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ING Belgium’s CIO talks to Computer Weekly in depth about the technology-driven changes in the banking sector

Colocation provider Verne Global calls on CIOs to pay attention to Institution of mechanical engineers' concerns over sustainability of UK energy supply

Government has announced a £4.2bn investment in a ‘paperless NHS’, with money to be spent on electronic patient records, cyber security, apps and Wi-Fi

Subpostmasters who claim to have been wrongly convicted of fraud take the Post Office to court after getting the funds for a group action

International defence organisation enhances internal collaboration across its secure network with a new Polycom unified communications system

Opting for bulk data collection and other intrusive surveillance overlooks other means available that do not involve collateral damage to businesses and innocent people, says cyber expert

US professor Robert Wachter’s review of the NHS’s digital future will have a particular focus on clinical engagement in IT implementations

IT firms are in need of candidates with interpersonal skills, as well as specific technical focuses

Swedish lock maker has outsourced its IT infrastructure to Indian IT services firm

Data services provider Pi rejects VMware as too costly and complex, opting for Nutanix’s computing and storage Acropolis hypervisor

Seamless, efficient customer service is the elusive goal of omnichannel. Salesforce expects to deliver it using IoT to give contact centers 'spooky intelligent' systems.

Pete Rose will join the Home Office’s tech team as director of live services next month, reporting to CTO Sarah Wilkinson

The European Commission has revealed details of the suppliers that have secured a place on the three Lots making up its Cloud I framework

As cloud-based analytics as a service explodes in popularity, decision makers can scrutinize the past for trends and contemplate predictions for the future.

The Open Banking Working Group has suggested information about products and customer transaction data should be open to improve service comparison and drive competition

Weak consumer demand and high inventories blamed for falling PC sales in Asean, which mirror Asia-Pacific trend

The BCS believes criminalising reckless disclosure would reassure the public in how data is managed under planned surveillance laws

Chiltern Railways, part of the Arriva network, tests out an enhanced trackside Wi-Fi network to improve connectivity for passengers on its trains

Australian enterprises are investing in creating the right environment for innovation around data

US official have downplayed a claim that a government database has been hacked, saying none of the data exposed so far is sensitive

A report conducted for mobile operator Vodafone indicates the scale of acceptance of flexible and mobile working practices

UK survey highlights the importance of understanding the online behaviour of young people to prevent them being drawn into cyber crime

One of BT’s ongoing trials successfully delivers a cloud radio access network cell service over copper lines

Parliamentary committee overseeing the UK intelligence community wants greater clarity on intrusive powers granted by the draft Investigatory Powers Bill

The 2015-2016 cohort of mobile applications built by young people to tackle real-world problems has now been released for download

A potential fault on a number of IE-5000 switches could give users a nasty shock, says supplier

Marc Carrel-Billiard, Accenture’s global director of technology R&D, tells Computer Weekly that companies must invest in people if they want to benefit from innovative technology

Finnish construction company YIT has opened a lab to allow its staff test out their digital ideas

The man heading up AstraZeneca’s project to insource its IT updates Computer Weekly on progress and explains the early benefits being reaped

Both capital and revenue funding will be made available to NHS organisations, but not through a “traditional” tech fund

US president proposes increasing the country’s cyber security budget by 35% to $19bn, but security experts suggest more is needed

Managed services provider Altodigital studied SMEs and found high esteem for IT; and a quarter of their IT managers are women

Organisations in Belgium and Luxembourg are turning to the cloud for their IT, but there are striking differences in the level of take-up within the region

Marcus East leaves role as head of e-commerce at Apple to become CDO at retail chain

Insurance company RSA has penned its second major outsourcing contract in a week as it extends a BPO contract with Accenture

US authorities have shown a willingness to adapt and waive road-safety rules that have been slowing progress in developing autonomous vehicles

Mobile payments provider says use of its mobile payments service is increasing by about four times each year

Government identity assurance system is set to move from beta to live in April, three years after its original target date

From abolishing tuition fees for STEM subjects to recognising broadband as a “core utility” and using the tech sector to prevent terrorist attacks, the five London mayoral candidates set out their policies for the tech industry

IT outsourcing in the UK public sector accelerated in the second half of 2015, according to research

Smart city deployments will not get very far, or realise effective socioeconomic benefits, if more attention is not paid to the underlying infrastructure

Most UK firms are implementing a cyber security policy and disaster recovery plan as they realise poor information security is the greatest risk to business

Entatech looks to the future, as it announces a new owner and a settlement with Changtel's liquidators

Professor Ian Bitterlin makes the case for combining edge datacentres with commercial property builds for heat re-use purposes

A new report from Intel on its efforts to increase diversity at work is noteworthy for its transparency. Will it spark industry change? Also: Yahoo struggling to keep employees; wearables' upward trend.

