2012 Tech
How Tesco and co are testing the limits of customer data exploitation
If a consumer agrees to share information with retailers, can they complain when data about their shopping habits and lifestyle choices are used to milk them for more money?
Exclusive: Marks & Spencer to recruit 50 UK software engineers
Retailer is building an elite software engineering team in London to increase innovation
NPIA hails success of national police database
National Policing Improvement Agency says data sharing has led to speedier arrests
Direction of travel: an interview with TfL CIO Steve Townsend
TfL CIO Steve Townsend is bringing actionable information closer to the business side of the organisation and directly into the hands of the travelling public
Crash Podcast: IT education, ICANN and the 'snooping bill'
Crash is the regular IT news and analysis podcast from Computing
Raspberry Pi: Education in action VIDEO
Computing talks to staff and pupils at Swallow Hill College, which is trialling the Raspberry Pi as a tool for teaching programming skills
Huddle secures vast majority of £453,778 spent on G-Cloud
London-based SME has six out of 11 CloudStore contracts awarded so far
BBC and Press Association select MarkLogic to handle Olympics data
Websites are expecting huge volume of data during the London Games
At the helm of government ICT: interview with Andy Nelson
In today's information-sharing age, can being CIO of such a huge IT user as the British government really be a part-time job? Sooraj Shah spoke to the man himself, Andy Nelson, to find out
Contactless payment on Tube delayed until late 2013
No 'Wave and Pay' on the Tube until the end of 2013, as TfL misses its contactless payment pledge by a year
Atos CEO: Olympics data loss of greater concern than cyber attacks
Olympics IT partner says it is prepared for a range of security attacks
Crash: Big data, security and analytics
Computing's regular podcast features news of major IT projects at Gatwick and Heathrow airports, and analysis of why web coders often ignore basic security best-practise
Remote working during the Olympics
Cesare Garlati, director of consumerisation at Trend Micro, discusses what enterprises need to consider as large numbers of staff prepare to work remotely during the Games
TV-signal solution for rural broadband
Cambridge trials indicate that 'white spaces' in television broadcasts could boost broadband access
Cashless Olympics increases opportunities for cyber criminals
A security expert has suggested that NFC technology can be used to steal sensitive card data with the swipe of a phone
Interview: Retail in the iPad age
John Lewis IT chief Paul Coby tells Stuart Sumner how the tablet phenomenon is impacting customer service and online sales at the retail giant
O2 experiment finds more than one-third of staff work better remotely
3,000 workers stayed at home as O2 closed its head office in the remote working experiment, which also saved 2,000 hours of commuting time
How TfL will use passenger data during the Olympics
The network will equip staff with up-to-date information on passenger flow and network issues to keep traffic moving during the games
Crash Podcast: UK IT in the year of the Olympics
In this first in a special series of Crash, we take a look at what's happening in the UK IT industry at a time of intense international focus
Google survey: CFOs set to have a bigger say in IT decisions
Increased levels of cloud adoption result in more involvement from CFOs in IT decisions
Ten per cent of UK CIOs believe Olympics chaos is guaranteed
Organisations will struggle to get staff to and from datacentres in London, says managed services provider
The decline, fall and rebirth of IT education
Despite an alarming decline in computing undergraduate courses, there are signs that the discipline is about to enjoy a renaissance
Short-term datacentre deals offered to reduce Olympics disruption
A firm is offering short-term colocation and hosting deals outside London to companies concerned by the potential disruption this summer
UK technology during 2012
This campaign, which will run throughout the year, will examine the state of our domestic IT industry at a time when the country will be at the centre of global attention.
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