Out of the approximately 380,000 women who make up 20% of the UK’s technology sector, who is the most influential? Computer Weekly is looking for nominations for our annual list of the most influential women in UK technology, which we put together each year in partnership with Nash Squared to showcase the female talent in…
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Micron on Tuesday announced that the company has begun shipping its 9th Generation (G9) 276 layer TLC NAND. The next generation of NAND from the prolific memory maker, Micron’s latest NAND is designed to further push the envelope on TLC NAND performance, offering significant density and performance improvements over its existing NAND technology. Micron’s G9…
The Mayor of London has launched a Beta of the London Privacy Register, which aims provide greater openness around the use of smart city technologies throughout the capital’s public spaces. According to the Mayor’s Office, the adoption smart city technologies in public spaces – including networks of sensors, cameras, drones, robotics, mobility services, augmented reality,…
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The government is ploughing millions of pounds into five new quantum hubs in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Oxford and London to bring together researchers and businesses. Areas of focus for the hubs include quantum sensing, networking and positioning. The hubs will be delivered by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council…
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SAP has posted cloud revenue of €4.2bn, up 25% for the second quarter of 2024. The company said the increase in cloud revenue was underpinned by 33% Cloud ERP Suite revenue growth. The move to the cloud also showed up as a decline in software licence revenue, which fell by 27% compared with the same…
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Retailer Co-op has been running a retail business transformation programme powered by SAP’s Retail ECC (enterprise core components) suite on Hana software to improve stock visibility and forecasting across its stores. It has now migrated all its SAP systems onto the SAP Rise cloud as a stepping stone to migrating off ECC and onto S/4Hana…
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When Lewis Hamilton crossed the finish line for his emotional win in the 2024 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, there would have been a good few fist pumps from the IT team at his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team. While fans focus on the race engineers that helped get the Mercedes car back to the…
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The Labour government has announced its legislative agenda for the new Parliament, with the King’s Speech outlining bills covering cyber security, data sharing and skills among proposals likely to impact IT professionals – but there are no plans for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation at this stage. The King highlighted his government’s intention to “pursue sustainable…
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Police Digital Service (PDS) CEO Ian Bell is no longer a director of the company, two weeks after it emerged two of its employees had been arrested on suspicion of fraud, bribery and misconduct in public office. A Companies House filing, dated 16 July 2024, confirms Bell’s position as company director was terminated on 11…
It is often said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose, but as we contemplate the new government, trying to predict regulatory intentions in every policy announcement and ministerial appointment, what tech prose can the tech bros expect? In his speech on the steps of Number 10, our new Prime Minister highlighted his…
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