2021
CW Europe: Amsterdam reins back datacentre developments over environmental concern
The construction of datacentres in the Netherlands’ Amsterdam region has accelerated at such a pace that their demands for electricity are causing concern, prompting city authorities and datacentre operators to open a dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion. Also in this issue, find out the state of play in the adoption of open banking across Europe. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2021
RSA spins out fraud and risk unit as Outseer
RSA Security is transitioning its fraud and risk intelligence work into a new business to be called Outseer Continue Reading
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News
09 Jun 2021
BBVA to cut 3,000 jobs in Spain as digital technology transforms industry
Spanish bank is the latest to announce swingeing branch and job cuts amid increased digital competition Continue Reading