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RSS border'Cross-border shopping must be made easier'
News The EC has called for cross-border online shopping to be simplified, following research that found six out of 10 shoppers attempting cross-country purchases had their transactions blocked. The European Commission's... [26 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News In a way, the way these scams are constructed they're more like elaborate business ventures that border on illegality. The strange thing about the way they're developing is they're moving more away from the criminal... [19 Oct 2009]
Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
News The extensions, a £330m agreement with Fujitsu and a £100m deal with Atos, cover services - including applications hosting, desktop services, networks and supporting infrastructure - for around 24,000 staff across the Home Office and UK... [12 Oct 2009]
Polish Police Force: Gaining Seamless Access to Data Throughout the EU
White Paper To meet EU free-travel Schengen Zone requirements, Poland needed an infrastructure that could provide police with mobile access to border crossing and visa systems, as well as government databases. For the Polish Police... [01 Oct 2009]
VeriSign PKI-Based Certificates Are Rock Solid: From the Tumultuous Launch of the Integrated Cargo System to Today
White Paper CBFCA) is an industry association that represents members' interests in various Australian Customs and Border Protection Service consultative forums - providing members with guidance, representation, services and access... [19 Sep 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News Those distributed to foreign nationals will be covered by the Information Commissioner's Office and the chief inspector for the UK Border Agency. The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs... [14 Sep 2009]
McAfee Total Protection Service Protects Chamber of Commerce PCs With Less Effort and Expense
White Paper Located in East Texas, not far from the Louisiana border, the county of Nacogdoches (pronounced nack-a-doe-chus), is home of Stephen F. Austin State University, "Texas Forest Country," and just over 60,000 residents. [01 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: When will businesses really be ready to make the move?
News As an indication of just how close Windows 7 is to the border between minor and major, the server version that was developed simultaneously is being designated as Windows Server 2008 R2 - a minor upgrade. [28 Aug 2009]
Green shoots? What green shoots? No let up in IT spending freeze
News The research predicts that this figure will grow 4.3 per cent this year, as government departments invest in IT services that can provide future cost savings, and in new programmes to support border control and defence... [11 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start out running at an energy level of 3.5 trillion electron volts (TeV) per beam, about half the energy that Cern expects... [10 Aug 2009]
Biometrics system for foreign students raises MPs' eyebrows
News A spokesperson for the UK Border Agency (UKBA) told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Wednesday that while the part of the NBIS that deals with the sponsorship management system will be launched in the autumn, the... [05 Aug 2009]
Border Security Systems: The Hungarian Case Study
White Paper Over the past ten years, Hungary has re-organized the structure of its Border Guard, changing it from a military organization with staff that is enrolled, into a police organization with solely professional staff. [31 Jul 2009]
Governance for the Insurance Industry: Service-Oriented Architecture
White Paper Further, governance will help companies scale SOA-enabled processes and operations quickly and efficiently - especially important in Europe and other markets undergoing cross-border regulatory shifts. [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The government claims to have issued 50,000 cards to foreign nationals but in April the CIO of the IPS Bill Crothers admitted that readers for the cards embedded chips would not be in place at UK border entry points... [30 Jul 2009]
Intel Xeon Processors Help Capture and Analyze Massive Amounts of Scientific Data From the World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
White Paper Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world's largest, most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the... [30 Jul 2009]
