Computing articles from July 2005

Computing archives from July 2005

News - Public to share eBorders bill. System running costs could be met by entry and exit charge to passengers.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. The government is considering charging people to enter and leave the UK, to offset the running costs of its electronic borders programme. The planned eBorders system will link government agencies to travel...

News - Prudential ratifies insourcing plan.(contract with Capgemini UK PLC)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Samuels. Financial services provider Prudential is bringing part of its outsourced IT operations back in-house. Prudential UK recently completed a benchmarking exercise to determine the level of service and value for money...

News - Met appeals for private funding.(Metropolitan Police Office)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Businesses could make a major contribution to cutting the [pounds sterling]2.4bn cost of UK cyber crime by sponsoring specialist investigators in the Metropolitan Police. The force's Computer Crime Unit (CCU) is appealing for private...

News - Catalist could shut out small suppliers. Trade body warns on effect of IT procurement changes.(contract with OGCbuying.solutions)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. Changes to the government's IT procurement catalogues could change the shape of the industry by shutting out smaller suppliers and locking larger ones into continuous bidding, warns trade body Intellect. The...

News - Gateway review system being overlooked.(report on government information technology projects)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. Nearly one in three government IT projects are skipping the early stages of the Gateway review process designed to highlight issues before they become major problems, say MPs. The Gateway system, run by Whitehall...

News - Report recommends merged air traffic control.(National Air Traffic Control Services Ltd., Ireland Irish Aviation Authority)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Watson. Merging air traffic control across the UK and Ireland could generate annual cost savings of up to EUR30m ([pounds sterling]20m), according to a report published this week. The report, jointly commissioned by...

News - Banks ready to increase spend on IT innovation.
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Watson. European banks allocate a quarter of their IT budgets to development and innovation, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey. And despite a growth rate in IT spend of just half of one per cent over...

News - Atos Origin retains contract for Olympics IT integration.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Samuels. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Atos Origin as IT systems integrator for the 2010 Winter and 2012 Summer Games. The 2012 Olympics will be the sixth Games at which Atos Origin develops, runs...

News - Firms to bid for rail service planner work.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. National Rail Enquiries (NRE) is to upgrade its journey planner service to provide train passengers with real-time travel and service information over the internet and mobile phones. The Association of Train...

News - Financial world.(software companies earning reports)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Oracle reported fourth-quarter GAAP revenue up 26 per cent to $3.88bn ([pounds sterling]2.2bn) and net income up three per cent to $1.02bn ([pounds sterling]580m) on the same period last year. For the full year, net income was up eight per cent...

News - Fighting e-crime with private sector funding. How just [pounds sterling]1m a year extra would help in the war against high-tech crime.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Bryan Glick. The Metropolitan Police says private sector funding of just [pounds sterling]1m per year would allow its Computer Crime Unit (CCU) to double the number of cases it investigates. The head of the CCU, detective chief...

News - Benefits for the banking industry.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Watson. A specialist banking industry-backed police squad has recovered more than [pounds sterling]100m from fraudsters since its inception three years ago. The Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit (DCPCU), which...

News - Brewer refreshes global IT systems. InBev signs multimillion-pound deals with IBM and BT.(British Telecommunications PLC)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. Brewery conglomerate InBev has awarded two contracts worth a total of EUR425m ([pounds sterling]287m) to IBM and BT as part of a global IT and communications systems overhaul intended to reduce costs. The brewer...

News - Online retailers urged to back trust mark plan.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Brown. Online retailers are being urged to join a trust mark scheme intended to improve online delivery services and increase consumer confidence. At the centre of the scheme, initiated by Interactive Media in Retail...

News - Peacocks uses data analysis to combat fraud. Software will help retailer to target areas of internal fraud or error.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. High-Street retailer Peacocks is to use data analysis software to pinpoint areas where it is losing money through internal fraud and administrative errors. The company will go live next month with Fraud Alerter...

News - Computer Aid hits 10,000 pledges.(Computer Aided Manufacturing International)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Samuels. IT directors have pledged more than 10,000 used PCs since April via our Computer Aid web site. Working with specialist charity Computer Aid International, we are asking the UK's technology leaders to donate old...

News - Backbytes - back_bytes@vnu.co.uk.(information technology services industry)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Hue do you think you're kidding? We have received many letters about strange notices appearing in your offices, but possibly none quite as obscure as this one from Declan Keegan, at Thales Air Defence. 'On the shop floor of one of our...

Enterprise - McLaren uses data for quick response. Formula One team also looks to reinforce security management.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. Formula One team McLaren Mercedes plans to improve on this season's Grand Prix success by implementing technology to improve decision-making. McLaren Racing, the company behind the team, has also gone live with...

