July 2000

More grief from the Revenue

The Inland Revenue is to compel recruitment agencies in the IT sector to disclose details of payments made to contractors in an effort to clamp down...  Continue Reading

BT warns users to update numbers in memory

Antony Adshead

Computer operated telephone and fax equipment could fail after 5 August unless it is updated to use the latest telephone...

Anglian celebrates SAP success

While SAP deployments have a reputation for bursting budgets and deadlines, Anglian Water's IT department has survived a 300,000-item data migration with its reputation in tact  Continue Reading

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...

Hackney scoops top Web prize

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

IT is under-represented on the boards of airlines

Only 30% of airlines have an IT director on their board, even though technology is transforming their industry  Continue Reading

No short-term threat to Wap, says NTT

The arrival of the Japanese-developed iMode mobile phone system will not pose a direct threat to wireless application protocol...  Continue Reading

Keep in the know without going barmy

You want the information and you want it now. Welcome to modern living. But beware data overload.  Continue Reading

Mightymatch promises confidentiality

Recruitment technology company, Corporate Dynamics, has launched an 'agency-free', on-line resourcing service for the IT...  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

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

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

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

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

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

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