October 2003

October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Thought for the day: Sack me or back me

IT departments should face regular votes of confidence from the rest of the business, says Colin Beveridge. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Briton pleads guilty to US nuclear lab hacking attack

A teenage computer student has pleaded guilty to hacking into IT systems at an American nuclear weapons laboratory. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Courts urged to replace juries with expert judge panels in IT cases

The courts should consider replacing juries in complex computer crime trials with panels of specialist judges trained in IT,... Continue Reading

October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Businesses warned to prepare for dangerous new spam variants

Businesses should brace themselves for dangerous variants on junk e-mail as spammers turn to sophisticated technology to evade... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Orbitz travel site suffers e-mail address theft

Online travel company Orbitz has claimed someone has breached its site and stolen its customers' e-mail addresses. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
BMC brings SmartDBA to the mainframe

BMC Software will soon release the first of its SmartDBA tools for IBM's DB2 mainframe database, marking what it called a... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Cray's Red Storm goes commercial

Cray plans to release a commercial system based on its Red Storm supercomputer at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
US government outsourcing to reach £23bn

Spending on IT outsourcing by state and local government agencies in the US is expected to increase from about $10bn (£5.9bn)... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Medium-sized retailers ignore chip and Pin

Almost half of medium-sized retailers are still ignoring calls to make plans to implement chip and Pin technology, despite the... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
M&S praised for addressing RFID concerns

Retailers should use Marks & Spencer's approach to addressing radio frequency identification privacy concerns when considering... Continue Reading

October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Tight budgets mean IT chiefs will go for bargains, not loss-leaders

IT directors will not spend their full budgets in 2003 and their annual spending in 2004 will shrink, according to analyst group... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Buy now, PC users told

Users can pick up good deals on desktop and notebook PCs following price cuts of up to 35% on processors from Intel and AMD,... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
WHSmith invests £1m to cut IT support costs

WHSmith News has invested £1m in server and storage technology from Dell in an attempt to improve its e-mail and printing... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Importance of disaster plans highlighted as 93% of firms suffer unplanned downtime

Ninety three per cent of UK companies experienced unplanned downtime in the past year, according to a global survey of 850 IT... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Good supplier links and early exposure to new products aid insight and experience

It is a pleasure here at Computer Weekly to profile the IT departments that have made it on to our shortlist of the Best Places... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Computer Associates boosts .net web services

Computer Associates International is to link its upcoming Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) software to the Microsoft... Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
SMEs disagree on spam approach

Small-business owners have disagreed on what action the US Congress should take on spam. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme to launch Monday

Intel is to launch its new Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor on Monday, a source familiar with Intel's plans claimed. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
NEC steps up battle against viruses and worms

NEC has begun notifying users when potential security problems exist on their PCs. Continue Reading
October 31, 2003 31 Oct'03
Alcatel reduces losses and eyes return to profit

French telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel reported reduced losses for the third quarter yesterday, and said there... Continue Reading