January 2000

January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Loan scheme plan to tackle staff poaching

IT is the prime target of a loan scheme being prepared by the Government to encourage training, reduce staff turnover and stop... Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
QA Training reveals an 80% rise in e-commerce delegates

Tina Milton
Training company QA Training has experienced an 80% increase in the number of e-commerce delegates who attended its courses over...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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

January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Two successful link-ups

FI Group's merger with Druid has received a lot of publicity Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Will surveys seriously damage your belief that the bug doesn't hurt?

Don't breathe easy it ain't over yet! Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Windows NT tops salary rate stakes

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

January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Investigating cyberspace

Internet and computer-related crime is stretching the UK's law enforcement agencies to breaking point. Cybercrime expert Peter... Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Giving black Britain a voice

How Kofi Kusitor focused on content over form in designing a comprehensive Web site for black Britons Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
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
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Businesses reject ASPs

Lindsay Clark
Corporate users have given a resounding no to handing over the hosting of business software to application service providers...
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January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
The truth is out there, but Bill won't let us in on it

You are old father William, the young man said, and the Department of Justice will fall on your head. Is this an epitaph for... Continue Reading
January 26, 2000 26 Jan'00
Nirs fines threat to Andersen Consulting

Mike Simons
The Government is considering fining Andersen Consulting over its failure to clear a backlog in the National Insurance...
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Adobe, Uber on the challenges of digital transformation

Digital transformation initiatives may be all the rage in the enterprise, but they also pose significant challenges to CIOs and ...

Cloud migration failures and how to prevent them

Companies are moving more applications than ever to the cloud, but many of these initiatives fail. Learn how to avoid making your...

Achieving business value from cognitive collaboration

CIOs can take advantage of AI to improve employee and customer collaboration with cognitive capabilities that are now available ...

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Essential instruments for a pen test toolkit

Does your penetration testing toolkit have the proper contents? Learn the must-have tool for any pen tester, as well as specific ...

Imperva breach update puts blame on exposed AWS API keys

Imperva CTO Kunal Anand posted updated information regarding the recent breach affecting Cloud WAF customers and admitted poor ...

Cybersecurity threats on the rise, prey on human nature

Cybersecurity attacks continue to rise, taking advantage of network vulnerabilities -- and human ones. First National Technology ...

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After ransomware virus, Merck's medicine was network automation

After a ransomware attack, Merck decided the best remedy was to deploy network automation tools designed to transform how it ...

5 steps to follow in a network security audit checklist

Planning, execution, analysis, reporting and follow-up are the basic elements of a network security audit checklist. But ...

Top 3 network security threats and how to protect against them

Enterprise networks are seemingly always under attack. Learn about the most common network security threats and what protections ...

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IBM quantum computers' usefulness in sight -- using binoculars

IBM's Bob Sutor discusses Big Blue's new quantum systems and computation center, the realities of quantum computing today and how...

Addendum sets ASHRAE 90.4 as energy-efficiency standard

The publication of ASHRAE 90.4 in 2016 brought a new set of energy guidelines, but the industry still used Standard 90.1. A new ...

How to realize the benefits of software-defined infrastructure

Software-based infrastructure and services can streamline management and application data. Before you add them to your data ...

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PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance

Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON...

Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data

Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with...

5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

Consultant David Loshin offers tips on developing a data quality strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause ...