Category: ComputerWeekly

Post Office scandal campaigners awarded OBEs in New Year Honours List
31
Dec
2024

Post Office scandal campaigners awarded OBEs in New Year Honours List

Former subpostmasters and leading campaigners in the Post Office scandal have been honoured for their decades-long fight against the injustices…

What is Dunelm doing for women in tech?
30
Dec
2024

What is Dunelm doing for women in tech?

In September 2024, Dunelm reported a 4.1% jump in annual sales to £1.71bn for the year to 29 June. During…

Top 10 financial services stories of 2024
30
Dec
2024

Top 10 financial services stories of 2024

It seems fintech has been replaced by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as the most-used term in banking IT this year….

Top 10 EMEA stories of 2024
24
Dec
2024

Top 10 EMEA stories of 2024

One thing that the European Union (EU) certainly seems united on is how it can increase its influence in the…

Big data and Google BigQuery improve cancer drug development by detecting bacteria
23
Dec
2024

Big data and Google BigQuery improve cancer drug development by detecting bacteria

Developing new drugs is risky and expensive. Creating a new drug and bringing it to clinical trials can cost billions…

Why Keir Starmer’s plan to rewire Whitehall needs an IT-rethink
20
Dec
2024

Why Keir Starmer’s plan to rewire Whitehall needs an IT-rethink

In my personal experience, there are certain institutional barriers to productive and successful delivery of major projects in government. Indeed…

Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light
20
Dec
2024

Government review of denied datacentre builds sees Iver project get green light

A government review of a local council’s decision to block a US-based company from building a hyperscale datacentre in Iver,…

Interview: How Green Cargo’s IT switched tracks to logistics success
20
Dec
2024

Interview: How Green Cargo’s IT switched tracks to logistics success

Ingo Paas is what you might call a different sort of CIO. Even by the standards of someone in the…

A job seeker’s guide to using AI and what it means for employers
20
Dec
2024

A job seeker’s guide to using AI and what it means for employers

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool to help job seekers find roles and make their applications, with ever more…

Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail Bank
20
Dec
2024

Interview: Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer, NatWest Retail Bank

Wendy Redshaw, chief digital information officer (CDIO) at NatWest Retail Bank, has had a distinguished career leading technology-led change in…

LockBit ransomware gang teases February 2025 return
19
Dec
2024

LockBit ransomware gang teases February 2025 return

Despite being taken down and humiliated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) coordinated Operation Cronos in February 2024, an unknown…

Challenging the cloud giants: Is a new era of competition on the horizon?
19
Dec
2024

Challenging the cloud giants: Is a new era of competition on the horizon?

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) sent shockwaves through the tech industry in October 2023 when it announced its…