Government digital transformation: a marathon, not a Sprint

200 days into a 400 day challenge to transform government service delivery and successes are celebrated at Sprint14. But Forrester Research isn't so sure about some of the changes.

The BBC's digital drama continues with accusations from ex-staff

The questions get tougher next week as senior BBC officials will be summoned before a UK government committee and asked to explain what the National Audit Office this week identified as an appalling lack of governance over a massive digital programme.

Taking action against the "abusive" IT provider

Some IT suppliers to government are accused of “appalling” behaviour and conducting an “abusive” relationship with their public sector paymasters. Them’s fighting words from a senior government official.

Digital Davos as tech CEOs oust the economists

"It’s usually the Nobel Laureates at the World Economic Forum doing the economic review. We took their spot this year." Salesforce.com's  Marc Benioff makes a valid point as he and his peers debate digital directions at Davos.

Talking EuroCloud, Euro Standards and Euro Sausage!

While EuroCloud has been debating the European Union's Cloud Computing plans, ETSI's year long consideration of the cloud standards landscape has delivered an interesting new report.

So just what kind of World Wide Web do we want?

An interesting debate on an important question in an unlikely forum: the UK government's upper chamber, the House of Lords - home to lords, ladies and bishops.

Trustev opens the box on e-commerce fraud

e-commerce fraud is a huge problem. What is Trustev finding as it seeks to triangulate behavior, social and digital fingerprinting? The results are surprising.

ICAEW rings alarm bell over new GAAP - how wrong can you be?

Will the introduction of new reporting requirements represent an upheaval of the kind ICAEW believes? No. Treasury departments can be tapped into for this kind of thing.

The Internet of ka-chings

We often forget how the spread of e-commerce and cloud innovation is held back by the drag of local laws and behaviors

Retrospective: cloud, Europe and frictionless enterprise

How cloud works, what Europe thinks of it, and its potential to transform the enterprise: Phil concludes his review of the year

NSA nixed Boeing deal? Nah but it's a good headline

Did the spat between Brazil and the US over NSA revelations of spying impact an important defense contract? Some might wish that was the case but when you dig a little deeper then the economics speak for themselves.

The BBC, £100 million of public money and digital disaster

Listen up Mr President! Top techs talk tough on NSA

It was only a matter of time before the tech industry needed to be seen to take a tougher stand over the NSA PRISM snooping scandal and so it is today that 8 leading firms have drawn a collective line in the sand.