e-counting
RSS e-countingIBM touts virtual "Microsoft-free" desktop
News IBM is counting on the prevalent economic pressures to help make its "Microsoft-free" suite more appealing. IBM wants corporate customers to cut the cord with Microsoft. The tech pioneer is launching a Linux-based... [04 Dec 2008]
Optimizing Frequency Queries for Data Mining Applications
White Paper Data mining algorithms use various Trie and bitmap-based representations to optimize the support (i.e.frequency) counting performance. This paper compares the memory requirements and support... [01 Oct 2008]
India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...
Photo Pictured above is the counting mechanism of the Difference engine - in perfect symmetry prior to its first-ever usage. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on... [29 Apr 2008]
Stop e-voting trials, government told
News Thirteen local authorities - including Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick - ran trials for electronic voting, vote counting and voting in advance.silicon.com Public Sector In some locations where... [02 Aug 2007]
Indian state looks to open source for education
News India's Kerala state government is counting on open source software to boost its IT literacy rate. The Kerala government has identified free and open source software (FOSS) as a major strategic component in its efforts... [29 Jun 2007]
Call for e-voting to be scrapped amid security fears
News The Open Rights Group (ORG) had a team of 25 officially accredited election observers at the e-voting and e-counting pilots and has expressed "deep concern" about the use of the... [25 Jun 2007]
E-counting under scrutiny in election shambles
News The Electoral Commission is undertaking a full review of the elections in Scotland, with the electronic counting process, the high number of rejected ballots and the arrangements for postal voting all under scrutiny. [04 May 2007]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader As the news broke you could almost hear the criminals, somewhere in Eastern Europe, counting to 10, waiting to launch a phishing scam exploiting this news. This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had... [14 Nov 2006]
E-voting pilots on the way
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs is looking for local authorities to run pilots testing different voting methods at the elections, including internet and telephone voting, e-voting kiosks and electronic... [17 Oct 2006]
E-counting tech to be used in Scottish elections
News Electronic vote counting technology is to be used in the Scottish parliament and local authority elections in 2007. The full scale use of the e-counting technology in next May's... [13 Jun 2006]
Security fears kill e-voting trials
News This will include the use of electronic vote-counting technology at Epping Forest District Council, and the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Newham as well as electronic signature-checking technology that uses optical... [15 Feb 2006]
'Porn' virus worms its way into 510,000 systems
News The worm also has its own counting mechanism and it showed 510,000 infected systems on Saturday, according to F-Secure. A new email worm that spreads under the guise of pornographic content has jumped to the top of the... [24 Jan 2006]
E-voting tech trials ditched by government
News The trials were scheduled to include internet, telephone, text message and digital TV voting channels, electronic polling stations and vote counting systems, voter verification technology and other electronic services to... [02 Sep 2005]
e-voting could reverse voter apathy, says Hoon
News Speaking at an Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) event on 4 July, 2005, Hoon highlighted plans to set up an online electoral register, electronic counting systems, and internet and text message voting. [06 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.05.05
Round-Up The actual counting of votes brought mixed news for the high-tech community. "Are you thinking what we're thinking? Now, that really depends on whether you're thinking those crates of champagne were a big waste of money... [06 May 2005]
