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IT hardware

• Where is the UK's oldest working PC?

  Computer Weekly has teamed up with Toshiba to offer two top-of-the-range Tecra 9000 laptop computers to the readers who can track...  Continue Reading

• Keeping an open mind

  What are the benefits of using Linux - Karl Cushing unwraps a company that is reaping the rewards of an open source...  Continue Reading

• Sort out your firm's Net attitude

  Net Attitude: what it is, how to get it, and why your company can't survive without it. Ross Bentley talks to John Patrick about...  Continue Reading

• Interview: Where is IBM heading?

  Bill Zeitler, IBM's senior vice-president and group executive for the server group, talks about the company's new Regatta...  Continue Reading

• Will you still need me when I'm 64?

  If you believe what the manufacturers say, 2002 will be the year when 64-bit computing comes of age. But is 64-bit a good enough...  Continue Reading

• Linux shows off super powers

  Last year open source operating system Linux rocketed in popularity. This year it has its sights set on conquering the...  Continue Reading

• It's time to tune in to wireless LANs

  The hour has come for wireless LANs as falling prices and improving technology are making them attractive solutions - sometimes...  Continue Reading

• Will super compression slow PCs?

  As reported in Computer Weekly last week, dramatically high file compression ratios are being promised by US research group...  Continue Reading

• The digital life of us

  If you believe the hype, we all belong to a digital generation immersed in new technology. or Orange and Apple are trying to sell...  Continue Reading

• Will Linux, Unix and Mac get .net?

  Microsoft's .net plan for delivering Web services is set to be no longer confined to the Windows platform.  Continue Reading

• Flexi hype

  A recent survey of IT companies found that although WLAN is a popular and successful concept there is a general lack of knowledge...  Continue Reading

• Long live dead wood

  Despite the advent of reliable electronic communications, there is still a place for good old hard copy. What are the latest...  Continue Reading

• Give your brain cells a festive workout

  The office is probably a bit quiet now with everyone either recovering from last night or out squeezing in a bit of last-minute...  Continue Reading

• A year of unfulfilled promise for enterprise storage

  In terms of storage developments, this year has ended up being little more than a staging ground for future progress, according...  Continue Reading

• Milburn stresses importance of IT to the future of the NHS

  NHS: Will the Microsoft deal and extra funds for IT mark a step-change in attitudes? Lindsay Clark reports  Continue Reading

• Net kiosks offer instant OS maps

  Ordnance Survey is using the Internet to open new markets for its maps of the UK, writes Karl Cushing  Continue Reading

• The drive for excellence

  Holiday Autos' e-business success is based on its enthusiasm for new technologies and a strong customer focus. That is why it won...  Continue Reading

• Cutting edge stuff

  Specialist programming offers unique challenges and job satisfaction  Continue Reading

• Riffs and clicks

  The technology that allows us to download and play multimedia files in real time is more than a recreational tool - it can add...  Continue Reading

• Are your skills the most wanted?

  Client/server skills are gaining ground on Internet-related skills. Nicholas Enticknap reports  Continue Reading

• A touch of class and razzamatazz

  On Tuesday night Computer Weekly's E-business Excellence awards, sponsored this year by BT, applauded the leaders in the field...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SQL Server steps up to the mark

  Microsoft's next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, is aimed at pushing its way further into the enterprise realm.  Continue Reading

• E-business on the move

  The revolution may be starting with a whimper rather than a bang, but companies, and especially those in the financial services...  Continue Reading

• Making an impact on the bottom line

  Welcome to our special report on e-business. Now that the dust has settled following the dotcom bust, businesses are taking a...  Continue Reading

• Strategy clinic: Consult the experts

  I am an IT director reporting to a finance director who sits on the board. I do not believe he represents IT in the best way, or...  Continue Reading

• Recycling old PCs pays dividends

  Throwing away out of date IT equipment is both wasteful and hazardous and it could soon be illegal, too.  Continue Reading

• Bars 'n' stripes

  Bar-code scanning and labelling may not be iSeries/400 mainstream, but these processes - exciting as they are - can be invaluable...  Continue Reading

• Happy ITers invest their skills in the community

  Few of us are immune to those occasional corporate blues when life just seems to be about profit margins and beating the...  Continue Reading

• What makes a high-tech hotspot?

  Silicon Valley isn't the only hotbed for e-business. There's Silicon Alley, Silicon Fen, Silicon Wadi and Silicon Glen, too....  Continue Reading

• Are you considering Windows XP?

  Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer is passionate about his new product and tells Andrew Thomas why users should feel the...  Continue Reading

• You get what you pay for

  Hewlett-Packard plans to pay about $20bn for Compaq. Joy Macknight describes what this will buy.  Continue Reading

• Strategy Clinic: How can I justify my e-business initiative?

  New e-business initiatives are difficult to justify under normal "return on investment criteria". With the board running a slide...  Continue Reading

• Project impossible

  The Millennium Dome might go down in history as a costly white elephant, but for the people who turned it into a reality it was...  Continue Reading

• Music to write code by

  Xtra! asked the programmers that read Computer Weekly what sort of music is best to code to. Here are some of their responses.  Continue Reading

• XP: How will users respond?

