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How rivals from Google, Amazon and Facebook joined forces in a bid to beat cancer. As competition ramps up in the tech industry, three of its biggest names have come together to strengthen the fight against cancer. At a time when Facebook, Google and Amazon are embroiled in fierce competition across various industries, developers from [...]

How do you cause uproar in the IT industry? One way, it seems, is to declare email dead and gone. This, in effect, is what French entrepreneur and Atos chief Thierry Breton did towards the end of 2011 when he banned his employees from using internal email because he considered it a source of time [...]

Technological advances that gave GB Olympic team that extra edge. Alison Kervin reports. ONE delightful moment at the London Olympic Games came in the velodrome, when French officials threw their hands up in horror as Team GB won yet another gold: “They have magic tyres,” claimed Isabelle Gautheron, France’s director of cycling. “I notice they [...]

Through an obsession with his company’s products and some shrewd marketing, Steve Jobs turned millions of people into newborn technophiles. And this technology has left the living room. As Steve Cardell, president of enterprise application services at global IT firm HCL, argues, Apple and other firms upended a previous trend where technology at work was [...]

Bonnie Gardiner speaks with game developers about how the news can become a game, and in particular how the current crisis in Syria can be better understood through gameplay. The gaming experience has evolved greatly over the past few years – but could it also now be used to report he news? In the midst [...]

They are all around us, embedded in everything we do. From the smartphones we use to call, text, email, surf the internet and check our location to the cars we drive, electronic systems are the very foundation of modern businesses and personal lifestyles. We’ve become accustomed to a dizzying pace of change: blink and there’s [...]

Leadership must be recognised and agendas set to ensure a bright future for electronic systems, says industry taskforce chair Jamie Urquhart. The UK electronics system is preparing to face an exciting but uncertain future. With increased overseas competition and a talent shortage, there are plenty of challenges ahead. But Britain remains a global leader in [...]

Legislation on use of data is being rewritten thanks to well-publicised misuses of consumer information. The US retail giant Target sparked controversy recently by using data collected from a young woman’s shopping habits to successfully predict she was pregnant before her family had noticed. While such data analysis is groundbreaking, companies have to draw the [...]

In times of global financial turmoil, sustainability can be the easiest point to be rubbed off the ‘to-do’ list. But small, effective changes can be made – and at little cost.   Everyone from the smallest business to the largest organisation has been keen to strut their sustainability credentials in recent years. In fact, with [...]