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The long-range drone that can keep up with a car and fly for an hour
A German team are aiming to build a faster drone that can keep going for longer by adding combustion engines.
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Five silver linings of the public cloud
Customers of Amazon Web Services reveal the rewards of migrating key systems to the public cloud platform.
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How 3D printing could make robotic hands more affordable
The start-up that wants to make customised, robotic hands available to the millions of people with missing hands worldwide.
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How to scale online services for millions of users without losing vital data
European gambling portal bet365 on how the programming language Erlang and the NoSQL data store Riak is helping it handle millions of transactions at once.
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Forget the smartphone hype, PCs are still the most important business gadget
Smartphones might create gadget envy, but it seems that nothing beats a PC for real work.
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UK poised to relax rules on employing overseas workers for some IT jobs
The UK government is recommended to allow start-ups to employ workers from outside Europe in developer and cyber security roles without trying to fill those roles domestically.
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Bigger budgets, better tech: Why 2015 is a good year to be working in IT
CIOs are feeling optimistic about their prospects and budgets are on the up.
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Raspberry Pi 2 launch: Six times faster with Windows 10 and Ubuntu support
A major update to the credit card sized Raspberry Pi board is introduced, with a boost to the CPU and memory expected to help it run as a general-purpose PC.
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Why your urine could usher in an era of personalised medicine
How big data analytics is providing insight into the chemical make-up of our bodies at a unmatched level of detail, and why it could lead to bespoke treatments and diagnoses.
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Time for IT jobs to be set aside for women
With women accounting for only a fraction of people studying computer science, there have been calls for gender-related quotas for IT roles.
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Mayor of city that threw out Microsoft told to end attacks on Linux
The mayor of Munich, the city that replaced Windows with Linux, is told his public attacks on the move to open source are hampering efforts to end the authority's IT staffing shortage.
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Businesses not hiring IT apprentices despite skills shortage claims
Despite claims the UK and US are in the grip of an IT skills shortage, the number of people being accepted for IT apprenticeships has fallen by one third - with fewer than one in 10 applicants securin...
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On-demand 3D printing services take aim at small businesses
Almost half of of consumer, heavy industry and life sciences manufacturers are expected to be using 3D printers within three years. To help companies experiment with the technology on-demand 3D printi...
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The intelligent knife that helps surgeons sniff out cancer
The story of the intelligent knife that helps surgeons extract tumours by analysing what tissue they are extracting as they are cutting.
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Artificial Intelligence and life beyond the algorithm: Alan Turing and the future of computing
Turing is not just a historical figure; his work is still crammed with relevance - and tricky questions.
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Outsourcing: Coming in from the cold as the economy thaws?
Having fallen away, the number of outsourcing contracts signed is rising again - but organisations are renegotiating a lot of existing deals.
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IT departments: Compete with consumer cloud apps or risk a security breach
Companies faced with staff sourcing their own cloud apps and services to use in their job are not addressing the risk by simply banning staff-sourced IT.
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How PA cleared the big data hurdle at the London Olympics
The Press Association's director of technical architecture on how its IT systems coped with the challenge of supplying coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Setting up a cloud? eBay reveals the five key steps
In creating a private cloud to give flexibility to developers and the business, eBay learned lessons that should apply to any organisation grappling with similar changes.
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What the next evolution of enterprise IT means for your job
Businesses use of technology is changing and that has a knock on effect on career prospects for IT workers.
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End of XP support: Why so many CIOs are still not ready
With Microsoft's cut-off date for support for XP just over a year away, a worryingly large number of IT leaders seem to be unprepared.
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How Hadoop is helping King.com ask the right questions
The social gaming firm on how the big data platform is helping it ask smarter questions by removing some of the guesswork from analytics.
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Could Linux still usurp Windows Phone as Nokia's saviour?
Once-dominant Nokia faces an uphill slog to win back ground from the iPhone and Android, yet hope for a change of fortune may lie in an unexpected quarter.
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IT admins: Stressed, sick and looking for a new career?
A survey paints a depressing view of life as an IT administrator.
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Raspberry Pi: Tell us what you've got planned for yours
We want to know what you are doing with your Raspberry Pi.
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Privacy law will bury us under paper mountain, warns data watchdog
The UK's privacy tsar Christopher Graham has said that proposed EU legislation will bury his office in paperwork and restrict its ability to guard against serious misuse of personal data.
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The next digital battlefield: Your wallet
Handset companies, mobile operators and banks are wrestling for control of the mobile payments market.
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Videoconferencing project "is a no-brainer" says CIO
Videoconferencing roll out saves cash, time and CO2 for paints-to-chemicals company AkzoNoble.
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Raspberry Pi: Five ways business can use it
The $40 Linux computer is a tempting replacement for expensive, high-end machines in a number of business tasks.
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Offshoring jumps as cash-strapped companies step up outsourcing
The global economic crisis is sparking a boom in IT offshoring as India's major IT suppliers grew four times faster than their competitors in 2011.