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£1.1m police firearms database takes aim at gun crime
News Police claim a new £1.1m firearms database will help take more guns off the streets by allowing forces across the country to share vital weapons and ammunition intelligence much more easily. The National Firearms Forensic Intelligence Database... [25 Nov 2003]
PayPal bans payments for porn on eBay
News These include bootleg recordings, counterfeit currency and stamps, water pipes and wired cigarette papers, illegal drugs, firearms made after 1898, humans, corpses and human body parts. PayPal, the payment service eBay purchased for $1.5bn (£935m... [01 May 2003]
Bush signs Homeland Security bill - the details
News Categories include computer forensics, tools for investigating computer crime, DNA identification technologies and the development of firearms that recognise their owner. For the first half of this story, see: http://www.silicon.com/a56548. [26 Nov 2002]
Dell's terrorist detector dumps US gun salesman
News Jack Weigand, who holds a federal firearms licence from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm's National Licensing Center told Newsbytes: "If computers are dangerous, the scary thing here is that I could have just walked up to Best Buy and... [28 Feb 2002]
The Director's Cut: The art of war - and ebusiness
Comment Historians are united on one conclusion: the South, vastly outnumbered, with inferior firearms and no clear long-term goal, only lasted as long as it did as a fighting force because of the thinking, actions and inspiration of its leaders. [01 Aug 2001]
Climbing shares for Amazon.com
News According to reports, the company will open its mall doors to any retailer apart from those that trade in live animals and firearms. Amazon.com's share price jumped by 23 per cent yesterday on the news that the US ecommerce phenomenon is moving... [30 Sep 1999]
Police force turns to Bull for system update
News The system then checks the firearms database to check whether weapons are held at that location as well as automatically finding the nearest, or most appropriate, resources to deal with the situation. [13 Aug 1999]
Clinton sets up Internet crimebusting taskforce
News The taskforce will also include the director of the FBI, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration. US President Clinton has asked US Attorney General, Janet Reno, to... [10 Aug 1999]
Equifax to utilise authorisation database for ecommerce
News It'll be useful for selling age-related stuff like firearms or adult videos," he told Silicon.com. Credit rating agency, Equifax, is to start using the financial records of UK consumers to authenticate online transactions. [11 Jun 1999]
Intergraph to supply Suffolk police system
News The system also provides links to the Police National Computer and integrates with the national firearms register so officers can be warned when they approach an address where firearms are registered. [30 Sep 1998]
IBM helps Scottish police share knowledge
News The system will be used to organise all firearms, crime, resource and personnel data. Strathclyde Police has chosen IBM's DB2 Universal Database for its corporate information management across eight individual police forces. [17 Aug 1998]
