November 2000

The long arm of IT

Software agents can act as good angels at the side of customers and staff, letting you manage and milk pervasive devices. Ian...  Continue Reading

The threat of bust in the storage boom

Vacated offices stand as tombstones to one-time industry giants that failed to anticipate CIOs' wants  Continue Reading

Users query ASP

Fewer than a fifth of IT decision-makers in the UK, France and Germany are considering purchasing applications from an application service provider (ASP), with...  Continue Reading

Tunnel vision provides safe links

Virtual Private Networks offer e-commerce secure connectivity from pretty much anywhere in the world, and for the cost of a...  Continue Reading

The mother of all security breaches

As we go to press there are still more questions than answers about the Microsoft hack. Several days after the reported break-in,...  Continue Reading

The shaping of things to come

With no-one knowing for sure what the e-future holds, scenario planning is the best way to prepare the business for anything....  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

The will of the people

Personal finance website, moneyextra.com has launched a free on-line will writing guide for adult internet users in England and Wales.  Continue Reading

They call it maskirovka

As Microsoft picks up the pieces, security experts are queuing up to tell us: no one is safe. Now might be a good time to convey...  Continue Reading

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...

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

Property companies build B2B alliance

UK property companies Stanhope and Rotch Property Group have launched a pan-European e-marketplace for the construction industry,...  Continue Reading

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

Microsoft left reeling by Trojan horse sabateur

Security breach at Microsoft HQ has implications for all IT workers  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

Come the revolution...

Rod Sweet meets a banker taking his revenge  Continue Reading

Living with RIP

After the legislative battles, businesses are learning to live with the cybertapping law that came into force late last month....  Continue Reading