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February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
ASP offers wireless access to Microsoft Exchange

Application service provider Netstore is offering users wireless connections to Microsoft Exchange 2000 as an alternative to...
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
Glotel takes US hit
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
MoD knew about safety hazard on Chinook MkII

Two leaked internal documents contradict claims by the Ministry of Defence that problems with the engine control system of the...
January 24, 2001 24 Jan'01
Government Gateway due to launch today

Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow...
January 10, 2001 10 Jan'01
SMS to boost open system productivity

Tivoli is promising to bring the benefits of system managed storage (SMS) to the open systems world with its Storage Tank...
January 08, 2001 08 Jan'01
Going going gone - one top end server

A top-end Unix server is not the kind of thing you would normally expect to buy at an auction. But technology marts, pioneered by Sun Microsystems, are now...
December 07, 2000 07 Dec'00
Christmas is cancelled

The US division of Japanese consumer giant, Sony Corporation, has axed the Christmas ad campaign for its e-commerce site, SonyStyle.com, amidst fears its...
December 06, 2000 06 Dec'00
Euro raises UKB2B fears

Is the euro a help or a hindrance for UKB2B plans, asks Ross Bentley

December 06, 2000 06 Dec'00
Citizen Portal gets beta launch

The online Citizen Portal, the UK site where the public can access government information and services on the Web, has finally been...
December 04, 2000 04 Dec'00
Sema troubles deepen

IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a...
November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00
Chinook: a breach of natural justice

MPs slam MoD over 1994 crash whitewash. Software, not pilot error, could have killed 29
November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00
Mull of Kintyre MPs call on Blair to end Chinook deadlock

Mull of Kintyre Group of MPs calls on the prime minister to clear the pilots of blame for the 1994 Chinook crash
November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00
Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale....
November 29, 2000 29 Nov'00
Chinook tragedy demands reform

The Public Accounts Committee report into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash vindicates Computer Weekly's three-year campaign for justice. It...

November 29, 2000 29 Nov'00
MPs boost Chinook fight

At first glance, today's report by MPs of the PublicAccounts Committee (PAC) tells the story of flawed engine control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter
November 22, 2000 22 Nov'00
Caught red handed by latest police IT
November 15, 2000 15 Nov'00
Did MoD deceive RAF inquiry?

New information shows that the Ministry of Defence withheld information from an air chief marshal about software flaws that could...
November 15, 2000 15 Nov'00
Wap usage: Planes, phones and automobiles

So your globe-trotting executives want to change their itineraries in mid-journey and need to check that their revised schedules still fit with corporate...
November 01, 2000 01 Nov'00
Blair criticised for failure to meet Chinook campaigners

Tony Collins
The prime minister was criticised in the House of Commons this week for not meeting a delegation of senior MPs and peers over the...
November 01, 2000 01 Nov'00
Software expert attacks MoD's 'preposterous' Chinook claims

The Ministry of Defence's latest claim that there is 'no doubt' over the cause of the Chinook helicopter crash have raised...
October 25, 2000 25 Oct'00
IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

James Rogers
Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...
October 25, 2000 25 Oct'00
MPs fight on for independent Chinook inquiry

As peers and MPs rally to the cause for a new independent inquiry, former defence minister Malcolm Rifkind is among those to criticise the reasons for the...
October 04, 2000 04 Oct'00
Report reveals trend to more women in IT
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
CW briefs Lords on fatal Chinook crash

Tony Collins
Members of the House of Lords have been briefed by Computer Weekly on computer and other problems that afflicted...
July 19, 2000 19 Jul'00
Blair steps into Chinook battle

Tony Collins
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will personally look into the circumstances of the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of...
June 28, 2000 28 Jun'00
Bell champions 'mass of new evidence' on Chinook crash

Tony Collins
Independent MP Martin Bell has told the House of Commons that a mass of new evidence has emerged over the possible causes of...
June 28, 2000 28 Jun'00
Defence Minister misleads MPs over Chinook accident

Last week in the House of Commons, Labour’s Defence Minister Lewis Moonie unintentionally misled the House of Commons over a Chinook accident in 1989,...
June 21, 2000 21 Jun'00
Air chief marshall attacks Chinook evidence

Tony Collins
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten has criticised evidence suggesting that the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash could have...
June 14, 2000 14 Jun'00
Parliament push to clear Chinook pilots

Tony Collins
Senior MPs and Lords, including a raft of former ministers, decided last week to form a cross-party action group in a bid to...
June 14, 2000 14 Jun'00
Scotland backs Chinook crash report

The Scottish Executive has found that Computer Weekly uncovered new evidence over the reliability of the Fadec (Full Authority Digital Engine Control)...
March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00
MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing...
March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00
Small Articles
March 08, 2000 08 Mar'00
Software safety issues were noticed by MOD before Chinook crash

A leaked draft memo written by a senior RAF officer reveals for the first time that there were safety concerns over the software used in the type of Chinook Mk2 helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994.
March 01, 2000 01 Mar'00
Chinook software probe due

MPs are next week expected to investigate the air-worthiness of the engine control software on the type of Chinook helicopter involved in the crash
February 09, 2000 09 Feb'00
NAO report puts software at the heart of Chinook debate

Tony Collins
Government auditors will report tomorrow (Friday) that defence staff put into operational service a fleet of Chinook...