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Government Job Site Doesn't Recognise 'Internet'
News The government faces further embarrassment over its policy to get all public services online as its own job site fails to recognise the word 'Internet'. Worktrain.gov.uk is one of the government's flagship Web sites, part of its rush to get all...
[April 2, 2001, 14:52]
How To Recognise Video Image Sources
White Papers All sources of pictures have their own characteristics, limitations and flaws. Experience over many years of viewing images on high quality monitors has led to an appreciation of some of these problems.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Computers That Recognise And Respond To User Emotion: Theoretical And Practical Implications
White Papers Prototypes of interactive computer systems have been built that can begin to detect and label aspects of human emotional expression, and that respond to users experiencing frustration and other negative emotions with emotionally supportive...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Government Researches 'smart' Gun
News The US Justice Department is turning to technology to help guns recognise whose finger is on the trigger. The research will focus on biometrics systems such as fingerprint technologies, computer chips that could be programmed to recognise an...
[October 22, 2002, 16:01]
Windows 98: Customers Complain Early And Often
News Difficulties are going beyond the inability of the upgrade version of Windows 98 to recognise a number of common PC modem and PC LAN cards, as first reported last week. Windows 98 users posting to various newsgroups and forums also are citing...
[July 2, 1998, 7:40]
News Burst: 'Epidemic' Of Internet Child Pornography Sweeps UK
News An investigation by The Observer has revealed that lenient sentencing and a failure to recognise offenders as paedophiles is fuelling "an epidemic" of Internet child pornography. According to a spokesman for the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers...
[January 8, 2001, 8:15]
New UK Tech Awards Open For Nominations
News CNET Networks, the parent company of ZDNet UK, has launched a set of awards to recognise outstanding achievements across the UK technology landscape. Set up to recognise the companies, technologies and individuals who have achieved exceptional...
[August 6, 2003, 13:30]
Wi-Fi CCTV Cracks Down On Rogue Parking
News Westminster City Council is busy installing networked security cameras that can recognise parking permits and the number plates of offending vehicles. The cameras can now recognise parking permits and their validity, the number plate of the...
[September 11, 2007, 12:31]
Australian Government Windows Certification Proving Slow
News The Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), the agency assigned with evaluating software to determine its appropriateness in security terms for use by government agencies, told ZDNet Australia they had "received a sponsorship letter from an...
[February 21, 2003, 10:48]
British Library Calls For Digital Copyright Action
News In a manifesto launched on Monday at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, the Library warned that traditional copyright law needs to be extended to fully recognise digital content. Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
Cisco Rubbishes Nokia Merger Rumours
Talkback Maybe, they had Nokia phones and , like myself, found that Nokia software doesn't recognise Nokia phones and Nokia phones do not recognise Nokia Bluetooth headsets. I'm not surprised Cisco have rubbished Nokia, they must have dealt with Customer...
[August 12, 2005, 14:10]
NASA May Launch Open-source Software Projects
News We recognise that some software, because of export control, ownership or commercialisation concerns, may not be suitable for open source," Patrick Moran, a staff member of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center...
[May 19, 2003, 8:07]
Prevx Intrusion Detection Puts Agents On Desktops
News Unlike traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS), Pervx does not rely on predefined signatures to recognise attacks. Prevx's IPS attempts to recognise suspicious behaviour, regardless of whether a vulnerability or exploit is already known.
[December 17, 2003, 11:40]
Management Group Warns CEOs Of Data-breach Risks
News In a report entitled Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors, launched on Wednesday, the British-North American Committee (BNAC) said that chief executives underestimate the scale of data-security problems and fail to...
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
Artificial Intelligence: DNA Sequencers To Dancing Robots
News The neural network in the Siemens detector allows the fire detector to be trained to recognise the normal pattern of temperature, smoke colour and particle size found in the room in which it is located, as opposed to having these parameters pre...
[March 28, 2006, 11:40]
Union Criticises Gateway Closures
News Like many high-tech firms, Gateway does not formally recognise a union, and it will instead negotiate with representatives from the workforce, as required under EU law. Under EU law, a company must recognise a union if more than half of the...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
Spammers Fool Outlook With A New Trick
News The latest version of Microsoft Outlook is armed with a Bayesian filter, which tries to recognise spam by looking at the words used in an email and, depending on the frequency of certain key words, calculating the probability of that email being...
[April 2, 2004, 17:10]
New Aibo To Lead The Way In Robotic Vision
News The ER Vision software that Evolution Robotics is licensing to Sony's Entertainment Robot Company is a vision-based object recognition software module that can be trained to recognise objects using a single, low-cost camera.
[September 5, 2003, 16:35]
Search For The UK's Best Coders Kicks Off
News In the Outstanding Contribution to Software Development category, the judges will be looking to recognise those individuals or organisations that have made the greatest contribution in the past 12 months to software development as a discipline.
[June 2, 2005, 16:20]
Egg-shaped Robot Surfs, Talks, Walks And Dances
News It can even recognise the person for whom the message is intended. It can even access the Internet and relay email messages through its ability to recognise more than 650 phrases. NEC has unveiled a new superhuman robot, which can access the...
[March 23, 2001, 14:36]
