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Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes

News Notable cyber crime success include Operation Ajowan, where Soca broke up a website where criminals traded stolen bank, credit and identity information that could have cost the UK finance sector at least £6m.

Tags: nhtcu, soca, cyber crime

[15 May 2008]

Video app the highway to healthy roads

News The cost of the trial is expected to be up to £20,000 for the first year of operation, including consultancy fees from Yotta DCL. Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems with an asset-counting application...

Tags: video, road, hampshire

[12 May 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.

Tags: problem, baa, ba, heathrow

[08 May 2008]

IT spend in retail slowing down?

News More than two thirds have transactional websites in operation and nine out of 10 expect to see non-store sales increase. IT spending growth in the retail sector appears to have faltered, with many retailers trying to do more with the same money...

Tags: online retail, torex

[07 May 2008]

Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts

News An ad-funded mobile network that offers free calls and texts to 16- to 24-year-olds has signed 100,000 UK users in the first six months of operation. Blyk - a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) which piggybacks on the Orange network and gives...

Tags: mobile advertising, blyk, mvno

[25 Apr 2008]

WiMax to pip LTE 3G at the post?

News Wickware said: "This is the first time I'm seeing so much co-operation in the industry, so it's good to be a first mover. Teresa Kellett, director of global development for telco Sprint Nextel, said during a panel discussion at this week's WiMax...

Tags: 4g, 3g, wimax

[11 Apr 2008]

Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News The botnet problem is getting worse, with no obvious solution in sight, according to Joe Telafici, VP of Avert Operation at McAfee. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are basically that we're screwed.

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

UK a hotbed for cyber crime

News IC3 is a joint operation between the FBI and the US' National White Collar Crime Center that takes international complaints about cyber crime, mainly originating from the US. The cost of global e-crime surged to a record $240m last year, with the...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Intel registers second-gen Classmate

News This can be four- or six-cell, giving three or five hours' operation. Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The new laptop shares its basic hardware design with the first generation...

Tags: low cost laptop, classmate, intel

[04 Apr 2008]

Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses

News The Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) directive came into operation at the beginning of the year and Faster Payments protocols are due to go live in May. As Europe starts to adopt pan-continental payments systems, UK payments takers are ill-equipped...

Tags: fraud, faster payments, sepa

[03 Apr 2008]

EC examines Nokia bid for Navteq

News The operation raises some issues similar to those involved in the proposed acquisition of Tele Atlas by TomTom, a Dutch company manufacturing portable navigation devices and selling navigation software for mobile phones, the Commission said.

Tags: eu, ec, navteq, nokia

[31 Mar 2008]

BA CEO: Heathrow T5 chaos 'not our finest hour'

News The problems at Heathrow's new £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5) have continued into a second day following the chaos caused by baggage system problems on the first day of operation yesterday. British Airways (BA) confirmed 80 per cent of scheduled flights...

Tags: luggage, airport, baa, heathrow

[28 Mar 2008]

Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?

News According to Dr Hartmut Pflaum of the Fraunhofer Institute: "Energy consumption, when in operation, was up to 50 per cent lower than for conventional PCs. The use of thin clients can play a substantial part in reducing European businesses' CO2...

Tags: pc, thin client, co2

[28 Mar 2008]

Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos

News BA added there were a "few minor problems" with the first day of operation at T5 including "baggage performance issues". On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and flight cancellations as a result of...

Tags: airport, heathrow

[27 Mar 2008]

Mothercare buggy about new financials software

News It is expected these changes will create benefits of £8m after the second year of operation following the acquisition. Children's clothing and equipment retailer Mothercare has signed a contract with Coda to provide financials software and services.

Tags: coda, early learning centre, mothercare

[27 Mar 2008]

Tough bargaining forces outsourcing price cuts

News Compass warns that even though outsourcing providers might offer discounts of 18 per cent below the in-house operation on day one of a deal they will often recoup the discount over the term of the contract.

Tags: offshoring, ito, outsourcing, deals

[11 Mar 2008]

Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?

News We need to form a global coalition to put together our resources and efforts within a framework of international co-operation and collaboration to bridge the digital divide. The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the...

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

William Hill profits hit by online problems

News NextGen will be replaced by off-the-shelf systems supplied by Orbis, which is hoped will be in operation by the end of November. Technical difficulties with a new online platform wiped £10.6m from the operating profit of high street betting chain...

Tags: betting, online, william hill, retail

[27 Feb 2008]

Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID

News Stephen Challis, head of product development at BAA Heathrow, said: "In effect the bag is travelling with its own passport… improving the certainty around the operation and reducing the manual intervention that's required, which we believe will...

Tags: rfid, heathrow, baa, chip

[13 Feb 2008]

Location-based services set to boom

News CSR has developed a system that augments GPS to improve the availability of location data by using the cellular timing measurements phones take during normal operation. Is 2008 the year mobile location-based services take off?

Tags: location, location-based services, csr, gps

[11 Feb 2008]

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