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MoD fights data losses with encryption

News The MoD has previously admitted several embarrassing data losses including mislaying 11,000 ID cards and losing more than 600,000 servicemen's details. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software.

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo!

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Yahoo! posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a...

Tags: microsoft, aol, time warner, yahoo

[22 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill If they had employed any 'experts' then we wouldn't have this...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics The US PC market is beginning to have less influence on the global market, according to...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

RIM-India: To meet again over security

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics The Indian government will hold its next meeting with BlackBerry-maker RIM next week, a...

Tags: email, blackberry, rim

[17 Apr 2008]

Open source key to SaaS future

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over...

Tags: gartner, future, sharing, saas

[16 Apr 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID card scheme should be published. Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway...

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. Spending on consultants within the Identity and...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints

Photo The elaborate stunt has been dreamt up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International, who will put up posters in tube stations and pub toilets. The campaign is an attack on government plans to take the biometric details of UK...

Tags: national identity register, biometrics, id cards

[07 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Thanks to the HMRC debacle and the ID cards U-turn, the pressing issues surrounding privacy and personal data have made their way to the centre of the political boxing ring. Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick...

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. Defence minister Bob Ainsworth admitted that 4,433 ID cards disappeared in 2006 and a further 6,812 went missing from...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08

Round-Up Furthermore, the Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory will now be put back to 2015. There are a few more bits of empty posturing from the government here but overall it’s a significant victory for opponents of ID cards, which, let's face...

Tags: vista, microsoft, steve, battle

[07 Mar 2008]

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