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Don't count Barclays Eagle Labs out just yet
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startups

Don't count Barclays Eagle Labs out just yet

Tech Nation has a great track record, but Eagle Labs has the experience, the financial clout, and a clear-cut vision that will deliver positive result…
29 Mar 2023
Online Safety Bill: Why is Ofcom being thrown under the bus?
Secretary of state for DCMS, Michelle Donelan, giving a speech at a podium whilst at the Conservative Party Conference 2022
Policy & legislation

Online Safety Bill: Why is Ofcom being thrown under the bus?

The UK government has handed Ofcom an impossible mission, with the thinly spread regulator being set up to fail
24 Mar 2023
HMRC lost nearly 50% more devices in 2022
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Hardware

HMRC lost nearly 50% more devices in 2022

The number of devices lost between September 2021 and 2022 rose by 45%
17 Mar 2023
Meet the charity shaping Australia and New Zealand's data breach response
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cyber crime

Meet the charity shaping Australia and New Zealand's data breach response

IDCARE is recruiting a reserve army to turbocharge the fightback against cyber crime not just in the region, but in the interests of victims all over …
15 Mar 2023
Arm listing in the US shows the UK's tech strategy is in shambles
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Policy & legislation

Arm listing in the US shows the UK's tech strategy is in shambles

Why was Arm even sold to a Japanese investment fund in the first place?
3 Mar 2023
UK startups dread Tech Nation loss as end of the road nears
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startups

UK startups dread Tech Nation loss as end of the road nears

Tech Nation’s tireless championing of the UK tech industry has left founders in the lurch as Barclays Eagle Labs steps in to take the reigns
3 Mar 2023
Open source leaders call for permanent government funding package
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open source

Open source leaders call for permanent government funding package

Funding open source projects with taxpayers’ money is “inevitable” and should be treated like maintaining the electrical grid
8 Feb 2023
Labour plans overhaul of 'anti-innovation' UK tech regulation
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Policy & legislation

Labour plans overhaul of 'anti-innovation' UK tech regulation

Labour's shadow innovation minister blasts successive governments' "wholly inadequate" and "wrong-headed" approach to regulation
7 Feb 2023
What's powering Britain’s fibre broadband boom?
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Network & Internet

What's powering Britain’s fibre broadband boom?

Expansion in full-fibre infrastructure and many new providers are making it stupidly cheap to get ultrafast internet connections in all corners of the…
3 Feb 2023
DCMS: Eagle Labs 'offers better value for money’ than Tech Nation
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startups

DCMS: Eagle Labs 'offers better value for money’ than Tech Nation

The decision to award a £12 million grant to Barclays Eagle Labs has sparked widespread industry concern, with Tech Nation fighting for its future
24 Jan 2023
UK Silicon Valley plans are ‘antiquated and misguided’
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Policy & legislation

UK Silicon Valley plans are ‘antiquated and misguided’

The government risks missing out on the next phase of innovation entirely by going full throttle on long-held ambitions to turn the UK into the next S…
17 Jan 2023
English public sector IT spending soars while small cohort of vendors dominate market
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public sector

English public sector IT spending soars while small cohort of vendors dominate market

Spending has more than doubled since 2018 while a comparatively small group of providers collect 89% of the contracts on offer
16 Jan 2023
Fixing STEM's gender bias with more classroom intervention
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Careers & training

Fixing STEM's gender bias with more classroom intervention

Experts suggest the government must step in to break generational barriers and ramp up promising schemes
16 Jan 2023
The IT Pro Podcast: How upskilling is driving staff retention
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Careers & training

The IT Pro Podcast: How upskilling is driving staff retention

Investing in workforce training improves talent and is seen by employees as a vote of confidence
13 Jan 2023
Podcast transcript: How upskilling is driving staff retention
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Careers & training

Podcast transcript: How upskilling is driving staff retention

Read the full transcript for this episode of the IT Pro Podcast
13 Jan 2023
“Botched government procurement” leads to £24 million Atos settlement
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high-performance computing (HPC)

“Botched government procurement” leads to £24 million Atos settlement

Labour has accused the Conservative government of using taxpayers’ money to pay for their own mistakes
10 Jan 2023
Australian gov renews IBM contract for quantum computing, AI
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public sector

Australian gov renews IBM contract for quantum computing, AI

The new five-year deal is worth $725 million and succeeds the digital transformation agency's previous contract which exceeded $2 billion in spending
9 Jan 2023
Japan just isn't taking digital transformation seriously enough
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digital transformation

Japan just isn't taking digital transformation seriously enough

It’s a bad sign when the digital minister chuckles about the prominence of floppy disks at an overseas tech conference
14 Dec 2022
NHS IT issues costing doctors more than 13 million hours annually
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IT infrastructure

NHS IT issues costing doctors more than 13 million hours annually

Doctors warn that ageing IT infrastructure is impacting patient care and clinical outcomes
12 Dec 2022
Hiring from overseas to fill specialist tech roles
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Careers & training

Hiring from overseas to fill specialist tech roles

For businesses looking to plug the tech skills shortage, hiring from overseas can feel bureaucratic and downright baffling
10 Dec 2022
IT Pro News in Review: Beds in Twitter HQ spark investigation, Defra's legacy software problem, Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT
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Business strategy

IT Pro News in Review: Beds in Twitter HQ spark investigation, Defra's legacy software problem, Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT

Catch up on the biggest headlines of the week in just two minutes
9 Dec 2022
Tech giants to share $9 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract
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Cloud

Tech giants to share $9 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract

The JWCC is the successor to the ill-fated Jedi contract awarded to Microsoft in 2018
8 Dec 2022
Defra's legacy software problem 'threatens' UK gov cyber security until 2030
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Business strategy

Defra's legacy software problem 'threatens' UK gov cyber security until 2030

The department spends over two-thirds of its digital budget on maintaining the risky applications, with no plan in place for a fix within the decade
6 Dec 2022