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IBM wins interim border security deal

...awarded IBM a support deal to extend the use of its Semaphore border system, following the cancellation of the e-Borders contract. The government awarded... Read more

28 October, 2010 by Kable

MPs see little value in scrapped £9m eye scanners

...Money spent on the UK Border Agency's IRIS biometric scanning system would have been better used to... Read more

11 April, 2012 by Jo Best

Raytheon seeks £500m e-Borders payoff

...from the UK government in compensation for a contract for the e-Borders passenger-processing project that it says was wrongfully terminated. Raytheon revealed it... Read more

26 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Fired e-Borders firm gets £5m payoff

...The UK Border Agency has paid technology firm Raytheon £5m for terminating its £650m contract... Read more

15 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Microsoft's Mouse without Borders controls multiple PCs

...four PCs at once using just one mouse and keyboard. Mouse without Borders is the brainchild of Truong Do, a Microsoft developer originally from Hanoi... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Joe Svetlik

Border Agency plans network of biometric booths

...The UK Border Agency is planning a network of booths to take foreigners' fingerprints and... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Kable

Government closes in on e-Borders deal with EU

...to reaching a 'mutual understanding' with the European Commission regarding the e-Borders scheme's compatibility with EU law. Green said that the Home Office... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Kable

Government stays mum on e-Borders' future

...be drawn on whether it is planning to scale down the e-Borders programme. Departmental minister Baroness Neville-Jones has sent a letter to Lord... Read more

17 August, 2010 by Kable

Home Office sacks e-Borders contractor

...has ended the Home Office's contract with Raytheon for the e-Borders programme. In a written statement to parliament on Thursday, Green said the... Read more

23 July, 2010 by Kable

Home Office seeks to beef up biometric security

...UK Strategy for Countering Terrorism includes a section on strengthening the UK border that makes a case for the further development of systems run under... Read more

13 July, 2011 by Mark Say

US judge hears challenge to laptop seizures

...it can search travellers' laptops, phones and other electronic devices at the border and seize them indefinitely. Civil liberties groups filed the suit in September... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Flaws force breakdowns in airport biometric checks

...The watchdog for the UK Border Agency says that facial recognition checks at Manchester Airport are being undermined... Read more

1 December, 2010 by Kable

IT inadequacies impede UK Border Agency systems

...The independent chief inspector of the UK Border Agency has highlighted its failure to complete the roll out of an... Read more

8 July, 2010 by Kable

Surveillance state on the rise, says report

An update to the 2006 'surveillance society' study has prompted the information commissioner to press Parliament for new privacy safeguards Read more

15 November, 2010 by Kable

Europe blocks UK bid to gain visa data

...the EU to allow agencies such as MI5, SOCA and the UK Border Agency to use the Visa Information System (VIS), which will store details... Read more

8 November, 2010 by Kable

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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