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• Opinion:Brand new opportunities for business

  To maximise your brand value you must shift your focus from being supplier-driven to being market-driven. Customers remember and...  Continue Reading

• Blair must act to stop an injustice

  Should the MoD reject the Lords' findings on the Chinook crash, its conflict of interest will be clear.  Continue Reading

• What is the W3C doing now?

  Last week I suggested the W3C may be losing its way, but it is still doing some good work  Continue Reading

• No tears shed for this downturn

  Consolidation is on everyone's minds - whether they are banks, car manufacturers or, indeed, management consultants.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Taxing issues for e-government

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.I've been sitting here for ages...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Happy with your lot?

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.Remember Leon? He was the IT director I wrote...  Continue Reading

• Behind Closed Doors:Land of hope and IT glory?

  Jubilee or no jubilee, UK computing cannot afford to look backwards. In terms of innovation and competition, we lost our place at...  Continue Reading

• Barclays pay cuts - cute or callous?

  What are we to make of the news that Barclays Bank is slashing contractors' rates by 20% in an effort to cut costs across its IT...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Delivering on the roadmap

  Research expert Tim Jennings looks at a hot issue of the day.Now that HP's acquisition of (sorry, merger with!) Compaq is really...  Continue Reading

• Beware proprietary data formats

  To let someone encrypt your data and not give you the key is silly, but you do it every day  Continue Reading

• Will W3C bow to the royalty?

  As Tim Berners-Lee defends royalty-free standards, the W3C seems to be losing its way.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Brush up your broadband

  Peter Scargill, national IT chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, takes issue with BT's broadband outlook.Ben...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Up close and personal

  Communications and outsourcing expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.When I was called in to help sort out a project...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Skills crisis? Pull the other one

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.Later this week representatives from industry...  Continue Reading

• Who watches the watchers?

  The Civil Aviation Authority must come clean about how it has policed Nats' computer systems  Continue Reading

• It is time to learn to trust your computer

  Computers are already ubiquitous, but we have not yet developed an unquestioning instinct to rely on them as we do other 20th...  Continue Reading

• Time to end the digital divide

  To compete in today's markets companies must cross the divide between the PC haves and have-nots  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:'Tis the season to be jollied

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.Our political masters have been getting rather...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:What Donald Sutherland can do for IT

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.Donald Sutherland is a great actor and his 1994...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:NASA needs you

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.My wife is adamant that certain clothes,...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Three-speed outsourcing

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.How long does it take to negotiate an...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Outsourcing savings fund new IT

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.I see that the latest Ovum Holway report has...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Public sector enemy number one?

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day."Internet threat to 800,000 in...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:The power of paper

  Communications and outsourcing expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.We are forever being told that paper is on the...  Continue Reading

• Suppliers must heed smartcard warning

  Four years ago, Computer Weekly ran an article assessing the limited success of the Mondex electronic cash card trial in Swindon....  Continue Reading

• Get the tax back on your R&D

  There are significant tax breaks for companies carrying out research and development, says John Cooney of accountancy firm Smith...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft defeat would be a travesty

  We are now coming to the end of the dissenting US states' attempt to achieve a travesty of justice in the last round of the...  Continue Reading

• Nurture mainframe skills

  At a recent conference in Las Vegas run by Afcom, a 3,000-strong international association of datacentre managers, president Len...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day: The great escape

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.I need your help. I'm forming an escape...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Hard times for enterprise ambitions

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Well, the marriage of...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Face the enemy

  Communications and outsourcing expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.Terrible news readers, I've been banned from...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Ask not for whom the bell tolls

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.The stock market needed a boost and...  Continue Reading

• Selling Blackpool to the Arabs in a spam desert storm

  Sitting in my hotel room in sunny Riyadh, channel hopping between Arab-language TV stations, I was startled to see our very own...  Continue Reading

• None of us are fooled by PFI

  The Government says private finance initiatives transfer risk, but they ultimately carry a high price  Continue Reading

• Don't be in such a hurry to buy the dream

  It is all to easy be seduced by the hype surrounding new solutions - look before you leap.  Continue Reading

• Is technology a cure-all or a cog?