Two dynamic CEO-CIO relationships were on display at the SIM Boston Technology Leadership Summit, proving that reporting lines count for CIOs bent on shaping business goals.

Milton Keynes smart city project selects ThingWorx to provide a rapid application deployment environment

Cisco's latest supervisor switch engines lift Catalyst performance to handle more application-driven network traffic.

Telia Eesti selects Adva Optical Networking technology to sit at the core of its national backbone network

At Computer Weekly’s first CW500 meeting of 2016, CIOs gathered to discuss the role of the CIO, business change, cloud uptake and skills

Erstwhile customers are putting large networking deals on hold in an uncertain financial climate, claims Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins

Important clarity is lacking in a number of areas in the draft UK surveillance bill, says the joint parliamentary committee appointed to examine it

IT boss at Bahraini national carrier views mobility as a way to keep costs down and improve customer experience

Government must address the fundamental concerns raised by expert witnesses, MPs and Lords about the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, says TechUK

Research firm identifies immaturity in the organisational design of the set-ups led by the new breed of chief data officer and offers a menu of four design options

Privacy Shield, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbour, looks increasingly like a PR exercise, rather than a genuine solution

After several years leading the charge at G-Cloud, Tony Singleton will join the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

The financial sector is facing the highest number of organised cyber attacks and multi-channel threats, a ThreatMetrix report reveals

A report from analysts at 451 Research urges businesses to start preparing their technology for 5G mobile networks ahead of deployment

India’s biggest IT supplier, Tata Consultancy Services, plans to recruit 1,000 UK graduates for paid internships over the next four years

Agile development, cross-department collaboration and a true ‘startup culture’ are all benefits of working for the Government Digital Service, according to Gov.uk Pay product manager Till Wirth

The Met Office uses application program interface (API) management from CA Technologies to support new ways of accessing weather data

Social engineering tops the list of popular hacking methods, underlining the need for continuous monitoring, according to security firm Balabit

Board of industry experts will advise the government on how to deliver digital public services

The digital industries contributed £87bn to the economy in 2014 – but there remains a lack of skills and broadband is still unevenly distributed

Besides higher revenue and profits, Cisco earnings also showed that volatility in the global markets had caused tech buyers to reduce spending in the data center.

Five councils in different parts of England have agreed to jointly sign outsourcing agreements, including IT services provision

Retiring CIO of Swedish steel company tells Computer Weekly about the progress made in merging two Nordic steel firms and looks at the biggest hurdles that lie ahead

House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology publishes its report into the promise and pitfalls of big data, advocating a data ethics council and more urgency on data privacy

As half the homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region plunge into darkness, Trend Micro finds evidence of cyber attack on a mining and a railway company

Most US IT professionals are confident in key security controls to detect cyber attacks – but unsure how long it would take automated tools to discover a breach

Mobile network interruption shows how dependent Australian organisations are on national supplier

Amnesty International urges the UK government to re-draft its Investigatory Powers Bill to restore public confidence through proper judicial oversight

Colocation provider Digital Realty says datacentre operators must prepare for tighter regulations around emission levels and power use

Government digital chief Stephen Foreshew-Cain says GDS will provide the tools and support for departments to build services, but “won’t build them all” for them

According to AT Kearney’s 2016 Global Services Location Index, robotics process automation and business process as a service could change the outsourcing industry, benefiting Asean countries

Streaming firm details the challenges it faced during seven-year push to wind down its datacentres and move everything into the AWS public cloud

The government’s minister for digital reform talks about creating a Digital Leadership Academy, learning valuable lessons, and his love for open data

Rapidly ramping up law enforcement engagement with business on cyber crime is a top priority for National Cyber Crime Unit deputy director Sarah Goodall

IoT big data analytics is needed to make sense of the mountains of data coming from industrial equipment and Spark may be up to the task.

Pete Peterson, Brocade's global channel vice president, plans to grow the company's partner roster, while planning new features such as a partner relationship management system.