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Egg reveals further security blunders
News After admitting that one of its customers had been sent the credit card details via unencrypted email Thursday , Egg has owned up to the fact that other customers may have been involved in similar blunders.
[November 19, 1999, 12:44]
Overworked IT managers risk blunders or burnout
Talkback Many have come close to nudge Hoover from the title of the Holders of the Largest Marketin Blunder of our time over the Know Infamous Hoover Free Flight Fiasco. Avon & BT have come close. However Hoover still holds on to the Title.
[August 3, 2004, 13:27]
My nine biggest blunders as an IT pro
Talkback An excellent list. I only wish that all IT Pros didn't have to learn these the hard way - by experiencing the full impact of a failure caused by one of these mistakes. Hopefully this list will help. Or maybe the best practices, the really important...
[July 23, 2006, 22:20]
News Burst: Egg still making security blunders
News Online bank Egg is still mailing out credit card numbers and other personal information to its customers via regular, unencrypted email. A number of concerned Egg customers have contacted ZDNet complaining that their credit card details are still...
[November 22, 1999, 11:38]
My nine biggest blunders as an IT pro
News We've all had at least one or two embarrassing moments on the job, whether they involved inadvertently wreaking havoc on a system, making a social gaffe, or mishandling a project. IT pro Becky Roberts decided to come clean and share her worst...
[July 18, 2006, 13:00]
Government gets a roasting for computer blunders
News The government has wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers money on obsolete and ineffective computer equipment, according to a new report published by the Commons public accounts committee Wednesday. The report highlights no less than 25 different...
[January 5, 2000, 13:56]
Amazon faces criticism following series of blunders
News Internet giant Amazon has been repeatedly criticised for allegedly unscrupulous treatment of its customers. The company's decision to abstain from supplying its CD sales figures to Chart Information Network for the compilation of the official UK...
[October 2, 2000, 8:53]
The Day Ahead: Corel employees take fall for CEO's blunders
News Corel cut 320 employees and some investors actually thought the company was headed in the right direction -- for about half the trading day Friday. Corel would have received a standing ovation if it cut 321 employees, and booted CEO Michael Cowpland.
[June 12, 2000, 14:22]
Broadband blunders hit UK online
News Britain has the highest level of Internet penetration in Europe, but still has a long way to go in making broadband available to the nation, the trade and industry secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted.
[December 4, 2001, 12:52]
Overworked IT managers risk blunders or burnout
News The boom in Internet applications means that one in four IT managers regularly works a 60-hour week, and almost all are breaking European regulations. According to research released on Wednesday, nine out of ten IT managers in the UK regularly...
[August 2, 2001, 12:45]
Government hits back at IT blunders report
News The government hit back Thursday at claims it has wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers' money on unsuccessful IT projects, claiming it has learnt its lesson and will no longer "tolerate failure". A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report published...
[January 6, 2000, 15:38]
Tax travesty a blip on the government's online radar
News Government blunders such as last year's online tax return, which proved for many to be more difficult to use than a traditional form, are being or have already been fixed, according to the e-envoy Andrew Pinder.
[June 26, 2001, 16:56]
Performance Engineering for Enterprise Software Systems in Next Generation Data Centres
White Papers SPE methods have been used successfully to identify and overcome system design blunders early in the Information Technology (IT) project lifecycle before the blunders are built into a system and become expensive and time consuming to correct.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Performance Engineering for EA Systems in Next Generation Data Centres
White Papers SPE methods have been used successfully to identify and overcome system design blunders early in the Information Technology (IT) project lifecycle before the blunders are built into a system and become expensive and time consuming to correct.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
Fear and confusion handicaps UK e-commerce
News Report author Alison Hopkins believes the recent spate of security blunders by big name organisations like Powergen and Barclays have had a negative impact on consumer confidence. Hopkins believes these high-profile blunders play most on the minds...
[August 3, 2000, 13:23]
NHS IT delays cost Accenture £260m
Talkback How much longer are jokers like Accenture, CSC and EDS going to make major blunders on large scale IT implementations but still pick up new business? Obviously their size excludes most consultancies from the running in tendering for large projects...
[April 3, 2006, 12:11]
What's Going on at Skype?
Talkback The list of gaffes and blunders is impressive: What in the world is really going on at Skype? Have they just decided that they have too many toes, and are trying to shoot them off one at a time? They are taking away SkypeIn numbers from paying...
[November 26, 2007, 7:46]
Jane Wakefield's big unmetered adventure
News Take an irreverent stroll down BT's yellow brick road toward unmetered access as good fairy Jane Wakefield spells out the blunders along the way. While Internet access may prove to be a fairytale come true for consumers, BT looks like it may not be...
[March 6, 2000, 15:11]
Employees 'more of a worry than terrorists'
News Employee blunders and hardware and software failures are more of a worry for IT directors than the much-hyped threat of terrorism when it comes to disaster recovery planning, according to a new survey.
[October 16, 2003, 13:55]
Laws protecting consumers online need revision
News Observers have called for a review of UK laws that protect consumers from the sort of security blunders that saw thousands of Powergen customers' credit card details published on the Internet this week.
[July 20, 2000, 14:56]