  Investment in technology is a waste of money so as long as organisations expect it to deliver "magical" solutions when what we...  Continue Reading

• Web services: reinventing extranets

  Web services will allow the extranet idea of creating secure business links to progress and realise its true potential  Continue Reading

• Can you deliver continuity?

  IT has a crucial role in preparing the business for disaster recovery  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:One more excuse for separation

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day."E-business is the game!" blares...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Old Moores' Almanack

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.The wonderful thing about being...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:The end of history or the end of trust?

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.When Francis Fukuyama wrote The...  Continue Reading

• Cracks are showing in land registry system

  The National Land Information Service (NLIS) has been a trailblazing e-government project.  Continue Reading

• A lack of accountability

  After three months, the High Court battle between National Air Traffic Services (Nats) and its supplier EDS over the computer...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Journey to the centre of the business

  Communications and outsourcing expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day: Don't let systems go Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.I haven't seen the new London production of...  Continue Reading

• Project money could grow tenfold

  While the public appears to accept a higher level of investment in the NHS as necessary, we should be sure that any such...  Continue Reading

• Time to outsource data storage

  Storage service providers could be the answer to your all data management prayers  Continue Reading

• Don't let suppliers and civil servants grab NHS windfall

  Gordon Brown's budget announcement of a 1% rise in National Insurance contributions to pay for improvements in the NHS has been...  Continue Reading

• Don't rush to rewrite law until existing Acts have been tested

  Campaign: Continuing the cybercrime debate, an IT law specialist argues that UK legislation, provided it is properly applied,...  Continue Reading

• A new model for brand management

  In a wired world, your reputation can be destroyed in hours. It's time for a new approach.  Continue Reading

• Does your service make the grade?

  Internet operations provision, from co-location to full outsourcing, is an area of IT services that's crying out for service...  Continue Reading

• Wanted: tempting content to get consumers on broadband

  The advent of broadband Internet access was meant to lift the technology industry out of the doldrums and bolster demand for...  Continue Reading

• Mozilla, tortoise of freedom

  After years in development, the Mozilla open source browser is nearly ready for release  Continue Reading

• Out is in again this year

  Senior management's new faith in outsourcing has led to a resurgence  Continue Reading

• Password perfect

  We all use passwords to control access to systems and files. But how often do we consider the quality of the words we choose?  Continue Reading

• Behind Closed Doors:Why sleep when you can work?

  The long-hours culture rules the IT community to the detriment of us all, argues Colin Beveridge. So whatever happened to the...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Leaders without a clue

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.You've never met Leon. He's a friend of mine...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:The great European wotsit

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.I've just ducked a call from...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Protect corporate integrity

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Once upon a time, a catastrophe...  Continue Reading

• Hackers laugh at the law

  This year's Infosecurity Europe conference will hit London's Olympia next week. In advance of the show, Computer Weekly has this...  Continue Reading

• Revenue plan pushes data protection limit

  We should all be alarmed by the Inland Revenue's refusal to rule out the possibility that tax work might in future be contracted...  Continue Reading

• Beware the hidden dangers of e-mail misuse by workers

  The way we communicate was changed forever by the advent of e-mail. However infuriating it may be at times, how would we manage...  Continue Reading

• Will ADSL stand the test of time?

