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Safe Harbour Replacement Unveiled

Feb 04, 2016

After months of negotiations, this week saw the European Commission (EC) announce a replacement to Safe Harbour after it was declared invalid in October 2015. What to make of it? We got some UK IT industry views.

Could Cloud Scupper New EU Data Protection Regime?

Feb 04, 2016

Only 21% of small and medium-sized enterprises are confident they will comply with Brussels' upcoming regulations, including the GDPR, set to be finalised in the Spring 2016.

'Love-Hate' Relationship Between IT And Business Claim

Feb 04, 2016

Employees in the UK are generally annoyed and frustrated by digital technology, but believe it’s critical to their business’ success, says new Computacenter study,

Brits Say There's £6K Of Data Value On Their Phone

Feb 03, 2016

A lot of Brits use their smartphones to access corporate email and corporate data in general, and they’re aware that such information is valuable, not only to themselves and their company, but to hackers, as well.

'Growth Builder' Programme To Help UK SMEs

Feb 03, 2016

“British start-ups are doing a great job, but more can be done to help them scale to become global and industry-leading success stories,” say the people behind the project.

Salesforce Debuts New Cloud Services

Feb 03, 2016

Includes Field Service Lightning, which will be available for Service Cloud in the second quarter.

Students Getting More Into IT At Uni As An Option

Feb 02, 2016

Higher Education Statistics Agency says increase of 5% in the number of students starting an undergraduate computing course in 2014/15 - or 24,900 enrolments.

Google Successor Alphabet Overtales Apple For #1 World Firm Slot

Feb 02, 2016

According to Alphabet’s latest financial reports (its first fourth quarter earnings ever), the company’s market value sits at about $570 billion (£396.1bn), which is $35 billion more than Apple.

Opinion: Is Offshoring Dead?

Feb 02, 2016

The argument was that using developers in less expensive markets would save a business a substantial amount of money and yield the same quality result. But the rules of the game have changed, thinks Robbie Clutton, Director, Pivotal Labs. Is he right?