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Wednesday 9 May 2001

Royal Mail turns post offices into pick-up joints

Consignia, formerly Royal Mail, is to open its 18,000 branches as pick-up points for e-tailers and will not charge them by the individual package.

Sun picks up B2B gauntlet

Sun is getting into bed with iPlanet, also known as the Sun Netscape Alliance, and i2 in a multi-million dollar e-marketplace deal.

Homepage worm 'second most virulent ever'

The spread of the destructive Kournikova variant 'homepage' is causing trouble around the world and ensuring its place in the record books, as further reports of infected machines flood in.

Virus alert: Kournikova variant spreads through Europe

European businesses are under threat from a variant of the highly destructive Anna Kournikova virus, which caused chaos in the UK in February.

Q. Who are the biggest election losers so far? A. Foxes and security workers

When Tony Blair visited the Queen on Tuesday morning, that was Parliament's cue to clear its decks.

Geeks need a licence: Official

The information security industry has lost its battle to duck out of a new security licensing scheme set up by Home Secretary Jack Straw.

Cisco UK chief sidesteps US fall-out

Cisco's UK chief claims the economic downturn that has ravaged tech stocks in the US has not affected the networking giant's European business.

XP hits the shelves in October

Microsoft Windows XP, the long awaited latest version of its operating system, will hit the shelves on Thursday 25 October.

Ford driven by cost-cutting

Motor industry giant Ford has turned to StorageNetworks to provide a data storage management service to help it drive down costs and control its customer data.

'No business in snow business' for Olympic dropout

Start-up managed service provider Logictier has pulled out of a web hosting deal for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, with only 275 days to go until the opening ceremony.

UK voters shut out of polls by lack of online democracy

The UK government is neglecting thousands of potential voters in the UK by failing to have a secure online voting system in place for this summer's election.

Ailing sales forces Nat Semi to cull 1,100 jobs

National Semiconductor is cutting 10 per cent of its work force because of declining sales for lower than expected fiscal fourth quarter profits.

Sportal prays for last-gasp winner

Like a desperate football manager calling for extra time in the hope of grabbing a late goal, sports website Sportal is today looking anxiously at its watch and hoping for an eleventh hour lifeline to stave off financial relegation.

Sage profits up despite downturn

Sage Group has turned in a 10 per cent increase in pre-tax profits for the half year.

Superstar professor - the future of e-learning?

The internet is changing the way people are educated, but how radical will the changes be? Mark Graham considers one extreme view...

Stockwatch Daily: Europe slumps on the back of Cisco results

A poor third quarter performance from Cisco saw European technology stocks plummet at the start of trading today.

Corporate Voodoo: Extract 2 - Vodafone's secret weapons

Rene Carayol is an ebusiness consultant and silicon.com columnist. In this second extract from Corporate Voodoo, his first book, co-authored with business writer David Firth, we consider one success story, a company that has lived according to the principles of Voodoo - Vodafone...


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