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• e-Government: the whats, whys and whens

  Cabinet Office minister Ian McCartney says UK Online means the Government wants to get people online rather than having to wait...  Continue Reading

• Ready to snap up dotcom bargains?

  
  
  Several dotcom companies have now lost in the region of 90% off their market capitalisation compared to this time last year. And the list of high-profile...  Continue Reading

• 3G - will it be another damp squib?

  As the latest auction round for third generation (3G) mobile licences gets under way, this time in Italy, investors are beginning to reconsider the costs involved  Continue Reading

• RIP Act extends culpability

  E-commerce expert Catrin Turner explains the implications of the RIP Act, which makes firms criminally liable for intercepting staff e-mails and similar communications  Continue Reading

• The job that could be e-mission impossible

  he race is on to fill the shoes of Alex Allan, the UK's first e-envoy, whose sudden resignation left a gap in New Labour's...  Continue Reading

• Technology shares: "three Es" can damage your wealth

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City briefing

  We know that "Es" damage your health when they come in tablet form, but the last month or so has...

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• Why is Tim Berners Lee who invented the Internet still waiting for a knighthood

  What have the inventors of the miners' safety lamp, the hovercraft, and the C5 electric car got in common? The answer: they all...  Continue Reading

• Can I develop my IT potential?

  
  
  I am a 45-year-old risk and insurance manager for an IT-based risk financing and claims management service. My IT experience includes design and...  Continue Reading

• Digital ads cause Abbey surge

  
  
  John Riley

  Abbey National gets a very heavy demand on its e-business servers at 7.59pm each day due to the success of its digital TV online...

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• Ciao to IT director, hello to CIO

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside track

  The time is right for a new type of IT leader to emerge

  In business and IT terms, the...

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• Developing online can help create business initiative

  
  
  David Bicknell

  E-view

  European research has highlighted the differing mindsets that online start-ups and traditional corporate...

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• Look to the Far East for Net innovation

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• Recruitment times are a-changing

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City Briefing

  Remember when you couldn't open an IT newspaper without reading about the skills shortage and how...

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• Singing praises of one of computing's unsung heroes

  Douglas Engelbart who invented the mouse and demonstrated its use in 1968 may scupper BT's claims to have invented hyper text.  Continue Reading

• It's good to talk

  
  
  Mark Lewis

  Soapbox

  E-commerce is meant to bring the customer and the business closer together, enabling the business to do a...

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• What the ADSL is going on?

  Users wait for broadband Internet access as Oftel is slammed by communications managers for weak regulation. Guy Campos reports  Continue Reading

• Online ecosystems expand new marketplaces

  The hype over online trading exchanges is far from over. David Bicknell reports on the latest buzzwords  Continue Reading

• More to it than ADSL

  The introduction of digital subscriber lines is about to ease the UK's move towards broadband technology, but the DSL story doesn't begin and end with ADSL  Continue Reading

• Pressure on utilities to invest in e-business

  European utility companies face increasing pressure to invest in e-business capabilities, according to research for US software...  Continue Reading

• Groundswell: managing management consultants

  When business management consultants are called into your company, it's time to think about getting out.  Continue Reading

• Internet security must be taken seriously

  Security is not being taken seriously by a great many UK companies that trade on the web. This could be an expensive mistake,...  Continue Reading

• Italy is primed for m-commerce

  
  
  Andy Bailey

  As unashamed and dedicated followers of fashion, the Bailey family summer holiday this year followed the hordes to Chiantishire...

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• So it'll never happen to you?

  
  
  P> The Internet changes everything, so the saying goes, and while most investor attention has been focused on dotcoms, then infrastructure and security,...  Continue Reading

• Revolution is more evolution at Microsoft

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  A recent interview with Bill Gates in a leading financial publication proved as interesting as it was...

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• PricewaterhouseCoopers sheds light on trends

  In this brave new world of e-business, part of the mystique is that no-one knows what they're doing, and everyone is, to coin an...  Continue Reading

• Who cares if closed IT tendering is unlawful?

