August 2000

E-pensions standard set

Nick Huber

Companies will be able to transfer stakeholder pension contributions over the Internet in a new alliance between leading...

Catchup

Mike King

Keeping up with new product releases, bug fixes, and software enhancements can be a nightmare, but CNET has made the whole process...

ITNet slammed for poor performance

Robert Dunt

Severe criticism has been levelled at Hackney Council's housing benefits outsourcer ITNet in a new report. A backlog of £3m...

House of Lords presses for electronic national identity card

Parliamentary reporter

A House of Lords committee has urged the Government to consider creating an electronic national identity card to combat...

IT and plant investment level for first time

Antony Adshead

IT spend is matching that of plant and equipment in the UK manufacturing industry for the first time and is expected to...

Halifax Springs into training

Spring IT Training has been awarded a contract by financial services company, the Halifax, to supply and manage the technical training of its IT...  Continue Reading

IBM claims major power boost for servers

Caroline Davis

Server performance has received a boost with the debut of IBM's silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.

According...

Holes in the heart of ASP

Ian Hugo asks, is the ASP bubble about to burst?  Continue Reading

E-training diary: week three

It's week three of the four-week e-commerce training course provided as a prize to one of our readers by People Energy Training....  Continue Reading

NHS Plan injects new IT blood

Caroline Davis

The Government's proposals for reform and investment for the NHS, announced last week, contained £250m earmarked for...

Customers get the commission

The portals shoppin.net and igivealittle.com get sales commission from stores and pass it on to the shopper  Continue Reading

Certes provides cheap insurance

Contractors registered with the Certes Group are to receive access to preferential rate liability insurance under a deal between the recruitment agency and...  Continue Reading

Economy lurches towards online trading

Forty five per cent of companies are currently not generating any sales through e-commerce, but 91% of them expect this to change...  Continue Reading

E-commerce: non-delivery fines must ring alarm bells

David Bicknell

E-business

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is one of the few government organisations that seems to...

Does the business value your IT department?

The importance of e-business now promises to boost the credibility of the IT manager. Caroline Davis and Robert Dunt reports  Continue Reading

Incubator encourages start-ups

Falkirk council is offering premises, support and a £10,000 prize to new IT firms. Caroline Davis reports  Continue Reading

First-mover advantage or going out on a limb?

Gregory Darmohray

First-mover advantage? What advantage? The events of the past few months in both business-to-consumer and...