The number of first-time users of cloud computing services in the UK has increased by 27%from last year,according to research from the Cloud Industry Forum(CIF). But the CIF survey showed that,while the rate of adoption has ...
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Despite poor performance on the high street this summer, 86% of UK retailers are either optimistic about or undaunted by Christmas trading prospects this year and 85% see strong or steady company growth levels in 2013. This was revealed ...
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Apple is set to announce its latest smartphone, which will be called the iPhone 5, at an event in San Francisco shortly. The phone is rumoured to be LTE compatible, meaning it will benefit from 4G services, currently being implemented in ...
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Supermarket chain Tesco is investing £65m in a state-of-the-art datacentre as it gears up to expand its web operations outside the UK. The retailer has signed a 15-year contract with datacentre operator Sentrum, to host the ...
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The government is refocusing its industrial policy to support key sectors of the economy such as IT, business secretary Vince Cable has announced. In a speech at Imperial College in London, Cable said the department was identifying ...
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David Weymouth, group director of operations and risk at insurance giant RSA, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of training the next generation of IT leaders; the key changes affecting finance technology; and why a government ...
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Casino UK is changing its direction with a new welcome offer.Players will now get more than they bargained for with a new 3-tier Match Bonus offer.This will hopefully kick-start their journey down a route towards higher rewards.Casino UK is ...
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The UK's Top 50 IT Training Providers league table has been unveiled for 2012. The top ten training companies included QA, Skillsoft, IBM, and SAP. The list, compiled by training consultancy Pardo Fox, ranks the UK's top performing ...
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The government's lack of a vision,mission or plan in its implementation of broadband is hampering the UK's economy,according to the former CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane(pictured). Further reading House of Lords select committee slams UK ...
The employment of IT professionals will grow twice as fast as the average across sectors up to 2020 with 129,000 new recruits needed every year to meet demand for IT and telecoms workers. Research from e-Skills UK found that last year ...
The market for IT contractors is starting to recover,according to Computer People's IT Monitor survey for June 2012. Despite a 12%year-on-year slowdown in the second quarter,Computer People concluded that this simply reflected the fact ...
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Organisations must prevent women from excluding themselves from the top jobs in IT, according to Jane Moran, global chief information officer of Thomson Reuters, and winner of Computer Weekly’s “Most Influential Woman in UK ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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The High Court has intervened to end a stand-off between the home secretary and Gary McKinnon over the order to have him extradited to face hacking charges in the US. McKinnon's extradition has been stalled since the May 2010 election ...
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Computer Weekly has launched a programme to recognise the most influential women in UK IT – and we want your help in selecting the winners. Scroll down to vote and see the bottom of the page to find out more information on our ...
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