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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on fire" accusations hold water after a national rollout of lie-detecting technology was approved this week. [09 May 2008]
Photos: Eye in the sky to spot 'friendly fire'
Photo UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help save lives by reducing 'friendly fire' and the number of air attacks. It will reduce friendly fire by... [03 Apr 2008]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo The HQ contains Bcip5 - the military's battlefield digital radio system - used to provide direct support to the UK's air, land and maritime operations and prevent 'friendly fire' accidents. In a small... [14 Jun 2007]
MoD slammed over friendly fire tech
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to produce technology capable of protecting UK troops from 'friendly fire' incidents, according to MPs. Ingram added incidents of friendly... [01 May 2007]
£2.4bn battlefield radios slammed by MPs
News The military's £2.4bn battlefield digital radio system has been slammed by MPs for being late, outdated, too heavy for troops to carry and ineffective when it comes to preventing 'friendly fire' accidents. [07 Mar 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News RFID has also made an appearance in the army to try and reduce casualties from 'friendly fire' incidents. Children: Japanese authorities decided to start chipping schoolchildren in one primary school in... [30 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.11.06
Round-Up This isn't like the Trinity College courtyard scene in Chariots of Fire - the woman will have until long after the beeping stops to get the job done. includes a number of 'female friendly' innovations. [03 Nov 2006]
Battlefield tech under UK and US spotlight
News RFID tags and other tracking devices linked to coalition systems are one way that the risk of 'friendly fire' - where a soldier on the same side is killed by accident - could be minimised. The UK's... [21 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.10.05
Round-Up Putting aside the fact the phrase 'friendly fire' is the most inappropriate phrase ever (with the possible exception of Heathrow 'Express'.for anybody who's had the pleasure this past week or so) the... [21 Oct 2005]
Photos: Technology fights 'friendly fire'
Photo The tech on trial would warn troops if they were about to fire one of these anti-tank missiles at a friendly vehicle by mistake. Nato forces have been testing a range of combat identification... [20 Oct 2005]
Army tests RFID to beat 'friendly fire'
News The British Army has been testing technologies - including radio frequency tags - that could reduce casualties from 'friendly fire' incidents. US Army colonel Bill McKean told silicon.com no single... [20 Oct 2005]
Supercomputing for students
News Dr Frazer Pearce, who is leading the project, said the £1.3m supercomputer consists of 512 AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire V20z servers and will run at speeds of up to three teraflops. Pearce said the aim is to make... [10 Feb 2005]
Ellison: PeopleSoft wanted merger in 2000
News Ellison said Friday that he had no personal animus toward Conway and that he disagreed with the decision to fire the former Oracle executive in the early 1990s. Ellison compared Oracle's bid for PeopleSoft to IBM's... [11 Oct 2004]
PeopleSoft and Oracle had previously talked merger
News Also during Catz' day in court, Oracle documents were presented that indicated the company would fire nearly 6,000 PeopleSoft employees if the acquisition goes through. PeopleSoft and Oracle had numerous discussions... [28 Jun 2004]
Police to use Bluetooth to access intelligence records
News The fire and ambulance services are currently evaluating bids for their own digital radio network but the government has again delayed a decision on the choice of supplier. The lack of data-friendly... [25 May 2004]
