This Review is part of the FT-IT family of special reports, which comprises the FT-IT Review and the FT Telecoms Review. The Reviews are published on the first and third Wednesday of each month, with FT-IT taking up three of every four slots and FT Telecoms occupying the fourth.

Here are the main themes:

Listed here are the publication dates and brief details of provisional future themes, although topics in the fast-changing IT and telecoms sectors are subject to alteration.

Each issue will include our regular features, such as View from the Top, interviews with senior figures in the IT and telecommunications industry, plus news reviews and statistics.

October 17
FT-IT: Customer relationship management; operating systems. Plus an extra section on India's IT outsourcing trends.

November 7
FT-IT: Data storage; search engine industry.

November 21
FT Telecoms: Mobile phone industry (including special report on Foma launch in Japan); pan-European networks.

December 5
FT-IT: Review of the year; IT in manufacturing and product development; plus special section on supply chain management.

2002
January 16
FT Telecoms: mobile phone services and industry in North America; telecoms fraud.

February 6
FT-IT: internet business strategies - future of free vs. subscription models, internet advertising - with section on online payment technologies.

February 20
FT-IT: Enterprise peer-to-peer (P2P) computing - myth or reality; online content management.

March 13
FT-IT: Future of B2B e-marketplaces; IT in travel and hotel industry; plus special pre-CeBIT supplement (exact date to be confirmed).

March 20
FT Telecoms: local broadband networks - i.e "last mile" technologies and services; telecoms regulation worldwide.

April 3
FT-IT: IT in financial markets - focusing on trading room and stock exchange systems; web personalisation.

April 17
FT-IT: Global semiconductor industry; web hosting.

May 1
FT-IT: web services (including ASP trends); grid computing networks.

May 15
FT Telecoms: 3G worldwide - implementation and management; IP in corporate networks.

June 5
FT-IT: The internet - "old economy" companies and dotcoms compared; IT in global money markets.

June 19
FT-IT: New media; regional focus - IT in eastern Europe.

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