January 2000

Sheffield seeks help over claims backlog

Mike Simons

Sheffield City Council has called in consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers to evaluate a programme proposed by CSL, its housing...

Oracle/Cap in wireless alliance

Oracle and Cap Gemini have announced that they will work together to develop technologies that help connect mobile computer...  Continue Reading

New software helps Nationwide plan e-commerce

Lindsay Clark

The Nationwide Building Society is speeding its move towards e-commerce with the use of an innovative software...

Strategy Clinic: Dealing with conflicts of interest

I have discovered that the manager I gave the job of organising our e-commerce drive has strong links with the consultants we...  Continue Reading

Virtual teacher makes debut appearance

A holographic teacher took the world's first long-distance maths lesson at an educational IT technology show last week.  Continue Reading

Switch to thin client cuts support costs for council

Facing tighter budgets and the need to be more responsive to public requirements, local and city councils are finding it...  Continue Reading

Wheely fast cables

The Millennium Wheel may not have moved an inch on new year's eve, but it did have a high speed network connection thanks to Lucent Technologies. Lucent...  Continue Reading

Transport firms finesse their Web services

There was little change in performance amongst the transport Web sites we last looked at in Computer Weekly 25 November 1999. The...  Continue Reading

Web site boost raises Tower Records' sales

Bill Goodwin

Retailer Tower Records revealed this week that it has quadrupled its sales of online CDs after introducing technology to...

The big question

The AOL-Time Warner merger could create a $300bn Internet-focused company. Will you have to form alliances with such mega-portals to have an effective...  Continue Reading

Users face uncertainty as FMC enters liquidation

Dozens of user companies are facing uncertainty because a consultancy that helps IT disaster victims is going into liquidation.

As expert IT advisers to...

Surfworld.com sold for £1.1 million

Tina Milton

In 1997, barman Alex Lambert paid £78 for the domain name

We should be chasing people, not skills

By focusing on skills, IT departments are delivering grey people into grey jobs for grey organisations. We need to get some "big...  Continue Reading

What's Bill plotting?

Is Bill Gates' assumption of the title chief software architect a genuine move to captain the software giant through stormy seas...  Continue Reading

The sweet smell of de-stress

Tina Milton

An aromatherapy air fresher has been launched which claims to release fragrances to relieve stress and increase productivity at...

Ford drives towards huge savings with Oracle e-procurement project

David Bicknell

Oracle has begun implementing electronic procurement as part of an ambitious e-business relationship worth tens of...

Jack of all trades, master of none

The Problem

I have a problem in that I have moved around a bit and gained experience in a few areas of IT, namely mainframe operating, Unix...