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News Countrywide Home Loans has awarded a contract to AT&T worth £40m over three years for its OneNet service. In brief: AT&T picks up £40m communications contract The US telco will improve internal and external... [17 Jul 1998]
IT chiefs sleep rough for charity
News If they are unemployed and have left home, these people have no money at all. Top figures in the IT industry will sleep on London's streets for a night as part of a fund-raising campaign. The money will be used to... [17 Jul 1998]
Data Protection Bill sparks international talks
News Graham Sutton, of the Home Office's data protection unit, said data privacy issues have been discussed at length and added: "The gap in perception is narrowing between the US and the EU, both in the US administration and... [17 Jul 1998]
Delays hit £70m Siemens database
News Siemens Business Services (SBS) admitted today for the first time that its £70m Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme to supply an immigration caseworking database to the Home Office is running at least six months late. [15 Jul 1998]
Telco undercuts opposition to attract home users
News Telinco, a fledgling telco based in Cheshire, England, has announced a Home Connect service for residential and small and home office customers. Home Connect is a bundled service... [10 Jul 1998]
Analysis: why the business world won't want the XC
Comment For the home and business environments there is the Desktop X500. Conventional monitors can be used, but the machines work equally well with a home TV set. First there was the PC. Then came the NC. Now... [10 Jul 1998]
In brief: Netscape to aim search facility at consumers
News The move comes as the firm shifts the target of its directory from business users and professionals to more consumer content in an effort to attract home users. Netscape has announced it is to plough $10m into promoting... [09 Jul 1998]
London Electricity moves into telecoms
News In general, power and railway companies make attractive partners for telcos looking to expand outside of their home markets, and I'm sure we'll see more deals like this. London Electricity is offering telecoms services... [07 Jul 1998]
In brief: CWC buys into digital TV
News Home banking and shopping will also be on offer. Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has bought a 50.1 per cent stake in media company, Two Way TV, for £13m. CWC will supply Two Way TV services to its own customers... [06 Jul 1998]
Future of Freedom of Information Act in doubt
News The chairman of the Select Committee on Public Administration, Rhodri Morgan, confirmed that Minister without Portfolio Peter Mandelson, Home Secretary Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Lords Lord Richard and... [06 Jul 1998]
The euro is coming, like it or not
Comment The EMU train may have left the station without the UK but that doesn't mean IT directors can go home and forget about the single currency. Quite the opposite in fact. Sterling or no Sterling, the pressure to support the... [06 Jul 1998]
InfoSpace provides business directory for Netscape
News This is the latest in a series of content partnerships by Netscape, and went live yesterday on Netcenter at www.home.netscape.com. Netscape has announced that InfoSpace is to provide US-based directory listings on its... [03 Jul 1998]
Europe's first cardiac call centre opens
News Patients record their own heartbeat at home with rhythm units and then play the pulse over the telephone to technicians at the centre, where the audio signal is turned back into an ECG trace. Around 1,600 GPs have signed... [03 Jul 1998]
Tesco becomes an ISP
News It hopes to drive viewers into its home shopping and finance services. Tesco this week became the first UK supermarket to offer Internet access. For £9 a month, TescoNet provides unlimited access to the Web. [03 Jul 1998]
BBC and Microsoft in European WebTV trial
News In April, WebTV's rival, NetChannel - now owned by telecoms company NTL - launched a hardware and software bundle that linked home users to PCs via the Internet. However, he said it remains to be seen whether consumers... [03 Jul 1998]
