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December 28, 2000 28Dec2000 In Depth

IT staff fail on business risk

The majority of IT departments do not understand crucial management functions within their companies, according to latest study Continue Reading

December 28, 2000 28Dec2000 News

Java first-timers take pick of jobs

Ross Bentley

The demand for Java has reached such a crescendo that one recruitment agency plans to place part-qualified Java developers...

December 28, 2000 28Dec2000 In Depth

Wireless Lan in upgrade threat

Wireless Lan users could face costly network infrastructure upgrades in the future because of interference from the nascent... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 In Depth

2000: the year Linux invaded Wintel's wonderland

The year began with a whimper in place of a much-feared bang. But there were still plenty of surprises in store. Nicholas... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

Java toolkit out for beta testing

A Java toolkit that allows developers to build Web- based applications that can handle Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 In Depth

Microsoft grabs great plains - what now for Sage users?

Karl Cushing surveys the impact of Microsoft's acquisition of Great Plains late last year Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

Keeping IT confidential

On-line recruitment site, ConfidentialIT.com went live last month, promising users an impartial, discrete and 'highly effective' job finding... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

Parting is sweet sorrow with Divorce-Online

An internet information service for people going through the processes of separation and divorce has been launched.

Developed in association with...

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

IT pervert re-offends

A computer expert and former Hackney Borough councillor jailed for four months last year after downloading child porn from the internet, including images... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

ATSCo and Jobserve fall out

ATSCo, the trade association for IT recruitment agencies, has threatened Jobserve with legal action if the job site refuses to continue posting its... Continue Reading

December 27, 2000 27Dec2000 News

Computer engineer shoots himself

A computer engineer who thought he'd infected his company system with a virus became so wracked with guilt that he telephoned the emergency services to... Continue Reading

December 21, 2000 21Dec2000 News

Hewlett Packard tightens its belt

Amid gloomy economic news in the USA, computer giant Hewlett Packard has told staff in the USA that it will delay annual pay rises by three months, saving... Continue Reading

December 21, 2000 21Dec2000 News

Microsoft acquires SME software company

Microsoft has acquired Great Plains, a software company specialising in business management apps for small firms. Great Plains... Continue Reading

December 21, 2000 21Dec2000 News

Streaming media giant issues profits warning

Real Networks, the streaming media software company has joined the profits warning club. It’s Q4 revenues were predicted to be around $59m. Despite 33%... Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 News

CityJobs now offering Web-based training

On-line recruitment service CityJobs.com is offering its users easy access to a comprehensive selection of web-based training courses through a link on its... Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 News

Tech suppliers hit by stock slump

Technology shares crashed to their lowest level since the summer of 1999 yesterday in what was the seventh biggest point slide in the Nasdaq composite index's... Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 News

Speaker slams political cyber tricks

The speaker of the House of Commons has ordered political parties to end "dirty tricks" campaigns being fought over the Internet between political... Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 News

New appointment at Parity

IT recruitment agency, Parity Resources has appointed Jeff Brooks as its resourcing services director.

Brooks, who has 30 years experience in the...

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 In Depth

Ginny jumps for charity

Capital Software employee Ginny Smethurst recently raised £500 for Mencap (the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults) after... Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 In Depth

Icann names some names

Will the new top-level domain names free up or foul up the unity of the Internet? Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 In Depth

Users voice fears over cybertapping

The National Criminal Intelligence Service wants data records kept for up to seven years Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 News

BA drops e-commerce £6 million project

British Airways has pulled the plug on a major Web site development with 25 staff expected to lose their jobs Continue Reading

December 20, 2000 20Dec2000 In Depth

Data Protection: Act now to protect your firm

The Data Protection Act 1998 came into force in March and businesses have until October 2001 to become compliant with its... Continue Reading

December 19, 2000 19Dec2000 News

MPs praise BT's unbundling progress

MPs have delivered a vote of confidence in BT's ability to allow competition into its local exchanges. Continue Reading

December 19, 2000 19Dec2000 News

Digital divide on the increase

The "digital divide" between rich and poor is getting worse in the UK, according to a survey by the Office for National... Continue Reading

December 19, 2000 19Dec2000 News

Iraq does not underestimate the power of the Playstation

US intelligence services fear that Saddam Hussein may be constructing a military supercomputer by networking thousands of PlayStation games... Continue Reading

December 19, 2000 19Dec2000 News

Doubt over 3G viability

Generally affordable third generation (3G) mobile phone services are at least four years away and only three types of service are... Continue Reading

December 19, 2000 19Dec2000 In Depth

Whatever happened to the paperless office?

When two decades ago Xerox announced that by the year 2000, we would live in a paperless world, many sceptics doubted this... Continue Reading

December 18, 2000 18Dec2000 News

Reinsurance giants create Internet exchange

Munich Re and Swiss Re, the world's largest reinsurance companies have joined forces to create an independent reinsurance... Continue Reading

December 18, 2000 18Dec2000 News

Anti-virus suppliers Symantec and Axent merge

Internet security provider Symantec, which produces Norton anti-virus software, and Axent Technologies, which focuses on the commercial computer security... Continue Reading

December 18, 2000 18Dec2000 News

A&L shelves stand-alone web bank plan

Mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester has shelved its plans to launch a stand-alone Internet bank aimed a band of mass affluent customers.

