July 2000

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...

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)...

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,...

The Superbrain

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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