ID cards strengthen market for data capture software
Blog Purported to combine technologies for processing forms, semi-structured and unstructured documents, this is the kind of tool that would be, I imagine, typically used for data verification and data export for backend processing and archiving.
[May 6, 2009, 8:34]
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog Also, the cheapest version of the product is the educational version, which ordinarily requires some kind of verification that you are actually a student or whatever. Blimey - this one came in quietly.
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
21m German bank details were for sale
Blog I'd imagine they took the details away for verification before handing over any cash though. Fancy getting your hands on the bank details of 21 million German citizens? The AFP is reporting that the German Wirtschaftswoche magazine was offered...
[December 9, 2008, 16:59]
Friday
Blog Has anyone considered running two systems from separate companies in parallel, for redundancy and verification? Friday 2/05/2003 Even in London, we've heard that elections are going on in the world outside the M25.
[May 2, 2003, 14:53]
Boingo gets wireless access client patent
Blog With this patent, Boingo cements its position as a leader in authentication and verification of various wireless technologies, making it easier for a user to find the right network and connect with it, in a seamless presentation and user...
[June 24, 2009, 11:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Buffer overflows.refering to memory containing anything other than defined variables.referencing stack locations outside the allocated stack frame.and transfering execution to arbitrary locations within a process are also prevented by the...
[May 17, 2002, 17:45]
The ZDNet UK community strikes back!
Blog But that's the way the, er, biscuit crumbles - no solid verification, no story. Full marks to community member dercoss, who dropped into the site a week ago to give us a handy tip about the resignation of Hugh Paterson, erstwhile CEO of internet...
[February 22, 2007, 14:03]
Visions of China
Blog Test and verification are the biggies - but at some point, intel _has_ to update its marketing and channel strategy. IDF Beijing: what silicon prawns are going to be sizzling on the platter of publicity(*)?
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
Homeland Security Backdoor Behaviour
Blog Because the binary (compiled code) represents the actual attack surface for the hacker, testing the application binaries is the most accurate and complete way to conduct final, independent security validation and verification.
[February 5, 2008, 18:44]
Parallel processing or perish?
Blog The tools in this new world do not need to be radically different - but they need to address key problems related to abstraction of thread management and correctness verification. So I was trying to have a quiet hangover and mix with the good and...
[August 16, 2007, 21:25]
Biometrics needs to keep the bad guys out not the good guys
Blog So if biomterics is going to feature at the 2012 Olympics games, I hope that by then the existing problems will have been solved and that we don’t see long queues of people waiting for computer verification before they can enjoy a sporting event.
[August 18, 2008, 15:56]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog But it will be here soon -- a bug caught at the last stage of design verification, is all he'll say -- and the inevitable 'When will it be 64-bit? Today's keynote is more of the same. Mike Fister, manager of Enterprise Platforms, has grown a rather...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Power of sms in emerging economies
Blog In Business Sphere, SMS is doing well in Nigeria as Banking services notification system which helps to check mate fraudulent activities but it is yet to be deployed for more robust services like check verification systems and third party payment...
[July 23, 2008, 12:03]
What Open Source shares with Science
Blog Besides the verification provided by peer review, refutation for issues such as security is possible, learning of techniques by new practitioners is a great advantage, as is modification and redistribution of the code under similar conditions.
[June 12, 2009, 10:52]
Data’s dirty words: extract, cleanse, verify and manage
Blog Why then do terms like data extraction, cleansing, verification and management seem to be tarnished into the management-speak bin of data-centric publicity? You know it’s a funny thing, as close as programmers and DBAs (database administrators...
[January 7, 2010, 9:51]
RSA Europe: Microsoft discusses securing applications
Blog The cycle is made up of the following stages: Requirements, design, implementation, verification, release, response. It may comes as a surprise to some of you but Microsoft claims to have a very sophisticated system for making sure its products are...
[October 23, 2007, 11:04]
PCA: Microsoft Program Compatibility Assistant
Blog Verification of post-install application events For this blog, I thought that I would spend a little time looking at some of the compatibility features included in Windows 7. I wasn't surprised to learn that Microsoft views application (and driver...
[September 29, 2009, 7:51]
Apple carves out a new case for manuacturing
Blog Verification of products is also tricky. A wonderful rumour is circulating in the Applesphere, regarding a brick. The Apple Brick. The phrase itself has been around for a while, although nobody outside the company had any idea what it might mean.
[October 5, 2008, 13:54]