Enterprise - Harrods to ditch paper catalogue for web version.(online home shopping catalogue)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Harrods has put its home shopping catalogue online using hosted imaging technology, saving time and money and extending the company's international customer base. The Knightsbridge store developed a home shopping...

Enterprise - Hammersmith Trust remedies server problems. Storage forms the core of [pounds sterling]600,000 strategy to address NHS patient care.(National Health Service)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Brown. The Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust is spending [pounds sterling]600,000 revamping its servers to improve patient services. The trust, one of the largest in London, wants to move away from its traditional...

Enterprise - Elearning rolls out to Scottish schools. High-bandwidth system will give teachers access to latest resources.
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Mortleman. Schools across Scotland are to be linked to a [pounds sterling]10m digital network providing access to the latest online learning resources. The Scottish Schools Digital Network will give some 3,000 schools,...

Enterprise - Nisa-Today to rethink supply chain systems.(contract with Retek Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Distribution company Nisa-Today is deploying integration software to help manage the disparate supply chain systems of its retail members. As the UK's largest wholesaler for independent food and convenience...

Enterprise - E.ON UK kicks off IT overhaul with storage boost.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. E.ON UK, owner of Powergen, has consolidated its storage capacity as part of a project to standardise and improve management of its IT infrastructure. The utility's storage and disaster recovery provision became...

Enterprise - Outsourcing deals raise share values. Valuations are higher for firms that outsource, reveals research.
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Mortleman. Firms that outsource parts of their operations have higher share valuations than those that do not, according to research. The Outsourcing for Corporate Value study, commissioned by LogicaCMG, found that...

Enterprise - Scottish and Southern to distribute IT.(Scottish Power PLC, Southern Energy Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Energy company Scottish and Southern Energy is using application performance management software to deliver IT resources to 1,500 distributed staff involved in a new business venture. The Scotia Gas Networks...

Enterprise - Matalan expands Capgemini contract in PC refresh.(Capgemini UK PLC)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Retailer Matalan is extending its reliance on outsourced IT and upgrading its desktop PCs and software systems. The company has expanded an existing agreement with supplier Capgemini to upgrade its PC systems, to...

Enterprise - IT pilots lead airline's revival. Online ticketing and check-in facilities at the heart of plans to compete with low-cost carriers.
July 7, 2005... Byline: James Watson. Over the past five years, a series of events from 9/11 to Sars to surging oil prices have conspired to bring the airline industry to its knees. Amid the turmoil, low-cost carrier models driven by operators such...

Enterprise - Execs join charity sleepout.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Computing staff. Senior IT executives from across the UK are being called upon to spend a night sleeping out in London to raise money for children's charity NCH. The annual Byte Night event will take place on Friday 23...

View from the top - Sybase seeks to lead the mobility market. Computing discusses Sybase's acquisition plans with chief executive and chairman John Chen.(Interview)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. In the mid-1990s Californian database firm Sybase looked set to give Oracle a run for its money. But a period of lost focus and over-ambition caused the company to hit a low, with analyst Gartner estimating a 70...

Comment - You must keep the customer satisfied. Customer satisfaction is the best way to measure the success of an outsourcing arrangement, says Angela Cha.(Column)
July 7, 2005... The benefits of outsourcing are well documented, but many firms still struggle to measure effectively the success of their outsourcing deal. Intuition and 'gut feel' might go some way to evaluating return, but with such significant investment...

Comment - A small price to pay for cutting e-crime.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
July 7, 2005... Scotland Yard's computer crime specialists are deservedly seen as among the best in their field worldwide. Considering there are just 10 investigators in the team, its success is all the more remarkable. So the opportunity to double the...

Networking - BT's IP makeover brings it into the 21st Century. Bryan Glick kicks off this month's networking special with a look at BT's ambitious 21st Century Network project, which aims to replace the entire infrastrucure with an IP-based system by 2009.(British Telecommunications PLC)
July 7, 2005... On 9 June 2004, BT announced the biggest ever makeover of the UK's communications infrastructure. The 21st Century Network (21CN) project will install a single, IP-based voice and data network to replace the multitude of service-specific...

Networking - Businesses hang back over commitment to 3G services. 3G operators are failing to win over potential business network users.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Lisa Kelly. More than two years since the first 3G network launched in the UK, businesses have yet to take full advantage of the latest mobile technology. Research by industry body the Communications Management Association...

