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RSS chip in newsHas Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News The bank chose PINsentry because of its similarity to chip and PIN, rolled out in 2006 across UK retailers. Barclays began distributing the authentication devices in the second half of last year, initially sending out 500,000 units, becoming the... [18 Jul 2008]
Dunelm Mill signs Epos maintenance deal
News The tills' chip and PIN systems have also been replaced recently. Value home furnishings retailer Dunelm Mill has signed an electronic point of sale maintenance contract to support its store portfolio expansion and drive sales. [16 Jul 2008]
Intel's Atom cracks into PC World
News Intel's Atom processor is a new design of x86 chip, intended to provide desktop performance at a couple of watts. The UK computer-store chain PC World is claiming to be the first retail outlet in the country to offer a netbook using Intel's Atom... [08 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a look at the 10 best, worst and just plain crazy uses of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags. [02 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Barroso himself, once a chip designer for Digital Equipment, has expressed such concerns previously. Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase efficiency by lowering power consumption. [25 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News The government has drafted in a former blue chip CEO to help slash the £13bn spent on public sector IT each year. Martin Read, former CEO of IT outsourcer Logica, will help achieve "significant savings" and address the "serious problems" that chief... [23 Jun 2008]
'Chip and Bin' dumped by council
News An antennae in the chip sent the information about the amount of rubbish to the lorry's computer. The UK's first project to measure the amount of rubbish thrown away using microchipped bins has been dumped. [17 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News He also warned that the RFID chip on the card might be read at other times, allowing information to be gathered besides details of Tube and bus travel. Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source... [10 Jun 2008]
Suppliers move away from licensing crackdowns
News But a spokesman for blue chip IT user group the Corporate IT Forum, said a recent poll of its members found most companies were now well versed on SAM (software asset management) and did not need the help of organisations such as Fast. [09 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News It also warns of bank accounts being taken over by fraudsters tricking call centre workers, a 37 per cent rise in the cost of phone, internet and mail order fraud and the threat from chip and PIN devices being modified to capture card details. [06 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News The chip's components are built in a 3D stack instead of side by side on a silicon wafer. Chips built in a three-dimensional stack formation offer more pathways for info to be processed and can shorten the distance chip information needs to travel... [06 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News The campaign has received backing from the Metropolitan Police, Conservative Party, a former White House cyber security adviser, blue chip FTSE100 companies, the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), UK payment industry body Apacs and other... [05 Jun 2008]
Microsoft-HP deal plans to boost Live Search
News The deal is Microsoft's latest attempt to chip away at the dominance of search leader Google. Microsoft has struck a deal with the world's largest PC maker, HP, to place a toolbar on new PCs that leads to its Live Search engine, the companies have... [03 Jun 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News As Disruptive Analysis analyst Dean Bubley speculates, writing on his blog: "I wonder what you could do if you put a MediaFLO chip into a femtocell.either for receiving signals to create the equivalent of a parallel digital terrestrial network. [21 May 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News Speaking with silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia, Huang Liang, one of the competition hopefuls, based in China, said his application, Follow Me, would tag user feedback to points on Google Maps using the device's GPS chip, allowing users to "share... [20 May 2008]
