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• Staff put bosses in jail jeopardy says BSA

  Licensing watchdog the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has warned managing directors that staff are putting them at risk of...  Continue Reading

• In praise of chips

  This week is National Chip Week, but forget processing power - we're talking about the hot and salty variety.  Continue Reading

• Money-obsessed gadget lovers?

  They are obsessed with money, opportunistic and love buying new gadgets. That is the average IT contractor, according to research...  Continue Reading

• Canteen's comeback gives food for thought

  Canteens used to be dingy, unfriendly places that served up the worst of British food. They were the adult's version of the...  Continue Reading

• E-envoy's office seeks to break down barriers

  The e-envoy's industry director explains his role and objectives.  Continue Reading

• What can Sun One offer business?

  Sun Microsystems last month announced the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun One), its new software strategy and rival to Microsoft's...  Continue Reading

• Loneliness of long-distance shopping

  Rather like kicking a man when he's down, it has become all too easy to have a pop at B2C e-commerce. But beyond the present...  Continue Reading

• Hidden eyes and ears are the secret of team success

  Our future is now decided by what people think we do, and how they believe we do it. What we do is irrelevant.  Continue Reading

• Whitehall fudges Net regulation

  There is great debate behind the scenes about how to implement the Government's controversial RIP Act. Scaremongers are realising...  Continue Reading

• IT superpowers' feud jumps up a gear

  I had thought the battle between Microsoft and Sun over what is Java and what is not would roll on for a while longer  Continue Reading

• Privacy, what privacy?

  Just when we thought we'd seen the end to computer privacy issues, we stumble across three highly controversial flash points that...  Continue Reading

• Motivate don't denigrate

  From an IT leadership and service perspective, much can be learned, and achieved, from exploring people's similarities.  Continue Reading

• Agencies will lose out

  Over two-thirds of IT managers polled in this week's Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big Question poll would like to take advantage...  Continue Reading

• Who is riding the wave of clueless hype?

  There is something horribly wrong with the computer industry. A look at Corel, the Canadian software house, will illustrate what...  Continue Reading

• Sweat your intellectual assets

  But to manage your intellectual assets, first you need to measure them. Victor Anderson reports on how it's being done.  Continue Reading

• I like where I work because...

  We get Owen Street's thoughts on working at Merrill Lynch in London  Continue Reading

• Raising the stakes on Net betting

  The gambling industry is an excellent example of an industry that is highly responsive to customer needs, inventive and quick to...  Continue Reading

• Welcome to the old economy

  It is time to man the lifeboats for an increasing number of dotcoms; and some senior executives over in the US are definitely...  Continue Reading

• RSPCA IT chief sees cause to campaign

  With the Commons vote to outlaw hunting with hounds, the RSPCA has recently been in the thick of media attention. I spoke to...  Continue Reading

• Super Hackers: Truth or reality?

  Does the 'super hacker' exist or is it all just myth-making on the part of the press? Two industry specialists give EBR their...  Continue Reading

• Executives quitting dotcoms for safety of bricks and mortar

  New Economy executives are beating a hasty retreat into the familiar world of traditional companies. What impact will this have...  Continue Reading

• Keeping up appearances

  How many websites actually serve the purpose for which they were designed, and how many are just feeble attempts to ride the...  Continue Reading

• Make your vision reality

  It is all very well having a vision, but how do we ensure that everyone understands, and buys into it?  Continue Reading

• Information management is key to local government

  The ability to deliver effective local government in the future is going to depend increasingly on how well information is...  Continue Reading

• Super Love Bug will strike this year

  New versions of the Love Bug e-mail virus with far more devastating payloads are likely to strike IT departments over the next 12...  Continue Reading

• It's a family affair

  On the surface, Building the Information Core looks like the offspring of a marriage between last summer's NHS Plan and a 1998 IT...  Continue Reading

• Kick the constant communication habit

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• Insure all IT assets

  Risks in business, as in life, are always there.  Continue Reading

• We must seize the day amid skills lull

  
  
  John Riley

  john.riley@rbi.co.uk

  Groundswell

  In IT, excellent synergy and flexibility all too often results in...

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• More to B2B than counting e-costs

  The B2B e-commerce sector has an unhealthy pre-occupation with costs. Customers, both on the buying and selling side, are...  Continue Reading

• Plumbing depths to survive the post-PC era

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  Intel and Microsoft are trying hard to generate as much momentum as they can in the consumer electronics...

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• No business model? It's your funeral

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• Countering AOL's behemoth

  By backing Napster, Bertelsmann could create an online rival to AOL/Time Warner  Continue Reading

• There's no turning back now

  Every few years our industry hits a turning point - things change and will never be the same again. They are usually pretty...  Continue Reading

• Any truth in the sooth I say?