  The use of framework contracts of questionable legality could lead to all public sector IT purchases being met by a small number...  Continue Reading

• A philosophy for ITsuccess - positivity

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside track

  In all of my leadership work, there is no doubting what captures people's imagination more than...

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• Act now on distance selling laws

  
  
  Andrew Rigby

  The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations, which implement the EU's Distance Selling Directive come into force on 31...

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• Bottom falls out of the bullshit

  It's not just IT and conventional industry that's experiencing unprecedented change. The bullshit sector is turning over bullshit...  Continue Reading

• Is Microsoft's .net a trap?

  
  
  There is bound to be cynicism about Microsoft's .net strategy. Microsoft promised "an advanced new generation of software that melds computing and...  Continue Reading

• IT chiefs would scrap Oftel

  
  
  Daniel Thomas

  Over two-thirds of IT managers believe that the Government should scrap telecoms watchdog Oftel and consider tougher...

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• User organisations get new leadership

  
  
  New leaders have been appointed for two of the UK's most influential users organisations.

  Michael Gough, head of technical strategy at Sema's...

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• Security tops list of concerns for IT managers

  
  
  IT managers are not happy about the UK's Internet trading security measures, according to the results of this week's Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big...  Continue Reading

• Normal trading rules apply for e-procurement

  
  
  Most business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces have the potential to generate enormous savings over more traditional methods of selling or procuring goods...  Continue Reading

• Vague framework deals face Euro court probe

  The UK Government is facing a legal challenge over the secret contracting arrangements that may involve some of its biggest IT...  Continue Reading

• Hanging up on BT's stranglehold

  The government is bringing out a white paper on telecoms regulation.  Continue Reading

• The weakest link in the chain

  Breifing: If you want to communicate with the office when travelling abroad you'll need a suitcase full of adaptors. Eric Doyle...  Continue Reading

• The Third IT in Chemicals Conference

  Keeping up to date with the fast paced IT in chemicals and software markets is vital to maintain your company's competitiveness. ...  Continue Reading

• Agency aims to beat IT ageism

  
  
  A leading IT recruitment specialist is spearheading a campaign to outlaw ageism in recruitment, writes Antony Savvas. It is also calling for the...  Continue Reading

• Another false dawn for our Web-centric world

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  Yet again, reality is failing to live up to the hype, which for the past five years has been promising a...

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• E-business spending explosion

  Investment in e-commerce systems has rocketed in the past year, according to extensive user research  Continue Reading

• Get a slice of the gaming action

  When you become a man you put away childish things, so the saying goes.  Continue Reading

• Web host glitch exposes data

  Security: Business data is left exposed while security standard lies idle  Continue Reading

• Web control or Web anarchy?

  The ignorant in pursuit of the uncontrollable.  Continue Reading

• Intel unveils personal client architecture for the 3G sector

  Forget Wintel, it's going to by Symbintel - at least, that was the message from Tokyo as Intel announced its personal client...  Continue Reading

• Thinking laterally will solve IT skills crisis

  
  
  Roy Charles

  Soapbox

  Every computer journal I read, supported by fat reports from the likes of IDC, predicts that the IT skills...

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• Users offer outsourcing services with ASP deal

  
  
  Application service provider Esoft Global has launched a package to allow its users to offer outsourcing services themselves.

  Accountancy firm Redwood...

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• Signing on the dotcom line: the case for digital signatures

  
  
  David Bicknell

  E-business

  You might have thought that it was only a matter of time before digital signatures were being used in...

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• Linux is secure, despite Sophos' claim

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• ASPs need to wise up to business challenges ahead

  
  
  Robin Ford

  Opinion

  Despite all the debates concerning the applications service provider (ASP) business model, I believe it will...

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• Two-Jags Prescott in online petrol auction

  The petrol crisis may have caused problems for drivers up and down the country, but others saw it is a golden opportunity to make...  Continue Reading

• TMA snubs standards

  
  
  John Riley

  User group the Telecommunications Managers Association (TMA) has opted out of working with industry standards bodies to help...

