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Police database will make "a very big difference"
News Barclays bank of the future Building a national police database is a major challenge but will make a big difference, according to the CIO of the agency given the job of putting it all together. The "sheer complexity" of... [09 Feb 2009]
Barclays CIO quits
News One of the tech chiefs of Barclays has resigned, the bank has confirmed. Bob Rickert, CIO of Barclays' global retail and commercial banking, handed in his notice last week with immediate effect.... [02 Feb 2009]
Banks: ID cards 'have been stripped of useful features'
News Mould said Barclays is happy with the PINsentry card reader that it uses to secure its own online transactions and currently sees no reason to switch to using ID cards. While the Home Office is hoping ID cards will one... [30 Jan 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo This month, Barclays opened a new branch in London's Piccadilly Circus to showcase the latest in high-tech banking. Apple unveiled its first Macintosh 25 years ago and the Mac has been a mainstay of the company's product... [28 Jan 2009]
Tories slam gov't for lack of open source love
News Click here for photos of Barclays high-tech branch, showcasing cutting-edge tech such as Microsoft Surface, portable terminals and touchscreen interaction. The Conservative party has criticised the UK government over its... [28 Jan 2009]
Photos: A look inside Microsoft's new retail flagship
Photo It has also been installed in a flagship Barclays branch in London. The facility, opened earlier this month, serves a number of purposes: to show retail customers Microsoft-developed technologies that can be deployed in... [26 Jan 2009]
Intel's chairman to retire in May
News Click here for photos of Barclays high-tech branch, showcasing cutting-edge tech such as Microsoft Surface, portable terminals and touchscreen interaction. Intel announced Friday that chairman and former CEO Craig... [26 Jan 2009]
Photos: Scots are sQuids in with wave and pay
Photo Rather than automatically debiting the user's account when purchases are made, like other initiatives run by banks such as Barclays, the card deducts from credit pre-loaded by the user at terminals in retail and council... [23 Jan 2009]
Info watchdog: Home Office guilty of data protection breach
News Barclays bank of the future Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office has found the Home Office to have breached data-protection law over the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by... [23 Jan 2009]
BlackBerry store opens doors to applications
News Click here for photos of Barclays high-tech branch, showcasing cutting-edge tech such as Microsoft Surface, portable terminals and touchscreen interaction. RIM has begun soliciting applications for the BlackBerry... [22 Jan 2009]
Google pulls the plug on Print Ads
News Barclays bank of the future As the publishing industry gradually moves online, Google has discovered that it's hard to shift some of its initiatives in the other direction - specifically, advertisements. [21 Jan 2009]
Nasa hacker extradition: On hold
News Barclays bank of the future Gary McKinnon's potential extradition to the US for hacking military systems is on hold for the next few weeks, McKinnon's lawyer has told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK. [20 Jan 2009]
IT venture cash slumps by 40 per cent
News Barclays bank of the future Venture capital investments in IT companies plunged 40 per cent to $2.18bn in the fourth quarter, their worst level in a decade, according to figures released on Friday by VentureSource. [19 Jan 2009]
New CMS Leeds to uni's grassroots takeover
Case Study Barclays bank of the future Leeds University has implemented a new content management system (CMS) to help make dealing with online content easier for its nine faculties. Previously, the university had relied on various... [19 Jan 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo Also making an appearance at Olympia was Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology which is being used by a number of businesses - including Barclays' high-tech bank branch in London's Piccadilly Circus. [19 Jan 2009]
