November 2000

Users voice stiffing fears over mainframe rebrand

James Rogers

Users are growing increasingly anxious about their software contracts following the rebranding of IBM's S/390 mainframe...

Storage is simple by association

The new economy has stretched relational databases to their limit, but a revolutionary new database model that is both simple and...  Continue Reading

Small firms can succeed in the e-business game

Paul McCarthy highlights the main pitfalls that trap large companies when setting up online, and offers a 10-point guide for...  Continue Reading

Bluetooth could interfere with Lans

Users considering the implementation of Bluetooth wireless personal area networks (WPans) into environments containing wireless local area networks (WLans)...  Continue Reading

Breaking into a mainstream programming career

I am trying to change career from a very narrow field of IT (GIS) into mainstream IT. I have done a course in writing ANSI C programs as part of an MSc...  Continue Reading

E-visionary with a sight of the future

E-visionaries: Nick Langley talks to Cambridge professor Andy Hopper, one of the key movers behind the emergence of the city as a...  Continue Reading

Whitehall IT reform on track

John Riley

Two thirds of the Cabinet Office recommendations proposed this June in a bid to prevent public sector IT disasters will be...

A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills...  Continue Reading

Demise of the desktop?

What’s going to be the buzz consumer product this Christmas? Early indications are that it won’t be the PC, despite the boost...  Continue Reading

Will e-support save you money?

Every time an IT problem occurs, it costs an average of $25 to put right. With the cost-savings associated with e-commerce...  Continue Reading

Call for sensible rules on employee e-mail use

Bill Goodwin

The Trades Union Congress and the Industrial Society are calling on employers to draw up sensible guidelines on monitoring...

Disabled access is a priority

Faced with the target of delivering all government services electronically by 2005, local government needs to think about priorities.  Continue Reading

Costs soar with PO bank plan

As a Commons Trade & Industry committee voices its concerns, the Pathway debacle returns to haunt the Post Office. Mike Simons...  Continue Reading

Creating online communities

Online communities can deliver benefits for all companies in the UK. Peter Guthrie reports on what they are and what they can do...  Continue Reading

Dell to launch Web outsource service

Eric Doyle

Dell announced last Tuesday that it is launching a Web hosting service in the UK following trials in the US.

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Data transfer: do you know the law?

US companies know little about new data legislation, but if they break the law, so do you  Continue Reading

Careful with that launch button!

McKinsey consultants Diana Vaturi and Vittoria Varianini ask how second phase dotcom launches can learn the lessons of failed...  Continue Reading