November 2000

Stock exchange IT won't meet demand, warns OM

Nick Huber

London Stock Exchange's new trading platform will need to be overhauled after it is installed because it is not scalable enough to...

Guru fears Web address shortage

Paul Donovon

The man credited as the "father of the Internet" was in London last week warning that policy, rather than technical problems,...

If, at first, you don't succeed, don't give up

David Taylor

Inside Track

If we don't take ownership of our lives, then someone else will. When things don't seem to be going our...

Have boat, will keep afloat - Shrewsbury ISP survives flood

Shrewsbury came to a virtual standstill last week after the worst floods for 54 years, but icom-web.com, an Internet service provider based in the area,...

IBM signs biggest ever commercial deal for Linux

Gareth Cosslett

IBM has signed a deal with Japanese retailer Lawson that will see is the biggest commercial roll-out of the Linux...

ISPs to beat the banks in online market

Internet service providers (ISPs) are set to dominate the lucrative wireless banking market at the expense of high-street banks.

That was the banking...

Banking on security to win the Wap race

As pressure mounts on banks to be at the cutting-edge of technology in provision of services, the issue of security has become...  Continue Reading

All power to the call centre people

As e-commerce spreads its wings, call centres become a company's human face. Ross Bentley reports  Continue Reading

BAe Systems in £1.5bn CSC deal

Hazel Ward

UK defence and aerospace group BAe Systems has signed a £1.5bn extension to its 10-year outsourcing contract with Computer...

World on their shoulders

ISPs shoulder the task of channelling services and content from the Internet's basic network backbone to users. As with actual...  Continue Reading

Don't rely on a simple handshake

A badly-planned contract process is likely to lead to an ineffective and costly contract.

Conversely, a well-planned contract process is much more...

End of an era as Amdahl leaves legacy to IBM

IBM's 64-bit zSeries mainframe announcement has had as its surprising first effect the exit of its one remaining competitor from...  Continue Reading

Firewalls, script kiddies and honeypots

IT departments are so obsessed with firewalls that they ignore other more important aspects of IT security, a former hacker claimed  Continue Reading

Forget B2B, get into P2P

The next big thing is peer-to-peer computing, which means that both ends of the supply chain can benefit from pooling information...  Continue Reading

E-learning set to make giant strides

E-learning will become even bigger than e-commerce. Daniel Thomas reports from the World Open Learning Conference  Continue Reading

Police deficiencies put SMEs at risk of attack

An influential lobbying group is urging the government to give local police forces the resources and training to help small businesses tackle computer crime  Continue Reading

TUC heading into cyberspace with .union

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which represents unions worldwide, has applied to the Internet...  Continue Reading