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Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints

Photo The ringleaders need to learn that our fingerprints are not government property. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary.

Tags: national identity register, biometrics, id cards

[07 Apr 2008]

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photos: Outsourcing to Russia

Photo One of the negative perceptions of Russia, however, is that the country has poor intellectual property protection and that it is a hotbed of hacking and cyber crime. Milovantsev admitted intellectual property protection is a "very serious problem...

Tags: luxoft, moscow, russia, offshore outsourcing

[15 Feb 2007]

Photos: iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain

Photo Transport for London's (TfL) lost property office covers two entire floors beneath Baker Street Tube station and stores any items left on the underground, on London's buses, in black cabs and on the Docklands Light Railway.

Tags: transport for london, ipod

[04 Dec 2006]

Photos: "Citizen cartographers" mapping the planet

Photo OpenStreetMap has also started attracting interest from commercial users, and London-based estate agency Nestoria has started using the free mapping data for its online property search service in the Isle of Wight.

Tags: openstreetmap

[13 Nov 2006]

Photos: Offshore, inside India's IT capital Bangalore

Photo Gleaming new state-of-the art office blocks and high-tech corporate campuses spring up on every available space, despite the soaring price of land and property in the city. Since the end of October British Airways has been running its first direct...

Tags: ba cio paul coby, bangalore, offshoring

[28 Nov 2005]

Photos: Inside Dell's Irish build-to-order factory

Photo The parts only become Dell property once they come out of the truck bay and into the factory. The Dell manufacturing facility in Limerick, Ireland is one of seven factories where Dell builds laptops, desktops, servers and storage systems.

[04 Nov 2005]

Photos: Playing full scale London Monopoly

Photo So if your cabby picks up a fare taking him to Soho and on the board that property is owned by another player then it's bad news because you'll have to pay up. London has been transformed into a giant Monopoly board for an online version of the...

[29 Jun 2005]

Photo: Beijing exhibitionists

Photo At a property fair in Beijing on June 19, models carry LCD monitors on their backs that show real estate videos. The Chinese government has introduced measures to cool down real estate prices in major cities by discouraging speculative dealings.

[28 Jun 2005]

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