Archive - 04 Dec 2000
Blair's web project gets first airing tonight
Tony Blair's promises on electronic government get their first test today with the launch of the gov...
French users set to embrace ADSL
Nearly 60 per cent of French internet users will access the web over ADSL by 2005, according to a st...
All eyes on Big Brother awards ceremony
Civil rights group Privacy International will tonight present its third annual 'Big Brother' awards ...
Egg beats rivals with secure transaction technology
Egg will be the first UK bank to implement Visa's latest ecommerce security technology.
Private exchanges muscle in on B2B markets
Industry consortium exchanges could face stiff competition from private trading hubs as consolidatio...
IT directors bypassed as the board appoints contractors
Companies often ignore the IT director when making technical decisions, according to UK ebusiness co...
Saying thank you is hard to do, claims CRM survey
Two thirds of companies using call centres are failing to thank their customers, according to a repo...
John Lamb's Week (4/12/00): Who wants to help an e-millionaire?
In the first of his regular Monday columns, John Lamb previews the forthcoming week's big events and...
Bolero.net secures $50m investment
Online trading specialist Bolero.net has announced the completion of its $50m first round of funding...
Telenor IPO fails to generate interest or revenue
Norwegian telco Telenor's stock market debut failed to attract investor enthusiasm today.
Winners by default call for Polish 3G U-turn
Poland's chief telecoms operators have called for the country's UMTS tenders to be cancelled after o...
Power in the palm of your hand - who holds the handheld aces?
The battle to control the software which underpins next generation mobile devices is hotting up. Ton...
Watchdogs snap over German government snooping powers
German data protection watchdogs are up in arms over proposals which would allow police to snoop on ...
Market reacts positively to Orchestream's losses
UK internet software firm Orchestream has reported an increase in both losses and revenues for the n...
Degriftour purchase is a silver lining for lastminute.com
Lastminute.com announced today that its £59m acquisition of French travel agent Degriftour in August...
Virus Alert: Prolin worm on the prowl
A computer worm called Prolin is attacking Windows 2000 operating systems, according to a raft of an...
Oracle joins B2B standards body
Oracle has joined the Universal Description Discovery and Integration standard, the online B2B datab...
Gemplus cuts price for delayed float
French smartcard company Gemplus has blamed poor market conditions for a two-day delay to its IPO an...
L&H outlines battle plan
Belgian firm Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) has outlined a restructuring plan in a bid to retain both clien...
Government wants seven-year record of all communications
The Home Office is considering forcing telecoms companies to retain records of all phone calls made,...
The strange case of ecommerce regulation in Europe
With the Brussels Regulation now law, the future viability of cross-border ecommerce in Europe is be...
Time is limited and dot-coms will drag others down with them
The Guardian this morning reports that computer retailer Time has become victim of its own 'a...
The Bloor Perspective: RIP bites, Sema down and time management for the net age
In their latest assessment of three of the week's key issues, Robin Bloor and his colleagues conside...
silicon.com launches Christmas competition
It's been a bumper year for earth shattering news stories on silicon.com.
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