Projects

The Changes At GDS And HMRC Signal The Demise Of Digital In Whitehall

ANALYSIS: The departure of Stephen Foreshew-Cain and Mark Dearnley could mean the end of GDS as we know it

8 years ago

GDS Chief Stephen Foreshew-Cain Leaves Government

GDS future questioned again as Stephen Foreshew-Cain leaves a year after being appointed

8 years ago

Programming Language Table Ranks C As Most Popular

Over forty years old and still going strong, as survey ranks C as the most popular programming language

8 years ago

Universal Credit Completion Pushed Back To 2022

Welfare policy changes have added a further four years to the troubled project's timetable

8 years ago

MasterCard Buys UK FinTech Firm VocaLink For £700m

MasterCard hopes buying BACS and LINK operator will allow it to take a greater interest in mobile payments in the…

8 years ago

MPs: UK ‘Will Lose Influence On EU Market’ Post-Brexit

The UK has missed a chance to 'dominate' the EU's proposed Digital Single Market and will now have to play…

8 years ago

NAO: HMRC Digital Shift ‘Risks Losing Confidence’

The department was 'over-optimistic' about reducing staff in the transition to digital services

8 years ago

Does £24bn ARM Sale End UK’s Last Hope Of Creating A Tech Giant?

ANALYSIS: ARM will stay in Cambridge and its UK workforce will double, but the UK's biggest hope for a tech…

8 years ago

Matthew Hancock Replaces Sacked Ed Vaizey As Digital Economy Minister

Cabinet reshuffle claims another victim as Ed Vaizey leaves government after six years and Matthew Hancock takes over broadband and…

8 years ago

IBM Offers Secure Blockchain Testing Service

Secure business push as Big Blue offers businesses a cloud testing service for secure blockchain networks

8 years ago

New Prime Minister Theresa May Sacks Culture Secretary John Whittingdale

Karen Bradley is new culture minister as John Whittingdale leaves cabinet after 14 months, while Ed Vaizey stays put as…

8 years ago

Mobile Tech And Wi-Fi Lets Sports Venues Reduce Queues And Increase Revenues

ANALYSIS: Apps, Wi-Fi and contactless payments would encourage more fans to spend more on food and drink at stadiums

8 years ago

TfL Licenses Contactless Ticketing System In £15m Deal

Transport for London and Cubic Transportation Systems will export contactless technology in the first of a 'series' or deals

8 years ago

Prime Minister May ‘Should’ Replace Ed Vaizey As Broadband Minister

ISP Entanet wants Ed Vaizey to be replaced with Baroness Joanna Shields or a new ministry for communications to be…

8 years ago

NHS Data-Sharing Programme Closed By Dept Of Health

Privacy win? Controversial care.data programme is being axed after widespread criticism

8 years ago

Bulgaria Demands Open Source For Public Sector Software

The country is to legally require open source licensing for all new software projects

8 years ago

Police Scotland Scraps Delayed £40m IT Project

Police Scotland will press on with other IT projects after i6, which was set to cost tens of millions, is…

8 years ago

Government To Require HTTPS For Online Services

A new government policy requires the use of web encryption and anti-phishing email policies

8 years ago

CityFibre Teams Up With Gigaclear For Rural Ultrafast Broadband

Gigaclear and CityFibre partner up to push ultrafast broadband deployments for rural areas

8 years ago

Cross Channel: How Brexit Will Impact The Channel

A week is a long time in politics, and a long time in the channel too. Find out how Brexit…

8 years ago

MPs Urge Government To Protect Science And Tech EU Funding

Chair of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee tells Chancellor it is essential the UK has access to EU research…

8 years ago

2016 Tour De France Keeps Viewers Informed With Big Data Analytics Upgrade

Dimension Data gives Tour de France 2016 greater data capture ability and analytics to keep organisers, viewers and commentators informed

8 years ago

Google Project Bloks Is A Physical Coding System For Children

Google hopes its open hardware platform will help developers and researchers create 'tangible' programming projects for education

8 years ago

Brexit: UK Tech Research To Lose Billions In EU Funding Unless Government Steps In

IT industry body BCS says UK government needs to make sure universities and reseach labs get the same €8.8bn EU…

8 years ago

Privacy, Networks, Funding And Talent: How Brexit Will Affect UK Tech

ANALYSIS: The UK technology industry opposed Brexit but now it has to face the consequences of Britain leaving the EU

8 years ago

Cross Channel: The Week’s News From The Channel

SMBs suffer, a LinkedIn for the channel, and new MapR reseller programme

8 years ago

KCOM Builds Cloud Ticketing And Revenue Systems For UK Railways

KCOM will build common IT systems based on AWS for train operators to manage reservations, tickets and revenue sharing

8 years ago

TechWeek Readers Believe UK Tech Is Better In The EU

Just a third of TechWeek readers think a Brexit will help the British technology industry as EU referendum nears

8 years ago

Avaya Opens Up Operating System For Approved Network Providers

Avaya's network OS can now be deployed to rival vendor's hardware as part of branded 'white box' switching move

8 years ago

Microsoft Makes AI Move For Wand Labs

Reinforcements for malfunctioning Tay chatbot? Microsoft purchases AI app specialist Wand Labs

8 years ago