July 2000

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,...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...