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Computer says 'No' - lie detectors trap benefit cheats

News We will be conducting a full evaluation in due course. Computer voice analysis is being used to root out benefit cheats - helping to save a council more than £300,000. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…

Tags: benefits, scam, local government, council

[18 Feb 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency where he helped create the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (Orange Book) and was co-author of Object Management Group's...

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards

News A spokesman for Accenture said: "We did an evaluation of commercial and other aspects and decided not to continue in pursuit of the framework. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Click on the links below to find out everything you ever needed to know...

Tags: id cards, government, bae systems, biometric

[25 Jan 2008]

Wanless calls for NHS IT review

News Just £500,000 has so far been spent on evaluation and Wanless said Connecting for Health, the NHS agency responsible for the NPfIT, should be subject to "detailed external scrutiny and reporting". The government's £12.4bn NHS IT project must be...

Tags: connecting for health, npfit, wanless, nhs

[12 Sep 2007]

Lie detector beats benefit fraud

News He said the DWP will "look at the evaluation results and see if it's viable, see if it's something to work on and see if other councils are interested in doing it". A trial of lie-detecting voice recognition technology to combat benefit fraud has...

Tags: benefits, harrow, fraud, voice recognition

[03 Sep 2007]

Stop e-voting trials, government told

News The evaluation also raised the issue of public confidence in the security of e-voting, as well as accessibility and technical difficulties. The Electoral Commission has called for the government to hold fire on further e-voting trials until...

Tags: local authorities, government, pilots, security

[02 Aug 2007]

Qantas springs towards in-flight text

News The Australian Communications and Media Authority (Acma) has given the thumbs-up for a limited evaluation of GSM mobile phones and GPRS devices but only for one commercial aircraft. The spokesman said global roaming rates for SMS and email will be...

Tags: in-flight mobile, in-flight, qantas

[23 Apr 2007]

Helmet-cams target violent crime

News Around 250 police officers in Plymouth are wearing the cameras as part of the tech evaluation and to assess how such cameras can be used in wider areas of policing. Police have released video footage from helmet cameras that have increased arrests...

Tags: police, camera

[02 Feb 2007]

Adobe PDF flaw 'more serious than first thought'

News The representative said: "Based upon info we have, Flash Player, Reader and modern browsers should restrict such an exploit but we haven't completed our evaluation of all possible scenarios. A recently discovered security weakness in the widely...

Tags: adobe acrobat, pdf, adobe, flaw

[05 Jan 2007]

Wipro chief - Indian companies heading for the top

News I think customers will have the top three or four Indian companies in their evaluation set for all major orders. The already-blurred distinction between Indian outsourcers and the traditional big services companies will soon disappear, the head of...

Tags: india

[07 Nov 2006]

Open source is a "red herring", says Newham CIO

News Newham is cited as a critical victory by Microsoft in its battle against open source, after the borough decided to deploy a Windows XP-based infrastructure following a detailed evaluation of Linux. Explaining the evaluation, Steel said: "We asked...

Tags: open source, newham

[20 Oct 2006]

IT 'failing to deliver business benefits'

News Managers are not learning from their mistakes either, with four-fifths reporting that their review and evaluation of completed projects is inadequate. Companies are failing to reap financial rewards from IT projects, research from the Cranfield...

Tags: business, money, survey, it

[06 Oct 2006]

ID theft: Which banks do best?

News ID theft prevention had the most weight in evaluation. A report into which US financial institutions best protect their customers against identity theft has named Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Washington Mutual as the top three.

Tags: id theft

[26 Sep 2006]

Munich finally flicks the Linux switch

News Munich was first tempted to open source after an evaluation by IBM and SuSE - the latter eventually losing out in the tender process. The city of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned.

Tags: novell, suse linux, gonicus, softcon

[26 Sep 2006]

Norwegian desktop Linux switch halted

News A further complication is that Bergen did not receive government funding to finance an evaluation project for the Linux desktop migration project. Ambitious plans by the Norwegian city of Bergen to move to an open source desktop environment have...

Tags: bergen, desktop linux

[06 Sep 2006]

Greenpeace clashes with Apple over toxic waste

News Those bid services do not appear on our web site, and company Web sites were noted as one of the main sources for Greenpeace's evaluation," the spokesperson added. The environmental track records of Apple and Lenovo have been singled out for...

Tags: apple

[29 Aug 2006]

NHS IT risks failure, warn angry angels

NHS IT risks failure, warn angry angels

News Whitehall needs to work harder to ensure nurses are involved in the development and evaluation of IT programmes, she said. The £12.4bn NHS IT upgrade could end in failure if nurses are not better informed and consulted about the giant project.

Tags: nhs it

[24 Aug 2006]

"No believable plan" for key NHS IT software

News The report said: "There is a significant risk that an evaluation of the 'gap' between the needs of CfH and the capability of the generic solution will require significant rework of product and platform layers.

Tags: nhs cfh, isoft

[21 Aug 2006]

Time running out for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

News A direct reporting line to the executive board was established and an issue evaluation committee was set up, dealing with findings from SOX 404 testing and audits, thus giving the SOX topic top management exposure and attention.

Tags: sox, sarbanes-oxley

[26 Jul 2006]

Robot spy planes get £16m government boost

News The investment forms part of the £32m Astraea (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation and Assessment) programme. The government is spending £16m on the development of robot aircraft that could be used by the police for surveillance.

Tags: robot

[18 Jul 2006]

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