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• Breaching the gap between business and IT

  IT is accustomed to being the technology hare leaving the slowcoach tortoise of business behind. But not any longer. Increased...  Continue Reading

• Ensuring proper e-mail use

  
  
  

  I'm under pressure from the board to facilitate a strategy that reduces users' time on personal e-mails. Obviously, I am aware that users should...

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• It's Wap till the cows come home

  
  
  Ross Bentley

  Cattle farmers are now using Wap devices to keep track of their cows.

  Edward McKenzie, who looks after 800 cattle...

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• Counting the cost of security

  Internet security giant Baltimore Technologies has just splashed out 91 million of its shares to buy Content Technologies  Continue Reading

• Lex picked up by Q.bit systems for £200,000 IT deal -- and other sales win briefs

  
  
  Lex motors ahead with IT development

  Automotive IT provider q.bit systems has agreed a £200,000 deal to oversee motor retailer Lex Autosales'...

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• Impressive words, but will UK Online go far enough?

  Following the launch of UK Online, the Government's strategy to put every citizen on the Internet and make Britain the best place for e-commerce, we examine the impact on small businesses, telecoms and broadcasting regulation, Whitehall and the UK ...  Continue Reading

• ICT fuels political protest

  
  
  Parliamentary reporter

  The mobile phone, IT and the Internet have transformed political protest, Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Matthew...

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• Office politics and the blameless culture

  After months of investigation, David Taylor has uncovered exactly who is to blame for all those risky business decisions that go...  Continue Reading

• Expanding your IT strategy as your firm expands globally

  as a firm gets bigger - and particularly if it expands overseas - what are the policies an IT manager should employ to keep...  Continue Reading

• The future lies in integration

  Without integration to back-end legacy systems, your whizzy Web front-end will fail to deliver. Julia Vowler reports  Continue Reading

• Call centres re-emerge in popularity

  
  
  Anne-marie Forsyth

  Soapbox

  With the bursting of the dotcom share bubble, e-commerce is getting real. Gone is the talk of life in...

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• 'Yellow Pages' for the web: let your fingers do the walking

  
  
  David Bicknell

  From time to time, problems crop up in e-business that have all the key players uniting to find a solution. Last week, another of these...

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• Make a case for security before it's too late

  Why is the UK still lagging when it comes to security policies? IT managers should take the opportunity to take the lead in this...  Continue Reading

• Directory to spell end for electronic marketplaces

  Electronic marketplaces and e-exchanges could be a thing of the past with the development the Universal Business Registry, an online business directory which allows companies to find business partners globally and automate the conduct of e-business  Continue Reading

• Entranet staff bare all to promote sexy IT careers

  
  
  IT services company Entranet is doing its best to convince potential recruits to the IT industry that it's a sexy career to choose and that it's not...  Continue Reading

• What the check list doesn't tell

  
  
  The UK's e-economy is making healthy progress, if the Government's second annual report on e-commerce is to be believed. Targets for SMEs online were...  Continue Reading

• Pay-to-use knowledge is the future

  Putting in systems is half the battle - staff must see a real incentive to share knowledge  Continue Reading

• Is Unix infallible?

  
  
  Paul Ducklin

  Soapbox

  There seems to be a lot of debate about whether Unix anti-virus products are useful. Some people even think...

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• Have you opened your eyes to e-business?

  E-business may represent an overawning challenge to the department, but IT chiefs cannot afford to bury their heads in the sand,...  Continue Reading

• I have seen the future

  
  
  

  Ken Olisa

  It is undeniably true that if the future of our industry exists anywhere, it is concentrated on the other side of the Atlantic....

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• How do I get into Win2000 as a career?

  
  
  I currently work in datacentre operations and have two and a half years experience of Vax VMS/Sun/Solaris/NT/Lan and Novell. I have put myself forward...  Continue Reading

• A rising sun? Japan sees the light

  Japan's low-profile in the new economy may be in the past, reports David Bicknell  Continue Reading

• Outlook carries Pokemon virus

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  So, what do an obscure Pokemon character and Microsoft Outlook have in common? They share the same address...

