January 2000

Placating pay gap paranoia

Tension is growing in some companies as the pay gap between traditional back-office IT developers and front-end e-business...  Continue Reading

NATS stakes its reputation on meeting operational deadline

Experts are impressed with the systems and air traffic management are confident that it can be done, but could Government...  Continue Reading

Rush hour for £3m Epos system for motorway chain

Bill Goodwin

Motorway service chain Welcome Break has invested £3m in an electronic point of sales (Epos) system.

For the first...

Scotland's site of power owes much to its webmaster

When the Scottish Parliament needed a Web expert, Hazel Martin was voted the ideal candidate  Continue Reading

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

Pensions to soften the blow of IR35 proposals

Getting your pension plan organised can take the sting out of the IR35 proposal's tail, according to Gloucestershire-based...  Continue Reading

HSBC Y2K court threat

A leading year 2000 lawyer has set up an action group to bring a legal test case against HSBC after the millennium bug disabled thousands of bank credit...

IT savings drive bank mergers

Rationalisation of IT departments has emerged as a key factor behind a spate of financial institution mergers but, a new survey...  Continue Reading

Are ASPs a suitable solution for large enterprises?

Although it is generally agreed that ASPs offer cost savings for SMEs, it is still debatable whether larger firms will need them....  Continue Reading

ADSL to go over ISDN

Antony Savvas

Lucent has moved into the broadband asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) market in a big way with a solution that...

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...

Investigating cyberspace

Internet and computer-related crime is stretching the UK's law enforcement agencies to breaking point. Cybercrime expert Peter...  Continue Reading

Bosses warned over long hours

Balancing work and home life is already emerging as a big issue for 2000, according to separate UK studies published in the early...  Continue Reading

Giving black Britain a voice

How Kofi Kusitor focused on content over form in designing a comprehensive Web site for black Britons  Continue Reading

Government to auction wireless Wan licences

Antony Savvas

The Government is emulating its decision to auction third generation mobile phone spectrum licences by doing the same for...

Council trains all IT staff with BCS

IT staff at Knowsley Borough Council have gained an end-user qualification to launch a computer literacy scheme across all user...  Continue Reading