January 2000

Transmeta takes on silicon giant as battery battles hot up

The battle to deliver more battery power to laptops and personal digital assistants has started in earnes  Continue Reading

Performance of manufacturing web sites improves

Since the Computer Weekly/Keynote Systems Site Meter looked at manufacturing in December, there have been major improvements.

BP Amoco, for...

Love is all around - especially on the Internet

Tina Milton

To coincide with Valentine's Day, budding Romeo's can claim a free message on the newly launched match-making web site...

Skimping on business continuity costs dear

Tony Collins

The anatomy of success and failure

Any IT directors who have trouble extracting money from the board for measures to...

Commons attacks Siemens contract

The committee said the Home Office failed to properly monitor the contract or have adequate contingency plans.

The committee was "disturbed'' by the...

BCS offers training in e-business and data protection

Qualifications in e-business and data protection have been launched by the BCS Information Systems Examinations Board.

The new certificate and...

Dawn Watch over VAT rule

Red (faced) Dawn has been caught out over her policy on VAT. The treasury minister, Dawn Primarolo, fought for an end to the rule under which value added...  Continue Reading

Businesses reject ASPs

Lindsay Clark

Corporate users have given a resounding no to handing over the hosting of business software to application service providers...

Novell's growing potential realised in Netware

Virtually unlimited scalability and integration with Windows is keeping Netware on top, says Nick Langley  Continue Reading

Reality bites for the dotcoms

After all the praise, reality bites for the Internet start-ups, who are now finding that infrastructure, procedure and a solid...  Continue Reading

US-UK privacy debate rages on

David Bicknell

The year-long data privacy row between the US and Europe is hotting up.

The row is over the planned compromise between...

Think like the hacker

Is your computer network secure? Undoubtedly not. Nothing is ever 100% secure. However, there are things you can do to make the...  Continue Reading

nhsdirect.uk aims to keep the nation healthy

Isabel Choat

Despite new year's resolutions to become healthier individuals, many of us will succumb to either colds or the dreaded flu in the...

Will surveys seriously damage your belief that the bug doesn't hurt?

Don't breathe easy it ain't over yet!  Continue Reading

Treasury tipped to announce OGC head next week in time for April start

The Government is expected to announce the first head of the new Office of Government Commerce (OGC) next week.  Continue Reading

Windows NT tops salary rate stakes

Windows NT was the number one skill in demand in the last quarter of 1999.  Continue Reading

Freedom for most wanted hacker

Matthew Thomas

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most infamous computer hacker, has been released from prison in the US after almost five...