ICL ducks out of ?40m Post Office contract
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Electioneering Blair promises action on skills crisis
Blair didn't announce any new initiatives, but told delegates at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) conference in London that extending and improving access to adult ...
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IR35: Contractors take the tax man to court
But the PCG has been told it is "destined to fail" in its attempt to block IR35 legislation through a judicial review.
Leading City law firm Tarlo Lyons believes the P...
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InterQuad makes IT the big issue for UK homeless
InterQuad says it will give any spare spaces on its courses to Streets Ahead - an education service run by Centrepoint - to give to homeless people.
The move has been ...
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Nokia secures corporate WAP strategies
The Nokia Activ Software Suite features PKI encryption, server authentication and push technology - which will allow companies to personalise services for their employees...
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C&W goes ASP and says: SMEs, don't buy another PC
a-Service is an end-to-end, pay-as-you-go offering and Jeremy Thompson, CEO of the company, claims users "may never need to buy a computer again". The 'a' stands for appl...
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Online training service to aid over-worked help desks
The service, hosted on the internet, provides five-to-seven minute training sessions on up to 50,000 skills in what it claims to be 'natural' language
The company hope...
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Gateway results beat analyst predictions
Gateway posted a profit of $152.6m - or 46 cents per share on sales of $2.53bn - a 35 per cent increase on the same period last year.
Over half of the third quarter in...
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UK government unveils latest blueprint for e-Britain
E-minister Patricia Hewitt today unveiled the government's latest statistics on the state of business and IT in the UK, and launched the Internet Mentoring Initiative for...
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Anytime, anywhere' technology leaves bosses cold
According to a study published today by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), 60 per cent of top executives feel technology makes them work harder bec...
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Help desk staff face meltdown as users struggle with IT
According to a study by research firm Xephon, end users are now in contact with help desks 44 per cent more than in 1997.
The research claims the increase is due to co...
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Fiserv denies data was accessed
An online bank customer from the Isle of Man contacted the paper, claiming he had gained access to secure information about customers' bank accounts through the Fiserv we...
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UK government widens the digital divide
Tony Blair's UK Online initiative promises internet access and IT training to anyone who wants it, through a nationwide network of 6,000 PC-based centres, but critics say...
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SMEs left none the wiser by government IT initiatives
According to a Compaq-sponsored survey by Mori, two-thirds of SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) do not know how to hire the employees they need, while almost half ...
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British legal system goes automatic for the people
The British legal system of trial by jury will receive a boost as automated selection procedures are rolled out across the country in the next two months.
This week, s...
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Behind the Headlines: Europe's diversity benefits the cautious dot-com
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Snooping Bill forces call centre staff into web cafes for privacy
Call centre managers should consider setting up independent web cafes in their rest areas, to comply with proposed UK government regulations.
That's the word from the ...
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Whitbread toasts CSC with ?50m contract
UK leisure group Whitbread has signed a ?50m contract to outsource all its IT systems to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
The seven-year contract will see 104 Whit...
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Oxfam hacker strikes again
Herbless, the hacker behind the hijacking of the cabinet office in July 2000, has been named as the hacker who brought down Oxfam's site yesterday.
The UK charity clos...
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Ethernet alliance writes ATM obituary
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News in View: Internet takes poll position
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Micromuse Netcool to aid Marconi's European networks
Marconi has selected Micromuse's Netcool software suite to monitor network faults and service availability in its new Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Liverpool.
The...
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Demon customers' card details at risk after PC theft
Demon Internet has become the latest company to suffer a serious security breach involving its customers' credit card details.
The company's headquarters were burgled,...
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News in View: Disadvantaged being bypassed by information superhighway
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ICL group wins ?350m Home Office contract
The Home Office is to award a ?350m ten-year PFI (Private Finance Initiative) contract to an ICL-led consortium.
The consortium - called Sirius - consists of outsourci...
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French Prime Minister's FF4bn IT investment branded 'drop in the ocean
French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin is spending FF4bn (?385m) promoting the internet with a move to get schools online and to improve training, but analysts have describe...
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Government to allocate ?50m to cyber-crime unit
The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) has announced that a National Computer Crime Unit will be a reality by April 2001, with funding in excess of ?50m expect...
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Powercom installs Marconi multi-service network
Danish carrier service provider, Powercom, has installed a multi-service network to handle voice and data traffic.
The hardware has been provided by Marconi Communicat...
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JD Edwards' One World incorporates Latin America
Software company, JD Edwards, has teamed up with Latin America's leading telco research centre, CPqD, to develop operations software for the telecommunications industry.
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Services top the agenda for Networks-telecom exhibitors
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