CA Technologies has confirmed to Computer Weekly it is working with Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS)to solve its current technical issues,which have left customers unable to access their funds since Thursday. The software supplier has been ...
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Mutualisation will be the future model of public sector services,Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. Speaking at Intellect's World-Class Public Services conference,he said digital delivery was important to the open public ...
NatWest is today facing another significant outage, leaving customers unable to access online banking or use their debit cards. Customers have been complaining about the problems, with a number of readers contacting Computer Weekly to ...
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The Ministry of Defence awarded CSC a £303m contract after learning of allegations the supplier was involved in the illegal rendition and torture of German citizen Khaled El-Masri. The department dismissed the allegations as ...
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As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
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Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments,as part of its transition to transactional digital services,Computer Weekly has learned. According to a presentation by Government Digital ...
Businesses are adopting cloud-based services mainly to speed up innovation and cut costs,often overlooking the security risks of this new delivery model. But security is not the only thing that is being overlooked by eager adopters of ...
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Pay rates for software engineers are defying the downturn amid concerns that the UK faces a growing shortage of skilled programming professionals. Over a quarter of in-house software engineers have seen pay rises of 10%or more during the ...
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CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation. The analyst company is urging CIOs to focus on technology-led business transformational change, instead of ...
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Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
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Big businesses risk falling foul of international data protection laws as governments around the world take a tougher approach to privacy. Countries including Korea,Japan and China are introducing tough new privacy laws which frequently ...
The Open Data Institute (ODI), which opens this week, has received its first investment of $750,000. Philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network will provide the investment over two years to help develop UK open data businesses. ...
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The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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Colin Rees,IT Director at Domino's Pizza explains how a project to move the company data centre into the cloud,has transformed its online business. This presentation,given to Computer Weekly's 500 Club for IT leaders in May 2012,covers ...
Vodafone and 3 are set to join forces in Ireland to share their network infrastructure, Computer Weekly has learned. A source close to the situation revealed the details to us this morning, saying it would be a 50/50 deal with equal ...
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