Networking - Case study - Getty Images - 3G datacards are a photo opportunity.
July 7, 2005... If your job is to get news pictures into the national papers, rapid delivery of photos helps beat the competition, which is why picture agency Getty Images has equipped photographers with 3G data transfer. Using Vodafone 3G datacards,...

Networking - Grid approach establishes a wider appeal. The latest Computing web seminar tackled grid computing issues.(Panel Discussion)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Bryan Glick. In the latest of Computing's regular series of web seminars, we invited a panel of experts to discuss the potential of grid computing to help companies improve the flexibility, scalability and reliability of their IT...

Enterprise - Offshore is more than outsourcing.(Column)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Elizabeth Sparrow. Offshore outsourcing, geosourcing, best shore, right shore, near-shore, far-shore, global sourcing. We have plenty of words to describe the globalisation of the IT services industry, but few agreed...

Services - Free tickets to five-star forum.
July 7, 2005... Computing is pleased to offer a limited number of free tickets to the Commonwealth Technology Forum in London on 11 and 12 July. The high-level conference will tackle issues including innovation, globalisation, outsourcing and the future of...

Services - Diary.(Calendar)
July 7, 2005... Softworld Accounting and Finance 12-13 October NEC, Birmingham Europe's leading software event for the accounting and finance profession brings together more than 70 leading software providers under one roof. Delegates can attend...

BCS Diary events.(Calendar)
July 7, 2005... Electronic Publishing Specialist Group 14 July. 'Twenty years of desktop publishing.' London College of Communication. Visit: www.epsg.org.uk Affiliate Women into Computing 14-16 July. '6th International WiC Conference.'...

Training - Listings.
July 7, 2005... Information for the courses page should follow our usual format - course category, title of course, venue, date, price, organising company/body, telephone number. Unless the information is presented in this way, we regret that it cannot be...

Careers - Toshiba prioritises IT promotion path. PC support staff are groomed for management positions.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Samuels. Toshiba UK wants its IT support staff to form the basis of its technology management team. Sandra Smith, IT director at Toshiba UK, says the company places high importance on the recruitment process for PC support...

Careers - Backbytes - back_bytes@vnu.co.uk.
July 7, 2005... In case of emergency leave for four years More stories of users who store their data in trash. Or just store trash in the trash as if it were data, as it turns out. 'I was sorting out a software issue on a user's PC when I had to...

News bulletin - High rise in online transactions.(HSBC Holdings PLC)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... HSBC has reported a 500 per cent increase in online transactions conducted by its UK business customers, rising to 10.6 million over the past year. The value of payments made by the bank's 270,000 internet-registered small business customers...

News bulletin - G8 summit soaks up Sun.(contract with Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Delegates and media attending the G8 Gleneagles 2005 Summit will be able to access the internet and business applications using Sun Microsystems technology. SunRay, Java Desktop and StarOffice technologies will be used to create a thin-client...

News bulletin - IT spending in education to rise.(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... IT spending by Europe's education sector will reach $7.7bn ([pounds sterling]4.39bn) by 2010, according to Datamonitor. The majority of investment will come from primary and secondary education institutes looking to improve child IT literacy,...

News bulletin - Nats orders digital offering.(National Air Traffic Control Services Ltd., Park Air Systems)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... National Air Traffic Service (Nats) has ordered a digital air traffic control voice communications and control system valued at nearly [pounds sterling]20m from Park Air Systems, as part of a [pounds sterling]1bn investment plan. The system...

News bulletin - Amended charges against Kumar.(case against Sanjay Kumar of Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... The US government has filed an amended indictment against former Computer Associates chief executive Sanjay Kumar that accuses him of paying a customer $3.7m ([pounds sterling]2.1m) to stop it disclosing the firm's accounting practices. The...

News bulletin - MoD makes BAE choice.(United Kingdom Ministry of Defence)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... The Ministry of Defence has named BAE Systems as preferred bidder for the [pounds sterling]180m Project Falcon to supply portable battlefield communications networks. The new system will have 50 times the capacity of the old one, and will...

News bulletin - Demand for collaboration rising.(forecast of online collaboration)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Online collaboration will be worth $1.1bn ([pounds sterling]625m) by 2008, predicts Gartner. In the short term, the analyst says growing demand for collaboration technologies will drive the worldwide market to $681.7m ([pounds sterling]387m) in...

News bulletin - China joins spam agreement.(international agreement to control spam email)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... The Chinese government has signed up to an international agreement to combat spam email. China, the second biggest source of unsolicited email, has joined the London Action Plan, which aims to improve international prosecution and the...

