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RSS databases in newsAugmented reality's time is coming thanks to smarter smartphones
News ABI Research predicts the future could see the creation of global databases full of geographical information, contributed by governments, businesses and individuals. Today's increasingly feature-packed smartphones are... [26 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The UK has played a vital role in the development of the software industry over its 40-year history, having had an early hand in many of today's most popular applications - from databases and email to computer games and... [23 Oct 2009]
Tories: We will end the database state
News The Conservatives have said they will cut back on government databases and increase public privacy if they win the next election. In a policy paper published on Wednesday, the Tories call for stricter access rights to... [17 Sep 2009]
Oracle celebrates 11g's second birthday with database overhaul
News RAC OneNode is a new option that makes it easier to consolidate databases that aren't mission critical, but need redundancy, Oracle said. Oracle said on Tuesday that the second release of its 11g database is generally... [02 Sep 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Getting the national legal and IT compatibility requirements between existing NHS records and private sector databases is not going to be a straightforward thing to do. Further investigation is required into the use and... [10 Aug 2009]
Twitter's malware filter has 'disappointing results', say security experts
News While it would not prevent the abuse of Twitter in the longer term, the failure to integrate such databases listing known malware was a "missed opportunity", Danchev said. Twitter's new malware filter is a sign the... [04 Aug 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases. There wasn't a good set of [free]... [24 Jul 2009]
Critical ActiveX Office hole under attack, warns Microsoft
News The zero-day hole, the third one announced by Microsoft in less than two months, is in Office Web Components ActiveX controls used to display and publish spreadsheets, charts and databases to the web. [14 Jul 2009]
British Airways: No mobiles on old planes
News He added that Sita is looking at how modern telecommunications capabilities could be used to automatically transmit and log flight data, such as that currently recorded on black box recorders, to airline databases. [01 Jul 2009]
'Get the raw data out there ASAP': Berners-Lee
News In addition, Berners-Lee suggested that data now found in relational databases should be delivered in a form where it can be accessed using open-source tools such as D2RServer and Triplify. World wide web inventor Sir... [26 Jun 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain. The government's electronic eavesdropping agency has denied developing technology... [06 May 2009]
RIM, HP unveil fruits of BlackBerry partnership
News The HP Operations Manager software, typically used to keep an eye on the likes of mainframes and file servers, will now be extended to allow IT departments to monitor the company's BlackBerry estate from mail servers to... [05 May 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News A report by the Foundation for Information Policy Research, published in March, concluded that the National Identity Register and 10 other government databases "almost certainly break European law". IBM and CSC have been... [08 Apr 2009]
ID cards to remain unreadable until next year
News With no readers in place, police and immigration officers are currently still relying on traditional methods of checking ID cardholders' identity, by running a fresh set of prints against existing identity databases. [07 Apr 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News A group of privacy and security experts has charted the proliferation of UK government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. Anderson said 11 of the databases that are currently... [23 Mar 2009]
