In Depth

In Depth

• The Heat is on

  Since the 1960s, Moore's Law has described the progress of the IT industry but overheating could slow down the pace of change  Continue Reading

• Lessons to be learned from Chinook tragedy

  Since 1997, Computer Weekly has studied the IT-related lessons from the crash of Chinook helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre...  Continue Reading

• Scale 21 conference will reveal key to IT success

  The results of the largest ever survey of IT professionals and entrepreneurs are to be announced at the Building Britain's...  Continue Reading

• Top Chinook test pilot reveals unease over engine software

  A campaign by Computer Weekly and Channel Four News has sought to show that a computer problem not pilot error could have led to...  Continue Reading

• Insurance lacks pulling power

  Insurance companies need to give their e-initiatives a radical makeover as their present inward focus is driving customers away  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

• CBI warns on cybercrime

  A new survey warns that UK e-commerce is being stifled by rising crime and consumer caution about buying goods on the Internet  Continue Reading

• Managing the service for business

  The development of technology continues at a breathtaking pace. The intensity of competition in the e-business world dictates...  Continue Reading

• Taxing times for global issues

  International traders have always had to overcome a complex array of tariffs and local tax laws. But with the advent of...  Continue Reading

• Government picks pathfinder councils

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• Government makes grants to council IT schemes

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• Chinook probe: MPs join Lords

  In an extraordinary move, the House of Commons' most powerful committee is to seek the help of the House of Lords as part of its...  Continue Reading

• The language of the AS/400

  RPG has been the mainstay of ERP applications, but it can also be used for e-business, writes Nick Langley  Continue Reading

• Firms warned to monitor service as Cisco cuts staff

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• Government funds online access to bridge digital divide

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• Growing pains

  Five e-commerce companies tell E-Business Review how they overcame initial teething problems  Continue Reading

• Feeling the pinch

  The Internet age is not over just because a few dotcoms have run into difficulty, says Martin Butler, who believes that the...  Continue Reading

• Why PKI?

  Public Key Infrastructure could revolutionise the way companies do business online - if only anyone would use it, says Danny...  Continue Reading

• Words' worth

  The online retail sector is growing apace and WHSmith.co.uk is finding its place in the lead. Nathalie Towner looks at the story...  Continue Reading

• Window of the world

  Going online means going global. So why do so many companies give their website less consideration than other areas of the...  Continue Reading

• Web site for black music hits the right note

  Glen Yearwood hit the right note when he launched darkerthanblue.com, a site devoted to black music  Continue Reading

• When all is safely gathered in

  Portals are a great way to gather all of your company's services into one easily accessible place. Danny Bradbury takes a look at...  Continue Reading

• Leaked MoD notice reveals new Chinook system hazard

  The MoD has claimed that the problems with the Chinook's Fadec software were minor faults. Yet a leaked MoD notice warns of a...  Continue Reading

• Think before you link

  Laws governing the Net remain a grey area, even for such issues as deep linking, while discrimination laws also apply to the Web  Continue Reading

• Growing pains of dotcom start ups

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• Grpup-buying sites prove unpopular

  Group buying sites seemed like a good idea, but failed to attract much attention. Sun and Microsoft's sites, on the other hand,...  Continue Reading

• Finding the right Web recipe

  Take two companies with the necessary ingredients. How do you make them gel? Stir in a project manager  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley looks East

  "Cross border sourcing" is gaining in popularity in the US where an expanding skills vacuum has led Silicon Valley businesses to...  Continue Reading

• Spring has sprung for Spring

  Spring Group has moved its business environment on-line with the development of a fully integrated web operating system.  Continue Reading

• The 3 flavours of 2001

  Before the end of the year, three new technologies will emerge triumphant. Sanjay Manandhar reports.  Continue Reading

• IT directors: build bridges or be swept away

  Old-style IT directors are doomed, says Chris Rawson at Lloyd's of London. Rod Sweet reports  Continue Reading

• A big blueprint for e-business

  Companies have been making mistakes with their e-business strategies since the whole brouhaha over online commerce started. But...  Continue Reading

• The world is enough

  As a global business, IT offers managers and directors many opportunities to work abroad and, as Julia Vowler finds out, these...  Continue Reading

• Towards an inclusive future

  Leeds City Council is fighting social exclusion using customer service centres. Paul Donovan reports  Continue Reading

• Delivering digital streaming in the Real world

  While the fortunes of streaming media firm Real Networks have been in decline, the company is not taking it lying down, writes...  Continue Reading

• Not-very-mobile-commerce

  Mobile commerce is a dream coming true, say the telcos. Well they would, wouldn't they? Simon Quicke reports  Continue Reading

• Sema suffers sharp share drop

  
  
  A 10% fall in the share price of software and services company Sema has raised questions about the company's financial stability.

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• A real union in a virtual world?

