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RSS bodyBody scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
News The first trial will be at London's Paddington station for passengers using the Heathrow Express rail link who will have to pass through a body scanner and put their luggage through an x-ray machine. Airport-style... [31 Oct 2005]
The Body Shop tests ecommerce waters
News Cosmetics retailer, The Body Shop, is forming a partnership with Softbank Venture Capitalist, the US subsidiary of Japan's Softbank, to develop its ecommerce strategy. The company does not sell products over the Net at... [27 Apr 2000]
Police gets to grips with body cameras
Case Study Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home Office has set aside... [12 Mar 2008]
Hacking 'goodies' get industry body
News Member companies are part of the new Crest trade body, which will govern the Crest professional body that provides for individuals who are not employed by the member companies, in areas such as exams. [25 Apr 2008]
We need UN body to combat cyber crime, says MP
News Speaking at the Webroot Spyware Summit in London on Thursday, Palmer said a UN body could, for example, put pressure on ISPs to exclude servers that host criminal websites. He said: "The UN needs to have a... [24 Oct 2005]
Load Balancing and Data Locality in Adaptive Hierarchical N-Body Methods: Barnes-Hut, Fast Multipole, and Radiosity
White Paper Hierarchical N-body methods, which are based on a fundamental insight into the nature of many physical processes, are increasingly being used to solve large-scale problems in a variety of scientific/engineering domains. [10 Jul 2008]
Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners
News A new smaller device has now been developed by QinetiQ that is designed to inspect individuals or groups of people with the image showing the surface of the body and objects under the clothing. The government and police... [22 Jul 2005]
Softbank's Body Shop deal goes down the plug hole
News The Body Shop Digital unit, formed in April with Softbank, will be shut down, pushing back implementation of the Body Shop's US ecommerce strategy to the second half of 2001. Angela Bawtree, head of... [20 Dec 2000]
Toumaz Drives Digital Medicine Revolution With Intelligent, Low-Cost, Patient-Centric Body Monitoring
White Paper Toumaz wanted to develop zero-administration wireless device for intelligent, non-intrusive body monitoring that helps patients manage their chronic diseases and detect adverse events earlier and develop a highly... [31 Jan 2009]
Police IT body to be scrapped in government reform
News A separate public sector body is also being proposed to act as a custodian for the police information databases, such as the Police National Computer, in recognition of the explosion of information held nationally on... [24 Jun 2005]
BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks
White Paper As wireless devices and sensors are increasingly deployed on people, researchers have begun to focus on wireless body-area networks. Applications of wireless body sensor networks include healthcare,... [11 Sep 2008]
UK needs cyber-crime reporting body
News The UK needs a reporting body to deal with e-crime occurrences, according to a group of senior IT chiefs. Roberts said there is not even a body that can bring together organisations that are under threat... [19 Jul 2007]
Wireless Technology and System Integration in Body Area Networks for m-Health Applications
White Paper Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) of intelligent sensors represent an emerging technology for system integration with great potentials for unobtrusive ambulatory health monitoring during extended periods of time. [19 May 2006]
GP body favours Linux over Microsoft
News Doctors' body the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has chosen Linux over Microsoft for a bulk email and web initiative because of better performance and cost results. The RCGP is the main academic... [23 May 2003]
Apropos smells success at The Body Shop
News The Body Shop Canada has signed up Apropos to provide retail management software and systems in all 120 outlets in Canada. The environmentally friendly beauty product chain will deploy Apropos' full retail software... [05 Oct 1999]
