November 2000

Union to fight outsourcing plans

Plans by Salford Council to outsource IT and other services have provoked an angry reaction from trade union campaigners.

Alec McFadden, campaign...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

London e-City needs a lift

Groundswell  Continue Reading

Mobile's missing links

Mobiles that can pull content off the Web in moments and run video-based killer applications? Don't you believe it, says Sanjay...  Continue Reading

Making the most of consultants' expertise

Consultants may help or hinder your organisation. Julia Vowler reports on how to get good value and extra skills when employing...  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

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

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

Tags take on the barcode

Radio frequency tags could be the technology that kills off the barcode. Bill Goodwin explains how they work and what is holding...  Continue Reading

Users get helpdesk link direct to PC

New software from Witchity will enable Web site visitors to click on a hyperlink and make a voice-over-IP connection to an online...  Continue Reading