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Comment Payment is ensured by a tracking system linked to the TV sales process and by detector vans that patrol areas where houses fail to register. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service.
[26 Mar 2008]
Round-Up The government said it was still planning to force foreign nationals living in Britain to register their biometric details on the National Identity Register and carry an ID card by the end of the year.
[07 Mar 2008]
Comment The mass population won't now be required to register their biometrics on the national identity register when renewing or applying for a new passport until 2012 now (the original timetable was to do this by 2010).
[07 Mar 2008]
Leader The proposed national identity register for the ID card scheme will store even more data, including biometric information - what happens if your fingerprint records fall into the hands of identity thieves?
[22 Nov 2007]
Round-Up You'll need to register your iPhone with O2 via iTunes before you can use it. So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press attention the iPhone finally makes its UK debut today.
[09 Nov 2007]
Comment For example, registering your details for council tax and then having to register again for the electoral register. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes.
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment You can try this out before you commit to a domain and then register at any one of a myriad of different registration sites. Even if you're a one-man shop with a tight budget you don't have to let your clients know that.
[16 May 2007]
Comment To join a particular group you have to register an email address. Welcome to the Freecycle Diaries, in which Natasha Lomas puts the web giveaway service to the test - and shares her experiences, for better and for worse.
[10 Apr 2007]
Leader He also let slip that the government will allow police to check every fingerprint held on the National Identity Register to try and solve crimes. Have you had an email from Tony Blair this week? If you've been involved in the fierce debate on the...
[20 Feb 2007]
Round-Up The Round-Up must thank its friends on tennis website The Register for spotting that embarrassing little story. The Number 10 website came crashing down to earth under a weight of angry drivers logging on to register their displeasure at proposed...
[16 Feb 2007]
Comment Keeping customers simply because they can't bear to go through your convoluted unsubscribe process is not a success and e-tailers need to realise it should be even easier to unsubscribe (as you've no new details to register) than it is to subscribe.
[18 Dec 2006]
Round-Up Drinkers register their dabs with the doorman upon their first visit to one of a number of pubs in the town and they are then free to enter the pub. Well obviously they will walk up to the pub, register their fingerprint and buy a drink.simple...
[27 Oct 2006]
Comment You launched the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) scheme in April which gives users access to more tools if they sign up to the service and register their copy of Windows but blocks some downloads to customers who don't.
[22 May 2006]
Comment With no capability to register to opt-out for such advertising (unlike the TPS and MPS services in the UK which allow you to get away from the worst of the direct telephone and paper mail direct marketing exercises), you're stuck with what the...
[28 Apr 2006]
Leader It goes on: "The success of the National Identity Scheme means that the majority of all UK residents have applied for an ID card and are now registered on the NIR [national identity register]. A few decades back it was pretty much assumed that we'd...
[21 Apr 2006]
Round-Up The reason for this rush is due to a sunrise period which was declared open in December during which trademark-owners can register their interest in the new top level domain name. All three made perfectly valid attempts to register the name but...
[17 Mar 2006]
Leader The latest sweep has targeted homeworking schemes, which often charge up to £200 to register but then no genuine offers of work ever materialise. Bad Girls and Emmerdale star Claire King was this week the unlikely choice of celebrity to launch a...
[03 Mar 2006]
Leader This "compromise" centres on the amendments to the ID cards bill by the House of Lords last month in which peers defeated the government plan to make it compulsory for people to submit their biometric details for the National Identity Register...
[10 Feb 2006]
Leader The latter issue appeared in the news today, with Chinese Ministry of Information saying it's going to require all mobile phone users to register their personal information with mobile providers - or risk losing their service.
[05 Dec 2005]
Leader We feel this pattern is a promising one because it acknowledges several important facts which to date have largely failed to register with legislators and lawmakers. This past week has seen three high-profile cases hit the headlines in which...
[21 Nov 2005]
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