July 2000

July 27, 2000 27 Jul'00
Internet traffic management - building a better Web

The Web may well be the shopping centre of the future, but if all the shops are overcrowded and service is poor, customers may... Continue Reading
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
More grief from the Revenue

The Inland Revenue is to compel recruitment agencies in the IT sector to disclose details of payments made to contractors in an effort to clamp down... Continue Reading
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
The Superbrain

Reader Ron Thompson, technical consultant at Elf Oil (UK), reflects on his early days in the IT industry Continue Reading

July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Sun's thin client beats Microsoft

Caroline Davis
A fresh food procurement and distribution company has rejected Microsoft and is putting Sun thin clients on all its...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
E-training diary: week two

Computer Weekly reader Jonathan Steel, the winner of a four-week e-commerce training course provided by People Energy Training,... Continue Reading
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
DirXML integrates apps

Cliff Saran
Novell promises to improve security and ease the problems of managing multiple applications with the introduction of...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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

July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Hackney scoops top Web prize

London Borough of Hackney wins New Media Award for its use of the Internet, Caroline Davis reports Continue Reading
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Ask Jeeves adds "human touch" to e-commerce

David Bicknell
Search engine Ask Jeeves has launched a business service to help companies ramp up their lagging Web-based customer...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
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...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Guidelines to minimise data errors

Bill Goodwin
New guidelines on systems design will help companies avoid the public relations disaster that engulfed Powergen last week,...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
G8 plan will create new IT jobs

Keith Nuthall
Job opportunities in developing countries are likely to be in the pipeline, following the announcement of a $15bn (£9bn)...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Aussie ITers "better than Brits"

IT wizards from Oz are taking IT contract jobs in the farthest corners of the UK because local ITers refuse to travel - and the antipodeans are reportedly... Continue Reading
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Adopt a new code of conduct

David Bicknell
Getting to grips with supplier relationship management can help you streamline your company's purchasing processes and at the...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
CW briefs Lords on fatal Chinook crash

Tony Collins
Members of the House of Lords have been briefed by Computer Weekly on computer and other problems that afflicted...
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July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
BA IT staff to switch to Amadeus

Nick Huber
Up to 400 IT staff from British Airways and its Speedwing division are set to transfer to the European supplier (and IT...
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Succeed at implementing RPA: Top tips from execs at IBM Think

Implementing RPA requires planning and coordination between multiple parts of the business to be effective. Execs at IBM Think ...

AI bots: How GE is adapting traditional management to AI

To get a handle on its AI strategy, GE is making AI more human: It's creating AI bots and assigning them to managers. Challenges ...

Should your company hire a chief AI officer?

Aramark's newly appointed chief AI officer, along with senior IT leaders from Kohl's, eBay and Square, make the case for an AI ...

SearchSecurity

Google Play security improved by targeting repeat offenders

Google this week attributed security improvements in Google Play to both automated processes and human reviewers. The ...

Astaroth Trojan returns, abuses antivirus software

Cybereason's Nocturnus Research team has discovered a new strain of the Astaroth Trojan that attacks antivirus software to steal ...

Ponemon study: Poor password practices remain rampant

More than two-thirds of employees share passwords with colleagues, research reveals. Experts sound off on what's fueling poor ...

SearchNetworking

Cisco earnings, revenue show strength of product roadmap

Cisco earnings and revenue show customers are putting aside global uncertainties and buying into the company's shift toward a ...

How to improve network latency in 3 steps

High latency can snarl network traffic and disrupt communications, resulting in unhappy end users. Check out these three steps to...

The pros and cons of network slicing in 5G

Although network slicing is useful for certain applications, like IoT and mobile networks, it might not be necessary at this ...

SearchDataCenter

How to prepare your data center for an HCI appliance

Vendors tout hyper-converged infrastructure as a plug-and-play offering, but before you install anything in your data center, be ...

Hone these top 5 data center skills in 2019

As data centers become more software-based, admins should prepare themselves by learning about the cloud, containers, DevOps and ...

Carbon Relay debuts AI-based software for data center cooling

Newcomer Carbon Relay has introduced two products that use artificial intelligence to help IT pros manage data center efficiency.

SearchDataManagement

Originators form group to boost Presto SQL query engine

The Presto engine arose as an alternative to Hive for big data queries. Now, the Presto Software Foundation has formed to promote...

5 best practices for managing real-time data integration

Real-time data integration isn't like traditional data integration -- "it's moving, it's dirty and it's temporal," cautions one ...

Web integration platform eases way to machine learning models

StoryFit data scientists employ machine learning algorithms to gauge film script scenarios' prospects. They use Import.io tools ...