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News Adrian Beeby, of industry body Water UK, said although some companies have already begun compliance procedures, this is the first time they have specifically set out to share the results of internal... [28 Jul 1998]
Tesco fills shelves with more PCs
News Ian French, director of computer and service business at Ideal Hardware, a distributor for both computer companies, said: "Fujitsu has been desperate to break into the retail market for some time. Tesco is to double the... [23 Jul 1998]
Lotus fanfares SmartSuite Millennium Edition
News The research found SmartSuite users suffer less downtime, and users take less time to get used to the Lotus product. Lotus has launched the next release of its desktop productivity suite of applications - SmartSuite... [22 Jul 1998]
Compaq chief speaks out on Unix and NT
News Jamie Snowdon, analyst at Input thought that two to three years is an ambitious time limit. Joe McNally, vice president and UK managing director of Compaq, exclusively told Silicon of his company's plans for Digital Unix. [21 Jul 1998]
Over half UK SMEs are failing to prepare for the euro
News Time is of the essence and I would suggest that companies who think they still have time to fix the problem are being very optimistic," added Phillips. Over half of the UK's small and medium enterprises... [20 Jul 1998]
German telecoms deregulation is hailed a success
News He added that it will probably take a long time, as Telekom "will put up a strong fight". New telecommunications companies in Germany have gained a 12 per cent market share of long-distance calls since deregulation six... [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]
Vendors stay faithful to Windows 95
News Dominic Webb, pre-sales consultant at Hewlett-Packard, said the company has no plans to offer both operating systems: "Historically, we've offered a choice of two in the form of a one-time selection. PC vendors are... [13 Jul 1998]
Banking Industry fears Y2K and EMU crash
News He added that because banks have invested a lot of time and money into solving the two problems, they are more aware of how damaging it will be. The banking industry fears it is facing a potential disaster because of... [10 Jul 1998]
Smartcards delay road toll trial
News A traffic management trial that is central to the UK government's forthcoming transport white paper was delayed because the technology supplier failed to deliver on time. The Leicester environmental road tolling scheme... [06 Jul 1998]
Computacenter waits for verdict
News She believes she was passed over for promotion and claimed in court that at the time of her sacking, Computacenter had no women in genuine management positions. Computacenter will have to wait until early August to find... [03 Jul 1998]
Netscape backs off from Java 'faux pas'
News This time last year we were developing JVM for 17 platforms," he continued. Netscape appears to have back-peddled on its stance towards the viability of the Java client. It has denied that abandoning development of the... [03 Jul 1998]
ARM shares continue on upward trend
News However, Mitul Nehta, senior European research manager at Frost and Sullivan, said: "At this point in time, this is just another deal. Shares in chip designer, ARM have continued their meteoric rise this week, just two... [01 Jul 1998]
Road toll scheme delayed by wrong type of smartcard
News A traffic management trial that is central to a UK transport policy White Paper was delayed because the technology supplier could not deliver on time. The Leicester Environmental Road Tolling Scheme (Lerts) used... [01 Jul 1998]
Symantec buys into cloning
News Symantec plans to target corporate users with Ghost, a cloning product it says will reduce the time it takes to install an operating system on new PCs. Symantec has thrown $27.5m (£17.2m) behind cloning technology,... [30 Jun 1998]
