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Sony launches massive Vaio recall
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Sony is recalling about 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks worldwide that may overheat... [05 Sep 2008]
Microsoft's cloud Office lands one million users
News Biometrics from A-Z… One million customers have signed up to Microsoft's Office Live Workspace online collaboration tool, six months after its beta launch. Workspace is the web-based extension of Microsoft Office, allowing users to access and share... [04 Sep 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News A recent independent review of the ID cards scheme by the Biometrics Assurance Group suggested the system could struggle in capturing the fingerprints of up to four million people. A prototype of the UK ID card biometric database will be delivered... [04 Aug 2008]
Google Street View cleared by UK privacy watchdog
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics Google's Street View mapping system has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy... [31 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Galileo CRM Biometrics Encryption Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home... [15 Jul 2008]
UK trails in open source race
News Biometrics from A-Z… UK businesses are lagging behind their European and US counterparts in adopting open source software. The UK is fifth in terms of uptake, with 15 per cent of businesses currently using open source technology. [14 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News B is for Biometrics Young people have condemned ID cards as "illegal" and "creepy" on a website to canvas their views. People aged 16 to 25 have been using the site MyLifeMyID.org, launched today, to discuss the £4.4bn National Identity Scheme (NIS). [09 Jul 2008]
Biometrics to fast track 'trusted' travellers
News Biometric technology is to be used to speed up travel between the UK and the US. Fingerprint, iris and facial recognition technology will be used to speed up frequent travellers' journeys through immigration control, as part of a UK-US agreement... [03 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News B is for Biometrics The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. [02 Jul 2008]
Experian launches biometric voice ID checks
News The VoiceCheck service uses technology provided by biometrics specialist VoiceVault to detect more than 100 physiological metrics, such as size of nasal cavity, to determine whether the subject is who they claim to be. [23 Jun 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS) preference for relying on fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics exposes the system to error, according to the independent Biometrics Assurance Group (BAG). [20 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has extended a mobile fingerprinting trial by handing out 100 devices to a further 10 police forces.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to... [11 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News In the report Ross Anderson, a security expert from Cambridge University, also warns that biometrics can easily be stolen by organised gangsters. He said: "Once you start using biometrics on a very wide scale, for all sorts of everyday transactions... [09 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News Biometrics from A-Z… Scientists from the IBM Zurich Research Lab and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin are working on a microchip that uses micropipes of water to cool itself, IBM announced yesterday. [06 Jun 2008]
Northern Ireland builds high tech credentials
News Biometrics from A-Z… Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an emerging UK tech hub. Invest Northern Ireland (NI), the regional economic development agency, is billing the region as the place for technology and financial services and is... [02 Jun 2008]
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