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RSS e-paper in newsBye bye BlackBerry, hello Moto in £1m deal
News The company is aiming for paperless timesheets dream - something it hopes to achieve by early next year with the new system and which it predicts will save it £250,000 per year on paper and administration costs. [12 Nov 2008]
Oyster card security vulnerabilities uncovered
News An academic paper with details of the cryptographic vulnerabilities was also published on the Radboud University Nijmegen website. In their paper, the researchers claim to demonstrate that the... [08 Oct 2008]
'Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test
News First generation ePassports, introduced in the UK in 2006, typically hold only facial photo scans and ID information from the paper passport on a RFID chip. The UK was one of 27 countries that took part in the tests of... [22 Sep 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being hijacked by criminals who attempt to hide their profits through the exchange of virtual currencies, Dr Igor Muttik, a senior architect at McAfee's Avert Labs says in a white... [28 Aug 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News The analyst also identifies electronic paper, service-oriented business apps and solid-state drives as emerging techs with high potential in this time-frame. Web 2.0 technologies may make you roll your eyes dismissively... [11 Aug 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The aim is to increase the time police officers can spend on the beat by cutting down on paper work and reducing the need to return to the police station to file reports. The funding was announced by policing minister,... [27 May 2008]
Bradford & Bingley gets Oracle HR system
News The [need for] completion of paper-based forms that need to be found, completed and despatched to HR each time is eradicated. Mortgage and savings specialist Bradford & Bingley has implemented an Oracle staff management... [20 May 2008]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News Dr Richard Clayton, a security expert from the University of Cambridge, published a paper earlier this month detailing Phorm's infrastructure. More technical details of how Phorm systems work can be found in a... [18 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News Violent crime has doubled, immigration has tripled and police now spend more time on paper work than patrol. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking... [11 Apr 2008]
Invest in staff training, businesses told
News While the UK's productivity performance has been improving steadily since 1997 it still lags behind some leading international competitors, according to the paper, which claims up to one-fifth of the productivity gap is... [17 Mar 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News In a research paper seen by silicon.com's sister site ZDNet UK, the researchers outline the hack. The researchers used a paper clip as the conductor, linked to the data line. Neither terminal meets any... [27 Feb 2008]
Google warns: Malicious 'drive-by downloads' on the up
News The paper is currently under peer review. The Google researchers also wrote in a paper called All Your iFrames Point To Us that 67 per cent of compromised servers and 64 per cent of the websites that... [20 Feb 2008]
Leisure company uses web to streamline suppliers
News The system will potentially allow 12,000 employees to browse and order goods ranging from paper clips to flat screen TVs from approved suppliers over a central web portal. Bourne Leisure has kicked off an... [28 Jan 2008]
Broadband: King of the net connections
News And fat pipe speeds are on the up too - at least on paper. Broadband use in the UK is inching up towards 90 per cent of all internet connections, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). [22 Nov 2007]
ID fraud: Who's most at risk?
News Experian advises businesses to conduct a data audit, review security around customer data, use electronic authentication and shred all paper documents before disposal in order to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters. [09 Oct 2007]