  Technology intelligence provider IDC has been considering the uptake scenarios for Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional...  Continue Reading

• Dell tempers enterprise storage ambitions

  Despite Dell's aggression in the performance PC, laptop and server markets, the computer maker is uncharacteristically modest...  Continue Reading

• Secrets of your project success

  Computer Weekly is working with The Coverdale Organisation to discover why IT projects fail, and to offer solutions, backed by...  Continue Reading

• Wiser heads show e-business lives on

  They say that e-business has lost its lustre over the past year, but you wouldn't guess it from the huge response the Computer...  Continue Reading

• Cash boost signals faith in broadband

  Last week the Government announced that the UK's regions are to get a £30m boost to give local businesses and computer users...  Continue Reading

• BT builds phones into its PDAs

  BT's wireless division, now called mm02, is to manufacture a handheld device with built-in phone capabilities  Continue Reading

• Flick a switch and save the UK £150m

  Do you leave your PC monitor on all night or forget to turn out the lights when you are the last one to leave the office? If so,...  Continue Reading

• How to put together a dream project team

  In an extract from his book The Project Manager's Toolkit, David Shailer offers a step-by-step guide to creating perfect project...  Continue Reading

• Citrix sweetens its upgrades with feature release

  Citrix has announced more than 50 new features for its family of application server and portal software products, writes Antony...  Continue Reading

• What does it take to be a success in IT?

  A major study to ascertain what kind of person is most likely to be a success in the IT industry and what stops people...  Continue Reading

• ITers feel the G-force

  There were spills as well as thrills as the winners of the Computer Weekly/MiTech Fantasy Formula One competition hurtled around...  Continue Reading

• What's in a name?

  As soon as you hear an analyst, consultant, academic or supplier pontificating to an audience of Brits about CIOs, you know...  Continue Reading

• Whose bottom line is it anyway?

  Your CEO's understanding of the bottom line benefits of IT may be wildly different from that of the finance director, or senior...  Continue Reading

• Chip makers offer new products to boost the flagging PC market

  Despite the slump in PC sales, microprocessor manufacturers are still turning out new products to try to rekindle the market,...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft's mobile gamble

  Microsoft targets the corporate mobile market with the launch of Pocket PC 2002. Ian Murphy reports  Continue Reading

• Be prepared - the euro is coming

  For all the UK's attempts to stay aloof, companies must take care to avoid exposure to new trading risks when the euro goes live...  Continue Reading

• HP and IBM turn up the heat in the Unix market

  Competition in the Unix market is hotting up with both Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Sun making major announcements ahead of IBM's...  Continue Reading

• High-end sluggers take the gloves off

  Heavyweight server users are watching for the outcome of the latest contest between Sun Microsystems and IBM. Computer Weekly...  Continue Reading

• Market sees flurry of corporate PC debuts

  Despite the gloomy economy forecast, suppliers including Compaq, Sony and Panasonic are ploughing ahead with new product...  Continue Reading

• How to make the most of your budget

  The current economic climate means IT directors must make the most of what money they have. Computer Weekly offers a seven-step...  Continue Reading

• Training spend proves faith in e-business

  There can be no doubt that organisations are taking e-commerce seriously. Computer Weekly reports on the e-training boom that...  Continue Reading

• Computer crusader - former technology minister Tony Benn

  Tony Benn was the UK's technology minister when Computer Weekly's began in 1966 and he continues to campaign on IT issues  Continue Reading

• Little changes in 35 years of IT

  A large computer and software manufacturer has discovered an employee in a dusty, long-forgotten room of its headquarters...  Continue Reading

• For the good of IT

  The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is moving into its new City of London Hall base. Computer Weekly finds out...  Continue Reading

• Come up and see my sub-routines

  The swinging sixties saw the launch of Computer Weekly. Computer Weekly now looks back to the first issue  Continue Reading

• That was the year, that was: a 1966 almanac

  Computer Weekly first hit people's desktops 35 years ago this week. Mark Lewis looks back to how the world was when England was...  Continue Reading

• Geekcorps takes IT to Africa

  In the second of our features on the UN Year of Bridging the Digital Divide, Computer Weekly looks at the practical steps IT...  Continue Reading

• Raw in Bluetooth technology and claw

  No wires, no connections, and it'll even talk to your fridge. Science fiction or the real promise of Bluetooth?  Continue Reading

• One and one makes one

  Fujitsu Siemens Computers is a relatively new player in the corporate market, though its parents have a well-regarded pedigree....  Continue Reading

• Microsoft refuses to hand it to Palm as PDA battle intensifies

  Tim Bajarin sizes up the leading contenders in the handheld market, the next major battleground. Could Microsoft's pole position...  Continue Reading

• Amplify your voice

  There are a host of hidden advantages in setting up or using a user group. Computer Weekly reports on how to magnify that user...  Continue Reading