The bank was...

December 18, 2000 18Dec2000 In Depth

Sema suffers sharp share drop

A 10% fall in the share price of software and services company Sema has raised questions about the company's financial stability.

Sema, responsible...

December 17, 2000 17Dec2000 News

Investigation follows office email scandal

London law firm, Norton Rose, has begun an investigation into email abuse after an explicit personal email found its way on to the Internet.

The...

December 17, 2000 17Dec2000 News

Indian developer scoops parliament software contract

The Scottish Parliament has awarded a contract worth in excess of £5 million to Indian Software developer, Wipro, to provide IT support services and... Continue Reading

December 17, 2000 17Dec2000 News

Forty-one suspended over lewd e-mail

Forty-one members of staff at Royal & Sun Alliance have been suspended after an e-mail containing a lewd spoof of cartoon character Bart Simpson was circulated... Continue Reading

December 17, 2000 17Dec2000 News

Breathe takes last breath

Breathe.com, the high profile Internet Service Provider (ISP), has gone into administration Continue Reading

December 14, 2000 14Dec2000 News

Ted Baker launches into mobile commerce

Professionals needing a new shirt in a hurry will be able to buy online from Ted Baker using their PDAs

The retailer is making its business casual...

December 14, 2000 14Dec2000 News

Microsoft suffers from global economic chill

Microsoft has joined the growing band of IT suppliers posting revised earnings estimates due to the PC slowdown. Continue Reading

December 14, 2000 14Dec2000 News

Intel plans

Intel is planning to launch a raft of chips early next year next year, reports have claimed.

A new 1.3GHZ version of the Pentium 4 will allow PC...

December 14, 2000 14Dec2000 News

Users just can't get enough of Oracle

Oracle users bought heavily into the corporation's full suite of e-business applications this year, lifting Oracle's application... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Human rights groups protest at international cybercrime treaty

A coalition of 22 US human rights and public policy organisations claim that the Council of Europe's latest draft of an... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Internet future uncertain under new Bush administration

As George Bush was finally declared the winner of the hotly contested U.S. presidential election, a new research paper has concluded that the Texas... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

AOL/Time Warner merger in the balance

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to decide today whether to approve the merger of America Online and Time Warner in a vote that could ignite a rush... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Learning from a distance

A learning provider has developed a way to enable students to acquire qualifications in information technology from the comfort of their own... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Old computers: the Epson HX-20

We have received reader feedback on old computer kit. Here are more fond memories... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Online, in season and over here

It seems strange that more people than ever before are buying Christmas presents online in the year of the dotcom disaster. James... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

My true love gave to me

What to buy for Christmas? Never mind partridges, hens and doves, let Xtra!'s gadget reviewer, Paul Smith, guide you through the... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Rullion meets Nemesis: partnership to benefit clients

Recruitment group Rullion is to integrate Nemesis, a web-based software application developed by Halcyon Internet, throughout its operation in an effort to... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Reclining in the IT driving seat

Project management is the driving force behind today's successful businesses, writes Nick Langley Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Bringing up Daddy

Almost three-quarters of 7-14 year olds teach their mums and dads how to use computers, a new survey has revealed. Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

The year of the bug that failed to bite

When you look back over your life years from now, slouched in your bath chair at the Twilight Home for Bewildered IT... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

There's 47 per cent born every minute

Some 47 per cent of people with access to the internet would be prepared to use a single website to manage all of their finances,... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Will yule log on for Xmas?

Daniel Thomas

Over half of the respondents to this week's seasonal Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big Question said they had no plans to...

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Woolworths online operation remains stable as catalogue falters

James Rogers

Woolworths' online operation has emerged unscathed from problems affecting the company's long-established catalogue orders...

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Irish ITers smiling

Following the successful launch of its Dublin branch two years ago, recruitment company Hays IT has opened an office in Belfast to capitalise on the... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 News

Bosses unaware of vulnerability of networks to security breaches

Bosses of UK organisations are unaware of how vulnerable their networks are to IT security attacks, reports vnunet. Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Strategy Clinic: Should we host our own web site?

Our experts give you the low-down on the pitfalls of hosting a web site in-house; and on who should pick up the tab for ERP... Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Making temping into a job for life

Venetia Thompson meets a father of three who pioneered the Web's first end-to-end recruitment service Continue Reading

December 13, 2000 13Dec2000 In Depth

Where are m-people?

Internet service companies may regard m-commerce applications as a key component of their future business, but majority lack the relevant in-house... Continue Reading

December 12, 2000 12Dec2000 News

Oracle announces a raft of services in reply to Microsoft

Oracle has unveiled a raft of Internet services to compete with Microsoft's .Net initiative.

The range, available now, includes Oracle 9i Dynamic...

