UK start up seeks to make online software research easier
According to Google's Consumer Barometer Report 53 percent of people compare products, prices and features online before buying.
This is even more true of B2B buyers, with 89 percent saying they use the web as part of their research process.
A Brexit would be 'hugely damaging' to UK's tech industry
If Britain were to leave the European Union, that would hurt its emerging tech sector, and hurt it badly. Those are the results of a new survey conducted by recruitment agency Talent Point.
Last year, the company registered 3,347 job seekers, with 24.73 percent coming from the EU, mostly thanks to the freedom of movement within it.
Demand for IT security pros is rising in UK
The tech talent shortage the UK is faced with nowadays is no small problem, as the demand for IT security experts reaches new heights.
According to a new research by recruitment finance provider Sonovate, IT security professionals are currently the most wanted workers in the UK’s growing jobs market.
Some UK developers believe recruiters lack IT knowledge
The shortage of tech talent in the UK is not as straightforward as we thought -- it’s not just about the country not having enough actual people. The problem is also in the recruiters, a new and comprehensive study suggests.
The study was done by the Stack Overflow website for developers, and surveyed more than 56,000 people living in 173 countries. According to the survey, 73 percent of developers in the UK are either actively looking for new jobs, or are "open to new opportunities".
Millennials create IT challenges for UK businesses
A new report released by Quocirca reveals that UK businesses are struggling to manage growing volumes of information and are failing to meet the demands and expectations of the modern workforce.
The report looks at information management in today’s office environment, and how the modern workforce -- which is increasingly consisting of young millennials -- is changing the ways of working. The report also reveals that the traditional approaches to information management are struggling to keep up.
Want the best customer support? Use Facebook
Facebook is the number one channel for people looking to get answers from retailers’ customer service in the UK, a new study shows.
According to the Eptica Multichannel Customer Experience study, Facebook is the channel through which retail customer service answers most frequently and most accurately, followed by email. Twitter came in third, with pretty poor results.
70 percent of UK tech businesses oppose a Brexit
As the UK considers leaving the EU, tech businesses have weighed in on whether or not they are in favor of such a move in a new survey conducted by techUK.
70 percent of its members are in favor of the UK remaining within the EU while 15 percent want the UK to leave. The remaining 15 per cent of techUK’s members were undecided on the issue.
UK government launches a fast online identity verification service
A new service has launched in the UK, which will allow the country’s citizens to easily verify their identity online. Called CitizenSafe, it is the brainchild of global specialists in identity data intelligence, GBG.
CitizenSafe was created after a survey had shown that people expect to access government services easily and securely online, and that online identity verification was a key step. It will be integrated within the UK government's gov.uk Verify service, and GBG says it will cut the time needed to verify an identity to mere minutes.
How Anonymous helps the homeless survive winter
Hacker collective Anonymous mostly gets press for its big campaigns, including fighting Islamic State, and tackling pedophiles and Scientologists, but it also has smaller campaigns that just exist for the greater good.
#OpSafeWinter was launched back in 2013 to help care for the invisible community, providing the homeless with clothing, blankets, food and clean water. Although a global campaign, it is most active in the UK, with teams in all of the major cities.
Sharing passwords is a bad idea, yet people still do it
A lot of people like sharing their passwords with others, even though such actions put their data at risk -- and they know it. Those are the results of a new survey commissioned by password management firm LastPass, and conducted by RedShift Research.
According to the survey, more than half (55 percent) of UK’s consumers share passwords with others, jeopardizing their financial information in the process. They know that’s risky -- three quarters (75 percent) have confirmed it -- but still, 96 percent have admitted sharing up to six passwords with others.
How would a Brexit impact UK's tech sector?
With the UK’s EU referendum less than four months away, the UK’s thriving economy of fast-growth, tech, and digital business are weighing up the pros and cons of leaving the EU and what a Brexit would mean for the sector.
Without doubt, the main fear of the UK tech and digital sector, if the result of 23 June is to leave the EU, is the adverse impact this would have on the ability to recruit and retain tech talent from within the EU.
One in five Brits blocks ads
An increasing aversion to online ads amongst British adults is posing a threat to online publishers, new figures show.
The latest figures from IAB in conjunction with YouGov reveal that more than one in five British adults, or 22 percent, are now using ad-blockers, representing a four percent rise compared to previous results in October 2015.
Android Pay coming to UK
The payments industry is in the midst of something of a revolution at the moment. Leading banks such as HSBC are introducing biometric security and high-profile companies such as Samsung are ready to get rid of cash for good by focusing on digital payments.
Contactless solutions that use near-field communication (NFC) to enable payments on mobile devices are growing in popularity and, following in the footsteps of its rival Apple, Google has announced that Android Pay will be coming to the UK by the end of March.
More than half of UK businesses will embrace flexible and remote working in 2017
Next year will be the tipping point for flexible and remote working in the UK, with more than 50 percent of businesses adopting it by the end of next year. That number will grow even more, to 70 percent, by the time we get to 2020.
Those are the results of a new survey produced by Lancaster University’s Work Foundation, and commissioned by Citrix. The survey, entitled Working anywhere: A winning formula for good work?, asked 500 employees at a managerial level about the pros and cons of flexible working.
Ransomware is the biggest threat to Android users in UK
Ransomware was the biggest threat to Android users in the UK last year, a new report by security company Bitdefender says.
Even though it’s not as dangerous or prolific as its Windows counterpart, ransomware still played a major role in the overall mobile security landscape for last year.
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