This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

The phrase “augmented reality” was coined by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell in the early 1990s to describe a digital display viewed through a headset  which guided workers through electrical wires in aircraft. The term has since gained currency and is now taken to describe digital information overlaid on the physical world. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

The global adult industry is among the largest in the world, estimated to be worth nearly $100 billion worldwide by 2006. 

Music services on the mobile handset are uniquely positioned to become a key platform within the music industry. Since the turn of the millennium, sales of physical music – CDs etc. – have slowly declined yearon-year, largely as a result of online piracy. 

Read this paper to learn how the Associated Newspapers' Web applications migration to VMware vFabric tc Server brought the company fast testing and live deployments, rapid turnaround on production fixes, proactive problem solving, and high website availability. 

This resource explores an optimized WLAN architecture able to support the requirements of rich-media, real-time, and collaborative learning. Discover how this network architecture can solve many of the obstacles that today’s education IT teams are facing in expanding mobility. 

In this paper, learn why centralized policy management, automated order processing and asset management, and end-user self-service are key ingredients for any organization trying to control the proliferation of wireless mobile devices and spiraling costs. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

Over the past two years, the mobile TV landscape has changed dramatically. 

USA Technologies sought a solution that offered better QA and testing to meet the expanding demand of transactions at its 48,000 point-of-sale, cashless micro-transaction machines. This paper outlines the solution it chose and how it offers an automated software load and elevated performance testing. Read this to learn more about its benefits. 

This white paper reviews key mobile trends and analyzes how performance testers must change their testing methodologies to ensure they are accounting for the changes caused by mobile usage.