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RSS undergroundNuclear bomb simulator explodes onto the scene
News The US government has not carried out an underground nuclear test for 10 years and a spokesman from the Lawrence Livermore Lab said the new computer is necessary because this generation of engineers have neither designed... [16 Aug 2001]
Model Management: What have the Romans ever done for us?
Comment Even though the purposes were hardly advanced, its specifications - a 50,000 all-seater stadium complete with three underground floors incorporating dungeons for the slaves and gladiators and lifts to raise them to arena... [19 Jun 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Tackling online child porn
Comment Merely driving offenders underground? Merely driving offenders underground? But first we must be certain that the benefits of cleaning the web are not negated by the dangers of driving the paedophiles... [23 Feb 2001]
Chubb unlocks its high-tech potential
News The services will run from an underground nuclear bunker - a physical precaution which Chubb hopes will get its message across - supported by an independent generator in case of power failure. The British company -... [28 Nov 2000]
Legal action pending for software pirates
News The BSA estimates that 90 per cent of the software sold on the internet is pirated, and is part of an underground industry costing IT vendors $13bn a year. The BSA says its main focus is now the internet, where auction... [16 Nov 2000]
London Underground gets digital surveillance system
News The London Underground (LU) has signed a £6.5m contract with systems integrators Telindus K-net to install a digital video surveillance system. The first phase of the installation will be to replace the analogue video... [16 Aug 2000]
Those Digital Millennium Code Act lyrics in full...
News Young man, hide yourself underground, I said Young man, think it ought to be showed, I said, Young man, but what you shoulda knowed, is some Things.must.be.left.un-said. Young man, there's a law that's been passed, I said [03 Aug 2000]
Virus update: Love bug may have done it by accident
News The two were believed to be members of the same underground computer group, Grammersoft, which provided programming to SMEs and wrote and sold thesis programs to computer students. A computer student in the Philippines... [11 May 2000]
Hackers seek venture capital
News Although the group will form a legitimate firm, Browne claimed they will be able to keep a foot in the hacker camp, bridging the gap between the security industry and the underground world of hackers. [14 Apr 2000]
London Underground gets 'Connect-ed'
News London Underground (LU) has admitted that its existing network was in dire need of refurbishment to take the train system into the next century. I have very high hopes for the use of mobiles on the London... [12 Dec 1999]
Tube gets wireless network in £1.2bn PFI deal
News London Underground has signed a £1.2bn deal with CityLink Telecommunications for its first integrated mobile communications network. For the first time in its history, London Underground drivers,... [23 Nov 1999]
Scottish Power signs £1.4m deal with Logica
News Logica will roll-out a mobile system from Conic Systems - an Edinburgh-based company recently acquired by Tadpole - that will allow Scottish Power to update the way it collects and stores information on all overhead and... [04 Nov 1999]
Marconi picks up London tube deal
News Marconi Communications has been awarded a four-year contract worth over £13m to maintain London Underground's (LU) service control centres. The systems integrator will manage LU's train operation centres in Neasden and... [22 Apr 1999]
Prague goes underground for free mobile calls
News Mobile phone users in Prague will benefit from free calls and SMS (short message service) text messaging over the next month - as long as they use their phone on the underground. The offer applies to customers of mobile... [24 Mar 1999]
Berlin gets smart transport system
News Travellers will be able to purchase credit units for the smartcards and then swipe them through readers on buses, underground trains, trams and ferries in the Berlin region. BVG - Berlin's public transport authority - is... [12 Mar 1999]
