July 2000

Cute chicks add fun to a fowl job

Martin Couzins talks turkey with the egghead who designed the Web site for the hit film Chicken Run  Continue Reading

Cap contractors' NI contributions

Contractors' National Insurance contributions should be capped if the UK is to achieve equity among its workforce and develop a healthy information...  Continue Reading

Cap explains how MoD system will earn £500m

Bill Goodwin

French IT company Cap Gemini has revealed details of how it plans to earn between £400m and £500m from a £50m contract to...

Council to save £1.7m on PC purchase

Antony Adshead

Wandsworth Council will save £1.75m on PC purchasing as well as cutting support costs by re-using old machines in a...

Anglian celebrates SAP success

While SAP deployments have a reputation for bursting budgets and deadlines, Anglian Water's IT department has survived a 300,000-item data migration with its reputation in tact  Continue Reading

BT warns users to update numbers in memory

Antony Adshead

Computer operated telephone and fax equipment could fail after 5 August unless it is updated to use the latest telephone...

Alliance & Leicester's e-strategy plays safe

Nick Huber

Alliance & Leicester bank has unveiled a long-term e-commerce strategy, which includes plans for an Internet bank and a new...

Industry forum for IT services staff created

People working for IT services companies are to get their own forum for meetings and online discussion of issues such as personal...  Continue Reading

Glitchmare stumps Intel

Chip manufacturer Intel Corporation has abandoned efforts to fix glitches in a chipset it designed for Pentium 3 processors after rescue operations for...  Continue Reading

IBM wins users' hearts with radical shift in pricing policy

New IBM mainframe deals have been welcomed, writes Caroline Davis  Continue Reading

EU Distance Selling Directive

I am about to launch a Web site enabling consumers to purchase goods over the Internet. What are the legal implications of the...  Continue Reading

IAP organises brains trust

Computer scientists will focus on computing in the 21st century when they address delegates at the Institution of Analysts and Programmers' (IAP) annual...  Continue Reading

Forum tackles government IT fiascos

Tony Collins

A panel of leading IT specialists is to hold an open forum next week on how to improve the success rate of government...

IT bosses weigh new challenges

Issues of e-commerce have moved up this year to become the second most pressing management challenge for IT directors.  Continue Reading

IT conversion costs hit exchange merger plans

Nick Huber

Multi-million-pound IT conversion costs are threatening to derail the planned merger of the London and Frankfurt stock...

No short-term threat to Wap, says NTT

The arrival of the Japanese-developed iMode mobile phone system will not pose a direct threat to wireless application protocol...  Continue Reading

Keep in the know without going barmy

You want the information and you want it now. Welcome to modern living. But beware data overload.  Continue Reading