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• Time to config your PPPP

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• A celebration of incompetence

  Ross Bentley reviews The Hopeless, Hapless and Helpless Manager by Adrian Furnham, and Blown to Bits by Philip Evans and Thomas S...  Continue Reading

• Managing growth can mean living on the edge

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• E-business should be child's play

  
  
  The computer games industry looks worlds apart from the traditional IT industry. Over the past umpteen years it has had clear-cut standards, simple to use...  Continue Reading

• E-mail - private and personal?

  
  
  Andrew Rigby

  The vexed question of who owns or has a right to inspect e-mails can cause emotions to run high within organisations. For...

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• Hosting options: in-house or out-source

  if your firm is thinking of setting up a corporate Web site you will need to know the issues involved in choosing between ...  Continue Reading

• Web content: getting the fundamentals right

  
  
  Toby Poston

  Content, as the old Web cliche says, is king. This message seems to have got through to most Web site proprietors now.

  It...

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• CMG profits from the SMS craze

  
  
  Ian Mitchell

  City briefing

  It seems wherever you go you see people tapping on their mobiles sending text messages - with...

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• Have you got that Dotcom feeling?

  
  
  Games consoles, table football, fridges full of beer and "big balls of light" - Roisin Woolnough explores some new economy...  Continue Reading

• Take time to consider security

  Security specialist Gordon Stephenson thinks firms are preparing for catastrophe when the dangers are far more mundane. Ross...  Continue Reading

• ICL: English Patient in need of radical surgery?

  Fujitsu must make some radical decisions about its UK subsidiary ICL. Nicholas Enticknap assesses its options and finds that...  Continue Reading

• Cowering from content?

  To most IT managers, document management is about as exciting as watching crown green bowling. Whereas content management is a phrase certain to make you sit up and take notice  Continue Reading

• Price and prejudice: tackling ageism in the workplace

  Why do people assume that older people are less capable of learning, adapting and using IT than anybody else?  Continue Reading

• RIP: a well-intentioned act that only hits the good guys

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  The European proposals on cybercrime, reported in last week's issue, are strangely similar to Jack Straw's...

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• Memo to TB: Get an e-grip!

  
  
  According to analyst IDC, the UKis third in the world (behind Sweden and the US) in IT spending as a percentage of GDP. Despite that, fears are growing...  Continue Reading

• Brevity and honesty will give your CV style

  Becoming a team leader in the third millennium won't be easy, and so as the jobs season approaches David Taylor looks at the...  Continue Reading

• Caveat vendor

  Many senior corporate users are bracing themselves for an increased outbreak of software licence abuse this autumn.  Continue Reading

• Why adopt a Knowledge Management strategy?

  Key pointers about the value of adopting a knowledge management strategy. Is KM a business or an IT tool?  Continue Reading

• Technology turmoil begins to turn

  
  
  

  There are signs that life is returning to technology share prices. The Nasdaq Index has been flirting with the psychologically important 4,000...

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• E-business: new faces in the looking glass

  
  
  David Bicknell

  As the Mad Hatter might have said to the White Rabbit, "I'm going to talk to the director of consumer delight and loyalty, and I'll get...

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• Too young to die, too old for IT?

  Perhaps the IT industry isn't old enough to know better, but ageism in the workplace is driving away potential employees and...  Continue Reading

• The geek shall inherit the Earth

  For years, conference organisers have made a comfortable living from hosting events aimed at preaching to IT directors on how...  Continue Reading

• Wap site links graduates

  
  
  Nicholas Enticknap

  From September, graduates of the University of Buckingham will be able to access their alumni Web site using mobile...

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• Finding the work/life balance

  The over-50s in our industry are very sensitive, and that's to be expected.  Continue Reading

• Future is looking up for e-business

  Everyone's been talking about it for a while, but now it seems that the green shoots of recovery are giving way to a blooming of the market for IT spending - especially in e-business.  Continue Reading