Doug Engelbart, the developer of hypertext links and the computer mouse, has been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal for 2000.
The IT department is set to become the profit generating power base of businesses, giving IT managers a "powerful opportunity" to increase their influence, according to Gartner.
Users want IT suppliers to take more responsibility for getting major implementations right, but projects are being held up because their distrust of lawyers is delaying contract negotiations.
Bank customers could have their faith in digital signatures destroyed by the threat of abuse, according to a Cambridge University expert.
BT will cut its supply costs by 50% with an ambitious ebusiness strategy. The strategy will see it handling 95% of its purchase orders online and 20% of it s tenders through electronic auctions by next month.
The huge cost of back-end technology is keeping startups out of ecommerce and causing the field to become monopolised, according to an Office of Fair Trading report.
WH Smith is linking up with BT to bolster its online book sales efforts. The deal will see BT give customers of WH Smith Internet access and free email.
Ecommerce software supplier Broadvision is to acquire Interleaf, maker of web content management tools, in an $877 million (£584m) stock swap.
Staff layoffs at online retailer Amazon.com are the result of an increased focus on profits and a maturing of the company's business, according to analysts.