Mike Simons
Mike Simons is the Editor of ComputerWorld UK and Techworld. He joined IDG in 2006 after almost a decade at Computer Weekly. An award winning IT and business journalist, Mike has a particularly focused on major IT projects and public sector IT. His fascination with the business and social impact of technology began at university, where he obtained an MSc at the Science Policy Research Unit of Sussex University.
His Computerworld UK blog is Editor's Blog
Tesco has signed up Capgemini to provide a global managed service responsible for the collection, processing and reporting of energy and carbon emissions data read more »
Industry organisations have welcomed Education Secretary Michael Gove's announcement today of fundamental overhaul in the way ICT is taught in schools read more »
Join ComputerworldUK editor Mike Simons and Alison Adams Head of VPN & Security at Virgin Media Business to thrash out the issues. read more »
Transport for London (TFL) is preparing for a five-year £110 million communications and control systems package for Crossrail, the rail project that will connect Heathrow Airport with the City of London and Canary Wharf. read more »
SAP has promised its customers a wave of innovation in coming years. read more »
The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a seven-year application development and maintenance contract with Accenture for parts of its Universal Credit system and other customer-facing systems. read more »
Paul Hunter, head of HP’s UK PC arm, has issued a rallying cry to his customers, channel partners and staff in the aftermath of yesterday’s decision to cancel plans to sell off the company’s personal computer division. read more »
The Cabinet Office has fleshed out the core Government ICT strategy that was laid out back in March, with policy documents on cloud, green IT, general ICT capability and end user devices. read more »
Shares in Research in Motion, the company behind Blackberry mobile messaging service, were up today even though its customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit by a second day of service failures. read more »
Sean Catlett, the former director of security at online gambling site Betfair has left the company. The news emerged following a hacking incident which saw cybercriminals steal 3.15 million customer account details. read more »
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has signed seven-year application maintenance and development contracts with Capgemini and IBM. read more »
IBM has won a seven year application maintenance and development contract with the Department for Work and Pensions. read more »
Capita has continued its acquisition spree by snapping up Cedar HR Softwarefor £15 million, following Monday's £40 million takeover of Vertex's private sector operations. read more »
Chemical giant BASF has extended its contract with BT with the Telco providing connections to some 900 BASF sites in more than 80 countries. read more »
The government will formally announce the scrapping of the National programme for IT in the NHS, this morning, dubbing it the biggest IT disaster of the last Labour administration. read more »
SAP is buying business-to-business e-commerce services provider Crossgate for an undisclosed amount. read more »
Almost half of all IT and telecoms companies are at risk of “near term financial distress”, according to a major study by AlixPartners, a global business advisory firm. read more »
Capita has snapped up the private sector operations of call centre and customer management outsourcer Vertex for £40.5 million cash. read more »
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