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Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo This is a sectioned model of the reactor at Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale civil nuclear power station opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Focal Communications Is Wired for Success: With the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series

whitepaper Focal Communications Corporation needed a storage system that would offer them 24/7 availability, ease of management, and the ability to scale as their data grows. The Hi-Star switched, cross-bar architecture of the Lightning 9960 was the ideal...

Tags: tape drives - libraries, paths, star, lightning

[10 Apr 2008]

Businesses call for police cyber crime unit

News There is now no central body to collect and monitor national cyber crime statistics and the Metropolitan Police Service admitted earlier this year that local police computer crime units are being overwhelmed by the growing scale of this type of...

Tags: cyber crime, cio jury, police

[08 Oct 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal

Comment The physical situation responsible for this condition is depicted, in the non-scale pic, below. I elected to use hi-gain TV antennas specified up to 860MHz to collect and redirect the mobile phone energy at around 950MHz.

Tags: mobile signal

[18 Jul 2007]

Hitachi Case Study: Commercial Bank of Zhengzhou

whitepaper With serve the city; support the local; with excellence and economics of scale as the guidance, CBZ always tries to develop and explore a way out of local SME banks, utilizing modern commercial banks' standard management methods with brand new...

Tags: infrastructure management, city, bank, commercial

[08 May 2007]

William Hill fights back against the hackers

News Kemeny said: "What we're intending to do is deliver a more agile platform that will enable us to get to market quicker and actually provide us with a scalability - both horizontally and vertically - that actually means that as the business grows...

Tags: william hill

[04 Oct 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06

Round-Up A red-faced Cabinet Office spokeswoman told silicon.com: "We said that this is a small scale trial or experiment. Long-time Round-Up readers (and statistically there must be at least a couple of you - 'Hi Mum!

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[01 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The GDP threat

Comment As far as I can see the only other options are a reduced GDP at a national level followed by a rapid slide down the global economic scale of productivity. But in this regard, we need big screens, hi-fi sound, telepresence technologies and more to...

Tags: , broadband

[05 May 2006]

Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself

Comment The problem for traditional law enforcement in tackling cyber crime is, Charney said, the sheer scale and international nature of the task. John Lyons, formerly of the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, and now a security consultant, says: "Law...

Tags: law enforcement, e-crime

[24 Apr 2006]

Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy

Comment As explained to me recently, the banks are now increasingly worried by the scale of losses they are now experiencing. How could they possibly manage a large scale rejection of virtual banking, if the problem of online fraud continues to rise?

Tags: uk government, cybercrime

[13 Jan 2005]

Queen gives ID cards and a UK 'FBI' the green light

Queen gives ID cards and a UK 'FBI' the green light

News But concern has been raised by technology industry experts about the pace and scale of such a high-profile and costly project as the £3bn ID card scheme, which would become the biggest IT project ever undertaken by the government.

[23 Nov 2004]

Innocent users told: "Pay up or we tell the police about your child porn"

Innocent users told: "Pay up or we tell the police about your child porn"

News While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.

Tags: porn, blackmail, extortion

[22 Jul 2004]

Bookie reveals $100,000 cost of denial-of-service extortion attacks

News These are the words of a UK-based online bookmaker who has agreed to speak to silicon.com, on condition of anonymity, to reveal the full scale of the denial of service extortion threats that betting sites have been battling against for nine months.

[11 Jun 2004]

Built to Scale: the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series

whitepaper The objectives of this white paper are to provide an overview of the revolutionary Hi-Star architecture that powers the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series, to describe its performance features and enhancements, and to demonstrate the...

Tags: interfaces / buses / i/os, freedom, hitachi, storage systems

[24 Feb 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The cyborgs are here

Comment The scale of difference between where we are now and fully engineered, patient-adequate performance is on a par with the difference between a crystal set of the early 1900s and a modern PC. As a result, conversations in noisy environments are...

Tags: cyborg, cochrane

[02 Apr 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Stupidity on an industrial scale

Comment Here CD software allows hi-fi operation and disables all PC applications. So the kids got around this by re-digitising the tracks by linking hi-fi output to PC audio input. As the music industry takes drastic action to block illegal downloads of...

[29 Aug 2002]

Cybercops and industry join forces to fight crime

Cybercops and industry join forces to fight crime

News At the meeting, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit admitted there was little it could do to stop much of the small-scale, petty crime on the web, and welcomed the initiative. Pressure is growing on the UK's IT industry to make the web a safer place...

[28 Nov 2001]

Internet fraudsters bag £100,000 booty

Internet fraudsters bag £100,000 booty

News Detective Sergeant Chris Stephenson said the scale of the problem had shocked him. He is in contact with the newly inaugurated National Hi-Tech Crime Unit which co-ordinates national effort on combating this kind of crime.

[18 Jun 2001]

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