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Ten Government IT Projects In Danger
News The OGC has listed 10 IT projects to receive consecutive red lights under its Gateway Review process which checks for signs of failure during an initiative's development. In response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by Government...
[March 1, 2005, 15:25]
News Schmooze: Security Alert!
News The best security warning of the week, however, must be a new scientific paper from reputable engineering types, which unveils the threat posed by exposed LEDs -- yes, those inoffensive little red lights that make your computer room look like a...
[March 8, 2002, 12:40]
Monitor Glow May Give Away Secrets
News Many intelligence agencies have worried about data leaking from classified computers through telltale radio waves produced by internal devices, and a recent research paper outlined the threat of an adversary reading data from the blinking LED...
[May 14, 2002, 14:56]
Xbox Update Shuts Out Linux
Talkback Regarding the Volkswagon metaphor, sure it's yours once you own it, but you STILL have to abide by the laws of the road - you cannot choose to drive it at 200km per hour or run red lights and expect to get away with it.
[September 25, 2003, 21:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Most of the two-way radios I've seen have a little light that lights up red when you're on the air and doesn't when you're not, and its absence from plane radios is puzzling. I guess there are enough lights up there already, and the last thing you...
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
The 21 Hour Night
Blog The driver exhibited psychic powers beyond science: he knew where spaces would open up seconds before he drove into them, and performed synchronised swerving with three lanes of traffic at 50mph that would shame the Red Arrows.
[November 23, 2007, 8:36]
Fibreless Optical Data Transfer Mooted
News The system consists of two basic components: LED lights and receivers, small silicon chips that relay any messages from the LED to a bank of servers and vice versa. The Visible Light Communications Consortium, a group of 15 IT manufacturers, most...
[October 6, 2004, 9:40]
Action 2000 Worried Over Bug...
News Representatives from the police and fire services played down public safety fears at today's conference which divided danger zones into colour co-ordinated bands -- red for severe risk, amber for some risk, blue for no risk.
[April 21, 1999, 15:43]
The Year Ahead: Top Ten Technologies To Watch
News You may already have a keyring LED torch, have noticed LED traffic lights popping up or even replaced the bulb in your Maglight with a solid-state alternative. They use a tenth as much power and last thousands of times longer than incandescent...
[December 25, 2002, 6:13]
Staying Out Late? Equip Yourself With These High Tech Gadgets (Part 2)
News Pull out the feather boas, make-up, and ruby red slippers. With its solid, black magnesium body and red handgrip, it looks as good as you think you do. Sure, you could use a series of flashing lights to communicate with your partner in crime.
[October 25, 1999, 9:55]
A Shocking Lack Of Journalistic Standards At CES
Blog Slack-jawed yokels here to see the lights. Noting that a large part of the CES experience involves TVs, and that a certain device called 'TV-B-Gone' is specifically designed to shut down tellies of all brands and models by spraying every infra-red...
[January 11, 2008, 0:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He is the chap who invented the blue LED -- thus breaking forever the dominance of those red, green and orange twinkly lights that festooned our electronic equipment for 30 pointlessly dull years. Now our phones, our hi-fis, our car dashboards are...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Linux IPOs: Is Caldera Next In Line?
News With Red Hat's announcement late last week, the cat is now out of the bag. While the initial pricing range and the number of shares is still unannounced, what is known is that Red Hat will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "RHAT.
[June 9, 1999, 9:51]
Software Patents Campaigners Honoured
News Red Hat - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 The judging panel included Bruce Perens, one of the leading lights of the open source community. Two of the main movers behind the campaign to block European legislation to bring in software patents were hailed...
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]
Rupert Goodwins' San Francisco IDF Diary
Blog Which means there's no time to talk about the six-foot-five African American transvestite hookers built like rugby players, the life-affirming aspects of running red lights onto freeways by mistake, what happened when The Register met The Inquirer...
[March 4, 2002, 8:59]
The Lights Go Out For UnitedLinux
News UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead. The legal entity exists, but I shut the lights out," said former UnitedLinux general manager Paula Hunter in an interview on...
[January 23, 2004, 16:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Press a button and it lights up the time as a couple of rows of tiny red LEDs -- each lit up for a one, or extinguished for a zero. Monday 31/6/2004 Bank Holiday. Nothing happens. Well, something happens: as a result of a recent birthday and a very...
[June 4, 2004, 17:30]
Can Your Mobile Phone Impair Your Vision?
News Associate professor David Strayer said this is "inattention blindness", an impairment that slows reaction time by 20 percent and made some drive-and-dial practitioners miss half the red lights they were suddenly presented with in some simulations.
[January 28, 2003, 8:01]
Is Technology Talking You Out Of A Job?
News If people are saying we shouldn't do anything that will cause job loss, we would still have people holding up red lights on the road to direct traffic," he said. ZDNet Australia talks to vendors, users and the union about the actual impact of...
[October 30, 2001, 14:36]
Text Messages Aim To Cut Bus Delays
News But where gaps do occur the alerts will allow drivers to use traffic lights by slowing down to make sure they hit red, or stopping at bus stops for a bit longer. A mobile tracking system aims to cut passenger waiting times for London buses by...
[October 20, 2003, 13:40]
