July 2000

Anite announces year-end results

Anite revealed a 37 per cent increase in profits and strong growth in each of its core divisions in its preliminary year-end results earlier this...  Continue Reading

Net proves popular among AB job seekers

Top professionals are turning to the net for career progression, says recruitment agency, Reed.

According to a survey published by the company,...

Perl Porters aim to deliver the goods - for free

A rag-tag band of altruists are committed to creating the best software money can't buy, Nick Langley reports.  Continue Reading

Learn the Y2K lesson

Neil Kell

Soapbox

The cynical opinion now says that the millennium bug was over-hyped. But this assessment dismisses the fact that a...

Claws out for copycat

Electronic plagiarism by university students is spreading through academic institutions around the country and threatening to...  Continue Reading

Cutting loose

The mobile computing revolution is upon us with network carriers and hardware suppliers playing for the very highest stakes. If...  Continue Reading

Commonwealth to create global e-marketplace

The Commonwealth is to create its own business-to-business electronic marketplace spanning 54 countries  Continue Reading

Bracing for a huge front-end impact

Just when you thought you were clear of TLA, along comes another, more chaotic than the last. If you've started on CRM, you'll know what we mean.  Continue Reading

Crams comes to an expensive end

Mike Simons

The Probation Service looks set to pull the plug on the Case Record and Management System (Crams) at the end of the month...

Nortel hires 2,000 to cope with boom in wireless and optical networks markets

Nortel Networks is hiring an extra 2,000 staff across Europe to cope with the growing wireless and optical networking markets,...  Continue Reading

New portal service offers Web components

The Microsoft Developers' Network (MSDN) has been expanded, with a new portal service designed to provide application developers...  Continue Reading

Online matchmaker finds love

Six months of programming and database work result in marriages and a baby. Martin Couzins reports  Continue Reading

Microsoft puts mobile software centre-stage

Exchange 2000 at hub of mobile strategy with portable HTML Web browser and data collection handhelds.  Continue Reading

Net namer cleared of corruption

David Bicknell

The investigative arm of the US Congress has cleared the organisation overseeing Internet domain names of having an...

One Web site for all formats

Microsoft used the Tech Ed 2000 show to give the first public demonstration of new technology designed to simplify Web site...  Continue Reading

Laptop business secrets are a steal

The reluctance of many lapstop users to adopt a password could cost dear.  Continue Reading

Ambitious, highly-skilled and ...disabled

Technology can remove the physical barriers to a disabled person building a career in IT, but managers and colleagues often need...  Continue Reading