Y2K computer break tipped to plague taxman

THE decision to allow tax deductions on business expenses relating to the year 2000 computer bug would cause confusion and protracted arguments, business and industry groups said yesterday. (Source: The Australian) READ
 

Banks will not bear 2000 bug

SOME of Australia's top banks have warned of a crackdown on businesses not moving towards 2000 compliance, with one bank stating yesterday it would withhold funding from clients not addressing the issue. (Source: The Australian) READ
 

Resellers alarmed over Year 2000 patches

RESELLERS are becoming increasingly nervous they are selling computers with motherboards that are not Year 2000 compliant, a leading computer consultant, Patrick Simonis, has said. (Source: The Australian) READ
 

2000 bug "may trigger recession"

Sunday Mail (SA) NEW YORK: The Year 2000 computer crisis wields the potential to trigger a recession by the second half of 1999, experts predict. (Source: The Australian) READ
 

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES NOT IMMUNE TO Y2K TORT CASES

(Source: Civic.com) Government agencies will not be immune from tort liability for Year 2000 claims. READ
 

Y2K czar: $5.5 billion enough

(Source: FCW) Year 2000 czar John Koskinen last week said the federal government should have more than enough money earmarked in fiscal 1999 to fix the millennium bug. READ
 

WHERE'S THE Y2K IN 99'S SPENDING?

(Source: IDG New Zealand) New Zealand and Australia appear to be taking opposing tacks in the way they address the year 2000 issue. READ
 

Business in denial over Y2K

AUSTRALIAN public and private sector executives appeared to have their heads in the sand over the possible impact of the Millennium Bug, two new reports and a federal government expert claimed yesterday. (Source: The Australian) READ
 

KEEPING THE Y2K LAWSUITS AT BAY

Law firms already have their Y2K strategies planned. You should be planning, too. (source CIO) READ
 

Y2K legal games begin

Companies scramble to shield themselves from costly lawsuits (source InfoWorld) READ
 

Leveraging your year-2000 fix

Year 2000's silver lining The year-2000 problem doesn't have to be a black hole for hard-won IT dollars and resources. With the right tools and careful planning, solving the Y2K problem can be your chance to improve your enterprise. ( source: InfoWorld ) READ
 

Financial company challenge: 35,000 PCs, Y2K deadline

With more than 35,000 desktop PCs at risk for noncompliance with year-2000 thresholds, an East Coast securities company is racing to address a myriad of issues. An engineer at this company agreed to talk to InfoWorld for this article on the condition that his name and company not be used. Because this engineer is championing a fairly unglamorous part of the year-2000 issue, we are calling him John Smith -- who instead of going to Washington is taking on the computing infrastructure. (source InfoWorld) READ
 

ICA Year 2000 Issues Report

ICA (International Council for Information Technology in Government Administration) Guidelines and recommendations on Year 2000 issues Report from Year 2000 Workshop in Copenhagen August 14 and 15 1997 ICA report
 

US Federal COTS database online

US Federal Comercial Off-the-shelf(COTS) Product Database Online. Recognizing the need to build a system which provides information on Year 2000 compliant products, the Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council Committee on Year 2000 developed an internet-based database of Year 2000 compliant products. The database is known as the Federal Year 2000 COTS Product Database. SEARCH
 

Microsoft wakes up to Y2K problem

Microsoft, thought by many to be a sleeping giant on the year-2000 issue, will awaken this week and unveil its strategy for dealing with millennium bugs in its products. READ
 

Getting serious with year 2000: Bugs can sometimes be deadly

On July 26, 1985, a 40-year-old patient at the Ontario Cancer Foundation in Hamilton positioned herself under a Therac-25 for a blast of radiation to her cancerous cervix. When the operator activated the Therac-25, it shut down with an error message. The dosimetry display read "no dose." After resetting the machine, the operator tried again -- with the same result. The operator repeated the sequence three more times before calling a service technician. This wasn't unusual. The Therac-25s were notoriously temperamental. READ
 

Be careful what you say on Y2K

Year 2000 surveys have grown from a nuisance to a pain in the neck. They are becoming a drain on corporate resources as project managers struggle with the implications of putting their year 2000 status in writing. READ
 

Large firms' Y2K work lagging

A look at federal securities filings from the nation's 250 largest corporations has found that 58% of the respondents have yet to complete even the first phase -- computer assessments -- of their year 2000 projects, according to a private research firm. READ