December 2000

Paradise lost

Stephen Phillips in San Francisco reports on the dot-coms' fall from grace with US investors  Continue Reading

Net banks: New channel, same old bankers

There are some professions that inspire feelings of trust from the public - doctors, nurses and firemen are a good example. And...  Continue Reading

PC makers in race to the bottom

The third quarter of 2000 could go down in history as the point at which IT users finally got sick of cash-guzzling desktop...  Continue Reading

Blanket security and security blanket

In the first of a regular series, IT analysts from the Butler Group look at key technology areas of interest to E-Business Review...  Continue Reading

Cybercops should resist seven-year itch

We told you the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP)Act was a bad idea and now here's the proof. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has...  Continue Reading

ASP, the IT messiah?

One in five small firms plan to use an application service provider in the next year. Lindsay Nicolle asks how SMEs can ensure...  Continue Reading

BIC says e- unity is key

Daniel Thomas

Twenty leading technology firms, including IBM, Intel and Microsoft, have formed a non-profit consortium aimed at uniting...

Citizen Portal gets beta launch

The online Citizen Portal, the UK site where the public can access government information and services on the Web, has finally been...  Continue Reading

Chancers of a lifetime

Jim Morgan in Hong Kong pays his respects to the high priests of enterprise  Continue Reading

Rising to the challenge of meeting marketplace needs

Ian Leader, technology director at paper specialist PaperX.com, warns marketplaces are all different, have customers with...  Continue Reading

Fuelling the fires

Joint energy sector marketplace PetroCosm is taking on TradeRanger, the BP and Shell-led initiative  Continue Reading

Banks slow on e-business take-up

Financial institutions are not moving their operations on to the Web quickly enough. And they know it, reports John Riley.

Although the impact of the...

Funding bonanza has come to an end

The technology sell-off has seen massive shifts in company fortunes, leaving some clinging to shares worth only a fraction of their previous value.  Continue Reading

Forum shelved: governments just don't "get" the Internet

Fiona Harvey looks at hype and reality around e-government after a London conference is cancelled  Continue Reading

Web searcher with a human touch

UK business information provider Infofast has carved itself out a niche in what is an already oversubscribed marketplace. Toby...  Continue Reading

The eyes don't have it - in three Acts

The conflict between employee freedom and the corporate need to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic has never been so apparent....  Continue Reading

Post Office's £1m Lab project at the cutting edge

John Riley was invited to the Post Office's new Innovation Laboratory in Rugby. There, line managers are encouraged to open their...  Continue Reading