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RSS schemeID card database: 500 names added in first month
News The National Identity Register - the database behind the ID card scheme - contains more than 500 names after a month of operation. The National Identity Register underpins the ID card scheme The database... [26 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News Manchester residents aren't the first UK citizens to be able to enrol for the cards: civil servants and contractors working on the ID cards scheme have been able to apply for an ID card from 20 October. [16 Nov 2009]
Recommendation on the Credential Numbering Scheme for the FIPS 201 PIV Card Global Unique Identifier
White Paper This paper presents a proposal by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council (PAC) on the population of the GUID field found within the Cardholder Unique ID (CHUID) of a PIV card. Past industry submissions to the Physical Access... [12 Nov 2009]
WiMAX Base Station Scheduling Algorithms
White Paper This white paper discusses about the scheduling algorithms for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access/Time Division Multiple Access (OFDMA/TDMA) based systems, which extends the PF scheme to multiple service types... [12 Nov 2009]
Increasing SIP Firewall Performance by Ruleset Size Limitation
White Paper This paper proposes a scheme to increase IDS firewall performance by merging several similar rules into more general ones and ignoring lesser relevant rules to limit the number of firewall rules. To protect SIP... [12 Nov 2009]
Selective Alerts for Runtime Protection of Distributed Systems
White Paper In order to improve the efficacy of attack detection and reduce the amount of false positives, the paper proposes a novel scheme for runtime alert management. Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are popular... [11 Nov 2009]
How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
News The PayPhrase scheme is also being taken up by other retailers in the US, including electronics company Buy.com and fashion store DKNY. Amazon has launched a new payments system based around a user's memorable phrase. [30 Oct 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment - a climate change and energy-saving scheme that will take effect in 2010. [29 Oct 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News The BBC Trust, the body that oversees the BBC, announced yesterday it thought the scheme "was not the best way to share the BBC iPlayer or to deliver increased public value to licence fee payers". The BBC Trust has... [21 Oct 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News From early next year, the scheme will be extended to cover those living in the wider North West area. Thousands of UK citizens have registered their interest in getting their very own ID card. According to the Home... [19 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News If the scammers' structure sounds like a clever marketing operation than a criminal scheme, that's no surprise: most scareware operations are closer to business than they are to gangster rackets, according to Wall. [19 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News The new service, which will have to be approved by the BBC Trust before it can be implemented, is part of a wider scheme by BBC Worldwide to establish new revenue models. BBC Worldwide has confirmed it wants to launch an... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News The system uses data from its Nectar customer loyalty scheme to determine a customer's tastes and prints off customised vouchers at the checkout, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King revealed in a conference call with investors... [09 Oct 2009]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' plan gets the green light
News Microsoft's plan to offer new Windows users a choice of browser - the so-called browser ballot screen - has been approved by the EC. Market testing will now go ahead for the ballot, which was created in response to EC antitrust concerns... [07 Oct 2009]
Self-Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices
White Paper This paper proposes a novel data encryption and storage scheme to address this challenge. Treating the data as a binary bit stream, the Self-Encryption (SE) scheme generates a keystream by randomly... [05 Oct 2009]
