July 2000

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...

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

DirXML integrates apps

Cliff Saran

Novell promises to improve security and ease the problems of managing multiple applications with the introduction of...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Hackney scoops top Web prize

London Borough of Hackney wins New Media Award for its use of the Internet, Caroline Davis reports  Continue Reading