IT services april 2000 in news
Microsoft Europe chief unconcerned by EC investigation
News I would not say right now it is a tough climate - it's pretty much a normal process," he said. The software giant acquired 29.9 per cent of Telewest in October following the completion of an agreement... [23 Mar 2000]
Microsoft delays .Net Server release - again
News In April 2001, Microsoft pushed back delivery of the product, which is an essential component of the company's .Net web services strategy, to early 2002. During his Comdex keynote address on Sunday,... [19 Nov 2002]
EDS faces fight to hang onto taxman millions
News The Inland Revenue has launched a campaign to tempt the great and the good of the IT services industry to bid for its IT support contract when the existing deal with EDS runs out in... [01 Nov 2001]
A year in review: IR35 and one-person service companies
News In September, officials invited EDS, the IT services group, to a meeting where IR35 proposals where discussed. The UK government's IR35 legislation has been a thorn in the side of the UK's... [21 Dec 1999]
Delayed national MOT database finally completed
News The MOT computerisation project, which aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off the road, has finally been rolled out to all 18,500 testing stations and garages - nearly three years later than it was... [07 Apr 2006]
Lib Dems set sights on IR35
News IR35 came into force in April 2000 to tackle the problem of people who provided services through limited companies as a means of avoiding tax. The organisation has also asserted that... [03 Oct 2005]
MOT computerisation PFI project delayed again
News The first garages finally went live with the system in April this year but the government has now admitted it will not reach all 18,500 MOT garages until the end of March next year at the earliest. Ian... [22 Jun 2005]
5 years ago... DTI delays mobile licence auction
News The protracted 3G licence auction eventually concluded in April 2000 with the mobile operators paying a collective £22.5bn to the UK government. What the government failed to realise while... [27 Jan 2004]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News RPC, or remote procedure call, is a protocol applications use to request services from programs on another computer in a network. The DNS and RPC warning comes days after Microsoft issued its April... [13 Apr 2007]
5 years ago: Marks & Spencer to sell cars online
News 26.10.99 A European web start-up has received high-profile backing from Marks & Spencer Financial Services, Andersen Consulting and venture capitalists Atlas Ventures in its bid to sell discounted cars online. [26 Oct 2004]
Microsoft sets release date for Windows Server 2003
News Microsoft has set 12 March as the release to manufacture date for the new versions of its server operating system, paving the way for a shipping date of 29 April. Customers say it is the one thing they... [24 Feb 2003]
£2m credit card fraud masterminded by IT worker
News The UK's largest ever credit card fraud was masterminded by an IT expert who downloaded details of cards used by passengers to purchase tickets for London's Heathrow Express rail link. Sunil Mahtani, 26, from Watford... [08 Sep 2003]
Silicon Valley hit by outsourcing protests
News According to research firm Gartner, more than 300 of the Fortune 500 firms tap IT services companies in India to run their data centers and call centers. Brainstorm Group held an outsourcing conference... [17 Sep 2003]
AOL co-founder steps down as ISP plans comeback
News In August it launched a new portal that will make services and content that were previously available only to AOL subscribers free to everyone. In April he launched an investment company... [01 Nov 2005]
Microsoft plugs Windows, Word and Excel holes
News Security firm Symantec said in February that it had discovered malicious files in the wild in Japan that attempt to exploit the Excel Unspecified Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. It affects Windows... [15 Apr 2009]
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