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Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Finn said the improvement of future automated biometric border gates over today's Iris system would be comparable to the leap from VHS to DVD. Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. [21 Feb 2008]
silicon.com Classics: Digital Blunders
News The best included a home DVD recording that definitely shouldn't have been broadcast at a family birthday party, an email blunder involving the sender's wife, a text insult to a follicly challenged baldy and a smutty email sent by mistake to the... [11 Feb 2008]
Careless homeworkers increase security risks
News A few years ago I found tomato ketchup on the keyboard and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the DVD drive of a laptop which served as a reminder that you should also have training and strictly enforced usage policies to go with it. [08 Feb 2008]
Vista-XP downgrade software launched
News Customers with a Vista licence can purchase the two-DVD pack for £7, according to David Newbould, NEC UK's product marketing manager. The first DVD sets up a partition on the hard drive and installs core XP files and drivers, while the second DVD... [06 Feb 2008]
Hillary Clinton talks tech
News Would you support changing the DMCA to permit Americans to make a single backup copy of a DVD, Blu-ray Disc DVD, HD DVD, or video game disc they have legally purchased? Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most... [03 Jan 2008]
Army fires up wi-fi for troops
News The wireless internet service will be part of the Operational Welfare package available to all those deployed on operations - which includes the provision of DVD players, radios, television sets and 30 minutes of free phone calls per week to... [09 Oct 2007]
Bring on the naked PCs, says think tank
News Consumers would simply be asked to insert an operating system DVD when they first turn on a new computer, which would then automatically configure itself. Computers should be sold without an operating system in order to foster competition and bring... [24 Sep 2007]
AMD makes friends in the Linux community
News AMD is contractually required to keep engineering details for technology such as Blu-ray and HD DVD display secret, Bar-Haim said. AMD has become the second of the three major graphics chip companies to decide it's a good idea to co-operate with... [07 Sep 2007]
Ofcom ushers in licence-free UWB
News Ultrawideband (UWB) enables devices, such as PCs and DVD players, to communicate without wires at high speed and low cost over short distances, promising the eventual elimination of cabled interconnection for high-definition video and other... [13 Aug 2007]
Wikipedia woos the old world
News The spokesman added: "Not everyone is a comfortable, well-fed First World citizen with broadband so a book or CD or DVD is an important idea. The world's biggest and best-known online encyclopedia is going offline for its latest offering. [25 Apr 2007]
HP means business with energy efficient PCs
News The dc5700, which costs $800, and the dc7700, priced at $959, both include an Intel Core Duo processor, an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of memory, a DVD/CD-RW drive and Microsoft Windows XP Pro. The dc5750, which goes for $609, has AMD's Athlon processor... [13 Mar 2007]
Seagate hypes laptop with built-in data lock
News In addition to an 80GB Seagate drive, the ASI machine will feature a fingerprint reader, 15.4-inch display, Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.0GHz processor, Nvidia graphics with 256MB memory, 1GB RAM and a DVD rewritable drive, according to ASI. [12 Mar 2007]
CD Wow hits out at music industry 'paranoia'
News According to CD Wow, Simon Baggs of the Wiggin legal firm representing the BPI said in court yesterday: "One of the great causes of concern to the UK record industry at the present time is that prices for CDs and DVDs are being pushed down by the... [22 Feb 2007]
BBC web TV revamp: Linux and Apple are in
News The BBC Trust, which governs the Beeb, has amended its proposals for the web TV service in light of the regulators fears that such a service from Auntie would cause a drop in DVD sales and rentals. The BBC has announced its web TV plan will... [01 Feb 2007]
BBC told to rethink web TV plan
News Despite predictions of its popularity, Ofcom believes such on-demand services could cause a drop off in DVD rentals and sales if viewers were able to 'stack' an array of programmes to watch later. Media watchdog Ofcom has demanded a rethink of the... [24 Jan 2007]