  About three years ago we were told that communications would never be the same again. Our private and public lives were on the...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Brown's no-growth Budget

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.  Continue Reading

• To serve customers, telcos must raise shareholder value

  Calls to cut costs and increase revenues are the two most common imperatives echoing around the boardrooms of major corporations....  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:A Boy's Own GPRS Story

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simons Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Time, I thought, for a new...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:No hiding place

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simons Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.According to this week's...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Seeing red over blue Hotmail

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Today I have an urgent request...  Continue Reading

• The Mad Hatter's wireless network

  Symantec's security guru finds IT's "next big threat" in the pages of Alice in Wonderland  Continue Reading

• Open source's future is secure

  There is no advantage to keeping proprietary solutions secret and as we enter an era of Web-based collaborative effort it is...  Continue Reading

• Sign up to our online petition

  Lock down the law, Computer Weekly's campaign to persuade the Government to prioritise a review of the UK's archaic computer...  Continue Reading

• Journalists' last hope of fair play

  With the whiff of Enron still strong and other scandals in the air - including one very big one about to break soon, we hear -...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Are you ready for risk?

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day.What about getting someone to take all risk...  Continue Reading

• Programmed to fail?

  What could the reason be for the failure of some outsourcing projects?  Continue Reading

• Microsoft: Windows will dominate Webservices, Sun executive warns

  Sun Microsystems' chief strategy officer, Jonathan Schwartz, has appeared in court to give evidence in the remedy phase of...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Better out than in?

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.The catastrophic events of 11...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Those hidden extras?

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day. When I read the recent...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:In the cause of true love

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day. Following "The Night of the Long...  Continue Reading

• Balancing IT performance and IT cost

  During the next three years IT directors will need to make the most of shrinking budgets, while delivering ever improving levels...  Continue Reading

• Four goals of security

  Most people who have gone beyond the mistaken assumption that anti-virus equals the totality of information security will have...  Continue Reading

• Spammers may force you to change your e-mail address once a month

  Soon, you may no longer need to nag users to change their passwords every few weeks - they will have to change their e-mail...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft .net made visible

  Easy-to-use Web services developer tools could shape the future of the business Internet  Continue Reading

• Web services: the case for

  Web services have arrived to help make your business become more agile and flexible, as well as helping to reduce costs.  Continue Reading

• Web services: the case against

  Web services: the latest and greatest invention from the IT industry to form the backbone of application components an ocean of...  Continue Reading

• Don't hurry to change channel

  Last week's news that ITV Digital has been placed into administration by its owners Granada and Carlton Communications dented the...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Time for a communications shakedown

  Outsourcing and communications expert Martyn Hart looks at a hot issue of the day. At a recent industry gathering, I turned up...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:A mobile rule of thumb

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.So another working week disappears quietly into...  Continue Reading

• Living the broadband lifestyle

  Fast Internet connections offer huge potential, but don't leave yourself open to attack  Continue Reading

• How to bust the amateur spammers

  "Within an hour I had the junk e-mailer's name, phone number and a photo of his house"  Continue Reading

• An open letter to Geoff Hoon, secretary of state for defence

  Dear Mr Hoon, We were astonished to hear the critical comments you made about Computer Weekly during last week's Commons debate...  Continue Reading

• Take a holistic view of software costs

  You need to make savings, but remember that the cost of software is not limited to the price of the licence  Continue Reading

• Q: what's in a name? - A: branding

  Recently, a well-known food firm launched its latest brand on national TV. The firm secured high profile national coverage and...  Continue Reading

• Collaboration is people-based

  People who see their role in the organisation as being part of a close-knit and valued team will be an invaluable asset in any...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Better the Monster you know

  Incisive columnist and IT expert Colin Beveridge looks at a hot issue of the day.Last week's theme tune was definitely Rolling...  Continue Reading

• Open all hours

  The Government hopes its new portal, UK Online, will take away the red tape that historically separates it from us citizens. John...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Who's serving who?

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.  Continue Reading

• Getting rights right

  Digital rights management is becoming more important as we head towards chargeable content. Danny Bradbury finds out more.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Pass the cornflakes

  Hard-hitting IT commentator Dr Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.  Continue Reading

• Don't just sign on the dotted line

  Recent IT press headlines illustrate the increase in outsourcing over the past few years, and the trend is likely to continue....  Continue Reading

• The ASDL era finally dawns

  As ISPs force down prices and BT retreats to the exchange, broadband take up is soaring  Continue Reading