December 12, 2000 12Dec2000 News

BskyB offers interactive services

BskyB has launched a Sky Text service, available to the four million digital subscribers in the UK, which includes interactive capabilities allowing... Continue Reading

December 12, 2000 12Dec2000 News

Credit cards hacked in the US

A thief has hacked into the US based Creditcards.com to expose more than 55,000 credit card numbers on the Internet.

The suspect exposed the credit...

December 12, 2000 12Dec2000 News

Computer giants clash on Internet data language

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have clashed over control of the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

XML has evolved as a standard way to share data...

December 11, 2000 11Dec2000 News

E-Slowcoaches fall prey to Cybersquatters

The finance industry is at risk from cybersquatters because companies in the sector are failing to register their brand names on the internet, according to... Continue Reading

December 11, 2000 11Dec2000 News

Banks cast their e-nets too wide

Wholesale banks lack a coherent e-business focus and are over-stretching their resources by investing in too many internet projects at once, a report ... Continue Reading

December 11, 2000 11Dec2000 In Depth

Consolidation of fledgling ASP market will result in casualties

Few would argue that the rise to prominence of the application service provider (ASP) and the future of the ASP market was the... Continue Reading

December 10, 2000 10Dec2000 News

Four found guilty of insider trading

A US court has found four people guilty in connection with a civil insider-trading case related to IBM's takeover of Lotus Development in 1995, according to US... Continue Reading

December 10, 2000 10Dec2000 News

Online payment systems secured

Identrus, the Internet security company backed by leading banks, has launched a system enabling bank customers to complete large transactions online.

The...

December 10, 2000 10Dec2000 In Depth

Microsoft changes features on Offices 10

Microsoft has dropped two features from its next generation Office suite for Windows, a move which could affect its .Net... Continue Reading

December 10, 2000 10Dec2000 News

Intel's revenue gloom lifted by new chip announcement

A world economic slowdown was blamed for Friday's warning from Intel that Q4 revenues would be flat, contrary to analysts' previous prediction of 4 to 8... Continue Reading

December 10, 2000 10Dec2000 News

Intel and IBM to boost processor performance

Intel and IBM will this week separately announce new technologies and manufacturing processes to make chips that are as much as 10 times faster than... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 News

Banks warned to be wary of exposure to 3G

The high cost of third generation mobile phone licences has raised fears that banks may no longer be willing to supply the loans needed to pay for 3G... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 In Depth

Spotlight: Adaptec USBXchange

If you want to move drives or devices between machines and are unwilling to open your PC to add a SCSI card, Adaptec may have the... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 News

Jobs go as Unisys bails out of PCs

Unisys, the computer services company, plans to lay off 5% of its workforce and get out of the PC supply business.

The move follows profit warnings...

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 News

Intel moves into wireless and speeds up signal coding

Intel, in conjunction with Analog Devices, has made its first move into the wireless communications market with its development... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 In Depth

Contractors stick with it

Contrary to industry expectations, IR35 has not resulted in a "mass migration" of contractors to permanent employment, reports IT recruitment agency,... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 News

Blair hypocritical, says PCG

The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) has accused the Government of hypocrisy after Tony Blair announced that he intended to help small businesses "grow and... Continue Reading

December 07, 2000 07Dec2000 News

Christmas is cancelled

The US division of Japanese consumer giant, Sony Corporation, has axed the Christmas ad campaign for its e-commerce site, SonyStyle.com, amidst fears its... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

How e-business marketing works

How do you make sure that the marketing budget that's burning a hole in your pocket doesn't end up being spent on a campaign that... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

Help for SMEs must be a priority

Small firms account for 99.5% of the total business population yet they seem to go unnnoticed. The Federation of Small Businesses... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 News

Egg says Visa deal is an e-first

Daniel Thomas

Internet bank Egg is to implement credit card company Visa's e-commerce security programme, which, it says, makes it the...

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

Farewell to the e-envoy

In his final interview as e-envoy Alex Allan talks to Mike Simons about success and what lies ahead Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

ASP, the IT messiah?

One in five small firms plan to use an application service provider in the next year. Lindsay Nicolle asks how SMEs can ensure... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 News

BIC says e- unity is key

Daniel Thomas

Twenty leading technology firms, including IBM, Intel and Microsoft, have formed a non-profit consortium aimed at uniting...

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

Can the Net solve the problem of social exclusion?

Labour education and technology minister Michael Wills believes the Internet can solve social exclusion - but getting it wrong... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 News

Legislate ISPs to aid police hunts, says NCIS

The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) plan, dated 21 August 2000, urges the Home Office to put legislation in place quickly.

Fast action...

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

Retail technology goes back to its roots

IT directors from the big retail organisations are leaving their jobs and resurfacing at e-commerce companies. Is it just for the... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

Tainted source

Dai Davis explains why a source code deposit agreement won't necessarily save your bacon if your software's got a bug and the... Continue Reading

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 News

Industry anger at super-snoop plan

Bill Goodwin

NCISLeak: Security agencies want seven-year data storage rights

Proposals to give the intelligence and law...

December 06, 2000 06Dec2000 In Depth

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