  Last year's dotcom rationalisation made a laughing stock of e-commerce, but the way we do business is changing. Mark Lewis makes...  Continue Reading

• Guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the BSA

  Simon Moores bemoans the heavy hadnedness of self-appointed software police  Continue Reading

• Rapport - accept no substitute

  What have the following got in common with e-business? Tactics at the Battle of Waterloo; aspects of Greek Orthodox Christian theology; and the relative merits of different port vintages?  Continue Reading

• Now the writing is on the wall

  For certain dotcoms, the effort to re-invent themselves by adopting the latest trends will not save them. Their obituaries have...  Continue Reading

• Why security must come first

  Keeping your site secure should be your first New Year's resolution, says Glyn Moody  Continue Reading

• Silicon Valley hot shots take the flak for bad times

  Stephen Phillips in San Francisco reports on how adulation has turned to anger  Continue Reading

• Win 2000 outsells NT

  Sales of Windows 2000 will outnumber sales of Windows NT by 1.7 million in the fourth quarter  Continue Reading

• Cybercops should resist seven-year itch

  
  
  We told you the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP)Act was a bad idea and now here's the proof. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has...  Continue Reading

• A Tablet may not be enough to cure this headache

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Everyone can do something nobody else can: read their own handwriting. This task requires a tremendous amount of processing...

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• Ethical Hacker: Gotcha!

  Someone was spending hours every night hacking his friend's PC. Call the ISP? No. For Sten Kalenda the fun was just beginning  Continue Reading

• Don't become a .com

  Glyn Moody muses on the dearth of domain names and takes a look at the expanded services now on offer from the likes of Tesco and...  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery solutions

  A good disaster recovery solution is essential - especially if your IT department is one man band.  Continue Reading

• Funding bonanza has come to an end

  The technology sell-off has seen massive shifts in company fortunes, leaving some clinging to shares worth only a fraction of their previous value.  Continue Reading

• Profit warnings hit confidence in services sector

  Sema's profit warning last week was another unwelcome piece of news in the IT services market and has hit stock market confidence...  Continue Reading

• User groups: strength in numbers

  
  
  Most user groups are repositioning themselves to accommodate the e-induced sea changes sweeping through industry today. They have a golden opportunity to...  Continue Reading

• The Dome: Palo Alto-on-Thames?

  Legacy's bid for the Dome has generated too many glib parallels with Silicon Valley  Continue Reading

• Throw off the yoke and get yourself a life

  Everywhere we look, we see the words culture, balance and stress. Seemingly out of nowhere, business leaders are realising the...  Continue Reading

• Agents are to blame for ageism

  Jacqueline Straffon, a contract IT resource manager, gives an inside view on ageism in the IT industry  Continue Reading

• Big boxes will have to make way for server appliances

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  Sun Microsystems' recent acquisition of Cobalt Networks for a modest $2bn (£1.4bn) may be the first real...

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• Stand by for the e-mail election, says Labour peer

  The 2005 election "could be won or lost on the Internet", according to Lord Mitchell, the Labour working peer who has pioneered Millbank's sophisticated IT campaign system  Continue Reading

• Saloon brawl over domain names does nothing to industry's image

  
  
  David Bicknell

  e-business

  After more than a few years of organised chaos thinly disguised as an Internet talking-shop, we now have...

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• BT puts cash into broadband upgrade

  
  
  Simon Craven

  Soapbox

  Recent articles in Computer Weekly have implied that BT's moves towards broadband are done without investment....

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• Touchy-feely approach may be key to good management

  
  
  Ross Bentley

  The Frog-snogger's Guide

  Susan Lancaster and Sean Orford

  Management Books 2000 £12.99...

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• Rambooster bolsters memory capabilities

  
  
  Mike King

  Readers familiar with Windows will be familiar with the problems it has managing memory effectively - the so-called "memory leak"....

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• Whitehall IT reform on track

  
  
  John Riley

  Two thirds of the Cabinet Office recommendations proposed this June in a bid to prevent public sector IT disasters will be...

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• Will B2B marketplaces take over?

  Of late, B2B marketplaces have become popular and there has been a great deal of hype about how they will reduce transaction...  Continue Reading

• Why you're never in the right role

  There is a mismatch between IT directors' perceptions of their current and future roles and how their chief executives perceive...  Continue Reading

• Software development is misunderstood

  Sofftware development is an invisible task. Julia Vowler reports.  Continue Reading

• Time for IT to show its business credentials

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside track

  A CEO told me recently that he dare not venture again into his IT department. On his first visit, he...

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• How long before switching jobs?

