errors in news
RSS errors in newsRow over high street biometrics
News People will link biometric details to false biographical details, while the system will be plagued by systems errors. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will... [10 Nov 2008]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News ID cards: Latest news ID cards face student scorn ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk ... [04 Aug 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was declared "deplorable" and "entirely avoidable" in two reports into the data blunder released this week. [26 Jun 2008]
Warning: ID cards face fingerprint errors
News Experts have warned the ID card scheme risks being derailed by mistakes in fingerprint matches. The £4.4bn National Identity Scheme's (NIS) preference for relying on fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics exposes the system to... [20 Jun 2008]
House of Fraser synchronises supplier data
News By synchronising product data and images we can increase communication efficiency and decrease errors. Department store chain House of Fraser has signed up to the Inovis Data Synchronisation service in the hope of... [09 Jun 2008]
Tech not to blame for Terminal 5 fiasco
News In the written evidence submitted to the committee, BA said: "A number of the issues were caused by the incorrect setup of the system for live operation by BAA or its contractors and by unexpected software errors. [08 May 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News Other common bugbears include bandwidth consumption, application latency, sporadic performance errors and ensuring application delivery. IT teams are dedicating increasing amounts of time on getting to the bottom of... [01 Apr 2008]
Location-based services set to boom
News On WCDMA the errors will be about half of that - so in order of 30 to 50 metres. Is 2008 the year mobile location-based services take off? Worldwide subscribers are set to leap by nearly 168 per cent, says analyst house... [11 Feb 2008]
Tax payer still owed millions by EDS
News HMRC admitted to PAC the computer system, now looked after by Capgemini, remains "fragile", making it difficult to improve tax credit processing - with software errors still affecting some payments. MPs have called on... [05 Feb 2008]
Government reveals snooping figures
News The report reveals 24 interception errors were reported in the last nine months of 2006 - i.e.where data from the wrong person was intercepted. While this is "a significant decrease" on the previous report, according to... [30 Jan 2008]
Carphone Warehouse in data protection breach
News The companies were found to be in "serious" breach of the Data Protection Act by the ICO following a catalogue of errors that included passing inaccurate names, addresses and debts to credit reference and collection... [16 Jan 2008]
Microsoft refreshes Vista SP1
News After multiple rebooting, a period of an hour is required to allow the installer service to "clean up and complete the uninstall" to prevent possible installation errors. Microsoft has made the latest version of Vista's... [14 Jan 2008]
Microsoft and NHS team up on software design
News By standardising on a common way to display medical data, Microsoft hopes the industry can make a dent in the 600,000 errors that take place in US hospitals each year, many of them from medication mix-ups. [10 Sep 2007]
Judge calls for "universal" national DNA database
News Speaking on the same programme the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas said there are risks of errors, mistakes and mix-ups with such a massive database and serious consequences as a result. In an interview on BBC... [05 Sep 2007]
East England Ambulance rides the Airwave
News Now we have confidence that messages about patients won't be overheard and errors won't creep into the message due to patchy coverage. The NHS has commenced the rollout of the Airwave secure digital radio network to... [24 Aug 2007]
