November 2000

The Internet: backbone to the future

The Internet simply wouldn't function if it wasn't for the various "backbone" networks. Danny Bradbury takes a look at a marvel...  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 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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Microsoft left reeling by Trojan horse sabateur

Security breach at Microsoft HQ has implications for all IT workers  Continue Reading

Come the revolution...

Rod Sweet meets a banker taking his revenge  Continue Reading

Up close and personal: Jeet Singh

Jeet Singh is one of the US' richest e-millionaires. His software house, ATG, is taking on big names like Broadvision in the...  Continue Reading