News bulletin - Customer service is the priority.(survey on retailers)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Improving customer service surpasses cost reduction for UK retailers as the primary IT investment driver, according to a survey carried out by IT services firm HCL Technologies. Its report shows that 28 per cent of respondents believe customer...

News bulletin - Britannic consolidates its IT.(contract with Atos Origin S.A.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Financial services company Britannic has announced the consolidation of IT in the datacentre and print services associated with managing more than six million closed book insurance policies. It has signed a 10-year deal to make existing IT...

Enterprise bulletin - Serco wins Bradford contract.(Serco Solutions, International Business Machines Corp., contract)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... IBM has selected Serco Solutions, formerly ITNet, as the subcontractor to implement IT platforms and services as part of a [pounds sterling]158m outsourcing contract with Bradford Council. The project is intended to bring efficiencies to the...

Enterprise bulletin - Tesco strikes CA services deal.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Tesco has announced an ongoing deal with systems management software provider Computer Associates (CA). The supermarket group is to standardise its operations on CA's Unicenter. The software will allow the retailer to manage and control the...

Enterprise bulletin - Trojans tighten grip on web.(report)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Security firms have been reporting a surge in the amount of new Trojan software circulating on the internet. 'It looks as though Trojans are a real growth area,' said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. 'They don't tend to...

Enterprise bulletin - BBC to offload multimedia arm.(acquisition of BBC Broadcast Ltd. by Macquarie Bank Ltd.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... The BBC has sold BBC Broadcast to Australian bank Macquarie for [pounds sterling]166m. BBC Broadcast specialises in the distribution and promotion of multimedia content, offering a range of services across all media platforms, from television...

Enterprise bulletin - IBM revs up Fiat infrastructure.(contract)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Car-maker Fiat has signed a EUR1.7bn ([pounds sterling]1.2bn) outsourcing contract with IBM. Under the terms of the nine-year deal, IBM will manage core areas of Fiat's IT infrastructure and take control of Global Value, the joint venture the...

Enterprise bulletin - Microsoft tools sent to Coventry.(contract with Coventry University)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Coventry University is migrating its Novell Netware system to a Microsoft Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2003-based infrastructure as part of a [pounds sterling]500,000 technology refit. The project is designed to improve security and...

Enterprise bulletin - Acrobat 7.0 takes seat in Airbus.(contract with Adobe Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has chosen to adopt Adobe Acrobat 7.0 software worldwide to aid document generation, collaboration, security and archiving. Airbus engineers will use the software to consolidate computer-aided design drawings. It...

Enterprise bulletin - CA acquires Tiny Software.(Computer Associates International Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Computer Associates (CA) has acquired endpoint security firm Tiny Software for an undisclosed all-cash fee. Tiny provides security and personal firewall for Windows desktops and servers. The acquisition builds on CA's purchase of anti-spyware...

Enterprise bulletin - Forrester attacks card ruling.(Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Analyst Forrester has criticised the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard which came into force for retailers on 30 June. The analyst says the self-assessment procedure, demanded by MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Diners Club to...

Enterprise bulletin - Reckitt Benckiser takes LANDesk.(contract with LANDesk Software Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Cleaning product manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser is using LANDesk Software's Management Suite 8.5 product to deploy Microsoft Office 2003 on 10,000 computers across operations around the world. The company, which manufactures household products...

Enterprise bulletin - Stratford auditions wireless.(Stratford-upon-Avon)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare, is to host the first wireless broadband tourism project in the UK, called Stratford Unplugged. An online virtual tour will be delivered via PDAs connected by wireless hotspot technology,...

Enterprise bulletin - Sun makes move on laptops.(new product from Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Sun Microsystems has made its first foray into the laptop market with the launch of a mobile workstation running the Solaris 10 operating system. The Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation, which will sell for $3,400 ([pounds sterling]1,890), comes...

Enterprise bulletin - Management software grows.(market share)(Brief Article)
July 7, 2005... Sales of IT management software increased by 11.4 per cent last year to $6.2bn ([pounds sterling]3.46bn), according to recent data from analyst Gartner. The growth has been fuelled by the need for IT organisations to manage distributed...

News - BT risks losing NHS contract. NHS IT chief issues ultimatum to key Connecting for Health supplier.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. BT must start meeting its London NHS commitments or risk losing its [pounds sterling]996m Connecting for Health (CfH) contract, says NHS IT director general Richard Granger. In an exclusive interview with...

News - Somerfield embarks on IT transformation. Supermarket follows recent IT overhaul with five-year consolidation plan.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. UK supermarket chain Somerfield is embarking on a five-year IT transformation project to support its growing business. A series of acquisitions - including KwikSave, some former Safeway stores and various Texaco...

