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Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News The trial is part of the UK's £1.2bn e-Borders scheme, which has already screened 50 million passengers, leading to more than 2,000 arrests and large scale operations. Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition... [20 Aug 2008]
IBM-Linux love-in targets Vista grumblers
News The partners' plan is to duplicate these localised efforts on a worldwide scale, working with IT firms in each local market, IBM said. IBM has long been a backer of Linux as an alternative to Microsoft offerings in the enterprise but, while Windows... [07 Aug 2008]
Yahoo!, HP, Intel meet in the cloud
News When HP Labs underwent a major reorganisation in March, it named large-scale cloud services as a key focus. s commitment to cloud computing stems from its involvement in the Apache Hadoop project, an open-source project for large-scale data... [30 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News As nice as XML is, it isn't going to be efficient enough for this scale," he wrote. Protocol Buffers could be useful for other organisations that need an efficient way to move structured data around a network, for instance in large clusters or data... [11 Jul 2008]
Email: The tip of the cloud iceberg?
News With the consumer mail platforms serving millions of users Cain said there is a clear opportunity to transfer these economies of scale to enterprises. This will be driven by falling prices and large vendors coming into the email market meaning it... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Companies that used to use large-scale, x86-based multi-processor systems are now "buying larger systems to achieve economies of scale", Rasit said. Even in the US, demand has calmed a bit but the [hardware] market has stayed relatively strong. [02 Jul 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News Balsillie said: "To support the anticipated growth in the second half, we have been investing and expanding in a number of areas to ensure that we can scale to meet the opportunity ahead of us. While top-end handsets like the Bold might appeal... [26 Jun 2008]
MI5 seeking changeable techies
News The UK's security intelligence agency is looking to recruit enthusiastic IT architects to work in Central London with experience in "IT solutions design" for large-scale organisations - and who are keen to work on business change programmes. [23 Jun 2008]
HP shakes up printing division
News The three new groups will focus on consumers and small businesses, large enterprises and graphics that cater to large-scale printing of billboards, signs and professional photography, the NYT reported. [19 Jun 2008]
When is a supplier gift/junket inappropriate?
News And by the way, one supplier once tried sending me an iPod for Christmas - I sent it back as its value was obviously way up on the 'unethical' scale. If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or... [06 Jun 2008]
IBM gets chips to chill out in water
News While unique in its microscopic scale, IBM's use of water to cool down the heat generated by computer processing is nothing new. The trouble is that this type of experimental chip structure also generates a large amount of heat. [06 Jun 2008]
Paper-free train tickets on track
News Smart tickets are expected to begin to move onto mobile phones from 2011, when the large-scale take up of NFC-enabled phones is anticipated. Passengers will touch either the cards or NFC phones to a mobile or fixed reader, similar to the Oyster... [04 Jun 2008]
HP close to buying EDS for $12bn
News I think this is sort of further evidence that HP really does see value at scale basically, at size," said Haff. Combining those pieces of corporate software with a large consulting arm would be a head-on attack on IBM Global Services' ability to... [13 May 2008]
RFID bag tags could save air-travel industry millions
News He said: "RFID hasn't been trialled on any systems large enough to equate with baggage handling on a global scale. According to the fourth annual Sita Baggage Report, RFID is a key technology for solving baggage handling headaches, estimated to be... [18 Apr 2008]
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News Because these providers are optimised for large-scale hosts, they could eventually serve corporate customers, Forrester said. Forrester Research on Monday released a report written by James Staten, an IT operations and infrastructure analyst... [11 Mar 2008]
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