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A Year Ago: Utility watchdogs slate NAO report
News Asked whether the public should fret about having running water on 1 January 2000, OfWat's spokeswoman replied: "We would say that based on independent verification companies are making progress and, by July, will be able to say there is no...
[February 18, 2000, 6:23]
Microsoft offers free developer tools to students
News To bring the DreamSpark programme online in the UK, Microsoft is working with service providers, academic institutions, the government and student associations, such as the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research and not-for...
[February 19, 2008, 17:25]
Banks look at face recognition for ATMs
News Privacy advocates are more likely to back a solution that involves photographing faces and recording voices for verification, rather than one that requires personal details like fingerprint or iris scans.
[October 10, 2001, 10:27]
E-gold execs plead guilty in money-laundering case
News E-gold continued to allow accounts to be opened without verification of user identity, despite knowing that the operation was being used for criminal activity, including child exploitation, investment scams, credit-card fraud and identity theft...
[July 23, 2008, 14:19]
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]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News Security enhancements include: the ability to integrate antivirus software with downloads; one-click website identity verification; automatic testing to make sure plug-ins aren't older versions found to be insecure and automatic disabling if they...
[November 20, 2007, 16:10]
PC 300PL: The world's securest desktop?
News Besides the security processor, IBM is also including with the new PC 300PL models, a utility called User Verification Manager or UVM. IBM claims its new PC 300PL desktops, announced Tuesday, are the most secure PCs on the market.
[September 29, 1999, 12:00]
Equifax offers online proof-of-age card
News Those interested in trying out the I-card can sign up with Equifax or use Parity's Azigo I-card management software to enable one-click sign-in and identity verification. Equifax on Thursday introduced its first information card, or 'I-card' — the...
[November 14, 2008, 15:06]
Lindows backdoor slammed on Microsoft claims
News The software maker also said it needed traditional paper-based verification in order to help eliminate fraudulent claims and to keep other software vendors from attempting to cash in on the settlement.
[January 14, 2004, 10:00]
Microsoft: Pirate software will not be supported
News While PID verification in SP2 could swing users towards genuine Windows in the short term, software pirates have been notoriously fast to play catch-up with Microsoft. Microsoft has quashed comments by a senior official that its next Windows XP...
[May 11, 2004, 13:35]
Data compression solution or impossible dream?
News But he vigorously defends the basic validity of his findings, and promises to soon provide independent verification. In a tiny office in West Palm Beach, Florida, a handful of clunky computers are crunching through a software problem that many...
[February 19, 2002, 15:33]
Firefox 1.5 DoS flaw made public
News We have gotten no independent verification that it crashes (Firefox), but there have been a lot of attempts to try," Schroepfer said. Exploit code for the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser was published Wednesday, potentially putting...
[December 9, 2005, 8:15]
AOL buys anti-spam maker
News Because AOL is the world's largest ISP, its endorsement of SPF is seen as critical to the evolution of a long-sought email verification standard and could encourage other major email providers to implement the guideline.
[August 5, 2004, 12:00]
Wiebetech Drive eRazer review
Reviews Verification is also performed. Verification is done after the last pass. IDE/PATA and SATA hard drives independently from your computer. The benefit of this is that you can then reformat a drive from scratch and start again, sell your hard drive...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
Microsoft claims latest scalp in war on counterfeit software
Talkback I have provided them with my proof of purchase, the verification of the label and serial number of the product. On the 21st November 2004 I purchased from a internet company Dabs.com. A Windows Computer programme.
[December 13, 2005, 18:53]
Hacking scandal blamed on broken rules
News The thieves got access to names, account numbers and verification codes that could be used to commit fraud. More details emerged Monday on the cybersecurity breach at a payment processing company that exposed more than 40 million credit-card...
[June 21, 2005, 8:55]
Blair called to stick to telecoms commitment
News BT says there is not enough space in many of the others but Osborne complains that Oftel has not sought independent verification of BT's claims. Earlier this year Tony Blair made a commitment to opening up the local loop by the beginning of 2001...
[October 18, 2000, 12:03]
Diffie defends open-source security
News Other Sun achievements in security included Java, with its sandbox and byte code verification. Whitfield Diffie, the inventor of public key cryptography, and now chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, spoke out in defence of the security of...
[October 9, 2002, 9:02]
Intel sets Banias release date
News We have developed (test and verification) chips whose only aim in life was to torture the rest of the system," Eden said. Company executives pinpointed the date of the release during a press presentation by Connexion, a new company from Boeing that...
[February 7, 2003, 7:51]
Sun brews fresh Java for mobile devices
News As Personal Profile is based on the Connected Device Configuration, it includes technologies not found in some lower-end Java implementations, such as on-board bytecode verification, a Java Native Interface and an Abstract Windowing Toolkit, Sun...
[September 26, 2002, 11:54]
