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November 10, 2003 10 Nov'03
NHS IT plan risky but will not fail, says OGC

The £2.3bn national programme to modernise health service IT systems is "risky and ambitious" but it has sufficient safeguards in...
July 28, 2003 28 Jul'03
Court blocks former ICL solicitor's Pathway claim

Fujitsu has won a court ruling to stop a former solicitor for the company pursuing allegations about the government's disastrous...
February 10, 2003 10 Feb'03
UK firms are offered help to migrate to open source

Companies are being given help to migrate to free-license software by a joint initiative from OpenForum Europe and the National...
February 06, 2003 06 Feb'03
Users warned as number of software holes soars

IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial...

February 05, 2003 05 Feb'03
NHS £5bn IT procurement finally begins

The Department of Health (DoH) has launched the formal procurement process for its £5bn restructuring of NHS IT.
January 29, 2003 29 Jan'03
Courts Libra system 'is one of the worst IT projects ever seen'

The cost of the Libra project to provide a national system for 385 magistrates courts soared from £146m to £390m, and the main...
October 13, 2002 13 Oct'02
Jamie Gruener's position on API sharing

Key questions on API sharing answered
June 20, 2002 20 Jun'02
MoD's Chinook tactics spark a constitutional row

Chinook: The MoD's actions over the crash of Chinook ZD576 could have legal ramifications
March 20, 2002 20 Mar'02
MPs from all parties unite in fight to clear Chinook pilots

This week the Tories led an unprecedented all-party move to get the Government to clear the names of the pilots blamed for the...
February 07, 2002 07 Feb'02
Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of...

January 31, 2002 31 Jan'02
Lords prepare to release Chinook verdict report

The House of Lords will publish a report next Tuesday on whether pilot negligence or a possible technical malfunction was the...
November 08, 2001 08 Nov'01
RAF Chinook pilots could be vindicated

Details of an RAF Board of Inquiry report into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 were revealed for...
October 25, 2001 25 Oct'01
Chinook pilots feared onboard software

RAF pilots refused to fly the Chinook Mk2 helicopter for even short journeys before the fatal Mull of Kintyre crash due to...
September 27, 2001 27 Sep'01
Chinook hearing begins

A new inquiry into the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of Kintyre in June 1994 is due to begin this week in the House...
September 24, 2001 24 Sep'01
Semiconductor equipment orders down 75%

US semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted $742 (£507m) in orders booked in August, down 75% from a year earlier, according...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Now Via sues Intel to block sales of Pentium 4

Via Technologies is seeking to stop sales of the Pentium 4 family of microprocessors through a lawsuit filed on 10 September...
September 11, 2001 11 Sep'01
Mitsubishi Electric looks to earnings revision

Mitsubishi Electric has described as "speculative" reports in a Japanese newspaper that the company is intending to reduce its...
September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01
Via ups the Intel ante

Via Technologies has hit back in its war with Intel by issuing the chip giant with lawsuits relating to patent infringement, fair...
September 10, 2001 10 Sep'01
Intel sues Via over P4 chipsets

In a move that has been anticipated for months, Intel has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Via Technologies in the US....
August 23, 2001 23 Aug'01
Rambus faces second fraud case

A lawsuit has been filed against Rambus in the US, less than four months after the company was found guilty of fraud and fined...
August 22, 2001 22 Aug'01
IT spending will rise faster than inflation

Although suppliers may be shedding IT jobs, corporate users still plan to spend an extra 11% on permanent staff this year - five...
August 13, 2001 13 Aug'01
Rambus cleared of standards-setting charge

A US district court has set aside a jury verdict against Rambus, clearing the memory chip designer of allegations that it set...
May 03, 2001 03 May'01
Lords vote to undertake limited Chinook enquiry

The House of Lords, in an historic step, has voted to hold an independent inquiry into the RAF's verdict of gross negligence...
May 01, 2001 01 May'01
Lords call for Chinook crash inquiry

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher was one of 132 peers who voted for a new inquiry over the fatal crash of Chinook ZD576 on...
March 25, 2001 25 Mar'01
Government to train unemployed in IT
March 11, 2001 11 Mar'01
Government's Gateway guidelines delay NHS IT contract
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
ASP offers wireless access to Microsoft Exchange

Application service provider Netstore is offering users wireless connections to Microsoft Exchange 2000 as an alternative to...
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
BCS fights for patient data
February 28, 2001 28 Feb'01
Glotel takes US hit
December 07, 2000 07 Dec'00
Christmas is cancelled

The US division of Japanese consumer giant, Sony Corporation, has axed the Christmas ad campaign for its e-commerce site, SonyStyle.com, amidst fears its...
December 06, 2000 06 Dec'00
Citizen Portal gets beta launch

The online Citizen Portal, the UK site where the public can access government information and services on the Web, has finally been...
December 04, 2000 04 Dec'00
Sema troubles deepen

IT services company Sema yesterday postponed an analysts briefing into its disastrous performance and ordered an internal inquiry into share dealing by a...
November 30, 2000 30 Nov'00
Armed forces morale hit by Chinook say MPs

MPs said yesterday that the Government's refusal to move on the Public Accounts Committee report on the 1994 Chinook crash was hitting armed forces morale....
November 29, 2000 29 Nov'00
Chinook tragedy demands reform

The Public Accounts Committee report into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash vindicates Computer Weekly's three-year campaign for justice. It...
November 15, 2000 15 Nov'00
Did MoD deceive RAF inquiry?

New information shows that the Ministry of Defence withheld information from an air chief marshal about software flaws that could...
October 25, 2000 25 Oct'00
IT man on the 5am ferry as Horizon reaches Orkney

James Rogers
Post Offices in two of the most isolated parts of the UK are the latest to go live as part of the Horizon counter...
October 25, 2000 25 Oct'00
MPs fight on for independent Chinook inquiry

As peers and MPs rally to the cause for a new independent inquiry, former defence minister Malcolm Rifkind is among those to criticise the reasons for the...
October 04, 2000 04 Oct'00
Report reveals trend to more women in IT
July 19, 2000 19 Jul'00
Blair steps into Chinook battle

Tony Collins
The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will personally look into the circumstances of the crash of a Chinook helicopter on the Mull of...
June 28, 2000 28 Jun'00
Bell champions 'mass of new evidence' on Chinook crash

Tony Collins
Independent MP Martin Bell has told the House of Commons that a mass of new evidence has emerged over the possible causes of...
June 28, 2000 28 Jun'00
Defence Minister misleads MPs over Chinook accident

Last week in the House of Commons, Labour’s Defence Minister Lewis Moonie unintentionally misled the House of Commons over a Chinook accident in 1989,...
June 21, 2000 21 Jun'00
Air chief marshall attacks Chinook evidence

Tony Collins
Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten has criticised evidence suggesting that the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash could have...
June 14, 2000 14 Jun'00
Scotland backs Chinook crash report

The Scottish Executive has found that Computer Weekly uncovered new evidence over the reliability of the Fadec (Full Authority Digital Engine Control)...
March 29, 2000 29 Mar'00
MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing...
February 09, 2000 09 Feb'00
NAO report puts software at the heart of Chinook debate

Tony Collins
Government auditors will report tomorrow (Friday) that defence staff put into operational service a fleet of Chinook...