August 2000

Building the one-stop content shop

How can retailers manage data flow across multiple channels which embraces not just product and price details but also images,...  Continue Reading

Branson faces lottery software queries

David Bicknell

Sir Richard Branson's People's Lottery bid faces question marks over its technology as well as its finances as the consortium...

Cancel the oppressive RIP Act, says Redwood

Former Conservative minister John Redwood replies to Jack Straw's defence of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in last...  Continue Reading

Restore faith in e-banks with digital certificates

David Bicknell

Viacode, the Post Office's digital security operation, has called for wider use of digital certificates in a bid to...

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...

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

KnowledgePool deepens portfolio of e-business training

IT and business skills training company, KnowledgePool, is to expand its portfolio of e-Business training programmes in an effort to meet growing industry...  Continue Reading

Online fraudsters get beaten by Egg

Specialist software has allowed online bank Egg to close the net on the gang behind an Internet credit card scam.

Electronic evidence gathered by...

BT's ADSL ready to roll

Antony Savvas

BT is to finally roll out its ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) high-speed Internet access offering from September, after...

Brevity and honesty will give your CV style

Becoming a team leader in the third millennium won't be easy, and so as the jobs season approaches David Taylor looks at the...  Continue Reading

Broadband innovations stimulate teleworking

Antony Savvas.

The number of people teleworking from home has jumped by a quarter since last year, and the trend is set to continue with the...

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...

Tivoli network software limbers up for Olympics

Tivoli's Software Distribution technology will be deployed at the forthcoming Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, writes Paul Phillips  Continue Reading

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