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RSS visorCheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet More advanced AR has been developed by the military - for example, superimposing information onto an aircraft cockpit or a pilot's visor to provide target information or other relevant data. Augmented reality? [27 Oct 2009]
Calibrating Managed Security Services for SMB: A VISOR Business Model Approach
White Paper The five-variable VISOR Business Model is useful for service providers to help assess the viability of a new service for a particular market. In emerging managed services markets, the search for viable business models... [30 Jun 2009]
Criminal data to be consolidated in £250m deal
News Next year, the NPS is expected to adopt Visor, a national database for managing sex offenders. The National Probation Service (NPS) has signed a £250m contract with Steria to provide managed IT services for a new... [04 Oct 2005]
Murder inquiry chief meets IT cops to big-up Visor
News Bichard met the chairman of the Police Information Technology Organisation (Pito), Chris Earnshaw, to discuss the Violent and Sex Offender Register (Visor), which all UK police forces are now using. In a press statement,... [02 Sep 2005]
£10m police database tracks violent offenders and paedophiles
News The violent and sex offenders register (Visor) is a central system that replaces local, unconnected databases and paper files used by police forces to keep tabs on people with convictions for sex offences and violent... [18 Aug 2005]
Police forces examine intelligence sharing options
News This capability will be increased when SID is linked to the national violent and sex offender register (Visor) and the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) database in the summer. English and Welsh police forces are... [08 Mar 2005]
Public at risk from violent and sex offenders register IT delay
News The plan is to develop a joint police and probation system called ViSOR (violent and sex offender register) and an interface with the probation service's system that assesses the likelihood of re-offending. [19 Sep 2003]
Biometrics key to future of police crime fighting
News The violent and sex offenders register (Visor) is being developed in-house by PITO staff and contractors and two pilots will be run in November this year. Biometrics and a database of violent criminals and sex offenders... [25 Jun 2003]
Gadget war hots-up with PDA watches
News The device can handle contact and calendar information and works with devices using the Palm operating system such as the Sony Clie and the Handspring Visor. US watch maker Fossil has launched a Palm-compatible watch... [01 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: A citizens' database, JD Edwards and corporate PDA support
Comment Devices from Compaq, HP, Palm, Psion, Sony and Visor abound. In his keynote speech at OpenWorld, he confirmed Oracle's 9i database software has been delivered to certain security agencies free of charge. [10 Dec 2001]
Handspring to release memorable handhelds
News Handspring is to announce the release of two handhelds, one of which (the Visor Pro) will be the first Palm operating system device to feature16MB of built-in memory. The Visor Pro will come with double... [14 Sep 2001]
Handspring launches PDA and phone in one
News The gadget contains a speaker and antenna enabling the user to switch between voice and text messaging functions and check email or surf the web. The device, only available to US customers at present, will retail at $299 if purchased... [05 Apr 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Getting the CeBIT between your teeth
Comment The expansion follows the launch of its UK beta service earlier this month on the Palm OS-based Handspring Visor. VISA Europe, the payment card firm, recently made a big thing about offering a E168m (£105m) inducement to... [16 Mar 2001]
Win a Handspring Visor Deluxe
News To celebrate the recent launch of atscojobs.com, silicon.com has organised a fantastic competition - Eight Handspring Visor Deluxe are up for grabs courtesy of Handspring! Entering is easy - simply click on the link... [01 Feb 2001]
Cisco and Xircom join forces for WLAN network adapters
News The relationship between the two vendors will initially bear fruit in the shape of Xircom's Springboard WLAN module - incorporating Cisco's Aironet technology - for the recently released Visor Palm-clone from Handspring. [16 Jun 2000]
