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Millennium bug thingy... wassat then?
News Not everyone is getting the message about the millennium bug. It is not the first example of millennium bug confusion according to government appointed bug watcher Action 2000. When will the millennium bug strike again?
[October 5, 1999, 16:05]
News Burst: Millennium bug will not bite
News The UK's essential services will run as normal come the millennium according to government bug-watchers Action 2000. Doom-mongers predicting national chaos as a result of the millennium bug may be in for a disappointing New Year as Action 2000...
[October 20, 1999, 12:12]
Millennium bug: erm, we're not ready - MOD, Inland Rev.
News Yesterday it was the turn of Margaret Beckett, Leader of the House, to declare the government is 80 percent millennium compliant. He remains confident that, by autumn, all mission critical systems will be fully millennium compliant and that the UK...
[June 18, 1999, 14:55]
Millennium bug may ground travel
News US watchdog the General Accounting Office has voiced concern about whether air traffic control system will be millennium-compliant in time. It is unlikely that travellers will be able to claim for delays, lost baggage and being stranded as a result...
[October 21, 1998, 11:33]
A Year Ago: Blair stomps on millennium bug
News Tony Blair today announced a £97M package to deal with the Millennium Bug, which, in a column for The Independent, he described as a "technical time bomb" capable of causing "major disruption" throughout Britain.
[March 29, 1999, 7:48]
Millennium bug expert lashes 'fix' reports
News "The immediate threat from the Millennium Bomb is bigger than BSE, global warming and AIDS combined. Irresponsible reporting is very unhelpful,'' said Robin Guenier, executive director of Taskforce 2000.
[September 19, 1997, 14:35]
Millennium bug: Good news for big business
News A positive picture emerged, indicating that most companies were at the top of the "scale of readiness", with programs for the bug problem either well under way or completed. It is imperative that larger companies realise that they have a...
[November 16, 1998, 14:55]
Blair stomps on millennium bug
News At a London meeting, the Prime Minister outlined his plans to mobilise an army of 20,000 bug busters - young people, older unemployed, or even retired people, who will receive government training to deal with the Millenium bug.
[March 30, 1998, 16:47]
Compaq in millennium bug debacle
News Prove It says that if the Real Time Clock is not fixed then systems left powered up overnight at the Millennium will return a date of 1900. Although the complainant in the case - Cambridgeshire-based software tools maker Prove It 2000 - last week...
[July 21, 1998, 15:53]
Five years ago: Comet fights millennium bug with sticky logo
News Prove IT 2000" logos, with the sub heading, "make sure your PC has a future," will be slapped on PCs that pass Comet's millennium-ready test. Retail rival Tiny Computers has also considered the logo sticker approach to advertising the millennium...
[June 13, 2002, 7:02]
Comet fights millennium bug with sticky logo
News "Prove IT 2000" logos, with the sub heading, "make sure your PC has a future," will be slapped on PCs that pass Comet's millennium-ready test. Retail rival Tiny Computers has also considered the logo sticker approach to advertising the millennium...
[June 13, 1997, 12:18]
Welwyn: Home to the world's first Millennium Bug Park
News Action 2000 hope that UK companies will use bug park participants as a 'millennium barometer'. The companies, which include manufacturing, retail, engineering, banking, travel, construction, telecoms, healthcare and accountancy firms, are all at...
[November 4, 1998, 15:29]
Blair joins campaign to beat Millennium bug
News Headed by OFTEL boss Don Cruickshank and not Peter Mandelson, flag bearer of that other Millennium project, The Millennium Bug Campaign has produced a booklet to help raise awareness of the Year 2000 problem among businesses of all sizes.
[January 23, 1998, 11:42]
ICL wins BT millennium bug contract
News BT has announced it's joining forces with ICL in on-going plans to ensure millennium compliance. The company is spending £350 million on millennium preparedness and anticipates that the bulk of the work on mainframes and networks will be completed...
[November 16, 1998, 12:50]
Action 2000 launches domestic campaign
News This is the message from millennium bug buster Action 2000, which today launched its domestic campaign ‘home check! The initiative is designed to help households cut through the hype, work out which home appliances are affected by the millennium...
[October 14, 1998, 17:45]
The millennium: What was all the fuss about?
News Now that the dust has settled on the pandemonium of millennium bug preparations, you could be forgiven for feeling a little confused as to what the real problems have been. That same survey, however, showed that 63 percent of those same workers did...
[January 6, 2000, 6:30]
Action 2000 optimism criticised
News Millennium bug observers have taken issue with Action 2000 over its assertions Wednesday that all UK essential services will run as normal come the year 2000. I am confident that the UK will suffer no material disruption due to the millennium bug...
[October 20, 1999, 14:29]
Analysis: Y2K action - too little, too late?
News The national hangover on January 1st 2000 will be the least of our worries if millennium bug plans are not actioned promptly. The Millennium bug body's latest research reveals that 2 in 5 small to medium sized (SMEs) companies are still not doing...
[October 26, 1998, 15:25]
Contingency plans step up Y2K problem
News Contingency plans to deal with the millennium bug will create more problems than the bug itself, according to research from the Gartner Group. Gartner's latest Year 2000 World Status report says companies are stockpiling, planning to shut factories...
[August 19, 1999, 9:30]
A Year Ago: 9/9/99 not a problem say bug experts
News While some are calling Thursday a dress rehearsal for the millennium bug, experts remain unconvinced. Action 2000, the body set up by the government to monitor the millennium bug, is not expecting widespread problems and is more concerned people...
[September 4, 2000, 7:00]
