Bigger, Better, Faster (Saturday, 9.20 a.m., RTE1), the first programme in a new series examines how Irish companies are tapping into the opportunities of e-commerce. It features a small rural off-licence which caters for customers in the US and a textile and clothing company selling its garments online.
Cisco Systems is a corporate superpower. Bigger than Microsoft, it is jockeying for position as the most valuable company on earth. The Money Programme - The Cisco Kids (Sunday, 6.15 p.m., BBC2) outlines the company's phenomenal growth which has been assisted by its voracious appetite for swallowing smaller companies with promising research programmes - affectionately dubbed "The Cisco Kids".
The Cisco empire makes most of the equipment which links the World Wide Web and now it aims to dominate the telecommunications industry too.
Just how big and powerful will Cisco become? The programme investigates and talks to the company's visionary president and chief executive officer, John Chambers.
While many websites have secure payment methods, there is still a lack of protection for Internet consumers and Hard Cash - Internet Billing (Monday, 7.30 p.m., BBC1) investigates the security loopholes.
Inside Dot Coms - Tales of the Electronic Goldrush (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 11.20 p.m., BBC2) is a four-part series from BBC News which aims to get behind the hype to discover what it's really like to run a dot.com company.
sokelly@irish-times.ie
