IT departments have plenty to plan for in 2016 with Windows 10 upgrades and Microsoft SQL Server and Server 2003 refreshes, yet their budgets are expected to barely budge over the coming year, according to a survey by Spiceworks.
While North American IT professionals anticipate a slight...
National Coding Week 2015 – older people can learn programming skills too
National Coding Week ran from 21 to 25 September 2015, aiming to teach coding and digital skills to adults across the UK.
Those wanting to get involved joined in events and learned skills online or face-to-face to encourage more people to step across the digital divide.
Co-founder Richard Rolfe said he thought of the initative after he left teaching to recover from a serious illness.
In a meeting with an ex-student who was running a web development business, Rolfe was left feeling as thought technology was only for “younger people”.
“I wasn’t into coding...
Risky and untested: What went wrong with the ESN procurement?
With a fully constructed and paid-for network spanning 99% of the UK’s geographical area, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that long-standing incumbent emergency services communications supplier Airwave would have been a serious contender when the Home Office kicked off the Emergency...
London launches cyber defence centre for small businesses
London’s deputy mayor for policing and crime Stephen Greenhalgh has launched a public-private partnership initiative to help the city’s small businesses protect themselves from cyber criminals.
The first of its kind in England, the London Digital Security Centre (LDSC) has been set up by...
Facebook court judgement threatens Safe Harbour data-sharing agreement with US
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will give its final judgement in the case against the Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon and Facebook on 6 October 2015 at 9.30am.
The judgement could have profound implications for the high-tech relationship between the US and the European...
Digital inclusion agency funds libraries to teach digital skills
Digital inclusion agency Tinder has funded an innovation project to allow libraries across the UK to teach community members digital skills.
The funding has been awarded to 16 libraries to run innovative pilots of digital inclusion projects using new approaches.
This initiative is part...
Worldwide #peacehack hackathons use technology to promote peace
Hackathons dubbed #peacehack have been staged in four cities to encourage the use of technology for promoting peace.
Run by International Alert, the hackathons held simultaneously in London, Beirut, Washington DC and Barcelona during September 2015 were designed to act as an outlet for...
Brightsolid opens Tier III datacentre in Aberdeen to support oil and gas sector
Scottish datacentre operator Brightsolid has claimed its new £5m facility in Aberdeen can store the same amount of data as Facebook does globally, and will turn a profit within six months of opening.
The company, part of the DC Thompson publishing group, already has two datacentres north...
HP Cloud 28+ enters beta and introduces self-certification scheme for providers
Hewlett-Packard's’s bid to create a Europe-wide one-stop cloud shop has moved up a gear, with the introduction of a self-certification system for providers that want to sell their services through it.
Dubbed Cloud 28+, the initiative was formally unveiled by HP in March 2015 after a year...
How technology is helping deliver aid to Syrian refugees in the Middle East
The United Nations predicts there will be 4,270,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015. The majority of these displaced people will be hosted in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt – with 88% living outside the region’s vast refugee...
A third of firms lack adequate data protection policies, survey finds
Despite an increased emphasis on cyber security, a third of firms still lack polices for information security, data encryption and data classification, a survey has revealed.
The Protiviti 2015 IT Security and Privacy Survey, which gathered insights from more than 700 executives and IT...
Education, energy and finance top UK cyber attack targets
More than two-thirds of all advanced cyber attacks in the UK are targeted at the education, energy and financial services sectors, according to a report by security firm FireEye.
The Advanced threat report for the first half of 2015 in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region also highlighted...
JLab’s 2015 startups explain how the accelerator has helped them
Earlier in 2015, a group of startups pitched their ideas to a panel of judges from John Lewis and the wider startup world.
Five of these startups went on to take advantage of retailer John Lewis’s accelerator space JLab, where they received funding and mentoring to help move their ideas...
This Car Knows Your Next Misstep Before You Make It
An experimental new dashboard computer can not only keep track of your behavior behind the wheel, but even predict what you’re about to do next.
With the vast majority of road accidents resulting from driver error, and distraction a growing...
The next steps for digital government - a question of accountability
The king is dead – long live the king. The Government Digital Service (GDS) started a new era this week, after its high-profile former chief Mike Bracken left on Friday 25 September 2015 after four and a half years in charge.
In the weeks...
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