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Airlines fear delays from e-Borders surveillance tech
News Home Office plans to begin using the £1.2bn e-Borders system at airports, rail and ferry terminals from April risk delaying UK travellers, according to the British Air Transport Association (Bata), the trade body for UK airlines.
[February 12, 2009, 10:14]
Gov't faces backlash over e-Borders travel database
News Our hi-tech electronic borders system will allow us to count all passengers in and out of the UK and targets those who aren't willing to play by our rules," said UK border and immigration minister Phil Woolas in a statement.
[February 9, 2009, 15:21]
Expert warns of cracks in e-Borders security
News From 2010 the e-Borders system will cross reference the personal details for almost all passengers travelling to and from Britain against a watchlist of suspects. The report said: "There are two key problems with the e-Borders programme.
[March 30, 2009, 17:06]
Government earmarks £1.2bn for e-Borders
News The UK government plans to spend £1.2bn on its e-Borders programme over the next decade, as the electronic passenger-screening system is fully implemented. The e-Borders programme requires ferry companies and airlines to submit detailed information...
[August 3, 2007, 8:37]
Government pushes forward with e-Borders
News The screening-system programme includes a £650m contract, signed on Wednesday, with consortia Trusted Borders for a passenger-screening IT system, which will work alongside the rollout of fingerprint visas.
[November 19, 2007, 12:14]
Amazon UK lands Borders deal
News High-street bookseller Borders has launched a transactional Web site running on Amazon's e-commerce platform, building on the two firms' existing relationship in the US. Announced on Wednesday, the deal adds to similar relationships Amazon.co.uk...
[October 27, 2004, 13:00]
Government launches new immigration screening system
News The £15m 'Project Semaphore' trial is the first part of the government's 'e-borders' project to use the internet in conjunction with travel operator and airline databases to tighten the UK's border controls.
[September 29, 2004, 12:30]
Gov't battles EU over use of air-passenger data
News The government attacked the EU draft proposal on PNR saying there was a "real risk" it "would degrade e-Borders by prohibiting the use of PNR data for combating immigration offences". The Home Office said that e-Borders information on 50 million...
[August 11, 2008, 8:48]
Gov't developing London Olympics ID card
News Homer said Project Semaphore, the forerunner of the e-Borders scheme, which will eventually record extensive data on all international passenger movements, has led to 1,700 arrests. The agency will start procurement of e-Borders this summer.
[April 24, 2008, 9:32]
Home Office: 50,000 ID cards to be issued by April
News The department also released information on the related e-Borders border-control project. In response to questions from MPs Damian Green, Nigel Evans and Philip Davies, minister of state for borders and immigration Liam Byrne said that the project...
[September 9, 2008, 14:04]
Electronic signatures struggling in Europe
News A reliable system of electronic signatures that work across intra-EU borders is vital to safe electronic commerce and the efficient electronic delivery of public services to businesses and citizens," she said on 17 March, 2006.
[March 20, 2006, 15:10]
E-Books: Getting there, slowly
News Sony announced on Monday that its Sony Reader will be sold at Borders book shops for between $300 and $400 - around £200 - and texts will be available for download from the Sony Connect online store this summer.
[April 7, 2006, 12:50]
Amazon takes on a high street flavour
News Etailer giant Amazon is increasing its offline presence with a deal to sell books and videos via high-street store Borders. Initially just in the US, the deal means Amazon customers will be able to pick up and return items, which they have bought...
[November 28, 2002, 14:37]
E-grocers make another go at home delivery
News When it comes to building an e-commerce operation, it's almost unheard of for the United States to look for help from outside its borders. After several failed attempts, US grocery giant Safeway (which is totally separate from the British...
[February 5, 2002, 6:40]
E-tailers creak under Christmas rush
News Amazon, HMV, Play and Borders all showed much faster response times. Some of the UK's leading e-tailers are failing to cope with the seasonal rush, with the Web sites of CD-Wow, Currys, Debenhams and Dixons all straining under the pressure.
[December 9, 2002, 12:51]
EU directive 'could spark patent war'
Talkback Of course using e-commerce accross state borders implies jurisdiction issues. Patents have always had territorial scope. Patents have always been a territory confined exclusion privilege. A US Patent has never been able to affect an EU transaction...
[October 5, 2003, 12:29]
Scrippy
Downloads Your creations can use multiple scrolling borders, overlapping backgrounds, music, transparencies, and more. From the developer: "Scrippy makes it easy to create beautiful customized e-mail stationery with any graphics you choose.
[January 5, 2003, 16:35]
Biometrics beyond borders
News The events that precipitated much of the current interest in biometrics being enlisted to protect national borders can be traced back to 2002 when the legislation requiring biometric passports to be introduced October 2005 entered the US statute...
[October 25, 2005, 10:50]
Project aims to devise Euro e-ID platform
News The project joins other European e-identity projects such as Project Stork (Secure idenTity acrOss boRders linKed), a European Union pilot project to develop interoperability for pan-European ID card use.
[October 22, 2009, 17:31]
CompuPic Pro
Downloads Apply image effects and eye-catching borders, or enhance your photos using precision adjustments such as color, cropping, resizing, and rotating. Introducing CompuPic Pro, the fastest, most powerful digital-content manager available.
[April 19, 2004, 8:00]