  Amazon faces the biggest unionisation drive the dotcom sector has ever seen. Mike Arrowsmith reports  Continue Reading

• The VPN dilemma

  With traditional networks choking on data, Liz Biddlecombe investigates the pros and cons of managing a VPN yourself or...  Continue Reading

• Chinook response sends "wrong signal" to software industry

  
  
  

  As defence secretary Geoff Hoon rubbished the Public Accounts Committee report into the 1994 Chinook disaster, an MP at the centre of the case...

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• Computer Weekly's evidence to the Public Accounts Committee

  We write to the Public Accounts Committee in relation to its consideration of the Chinook's FADEC computerised engine control...  Continue Reading

• Chinook report slams flawed MoD procurement methods

  Public Accounts Committee report into fatal crash of a Chinook Mk2 helicopter focused on a report by independent contractor EDS-Scicon, which was hired to assess the Chinook’s Fadec engine control system  Continue Reading

• A thoroughly modern e-apprenticeship

  Jane Dudman explains how young people in Newham have the chance to be apprentices in a scheme to lessen the blow of the IT skills...  Continue Reading

• Independent inquiry into Chinook crash

  
  
  Tony Collins

  An independent inquiry into the Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 is likely to be launched by the House of Lords. It will...

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• Tackling Internet misuse at work

  Like the technology, Internet abuse appears to have proliferated in recent years. There are, however, two ways to tackle this...  Continue Reading

• MoD kept RAF chief in the dark

  New evidence shows that the air chief marshal who blamed the pilots for the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 was not given potentially vital information related to the helicopter's safety-critical software  Continue Reading

• Pathway and the Post Office: the lessons learned

  The infamous 1996-1999 Pathway project aimed to computerise the nation’s post offices and tackle benefit fraud. But 18 months...  Continue Reading

• Tags take on the barcode

  Radio frequency tags could be the technology that kills off the barcode. Bill Goodwin explains how they work and what is holding...  Continue Reading

• MoD admits uncertainty over Mull Chinook crash

  The Ministry of Defence has altered its stance on the fatal Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and now admits to uncertainty over the precise events leading up to accident  Continue Reading

• How to scour the world when outsourcing

  
  
  Thanks to Y2K compliance programmes, it is now perfectly acceptable for a firm to consider moving all or part of its systems development and support...  Continue Reading

• Customers could be winners as Abbey risks opening up to rivals

  Abbey National's online mortgage service will break new ground, but it is not without risks. Nick Huber reports  Continue Reading

• Lost stock and stolen barrels

  Intelligent radio tagging keeps track of assets and helps streamline business. Bill Goodwin reports  Continue Reading

• Bosses welcome security warnings from outsiders

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• Future mobile

  Antony Savvas explores the future mobile network  Continue Reading

• Defence minister misleads Commons over Chinook

  Independent MP Martin Bell secures the first debate in the House of Commons over the causes of Chinook crash  Continue Reading

• The Chinook accident in 1989 - the facts

  Problem with fault logic of FADEC software identified at key meeting  Continue Reading

• Post Office pays price over Pathway

  The Post Office has turned in its first loss in 25 years after taking a £571m charge on the disastrous Pathway IT project, writes...  Continue Reading

• MoD slated for unresolved Chinook testing issues

  BCS member Andrew Rivers has raised a series of questions with his local MP about the computer systems on board the Chinook helicopter which crashed over the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, killing 29 security officers and four crew  Continue Reading

• RAF Justice: casting doubt on pilot error

  Almost a year ago Computer Weekly published its 140-page RAF Justice report on the Internet. It revealed evidence of a cover-up...  Continue Reading

• Servers developments under the spotlight

  
  
  IBM claims a 20%-30% efficiency improvement with its latest processor technology compared with existing chips. The silicon-on-insulator technology uses a glass...  Continue Reading

• Lifting the lid on secret stiffing techniques

  One of the UK's most experienced IT negotiators lifts the lid on some of the sharp practices used by software suppliers to get...  Continue Reading

• Can Hercules lift Hitachi?

  >Hitachi has been losing its position in the mainframe market for the past couple of years. But it aims to fight back in 2001...  Continue Reading

• Planning for e-commerce: balance your workload

  Capacity planning isn't easy, but it's not rocket science either, says Danny Bradbury. And that makes the recent failure of some...  Continue Reading

• Leaked RAF memo scathing of safety software evaluation

  Computer Weekly's Tony Collins uncovers evidence that the MoD has consistently undermined the authority of its software assessors...  Continue Reading

• January-February

  Tesco target of 300 online shops within one year  Continue Reading

• What we can all learn from Linux

  
  
  At first sight it may not be entirely clear what the stock market listing of VA Linux in December last year has to do with e-business and technology. But...  Continue Reading

• Was Y2K a costly non-event?

  Many expected catastrophe. In reality, the industry coped well and is now in good shape for the future, writes Bill Goodwin  Continue Reading

• Case Study: ProLiant servers by Compaq

  Building a gas pipeline connecting Britain and the continent proved to be an enormous task, but it’s proved to be a project built...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: Software solutions for effective network power management

  Uncertain power conditions can wreak havoc on small businesses, however, there are ways to limit the risk of computer data loss  Continue Reading