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RSS imagesHP loses $6.4m court case
News He now sells edible marshmallow images of celebrities including Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Hewlett-Packard (HP) has lost a $6.4m case brought by a former business partner. Colossal Graphics claimed HP had agreed... [18 Dec 1998]
New York doctors launch commercial patient records service
News People can pay $100 per year to register their medical history at the Medical Registry, including X-Rays and other digital images. As the NHS agonises over electronic patient files, two doctors in New York have gone all... [04 Dec 1998]
Nationwide hails iris recognition trials a success
News The photograph is matched against images held in a secure databank, using technology from Sensar and National Cash Registers (NCR). But we'd need to develop a single camera chip that both records and encrypts... [02 Dec 1998]
AP signs satellite deal with BT
News The system is designed to send news broadcasts, text and images from AP headquarters in London directly to its customers' premises. News and information service Associated Press (AP) has upgraded its global network with... [20 Nov 1998]
Chip implant helps blind man see
News Harold Churchey, 71, saw his first images in over a decade when doctors at the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore inserted a 2mm chip over his damaged retina. A tiny camera on a spectacle lens was then used to beam... [05 Nov 1998]
UK headmaster in trouble over data protection
News The headmaster of a UK primary school in Portsmouth who planned to broadcast video images of the school playground over the Web for security purposes, is fast becoming a test case for the forthcoming data protection act. [16 Oct 1998]
UK university offers online autopsy training
News A former student has created a Web site which uses images of former live training operations to teach countless more students using less resources. Decency is respected on the site, as images are... [12 Oct 1998]
In brief: Photo booths go surfing
News The science museum features an Internet photo booth in its lobby, which allows visitors to email images to friends and loved ones. A US company has taken an exhibit from the Museum of Discovery and Science in Fort... [10 Sep 1998]
Informix scores biotech success
News Our Universal Data Option is designed to handle rich content such as images of protein samples," Callen continued. Informix has won its first contract in the biotechnology industry. Oxford Glyco Sciences will use the... [03 Sep 1998]
Corel pays up in Unisys patent row
News The Unisys technology in question, Lempel Ziv Welch (LZW), is used to compress and decompress GIF images on the Web. Corel is to make extensive back payments to Unisys for the unauthorised use of a patented graphics... [28 Aug 1998]
In brief: Autodesk and Discreet Logic combine 3D expertise
News The companies hope that their combined products will enable them to offer comprehensive packages for creating moving 3D images for film and television. Autodesk - a design software supplier - is to buy Discreet Logic for... [21 Aug 1998]
Laptops get strip search from Customs and Excise
News It emerged today that Customs and Excise routinely checks mobile computers for illegal images. Officers at ports and air terminals target laptop computers, CD-Roms and floppy disks. It uses a variety of scanning... [14 Aug 1998]
Toshiba to base telecoms research in UK
News The lab will work on third generation UMTS mobile phones, which will carry multimedia services such as online shopping and video images. Toshiba is to set up a £10m telecommunications research lab in Bristol, England. [31 Jul 1998]
In brief: BT helps to cut crime on SouthWest Trains
News Real-time video images will be transmitted from these cameras through BT's RS1000 optic fibre lines. BT is to supply closed circuit television services to SouthWest Trains in a deal worth £1.3m. Video cameras on all of... [10 Jul 1998]
In brief: Telemedicine centre shows healthcare future
News Among the line-up of technology companies displaying their innovations at the BT Centre is STORcomm which develops systems that transmit high-resolution clinical images from remote areas to specialists. [08 Jul 1998]
