November 2000

Web weighed down by drivel

The internet may be a valuable business research tool, but its use is costing companies thousands of pounds a year in wasted man hours as employees battle...  Continue Reading

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

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...

European banks invest £30m in mobile banking

Research group IDC has estimated that Western European banks will spend £30m on providing mobile services this year, with that figure growing rapidly in the near future  Continue Reading

E-battles rage in the Middle East

Electronic warfare is being waged alongside the violence between Israel and the Palestinians, as the battling factions stage...  Continue Reading

Forex marketplace gains 50% of UK trade

Atriax, an e-hub formed by the three biggest foreign exchange dealers Citigroup, Chase Manhattan and Deutsche Bank, has signed up 50 more banks....

fujifilm.com

Martin Couzins

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

Speech recognition roll-out for law firm

Daniel Thomas

Irwin Mitchell, rated as one of the top 20 law firms in England and Wales, is installing speech recognition software in a...

Revenue sets up NI helpline

Tony Collins

The Inland Revenue has set up a helpline for taxpayers to check their National Insurance contribution records, following...

Stiffing update: Software stings on the up

Users have identified four key ways that software suppliers unfairly exploit software licences to extract money from corporate IT in the practice known as...  Continue Reading

Revive the capacity to innovate, says business chief

At the Cranfield School of Management's IT Director's Forum, Ashley Braganza led a session on how companies can achieve...  Continue Reading

IT managers: see your lawyer - or you might end up facing one

Take a look at the size of salaries being offered for Internet-literate legal eagles - if they're not for you, they're liable to...  Continue Reading

IT bosses plot a course for success

At October's City IT and e.forum event, there was heady talk of deconstructing banks and launching an internal PR blitz. Rod...  Continue Reading

Book reviews: Dotcom craze hits the hardbacks

Ross Bentley reviews two of the latest crop of dotcom books  Continue Reading

Who do you trust with PKI?

The first question to ask anyone trying to sell you online risk services is how much liability they will accept for trades...  Continue Reading

E-minister in passage to India for e-skills

On a visit to India aimed at building e-business links with the technology hot-house, e-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt said: "We all know about B2C and B2B. Now we have B2I - Britain to India. My message to India's IT companies is very simple: as...  Continue Reading

Dotcom bubble goes with a bang

It seems like the new kids on the block in IT services, such as Razorfish, Pixelpark and MarchFirst, are discovering the price of being in fashion earlier in the year.  Continue Reading