  
  
  I left university last year with a MSc conversion in computer studies. I am now a validation engineer for a data management systems company. After eight...  Continue Reading

• Disabled access is a priority

  Faced with the target of delivering all government services electronically by 2005, local government needs to think about priorities.  Continue Reading

• XML adoption will benefit business

  Have you ever looked forward to something only to find the anticipation was better than the experience?  Continue Reading

• Time to embrace e-procurement

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• Solution: 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

• You say mobile, we say appliance

  The American way of thin-client surfing bears little resemblance to the UK's handheld obsessions  Continue Reading

• Microsoft and Compaq join forces for mobile Internet

  Microsoft and Compaq have announced plans to collaborate even more closely in order to develop mobile Internet services...  Continue Reading

• Lessen the risk of buying IT

  Colin Beveridge, director of the interim managers association Premit, warns of some of the pitfalls in corporate IT procurement  Continue Reading

• Judgement day rewards communications projects

  
  
  Three winners were selected from more than 60 entries for the BCS IT Awards, writes John Kavanagh. And for one winning team, being presented with a...  Continue Reading

• Where can I find part-time work?

  I am skilled in a number of languages including C, HTML and Perl, I am very familiar with Unix operating systems, both as a...  Continue Reading

• What should companies do about staff Internet abuse?

  
  
  David Bicknell

  e-business

  Recent research from E-Business Review found that many traditional UK household names are still at an...

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• Cut-price airlines in e-sales take-off

  
  
  Joy Macknight

  Cut-price airlines are driving sales onto the Web and slashing costs.

  Low-cost airline Ryanair has reported a 54%...

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• Self-service is making a comeback in Telecoms

  
  
  John Ball

  Soapbox

  Self-service for telecommunications companies is not a new concept. The 1950s saw a radical change for telecoms...

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• Software helps to back up the Bill

  
  
  James Rogers

  The Metropolitan Police and Securicor Information Systems are hoping a command and control software solution can rescue...

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• Getting up close and personal is part of life

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside Track

  If we don't take ownership of our lives, then someone else will. When things don't seem to be going our...

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• Video streaming is good for business

  Soon a Web site without moving pictures will be old hat, so what should we expect?  Continue Reading

• Europe poised to take lead in broadband mobile technology

  Europe ot overtake US in broadband cellular mobile technology  Continue Reading

• Time to stop staring and think again

  A new Web site is aiming to give hope to blind and partially-sighted children. Daniel Thomas reports  Continue Reading

• E-business: let's at least look to make a profit

  Dan Remenyi slams business models where profit is an optional extra  Continue Reading

• E-business and staff top IT chiefs' list of concerns

  
  
  John Riley

  UK IT directors worry much more about the relationship between IT and the board than their US CIO counterparts. But both...

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• New rules affect every online firm

  
  
  Jonathon Little

  Opinion

  IT directors in e-commerce, retail, financial services and even call centres and Internet service...

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• Fury at Primarolo IR35 stand

  
  
  Over the past two months IT contractors have launched a letter writing campaign in London's Evening Standard newspaper, criticising Dawn Primarolo's stand...  Continue Reading

• Who stole my telecoms birthright?

  Business strategy consultant Steven Domb explains how our 100-year-old telecoms network can survive the 21st century  Continue Reading

• The Internet's not just the Web - and don't you forget it

  Too many people have forgotten about the Internet. In fact, too many people who work for Internet-based companies don't seem to...  Continue Reading

• Make way for digital television

  John Riley looks at the issues involved in digital television.  Continue Reading

• Questions raised over Jini as Sun joins rival plug-n-play consortium

  Pervasive computing took another step forward last month when Sun Microsystems joined the Universal Plug and Play Consortium...  Continue Reading

• Boo.com returns from the grave

  
  
  Mark Lewis

  Last week's announcement of boo.com's return from beyond the grave couldn't have been more timely, falling as it did in the week of...

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• Rise of technology indices

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City briefing

  Happy first birthday this week to Techmark, the London Stock Exchange index of technology shares....

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• If, at first, you don't succeed, don't give up

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside Track

  If we don't take ownership of our lives, then someone else will. When things don't seem to be going our...

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• Leap on the mobile commerce brand-wagon

  
  
  David Bicknell

  The future take-up of mobile commerce means some hard thinking has to take place over how brands should change to cope with a mobile...

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• London e-City needs a lift

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• Beware of the power users' boomerangs

  More IT work takes place outside of the IT department, than within it. This is the reality, dilemma and challenge facing every IT...  Continue Reading

• Why the IR35 legislation shows that politicians can't see the wood for the trees

  Recently, I found myself discussing the contentious nature of the IR35 legislation with members of the Government. These robust...  Continue Reading

• Why is e-commerce like sex

  At the start of Computer Weekly's e-business month, independent business strategy consultant Steve Domb takes a jovial and...  Continue Reading

• fujifilm.com

  
  
  Martin Couzins

  If you fancy a break from looking at code, then try...

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• Book reviews: Dotcom craze hits the hardbacks

  Ross Bentley reviews two of the latest crop of dotcom books  Continue Reading

• Dotcom bubble goes with a bang

  It seems like the new kids on the block in IT services, such as Razorfish, Pixelpark and MarchFirst, are discovering the price of being in fashion earlier in the year.  Continue Reading