July 2000

Parental concern forces Burger King CD-Rom withdrawal

Burger King was forced to withdraw a CD-Rom promotion last month after complaints by customers that the disc, given out with children's meals,...  Continue Reading

Next move: getting a job in VB programming

Our team of experts offer advice on how to further your career in IT  Continue Reading

Masters of change must be masters of pragmatism

How to reconcile the business's desire for flexibility with IT's need for stability.  Continue Reading

B2B: Putting the extra in extranet

Danny Bradbury evaluates the business case for using extranets for business-to-business e-commerce  Continue Reading

B2B networks: Intelligent extranets

Getting from a viable business case for a B2B marketplace to the point where you're making your first e-trade is a huge step....  Continue Reading

Boots.co.uk has tonic for High Street.com blues

Boots is one of the High Street's fixtures, but not a company that you would immediately associate with cutting-edge technology. And yet its...

Cyber-squatters and how to stop them

Cyber-squatters attempt to draw people from competitors web sites by including the name of rival firms in their Metatags. is...  Continue Reading

Defence minister misleads Commons over Chinook

Independent MP Martin Bell secures the first debate in the House of Commons over the causes of Chinook crash  Continue Reading

Certes think tank thinks

IT staffing agency Certes recently hosted a 'think tank' session for its clients to consider the potential impact of IR35 on companies, and the...  Continue Reading

Child Support Agency to benefit from DSS testing

Bill Jacobs

The Department of Social Security has promised a major user testing procedure for the new computer system for the Child...

ASP savings myth crumbles

Renting software is not for everyone, but if you want a standalone application with no capital costs - and fast - ASP might be...  Continue Reading

Bank of Scotland outsourcing deal: a calculated risk

John Riley

How committed is your IT department to outsourcing? Last week's 10-year, £700m outsourcing deal between Bank of Scotland and IBM breaks...

Cabinet backs open standards

Local government is calmed by assurance that e-government will be based on XML. Mike Simons reports  Continue Reading

Accounting software players need to set standard

Eduardo Loigorri

Soapbox

Picture the scene: you're at a supermarket checkout and your last item sails past the cashier. She says...

.net makes anyone a service provider

Microsoft's .net vision involves putting software services online, so that business users can link into Web or extranet services from suppliers or customers, writes Cliff Saran.  Continue Reading

The road ahead

With billions of items being delivered to millions of destinations, logistics is a sector ready to be e-enabled. Sally Nash...  Continue Reading

Power-hungry users await Intel's Pentium 4

Caroline Davis

Intel's new Pentium 4 processor will give a performance boost for office PCs, but only for power-hungry users, according to a US...