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Articles & blogs by Chris Middleton

Back to the future: new buzz-phrases, familiar problems

Big data artwork
2012 may have been a red-letter year for UK public events, but how has it been so far for the technology sector?
06 Sep 2012

Special report: 2012 and the war for data

battle for data
The past few months have seen worrying developments for those who value their privacy and expect personal data to be handled with a degree of circumspection. So is the fight for the right to be forgotten a lost cause?
05 Sep 2012

Happy birthday Office 365!


04 Jul 2012

Computing says: RBS saga is a warning to all enterprises

Any organisation that uses technology to cut costs and increase its profits at the customer’s expense deserves to fail
04 Jul 2012

Google unveils own-brand Nexus 7 tablet (updated)

Tech battle of the decade hots up, with Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon battling for the hearts and minds of business and consumer users with own-brand mobile devices
27 Jun 2012

Alan Turing: hero

The centenary of Alan Turing's birth should be the spur for a permanent memorial in the heart of our capital, says Chris Middleton
23 Jun 2012

Maude sets out 'digital by default', single-platform vision for UK government

Intellect speech sets out far-reaching vision for public sector IT - but forgets to mention security. Chris Middleton explores its meaning
12 Jun 2012

Google given July deadline to resolve EU antitrust concerns

Google's Schmidt has demanded specific examples of regulation breaches
10 Jun 2012

Ellison debuts Oracle Cloud – rebadged strategy of 100+ hosted apps

Ellison renames the cloud after Oracle, finishing giant marketing u-turn towards what he calls 'modern computing'
06 Jun 2012

CSC and the NHS: Lorenzo now on hold until 31 August

Resolution postponed again, boilerplate statement prepares investors for risk of bad news.
06 Jun 2012

Today is World IPv6 Launch day, says alliance of providers [new updates]

Analysts speak out on internet campaign struggling to gain mindshare as IPv4 heads for the buffers.
06 Jun 2012

Salesforce.com makes a £447m Buddy with social acquisition

Social media management becomes focus for new breed of marketers as cloud platform buys Buddy Media
05 Jun 2012

HP: 27,000 job cuts by 2014, Mike Lynch to leave (NEW UPDATE)

• 1,600 UK jobs in the firing line, says Unite. Autonomy founder Lynch to leave – bad decision, say analysts
23 May 2012

Government launches Open Data Institute (updated)

Huge opportunity to drive innovation via open data – but does the government truly understand the distinctions between 'open' and private?
22 May 2012

Facebook share drop: more than meets the eye (updated)

Last-minute devaluation by Morgan Stanley pre-IPO proves mobile strategy flawed, as Computing explained last week
22 May 2012

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