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• 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

• JBB toasts its PDS scheme

  
  
  The success of the BCS Professional Development Scheme (PDS) among IT staff at drinks manufacturer JBB (Greater Europe) has won the company this year's...  Continue Reading

• Procurement specialists set for advertising battle

  
  
  David Bicknell

  Not satisfied with having created demand for marketplaces from every sector from financial services to aircraft parts, from steel...

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• 'We listened to industry on RIP Act' says Straw

  Last week Computer Weekly columnist David Taylor slammed the new RIP Act as an obstacle to e-business. The home secretary Jack...  Continue Reading

• A suppliers' checklist for selling solutions

  Suppliers selling IT solutions could make things easier for themselves  Continue Reading

• RIP is threat to Net safety

  
  
  Geert Kampschoer

  Soapbox

  A ll sorts of emotions have been stirred by the RIP Act - anger, offence, mistrust. Opponents claim that...

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• Glossy and glorious - but out of touch

  Despite the regular appearances of the e-minister Patricia Hewitt and e-envoy Alex Allan at recent e-commerce-related events, the Government is in danger of substituting quantity for quality  Continue Reading

• Y2K ripples still rocking consultancies

  It has been a buyer's market for IT services over the past year, with the Y2K lockdown and a refusal by consultants to cut back...  Continue Reading

• RIP Act negates tenet of e-friendly country

  In an open letter to the home secretary Jack Straw, David Taylor asks for clarification of some disturbing implications of the...  Continue Reading

• Get prepared for Web-enabled euro e-business

  
  
  Roger Annett

  Opinion

  Companies entering the e-commerce fray are salivating at the prospect of EuroLand's 300 million consumers using...

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• Users sigh as captains' fists fly

  
  
  High-profile fisticuffs between the captains of the supply industry, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates, Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison, is all...  Continue Reading

• Will SP1 for Win 2000 make life sweet for Microsoft?

  As predicted and eagerly expected, Windows 2000's first service pack (SP1) has arrived  Continue Reading

• E-training diary: week four

  It is the final week of the four-week e-commerce training course provided as a prize to one of our readers by People Energy...  Continue Reading

• The nightmare scenario

  Y2K for 'dummies'?  Continue Reading

• E-training diary: week three

  It's week three of the four-week e-commerce training course provided as a prize to one of our readers by People Energy Training....  Continue Reading

• E-commerce: non-delivery fines must ring alarm bells

  
  
  David Bicknell

  E-business

  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is one of the few government organisations that seems to...

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• First-mover advantage or going out on a limb?

  
  
  Gregory Darmohray

  First-mover advantage? What advantage? The events of the past few months in both business-to-consumer and...

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• Sex, booze and karaoke: doing business in Asia

  A belly full of beer is a pre-requisite for negotiating deals in South East Asia.  Continue Reading

• AOL playing a dangerous game with ICQ monopoly

  
  
  Jack Schofield

  Opinion

  America Online (AOL) may already have swallowed its biggest rival CompuServe plus Netscape and various...

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• Convergence: one rule for all?

  
  
  John Riley

  Convergence - where voice, data and video are all delivered digitally down the same pipes - is at an early stage. But with a White...

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• CIOs see a future in the chief exec's job

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside track

  John Whitworth, chief information officer (CIO) of Cox Insurance, explains the difference between chief...

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• Sting in the tail of the chancellor's high-tech largesse

  
  
  Suki Gallager

  Opinion

  In his latest budget, chancellor Gordon Brown made moves to try to get organisations big and small to make...

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• There's our Wap and their Wap, but it certainly ain't open

  Now if you believe the ad-men, wireless application protocol (Wap) is plug-and-play, and if you listen to our excitable friends...  Continue Reading

• Two years down the line

  After two years on the staff of Computer Weekly, Cliff Saran pens his swansong, recalling Java lows and Microsoft highs  Continue Reading

• Time to learn from IT disasters

  The public sector is failing to learn from its mistakes and is developing a cover-up culture - at great cost to the taxpayer  Continue Reading

• Keep in the know without going barmy

  You want the information and you want it now. Welcome to modern living. But beware data overload.  Continue Reading

• E-training diary: week two

  Computer Weekly reader Jonathan Steel, the winner of a four-week e-commerce training course provided by People Energy Training,...  Continue Reading

• Cute chicks add fun to a fowl job

  Martin Couzins talks turkey with the egghead who designed the Web site for the hit film Chicken Run  Continue Reading

• Adopt a new code of conduct

  
  
  David Bicknell

  Getting to grips with supplier relationship management can help you streamline your company's purchasing processes and at the...

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• Ask Jeeves adds "human touch" to e-commerce

  
  
  David Bicknell

  Search engine Ask Jeeves has launched a business service to help companies ramp up their lagging Web-based customer...

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• Paying due attention to the GUI

  
  
  Ian Benn

  Soapbox

  By the early 1980s everyone knew that if you were going to travel any kind of distance, your chances of getting...

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• Why we need to beef up the law on spam

  We need better legislation to restrict junk e-mail  Continue Reading

• How to be a good boss

  No one wants to be a bad boss, but passing company directions down to the workforce may not always make you the most popular...  Continue Reading

• Pervasive benefits: the rise of mobile Internet devices

  The next customer service revolution - when customer service is delivered via powerful and ubiquitous mobile Internet devices -...  Continue Reading

• Nurture, not nature, is the key to leadership

  
  
  David Taylor

  Inside track

  Many people believe that leaders are born, and not made. Presumably new-born leaders behave in a...

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• 'Sack over-50s' call from IT analyst

  Older IT staff considered unable to cope with changes in working practices  Continue Reading

• Stop IT directors from moving on

  Watching captains of the established services and software industry enjoying themselves on the merry-go-round at the Computing Services & Software Association's 25th birthday party  Continue Reading

• RIP needs safeguards

  
  
  David Bicknell

  Data protection commissioner Elizabeth France has warned that controversial government legislation to monitor e-mail...

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• Stand firm on data privacy

  The EU's decision to back a report questioning the USA's willingness to protect personal data may cause delays in legislation, but will benefit user-privacy in the long run.  Continue Reading

• Worth studying for an MCSE?

  
  
  I have a background in helpdesk support with some experience of PC support, installation and software testing. I should gain a Diploma in Computing from...  Continue Reading

• What would you consign to Rm101?

  
  
  David Taylor

  inside track

  Welcome to the darkest column of them all. Welcome to IT room 101 - a sinister celebration of my 101st...

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• Gates' .net is long on vision but short on infrastructure

  
  
  Simon Moores

  Tech talk

  Smoke and mirrors with lots of Plasticene holding it together. The unkindest of comments to describe...

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