News - Users attack sentence.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... UK businesses have criticised a German court's decision last week to sentence 19-year-old virus writer Sven Jaschan to just 30 hours' community service and a 21-month suspended sentence. Some 78 per cent of business PC users believe the...

News - Retail giant sees workflow boost. New software creates a single global view of IT projects.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Food and drinks giant Allied Domecq is using workflow software to get a better return on its IT investments. The company, whose brands include Courvoisier, Teacher's whisky, Mumm champagne and Dunkin' Donuts, is...

News - Suppliers sought to develop shared services.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. The Cabinet Office is looking for suppliers to develop Whitehall's first major shared services initiative in line with the government's efficiency agenda. The plan is for a shared service centre to run human...

News - Manifesto urges Treasury to alter IT funding policy.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. The Treasury should change the way it funds government IT programmes to include people costs such as training, according to the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR). The left-wing think tank is publishing...

News - Revised use of software boosts sales for Unilever. Consumer packaged goods giant targets shoppers more accurately.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. Unilever UK has revised the way it uses merchandising software to increase sales across its product ranges. The manufacturer of consumer packaged goods is using its merchandise planning and forecasting software to...

News - Lorry road user charge procurement cancelled.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Arnott. The government has cancelled its Lorry Road User Charge (LRUC) procurement project and invited local authorities to bid for a share of an [pounds sterling]18m fund to pilot technologies for its proposed general road...

News - Treasury taken to task on tax credits failure.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Parliamentary correspondent. The Treasury has been accused of not pursuing its threat to take EDS to court over failings with the tax credit system. Liberal Democrat shadow work and pensions secretary David Laws made the...

News - Financial world.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Consultancy Accenture reported record third-quarter revenue of $4.08bn ([pounds sterling]2.34bn), an 11 per cent increase on the same period last year. Net income of $305m ([pounds sterling]175m) was up from $210m ([pounds sterling]120.5m). ...

News - Firms face up to the Bacstel-IP challenge. Mixed response from businesses making the move to online payments.
July 14, 2005... Byline: James Watson. With less than six months to go before Voca, formerly Bacs, turns off its old payments system, businesses are reporting varying experiences making the shift to the new service. From January, companies will only be...

News - Retail giant's IT tops poll of tech chiefs.(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Tesco's IT operation is the most respected in the UK, according to a survey of IT chiefs. BT, the Royal Bank of Scotland and the BBC were the next most admired UK IT departments. On an individual level, Tesco's chief information...

News - ITN fights back at porn and spyware with new systems.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. Independent news organisation ITN has improved its IT security and reduced spam by more than 90 per cent after installing new systems. The company is using Iron Port email security products at its Gray's Inn Road...

News - Businesses 'let down' by virus writer ruling. Concern over sentencing as Sasser author is given community service.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. UK businesses have criticised last week's decision by a German court to sentence 19-year-old computer virus writer Sven Jaschan to 30 hours' community service, arguing the ruling is too lenient. Jaschan, who...

News - Management system to control gas supply. National Grid Transco goes live with [pounds sterling]70m data analysis system.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Daniel Thomas. National Grid Transco (NGT) has gone live with a [pounds sterling]70m IT system aimed at improving management of gas supplies across the UK. The Integrated Gas Management System (IGMS), which links physical...

News - Mobile software helps cycle race sales. Real-time technology used for stores on Tour de France route.(Amaury Sport Organisation)
July 14, 2005... Byline: Miya Knights. The organiser of the Tour de France is using real-time mobile retail technology to maximise merchandising sales. Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), which also organises sporting events such as the Davis Cup and the...

News - Backbytes - back_bytes@vnu.co.uk.
July 14, 2005... Bad language Rowland Dawson, at North East Lincolnshire Council, has this unusual error: 'I got this one when I was developing an application using Oracle Forms. I can't honestly say if it really is an error,' he frets. It certainly...

Enterprise - Building society finishes system replacement.(Darlington Building Society, Darlington, UK)(Brief Article)
July 14, 2005... Byline: James Mortleman. Darlington Building Society has completed a two-and-a-half year project to replace its entire branch support system. The project involved the replacement of all business-critical systems with Summit banking...

Enterprise - Nasa focuses on shuttle's safety. High-tech monitoring to avoid repeat of Columbia tragedy.
July 14, 2005... Byline: James Watson. NASA's space shuttle was due to be launched yesterday (Wednesday), loaded with technology intended to prevent a repeat of the tragic events of two years ago when seven crew members died. On the ground, the US...