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Photos: A first glimpse of the ID card
Photo The cards, which will be issued from 25 November, contain eight pieces of information, including two fingerprints and a facial photo scan, which are stored on a chip at its rear. This data, together with images of two of... [25 Sep 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News The Home Office is trialling fingerprint enrolment for foreign nationals and has taken 12,000 fingerprints to date, which the Home Secretary said has resulted in four convictions and "a lot of examples of ID... [25 Sep 2008]
UK ID cards unveiled today
News The cards, expected to cost about £30, are fitted with a chip containing scans of a facial photograph, two fingerprints and identity information. Doubts have also been raised about its reliance on... [25 Sep 2008]
ID card contract shortlist gets shorter
News IBM and Thales are through to the next round of discussions for a £500m contract to deliver the National Biometric Identity Service programme to replace the existing passport photo database with a new system able to store photos and... [16 Sep 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News A recent independent review of the ID cards scheme by the Biometrics Assurance Group suggested the system could struggle in capturing the fingerprints of up to four million people. A prototype of the UK ID card biometric... [04 Aug 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News She said the two fingerprints and photograph stored on the card would provide greater protection against identity theft and help fight illegal working, immigration abuse and serious crime. People aged 16 to 25 have been... [09 Jul 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News BAG claims that "exception handling" - dealing with mismatched or unclear fingerprints - would occupy a large amount of NIS' resources, putting the technology, delivery and costs under strain. BAG claims there are four... [20 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has extended a mobile fingerprinting trial by handing out 100 devices to a further 10 police forces.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll... [11 Jun 2008]
Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. Drivers in London would be first in line for the technology... [15 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above" that amount, according to The... [02 May 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body Fifa. Latest photo stories... [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary software vendors by $60bn... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in devices from toasters to... [17 Apr 2008]
