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  • BCS examination: Pro paper is a big success

    The new BCS Professional Examination has achieved instant success, with a 30% increase in candidate numbers over the previous year, when the old exam was run, writes John Kavanagh Demand has been s...29 Mar 2000

  • Nike+ problems demonstrate the risk of social media success

    The rewards for creating a customer-focused online community are huge. But success comes at a price, as recent issues encountered by Nike's Nike+ running site illustrate. Matt Scott investigates. S...08 Sep 2011

  • iPhone app boosts Addison Lee business by 20% in just six months

    London minicab firm Addison Lee is on target to take £20m in bookings through its iPhone app in 2011, having received £1.4m through the app in June. Bookings via its iPhone app now account for arou...14 Jun 2011

  • Oyster Card: The highs and lows of Oyster

    Transport for London’s Oyster card system uses radio frequency identification tags (RFID) to enable a contactless ticketing system. The smartcard network, launched in 2003, is run by the TranSys co...14 Jul 2008

  • Will politics hamper objectivity reviews of NHS IT?

    Health minister Lord Darzi opens his interim ­review of the NHS - a report that is likely to have significant ramifications for the NHS's IT investment programme - by saying he is a doctor, not a p...19 Oct 2007

  • Google's big appeal to small firms

    Last week's launch of Google Apps Premier Edition, which offers businesses low-cost office productivity software such as e-mail, calendar, contacts and word processing, has so far been treated caut...26 Feb 2007

  • The simple way to tackle complexity

    Delivering complex IT projects is never easy, but at National Lottery operator Camelot the pressure to do so is exceptionally intense. When it undertook a major project to replace all of its retail...17 Jul 2006

  • JD Edwards users not sold on PeopleSoft's takeover

    Twelve months after it paid $1.8bn (£1bn) to buy business applications rival JD Edwards, PeopleSoft has yet to get a big sales boost from the deal. Based on interviews with 15 JD Edwards users and ...23 Aug 2004

  • Small councils set pace for e-government

    Some of the UK's smallest councils are showing larger authorities the way to deliver e-government according to public sector IT directors organisation the Society of IT Management (Socitm). North C...21 Nov 2003

  • HP/Compaq anniversary: Merger goal remains unattained

    Hewlett-Packard promised that its acquisition of Compaq would allow it to "offer the industry's most complete set of IT products and services for both businesses and consumers". One year after the ...25 Apr 2003

  • Who can you trust to take care of business?

    Outsourcing now comes in a variety of styles, and the days of one-size-fits-all are gone. Sally Whittle talks to three firms that have tried different types of outsourcing and finds out why they ch...17 Oct 2003

  • Getting wired: Applications of originality

    New work by open source developers is producing innovative solutions for business. Last week I noted that free software has come up with plenty of new ideas in the past, but that all of the big suc...18 Mar 2003

  • Thought for the day:Dark matter on the web

    Recent revelations about the extent of paedophile material on the internet raise serious issues about corporate web and e-mail policies, argues Simon Moores. I'm worried. That's not unusual, but on...15 Jan 2003

  • Much to learn about VS.net

    Microsoft's VS toolkit for building Web services is now officially complete and available, writes Eric Doyle At launch events for Microsoft's Visual Studio .net (VS.net), which took place around th...21 Feb 2002

  • Lights, camera, action!

    Working with an IT infrastructure more appropriate to the dark ages, the British Film Institute decided it was time for an upgrade. Karl Cushing reports Years of under-investment and a policy of "m...02 May 2002

  • Fat or thin?

    The fat PC and the thin client continue to slug it out for control of the corporate desktop. Lindsay Clark assesses the two adversaries Ever since businesses started to network PCs in large numbers...15 Mar 2000