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ID scheme undermined by poor-quality fingerprints
News The UK e-borders programme, a border control and security framework, also came in for criticism. The National Identity Scheme could be undermined by the quality of fingerprints from people aged 75 and over, according to an official report.
[July 11, 2008, 16:39]
AMD to sell Transmeta chips in emerging markets
News The Efficeon chips, which are cheaper than standard PC processors, are the only chips approved for the programme. Transmeta changed chief executives several times and then launched into a programme to license its technology for curbing chip power...
[June 6, 2006, 9:35]
Biometrics beyond borders
News While many countries have beginning to investigate biometric passports and start trials of border control systems, the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) programme, is one of the few live deployments and remains the...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
New entries join supercomputing top 10
News The US government, alarmed by Japan's top ranking, has begun a programme to spur new research. The Opterons are used in a 2,816-processor cluster built by Linux Networx for Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
US urged to take supercomputing beyond clusters
News Graham praised it but said it's only a one-time programme and doesn't support research necessary for a successor. Our concern is that unless we worry about it now, there's going to come a point in the future.where the capability isn't there because...
[November 15, 2004, 7:45]
Home Office finalises ID management plans
News Look at Accenture [which recently pulled out of the Health Service NPfIT programme]. The Identity Cards Act 2006 gave the Government powers to create a National Identity Register to store and share details of people's identity, including...
[October 19, 2006, 15:35]
IBM puts Opteron on the rack
News One difference between IBM's high-performance computing business and that of its competitors is its programme to rent out its own supercomputing centres. This programme enables customers to tap into the centres when they have more number-crunching...
[June 24, 2003, 11:20]
Roundup: The summer of hacking
News Tue, 04 Jul Teenage hackers pose a serious threat to governments and world trade, acccording to BBC investigative programme Panorama Mon, 17 Jul Will the Republican National Convention be the next hacktivism target?
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
US gov't shown silver lining of cloud computing
News Major Larry Dillard, a program manager in the US army's Office of the Chief Marketing Officer, related how he managed to overcome the army's resistance to change and its security concerns to adopt cloud-computing services for the Army Experience...
[February 26, 2009, 8:23]
Fraud still troubling eBay users
News In June, the company added new fraud-detection software and in May announced a new authentication programme with Verisign. Chief executive Meg Whitman recently joked that the programme may flag a "low-cost computer reseller with a home domicile of...
[July 1, 2002, 12:36]
IBM: Research is the key
News In the On Demand Innovation Services programme, for example, researchers from facilities in Silicon Valley, New York and six other locations are assigned to work on thorny aspects within ongoing contracts.
[June 17, 2004, 16:20]
LookBack '98: A year in the life of the Bug
News Year 2000 programme manager for Unisys explained: "It could just be a case of how the date appears on a report or it could be more serious and cause the system to fail," he said. A national poster campaign, press adverts in national and local...
[December 24, 1998, 6:11]
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If that is the NHS' view on 23 experts who are trying to aid...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
NHS to cut costs with VoIP rollout
News The NHS could cut costs following an upgrade to its N3 broadband network, part of the National Programme for IT. N3 was used previously to speed up the transmitting of clinical data within the NHS but Len Chard, programme director for N3, said that...
[July 24, 2007, 8:37]
Half of UK opposed to ID cards
News Support for the UK's national ID card programme continues to plummet, with one quarter of people saying they are strongly opposed to the scheme. Phil Booth, national co-ordinator with pressure group No2ID, said: "It shows that more people don't...
[February 7, 2008, 8:57]
ID cards scheme: Potential suppliers named
News The companies named as potential suppliers for the scheme — which includes the national ID cards programme — are Accenture, BAE Systems, CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, Steria and Thales. Eight companies are in the running to be key suppliers for the...
[October 23, 2007, 10:00]
Government web content to join archive
News This should ensure much better survival of documents you see," he told GC News, adding that it is particularly valuable to copy websites just before their subject matter is moved to Directgov as part of the government's web-rationalisation programme.
[August 20, 2008, 10:31]
The Big Interview: Jerry Fishenden
News Fishenden has been closely involved with the UK's e-government programme since 1997, and was also involved in the strategic development of the Government Gateway — the UK government's national solution for user identity and transactional services.
[January 24, 2007, 15:14]
Fujitsu shrugs off Tory threat to cancel ID cards
News He was not willing to discuss Fujitsu Service's recent firing from the NHS National Programme for IT, with which it had a contract worth £896m, except to say that the firm is likely to continue to have involvement in Picture Archiving and...
[June 4, 2008, 8:56]
Photos: Centre launched to promote open source
News The centre is currently running a programme of seminars to bolster knowledge of open-source products and services. An institute that aims to promote the national use of open-source software was launched at the Houses of Parliament on Monday.
[February 27, 2007, 12:43]
