July 2000

US forces mobile makers to reveal handset emissions

Radiation emissions from mobile phones will have to be disclosed by manufacturers to US consumers in three to six months' time.

This follows new...

Top travel firms adopt IP-based booking system

High-street travel agents Thomas Cook and Going Places are among the early adopters of a new booking and information network for...  Continue Reading

Which way now for ERP?

Enterprise resource planning has spread like a purple tide across corporate business. But where does it go from here? asks Julia...  Continue Reading

Workflow management system doubles solicitors' productivity

A Scottish law firm has doubled its work output thanks to a Web-enabled workflow management system developed in-house.  Continue Reading

Two years down the line

After two years on the staff of Computer Weekly, Cliff Saran pens his swansong, recalling Java lows and Microsoft highs  Continue Reading

Time to learn from IT disasters

The public sector is failing to learn from its mistakes and is developing a cover-up culture - at great cost to the taxpayer  Continue Reading

Users stay loyal to IT suppliers in a slump

Most IT directors would not dump a supplier if its profits plummeted, this week's Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big Question has found.

Respondents...

Users set to hold fire on signing up to ADSL

BT will lose its grip on ADSL services next July  Continue Reading

What is the advantage of using an ASP

We weigh up the pros and cons of using an ASP - will it provide a competitive advantage. The answer from our experts is that...  Continue Reading

Halifax trains staff to cut contractor costs

Financial services company Halifax has cut its need for IT contractors by retraining its own staff using computer-based courses, writes John...  Continue Reading

Paying due attention to the GUI

Ian Benn

Soapbox

By the early 1980s everyone knew that if you were going to travel any kind of distance, your chances of getting...

No more votes for Tony the Phoney, say IT contractors

Small business entrepreneurs are likely to abandon the Labour party in the next general election because a series of controversial measures has caused them...  Continue Reading

A Model T for the IT generation

Ford believes a new generation of drivers will value their computer more than their car, and has used IT as the starting point...  Continue Reading

E-commerce tops IT agenda

A survey of delegates at the IT Directors' Forum revealed e-business is a key concern, even though relatively few are trading...  Continue Reading

IR denies five million lost records

The Inland Revenue attemp-ted to discredit a disclosure in Computer Weekly that millions of tax details had gone "missing" amid...  Continue Reading

Bumpy ride ahead for the taxman

Computer Weekly's revelation that the Inland Revenue "lost" five million tax records was the latest in a catalogue of IT...  Continue Reading

IBM in channel focus

By Dominic Hall. IBM has pledged to sell more packaged services through its channel in a move designed to increase resellers...  Continue Reading