• Mad on mobile

  Mobile data was supposed to be the next big thing for e-commerce players, but so far has failed to take off.  Continue Reading

• It's a wireless world

  The mobile world is poised to embrace Bluetooth - but the cost must come down if it is to feature in mass-market consumer...  Continue Reading

• Disc technology is here to stay

  Despite rumours to the contrary, disc storage will be with us for some time yet  Continue Reading

• Legal Update: policing content

  Internet service providers are breathing a sigh of relief following the High Court's decision in July to modify the terms of a...  Continue Reading

• Intel looks beyond clock speeds

  The day after Intel launched its fastest processor to date, the 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, the company said it was "moving beyond...  Continue Reading

• E-strategy: Fixing the dotcom engine

  There are bargains to be had in buying failed and ailing dotcoms if you play the finance game right. Computer Weekly reports on...  Continue Reading

• E-strategy: What's in a name?

  To rebrand or not to rebrand, that is the question that companies must answer if they want an online presence that customers will...  Continue Reading

• How 'e' got into the enterprise

  Over the last 18 months, the online world underwent some dramatic transformations.  Continue Reading

• The IT spending game

  The latest half-yearly Computer Weekly/Kew survey reveals annual growth in corporate IT expenditure should return to the levels...  Continue Reading

• E-Business: A healthy rapport

  An online appointments system is helping to reduce NHS waiting times.  Continue Reading

• Deluge fails to dampen IT networkers' spirits

  Martin Couzins reports from the recent Thirst Thursday networking event in London  Continue Reading

• Secure your PDA data now

  Your company is liable for the corporate information held on personal digital assistants and could fall foul of the Data...  Continue Reading

• Farming IT developer is living the good life

  Roisin Woolnough meets an IT developer with the best of both worlds  Continue Reading

• Planning to make life easier for everyone

  Despite early problems, Guildford Council's e-planning system is set to improve efficiency and reliability  Continue Reading

• A glossary of peer-to-peer

  Everything you wanted to know but never dared ask about P2P  Continue Reading

• P2P in action

  A selection of live P2P sites by Danny Bradbury  Continue Reading

• Supercomputing on a shoestring -

  Users will trade some of their PC's power for premium Web services on the P2P Internet writes Neil Fawcett  Continue Reading

• The 'rough guide' to interesting trends

  If anyone claims they know what the growth in the IT industry is going to be over the next 12 months do not believe them. They...  Continue Reading

• Content opens the Net goldmine

  Companies are starting to realise that it is digital content rather than physical goods or advertising that is the key to making...  Continue Reading

• CUA wins OfficeVision concession

  The IBM Computer Users' Association has claimed victory in its battle to get Big Blue to take action over the withdrawal of...  Continue Reading

• Licence fuels training drive

  The European Computer Driving Licence seems to have really taken off - employers are keen to invest in it and staff value it,...  Continue Reading

• Going, going, gone

  Major IT companies are now offering some lines via online auctions. Is it such a good deal for would-be customers? Joy Macknight...  Continue Reading

• HINDSIGHTS

  From MicroScope May 1992  Continue Reading

• Baltimore Technologies -security on the move

  M-commerce is set to be the next growth area. But with commerce on the move comes security risks What is needed is Public Key...  Continue Reading

• Sun brings P2P into the business with Jxta

  Eager to exploit the burgeoning peer-to-peer (P2P) market, Sun Microsystems unveiled its XML-based peer-to-peer transport...  Continue Reading

• McNealy outs Big Blue bad guys over breakfast

  A hailstorm, according to Sun Microsystems' CEO and chief comedian Scott McNealy is something to be avoided if you live in the US...  Continue Reading

• Nortel Networks dials up new VoIP solutions

  Nortel Networks released two new voice-over IP (VoIP) products at the recent NetWorld+Interop show.  Continue Reading

• Scottish ITers have their say in Glasgow

  A few free drinks helped those who attended Thirst Thursday make Computer Weekly's Xtra's networking event a roaring success....  Continue Reading

• Still young, keen and female

  Merant was one of a number of IT companies that took part in the Take Our Daughters To Work day.  Continue Reading

• Computer driving licence take-up hits one million

  A million people can't be wrong - that's the message from the BCS after one million students passed the European Computer Driving...  Continue Reading

• What Internet skills should I offer?

  I am 50 years old and have run a successful support services company for 10 years. My basic skills are in electronics and...  Continue Reading

• Sun looks to boring future in software, servers and storage

  Real technology is about boring stuff. Real corporate IT is not about media-friendly dotcoms with celebrity front-people and...  Continue Reading

• Future of IT

  What happens when technology and human nature collide? The final article in our series on the future of computing technology...  Continue Reading

• Will cybercops bungle in cybercrime jungle?

  While a huge number of organisations are offering online security solutions, cybercrime itself continues to go largely unreported  Continue Reading

• Does the future of Linux rest on an act of faith?

  If you had seen me wandering around the Vatican last month you might have thought that I was just another escapee from the ASP...  Continue Reading