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XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Owners of some AMD-based computers are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3...

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

MoD fights data losses with encryption

News The MoD has previously admitted several embarrassing data losses including mislaying 11,000 ID cards and losing more than 600,000 servicemen's details. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is to protect 20,000 laptops using encryption software.

Tags: security, army, mod

[08 May 2008]

Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

Microsoft earmarks $1.5bn for Yahoo! staff

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5bn for employee retention at Yahoo!

Tags: staff, yahoo, microsoft

[30 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Yahoo! posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver...

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a...

Tags: microsoft, aol, time warner, yahoo

[22 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics The US PC market is beginning to have less influence on the global market, according to...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe...

Tags: capgemini, corus

[17 Apr 2008]

RIM-India: To meet again over security

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics The Indian government will hold its next meeting with BlackBerry-maker RIM next week, a...

Tags: email, blackberry, rim

[17 Apr 2008]

Open source key to SaaS future

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over...

Tags: gartner, future, sharing, saas

[16 Apr 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The High Court has quashed a ruling that a review of the ID card scheme should be published. Judge Stanley Burnton overturned the decision by the Information Tribunal that the ID card gateway...

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards O is for Other cards The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. Spending on consultants within the Identity and...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

MoD admits to losing 11,000 ID cards

News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted that more than 11,000 military ID cards have been lost or stolen in the past two years. Defence minister Bob Ainsworth admitted that 4,433 ID cards disappeared in 2006 and a further 6,812 went missing from...

Tags: data loss, mod, full disclosure, cards

[13 Mar 2008]

ID cards chief defends u-turn

News The head of Britain's ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government's revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards

Tags: id cards, security, identity, british

[10 Mar 2008]

ID card u-turn by government

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is also expected to reveal today that any Parliamentary vote to make ID cards compulsory for British citizens will now be delayed until 2015.

Tags: id cards, cards, identity, details

[06 Mar 2008]

ID cards: Gov't slaps on fines of up to £1,000

News Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards The fines would apply to foreign nationals entering or living in the UK, who will be required to have ID cards from November - ahead of the cards' introduction for UK citizens next year.

Tags: id cards, government, biometrics, identity

[26 Feb 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID or smart cards or visas that would contain both biometric data - such as fingerprints and iris scans - and biographical data, ranging from name and address to job and marital status.

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers

News Airport workers are calling for consultation over plans to make them first in line for ID cards. Silicon.com's A to Z of ID Cards A spokesman for the Identity and Passport Service said it made sense to adopt an incremental approach to rolling out...

Tags: id cards, no2id, card, cards

[20 Feb 2008]

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