August 2000

IT joins club 18 - 30

While business development in the UK continues to feel the effects of a worsening IT skills shortage, new evidence suggests that the IT industry itself may...  Continue Reading

Front runner Simon Eade

Simon Eade is a van driver turned IT manager who has his pick of classy sports cars and a manager who does not mind if he moonlights. It is clearly a tough job...  Continue Reading

ISPs face salary meltdown

Almost two thirds of all UK internet services companies will not be able to afford next year's salary increases, warns financial analysis firm,...  Continue Reading

ICL: English Patient in need of radical surgery?

Fujitsu must make some radical decisions about its UK subsidiary ICL. Nicholas Enticknap assesses its options and finds that...  Continue Reading

IR35 creates contractors' conundrum

Since the introduction of IR35 was announced, there have been reports on the effect it will have on IT contractors and the...  Continue Reading

IT's the tiger in the Volvo tank

Once seen as an overhead, Volvo Truck's IT department is held in high esteem by the rest of the business. Ross Bentley met the...  Continue Reading

Cybercrime - an inside job

The biggest threat to e-security is from within. Bill Goodwin meets up with the cybersleuths to find out why  Continue Reading

Stock exchange merger threatened

Nick Huber

A hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange by Swedish technology supplier OM Group is threatening the proposed...

Cowering from content?

To most IT managers, document management is about as exciting as watching crown green bowling. Whereas content management is a phrase certain to make you sit up and take notice  Continue Reading

Inland Revenue hunts 'missing' files

Tony Collins

The Inland Revenue is at odds with a Government software supplier over the hunt for millions of "missing" tax...

Huge increase in thin client sales

According to a report by market analysts at IDC, worldwide sales of thin clients are showing a 90% increase but Western Europe is seeing much greater...

Price and prejudice: tackling ageism in the workplace

Why do people assume that older people are less capable of learning, adapting and using IT than anybody else?  Continue Reading

RIP: a well-intentioned act that only hits the good guys

Jack Schofield

Opinion

The European proposals on cybercrime, reported in last week's issue, are strangely similar to Jack Straw's...

Safeway site is still down after hack attack

Supermarket giant Safeway has failed to get its Web site up-and-running two weeks after a suspected hacking attack led to its closure.

The delays in...

Reality hits integrators after Y2K boom

It has been a case of boom and then bust for many ERP suppliers, but some wily consultants are still on six-figure salaries,...  Continue Reading

Web techies buck downward trend

The IT jobs market may have fallen to its lowest level since 1995, declining again during the second quarter of this year, but demand for IT professionals...  Continue Reading

You are watching Big Brother

As if there was ever any doubt that we are indeed a nation obsessed with the Big Brother phenomenon, the latest rankings from...  Continue Reading