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News The measures would apply to the 24 nations within the EU's Schengen zone for passport-free travel. Under plans to strengthen checks at European borders laid out by the European Commission, international travellers would also have their stay logged... [14 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Naked CIO, silver skills and ID card anger…
Comment First, why do I need a biometric passport, photo driving licence and an ID card, each of which I have to pay for separately? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [14 Feb 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News Stephen Challis, head of product development at BAA Heathrow, said: "In effect the bag is travelling with its own passport… improving the certainty around the operation and reducing the manual intervention that's required, which we believe will... [13 Feb 2008]
ID cards? One in four says no!
News I is for Identity and Passport Service Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet as one quarter of people say they are strongly opposed to the scheme. According to the ICM poll, 25 per cent of those surveyed thought it... [06 Feb 2008]
ID cards: What's the latest?
News I is for Identity and Passport Service Government plans to introduce ID cards have taken another battering recently, with suggestions of delays to their introduction and suppliers pulling out of the procurement process. [29 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08
Round-Up The data consisted of names, passport details, national insurance numbers, drivers' licence particulars, information on family members, doctors' addresses and NHS numbers. How about this for an advertising slogan for the Ministry of Defence: "The... [25 Jan 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News I is for Identity and Passport Service The first contracts to be awarded will be for the replacement of the core application and enrolment processes for passports, together with the provision of desktop infrastructure for the Identity and Passport... [25 Jan 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News I is for Identity and Passport Service A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said this was a draft document, adding: "When developing policy, it is obviously right and logical that our first priority should be to consider where ID cards... [24 Jan 2008]
ID cards rollout pushed back to 2012
News A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said: "As stated in the strategic plan for the National Identity Scheme published in December 2006, we will begin issuing ID cards for foreign nationals this year and the first ID cards for British... [23 Jan 2008]
Yahoo! logs on to OpenID
News Microsoft has its own technology called Windows Live ID, previously known as Passport, which allows access to a variety of sites owned by the company and its partners. Yahoo! announced late last week it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a... [22 Jan 2008]
Nortel Assists Olin College in Redefining an Educational Experience With a Converged, End-to-End IP Network
White Paper Olin College has deployed Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches (formerly known as Passport Multiservice Switches), the Communications Server 1000 (formerly known as Succession 1000), the Multimedia Communication Server 5100 and a Nortel VPN Router... [14 Jan 2008]
Providing an Engaged Learning Experience Any Time, Anywhere
White Paper Four Nortel Ethernet Routing Switches 8600 (formerly known as Passport 8600) were installed to provide the college with the secure, resilient and fully converged network it wanted. The Dubai Men's College Company wanted to enable one of the Middle... [10 Jan 2008]
Nortel Network Case Study: Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB)
White Paper LKAB implemented a new network based on Nortel Networks Passport 8600 (now known as Ethernet Routing Switch 8600) Gigabit backbone connecting remote locations with BayStack 450 switches (now known as Ethernet Switch 450) and managed by Optivity... [10 Jan 2008]
Nortel Network Case Study: Buca di Beppo
White Paper With the help of High Wire Networks, Buca di Beppo deployed a Nortel VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and Call Center solution including: business communications manager; meridian 1 option 11 with internet telephony gateway card; passport 6400... [10 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News The cost of a passport was predicted to increase substantially over the next five years because they will contain electronic data such as biometrics. In August, the Identity and Passport Service's (IPS) Framework Procurement was published in the... [19 Dec 2007]
