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. E-instructor teaches safe driving IBM wants corporate customers to cut the cord with Microsoft. [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. Scientists in the US have developed a robot (pictured above) - named El-E - that... [29 Apr 2008]
Stop e-voting trials, government told
News In some locations where e-vote counting was tested, it was abandoned in favour of a standard manual count due to difficulties using the technology. Thirteen local authorities - including Sheffield,... [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. Achutanandan said in a statement: “Kerala has always been a leader in literacy and now we want to make Kerala a leader in... [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 Scotland Office said "e-counting" in the election had worked well in a number of areas and added that where counts have been completed the results are accurate and final. The Electoral Commission is... [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. E is for Extradition This morning news broke... [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 The full scale use of the e-counting technology in next May's elections in Scotland follows positive feedback from successful trials over the past four months. The use of... [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. The worm, dubbed W32/Nyxem-E by F-Secure, arrives attached to an email message.... [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. Things weren't so tight for former e-Minister Stephen Timms who enjoyed one of the most comfortable nights of any Labour MP,... [06 May 2005]
