November 2000

Microsoft breach is bad news for users

Microsoft's security breach could prove bad news for users if the hacker has tampered with source codes.  Continue Reading

Linux training market set for £215m boom

The market for training IT professionals on the Linux operating system could be worth as much as $311m (£215m) in the US alone by...  Continue Reading

Minister says e-campaign is just the start

E-minister Patricia Hewitt offers her support to Computer Weekly's E-Business Month initiative  Continue Reading

Beware of the power users' boomerangs

More IT work takes place outside of the IT department, than within it. This is the reality, dilemma and challenge facing every IT...  Continue Reading

IT specialists criticise taxman's defensiveness

In a formal statement issued last week, the Inland Revenue attacked Computer Weekly's exclusive revelations about the clearing...  Continue Reading

Intel boycotts Bluetooth for own wireless comms

Intel has launched a set of wireless PC peripherals that uses its own short-range wireless communications technology rather than the emerging Bluetooth standard.  Continue Reading

Integration Tools: Click and stick

Low-level middleware isn't enough to cement your e-business systems to the rest of your organisation's IT. Philip Hunter offers a...  Continue Reading

How much testing is needed before an e-commerce site goes live?

We are developing an e-commerce application in-house and have been approached several times by software testing suppliers warning us about the...  Continue Reading

ITers won't be headless chickens

Daniel Thomas

"It has got my managing director jumping up and down, but I am not running around like a headless chicken." That was the...

Catalogue company to check credit online

James Rogers

Clothing catalogue firm JD Williams has turned all 17 of its titles into home shopping Web sites.

The sites transfer...

Call to halt wireless auction

Antony Adshead

Licences to provide broadband fixed wireless access to the Internet will be auctioned on 10 November, but the process...

Database skills for dotcoms?

I'm taking an MSc in computing. My skills include Web page design using HTML and very basic CGI scripting using Perl. I can also create and administer...  Continue Reading

Cock, stock and smoking Javabeans

Roisin Woolnough sees how cock-fighting in Thailand led to Internet stock performance betting  Continue Reading

Dazed and confused SMEs miss out on Web benefits

Half of Britain's 3.7 million small businesses are failing to embrace the opportunities of the Internet because they are confused about how it could help their business  Continue Reading

Desk portal for BP and Ford

Antony Adshead

Both BP-Amoco and Ford have chosen Plumtree, the corporate portal supplier, to provide desktop user interfaces for...

What is QAZ?

James Rogers

The Trojan QAZ was first seen during the summer, according to anti-virus organisation Sophos.

It is a "backdoor...

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