November 2002
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'Average hacker' skills shut down US defence systems
The latest case of hacking demonstrates the need to have up-to-date patches on every PC in your business. Bill Goodwin reports Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Blowing the whistle
If you uncover wrongdoing in your firm there is now a law stating what you should do to make others aware. Roisin Woolnough... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Managers warned of racial abuse compensation claims
Lawyers have warned IT managers they could face tens of thousands of pounds in compensation claims for workplace abuse, following... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Security: Banking on trust
Banks are waking up to the need to earn the trust of their online customers. Nick Huber reports on their chequered history, and... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Security: one chief too many?
Another three-letter job acronym is about to be absorbed into the UK's corporate jargon dictionary. The chief security officer... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Shell looks to IT for 50 cents a barrel savings
The latest e-commerce innovation from oil giant Shell could create billions of pounds of savings each year for the whole... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Radio tags for M&S trays
Marks & Spencer has announced plans to launch the world's biggest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag roll-out. Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Education: Coding kids
Ryde College is teaching children as young as five to programme in Visual Basic, Java and C#. Is this the future of IT? Bill... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Developing countries boosted by e-business
E-business will achieve sustained growth, at least in the short term, in developed and developing countries alike, according to... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Thought for the day:Let's get back to e-basics
The government's dream of a greater e-Britain needs a lot more attention to fundamentals to become a truly valuable reality,... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Security: A mountain to climb
A look at the 10 most common causes of security breaches shows the uphill battle facing security specialists. Daniel Thomas... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Security: Indecent exposure
The IT-dependent structures of the developed world are extremely vulnerable to cyber-terrorism, says Peter Lilley. Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Poor intranet design costs firms £9.7m a year
Large companies may waste up to £9.7m per year in lost productivity if their intranet is poorly designed, according to research... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Customers not satisfied with C&W's job loss explanations
Cable & Wireless has been slammed by some of its customers for its lack of communication following the announcement last week of... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Justice staff plan small, simple IT projects
Civil servants in the criminal justice system with £1bn to spend on new systems say they plan to pre-empt an IT disaster by... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4 processor makes program multitasking easy
The latest Pentium 4 processor uses parallel processing to run applications faster or run two applications simultaneously, writes... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Stores look to self-scanning to cut checkout queues
UK supermarket giant Tesco and high-street retailer Marks & Spencer are looking to self-scanning checkouts to cut waiting time at... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Pentagon hacker worked for City IT departments
City IT firms that employ consultants should conduct thorough checks, experts warn. Bill Goodwin reports Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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IT Security: Flexible fencing
The Royal Mail is uniting all its systems into a coherent security architecture as computing boundaries blur. Philip Hunter... Continue Reading
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November 20, 2002
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Tesco follows M&S in trial of self-scanning checkouts
Tesco will next week become the first UK supermarket to begin trials of self-scanning checkouts, in an attempt to improve... Continue Reading