November 2000

Why the IR35 legislation shows that politicians can't see the wood for the trees

Recently, I found myself discussing the contentious nature of the IR35 legislation with members of the Government. These robust...  Continue Reading

Veteran IT firm becomes ADSL pioneer

Steve Rogerson talks to a veteran small IT business getting to grips with broadband Internet through BT's new ADSL service  Continue Reading

Why is e-commerce like sex

At the start of Computer Weekly's e-business month, independent business strategy consultant Steve Domb takes a jovial and...  Continue Reading

Pathway and the Post Office: the lessons learned

The infamous 1996-1999 Pathway project aimed to computerise the nation’s post offices and tackle benefit fraud. But 18 months...  Continue Reading

Police probe software scam at Web auctions

Police and trading standards officers have begun an investigation following complaints that fraudsters have been selling pirated...  Continue Reading

Why I go for 23x7

Frank Puranik

Soapbox

It's all over the press now - 24x7. You can't turn a page, even in a top publication like Computer...

fujifilm.com

Martin Couzins

If you fancy a break from looking at code, then try...

CA adopts subscription

Mike Simons

Computer Associates is to drop its existing licensing model in favour of a subscription-based approach.

The company,...

Business acumen is key to dotcom goals

Julie Meyer, co-founder and chief marketing officer of First Tuesday, has probably advised more dotcom hopefuls than any other...  Continue Reading

BA in major network switch

British Airways is to outsource the design, implementation and management of an all-new IP-based network to Siemens Network Systems  Continue Reading

Blair criticised for failure to meet Chinook campaigners

Tony Collins

The prime minister was criticised in the House of Commons this week for not meeting a delegation of senior MPs and peers over the...

Benefits for Irish boomers

Dublin-based HRM Contract Resources, a specialist business division of the HRM Recruitment Group, has launched a comprehensive package of financial...

Amazon made to pay the price

To its cost, Amazon discovered that it is easy to get your fingers burned when evidence of price differentials are freely...  Continue Reading

Aerial photo files get Railtrack up to speed

James Rogers

Railtrack has saved an estimated £1.2m by using a data management system on its West Coast route modernisation.

The...

Leap on the mobile commerce brand-wagon

David Bicknell

The future take-up of mobile commerce means some hard thinking has to take place over how brands should change to cope with a mobile...

Ratification to finally make XML ‘usable’

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced that XML could finally "become usable". The not-for-profit organisation has released its XML schema as a...  Continue Reading

Phone-to-laptop software opens up mobile Internet

Software that allows users to connect mobile phones to their laptops in order to read e-mail, faxes, text messages and surf the Internet has been launched by...  Continue Reading