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Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo Up to 10,000 heavy goods vehicles pass through Calais every week on routes that attract many illegal immigrants heading for the UK. It might only be the size of a briefcase but an intelligent robot is helping to protect the UK's borders from... [24 Jul 2008]
Microsoft training Black Country kids in joys of IT
News I think they've got something close to a 98 per cent rate of successful placement of people that pass the course," he said. The pass rate is also high - around 85 to 90 per cent of all students. Microsoft is helping youngsters in the Black Country... [23 Jul 2008]
Domino's online sales pass 20 per cent
News Fast food takeaway chain Domino's Pizza UK has broken the 20 per cent mark in online sales for the half year ended 29 June - meaning one in five of its pizzas are now ordered over the web. The company said ecommerce sales grew by 85.1 per cent to... [21 Jul 2008]
Design of Hybrid Optical Networks With Waveband and Electrical TDM Switching
White Paper By grouping pass-through traffic into wavebands and switching them alloptically, the hybrid architecture can significantly reduce the size of electrical switch and number of associated transponders. This paper proposes a hybrid optical-electrical... [18 Jul 2008]
PKWARE Case Study: Healthcare Organization
White Paper One of the largest publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, was finding an encryption solution to protect data being sent via portable media, email, and FTP also ensuring the strength of pass-phrases being used to secure data and... [18 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News RAL and other "tier one" sites across the world in the LCG will shape the mass of data from the LHC into chunks that can be usefully analysed by physicists and pass it on to hundreds of "tier two" universities and laboratories in their respective... [15 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment It seems seven days can't pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader thinks we're in "deep sh*t" below. And, according to a certain anonymous poster, here at silicon towers we need to get over the... [15 Jul 2008]
London travellers hit by Oyster outage
News Freedom Pass or Young Persons Oyster card holders affected will have to apply for replacements but will be allowed to continue travelling while these are issued. Travellers in London were forced to pay full price fares on Saturday as the computer... [14 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G: The wait is over
News They will also be able to pass on their old iPhone to anyone who has an O2 SIM card - even a pay-as-you-go SIM - and that person will be able to then use the older device as long as they pay £10 per month for the iPhone bolt-on. [11 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News With it, someone can build an independent website with a search box, pass users' queries to Boss, process the results returned by Yahoo! In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo! has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised... [10 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Detection of Worms/Viruses in Firewalls
White Paper All packets pass through firewalls and only firewalls are able to prevent packets from entering the network. This paper seeks to answer the question: "How to detect worms/viruses, which are replicated via emails, at the level of a firewall without... [10 Jul 2008]
Intrusion Detection Evasion: How Attackers Get Past the Burglar Alarm
White Paper With techniques like obfuscation, fragmentation, Denial of Service, and application hijacking the attacker can pass traffic under the nose of IDS to prevent their detection. The purpose of this paper is to show methods that attackers can use to... [10 Jul 2008]
A Comparison of Stream-Oriented High-Availability Algorithms
White Paper Early work in stream processing has primarily focused on stream-oriented languages and resource-constrained, one-pass query-processing. Recently, significant efforts have focused on developing novel data-processing systems to support a new class of... [10 Jul 2008]
The Parallel Effective I/O Bandwidth Benchmark: B_eff_io
White Paper It is designed so that 15 minutes should be sufficient for a first pass of all access patterns. The parallel effective I/O bandwidth benchmark (b_eff_io) is aimed at producing a characteristic average number of the I/O bandwidth achievable with... [10 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News The telecoms package will, however, need to pass a vote in the European Parliament in September before it can be enacted. A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes... [09 Jul 2008]
