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Coverage	ComputerWorld maintains the Year 2000 Scoreboard highlighting news, reviews and features, and a wide ranging resource repository (2 Jul 98)
Registration	No registration necessary to follow direct links. You will be expected to offer a username if you try to search.
Searching	The search service is reached from the black menu bar at the top of the page. It uses Excite. Here's how to search effectively.

Highlights

• 1 Dec 98 - Y2K Global Summit tries to ID riskiest areas
  reports the United Nations second global coordinators' conference in June 1999
• 1 Dec 98 - Year 2000 group urges mediation over litigation
  The CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution will launch a campaign to get companies to pledge "to first negotiate and, as a last resort to mediate" Year 2000 disputes
• 25 Nov 98 - Microsoft moves - finally - on Y2K plan
  Reports Microsoft's announcement of plans to help users fix YEar 2000 problems during 1999. Not the plans themselves, though; those are still "under wraps"
• 15 Jul 98 - Wall Street Y2K tests find minor glitches but no millennium bugs

The Securities Industry Association's first set of Wall Street simulations did throw up some minor connectivity problems but no major problems were found.
• 25 Jun 98 - Global IT meeting eyes Y2K

World Congress on Information Technology meeting in Fairfax, Virginia, US looked at Y2K from the perspective of smaller nations and small/medium businesses. (The congress will not meet again before the rollover)
• 23 Jan 98 - SIA says "yea" to Y2K stock trading holiday, will launch industrywide compliance test

Securities Industry Association (US) has endores a proposal to declare 31 Dec 1999 a trading holiday in order to complete year-end processing before 1 Jan 2000 arrives. They plan to launch an industry-wide compliance test in March 1999.
• 20 Oct 97 - Auto group forms Year 2000 center to aid suppliers

The US Automotive Industry Action Group, Southfield, Michigan, and the big three manufacturers, are setting up a programme to help their suppliers fix their own systems
• 26 Aug 97 - Insurance companies likely to shun millennium bug claims

It is likely that for policies renewed in 1998, year-2000 related costs will be excluded from cover

 

Coverage	Only occasional Y2K articles
Registration	Not needed
Searching	None, so far as I can tell

Highlights

• How to tell if you have a Year 2000 Problem - step by step. "A simple set of tests for Webmasters & Web developers to tell for certain if they will be celebrating or working on December 31, 1999". Also a set of useful links

 

Coverage	CMP Media's TechWeb is an umbrella site for a number of popular and trade publications, including Information World which appears to have regular coverage of Y2K
Registration	Offered, but not needed so far as I can tell
Searching	"TechSearch", simple search engine (with advanced option) linked from the front page

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Coverage	Datamation provides an extensive resource including articles and project guidelines
Registration	No registration appears to be necessary
Searching	The search service is reached from a menu item halfway down the page. It uses Excite. Here's how to search effectively.

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