The government is scrapping the cross-government CIO role. Since the coalition took office in 2010 there has been a significant level of CIO churn in Whitehall. Liam Maxwell, currently the Government CTO, has risen through the ranks and is considered to be a major reformer. CIO UK met with Maxwell …
In part one of CIO UK's Liam Maxwell interview, the Government CTO discussed the C-level shake-up in Whitehall, G-Cloud and SME vendors. In part two of the series, Maxwell spoke about centralisation, exemplar services and cuts. …
With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market research reports this week point to the ever-increasing importance of smartphones as key to growth in tech. read more
Apple is clearly not Steve Jobs’ company any longer, analysts said this week, citing examples from Tuesday’s earning calls with Wall Street. …
Key lawmakers are suggesting that the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, will soon die in the U.S. Senate — just like last year. …
Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things. read more
Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things. …
Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. read more
A damaged Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station today, delivering 3.1 tons of food, fuel and equipment. …
Samsung is second to Apple in tablet sales and coming on strong, though Samsung Galaxy Tab users remain well behind iPad users in how much they use the Web. read more
A 35-year-old Dutch man was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS attack that targeted a spam-fighting organization called the Spamhaus Project in March …
Apple will challenge a November 2012 jury verdict that awarded $368 million in damages to Nevada patent-holding company VirnetX, a filing with U.S. regulators showed. read more
North Korea's sole 3G network operator has managed to double its subscriber base in a little over a year and is about to hit 2 million users. read more
Google's executive chairman acknowledged yesterday that using Glass, the company's computerized eyeglasses, can be at times a bit 'weird' and 'inappropriate.' read more
Two stars 7,000 light years from Earth appear to prove Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. But evidence of the physicist's genius can be found a lot closer to home. read more
Salesforce.com, a pillow manufacturer and an employee of the pillow maker are caught up in a complex three-way legal battle, with a US$125,000 American Express bill and an allegedly failed software implementation at the center of the dispute. read more
Having a few laughs at the expense of this week’s top tech newsmakers, this week including Apple, Facebook and Pizza Hut read more
Do you know what to do if your Twitter account is hacked? Here are four steps to take to regain control of your account and ensure it doesn't happen again. read more
Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). read more
The idea that Google's going to release a new version of Android called Key Lime Pie at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco in a couple of weeks has become one of those rumors that's so widespread it becomes the conventional wisdom. It makes sense, it's being hinted at …
Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones. read more
Финская компания Nokia сообщила о начале продаж своего нового коммуникатора под управлением мобильной операционной системы Microsoft Phone 8. Желающие оценить возможности системы Windows Phone 8 могут это сделать, если приобретут его менее чем за $200, так как Nokia Lumia 521 является самым доступным коммуникатором на этой “операционке”. Характеристики устройства включают в …
Toshiba анонсировала новый планшетный компьютер на базе новой операционной системы Microsoft. Компьютер Portege Z10t относится к гибридному классу устройств, превращаясь в ноутбук или планшет со съемной клавиатурой. Новинка оборудована сенсорным экраном с диагональю 11,6 дюймов с разрешением 1920 × 1080 точек. “Сердцем” гибрида выбран процессор Intel Core i3, Core i5 или …
То, что Samsung сейчас во всю занята распространением своего флагмана на мировом рынке не значит, что ее специалисты не работают над новыми устройствами. Коммуникатор Samsung Galaxy Core, поддерживающий две SIM карты одновременно, в середине Мая появится в продаже в России и Китае по рекомендованной цене €320. Аппарат обладает 4,3-дюймовым WVGA дисплеем …
Студия Turbine официально анонсировала следующее дополнение к MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online. Helm’s Deep выйдет будущей осенью. Точная дата релиза пока не называется. Об этом сообщает портал Eurogamer. …
Аналитическое агентство NPD сегодня выложило очередной доклад о рынке покупки и аренды цифрового видео контента на за 2012 год. …